St. PETERSBURG, Fla. – State officials say Florida has exceeded 500,000 cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile, it is accelerating after the transient closure of some sites due to Tropical Storm Isaiah.
A long line of cars waited outside Hark Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens for a coronavirus control site to reopen after the storm.
Florida reported 225 new virus deaths Wednesday, raising its average of seven days of reported daily deaths to a peak of 185, Texas with 197.
The Florida Department of Health reported 5,409 new cases Wednesday. The state has claimed 7,627 lives since the start of the pandemic, according to a Johns Hopkins University count.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– Strong call for virus testing in South Carolina, long waits
– Virus cases in Spain continue to increase since the blockade was eased.
– Members, suffer when the virus hits the Choctaw tribe in Mississippi.
– Virginia implemented a smartphone app to tell others if they had possibly been exposed to the coronavirus. It’s the first state in the U.S. In using the new generation of pandemics created through Apple and Google.
– After more than a week of meetings, there is some clarity in bipartisan discussions in Washington about a mass reaction bill to COVID-19.
– The mayor of Chicago said the third-largest school district in the country would offer distance education to begin the school year.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced new measures to combat racism and has pointed it out as a fitness crisis.
Whitmer ordered state workers to be educated with implicit prejudices as the state confronts what has called the systemic inequalities highlighted through the coronavirus pandemic. The governor also set up an advisory board of black leaders on Wednesday.
“We have a lot of paintings to do to eliminate the systemic racism that black Americans have had for generations. It’s going to take time,” he said at a press conference.
Blacks account for 39% of the approximately 6,500 proven and likely COVID-related deaths in Michigan, representing 14% of the population. In cases where race and ethnicity are known, the infection rate among black citizens is 14,703, consisting of 1 million compared to 4,160 for white citizens.
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CHICAGO – The mayor of Chicago has said the third-largest school district in the country will have distance learning to start the school year.
The city’s resolve to abandon its plan for academics to take in-person categories two days a week on September 8 came amid a crackdown through the tough teachers’ union and as school districts across the country struggle to teach their young people the coronavirus. Pandemic.
When Chicago officials announced their hybrid learning plan last month, they said it would most likely replace comments from the family circle and coronavirus.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot attributed the replacement in the plans to a recent construction in cases shown in the city.
A survey also showed that 41% of parents of elementary school students and 38 percent of parents of the school’s top students had no plans to restore their children to elegance this fall, the district said in a press release. Under the original plan, parents may simply refuse to attend school.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Nearly a quarter of the 29,000 coronavirus cases in Kansas have been connected to clustered sites, to state fitness officials.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has seen 360 outbreaks that have inflamed 7,710 others and caused 243 of the 365 COVID-19 deaths in the state, the Kansas City Star reported Wednesday.
Dr. Lee Norman, senior administrator of the state fitness department, said he expects to see an increase in rallies-like cases after the upcoming Labor Day weekend.
State groups come with 132 in personal businesses, 95 in long-term care services, and 54 in meetings. Nursing services are to blame for the maximum number of group-related deaths in 193. Meat packing services and state prisons also represented safe groups.
The State Department of Health has reported 841 additional cases to Kansas since Monday for 29,717 cases shown. The state reported a total of 368 deaths, 3 more than monday.
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MADRID – The number of new coronavirus infections in Spain continues to increase to 1,772 cases on Wednesday.
That increased from 1178 the day before. More than 60% of new instances have been detected in the northeastern regions of Madrid and Aragon. Two of the country’s 19 autonomous communities did not provide their figures.
New cases have accumulated in Spain since a three-month lockout ended on 21 June. At the end of July, the daily accumulation exceeded 1,000. This has led other European countries to ask that Spanish travellers be quarantined on arrival.
Several parts of the country have imposed new restrictions on movement and impose masks.
Meanwhile, the Government of the Canary Islands will be the first region in Spain to cover the expenses of tourists, both local and foreign, who test positive for coronavirus during their holidays in the archipelago.
