ROME – The Venice Film Festival asks participants in the first COVID-19-era in-person film show to wear a mask at screenings and to conduct a coronavirus check if they arrive from outside Europe.
According to the rules published Thursday, enthusiasts and the general public will stay off the red carpet during the festival from September 2 to 12, and spectators will be required to purchase tickets and e-book tickets online to ensure that all other seats remain vacant. Nine gates installed in various locations around venice’s Lido will take the temperature of spectators and the media. Festival-goers will be followed to participate in indoor events to make sure to look for contacts if needed.
Venice is the first film festival to start from the pandemic and one of the first overseas occasions that Italy organizes after fitting into the epicentre of COVID-19 in Europe. After controlling infections through a strict 10-week national blockade that ended in May, Italy now faces an uptick in post-summer vacation cases.
The biennial organizers said the rules had developed with physical care officials.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The growing call for tasks reflects a suffering U.S. economy
– WHO asks for more information on Russian vaccine
– India reports 69,000 new infections in last 24 hours
– Working families turn to grandparents to help young people. As the school year begins for many young people whose parents work, more and more grandparents have become day caregiver roles.
– Two players from the South African cricket team tested positive for COVID-19. Positive tests took position in a team camp with more than 30 of the most productive players in the country.
– As hospitals treat others with COVID-19 and seek to prevent its spread, more and more patients choose to receive treatment where they feel most safe: at home.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said he tested positive for coronavirus and had some coVID-19 symptoms. The Republican senator made the announcement Thursday and said he’s quarantined in Louisiana.
His spokesman said the 62-year-old senator had “mild symptoms that began this morning.” Cassidy, a doctor, said in a statement that he had been tested after being informed Wednesday night that he had been exposed to a user inflamed by the coronavirus.
The honorable senator says he adheres to the medical recommendation and advises others he would possibly have come into contact with. Cassidy is running for re-election on November 3.
Cassidy’s announcement came a day after her arrival in northern Louisiana, visiting a veterans hospital in Shreveport.
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OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington will apply to enroll in a federal coronavirus program that offers another $300 per week on unemployment benefits. The Department of Labor Safety said in a press release Thursday that it will seek help from the federal emergency control leadership until Friday.
The program came with an executive order from President Donald Trump after the end of July, an accumulation of $600 in the state’s weekly unemployment benefits. To date, more than two dozen states must accept funding.
The program reduces the benefits of weekly earning to $300 or $400 according to the week, depending on the governor’s election. States are required to pay $100 according to the applicant in order to submit the highest amount, which few people besides Washington have agreed to do. So far, most states that have said they settle for Trump in their offering have selected the $300 version. Some don’t have what plan to take.
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BOISE, Idaho – The number of Idahon citizens applying for unemployment rose 12% last week after 3 weeks of decline. The Idaho Department of Labor said Thursday that it won 3,644 new applications as the recovery of the coronavirus pandemic state remained unstable.
The firm says the total number of others affected by unemployment has fallen 7% to 18,772. This is the fifteenth week of consecutive descents since the Idaho pandemic entered Idaho in March and the Republican government.
Brad Little issued a shelter order as infections increased. This order ended on April 30 and the maximum amount of business is open according to existing guidelines. Johns Hopkins University reports that Idaho has more than 28,000 coronavirus infections and 291 deaths.
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PHOENIX – Conditions for COVID-19 in Arizona have advanced to the point where 4 largely rural counties can reopen schools for part-time in-person learning, public fitness officials said Thursday.
The counties that were given green permission to reopen schools for a combination of virtual training and in person were Apache, Cochise, Coconino and Yavapai. Cities in those counties include Flagstaff, Prescott and Sierra Vista. Apache County comes with a component of the Navajo Nation, which is a national hot spot for the virus in the spring.
Arizona’s 11 counties, including Maricopa, which includes Phoenix, and Pima, where Tucson is located, have not yet erased the number of cases, positivity tests, and hospital visits.
Arizona, a national hotspot in June and July, with new endemic infections, nearly packed hospitals and cloud deaths.
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NEW YORK – Pfizer and his German wife BioNTech will take their COVID-19 vaccine candidate with the least amount of side effects in the last phase of testing.
In an online report on Thursday, Pfizer researchers initially verify the knowledge of two candidate vaccines. Both immune systems were stimulated in the same way and neither caused serious side effects.
But one candidate caused fewer injection reactions, especially in older adults: symptoms such as fever, headache, chills or muscle pain that are transient but unpleasant, Pfizer reported.
Final verification of Pfizer’s leading candidate began when researchers recruited another 30,000 people in the United States and other countries. It is one of the few experimental vaccines controlled in the terminal phase in the world.
It regularly takes years to expand an effective vaccine for widespread use and distribution. U.S. fitness officials expect to start providing vaccines next year.
