LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and warned that the country is facing a “bumpy” winter to come.
Britain has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, with more than 42,000, and Johnson’s conservative government faces complaints from all sides. Opponents say more difficult social restrictions are needed to eliminate a momentary wave of pandemic, however, many members of downtown Johnson. The right-wing party argues that restrictions must be eased to save the economy.
Johnson told the BBC that the government needed to strike a complicated balance and that it would simply “take a path that could reveal us to tens of thousands more deaths in no time. “
Johnson expressed hope that progress in vaccines and testing will “change the clinical equation” in the coming months, allowing it to return to normal.
But he said he’s going to stay bumpy until Christmas. There may even be potholes beyond that. “
Britain on Saturday reported a record 12872 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily overall since the outbreak began, the figure includes a buildup of un reported cases in the past.
A medical employee dressed in a protective device to protect against coronavirus infection disinfects his colleague after accompanying an ambulance patient to a HOSPITAL of COVID-19 patients in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, October 1, 2020. began to grow this month in Russia, which in the past had lifted the maximum of virus-like restrictions and resumed air traffic with several countries (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky).
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
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– South Africa and India have called on the World Trade Organization to depart from the provisions on intellectual property rights to advance efforts to prevent and involve the COVID-19 pandemic.
– Madrid, the focus of Europe’s most critical coronavirus, is under partial blockade, with police controlling the internal and external movements of the city. Some more Flemish houses are reopening, with caution.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
NEW DELHI – India says it plans to vaccinate at least 250 million of its 1. 4 billion people by July 2021 after receiving between 400 and 500 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said Sunday that the government will ensure “fair access” to the vaccine and is in the process of identifying high-risk teams that will be the first to connect, adding fitness workers.
India has three prospective vaccines, one of which is being developed jointly through the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
It will be mass-produced through the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. The Serum Institute said it will produce two hundred million doses of coronavirus vaccines for upcoming countries, adding India.
India reported 6. 5 million and more than 100,000 pandemic deaths.
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MOSCOW – Coronavirus infections in Russia reached a new record on Sunday, with the report of more than 10,000 new cases first shown since mid-May.
The 10,499 new cases reported on Sunday bring the country’s total to more than 1. 2 million. Russia has recently had the fourth number of cases in the world and has so far reported more than 21,000 deaths.
The Russian government insists that there are no plans to impose a momentary blockade on the country that removed the maximum of restrictions on the virus imposed in the spring. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that some other blockade is not being discussed lately within the government. .
Meanwhile in Moscow, which reported more than 3,000 new cases Sunday in the largest building in months, the government had other older people isolate themselves at home and extend the upcoming school holidays for a week.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump went through a “very worrying” era on Friday and faces two “critical” days in his fight opposing COVID-19 at an army hospital, his leader said Saturday, contrary to a more optimistic assessment of previous moments. Trump’s doctors, who were careful not to disclose that the president had received additional oxygen in the White House prior to his admission to the hospital.
Trump stayed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday. He presented his own assessment of his prestige on Saturday night in a video of his hospital suite, saying he was beginning to feel better and hoping to “come back soon. “
Hours earlier, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters: “We are not yet on the road to a full recovery. ” In an update Saturday night, Trump’s lead medical officer expressed cautious optimism, but added that the president “is not out of the woods just yet. “
Changing and contradictory accounts created a crisis of credibility for the White House at a very important time: while Trump is expected to remain hospitalized for several more days and the presidential election is approaching, his condition is being watched anxiously by Americans.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The record outbreak of new coronavirus cases in Slovakia has not slowed despite severe restrictive measures, surpassing 800 new cases for the first time.
The Ministry of Health said the building had reached a new record of 818 on Saturday and the government responded to the recent increase by pointing to a state of emergency with strict restrictions.
Prime Minister Igor Matovic on Sunday called on his Slovak compatriots to attend public meetings and not to hold celebrations in a circle of relatives.
“We’re heading for very difficult days,” Matovic said on Facebook.
Slovakia reported 13,139 viral infections and 55 deaths, still low for other European countries.
