ROME – Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was tested for the coronavirus this week, has been hospitalized in Milan.
Alberto Zangrillo, his non-public physician who is also part of the staff of the San Raffaele hospital, said the 83-year-old man had an early lung infection but was breathing alone.
Zangrillo says the effects of the check “make us optimistic” for recovery during “the next hours and days.”He says that after examining Berlusconi at home a day earlier, he had to hospitalize him after detecting “mild lung damage.”
Berlusconi, who wears a pacemaker, is expected to be hospitalized for “a few days” in Zangrillo.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS EPIDEMIC
– India adds 83,000 cases of coronavirus, almost 2d in the world
– Mexico downplays cases of coronavirus medical staff
– The death of the mayor of Alabama helps the city where he has spent his entire life.
– Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to the Milan hospital as a precaution for his coronavirus infection.
– Madrid is restricting the circle of family gatherings and social gatherings to stem the strong accumulation of shown cases of coronavirus, as schools are about to reopen.
– Chickens update Kenyan scholars because troubled educators earn what they can after deferring
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
BERLIN – German pharmaceutical company CureVac says it will receive another 252 million euros ($298 million) to expand a coronavirus vaccine.
The company says that its request for additional investment has been approved through Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research, provided certain milestones are reached.
German public bank KfW has already acquired a 23% stake in CureVac for three hundred million euros.The company has submitted its first public offering of shares, but its main shareholder, Dietmar Hopp, co-founder of German software giant SAP.
CureVac is one of the few corporations that aim to expand a generation of COVID-19 vaccine mRNE that, according to experts, can allow immediate inoculation on a larger scale than classic vaccination bureaucracy.
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JOHANNESBURG – The Director General of the World Health Organization said “so far, our worst fears have come true” after warning that malaria deaths could double this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told malaria experts that many countries have worked hard to maintain their services, even though 46% of the more than 100 countries studied have reported disruptions to similar services.
However, he says an increase in malaria cases and deaths is still expected this year.Malaria killed more than 400,000 people last year, accounting for more than 90% of deaths in Africa.
The WHO chief called for greater fitness coverage and strengthening of fitness systems.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said tests will intensify in Copenhagen after more than 170 cases were reported across the country for a consecutive day.
Existing amenities will be modernized and more amenities will be installed in two districts of the Danish capital, Heunicke said.
Kaare Moelbak of the Statens Serum Institute, a government firm mapping the spread of coronavirus in Denmark, when cases spread through Copenhagen and basically occurred in personal meetings.
On Friday, 173 cases were reported. Denmark recorded 179 on Thursday, the number of new cases on a single day since April 22.
In general, Denmark has 17,547 shown and 627 deaths.
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PRAGUE – The health government is enduing restrictions in the Czech capital after a recent increase in coronavirus cases in Prague and other parts of the country.
From Wednesday it is mandatory to wear a mask at the outlets and grocery stores, bars, restaurants and nightclubs must be closed from 6 a.m.
Prague students must wear masks in all shared spaces of the number one and secondary schools, starting on 14 September.
The Czech Republic posted a record backlog of 680 instances on Thursday, adding 168 in the capital.
There are 26,452 shown and 426 dead in the country.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.- A beach that the city of South Carolina has renewed its mandate as a mask, despite the downward trend in coronavirus instances after a peak connected to the popular tourist destination this summer.
Myrtle Beach extended the July decree requiring the use of masks in public places until September 30, according to the city’s website.
“This is the time to avoid our efforts,” city administrator John Pedersen said at a City Council assembly on Thursday.
In June and July, certain coronavirus teams in other states, including West Virginia and New Jersey, were connected to travelers and weddings returning from trips to Myrtle Beach.Horry County, which Myrtle Beach also had an increase in cases.show that the county has experienced a downward trend in the number of cases.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. – The Louisiana Department of Corrections suspended a paint program that places inmates in the construction of the state Capitol after two inmates underwent coronavirus testing.
A spokesperson for the firm said inmates at the Dixon Correctional Institute began presenting symptoms of coronavirus on Monday and tested positive Tuesday for the virus.They’re in medical isolation.
State awareness shows that nearly 400 inmates in Dixon lately are inflamed with coronavirus.
Inmates are part of a team that traveled 30 miles from Jackson to Baton Rouge to clean, cook, and expand the landscape of the Capitol and other state buildings.
System inmates earn between four and 70 cents per hour or a credit in advance for their work.Some lawmakers have criticized the use of profitable labor in state-owned buildings, The Advocate reported.
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MADRID – Madrid’s regional government is restricting the circle of family gatherings and social gatherings to curb a strong accumulation of coronavirus cases, as schools are about to reopen.
The current ban on meetings of more than 10 people continues inside, after most recent new infections have been linked to home meetings, funerals, funerals, weddings and devout celebrations, as well as visits by organizations to museums or guided tourism.will be limited from Monday.
Nearly a third of the country’s new infections occur in and around the Spanish capital, a region of 6.6 million people.At least 16% of hospital beds in Madrid are occupied by patients with COVID-19, the rate of any Spanish region.
Announcing the new restrictions on Friday, the regional fitness leader said recent knowledge shows that the rate of additional increases is slowing. Madrid is also expanding the number of touch markers, which has been one of the weakest links to deal with epidemics.2 million kits for immediate coronavirus testing.
