HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania – The positive coronavirus result of a Republican state legislator Thursday led legislative leaders to cancel the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voting session.
Human resources officials were deployed to hint at Representative Paul Schemel’s private contacts to see if others would be quarantined.
He was more recently at the Capitol on Tuesday, and it is not known whether he dressed in a mask in the building’s public spaces. A significant number of House Republicans do not wear a mask inside the Capitol.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– Italy has 2,500 cases of coronavirus, in five months
– The New York School District, the largest in the country, will review the virus every month.
– NFL postpones Steelers-Titans game after more tests
– The White House is supporting a $400 week-consistent unemployed allowance for a pandemic and a imaginable relief bill for COVID-19 worth more than $1. 5 trillion.
– The French Minister of Health threatens to close bars and ban the circle of family gatherings if it does not improve the accumulation of virus cases.
– Americans’ unemployment benefits fell last week to 837,000, suggesting that the economy is suffering to maintain a transitional recovery from the summer.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
MADRID – Spain’s Ministry of Fitness has reported 9419 new cases of coronavirus as the country struggles to reach the highest concern in Europe.
The ministry says 3,715 of the new instances have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours. The rest of the new instances have been diagnosed in recent days, but so far the central government has been informed.
Spain leads Europe with more than 778,600 cases, while the ministry reported that there were 182 deaths, bringing the total to 31,973.
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NEW YORK – Schools in New York City reported that at least 1,200 academics and tested positive for coronavirus since the start of the educational year.
As of Tuesday, 693 public and personal schools had reported at least one infection. Approximately 700 schoolchildren and 400 schools tested positive. State officials noted that the count does not reflect the overall extent of infections among schoolchildren.
A separate knowledge formula controlled through state fitness officials has documented approximately 2,300 infections among school-age youth since September 1.
The state makes the sets of figures public.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa reported deaths and 1,057 new coronavirus cases showed Thursday.
More than 50 patients according to the day have been admitted for the treatment of coronavirus in each of the last nine days, a record of consecutive maximum days of this hospitalization point.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced this week new rules for schools that do not require students or who are exposed to a proven positive user to be quarantined for 14 days if all interested parties wear face masks. This is contrary to CDC rules.
State knowledge shows that 7527 young people under the age of 17 tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, an 11% increase from a week ago. In addition, 3855 educators tested positive for the virus, so this week, an increase of 17% last time. Week.
89,612 and 1,358 deaths were shown in Iowa.
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LAS CRUCES, N. M. – New Mexico State University announced that the categories would be completely online after the Thanksgiving vacation and that the fall of college would take place.
The Sun-News Crosses reports that the university’s president, John Floros, said the university had interviewed students, university staff and the Las Cruces campus about his return after recess. Current online courses do not change. There will be two weeks left in the fall semester after the holidays.
The campus will remain open after Thanksgiving to provide accommodation, food and other services. The school plans to return to user categories after the December vacation.
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BEIRUT – Syria has reopened the capital’s main airport, Damascus, for flights amid strict measures against coronaviruses, state media reported.
Damascus International Airport, at the southern end of the city, had been closed since early March; however, in recent months, some flights have taken Syrians who were stranded outside the country.
Syria has recorded 4,200 shown cases of coronavirus and 200 deaths in government-led spaces. Dozens of other cases are recorded in government outdoor spaces in the north of the country.
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CHICAGO – Add ballet in Chicago to things canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago has announced that it has canceled its entire 2020-21 season, which will continue until the end of spring at the Lyric Opera House.
Joffrey says the resolution will charge the nonprofit more than $9 million at the box office, but a philanthropic fund called Joffrey Crisis Stabilization was established in hopes of raising $12 million, and about $9 million has already been raised.
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MILAN – Italy has reported 2548 cases of coronavirus, the highest overall in five months.
The health government examined more than 118,000 people, 10% accumulated over the past day.
Nearly 3,100 other people have recently been hospitalized, 291 of them in resuscitation. Italy has recorded an average of 1,500 cases consistent with the day since they returned to school three weeks ago after the summer holidays.
The country has reached 317,409 instances and nearly 36,000 showed deaths.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Police said several parties and rallies that coincided with the inaugural football game of the University of South Carolina season had been interrupted.
Columbia police told The State newspaper Wednesday that three subpoenas and 4 apartment warnings were issued that house USC students.
Police said the largest demonstration took place at Reign Living at the Stadium apartment complex near the Gamecocks’ Williams-Brice Stadium, where about three hundred more people piled up the Saturday after the game. Columbia police spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said the owners had been subpoenaed for violating social distance and that university police had been notified if any students were affected by the violations.
In South Carolina, there were 143,623 cases shown and 3,186 deaths, according to the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
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HILO, Hawaii – A food bank on the island of Hawaii now serves another 80,000 people a month.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported that The Food Basket helped another 14,000 people a month at this time last year. Executive Director Kristin Frost Albrecht says the organization is helping citizens through a network of agencies and programs for spouses.
