Federal fitness officials on Wednesday released new rules that particularly expand the group of other people at risk of COVID-19 by converting the definition of who is “close contact” of an inflamed person.
Substitution caused by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is likely to have its greatest effect on schools, workplaces, and other organizational settings where others are in contact with others for long periods of time. to dress up in a mask to prevent the spread of the virus.
In the past, the CDC described “close contact” as a user who had spent at least 15 consecutive minutes within one meter eighty of a coronavirus case. Updated guidelines, on which fitness facilities depend for touches, now describe close touch as a user who was within six feet of an inflamed user for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period, according to a CDC on Wednesday.
The updated rules are discovered from new evidence related to the transmission of the new coronavirus, guilty of COVID-19. In a report released Wednesday, fitness officials at the CDC and Vermont discovered that the virus had spread to a 20-year-old criminal. worker who interacted with other people who then tested positive for the virus after 22 interactions with them, for a total of 17 minutes for 8 hours.
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Across the United States, states are working to increase hospital capacity
BOISE, Idaho – Hospitals in the United States are beginning to deform after a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, with several states setting records on the number of other hospitalized individuals and executives struggling to find additional beds and staff. in giant, small states, from Idaho to Ohio, in recent days.
The accumulation of cases and hospitalizations is alarming for medical experts.
“It’s worrying,” said Saskia Popescu, epidemiologist at George Mason University. Around the world, disease tracking officials have seen a trend: first, the number of cases increases, then hospitalizations, and yet there is an increase in deaths. Seeing hospitals suffering is alarming, he said, because she may already be too late to avoid a paralyzing outbreak.
“The moment we see an increase in hospitalizations, it means that we are struggling,” Popescu said.
In Kentucky, the governor rated the number of cases shown in line with the day as “sinister,” forcing arrangements to circulate to increase the hospital’s capacity.
“We are now returning to our plans related to the hospital’s capacity, looking, if so, for hotel features and the use of state parks,” Gov. Andy Beshear said at a recent briefing. “Make sure we have operational plans to set up box hospital, if necessary. “
The governor reported that another 776 people were hospitalized, 202 of them in intensive care and 96 in fans. There were 1,312 new instances of COVID-19 across the state on Tuesday, the fourth overall in a day since the start of the pandemic.
Across the country, Idaho reported its largest coronavirus peak, with new instances expanding by approximately 47% over the more than two weeks. Idaho is lately the sixth largest in the country in new instances consistent with a capita, with a positivity rate of just over 15% – one of the country’s.
Still, Gov. Brad Little resisted requests for a state-wide mask authorization order, saying Americans must take the obligatory measures: dress in masks, take social distances, and practice smart hygiene, to stop the outbreak.
“As a health care system, we are all very concerned,” said Dr. Bart Hill, Vice President and Quality Director of the St. Health System. Luke, the largest in the state. ” This indicates that we expect to see more hospitalizations affecting an elderly population over the next two, three, 4 weeks. “
“The direction we’re heading is the one that’s problematic,” he said.
Since the virus was first detected this year, more than 40 million international people have become inflamed and more than 1. 1 million people have died. In the United States, there have been more than 8 million cases shown and more than 220,000 deaths. The seven-day moving average for new daily instances reached approximately 60,000, the highest since July.
In some cases, peaks occur when schools reopen and Americans get tired of dressing up and practicing social estating.
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Ireland is the first European to reimpose lockdown in the face of coronavirus resurgence
LONDON – Ireland will be the first European country to re-impose a national blockade due to coronavirus problems, and its government urges all who can “stay home. “
Starting Wednesday, Ireland will enter a six-week blockade that will come with new restrictions, but schools will remain open.
Several European countries have noticed a resurgence of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. On Wednesday, at least 10 European countries reported a record number of cases.
Ireland, with a population of about five million, has recorded more than five 2,000 cases shown and 1. 86 five deaths.
As Europe prepares for the time of the pandemic, many countries have opted for regional restrictions.
Ireland went even further with its national closure: under the new restrictions, which will last until 1 December, the Irish are asked to stay in the house and exercise only within five kilometres of their homes. Restaurants, cafes and bars may remain open during takeaways and deliveries, but the maximum number of non-essential retail establishments will be closed, adding hairdressers and barbers. Ten other people will be allowed at the funeral.
Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said at a press convention that Ireland “will be the first country in Europe to return to a national blockade. “
Varadkar said the resolution can result in the loss of another 150,000 people from his jobs and charge the government 1. 5 billion euros, but said the country will have to launch a “preventive attack” on the virus “before it’s too late. . “
Varadkar made comparisons to the 1918 pandemic and noted that the timing was worse than the first.
