JOHANNESBURG – With shown cases of coronavirus in Africa reaching one million, the director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that “we exercise fatigue at all” to respond to the pandemic.
Nkengasong spoke to reporters at a time when the number of cases on the continent now stands at more than 992,000, and more than part in South Africa.
Africa experienced an 11% increase in cases last week, less than in recent weeks, however, Nkengasong says that while it is tempting to see a decline, the numbers want to be observed over several weeks to learn about the true trend of infections on the continent.1.3 billion people.
Five account for 75% of cases: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana and Algeria.
The low control rate remains a concern, however, Nkengasong says that if countries do the right thing “we have a chance to defend ourselves from this pandemic.”He says the CDC is largely tracking countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan as cases increase.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The virus in the United States is declining, even as deaths increase
– Seeking safe haven in the United States, young people fleeing danger are deported
– Colombia’s virus blockade fuels anxiety and depression
– North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un ordered government agencies to act to stabilize the livelihoods of citizens of a closed city due to coronavirus problems.
– California has stopped updating a list of counties facing more restrictions on businesses and schools after a technical challenge in the state’s coronavirus database caused insufficient counting.
– Scottish officials ordered the closure of bars, cafes and restaurants in the city of Aberdeen in reaction to an organisation of 54 instances of COVID-19 connected to a singles bar.
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BERLIN – Germany’s fitness minister said the government will require others to arrive from a large number of countries that are considered to be the main threat to coronavirus testing as of Saturday.
The German authorities have expressed their fear of a stable build-up in the number of new infections in recent weeks.The National Center for Disease Control on Wednesday recorded more than 1,000 cases a day for the first time in 3 months.
At the end of the school holidays, the government is willing to monitor potentially inflamed tourists entering the country.Last Saturday, he began providing loose evidence for other people returning to the country.
People entering Germany from countries deemed to be most threatened, most of them outside Europe, will have to be quarantined lately for 14 days, unless they can provide a negative verification result of less than two days.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said that from Saturday, arrivals from those countries will be forced to take one, unless they bring a new result.
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippines reported 3,561 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, outperfiding Indonesia with the number of infections in Southeast Asia, while Manila was sinking into recession.
The most recent jump leads to 119,460 cases shown, 2,150 deaths.Indonesia reported a total of 118,753 showed infections on Thursday, with 5,521 deaths.
The economy slumped 16.5% in the quarter in the worst contraction in decades, pushing the Philippines into a recession.
The stagnant economy began to recover after President Rodrigo Duterte eased a three-month blockade in June.But it put the capital and outlying provinces of more than 25 million other people under a moderate two-week blockade on Tuesday, after medical teams warned that the fitness formula was overdue and could collapse.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said, “I’ll be fair to you, the economy can no longer face a much longer blockade.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The number of others on a Norwegian cruise ship that tested positive for coronavirus reached 53.
Following the outbreak at MS Roald Amundsen, the ship’s owner stopped all cruise ships on Monday and Norway closed its ports to cruise ships for two weeks.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said that on its two trips last month, a total of 37 team members and 16 passengers tested positive.All passengers are registered as residents of Norway.
The cruise acts as a local ferry, traveling from port to port along Norway’s west coast.Some passengers have disembarked in that direction and the government fears that they have spread the virus to local communities.
In the Arctic port of Bodoe, the ship’s team and passengers sent Seadream 1 tested negative for the virus.The tests were carried out “with caution”, according to the Norwegian company that owns the sea shipment SeaDream Yacht Club.
The ship was quarantined after a user from Denmark tested positive on Tuesday when he returned home.Shipping arrived in Bodoe early Wednesday.
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KATMANDU, Nepal – Nepal has again imposed some definitive restrictions, hotels and restaurants and restrictions due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases.
The Home Office said that all meetings were prohibited and that the movement of other people and cars was only allowed at night.
In neighborhoods with the highest number of cases, cars will be allowed to drive through the streets on alternate days with uniform plates.
The closure of Nepal’s march lasted 120 days and the country recorded 21,390 cases and 60 deaths, 81 infections and two deaths on Wednesday.
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HANOI, Vietnam – A fitness officer said the COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam could peak in the next 10 days, and that the country reported deaths and dozens of new infections.
Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son, who is in the Da Nang hot spot to oversee the fight against the virus, said that new infections have been discovered every day and “therefore we will have to continue. to be alert “.
To cope with the increase in the number of patients inflamed by the virus, Da Nang finished on Wednesday a makeshift 700-bed hospital, which, converted into a sports auditorium, has a maximum capacity of 3,000 beds.
A 67-year-old woman, Vietnam’s ninth death, had suffered other fitness complications.
Since the outbreak returned to Vietnam two weeks ago after more than 3 months, 270 local infections have been confirmed, most of them attributable to a hospital organization in Da Nang.Among the new cases, there are six in a high-tech commercial park.in the city.
Since then, the virus has spread to 11 provinces and municipalities, adding the largest cities in Ho Chi Minh City with 8 cases and Hanoi with three.
Among measures to prevent the epidemic, the government is encouraging the use of a smartphone app that alerts consumers if they have contacted who has tested positive.
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BERLIN – Germany’s national disease centres have recorded the highest number of new coronavirus infections in one day in 3 months.
The Robert Koch Institute says 1,045 instances were registered on Wednesday; it is the first time since May 7 that there have been more than 1,000 instances consistent with the day; it’s still a long way from the peak of more than 6,000 in early April.
Although daily numbers are volatile, the figure is part of a trend of new cases that have increased in recent weeks, and the government faces a series of small outbreaks in other parts of the country.
