BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Interior Ministry ordered the closure of 169 towns and cities, as well as the closure of all nightclubs and pubs across the country amid a strong accumulation of coronavirus cases.
The ministry said Sunday that the closure will begin on Monday morning and last until October 19. Pubs and nightclubs will be closed until further notice, he said.
The new closure comes a week after the ministry ordered a closure in 111 villages and ends on Monday morning, some of which are included in the new restrictions.
On Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health recorded 1,388 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the country’s total figure to 52,558 infections and 455 deaths.
Cases in Lebanon have increased since early July, when the country eased a national shutdown and opened its only foreign airport, and numbers have increased significantly after the August 4 explosion in Beirut that killed and injured many citizens while others were piling up in hospitals, funerals and anti-government demonstrations.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– White House doctor said President Donald Trump is no longer in danger of transmitting the coronavirus, but did not specify whether Trump tested negative. Some medical experts are skeptical that Trump may be declared free of the threat to transmit the virus as soon as possible.
– Trump delivers a speech from the White House balcony, first since he returned to the residence.
– Cases of coronavirus in India exceed 7 million, surpassing the United States
– While hitting a momentary wave of coronavirus infections, European nations seem to have learned the classes of the first wave
– House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejects the latest offer from the White House in the COVID-19 relief talks, but remains hopeful that progress can be made toward a deal.
– Queen Elizabeth II honors the paintings of doctors, nurses, delivery drivers, fundraisers and coronavirus pandemic volunteers.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
LONDON – One of the British government’s most sensible medical advisers has warned that the country is at a “tipping point” in its war against the coronavirus pandemic, a day before Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to announce new restrictions. lockdown for virus hotspots in the north of England.
England’s deputy medical director, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said in a statement that the country is at a “turning point similar to the one we were in March. “
The UK has had Europe’s deadliest epidemic with more than 42,750 deaths.
Van-Tam expressed hope that history will be repeated with the softness of further trials and treatments, as well as greater wisdom of the virus itself.
Johnson is expected to impose more restrictions on Monday in spaces where the virus has spread to the fullest in recent weeks. Pubs and restaurants in northern towns such as Liverpool or Manchester deserve to be closed.
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NEW DELHI – The number shown of coronavirus in India has exceeded 7 million and a number of new cases has declined in recent weeks, even as fitness experts warn of mask fatigue and distance.
The Ministry of Health registered 74,383 more infections in the last 24 hours on Sunday and India is expected to be the country most affected by the pandemic in the coming weeks, surpassing the United States, where more than 7. 7 million infections have been reported. .
The ministry also reported 918 more deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 108,334. Experts say all reported figures seriously underestimate the effect of the pandemic, due to the limited number of tests, omitted instances and, in some cases, instances, cover-up through the authorities.
India, with a population of approximately 1. 4 billion, experienced a sharp increase in some cases in July and added more than 2 million in August and another 3 million in September, but sees a slower rate of coronavirus spread since mid-September. when infections reached a record 97894.
You have an average of more than 70,000 new instances consistent with this month’s day.
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WASHINGTON – White House doctor said President Donald Trump no longer runs the risk of transmitting the coronavirus, but did not explicitly say whether Trump had tested negative. The diagnosis came when the president was ready to resume cross-order rallies and other activities.
In a memorandum published Saturday night through the White House, navy commander Dr. Sean Conley said Trump met the criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to safely stop isolation and that, according to “currently identified standards,” he no longer considers it a threat of transmission.
The memo did not say Trump had tested negative for the outcome of the virus, but delicate lab checks, such as PCR control cited in doctor’s statements, find the virus in samples taken from the nose and throat. William Morice, who oversees the mayo Clinic labs, said this week that PCR controls, the president’s medical team could hypothetically measure and track the amount of viruses in samples over time and see how viral load decreases.
Some medical experts were skeptical that Trump may be declared free of the threat to transmit the virus so early in his illness. 10 days after an initial diagnosis of infection, there’s no way to know for sure that someone is no longer contagious, they said. .
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea says it will ease its social estating regulations as its workload has continued to decline after the five-day chuseok fall vacation.
Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said Sunday that South Korea had averaged 59. 4 new cases in line with the day in the following two weeks, compared to 91. 5 cases in the following two weeks. Early Sunday, South Korea reported 58 new cases, bringing the country’s total to 24,606, adding 432 deaths.
According to the rules of comfortable estating from Monday, Park says that some high-risk amenities, such as nightclubs and karaoke bars, will be able to reopen, but they must stick to the steps of antivirus, such as dressing in a mask and maintaining a list of consumers.
Park said South Korea would lift a ban on meetings of more than 50 people inside and more than a hundred abroad and that the network’s social welfare centers will also reopen, while professional sports leagues may have a limited number of fans, up to 30% of the stadium’s capacity.
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SYDNEY – The prime minister of the Australian state of Victoria is stepping up his fight against members of the public who do not comply with pandemic regulations, saying that close contacts of other inflamed people who reject a check will have to spend 21 days in quarantine. .
The state government has announced that mandatory quarantine will last up to 10 days for close contacts if they are not tested on the 11th day of isolation. The replacement takes effect at midnight on Sunday.
Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said a “very, very high percentage” of others had been tested, but that the rule was designed to provide the government with an even more complete picture.
“It’s just a double check, a triple check of the fact that the virus hasn’t been attached yet,” he said.
Victoria reported an additional death and 12 new cases on Sunday, bringing Victoria’s death toll from the virus to 810 and the national number to 898.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – The number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil exceeded 150,000 despite symptoms that the pandemic is slowly receding in Latin America’s largest country.
Brazil’s Ministry of Health reported that the death toll now stands at 150,198, the highest in the world in the United States, according to the count held through Johns Hopkins University.
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, minimized the severity of the virus as deaths in Brazil increased. The 65-year-old president ignored social estification during heated protests and cheered crowds when he left the presidential residence. governors and mayors and other difficult measures to involve the spread of the virus, even after contracting it himself in July.
But recently there have been symptoms of relief in Brazil. During the month and a half, the viral curve has decreased. The average number of deaths in the 7 days after 598, the lowest point since early May.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Public fitness in Anchorage says they are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a youth hockey tournament that attracted Alaskan teams.
Authorities say more than three hundred players, coaches and enthusiasts attended the Termination Dust Invitational over a three-day era last weekend. The groups came here from nine cities in the state.
Local fitness officials did not provide accurate figures on the number of people who tested positive after the event, but tournament organizers say they first learned of a positive case in one of the groups on Monday. They also say they knew two groups with one positive case each.
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St. LOUIS – Missouri reported more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, more than double its previous record.
The Missouri Department of Health and Department of Services said there have been a total of 144,230 cases shown since the outbreak began, 5,066 more than Friday. The state also reported 27 more deaths to bring the total to 2,422.
The new number more than doubles the past of a day in 2084 new cases, which occurred on July 30.
State awareness shows that another 1313 people were hospitalized on Friday, the biggest time for an undes married day. The accumulation of hospitalizations occurs largely in rural Missouri communities.
Jayne Dees, administrator of the New Madrid County Department of Health in Bootheel’s domain in southeastern Missouri, told St. Louis Post-Dispatch other people don’t socially distance the or wear masks.
Dr. Nathan Sprengel, from the SEMO Health Network clinic in New Madrid, said some patients are disappointed when asked to wear a mask at the clinic.
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PHOENIX – A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that coronavirus in Arizona has been reduced by 75% as a result of the implementation of mask orders.
Orders were issued after an order was lifted to remain in the state house, resulting in a strong accumulation of cases.
The report written with the Arizona. La Arizona Department of Health Services expired on May 15 and two weeks later, the average daily number of coronavirus cases increased by 151%. The number of virus cases in Arizona peaked between June 29 and July 2 and decreased by 75% between July 13 and August 7.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Protesters from Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s own party have accumulated outdoors at home to criticize their coronavirus ordinances as authoritarian and illegal.
State Party President Allen West, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and some Republican lawmakers were among the other two hundred people who gathered outdoors at the governor’s mansion to protest Abbott’s executive orders, and added to keep the masking mandate and locked down.
COVID-19 has killed more than 16,500 others in Texas, according to the state’s official count, and is nearly 800,000 cases shown since the start of the pandemic.
Earlier this week, Abbott lifted his bar closing order, which had been in place since June, gave county chiefs control to keep them closed locally.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump spoke from a balcony in his first audience since he returned to the White House after being treated for coronavirus.
The president addressed a giant crowd in the south garden despite the White House’s refusal to assert whether it is no longer contagious and opposed the recommendation of public fitness officials.
Trump delivered a speech to law enforcement from the Blue Room balcony in front of a friendly crowd. Most of the crowd wore masks, but there was little social esttachment.
The president had not been seen in public, unless in videos produced through the White House, since he returned five days ago from the army hospital where he won an experimental remedy for the coronavirus.
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ROME – Italy, scene of two anti-mask protests on Saturday, even as the country suffers from a surge in coronavirus infections.
The Department of Health reported an additional 5,724 cases in more than 24 hours and 29 deaths. Most of the cases were asymptomatic and we decided through an increase in testing: more than 133,000 during the period.
Protesters at one of the protests complained about what they described as harsh measures, adding a new order for all Italians to wear an outdoor mask or face fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,200). Most of the new cases are in Lombardy in the north, which has accounted for 1140 new infections, followed through Campania, which includes Naples and Veneto.
Outside Milan’s Duomo Cathedral, entertainment protested against government economic policy to combat the spread of coronavirus.
Italy has reached nearly 350,000 cases shown and 36,140 deaths.
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Hundreds of Romanians piled up in Bucharest on Saturday to protest against restrictions on coronaviruses, despite the sharp increase in cases.
The protesters, all without mandatory masks, briefly clashed with the police as officials tried to prevent them from erecting an impromptu level in the University Square of the National Capital.
The occasion came at the end of the week with the highest daily infections and deaths in Romania since the pandemic hit the country in February. The small crowd was basically made up of Orthodox Christians and right-wing nationalists.
Many protesters threw anti-Muslim insults at the country’s Palestinian emergency service chiefs. They shouted “put down the masks” and “freedom. “
Approximately 85 Romanians identify as Orthodox Christians.
Romania, a country of 19 million, has recorded more than 152,400 coronaviruses and 5350 deaths.
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