The United Kingdom adds Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas to the quarantine list; The Spanish Ministry of Health denies facing the wave of the moment; Dutch PM urges tourists to bustling Amsterdam neighborhoods
A Canadian zoo warns that its giant pandas may dispense with new bamboo, as the Covid-19 pandemic limits imports from China and domestic materials are depleting.
The Calgary Zoo said in May that it planned to send Er Shun and Da Mao back to China after the coronavirus interrupted the bamboo’s home lines, but on Tuesday the zoo announced that due to the pandemic, it still could not unload permits.
Giant pandas consume 40 kg of bamboo during the day and the plant accounts for 99% of their nutrition, generating animal feed considerations:
Amsterdam and the port of Rotterdam made the face mask mandatory on Wednesday in some crowded areas, adding the Red Frontier of the Dutch capital, as coronavirus infections showed a worrying increase.
The new measures occur when the number of infections has doubled in a week in the country, where more than 55,000 people have swelled and some 6,150 have died.
“We are this experiment because we are involved in the growing number of coronavirus infections,” Amsterdam City Council said.
“Masks are mandatory in crowded and crowded spaces where other measures have worked or have not had negative economic effects,” he said in a statement.
Although the councillors distributed loose masks, a cell van with speakers and police warnings, they all took into account the new measures, especially in the Red Light area.
Many walked unmasked and officials said they only warned others and did not impose fines on them.
“Unfortunately, this fits a little with the profile of the city,” said a Red Light District resident who asked to be identified and wore a multicolored mask.
“Everything is imaginable and nothing is ever imposed here,” he said.
“We came from Germany and I like it…” that devils ‘when I saw that other people were not dressed in masks when it was obligatory,’ added Soph Schaller, 20, a kindergarten instructor from Cologne, Germany.
“We’re pretty used to it and we’ve been dressed in a mask for a while,” he told the AFP.
In the port city of Rotterdam, police arrested an organization of protesters seeking to march against the forced dressed in face masks, Dutch media said.
A record number of other people in Britain is in favor of transitory paints as job losses increase across the country, according to hiring companies that have been inundated with resumes.
The Confederation of Recruitment and Employment (REC) and accounting firm KPMG reported that the number of other people who registered to locate transitority paintings increased in July at the fastest speed since breaking the record in 1997.
Italy’s national civil aviation authority, ENAC, has threatened to suspend Ryanair’s permit to fly the country for alleged non-compliance with protection regulations opposed to coronaviruses, but the cheap airline has denied having violated them. -19 fitness regulations lately in force and imposed through the Italian government to the fitness of passengers”.
“Not only is the legal responsibility to withdraw passengers fulfilled, but situations to make an exception to this rule are also ignored,” he said in a statement.
If Ryanair continued to break the rules, ENAC would “suspend all air transport activities at domestic airports, forcing the airline to divert all passengers who already have the tickets,” he said.
“The statements made today in ENAC’s press release are in fact incorrect,” Ryanair replied. airports to the fitness of our passengers. »
Italy, the first European Union country to be severely affected by the pandemic, which officially killed more than 35,000 people, yet its rate of contagion lately is well below the levels elsewhere in the bloc.
Spain reported on Wednesday 1772 new coronavirus infections, marking the biggest leap since a national blockade was lifted in June and surpassed the previous day’s record. The rate of accumulation of new cases, which does not come with the knowledge of two regions, has increased dramatically since the previous day, while an additional death had been recorded, bringing the total to 28,499. The effects of antibody testing on others who have just healed increased from 302,814 to 305,767, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Florida has surpassed 500,000 instances of coronavirus as controls are accentuated after a transient closure of some sites due to Tropical Storm Isaiah. A long line of cars waited outside Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday morning for a coronavirus control site to reopen after it was closed due to the storm.
Florida reported 225 new deaths Wednesday, raising its seven-day daily average of 185, Texas with 197. The Florida rate is about a quarter of that seen in New York at its peak in mid-April.
The number of other people treated in hospitals throughout the state by coronavirus continued to decrease by two weeks, with 7622 patients defeated Wednesday morning, 175 fewer than the previous day and less than a peak of 9,500 two weeks ago.
The Florida Department of Health reported 5,409 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.
Overall, Florida reported 502,739 instances at the time in California alone, with more than 527,000 instances, and in Texas with more than 466,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Tests resumed once time cleared.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this week that faster tests will be presented at the stadium and Marlins Park, with effects in about 15 minutes.
“Obviously, if you are symptomatic and don’t get your result for seven days, you’re dead. For asymptomatic candidates, if it takes seven days, control is essentially dead at the time,” DeSantis said.
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic exceeded 700,000 on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University tracker, which is on official government data.
The United States represents the percentage of these deaths, 157,690. The highest time affected country in terms of number of lives lost is Brazil with 95,819 people.
Mexico’s toll is 48,869; the UK is 46,295 and India is 39,795.
The World Health Organization has deployed a “rescue team” of 43 fitness experts in South Africa to deal with the pandemic, which has noticed nearly 530,000 cases shown in the country, the fifth largest in the world, and 9,298 deaths.
In a statement, WHO explained:
WHO will deploy 43 experts from a variety of fields to control the reaction to the COVID-19 epidemic. The first 17 expected physical fitness outcomes will arrive today and come with key experience in epidemiology, surveillance, case control, infection, prevention and control, acquisition, as well as network mobilization and physical education. Among them is Dr David Heymann, senior epidemiologist of infectious diseases and public health expert who was Deputy Director-General for Environmental Health and Safety at WHO. He led the reaction to the SARS outbreak in 2003, running with his team to mediate foreign efforts to prevent the pandemic.
Facebook removed a message from Donald Trump’s page for spreading fake data about the coronavirus, a novelty for social business that has been harshly criticized for allowing the president to violate its content rules.
The message included a video of Trump falsely claiming that young people were “almost immune to Covid-19” that appeared on Fox News. There is evidence to recommend that young people who contract Covid-19 sometimes have milder symptoms than adults. However, they are not immune and some young people have become seriously ill or have died from the disease.
“This video states that a other people’s organization is immune to Covid-19, which is a violation of our destructive misinformation policies about Covid,” said a Facebook spokesman:
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The World Health Organization has deployed a “respite team” of 43 fitness experts in South Africa to have the country deal with the pandemic, which has noticed nearly 530,000 cases shown in the country, the fifth largest in the world, and 9,298 deaths.
Meanwhile, the number of international coronavirus deaths has exceeded 700,000. The United States, with the world’s rate, is guilty of 157,690 of those deaths.
Here are the key developments of the last few hours: