HONG KONG – Hong Kong authorities say nearly a million more people have enrolled in a flexible universal coronavirus screening program scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
Residents who register online have already booked 80 check sites at gyms and network centers for the first day of the program, according to the government website, who said other centers still had options if the number of those registered exceeded 420,000 on Sunday night..
Hong Kong introduced the program with the aim of tracking the infection routes that have the highest number of cases despite strict social estrangement and other measures imposed on China’s semi-autonomous city of 7.5 million inhabitants.so at no cost.
Hong Kong reported 15 more cases of coronavirus and one more death by COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing its total to 4801 cases and 88 deaths.
Mainland China reported on Monday 17 new cases discovered in the last 24 hours, all outside the country’s gates.China has lately 237 other people treated in the hospital by COVID-19, with some other 340 after testing positive for the virus.China has reported 4,634 deaths of 85,048 COVID-19 cases since the detection of the new coronavirus beyond last year in Wuhan City, central China.
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has recounted its 18th consecutive day of three-figure jumps in coronavirus cases, as its fitness minister warned of an increase in untraceable transmissions and infections among the elderly.
The 248 new reported instances through the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday brought the number of national bodies to 19,947,324 deaths.
KCDC said 187 of the new instances were from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, which is in the midst of viral resurgence this month.
But infections have also been reported in the country’s major cities, adding Busan, Daejeon, Ulsan and Daegu, which were the epicenter of the country’s last primary outbreak in February and March, which stabilized in April.
Health Minister Park Neung-hoo at a meeting on the virus said it was difficult for epidemiological agents to track transmissions and expect infection routes, and said they had been unable to hint at the source of the infection in more than 20% of cases.discovered in the more than two weeks.
Officials are also involved in the death toll may be in the same way as many of those who tested positive this month were 60 years old or older, an age organization that is more likely to suffer severe headaches caused by the virus.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Victoria on Monday recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic when the Australian government suggested that the state of the hot spot announce its goal of lifting the blocking restrictions.
The Victoria Department of Health has reported 41 deaths and new COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours.
The death toll eclipses the previous record of 25 set on August 17.The count of new infections is the lowest since new cases were reported on 30 June in the first weeks of the pandemic wave.
A six-week blockade in the state capital Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, is expected to ease on September 13, but the state government has said how comfortable or given some guarantee that it will spread.
Australian treasurer Josh Frydenberg said Monday that he disagreed with the Victorian government that it was too early to announce plans to reopen the economy.
“Businesses are very frustrated because they haven’t been told when they can open, when other people can return to work,” Frydenberg told Nine Network television.
Frydenberg noted a Forecast from the Treasury Department that in the next three months more people in Victoria will get pandemic employment subsidies than in the rest of Australia together.Australia will pay employers an allowance known as Job Keeper to continue paying those who do not have pictures to make.
Consumer spending had fallen by 30% on Victoria due to the blockade, while spending had fallen by 3% in the rest of Australia.
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LOGAN, Utah – Utah State University plans to review about 300 academics for COVID-19 after 4-bedroom wastewater samples showed the highest levels of coronavirus, school officials said Sunday.
The 287 students who will be reviewed on Sunday and Monday live in Rich, Jones, Morgan and Davis dormitories on the Logan campus.To date, no positive controls have been reported for COVID-19 in these residences.Students in those dormitories will have to be quarantined until control effects are available, which can take up to 4 days.
They are also encouraged to complete a form to make sure they get school support, food deliveries, and other resources.Classes are expected to begin Monday for approximately 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students.The state of Utah is one of the few schools that uses sampling wastewater as opposed to a COVID-19 outbreak, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.University of Arizona officials said Thursday that the school used wastewater testing to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak on campus.
A check of just over three hundred people in a dorm with maximum degrees of coronavirus in the sewage revealed two cases, university president Robert Robbins said.None of the students developed symptoms, but were isolated.
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PHILADELPHIA – Temple University announced a two-week break from face-to-face classes, and Philadelphia officials called all academics at the school and city university for social gatherings with others outdoors.
Temple officials said Sunday that the new effects over the weekend had boosted the number of active COVID-19 cases from 58 reported On Friday to 103 active cases, the maximum of them without symptoms and a small number with mild to moderate flu cases.
University President Richard Englert said officials believed they were seeing “new cases as a result of small social gatherings located off campus.”He said this caused a two-week “pause” in face-to-face courses and an effort to establish contacts.
Temple said in-person courses will be online from Monday and will continue online until Friday, September 11, and only courses considered through school deans will be held in person.
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ATHENS, Greece – The number of new cases of coronavirus in Greece exceeded 10,000, and more than part of them have been reported this month, the Greek fitness government announced Sunday.
On the last day, 157 new instances were confirmed, of which 41 were arrivals, in addition to two deaths.
