COLUMBIE, SOUTH CAROLINA – South Carolina has set a record number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases on an unmoded day.
On Sunday, another 2,335 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported.
South Carolina has reported 2,000 new cases 3 times since the first detection of the virus in the state in March. They’ve all been in the last 8 days. The state spent much of last month in the country’s 4 most sensitive cases for new population-adjusted COVID-19 cases.
Health also reported 19 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 1,138.
But a key audience statistic is missing over the weekend. Health officials said they may simply not disclose the number of other people hospitalized with COVID-19 because the state followed a federal request to replace the way they reported the hospitalizations.
South Carolina reported a record of a record 1,593 people hospitalized with the virus on Friday, last day’s figures were available.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
— As virus surges in some US states, emergency rooms are swamped
– 600,000 virus deaths, Hong Kong warns of resurgence
—How coronavirus to an immigration center
– Large corporations keep staff in the dark about the prevalence of coronairus in warehouses, retail stores and factories. This has led staff to stumble upon what is in the workplace.
– The virus of greatest concern in France is discovered on the north coast of South America: French Guiana, a territory of about 300,000 inhabitants where poverty is endemic and physical care is scarce.
– The Blue Jays won’t play their home games in Toronto this year because the Canadian government doesn’t think it’s for players to move from one side of the United States to the other in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Track all AP pandemics in http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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HERE’S MORE HAPPENING:
ROME – The Italian region that includes Rome warns citizens that local closures may want to be ordered if there are more groups of coronavirus infections.
Lazio region fitness commissioner Alessio D’Amato said 17 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Sunday, adding 10 “imported” from other countries when foreign nationals returned to Italy. Many recent cases in The domain of Rome involve returning from Bangladesh.
“I ask for the use of masks, otherwise we will have to close again” with measures restrictive to the activities and movements of citizens outdoors of houses, D’Amato said.
“We reject and waste all efforts so far,” D’Amato pleaded in a Facebook post.
Increases in Lazio have been included in 219 new cases in Italy, bringing the number of infections shown since the start of the epidemic to 244,434. The known death toll of Italy on Sunday 35,045, with 3 more deaths showed.
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SAN DIEGO – Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego, the site of the first primary outbreak at U.S. 221 detention centers. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. In interviews with The Associated Press, staff and inmates revealed gaps in the way the corporate staff running the media treat the disease: there was an early absence of face coverings and a lack of cleaning products. Symptomatic inmates were combined with others.
Some in the centre have resigned; the Consul General of Mexico, responding to the judicial cases of the detainees, expressed fears about the institution’s handling of the epidemic.
Other centers would continue with their own epidemics, and an internal surveillance survey by the Department of Homeland Security of 188 detention centers conducted in mid-April echoed something the Associated Press discovered in Otay Mesa: 19% of school principals said there were not enough standards of surgical masks, 32% said there was not enough N95 breathing mask and 37% felt that there was not enough disinfectant for the hands of the inmates.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis assures its closeness to all who suffer from COVID-19 and its “economic and social consequences”.
Speaking Sunday from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Francis said that “the pandemic has no symptoms of stopping.”
He said he was thinking specifically of all those whose suffering in the pandemic is compounded by the conflict.
Citing a recent UN Security Council resolution, he reiterated his call for a rapid and global ceasefire that he said would “allow peace and security for the provision of humanitarian assistance.”
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey suspended flights to Iran and Afghanistan due to coronavirus outbreak, Turkey’s Ministry of Transport reported Sunday.
In a brief statement, the ministry said the flights had been interrupted “from the Covid-19 process.”
Turkey had in the past stopped air with its neighbor Iran in February, while Afghanistan suspended all flights in March.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ fitness minister says he is involved in the migrants inflamed with a coronavirus can simply infiltrate through the porous ceasefire line of the ethnically divided island nation.
Minister Constantinos Ioannou highlighted “a problem” on Sunday after several migrants who recently crossed the separatist north to seek asylum around the world identified the south and tested positive for coronavirus.
Ioannou said it had ordered all migrants to be tested for the virus two months ago before entering reception centres for treatment.
At least 8 Syrian migrants who crossed the south last week reportedly tested the virus.
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong is tightening measures against coronavirus after a recent accumulation of cases. Masks will be mandatory in all public squares and non-essential public servants will be repainted from home.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam presented the measures on Sunday and said the stage at the Asian monetary center is “really critical” and that she saw no “signs” that it is under control.
Travelers to Hong Kong from spaces where the threat of infection is very serious should check for negative coronavirus before boarding their flight, go through another check on arrival and spend 40 14 days in a hotel. Previously, those who arrived could simply be quarantined at home. The countries included in the new regulations were Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and South Africa.
Hong Kong gave the impression that it had largely contained the coronavirus, however, the new cases reported last week brought the city total to 1,777, adding 12 deaths.
China, which manages Hong Kong as a semi-autonomous region, has ordered that all arrivals from Hong Kong be quarantined for two weeks, reducing the volume of cross-border traffic.
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NEW DELHI – A record accumulation of 38,902 new cases in 24 hours raised the total number of coronaviruses in India to 1,077,618.
The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported 543 additional deaths for a total of 26,816.
The number of other people who have recovered continues to increase. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 677,422 patients have been cured to date nationwide, bringing the cure rate to 62.82%.
Experts say India is likely to delight in a series of spikes as the infection spreads to rural areas.
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ISLAMABAD – The Government of Pakistan has reported 1,579 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest number in more than a month, as a fitness plan to resume a long-awaited national polio crusade next week.
