ATLANTA – The governor of Georgia said that the reopening of some of the states in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak went well, with the exception of images shared on social media featuring academics huddled in the hallways.
“Honestly, this week went very well, apart from some virtual photos,” Gov. Brian Kemp said Monday at a news convention with the U.S. surgeon general.
Photos shared widely on social media last week showed hallways packed shoulder to shoulder with students at North Paulding High School northwest of Atlanta. School officials later announced that six students and three staff members had tested positive for the coronavirus, and that the school would be closed Monday and Tuesday while the building is disinfected.
In neighboring Cherokee County, 12 academics and two out of a dozen schools tested positive for the virus in their first week back. The Cherokee County formula reported that more than 250 potentially exposed scholars had been quarantined home for two weeks.
Cherokee County has also attracted attention to online photos. Dozens of academics from two of its major schools piled up to take photographs from the first day of school. None of them were dressed in masks.
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NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s department of health has reported that a fourth child or young person has died from a rare condition linked to the coronavirus.
On Monday, the branch said Louisiana citizens between the ages of 1 month and 19 had been diagnosed with a disease that the Centers for Control and Prevention of Federal Diseases calls multisiste inflammatory syndrome in children.
The branch says the dead were between 2 and 19 years old. The Department of Health says underlying medical cases have been reported in two of the 4 deaths.
KNOWLEDGE shows that on Thursday, the nation’s fitness reported 10 deaths and 570 showed cases of the disease in 40 states and Washington, D.C.
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St. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Students have begun returning to some Florida college campuses and some study rooms in rural public schools have opened new security measures, as the state reports its lowest number of COVID-19 cases in more than a month.
Robert Brown, grandfather of five and another child’s adoptive father, had combined emotions about academics’ return to school. Brown lives in Hamilton County, located in northern Florida, on the Georgia border, and is aware of reports that students from Georgia schools contracted the virus after recent reopening.
“That leaves me with some skepticism, because they’re a little irresponsible,” Brown said.
One of his grandchildren attended the first year on Monday as a user. Another granddaughter returned to a user on Tuesday. His other grandchildren attended online courses, adding one on sickle cell disease.
Brown and his wife also care for a 14-year-old foster daughter, who is doing online school.
“I’m worried,” said Brown, who is also commissioner of Hamilton County. “It’s a complicated scenario for everyone.”
Meanwhile, Florida reported on Monday 4155 new cases of coronavirus, the smallest buildup in the workload since last June.
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NEW YORK – Antonio Banderas says he took the COVID-19 test and is celebrating his 60th quarantined birthday.
The Spanish actor announced his positive check on an Instagram post on Monday. Banderas said he would spend his time in solitary confinement reading, writing and “making plans to start making sense of my 60 years, which I arrive with enthusiasm.”
“I would like to climb that I am doing relatively well, just a little more tired than the same as always and I hope to recover as soon as possible following the medical orders that I hope will allow me to succeed over the infection that I and so many others.” people in the world are suffering,” Banderas wrote.
Earlier this year, Banderas was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory.”
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JACKSON, Mississippi – Mississippi lawmakers have returned to the state Capitol for the first time since an outbreak of coronavirus in early July hospitalized lawmakers and killed one person.
Mississippi state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said Monday that a total of 49 lawmakers tested for the outbreak, more than a quarter of the entire body.
Lawmakers left construction on July 1 after running there June, many without a mask or following the rules of social estrangement. The first instances of the organization were shown in the first days of July.
The fitness officer said at least 4 lawmakers had been hospitalized and three required intensive care. Dobbs said at least 12 people, in addition to lobbyists and staff, were infected, as well as a deceased non-legislator.
Among those who tested positive in the strongly Republican framework are Republican presidents, House Speaker Philip Gunn and Deputy Governor Delbert Hosemann.
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LONDON – The British government is firing 6,000 touch markers of coronavirus and deploying the rest in frames on local computers, detecting that the centralized tracking and location formula works well enough.
The UK has been criticized for failing to monitor contact with those who were ignited at the start of the pandemic, which contributed to the highest number of deaths in the country of more than 46,500, the highest in Europe.
Since May, the councheck has temporarily established a formula of testing and traceability to verify the involvement of the epidemic, recruiting thousands of people in a matter of weeks. But the formula, which is based on phone call centers, has not been successful in more than a quarter of other people’s contacts who tested positive for the virus.
Some frustrated passing governments have established their own contact search networks, which have proven to be more effective because they are more familiar with communities and can go door-to-door if necessary.
The national check and suggestion program said Monday that it officially adopts this localized approach. Some 6,000 tactile hintrs will be fired this month, and the remaining 12,000 will work with the country’s local public fitness authorities.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek Ministry of Culture completed the Museum of the Ancient Agora, a main archaeological site in central Athens, for two weeks after a cleaner diagnosed with COVID-19.