The local government says an agreement has been reached with an insurance company for medical expenses, repatriation or extended stay if tourists are to be quarantined.
Spain has recorded more than 305,000 cases and almost 28,500 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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PARIS – The French government is raising the glass to the wine industry.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Wednesday 80 million euros ($95 million) in monetary aid to make a stopover on wine in the city of Sancerre, in central France. It adds to the aid already granted to the industry in May.
He says the help will be the garage of excess product and the help of unsold grapes will be distilled into other materials. Winemakers estimate that the coronavirus crisis has led to a deficit of at least 1.5 billion euros due to the closure of bars, restaurants, talks and tourism.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – In South Carolina, hospitals and the state branch of fitness say that the application for coronavirus tests remains the best, even though the number of tests has decreased in the last two weeks.
In some cases, others may be discouraged through long wait times at some verification sites. Others stop checking when their fitness insurance doesn’t cover them, says Dr. Patrick Cawley, executive director of South Carolina Medical University in Charleston.
Cawley told a state legislative committee Tuesday that insurance companies do not pay for asymptomatic patient testing. It’s one of the biggest barriers to detection in the state, Says Cawley.
Health officials announced 1,168 new cases on Tuesday and 52 showed deaths. The state has reported 93,604 cases shown and 1,774 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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PHOENIX – Arizona officials say 517 tucson state prison inmates underwent coronavirus tests Tuesday.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation said nearly part of the prisoners housed in the Whetstone unit tested positive for the virus. Cases were discovered among inmates in the prison’s Whetstone unit in an attempt to control the 39,000 state prisoners.
Officials say 564 correctionals tested positive for the virus
Before prison officers learned of the cases in the Whetstone unit, the firm reported that 890 other inmates had tested positive and 21 inmates had died statewide.
Arizona has 180,500 cases shown and more than 3,800 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Interior Ministry announced new measures to curb the spread of coronavirus after cases were shown to have exceeded 1,000 again.
The Interior Ministry said its teams will expose the “individual surveillance” of others who have been forced to be quarantined, i.e. the first seven days of isolation.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted that a wide inspection will be held in Turkey on Thursday. The ministry also stated that touch tracers will receive assistance through law enforcement or through magnets in small settlements.
He says he will not settle for any violation of masking and social estrangement on occasions such as weddings or circumcision ceremonies. Meetings after the funeral will be limited.
Companies and transport that comply with the protection will receive a “safe space” logo after 3 inspections.
The most recent statistics show that approximately 235,000 showed infections and 5,765 deaths in Turkey.
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LONDON – Block restrictions have been re-imposed in the Scottish city of Aberdeen after a “group” of coronavirus was reported.
Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all reception services in the city should be closed until the end of the structure on Wednesday. Those who live in the domain deserve no more than five miles, unless it is paintings or an essential matrix. People are asked not to enter other homes.
Sturgeon says the organization of 54 instances goes back to a bar, but there are more than 20 pubs and restaurants involved. Accumulation in some cases has contributed to a greater fear that there has been a primary outbreak in the city.
The restrictions will be revised next Wednesday and possibly extended if necessary.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The number of other people aboard a Norwegian cruiser who tested positive for coronavirus reached 44, the government said.
Following the outbreak in the MS Roald Amundsen, the ship stopped all cruisers on Monday and Norway closed its ports to cruise ships for two weeks.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said late Tuesday that 35 team members and nine passengers had tested positive. All passengers were registered as residents of Norway.
The cruise line acts as a local ferry, traveling from port to port along Norway’s west coast. Some passengers have disembarked in the direction and the government fears that they have spread the virus to local communities.
In the Arctic port of Bodoe, neither the team nor the passengers were able to disembark from the Seadream 1 cruise ship after a user from Denmark tested positive on Tuesday on his return home. The shipment arrived early on Wednesday and the tests will be carried out at the pier, according to Norwegian news firm NTB.
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