The center’s report for the fight against the disease reiterated its assessment that “this progression is very worrying.”Last week, officials begged germans to respect the rules of dressing up and moving away socially.
So far, Germany’s reaction to COVID-19 is considered a success.The Robert Koch Institute has recorded 9,175 deaths out of more than 213,000 cases shown, a lower mortality rate than in many comparable countries.
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NEW DELHI – India has recorded one-day deaths in 904 in more than 24 hours, while new coronavirus infections have increased through an additional 56,282 cases to nearly 2 million.
The Department of Health reported that the total number of deaths was 40,699.India has recorded 20,000 deaths in the last 30 days.
The ministry also said the rate rose from 63% to 67% in the subsequent 14 days.Nearly 600,000 patients are still being treated.
The case is 2.09%.
Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are the most affected Indian states.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – The Prime Minister of the Australian Hot Spot in Victoria State has suggested that citizens panic and buy through sharp cuts in meat production.
The state capital, Melbourne, began its first full day of strict blockade restrictions on Thursday, while Victoria reported 471 new COVID-19 infections and 8 deaths.
Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said production of beef, lamb and red meats will be reduced by a third day from Friday due to transmission of the virus to slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.
Poultry production will be reduced by 20%.
He says the measures are designed to reduce the amount of staff as low as you can imagine without offering a shortage of products at the same time.
Andrews said it was not mandatory for buyers to store, as happened spasmodicly and to varying degrees with Melbourne’s first blockades.
He says: “You may not necessarily get the piece of meat you want, but you will get what you want and you will get all the products that are fundamentally for you.
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TOKYO – The governor of Japan’s Aichi Prefecture announced a regional “state of emergency” aimed at reducing coronavirus.
Governor Hideaki Ohmura on Thursday called on companies to shut down completely or close early and suggested others stay home at night.
The measures continue until August 24, a time that coincides with Obon’s vacation, when schools and many businesses close.Aichi includes Nagoya, which is home to Toyota Motor Corp.
The governor said coronavirus cases had been expanding in Aichi since mid-July to 100 or more depending on the day. Before that, cases were 0 for a long time based on time.
In April, the Japanese national government called for social estating and business closure, these measures were gradually lifted, Japan has had nearly 42,700 cases shown of coronavirus and about 1,000 deaths.
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BEIJING – New cases of COVID-19 in Urumqi city in northwestern China increased slightly, with 27 reported on Thursday, five more than the previous day.
The surge in the Xinjiang region shows that the government is still struggling to end the country’s last primary outbreak, which emerged about 3 weeks ago, and responded with strict control measures, adding blocking some residential areas, restricting transportation. public and the restriction of the outside of the city.
Urumqi is the capital and largest city of Xinjiang, which has reported more than six hundred cases of coronavirus but no deaths.
In the absence of further deaths, China’s total remains at 4,634, of the 84,528 cases recorded since the coronavirus was first detected in the late central city of Wuhan last year.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico is 50,000 dead by COVID-19
The Federal Department of Health reported new deaths on Wednesday, giving the country a total of 49,698 deaths, the third number of pandemic deaths in the world.
Authorities said the number of infections shown in Mexico increased from 6,139 to 449,961.
The government recognizes that the actual number of deaths in Mexico can be much higher, in component because it has performed very little testing.Only about 1 million tests have been conducted in the country of nearly 130 million other people since the beginning of the pandemic.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana.- Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is protecting schools from developing reports from academics and schoolchildren who tested positive for coronavirus since he returned to school.
Box said Wednesday that he “continues to say that our schools can reopen safely.”He says improving the hospital’s testing and capacity are additional guarantees for returning students for face-to-face learning.
The governor adds that his greatest advice for academics and families is to know when to return home.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The Arkansas state government demands that the public remain open five days a week when categories resume this month, complicating efforts by some districts to restrict on-site schooling due to coronavirus.
Education Secretary Johnny Key issued the rules Wednesday, and the state reported 912 new cases of viruses and 18 more deaths.
State rules state rules state that schools will have to be open every five days of the week to comply with the state constitution.Some districts had planned to restrict on-site training and use distance learning on days when schools were not open.
Arkansas Public Schools is scheduled to reopen the week of August 24.
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OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said schools in most of the state deserve online learning largely just for academics this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Inslee also suggested Wednesday canceling or postponing sports and all other extracurricular activities in person.
Health experts say the virus is still spreading too much in the state, which saw the first case shown of the virus in the country last January.Since then, Washington has recorded more than 59,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 1,600 deaths.
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MONTPELIER, Vermont – Vermont officials say nearly 150 Vermont inmates in a Mississippi prison tested positive for coronavirus.
Vermont has 219 inmates at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Center in Tutwiler, Mississippi, due to lack of capacity in its own prisons.
Last July, six inmates who were returned to Vermont from Mississippi Personal Prison tested positive when they arrived at the Rutland correctional facility, which led the Vermont Correctional Service to order other inmates to be tested in Vermont, Mississippi.
Interim Vermont Corrections Commissioner James Baker said there were 147 tests, 62 negatives, two pending tests, and eight inmates refused to be evaluated.
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UNITED NATIONS – The United States and seven European countries are calling on Russia to withdraw its forces from the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia and to authorize medical evacuations and aid deliveries for the coronavirus pandemic.
The 8 countries said after a closed United Nations Security Council consultation wednesday that Russia’s presence further divides communities and jeopardizes “the health and lives of others affected by the conflict,” the pandemic.
Russia’s deputy ambassador, UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky, tweeted that it was “just a fiction.”
Georgia made a failed attempt to reclaim its separatist province of South Ossetia in 2008, prompting a brief war with Russia.Moscow then identified the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and established military bases there.
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