A ministry said on Monday that the museum would be absolutely sanitized, while the existing site of the ancient Agora, which was the administrative, political and social center of the ancient city, will remain open.
Greek sites and museums are open to visitors, with the obligatory mask costume in museums.
The closure also occurs when Greece announced 126 new cases of coronavirus on the last day, bringing the country’s total to 5,749 and an additional death for a total of 213 deaths amid an increase in infections.
Of the new cases, 17 were migrants arriving on the Aegean island of Lesbos from the nearby Turkish coast.
The government on Monday announced new measures to stem the spread, adding orders for bars, restaurants and cafes in various spaces to close between 7 a.m. and have evidence of a negative coronavirus test.
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BANGKOK — Thailand is making plans to allow at least 3,000 foreign teachers to enter the country, even as it continues to keep out tourists and tightly restricts other arrivals to guard against new coronavirus infections.
Attapon Truektrong, secretary general of the Private Education Commission, said Monday that among those enrolled were teachers who repainted after leaving the pandemic, as well as newly hired teachers.
Teachers from countries such as the Philippines, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain must remain quarantined for 14 days after arrival. Thailand banned scheduled passenger flights since early April
Thailand is home to many foreign schools and there is a general shortage of students qualified in English and languages other than Thai.
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ISLAMABAD – The new president of the United Nations General Assembly praised Pakistan for temporarily containing the coronavirus and said that the south Asian nation’s management of the pandemic is a smart example to the world.
Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir made his comment Monday at a news convention in the capital, Islamabad.
Bozkir was recently elected president of the 75th consultation of the United Nations General Assembly.
Upon his arrival in Islamabad, he met with the country’s prime minister, Imran Khan, who needs foreign monetary establishments and countries to provide debt relief to poor countries whose economies have been seriously affected by the new virus.
Bozkir occurs amid a steady decline in deaths and COVID-19 infections in Pakistan.
Pakistan reported its first case of coronavirus in February, and in March imposed a national blockade, which has been lifted in recent weeks. Pakistan reported 15 coronavirus deaths on Monday in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of COVID-19-like deaths to 6097.
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WATERLOO, Iowa — The family of a fourth worker who died from the coronavirus during an outbreak at Tyson Foods’ largest pork processing plant is suing the company over his death.
The lawsuit says Isidro Fernandez of Waterloo, Iowa, died April 26 of COVID-19 headaches, leaving a wife and children.
The lawsuit is the one filed in June through the same lawyers on behalf of the assets of three other deceased Waterloo employees.
The lawsuit alleges that Tyson endangered workers by minimizing considerations and concealing the epidemic to keep them on the job. They allege that the corporation did not implement the protective measures, allowed some workers in poor health and exposed to continue working, and falsely entrusted the public that the plant was safe.
The company says staff deaths are tragic but vigorously disputed by the accusations. Tyson says he worked during the pandemic to stick to protection rules and invested millions of dollars to keep staff safe.
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LONDON – The head of emergency at the World Health Organization has said COVID-19 appears to stick to seasonal patterns of some viruses, making it more difficult to control.
Unlike other respiratory viruses such as influenza, which spreads basically in winter, the coronavirus pandemic accelerates in summer. Despite previous predictions from some scientists and politicians, this would fade in the heat.
“This virus has not demonstrated any seasonal trends as such,” Dr. Michael Ryan said Monday at a press conference. “What has obviously shown is that if the virus’s strain is reduced, the virus recovers,” he said. Ryan said the UN’s fitness firm continued to advise countries where COVID-19 appears to be under control, like those in Europe, on measures to curb the spread of the virus.
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NEW DELHI – India has recorded a record 1,007 deaths in the past 24 hours, while new coronavirus infections have more than 62064 cases.
The Department of Health says the total number of deaths reached 44,386 on Monday.
The number of reported cases to date is 2,215,074. At least 634,935 patients were still being treated.
India has recorded more than 60,000 cases of the virus daily in the last four days and more infections than any other country in the world for six consecutive days. It has averaged around 50,000 new cases a day since mid-June.
Infections in India remain concentrated in 10 states that contribute nearly 80% of the new cases.
India has the third number of instances in the world after the United States and Brazil. It has the fifth number of deaths, however, its mortality rate of around 2% is well below that of the two countries most affected.
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LONDON – The head of the World Health Organization has predicted that the number of other people inflamed by coronavirus will reach 20 million this week, totaling some 750,000 deaths.
In a briefing on Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged that “behind these statistics there is a great deal of pain and suffering” but said there were still “green shoots of hope” no matter what stage in an outbreak a country or region might be.
He offered no new strategies to combat the virus but said again that “leaders must step up to take action and citizens need to embrace new measures,” pointing to New Zealand as an example for the world. The country recently marked 100 days with no local spread of the virus.