Authorities have conducted 22,559 tests in more than 24 hours. Subsequent cases raise the total number of infections shown to 263,500, of which 53,652 are active. Pakistan reported 5,568 deaths.
The infection coincides with Monday’s three-day polio crusade with the goal of achieving 800,000 children.
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the 3 countries where polio, a debilitating and deadly disease caused by the polio virus, remains endemic.
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Johns Hopkins University says the international death toll by COVID-19 has surpassed 600,000.
Saturday night’s college count, USA tops the list with 140,103 deaths. It is followed by 78,772 deaths in Brazil and 45,358 in the UK.
The number of international contagions shown exceeded 14.2 million, 3.7 million in the United States. There are more than 2 million in Brazil and more than a million in India.
The World Health Organization reported a one-day record of new infections with 259,848.
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported fewer than 40 more cases of coronavirus by the time in a row, as the government struggles to suppress the accumulation of local infections.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday that they had reported 34 more cases, bringing the country’s total to 13,745, with 295 deaths.
The firm says 21 of the newly shown cases were inflamed patients in the country, all discovered in the densely populated Seoul region or in two central cities. He says the other thirteen instances came here from abroad.
The health government has declared that imported coVID-19 instances are less threatening than transmissions because South Korea imposes tests and applies two-week quarantines to all people arriving from abroad.
South Korea recorded 39 new ones on Saturday.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico continues to register near-record levels of coronavirus infections shown, thwarting plans to reopen the economy.
The Ministry of Health reported another 7,615 cases on Saturday and 578 more deaths. This leads Mexico to a total of 38,888 deaths shown by COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and 338,913 cases. These figures are very important sub-counts because Mexico has done very little testing. Government laboratories have administered just over 800,000 tests to date, or about one in 150 people in the country with a population of approximately 130 million.
Mexico had hoped to begin a slow reopening from June, however, several states had to face the countryside, the last beaches and hotels.
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BEIJING – China said Sunday that thirteen other cases of coronavirus have been reported in the northwestern city of Urumqi, bringing the country’s most recent local outbreak in general to at least 30.
Three cases were brought into the country from abroad, bringing the total number of cases shown in China to 83,660, adding 4,634 reported deaths.
Despite the Urumqi epidemic, China now has only another 251 people with remedied for COVID-19, according to the National Health Commission.
Another 151 people were being monitored in isolation for showing signs of having the virus or for testing positive without showing symptoms. At least 23 of those asymptomatic cases were in Urumqi, although China does not include those in the numbers of confirmed cases.
Urumqi has responded by cutting subway, bus and taxi services, closing some residential communities and is lately testing others in the city, starting with those in the communities where cases were reported, according to state media. Some restrictions have also been imposed on other people leaving the city, with fewer flights from the city.
The Urumqi outbreak is the latest since China largely contained the national spread of the virus in March. The largest was a recent outbreak in Beijing that inflameed more than 330 people, however, the local government said Saturday that advertising operations in the city have largely recovered. The Chinese capital has spent thirteen days without instances of national transmission, the business in many restaurants and department stores remains poor.
Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang region, where China has been accused of human rights violations among its Muslim ethnic minority groups. China has deployed a large security presence in the region, which it says is to prevent it from terrorist activities.
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THE HAYE, Netherlands – The Authorities in Amsterdam are urging others not to go to the city’s famous hot district and have closed some of the narrow streets of the historic district because they are too busy.
After months of blocking measures opposed to coronaviruses, sex personnel in the Netherlands were able to repaint on 1 July and, although other restrictions have also been eased, the soft red district is very busy.
Late Saturday night, fearing that visitors would not be able to maintain their social distance, the municipality of Amsterdam took action, ended the roads in the domain and tweeted in Dutch and English: “Don’t come to the red light district. He’s too busy. »
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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa now ranks fifth in the world for shown cases of coronavirus as the African continent faces the first wave of the pandemic.
South Africa reported 13,285 new cases shown on Saturday for a total of 350,879. This places the country ahead of Peru and represents approximately part of all cases in Africa. The only 4 countries with the maximum instances shown (United States, Brazil, India and Russia) have more people than the 57 million in South Africa.
The virus arrived on the continent a little later than anywhere else, which gave officials more time to prepare; however, Africa has fewer physical care resources than any region and public hospitals in South Africa are suffering to manage the number of developing patients.
Gauteng Province, home to Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria, is now the epicentre of the virus in Africa. It has a quarter of the country’s population and many other poor people are overcrowded in the suburbs where blank water and sanitation are inadequate.
South Africa recorded 4,948 deaths from the virus, however, the South African Medical Research Council in its most recent report that the country recorded 10,944 “excess deaths” between 6 May and 7 July.
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – No worker or citizen tested positive at the Yosemite National Park Health Clinic, and no visitors have reported being in poor health since the park began reopening last month, however, uncooked wastewater tests in the park showed the presence of viruses.
Dozens of other people were reportedly infected.
Mariposa County public fitness officer, who oversees coronavirus tests in the Yosemite area, said the appearance of the coronavirus would probably not lead to policy adjustments because the park already follows local and state restrictions. Eric Sergienko said he thought the presence of the virus in Yosemite would make other people more attentive.
Yosemite, which attracts more than four million visitors each year, halved the number of vehicle passes to the park. Visitor centers remain closed, while camps, gift department stores and hotels restrict facilities to allow physical distance.
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The World Health Organization is republishing a one-day record of new coronavirus demonstrations. Announced Saturday 259,848 new
WHO published more than 237,000 worldwide on Friday. Consecutive records come when many countries face new waves of infections after easing blocking restrictions.
Data collected through Johns Hopkins University show more than 14 million international bodies since the start of the pandemic.
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