The organization serves between 2,000 and 3,700 people at its Big Island sites and 80-85% of those receiving food are unemployed. Albrecht says the organization has received help through many donations, adding food provided through farmers.
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – Maryland does not report coronavirus deaths for the first 24 hours since March 28.
This does not necessarily mean that COVID-19 deaths did not occur during this period, as some deaths are not reported without delay due to a delay in filing a death certificate.
Still, Gov. Larry Hogan says it’s an “encouraging milestone” and a tribute to the efforts of health workers.
Maryland reported 785 on the last day, for a total of 125,510 showed Array There were 3,805 showed deaths.
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NEW YORK – The New York School District is implementing a monthly plan to verify students and detect the coronavirus.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city plans to do more than 100,000 virus tests on academics according to the month, at a cost of between $78 and $90 according to the test.
The largest school district in the country will check between 10% and 20% of students and staff in construction month starting Thursday, the same day that the wave of lack of more than a million students in the district began returning to classical classrooms.
De Blasio announced the plan as part of an agreement with the teachers’ union for a strike and at least 79 Ministry of Education workers were killed by coronavirus.
Los Angeles Public Schools has introduced a $150 million testing program.
The CDC said coronavirus in school-age youth in the United States has been expanding since early September, when many returned to the classroom.
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LONDON – The European Medicines Agency has begun its first review procedure for the progression of the COVID-19 experimental vaccine through the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.
The EU regulator said it had introduced a “continuous review” procedure that expects it to speed up any final approval.
The EMA has begun analyzing scientists’ initial data on the Oxford vaccine, suggesting that the vaccine “triggers the production of antibodies and T cells”, referring to immune formula cells that attack the virus. complex vaccine tests involving thousands of people, expected to be shared in the coming months.
A similar procedure used to pass remdesivir, one of the only legal drugs to treat COVID-19. This approval was issued in just over a month; The popular procedure can take up to seven months.
The Oxford vaccine is the subject of a giant trial in the UK, a similar test stopped in the US. But it’s not the first time While the FDA examines the report of a serious neurological-looking effect on a UK player on the test.
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ATHENS, Greece – Greek police used tear fuel to disperse leading protesting school academics who organized school movements in reaction to pandemic overcrowding.
Brief clashes broke out near parliament in central Athens after academics dropped several petrol bombs at police, with no arrests reported or injuries.
Greece’s largest teachers’ union approved the demonstration and suggested the government rent more teachers to the number of classrooms.
Authorities are dealing with an increase in coronavirus cases in the Greek capital, where citizens of a nursing home have been evacuated and some have been hospitalized.
Also on Thursday, the Greek Civil Protection Authority announced that it would hire another 192 people on eight-month contracts to be deployed across the country to assist in efforts to locate coronavirus contacts and quarantine positive cases.
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ANKARA, Turkey – The Turkish government is accused of hiding the true magnitude of the coronavirus outbreak after the fitness minister revealed that the figures only reflect patients with symptoms and not all positive cases.
Minister Fahrettin Koca revealed Wednesday night that, since 29 July, Turkey has reported on the number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospitals or their homes, and the count came with asymptomatic positive cases, he said.
The revelation sparked a protest on social media, and others called on the government to reveal the true spread of coronavirus among the population of 83 million. The hashtag asks “what’s the number of cases?”The Turk raged on Twitter on Thursday.
The government reported on Wednesday 1,391 new “patients” with coronavirus and 65 deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, Turkey has reported 318,000 cases and 8,195 deaths.
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MOSCOW – Russian fitness officials reported on Thursday about 9,000 new cases of coronavirus, one of the biggest increases in months.
The 8,945 instances are almost double those registered through the fitness government at the end of August. The new instances brought the country’s total to more than 1. 18 million, the fourth in the world. There were 20,796 deaths shown: the 12th in the world, according to a johns Hopkins University account.
Despite these increases, the government has rejected a momentary shutdown or other primary restrictions. However, Moscow officials last week asked older people to remain in the house and employers to allow others to paint from the house. The mayor of Moscow also extended the school holidays. starting october 5, two weeks away.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suggested that the Russians remain vigilant.
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PARIS – A French government studies institute is recruiting another 25,000 people to check possible vaccines opposed to coronaviruses worldwide and compare their results.
The recruitment procedure that began last week through the INSERM Institute parallels trials conducted through pharmaceutical corporations seeking to expand a vaccine. INSERM officials say it will apply to “most promising vaccines” but have not indexed them, saying this will be the case before testing begins. .
INSERM officials say it is for others, including the elderly and those at risk, to check vaccines and monitor their progress for 3 to 12 months.
France is experiencing a buildup of cases of viruses and others hospitalized with COVID-19.
France has reported more than 10,000 new cases per day in recent weeks, has a total of 604,000 cases and nearly 32,000 showed deaths, the eighth largest in the world.
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