COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A university hospital in northern Norway said two other team members on a Norwegian cruiser performed a coronavirus test, bringing the total to 55.
After the outbreak on the MS Roald Amundsen, the ship stopped all cruisers on Monday and Norway closed its ports to cruise ships for two weeks.
The University Hospital of Northern Norway in Tromsoe, north of the Arctic Circle, where the shipment is recently moored, said they entered on Thursday. They have been described as foreign nationals running in the MS Roald Amundsen.
Previously, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the ship’s two trips last month, a total of 37 team members and 16 passengers tested positive. All passengers are registered as residents of Norway.
The cruise ship acts as a local ferry, traveling from port to port along the west coast of Norway. Some passengers have disembarked in the direction and the government fears that they have spread the virus to local communities.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VIRUS BRUTE:
– Cases of coronavirus of approximately 1 million were confirmed in Africa
– UK declares 50 million masks unusable for protection reasons
– The virus in the United States is declining, even as deaths increase
– North Korea says it is recruiting thousands of other people and sending food and other aid to a closed city due to coronavirus problems.
– California has stopped updating a list of counties that face more restrictions on business and schools after a technical challenge in the state coronavirus database led to insufficient count.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has said it will not use 50 million masks purchased to purchase a safe protective device for doctors at the height of the coronavirus outbreak due to protection concerns.
The mask was part of a 252 million pound ($332 million) contract that the government signed with investment firm Ayanda Capital in April. Documents filed in a court case reveal that the mask will not be distributed because they have earrings that are pending on the head and would possibly not be tight enough.
The government says another 150 million masks provided through Ayanda are affected but are still being tested.
Newspapers are components of an anti-conservative lawsuit through the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor crusade teams.
As the coronavirus epidemic accelerated in the UK in March, it is transparent that the country lacked sufficient stock of masks, gloves, gowns and other protective devices for physical care personnel and nursing home staff. This sparked a race to buy billions of parts of equipment from suppliers in the UK and abroad.
Opposition parties are calling for an urgent investigation into how it acquired the non-public protection apparatus.
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JOHANNESBURG – With cases of coronavirus in Africa reaching one million, the director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that we “exercise fatigue at all” in responding to the pandemic.
Nkengasong spoke to reporters at a time when the number of instances on the continent is now more than 992,000. More than a part are in South Africa.
Africa saw an 11% increase in instances last week, less than in recent weeks, however, Nkengasong says that while it is tempting to see a decrease, the numbers want to be seen for several weeks to the true trend of infections on the continent. 1.3 billion people.
Five account for 75% of cases: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana and Algeria.
The low verification rate remains a concern, but Nkengasong says that if countries do the right thing “we have a chance to avoid this pandemic.” He says the CDC is heavily tracking countries like Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan as the instances increase.
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BERLIN – Germany’s fitness minister said the government will require others arriving from a giant number of countries that are considered the biggest threat to coronavirus testing to begin on Saturday.
The German authorities have expressed fears about a steady increase in the number of new infections in recent weeks. The National Centers for Disease Control recorded more than 1,000 instances per day on Wednesday for the first time in 3 months.
At the end of the school holidays, the government is willing to monitor potentially inflamed tourists entering the country. Last Saturday, he began providing loose evidence to others returning home.
People entering Germany from countries deemed to be most endangered, most of them outside Europe, will have to be quarantined lately for 14 days unless they can provide a negative verification result of less than two days.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said that from Saturday, arrivals from those countries will be forced to take a, unless they bring a new result with them.
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippines reported 3,561 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, beating Indonesia with the number of infections in Southeast Asia, while Manila was sinking into a recession.
The most recent jump leads to 119,460 cases shown, 2,150 deaths. Indonesia reported that a total of 118,753 showed infections on Thursday, with 5,521 deaths.
The economy fell 16.5% in the quarter in the worst contraction in decades, leading to a recession in the Philippines.
The stagnant economy began to recover after President Rodrigo Duterte eased a three-month blockade in June. But on Tuesday he put the capital and outlying provinces of more than 25 million people under a moderate two-week security lock after medical teams warned that the fitness formula was beaten and could collapse.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said, “I’ll be fair to you, the economy can no longer face a much longer blockade.”
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HANOI, Vietnam – A fitness officer said the COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam could peak in the next 10 days, and that the country reported deaths and dozens of new infections.
Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son, who is in hot spot Da Nang to oversee the fight against the virus, says new infections have been found every day and “therefore, we have to continue keeping guard up.”
To cope with an increase in the number of patients inflamed with the virus, Da Nang ended a makeshift hospital of 700 beds on Wednesday. The hospital, converted into a sports auditorium, has a maximum capacity of 3,000 beds.
A 67-year-old woman became Vietnam’s ninth fatality. She had suffered from other health complications.
Since the outbreak returned to Vietnam two weeks ago after more than 3 months, 270 local infections have been confirmed, most of them attributable to a hospital organization in Da Nang. Among the new cases, six in a high-tech commercial park in the city.
Since then, the virus has spread to 11 provinces and municipalities, adding the largest cities of Ho Chi Minh City with 8 instances and Hanoi with three.
Among measures to prevent the epidemic, the government is encouraging the use of a smartphone app that alerts consumers if they have contacted those who tested positive.
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BERLIN – Germany’s national disease centres recorded the highest number of new coronavirus infections in a day in 3 months.
The Robert Koch Institute says 1,045 instances were registered Wednesday. It is the first time since May 7 that there have been more than 1,000 instances consistent with the day. It is still a long way from the peak of more than 6,000 in early April.
The figure is a component of a trend of new instances that have increased in recent weeks, with the government grappling with a number of small outbreaks in other parts of the country.
The Center for Disease Control report repeated its assessment that “this progression is very worrying.” Last week, officials begged Germans to abide by the rules of masked dress and social estrangement.
Germany’s reaction to COVID-19 so far is widely considered successful. The Robert Koch Institute recorded 9,175 deaths and 213,000 showed cases, less so than in many comparable countries.
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NEW DELHI – India has reported the death of 904 in one day in the last 24 hours, while new coronavirus infections have increased by 56,282 additional cases to just 2 million.
The Department of Health reported that the total number of deaths is 40,699. India has recorded 20,000 deaths in the last 30 days.
The ministry said the recovery rate increased from 63% to 67% in the last 14 days. Nearly 600,000 patients are still being treated.
The case mortality rate is 2.09%. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are the hardest-hit Indian states.
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TOKYO – The governor of Aichi Prefecture in Japan announced a regional “state of emergency” aimed at reducing coronavirus.
Governor Hideaki Ohmura on Thursday asked companies to close absolutely or close early and suggested others stay at home at night.
The measures continue until August 24, the era that coincides with Obon’s vacation, when schools and many businesses close. Aichi includes Nagoya, which is home to Toyota Motor Corp.
The governor said coronavirus cases had spread in Aichi since mid-July at a rate of a hundred or more in line with the day. Before that, the instances were 0 for long consistent periods of time.
In April, the Japanese national government called for social estrangement and business closure, these measures gradually rose. Japan has had about 42,700 cases of coronavirus and about 1,000 deaths.
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BEIJING – New cases of COVID-19 in the city of Urumqi in northwest China increased slightly, with 27 reported on Thursday, five more than the previous day.
The increase in the Xinjiang region shows that the government is still struggling to end the country’s last primary outbreak, which emerged about 3 weeks ago. The government responded with strict control measures, adding closure of some residential areas, restricting public transportation and restricting the city gates.
Urumqi is the capital and largest city of Xinjiang, which has reported more than six hundred cases of coronavirus but there have been no deaths.
In the absence of further deaths, China’s total remains at 4,634, of 84,528 showed reported cases since the coronavirus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan due to last year.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico is approaching 50,000 deaths demonstrated due to COVID-19.
The federal Department of Health reported that 829 deaths showed recently Wednesday, giving the country a total of 49,698 deaths. This is the third number of pandemic deaths in the world.
Authorities said the number of infections shown in Mexico increased from 6,139 to 449,961.
The government recognizes that the actual number of deaths in Mexico can be much higher, in component because it has conducted so little testing. Only about 1 million tests have been conducted in the country of approximately 130 million people since the onset of the pandemic.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is protecting the reopening of schools from developing academic reports and positive coronavirus schooling tests since they returned to class.
Box said Wednesday that “continues so our schools can reopen safely.” She says improving the hospital’s testing and capacity are additional guarantees for returning academics for face-to-face learning.
The governor adds that his biggest advice to academics and families is knowing when to return home.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: The Arkansas state government requires the public to remain open five days a week when the categories resume this month, complicating efforts in some districts to restrict schooling at the site due to coronavirus.
Education Secretary Johnny Key issued the rules Wednesday, and the state reported that 912 new cases of viruses shown and 18 more deaths.
State rules state state rules state that schools must be open every five days of the week to comply with the state constitution. Some districts had planned to restrict on-site training and use distance learning on days when schools were not open.
Arkansas Public Schools is scheduled to reopen the week of August 24.
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OLYMPIA, Washington – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said schools in the state’s top deserve strong online learning only for academics this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Inslee also urged Wednesday that they cancel or postpone sports and all other in-person extracurricular activities.
Health experts say the virus is still spreading too much in the state, which saw the first case shown of the virus in the country in late January. Since then, Washington has recorded more than 59,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 1,600 deaths.
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MONTPELIER, Vermont – Vermont authorities say nearly 150 Vermont inmates in a Mississippi prison tested positive for coronavirus.
Vermont is home to 219 inmates at Tallahatchie County Correctional Center in Tutwiler, Mississippi, due to the lack of their own prisons.
Last July, six inmates who were returned to Vermont by the Personal Criminal from Mississippi tested positive when they arrived at the Rutland Correctional Center. This led the Vermont Correctional Service to order other inmates in Vermont, Mississippi, to be examined.
Vermont interim corrections commissioner James Baker said there were 147 tests, 62 negatives, two pending tests, and eight inmates refused to get tested.
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