TOKYO – Japan’s economy at an annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, the worst contraction recorded, as the coronavirus pandemic criticized intake and trade, according to government awareness published Monday.
The Cabinet Office reported that Japan’s seasonally adjusted interim domestic product, or GDP, the sum of a country’s goods and services, fell by 7.8% quarter-by-quarter.
The annual rate would have been the number if it had continued for a year.
Japanese media reported that the most recent fall was the worst since World War II, but the Cabinet Office said comparable records had begun in 1980.The worst past contraction occurred with the global currency crisis of 2009.
The world’s third-largest economy was already in trouble when the virus outbreak erupted last year.Since then, the consequences have progressively worsened in COVID-19 cases and social estrangement restrictions.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The first Mediterranean cruise take off after virus testing.
– High schools face possible complicated options related to the football season.
– Coronavirus does not seem to have devastated homeless people as was first and for all feared.
– Workers returning to the workplace after months will see many changes, adding masks, staggered shifts, spaced workplaces and fitness issues.
– AP PHOTOS: The mask involves photographs of the pandemic, demonstrations in Hong Kong.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported 197 new cases of coronavirus, the fourth consecutive day of daily three-digit increases, as fitness personnel struggle to slow down transmissions in the great capital region, where churches have the main infection resources.
Figures announced Monday through the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national bodies to 15,515, adding up to 305 deaths.The country reported 279 new instances of COVID-19 on Sunday, its biggest jump in a day since early May, according to the government.expressed fear of a large outbreak in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern decided Monday to delay New Zealand’s national elections for 4 weeks as the country faces a new coronavirus outbreak in its largest city, Auckland. The elections were scheduled for September 19, but will now take place on October 17. Under New Zealand law, Ardern had the option of postponing elections for about two months. Opposition parties had called for a delay after the virus outbreak in Auckland last week led the government to put the city under a two-week blockade and halted the election campaign. Ardern said he would never postpone the election again, no matter what happened to a virus outbreak. Opinion polls imply that the Liberal Labour Party of Ardern is favored for a moment.
MELBOURNE, Australia: Victoria, Australia’s most affected state, recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic on Monday with 25 coronavirus deaths.
The death toll exceeds the last 21 hours set last Wednesday.
The Victoria Department of Health recorded 282 new cases, more than 279 new infections reported on Sunday, but now a downward trend during the following week.
Victoria released a record 725 new COVID-19s in one day on August 5.
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BEIRUT – Lebanon, which continues to deal with the aftermath of the August 4 explosion that killed 180 others and injured thousands of people, has recorded a record number of coronavirus infections, with four other people contracting the virus and six deaths.
The new infections raise the total number of other people reported to be inflamed in the small country to 8,881 through just over five million. Some 103 died as a result of COVID-19.
The explosion at the port of Beirut was triggered when thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire, injuring another 6,000 people and causing serious damage to the city. Daily cases of coronavirus were already increasing and the explosion made social distance more complicated for many.
The Lebanese fitness sector has been challenged by the pandemic it has hit in the midst of an increasingly serious economic crisis. The explosion in downtown Beirut destroyed at least 3 hospitals in the capital and, in particular, increased pressure on those still operating.
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ROME – Tourists arriving in Rome from 4 Mediterranean countries covered with their bags at Leonardo da Vinci airport to be examined on Sunday by the new coronavirus.
Last week, Italy’s health minister issued an ordinance requiring the tests for all travelers arriving in Italy from Croatia, Greece, Malta or Spain.
Travelers have the opportunity to be tested within 48 hours of arrival at the local public fitness offices closest to their home or destination in Italy.
Tourists are driving the accumulation of new coronavirus infections in Italy in recent weeks.On Saturday, the daily number of new infections exceeded six hundred times since May.
Alessio D’Amato, fitness commissioner for Lazio, the region that adds Rome, told the airport that fear is developing for the growing number of infections, especially when school resumes in Italy on September 14, for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia – Esther Morales, a 70-year-old sister of former Bolivian President Evo Morales, died on Sunday from COVID-19, the former leader.
“She likes my mother,” tweeted Morales, who forced to resign last year after an irregularly fogged election.
Morales, who is in Argentina, faces sedition and fees if he returns to Bolivia.He accused him of “racism and political persecution” of preventing him from visiting his sister at a hospital in Oruro, southeast of La Paz.
Over the past two weeks, Morales supporters have issued national blockades to protest the recent postponement of elections as Bolivia grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
While doctors had warned that oxygen and other medical supplies were arriving at some hospitals due to protests, police said Saturday that the maximum roads had been cleared.
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BRASILIA, Brazil – Michelle Bolsonaro, wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, said sunday that she was negative for the new coronavirus after an announcement on July 30 that she had a positive.
“Negative review. Thank you for the prayers and all the expressions of affection,” Michelle Bolsonaro, 38, said on Instagram. He released a symbol of what he said on his lab test. “Not detected, ” he said.
On Wednesday, Michelle Bolsonaro’s grandmother died of COVID-19.
Bolsonaro’s youngest son, Jair Renan, 22, also tested positive for the virus. On Saturday, he released a video in which he takes pills that he says are hydroxychloroquine. The drug has not proven efficacy against the new coronavirus, but has been widely disseminated through the Brazilian president as a remedy for COVID-19.
President Bolsonaro said he tested positive for coronavirus on July 7, had mild symptoms and was free of the virus at the end of July. He downplayed the devastating effect of COVID-19, appearing in public without a mask and gathering close to supporters despite recommendations for social estrangement.
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BERLIN – The Bavarian government said Sunday that they have not yet touched 46 of the more than 900 people who tested positive for the new coronavirus when they recently entered Germany, but did not get the results.
The state of southern Germany admitted last week that tens of thousands of returning travellers had to wait weeks for effects, including the more than 900 who were positive but did not know them due to the absence of effects.
The bureaucratic collapse provoked a protest in Germany over fears that those who tested positive but were unaware of it could simply transmit the virus to others.
The Bavarian government said long delays in obtaining the effects were related to software unrest and a strangely high number of others who wanted to be reviewed at newly created control centers, basically in double-road rest spaces near the southern borders of the country.
On Saturday, the government of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate said there had been delays in informing others about the effects of their tests on the southwestern state. However, the local government had to at least play all those who tested positive without delay, the German news firm dpa reported.
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PARIS – After France recorded its largest accumulation of viral infections in a day since May, the government is pushing for wider use of masks and stricter protections for migrant staff and slaughterhouses.
But France still plans to reopen schools across the country in two weeks, and the labor minister said the government is determined to avoid a new national blockade that would further hamper the economy and threaten jobs.
The number of infections in France has increased in recent weeks, in part because other people cross the country for weddings, family reunions or annual summer holidays with friends.As a result, Britain re-imposed quarantine measures on Saturday for tourists returning from France.
France reported 3,310 new infections in a non-married day on Saturday, and the positive test rate is more than 2.6%.The number of cases was reduced to several hundred per day over two months, but began to increase in July.Overall, France reported more than 30,400 virus-related deaths, among the highest in the world.
Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne said in a Sunday-published interview in the Journal du Dimanche that the government sought to expand the use of masks in the workplace.
“We will have to avoid additional confinement at all costs, ” he said.