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JERUSALEM – A member of the Israeli cupboard tested positive for coronavirus while the country remains under lockdown while fighting a momentary wave of infection.
Gila Gamliel, Israeli minister of environmental coverage and Likud member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Twitter sunday that she had tested positive. She is the fourth Israeli government minister to test positive.
The Israeli government imposed a national blockade on 18 September before the Jewish holidays in an effort to curb an uncontrollable coronavirus epidemic. According to Ministry of Health figures, Israel has recorded more than 264,000 cases and nearly 1,700 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation, which spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, reported 17 new coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Saturday.
The total number of virus-related deaths in the mass reserve remains 558, and the total number of cases is now 10421.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: The Sri Lankan government closed schools across the country and imposed a curfew on Sunday in two western province suburbs after a user was tested for coronavirus.
The user was treated in a hospital for fever when a coronavirus check tested positive. Approximately 15 hospital staff members and 40 colleagues were quarantined.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Education announced that schools would be closed from Five October after the government to extend school holidays to October 5 from the scheduled date of October 9.
Sunday’s curfew covers the suburbs of Minuwangoda and Divulapitiya, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, from where the patient reported.
For more than two months, fitness officials say they have avoided the virus’s network.
The country reported 3,388 cases filed, totaling thirteen deaths, out of 3,254 recovered.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A very small number of people dressed in the symbolic white sponge garment of Muslim pilgrimage surrounded Islam’s holiest place in Mecca after Saudi Arabia lifted restrictions on the coronaviruses that had been in place for months.
The kingdom had taken the infrequent step of postponing the smallest pilgrimage of the “umra” that attracts millions of others throughout the year from a global circle in early March when the coronavirus became a global pandemic.
But as nations begin to ease these restrictions, the Saudi government began Sunday to allow up to 6,000 pilgrims a day to enter the expanding Grand Mosque in Mecca. Only Saudi citizens and citizens will be able to enter the mosque in this first phase of reopening, and each user has up to 3 hours to complete the pilgrimage.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian State Prime Minister Victoria called on citizens to “stay on course” after giant teams flooded beaches and parks on weekends defying strict closing regulations.
Victoria, emerging from a peak in the winter primaries in coronavirus cases, calmed down by blocking regulations last weekend but has still allowed only five other people from up to two families to gather outside.
Many ignored regulations on Saturday and crowded parks and beaches, prompting Prime Minister Daniel Andrews to remind Victorians not to be self-centered and not to distance the socially. Victoria reported only 12 new cases of coronavirus and one death on Sunday, well below the winter peaks.
Andrews said victory is “delicately resolved” as the state moves towards further easing of blocking rules.
“People love to go to the beach in fine weather, but there’s a global pandemic,” he said. “Surely there is a greater preference to see this, beat it and have a COVID summer and Christmas. and 2021. “
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported 64 new cases of coronavirus on the fourth day in a row, its accumulation has fallen below 100, reflecting perhaps the least amount of tests performed on one of the most important vacations of the year.
Figures published Sunday through the Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national bodies to 24,091,421 deaths.
Thirty-eight of the new cases were reported in seoul’s densely populated metropolitan domain. Health has had trouble tracking transmissions from churches, hospitals, schools, and offices. Seventeen of the new cases were similar to foreign arrivals.
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SANTA FE, N. M. – New Mexico officials reported 298 known cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths, bringing the total to 30296 cases with 890 deaths.
Additional cases reported Saturday included in Bernalillo County, 67 in Dona Ana County, 32 in Chaves County, 22 in Lea County and 20 in Curry County.
The 3 deaths occurred in Bernalillo, Curry and Dona Ana counties and concerned others over the age of 70 to 80 with underlying diseases.
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PHOENIX – Many inmates say Arizona’s criminal formula did not provide mandatory evidence, materials, or reed the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republic of Arizona reports that dozens of letters from inmates in recent months have said the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation was not protecting staff and inmates from the outbreak.
The Republic reports letters from detainees describing fears and frustrations, asking, while others have provided main graphic points in non-public accounts of the survival of the virus.
