BEIRUT – Lebanon recorded 1,006 cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the government announced Sunday, amid a sharp increase in infections and deaths from the new coronavirus.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan has a full blockade for two weeks to stop the alarming buildup of daily infections, but the government will struggle to impose some other blockade in an unprecedented economic collapse.
New cases registered through the Ministry of Health bring the total number of cases shown in Lebanon to 29,303, while deaths have reached 297 since the first reported case in the country at the end of February.
It is the third consecutive record day of virus cases shown.
Construction began after the closure decreased and the country’s only foreign airport reopened in early July. The wave continued after the great explosion in Beirut harbor on 4 August that killed 193 people, wounded at least 6,500 and devastated much of the city.
The explosion also hit Beirut hospitals and severely two who played a key role in treating virus cases.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – On Sunday a 3-ton memorial was awarded in a cemetery where many of those who suffered COVID-19 were buried in Rio de Janeiro.
The 39-meter (128-foot) long Infinity Steel Memorial, erected to honor those who died of coronavirus and provide families with a symbol of their loss in one of Brazil’s hardest-hit cities.
The memorial designed through brazilian architect Crisa Santos, who came up with the concept of building the paintings at the height of the pandemic after visiting several cemeteries in the country.
The state of Rio de Janeiro recorded more than 17,600 deaths on Saturday and more than 250,000 showed instances of COVID-19, only the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
The names of another 4,000 people who have died will be indexed in the structure.
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WATERBURY, Connecticut – Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut has tested for the new coronavirus and will be quarantined for 14 days, she announced on Twitter on Sunday.
“After visiting two emergency care centers yesterday, they nevertheless gave me an appointment at a third place and tested me this morning,” the Democrat first said. Hayes claimed he had no symptoms of COVID-19 “except for respiratory disorders being controlled. “
Hayes asked for evidence after a member of him tested positive for the virus on Saturday.
Hayes, 47, said he contracted the virus despite taking “every precaution imaginable. “He said his delight highlighted the need for a national detection strategy “with a consistent way to receive immediate and accurate results,” adding, “This point of anxiety and uncertainty is unsustainable. “
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YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar, which faces an immediate increase in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths, has announced the strictest restrictions to date to combat the spread of the disease.
The measures announced Sunday through Health Minister Dr. Myint Htwe cover Yangon, the country’s largest city and the main shipping hub.
The measures in place on Monday consistent with allowing only one user consistent with their family to leave their home to make their grocery purchases and two for hospital visits, a driving force is also consistent with the time of traveling by car. The use of a mask is mandatory.
All workplace staff will have to paint from home, while factories, finishing and structure companies will have to halt their operations from September 24 to October 7.
Service personnel, bank aggregation, gas stations, grocery stores and pharmacies are exempt from the order.
Outdoor travel in Yangon is already prohibited and all domestic flights were blocked on September 11.
Until an increase in coronavirus cases last month in the western state of Rakhine, Myanmar gave the impression that it had been largely safe from the pandemic, with only 353 cases of virus in early August.
The country had 5,541 more people on Sunday, 92 of whom were dead.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek fitness government announced on Sunday 170 cases of coronavirus and seven deaths.
The total number is now 15,142, with 338 deaths.
On Monday you will see new restrictions in the capital Athens and the surrounding region after an increase in cases. The measures come with the prohibition of meetings of more than nine people in open and enclosed spaces, the prohibition of concerts and cinemas, but not cinemas, and require 40%. of house-framed painters, which is combined with the prohibition of employers’ chambers.
In addition, others over the age of 65 are encouraged not to leave their homes, use public transportation, or meet with family members for the next 14 days. The measures will be implemented until at least 3 October.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany – Hundreds of others demonstrated Sunday in central Dusseldorf opposing government restrictions on coronaviruses and a number of other causes.
People waved banners with slogans such as ‘end the panic, the corona pandemic is a lie’ and ‘corona rebels’ while listening to songs denouncing the coronavirus restrictions.
They sang “Julian Assange Free” with a loudspeaker and formed a “W”, symbolizing “all of us”, with their hands, which they raised above their heads as the theme of fire carts sounded.
No mask could be seen, because the hounds covering the demonstration, and some young people mingled with the crowd.
Before walking away into the western city, the crowd swinged in Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” and sang a guy in a Superguy dress.
The police reported any incidents.
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MADRID – Spaniards protest in Madrid against the management of the coronavirus pandemic through the regional headquarters of the city, which has imposed new restrictions on neighborhoods with contagion rates.