“It’s not inevitable this time, ” he said. ” We can make sure the wave at the moment is just a wave, but that’s up to all of us. “
Some commentators say there’s a sense of exhaustion this time.
Boston schools return to distance education as city infection rate increases
Boston public schools will suspend face-to-face sessions starting Thursday due to the city’s emerging coronavirus infection rate, the district announced Wednesday.
The seven-day positive verification rate rose from 4. 5% last week to 5. 7% this week, which led education officials to stop costs until infection rates fell for two consecutive weeks.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh (D) said in a statement that his administration approves of face-to-face learning as long as it meets public fitness parameters, but that new knowledge does not help keep schools open.
Boston’s positivity rate will have to remain at or less than 5% for two consecutive weeks before parents of specially wished students have the opportunity to bring their children back to school buildings. other academics will begin to return in stages, with more young academics prioritizing them, depending on the district.
The public school district started its school year remotely last month and then gave parents the option of sticking to distance learning or transferring to a hybrid model.
Boston’s return to virtual learning contrasts with a wave of giant school districts across the country leaning towards face-to-face learning as fears of academics with educational difficulties increase and early tests show that schools have spread the virus as much as expected.
Poland announces viral strategy for lives and jobs
WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s prime minister presented a “halfway” strategy on Wednesday to protect people’s health and lives while protecting the country’s economy and jobs in combating COVID-19.
Mateusz Morawiecki said the policy rejected the approaches of those who minimize the danger posed by the pandemic, as well as those calling for the closure of employers.
“Our strategy is to design social and economic life so that we can continue learning, painting and not blocking the economy, but at the same time breaking the conveyor belt of infection,” Morawiecki said.
But he then said he sought after Poland’s total a “red zone” from Saturday, which would mean, among other things, banning social gatherings, adding weddings, limiting the number of consumers in department stores and places to eat opening hours.
The resolution should be taken on Thursday, he said on Polsat News TV.
On Wednesday, Poland posted a record of more than 10,000 new infections shown, bringing the total to about 203,000 in a country of about 38 million people.
Addressing lawmakers in a parliamentary debate on special anti-COVID-19 legislation, Morawiecki said the government was preparing for months, “hopefully not years,” to fight before the pandemic could be under control.
New virus in New York surpasses 2000 for first time since May
New York State has released more than 2,000 new instances of COVID-19 for the first time since May, an increase that officials desperately expect as they prepare to distribute vaccines in the new year.
Of tuesday’s nearly 125,000 tests across the state, 1. 6% were positive, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D. , said Wednesday at a briefing in Albany. The exclusion of hot spots resulted in a positive average of 1. 4%.
“While we’ve come a long way, the numbers are still acceptable,” he said.
New York, the first epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, is dealing with a resurgence in spaces where masking and respect for social distance have been lax. In mid-August, daily instances across the state averaged about 600 positive rate almost part of what it is now. At its current rate, New York will exceed 500,000 instances by early next week. The hospitalizations of 950 are the highest since June 25 and doubled last month.
The rate of positivity in hot spots, many of them in Brooklyn, Queens and Rockland County, was 6. 6% on Tuesday. Cuomo said Wednesday that he would ease restrictions on some spaces that have made improvements, while the maximum would remain the same for now. is now also focusing on instantiated construction along the Pennsylvania border, Cuomo said.
Cuomo said he did not forese the need for state-round shutdowns as long as the state continues the infection rate in micro-clusters. The state’s positivity rate remains among the lowest in the country, he said.
“The viral rate is expanding because it’s autumn,” Cuomo said, noting that the season has added a number of additional factors, adding school reopening, flu season and an increase in domestic activity.
Texas dies of COVID-19 in Spirit Airlines flight
A Texas woman died of COVID-19 while traveling on a Spirit Airlines flight returning to Dallas from Las Vegas last July, authorities said this week.
Spirit’s flight departed Las Vegas on the night of July 24 bound for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and veered to Albuquerque on the way because the woman did not respond, according to Stephanie Kitts, a spokeswoman for Albuquerque International Sunport. the time he arrived, Kitts said.
The woman has not been identified, but the Dallas County Judge’s office, which first revealed her death, said she was 30 years old and had an underlying illness.
Albuquerque airport officials later learned that the woman was inflamed with coronavirus, so the case was treated as a typical medical deviation, Kitts said. Dallas County officials did not charge the woman with her death toll from the virus until Sunday.
“It expired on an interstate airline flight and had underlying high-risk fitness issues,” the county in a new edition updated its account.
It is not known how many other people on board the flight or if they have been informed that they may have been exposed to the virus.