Spain, which has more than a million cases of coronavirus since February, has been leading the pandemic wave in Europe with a prevalence rate of more than 212, consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in the last two weeks.There have been at least 29,234 showed deaths from the virus.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary has recorded 459 new cases of coronavirus, the highest number since the onset of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio that his government has 3 main objectives related to the time of the pandemic: those most at risk, like the elderly; create mandatory situations for the functioning of schools; and revive the economy.
Orban says that “if the economy is prevented again, we will all be in a very complicated situation.”
Hungary’s decision to close its borders to the fullest of foreigners as of 1 September has provoked complaints from the European Union, but Orban says that despite Brussels’ objections, “in a few days they will do what we are” because without new border rules, it will not be to stop the spread of the virus.
Hungary has recorded 7,382 shown and 621 deaths.
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PARIS – France has closed 22 of its 62,000 since categories resumed in users this week due to coronavirus infections.
Of these, 10 were on Reunion Island in the French Indian Ocean, where physical care is declining than in metropolitan France and the number of patients inflamed by the virus in hospitals has increased in recent weeks.
Education Minister Jean-Blanquer told Europe-1 radio that the French have generally reported around 250 suspected cases of viruses a day since they opened on Tuesday.
Not all of these cases are positive, however, once a suspicion is reported, schools will have to stick to an extensive government protocol that would possibly come with sending a house of complete elegance for online learning or completion of the entire school.
The French government, like many in Europe, ordered the non-public reopening of this entire week to combat inequalities exacerbated by the closures and to put parents back to work to jumpstart the economy.
France recorded more than 7,000 new instances of the virus on Thursday, the highest rate in Europe and against several hundred per day in May and June, partly thanks to intensified testing.More than 30,700 people with the virus have died in France.
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PRAGUE – The number of other people inflamed with COVID-19 has continued to rise to record levels in the Czech Republic, surpassing six hundred for the time being on a consecutive day.
The Ministry of Health says the building reached 680 new instances shown thursday, a new record.
The health government is expected to talk about a reaction later on Friday.
The Czech Republic had a total of 26,452 inflamed with COVID-19, 426 died.Currently, another 177 people are hospitalized and 40 require intensive care.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish border controls on Germany and Sweden, as well as at airports, replaced Friday from permanent to random, Denmark’s national police said.
The “adjusted” “will allow for a more harmonious agreement and therefore a shorter waiting time for travellers to Denmark,” police said in a statement.
The resolution made through the government on Thursday night.
On 14 March, Denmark imposed permanent border controls to prevent foreign nationals without a “legitimate access objective” from entering the Scandinavian country “with a greater threat of infection as a result,” as the government put it.
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea will expand major social estating restrictions imposed in the Great Capital Area for another week, as it appears to imply a coronavirus resurgence that threatens to annihilate the epidemiological advances gained with so much effort.
Health Minister Park Neung-hoo announced the resolution Friday after fitness personnel reported 198 new cases of COVID-19, basically in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, where a portion of the country’s 51 million people live.
Until next Sunday, restaurants in the Capital Region will be required to provide takeaways and deliveries after nine o’clock at night, as it has been doing since August 30.
Authorities have closed churches and nightclubs across the country and have redirected the maximum number of schools from a distance to curb viral spread.
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NEW DELHI – The number of other people inflamed by coronavirus in India is more than 83,000 and is close to the total of Brazil, the highest moment in the world.
The 83,3four1 instances added in the more than 2four hours took India’s total to 3.9 million, according to the Ministry of Fitness.Brazil has shown more than four million infections, while the United States has more than 6.1 million people infected, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The Indian Ministry of Health reported 1,096 deaths in more than 24 hours on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths to 68,472.
India’s jurisprudence rate of 1.75% is well below the global average of 3.3%, the ministry said.Experts if some indian states had underestimated the deaths.
India added nearly 2 million cases of coronavirus in August alone.
In a country of 1.4 billion people, only the maximum posts affected by the virus remain under lock and key.People are crowding markets and other public spaces with possible security measures such as masks and, in large part, uncomfortable social estating.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand reported friday of his first coronavirus death in more than 3 months.
The health government said a man in his 50s died in an Auckland hospital where he was being treated for the virus after a small outbreak in the city that began last month.New Zealand reported more than 1,700 cases and 23 deaths.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said New Zealand would maintain its existing restrictions on coronavirus until at least mid-September.
The blockade in Auckland has been eased, but the number of people is limited across the country and masks are on public transport.
“Like last time, a cautious technique is the long-term strategy to open up our economy and repair freedoms more temporarily in the long run,” Ardern said.
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SYDNEY – The Australian government added deaths in nursing homes this year to a total of coronavirus deaths in the country.
Deaths plus six reported through Friday in the last 24 hours raise the death toll of Australia’s pandemic to 737.
Victoria officials say the last 53 deaths were taken into our minds from the July-August figures. An outbreak in the city of Melbourne has affected dozens of retirement homes for the elderly, leading to a slew of deaths.
The epidemic in the state appears to be slowly declining, and Victoria officials reported 81 new coronavirus cases on Friday.
According to Victoria State Health Director Brett Sutton, this is the tail of the epidemic curve.
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