The total number of cases is now 10,134, of which 5,657 have been detected in the following month.The total number of deaths is 262.56 in the following month.
There are 35 patients with ventilated and 149 have been discharged from intensive care.
The government will determine on Tuesday which day schools will open, between September 7 or Monday 14 September it will be mandatory to wear a mask, but some parents oppose it.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – The number of coronavirus cases reported in Oklahoma exceeded 58,000 and the number of similar deaths is approximately 800, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said Sunday.
There are now 58,020 cases reported and 799 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.The actual number of cases in Oklahoma is higher because many other people have not been tested and studies recommend that other people would possibly become inflamed and not feel sick.
On Friday, Gov. Kevin Stitt prolonged the state of emergency first issued on March 15 in reaction to the Oklahoma virus outbreak.
The ordinance includes the state’s 77 counties and lights up a state law provision that allows the absent electorate to publish their ballots by verifying their signatures with a copy of an approved ID.An approved identity piece includes a state driver’s license or an indigenous tribe or country identified through the military or federal government.
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ROME – The number of coVID-19 patients in intensive care beds in Italy has increased in weeks.
On Sunday, another 86 people inflamed by the coronavirus occupied beds of extensive care, compared to 38 at the end of July, as returning tourists increased the number of new cases and hospitalizations in Italy.
Italy has recorded 1365 new infections since Saturday, according to figures from the Ministry of Fitness, but those figures are small compared to the daily bulletin at the start of the pandemic, when thousands of Italians tested positive for COVID-19 every day and a few thousand needed intensive care, overwhelming hospital staff.
Italy has 268,218 infections shown and 35,477 known deaths, 4 of which have occurred in the last 24 hours.After months in which the concentration of instances has occurred in northern Italy in recent times, many southern regions are experiencing a sharp increase., Campania, the region that includes the southern city of Naples, recorded the maximum number of new instances in Italy: 270.
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ISLAMABAD – The government of Pakistan has reported 264 new cases of COVID-19, the lowest number in the country by the new coronavirus in more than 4 months.
On Sunday, the national command and control center said that only 4 other people had died from the new virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of DEATHS from COVID-19 to 6,288 since the disease began.epidemic in February.
However, fitness officials are still trying to understand the explanation as to why the steady decline in infections in Pakistan, which recorded double spikes in June, when it showed cases consistent with a day reached as high as 6,825.
It was then that hospitals were complete in the midst of a shortage of drugs, oxygen and fans, and even no masks were available.
But the scenario started suddenly after June and lately about 1000 COVID-19 patients are being treated in Pakistan.
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PARIS – Not all French study rooms can reopen safely on Tuesday, the education minister said On Sunday, amid a persistent increase in coronavirus infections that threatens the government’s efforts to bring French schoolers back to school.
“This is through daily research based on the fitness scenario of each territory,” Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said on France-Info radio on Sunday.Some categories will remain closed, he said, but “as little as possible.”.”
A doctors’ organization issued an appeal Saturday saying that government measures that oppose viruses in schools are not strict enough, as they mask the needs of young people up to six years old and a combination of online and in-person education.
The government needs to reopen all schools starting Tuesday to the learning gaps exacerbated by the spring closure, get parents back to work, and revive the economy.
France reported 5,453 new infections on Saturday, up from several hundred per day in May and June.The National Health Service says the expansion is exponential and that neighbouring countries have imposed quarantines or evidence for others arriving from certain parts or throughout France.
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The number of cases shown of international coronavirus has exceeded 25 million, according to a Johns Hopkins University count.
The United States leads with 5.9 million cases, followed by Brazil with 3.8 million and India with 3.5 million.
The actual number of other people infected with the international virus is estimated to be much higher (10 times higher in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), given the limitations of the tests and the many mild cases that have not been performed.informed or unknown.
Worldwide, COVID-19 deaths exceed 842,000, with the United States with 182779, followed by Brazil with 120262 and Mexico with 63819.
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NEW DELHI – India recorded a new record of 78761 coronavirus cases in more than 24 hours, the worst one-day peak in the world, as the government continues to ease national pandemic restrictions.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported 948 deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 63,498.
India now has the fastest number of developing coronavirus cases in all countries of the world and reported more than 75,000 infections for the fourth day in a row.
Sunday’s outbreak raised the total number of viruses in the country to more than 3.5 million and occurs at a time when India is reopening its subway networks and allowing sports and occasions on a limited basis from next month as a component of efforts to revive the economy.
The crowded subway, a lifeline for millions of people in the capital, New Delhi, will reopen from September 7, while schools and schools will be closed until the end of September.
The South Asian country has the third number of cases after the United States and Brazil, and its deaths are fourth.
Even though 8 Indian states remain among the hardest-hit regions and contribute nearly 73% of infections overall, the virus is now spreading in the vast interior, experts warn that September can be the most complicated.
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