Nearly 11,000 other people were exposed to coronavirus on flights, CDC says
The CDC said it investigated some 1,600 cases of others who traveled when they were at risk of coronavirus spread, identifying another 11,000 potentially exposed people, and not without transparent delay if the firm had investigated the case of the woman who died on Spirit’s flight. .
Kitts said the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, which handles deaths in the state, responded to the airport. The workplace may not be able to be contacted for comment.
Dallas officials first said the woman died in Arizona, a widely reported detail, before confirming that she had actually died in New Mexico.
Although this appears to be an excessive case, the woman’s death has been revealed as airlines continue to check to convince potential passengers that flying is safe for the pandemic. Professional organizations noted that there have been no shown cases of others contracting the virus on aircraft in the United States and that only a few cases have been documented worldwide.
However, the number of passengers continues to decline, particularly compared to general hours, as corporations decline and some states impose quarantine needs on passengers.
Unprecedented vaccine trials on track to start generating results
In a few weeks, one of the most observed human experiments in history will begin to report the first results, with knowledge of possible vaccines opposed to coronaviruses coming this month or in November from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the biotechnology company Moderna.
Amid the confusion, chaos, and incorrect information that explained America’s reaction to the pandemic, progress toward a vaccine or vaccine has been steady, reassuring, and scientific. So far, political interference has been largely hijacked. government and thanks to an injection of more than $10 billion of taxpayers’ money, they have developed, tested and scaled part of a dozen potential vaccines at an unprecedented rate.
And on Thursday, independent food and drug administration advisers will convene their first full-day assembly to lay the groundwork for their forthcoming deliberations on whether they should present express vaccines to the public. These votes are not binding, but the FDA continues to make advances from its advisory committees.
“Going from where we were in January and February, where we’re going to be affected by this tsunami, to the fullest, probably has a vaccine, or more than one vaccine, that’s proven effective in a year, is incredibly impressive, and it may have only happened with strong and effective federal action,” said Robert Wachter, director of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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One-week occasion at the North Carolina church related to 50 cases of coronavirus
At least 50 cases of coronavirus have been connected to a week-long call at a North Carolina church, which led the fitness to urge participants and contacts close to quarantine.
All other inflamed people attended at least one occasion at the Prayer House for All in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County Deputy Director of Health Raynard Washington said Monday at a public meeting. , he said.
Washington encouraged everyone who participated in the october 4-11 call for a coronavirus checkup and monitoring themselves for symptoms. In addition, he said 75 close contacts of the 50 known inflamed people were asked to quarantine.
Health officials have asked church leaders not to hold rallies in the coming weeks because the government does not know the extent to which the virus has spread. Checks cannot be done in the church because leaders are not interested in home a control site, Washington said. .
The number of new coronavirus cases in Mecklenburg County almost doubled last week, according to Washington. Nearly 32,000 infections and 337 deaths have been reported in the county since the onset of the pandemic.
Pope Francis stops dressing up despite emerging infections
ROME – A day after donning a mask for the first time at a liturgical service, Pope Francis reverted to his old maskless habit on Wednesday despite the rise in coronavirus infections in Europe and growing complaints of his habit and example.
Francis walked away from a mask during his general audience Wednesday in the Vatican Auditorium, and did not wear one when he greeted a dozen unmasked bishops at the end. He reached out and leaned over to chat privately with each of those present. Them.
While the clerics wore masks sitting in the audience, they all stripped off the mask to talk to the Pope, only one held him back, and when he finished his hand by hand with Francis, he lowered it under his chin.
Vatican regulations now require the mask to be used indoors and outdoors, where distance cannot be “always guaranteed”. The Vatican did not answer questions as to why the Pope did not follow Vatican regulations or fundamental measures of public aptitude to save him COVID-19.
Francis has faced complaints even from his top supporters and the disbelief of some in the Vatican for refusing to wear a mask.
Michigan U. D. de an emergency order at home in the middle of COVID-19, but the football team will continue to play.
While fitness officials in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have recorded tons of new COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, they have discovered a non-unusual thread: the University of Michigan campus, where officials have blamed academics who ignore coronavirus restrictions for expanding infections.
On Tuesday, the local fitness government issued an emergency order to stay home throughout the Ann Arbor, Michigan campus, most commonly restricting students to their apartments unless they get food, make paintings, or move to class.
Athletics, however, is exempt: the Wolverines football team will continue to prepare for a visiting game in Minnesota on Saturday and an inaugural game on October 31 against Michigan State University. Although Michigan Stadium doesn’t have a giant crowd, some officials worry. that the house game will boost new business anyway because Spartan enthusiasts traveling to Ann Arbor and Michigan enthusiasts collect for surveillance nights.