With a mask and looking at her social esture, the protesters applauded in unono and yelled at regional President Isabel Daaz Ayuso to resign. Protesters piled up around the town at noon on Sunday, making it difficult to estimate the magnitude of the demonstration.
In Vallecas district, protesters chanted “For all or for all!”in a critique of the restrictions announced Friday through Daaz Ayuso for some of Madrid’s poorest spaces, where local government says the virus is spreading faster.
Restrictions on approximately 860,000 other people who will only be able to leave your neighborhood for work, examination, or medical appointments. Area parks are closed and department stores and restaurants will have to restrict occupancy to 50%.
Spain suffers from a momentary wave of the virus, which has killed at least 30,400 other people according to the Spanish Ministry of Health. Madrid’s transmission rate is more than double the national average, which is already the most sensitive of European contagion. Graphics.
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LONDON – The UK government will fine others who refuse a self-disallowment order of up to 10,000 pounds ($13,000) as the country sees an acute increase in coronavirus infections.
The new rule requires others to self-insulate if they test positive for coronavirus or are known as close contact.
The government will help other low-income people facing a loss of income source due to self-disalrillation with a 500-pound bachelor ($633).
The most recent figures show that the new daily instances of coronavirus in Britain increased to 4422, the highest since the beginning of May. An official estimate also shows that new infections and hospital admissions double every seven to eight days in the UK.
The Conservative government is expected to impose new restrictions after Prime Minister Boris Johnson demonstrated that Britain is experiencing a wave of infections, following the trend in Europe. The mayor of London also said stricter restrictions would possibly be needed soon in the British capital. .
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NEW DELHI – India has recorded 92,605 new coronavirus cases in more than 24 hours and is expected to outperto pass the United States as the country most affected by the pandemic in a few weeks.
The Ministry of Health also reported 1,133 more deaths on Sunday, for a total of 86,752.
Sunday’s outbreak raised the country’s virus number to more than 5. 4 million, but India also has the number of cured patients worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University, with a recovery rate of about 80%.
More than 60% of active instances are concentrated in India’s 28 states: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced scathing complaints about his handling of the pandemic in a contracting economy that has left millions unemployed.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, is about to ease strict blockade restrictions after registering 14 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday.
It is the time when the new infections fell below 30 and there were also five deaths on Sunday.
Melbourne’s lock restrictions will be easy next weekend, when day care centres will be reopened and meetings of up to five other people from two other families will be allowed, but this is based on the fact that the 14-day moving average of new instances is less than 50; now it’s 36. 2.
Victoria’s Health Minister Jenny Mikakos congratulated citizens for adhering to the rules of employer closure and said, “Sacrifices made through Victorians save many lives. “
Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described Australia’s unforeseen fall in the unemployment rate to 9. 3%, a 14 percentage point drop from the pandemic peak, as a “pleasant stimulus. “
Figures show that nearly 400,000 Australians have recently returned to work.
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SEOUL, South Korea —— The number of new coronaviruses in South Korea was reduced to less than one hundred for the first time in more than a month.
The Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that the new reported cases brought the country’s total to 22,975 with 383 deaths.
The decline is likely due in part to the fact that the government conducts fewer tests on weekends, but even before Sunday, South Korea’s tally had been at 100 for more than two weeks, compared to 400 at the end of August.
Health officials say the downward trend is the result of strict social estating regulations imposed in Seoul’s densely populated metropolitan area. These regulations have been relaxed recently.
The government is urging the public to let their guard down because small-scale clusters are still being reported.
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TOKYO – Japan’s exercise stations and airports are full of other people traveling on the “Money Week” holiday weekend, a sign of recovery amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The increase in domestic activity contrasts with past holidays, when other people living in congested urban spaces went to great care to stay at home and avoid spaces with fewer infections.
New cases in Tokyo have recently fluctuated around 200, however, Japan has no widespread evidence and many cases are likely to go unnoticed. Baseball games, department stores and theaters are reopened with social distance, masks, hand sanitizers and temperature controls.
An NTT DoCoMo cell operator showed the length of the crowd at a domestic terminal at Tokyo Haneda’s main airport, as well as at exercise stations and grocery shopping districts across the country.
Japan, with around 1,500 COVID-19-related deaths, has banned almost all foreigners and calls for quarantine and virus checks for returning Japanese. Silver week includes this weekend and two national holidays, respect for the day of the elderly and the autumn equinox.
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