A branch spokesman denied the allegations through the detainees, adding that poorly held prisoners had not been assessed. Department spokeswoman Judy Keane also cited the protection and fitness protocols announced during the pandemic.
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NEW YORK – The number of new coronavirus cases in New York State continues to increase.
The state reported Saturday that there had been more than 1,700 new instances shown on Friday, compared to the previous day with total cases not seen since May. Some of the state’s hot spots included the Brooklyn district in New York City, where more than 350 people tested positive, and the Rockland County suburb, which recorded at least 120 new cases.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray and hold the 4 elements used as a symbol of the Jewish Sukkot holiday, as they maintain their social distance and are separated through plastic walls from the existing national blockade due to the coronavirus pandemic in the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Sunday, October 4, 2020 – The festival commemorates 40 years of Israelites’ wandering in the desert and a decorated hut is erected outside of the devout houses as a sign of shelter of transience (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit). )
People wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while walking through the ancient Colosseum in Rome on Saturday, October 3, 2020. From Saturday, it is mandatory to wear an outdoor mask in Lazio, the region that includes Rome. Photo AP / Andrew Medichini)
A fitness employee takes a nasal swab pattern at a COVID-19 control center in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, October 3, 2020, India surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 confirmed deaths on Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll to nearly 10% of deaths worldwide and in the United States and Brazil alone (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Dinners are held outdoors at outdoor restaurants as a component of COVID-19’s current economic effect on mitigation efforts on Saturday, October 3, 2020 in New York City (AP Photo/ John Minchillo).
Registered nurse Doreen Kolojejchick prepares a dose of the flu vaccine at the free Clinic of the City Health Department of Wilkes-Barre in the parking lot of the Kirby Health Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Array on Saturday, October 3, 2020 (Dave Scherbenco / Citizen Voice AP)
People perform an exercise from Northern Line to London after 10 p. m. Curfew in pubs and restaurants is presented to combat accumulation in cases of coronavirus in England, Saturday, October 3, 2020 (Victoria Jones / PA AP)
People set up a so-called human chain of peace, destined to cross Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland around Lake Constance, while on the left, supporters of crown measures reach it (Felix Kaestle/dpa AP).
A boy from Kashmir sits outside at a COVID-19 center in Srinagar, India-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, October 3, 2020 India surpassed 100,000 deaths shown through COVID-19, bringing the country’s death toll to nearly 10% of deaths worldwide and in the United States and Brazil alone (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Buyers dressed in masks to protect themselves from coronavirus tour the words “China Li-Ning” for the Li-Ning Chinese sporting goods logo in Beijing on Sunday, October 4, 2020. This year, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean about six hundred million tourists, about 40% of the population, will travel to China during the week-long National Day holiday that began last Thursday, according to Ctrip, China’s largest online travel company. China. (Photo AP / Ng Han Guan)
The ultra-Orthodox Jews pray and hold the 4 elements used as a symbol of the Jewish holiday of Sucot, as they maintain their social distance and are separated through plastic walls from the existing national blockade due to the coronavirus pandemic in the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Sunday, October 4, 2020. The festival commemorates the Israelites’ 40-year-old wandering in the desert and erects an open-air hut of the devout houses as a sign of a transitional refuge (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit). )
An employee builds coffins at Enzo Wood Designs in Johannesburg on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, Casey Pillay, a coffin manufacturer in South Africa, has noticed that the coronavirus pandemic turns his business upside down. South Africa’s blocking degrees changed, but overall, he said, “business has declined. “With the global level of more than a million deaths, Africa is preparing for a wave of infections most likely momentary (AP Photo / Themba Hadebe).
In this symbol spread throughout the White House, President Donald Trump works in the presidential suite of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday, October 3, 2020, after positive for COVID-19 (Joyce N. Boghosian). / The AP White House)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear before Andrew Marr in London on Sunday four October 2020. Johnson defended his management of the coronavirus pandemic, but warned that the country was facing a “bumpy” winter ahead. number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, in more than 4000, and Johnson’s conservative government faces complaints from all sides. Opponents say more difficult social restrictions are needed for a wave of momentary pandemic (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)