‘Unprecedented’ blocking speed and intensity for New Zealand success, researchers say
The ‘unprecedented’ speed and intensity of New Zealand’s reaction to coronavirus in recent months sets it apart from all other countries, according to a recent Lancet article highlighting some of the lessons to be learned from the good fortune of the island nation.
New Zealand announced its border restrictions before confirming its first local COVID-19 case and being informed to do so through the World Health Organization, she says.
The country’s authorities experienced ups and downs in their fight against the virus, facing their latest challenge on Wednesday when they showed a small new port-like instance organization that had tested positive over the weekend. Since then, two of his contacts have also tested positive.
On Wednesday, another 23 cases of coronavirus were shown among travelers who had recently arrived in New Zealand and were remote at official quarantine facilities.
It is not yet known how the government would react to the latest local transmissions, which tend to worry officials more than cases among quarantined travellers.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won overwhelming re-election in what many saw as a blunt demonstration of her pandemic management.
Within 15 days of confirmation of its first case in early March, the country entered a lockout. This immediate reaction paid off: in two weeks, the number of reported cases a day had decreased significantly and the maximum number of new infections was discovered through tactile research.
The study’s authors, from universities and clinical institutes across New Zealand, point out that the country started with an advantage: it has a centralized fitness formula, an emergency control formula accustomed to dealing with mistakes in the form of common earthquakes, and it was in midsummer that the pandemic began, which meant it didn’t have to deal with seasonal flu at the same time , but it also had the strictest blockade in the world, according to the rigorous reaction rate of the Oxford University government. , and has complexes faster than other countries such as Italy, Australia and Britain to intensify restrictions.
New Zealand has reported 25 coronavirus-related deaths to date, making it one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.
Eastern European countries continue with new cases
Bucharest, Romania – Romania reached a record Wednesday with 4,848 positive coronavirus cases while the government was conducting a record number of tests.
Romania reported 37,025 coronavirus tests to date, and has added 69 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The infection rate for more than 14 days exceeded the threshold of 3 other people, consisting of 1,000 in 255 locations across the country, all of which entered the “red scenario,” according to the knowledge of the U. S. Department of Emergency Services. Romania.
On the red stage, the masks are in all public stalls and the restaurants, cafes, theaters and cinemas are closed. Schools are closed and move on to e-learning.
Romania reported 191,102 coronaviruses and 6,065 showed deaths.
SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bulgaria reached 1,336 new coronavirus infections, the Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday.
The new restrictive measures begin on Thursday with the mandatory use of the outdoor mask. Health Minister Kostadin Angelov said that dressed in protective masks, as well as social estating and common disinfection, would slow the spread of the virus by about 30% and assistance would overwhelm fitness. System.
According to official reports, 71 doctors and other doctors tested positive over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of inflamed doctors to 1,622.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev reportedly interrupted a stopover in Estonia on Tuesday due to contact with a user with coronavirus. Back in Sofia, Radev showed reporters a negative control result and announced Wednesday that he had scored negative for the time being.
The Balkan country of 7 million more people has 31,863 cases shown and 1,019 deaths.
WARSAW – Poland has reported a new record of coronavirus cases after conducting a record number of viral tests.
The country reported 10,040 new cases and thirteen deaths on Wednesday, and 60,000 tests were conducted in 24 hours.
Authorities in major cities are taking steps to turn convention rooms into transitional COVID-19 hospitals, and the city of Krakow plans to reopen a deprecated hospital to treat coronavirus patients.
Polish lawmakers are debating a law that would give doctors more cash and temporarily exempt them from legal responsibility for errors in the remedy of other people with COVID-19.
The country, with a population of about 38 million, has nearly 203,000 cases in total, totaling 3,900 deaths.
Parts of northern England impose the strictest restrictions
LONDON – The South Yorkshire region in the north of England has the strictest restrictions in the country to combat coronavirus, joining a densely populated gang in the country where the measures have already been imposed.
Sheffield Mayor Dan Jarvis said Level 3 restrictions would come into effect on Saturday. He said the local government had reached an agreement with the UK passing government on monetary aspects for the region to accompany the measures.
“We all recognize the seriousness of the stage and have taken the path of guilt to make sure we save lives and livelihoods, and our (health service),” Jarvis said.
Under the new rules, pubs will have to close, others cannot mingle with members of other households, and it is discouraged to enter and leave the domain.
These measures have caused tensions between the British Conservative government and local government in northern England, where infection rates are in the country.
On Tuesday, the government imposed the same restrictions in Greater Manchester, the largest urban city of the time in the UK.
Britain has noticed the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in Europe, with nearly 44,000 deaths.
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