HONG KONG – Only six other people in Hong Kong tested positive for coronavirus in a group of 128,000 citizens who had undergone tuesday’s mass testing program.
Four of the six were pre-coronavirus patients who were discharged last month and had lines of the virus when they were tested.
On Thursday, another 850,000 people in the city of 7.5 million others had registered to participate in the week-long program that gives all citizens exclusive and loose control of the coronavirus as the city seeks to identify silent carriers of the virus.
The low number of positive cases exposed so far has led to complaints that the government’s universal testing program is unprofitable amid privacy issues and fears that DNA knowledge could be sent to mainland China.
Hong Kong experienced its third and worst outbreak of coronavirus infections in early July.At its peak, Hong Kong recorded more than a hundred local cases per day, after spending weeks without one in June.Cases have decreased as a result of a number of strict cases.restrictions, adding limiting meal times and closing businesses such as bars and karaoke rooms.
In addition to the six people, Hong Kong reported 8 coronavirus infections on Thursday, totaling 4,839 cases with 93 deaths.
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BERLIN – One of Europe’s largest brothels filed for bankruptcy after being able to serve for months due to restrictions on coronaviruses.
The German Express reported Thursday that the Pascha brothel in Cologne had exhausted all its monetary reserves to finance the maintenance of its 10-story, 60-employee construction.
As a component of a wide range of efforts to curb COVID-19, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Cologne is located, banned prostitution five months ago.
Organizations representing sexual staff have warned that the final brothels would likely force prostitution into hiding, where women are most vulnerable to exploitation.
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JOHANNESBURG – Africa’s most sensible public fitness officer said the rate of new coronavirus cases has declined again, down 14% than last week.
Nkengasong rejects the concept of a “hidden pandemic” on the continent and tells reporters that the evidence has made particular progress in all 54 African countries and that nearly 1% of the total population of 1.3 billion has been screened for the virus.
He says past scarcity considerations are fading as countries grow, and that the relaxation curve “represents a sign of hope.”
Africa has a total of 1.2 million cases shown, roughly part of them in South Africa.
“In the coming weeks, we will see that the dynamics will begin to be replaced with the advent of antigenic testing,” Nkengasong says.”We are very encouraged that this can replace the situation,” as they can be seamlessly decentralized to be used beyond giant cities and give a clearer picture of infections.
In reaction to the Trump administration saying it will not work with a foreign cooperation effort to expand and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine worldwide, Nkengasong said: “We are on the same boat.No country will be if a country in the world still has instances of COVID.»
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LONDON – The families of dementia patients are calling on the British government to ease restrictions on visits to nursing homes by the COVID-19 pandemic, saying they are preventing others from getting the love and attention they want at the end of life.
Many nursing homes reduced visits because of the pandemic, arguing that the lack of non-public protective devices and insufficient testing capacity made it highly unlikely to comply with government rules otherwise.
But Julia Jones, co-founder of the dementia charity John’s Campaign, told the BBC that the family visiting circle is a vital component of caring about others in foster homes and should not be considered optional.
“They’re not visitors, ” he said. They are the husbands of other people, they are the young people of other people who have been their young people for 60 years.It’s a human rights issue. You cannot limit other people’s right to the circle of family life.”
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MELBOURNE, Australia – A pregnant woman says she didn’t know she broke the law when she handcuffed the police in front of her children at her Australian home and took her in her pajamas for allegedly inciting activists to demonstrate against the pandemic.
Zoe Buhler’s husband helped her broadcast the arrest live Wednesday at her home where she lives with two young men over the age of 3 and four in the city of Ballarat, Victoria.The video has been viewed millions of times.
Since then, the 28-year-old has been accused of using social media platforms to encourage others to break pandemic restrictions by attending weekend rallies.
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LONDON – The British government says it is investing in a coronavirus control that produces effects in as little as 20 minutes, as critics say control of the virus is rationed because the formula cannot cope with demand.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government expands evidence of two new tests, one without a swab and one that produces effects in minutes, and organizes a test on the benefits of repeated testing in others without symptoms.
Britain has particularly expanded its testing capacity since the onset of the pandemic, yet critics say it is not yet doing enough to locate and isolate others with coronaviruses.
Anyone with symptoms is eligible for a test, however, the BBC reported thursday that other people who enter their zip code on the government’s online page are directed to drive service centers many miles away.
Hancock insisted that the formula works well despite some “operational challenges.”
The government says it has the capacity to perform approximately 350,000 tests a day, only about 180,000 are actually processed daily.
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LONDON – Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline say human trials of a possible COVID-19 vaccine are starting after positive preclinical results.
Drug brands said Thursday that they plan to check the vaccine in 440 adults at 11 sites in the US.And that initial effects are expected in early December.If those controls are successful, corporations plan to start large-scale trials by the end of this month.
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline plan to seek regulatory approval for the vaccine in early 2021 if the trial knows.
In July, the two corporations announced plans for agreements with the US government.But it’s not the first time To produce up to one hundred million doses of vaccine, and the government took the option to purchase up to 500 million additional doses in the future.up to 60 million doses.
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey is expanding restrictions on social gatherings such as weddings and commitments and henna nights in more than a dozen provinces of the country.
A circular from the Ministry of the Interior sent to Turkey’s 81 provinces on Wednesday night says such social gatherings will be banned from Friday.Wedding registration ceremonies will be allowed but will be limited to one hour.