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PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron has said the country will send millions of academics back to school from September 1, despite the largest weekly increase in viral infections in months.
France’s national fitness firm reported 4,771 new infections and more than 18,000 new cases last week, the largest weekly buildup since April. The increase is attributed to summer parties, family gatherings, and office groups when others return to work.
Teachers and parents are involved in schools not being able to keep the virus at bay. A major teachers’ union asked the government this week to delay the start of the school year.
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LAWRENCE, Kansas – The University of Kansas says the first tests of academics and the return to campus have revealed 89 cases of coronavirus, with a majority in fraternities and sororities.
KMBC-TV reports that 87 academics and two universities or members tested positive. Return-to-campus access tests prior to the start of activities and courses yielded a 1.25% positivity rate for the 7,088 tests conducted to date.
Tests are mandatory for students, universities, and university campuses in Lawrence or Overland Park until September 7. The university plans to perform specific tests and random sampling later.
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GREELEY, Colo. – Two students from one of Colorado’s top schools tested positive for coronavirus, resulting in the last two weeks of school just days after the start of the school year.
The Greeley Tribune reports that the Weld Re-8 School District announced the first case shown on its Facebook page and sent an email to parents pronouncing the case at the time.
Fort Lupton High School officials said students were on separate teams on campus with more than 500 students combined, requiring the school to close completely. The school has moved on to distance education and is expected to close on at least 7 September.
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OMAHA, Nebraska.- Thirty-five cases showed that coronavirus cases were reported in schools in Omaha domain during the first weeks of the school year, Douglas County Health Director Adi Pour said.
Seventeen students and 18 schools tested positive. Another 152 academics and professors who had close contact with those who tested positive were quarantined, The Omaha World-Herald reported.
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JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organization has suggested that African governments accelerate the reopening of schools, saying that young people on the continent will suffer prolonged closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO officials have warned that poor nutrition, stress, increased exposure to violence and exploitation, and teenage pregnancies are among the disorders faced by school-attending academics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Only six African countries have fully openedArray according to a survey conducted in 39 countries through WHO and UNICEF. Many governments have closed as a component of measures to restrict coronavirus transmission. Some reopened and had to be shut down when cases of viruses appeared in Array
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MADRID – The leading coronavirus expert in Spain warns about the increase of infections basically similar to nightlife and socialization of the summer holidays.
The director of Spain’s fitness emergency coordination center, Fernando Simón, said that other young people know they can infect older parents who suffer the most from COVID-19.
“Don’t let anyone get fooled, things aren’t going well,” Simon says.
The Ministry of Health added 7,000 new instances on Thursday, bringing the case to nearly 378,000 that showed infections since the onset of the pandemic. This is the number in Europe.
The total number of deaths increased to more than 28,800, with new deaths.
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ATLANTA – President Donald Trump’s new administration rules that say teachers are “critical infrastructure workers” can simply exempt teachers from quarantine needs after being exposed to the coronavirus and send them back to the classroom.
Staying symptom-free in the classroom, as a handful of school districts in Tennessee and Georgia have already said, increases the threat of coronavirus spread to academics and colleagues.
Many teachers may be required through public fitness agencies to quarantine the site for 14 days in the event of an epidemic, which may stretch a district’s ability to continue teaching courses in person.
South Carolina fitness officials also describe teachers as critical infrastructure workers, it’s unclear whether a district asks teachers to return before 14 days.
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SAN TAN VALLEY, Arizona – A school district in the suburbs of Phoenix forced an unhealthy instructor to abandon their in-person learning plans this week and only resumes virtual instruction.
The Olympics. The Combs Unified School District Board voted 4-1 on Wednesday night to resume distance learning starting Thursday. Superintendent Gregory Wyman said the district council will meet on August 27 to review updated state measures on coronavirus on the reopening of schools and the resumption of face-to-face teaching.
After teachers hesitated, the district abandoned its plan to resume in-person learning this week and canceled the school for 3 days. Many say that no Arizona county has met the state’s voluntary criteria for face-to-face learning.
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ROME – Italy has noticed an additional increase in coronavirus infections, adding 845 new cases to its death toll shown.
Nearly 77,500 viral tests were performed on the last day, compared to an estimated 50,000 tests in the first part of August. Verify additional tests to detect new clusters before they increase.
The government has required testing for all other people returning from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia and has established test sites at airports to verify and inform inflamed passengers upon arrival.
Sardinia has become its own access point, after an entire station crashed and 26 infections were reported. Many young Italians reported being inflamed after partying in island nightclubs and other maskless beach destinations.
There are considerations about the reopening of public schools. However, Education Minister Lucia Azzolina said the reopening of schools on September 14, wearing protective masks, spaced desks and changed classrooms.
The confirmed instances in Italy amount to 256,118. Six other people have died in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll shown to 35,418.