The move came after the fitness minister said the country is experiencing peak moment on the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak and blamed meetings on weddings and holidays.
The number of daily infections has risen above 1,500 degrees in the past observed in mid-June.More than 273,000 others have tested positive for the virus in Turkey since March.
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PRAGUE – The Czech Republic recorded the largest accumulation in new cases shown of COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health said a record 650 people tested positive on Wednesday, up from 504 on Tuesday.
Health Minister Adam Vojtech said new restrictions are likely to be imposed.
Vojtech is lately quarantined after a senior official in its branch tested positive for COVID-19.
The Czech Republic recorded 25,773 cases of infections with 425 deaths.
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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles City Council declared a tax emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic, paving the way for about 15,000 employees.
Wednesday comes when the city is contemplating a $400 million fiscal deficit this year.
Mayor Eric Garcetti will approve the measure.
The license, which would begin on October 11, would require civilian workers to take up to 18 days off, but a union official told the Los Angeles Daily News that the license violates employment contracts and will be vigorously fought.
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BEIJING – Beijing’s main foreign airport resumed foreign flights thursday from a limited number of countries with low threat of coronavirus infection.
Passengers from Cambodia, Greece, Denmark, Thailand, Pakistan, Austria, Canada and Sweden must first have submitted a negative nucleic acid check for the coronavirus before boarding, journalists were told by the city government spokesman Xu Hejian.
Passenger arrivals will be limited to approximately 500 according to the day of an initial test according to the year and all will be subject to further testing of the virus upon arrival, followed by two weeks of quarantine.The first flight arrived under the new agreement, Air China 746 from Pnom Penh, Cambodia, just before 7 a.m.
Since March, all foreign flights to Beijing have been redirected to a dozen other cities where passengers were examined and treated before they were allowed to travel to the Chinese capital.
China has gone weeks without new cases of local infection and on Thursday recorded 11 cases abroad.China has recorded a total of 4,634 COVID-19 deaths out of 85,077 cases since the virus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan.last year, triggering the global pandemic.
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LOS ANGELES – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says he and his circle of relatives tested positive for coronavirus.
Johnson announced his diagnosis Wednesday in a video that lasted more than 11 minutes on Instagram.
The actor says he was surprised after hearing his positive tests and called the test “one of the hardest and toughest things we’ve ever had to put up with.”
The actor said he contracted the virus with his wife, Lauren Hashian, and two young daughters, but had now recovered.
He says his daughters have “bounced” after suffering from a sore throat for a few days. But for Johnson and his wife, he says they had a “bad patch.”
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SAN DIEGO – San Diego State University paused in in-person categories for a month after dozens of academics became inflamed with the coronavirus.
The school announced Wednesday that nearly 200 course offerings, some in the lab, will move to virtual learning.Accommodation on campus will remain open.
San Diego County fitness officials said there have been 64 cases shown or likely coVID-19 among SDSU academics since the categories resumed last week.Some infections, though all, were similar to other instances in college.
California State University in Chico also suspended categories this week.
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SANTA FE, N.M.- A senior state fitness official warns that COVID-19 infections are much less unusual in New Mexico’s low-income spaces, which can affect Medicaid health care.
Human Services Secretary David Scrase said Wednesday that an investigation of infection rates across the census domain shows severely deficient spaces have infection rates seven times higher than those of wealthier spaces.
Scrase and Children’s Youth and Families Secretary Brian Blalock gave a presentation on public trends and the state’s reaction to coronavirus.
State fitness officials are involved in the hard workday weekend festivities leading to additional outbreaks of COVID-19 infections.
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URBANA, Illinois.- The University of Illinois is stepping up the application of restrictions on student activity after more than 330 cases of COVID-19 in two days on the Urbana-Champaign campus, officials said Wednesday.
In an email to academics, Chancellor Robert Jones said he hopes that all academics will “limit their face-to-face interactions to maximum activities” over the next two weeks from Wednesday night.
“These come with COVID-19 tests twice a week, attending classes, buying food and food, going to work, participating in individual outdoor activities, attending devotees, and seeking medical attention,” Jones wrote.
The University of Illinois is not the only university in the state to delight in a spike in COVID-19 cases.Illinois State University in Normal reports that about 1,025 academics tested positive since the fall semester began two weeks ago, or only about 5% of students.
Since students returned to the Urbana-Champaign campus on August 16, more than 1,000 people on campus have tested positive.University officials say another 800 people have been quarantined lately.
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ATLANTA – With more than 3,000 academics and public university workers across Georgia positive for COVID-19 since August 1, some schools are taking steps to curb the spread of respiratory diseases.
Georgia Tech is encouraging academics to become single rooms and leave their roommates exposed to coronavirus in the coming weeks.Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia announced that they are renting more off-campus rooms to isolate or quarantine academics who have been inflamed or exposed to the virus.
The University of Georgia reported 821 new infections for the week ended Saturday, a figure President Jere Morehead said Wednesday as “worrying.”He suggested that academics “continue to do everything imaginable to prioritize their physical condition and protection by taking appropriate measures to prevent exposure to this virus.”
Approximately 4% of all cases in Georgia last month were related to school campuses, according to Associated Press figures.That figure may be higher because some schools, and the largest in the state, Georgia State University, publish full reports.
The increasing number of infections on campus occurs at a time when new cases decrease in the rest of Georgia.The total number of cases increased to nearly 275,000 on Wednesday, according to state data, but the average number of cases fell below 2,000 per day.