BEIJING — New coronavirus cases continue to rise in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, with 57 reported on Tuesday.
The capital Beijing also reported its first case of domestic transmission in more than two weeks, while the northeastern province of Liaoning added another six cases in its local outbreak. Another four cases were found among Chinese travelers arriving from outside the country, bringing the daily total over the past 24 hours to 68.
Despite the new clusters, China appears to have largely contained the virus and the death toll remains at 4,634 among 83,959 cases. Hospitals are treating 391 people for COVID-19, with another 307 being monitored in isolation for showing signs of infection or for having tested positive for the virus without displaying symptoms.
Xinjiang’s outbreak has centered on the region’s capital and largest city of Urumqi, where authorities have restricted public transport, isolated some communities and ordered testing among those considered at risk of infection.
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– President Donald Trump’s national security adviser examined for COVID-19
– The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine has begun.
– WHO cites duplication in the last six weeks.
– The White House and the Senate Republican Party look again at the virus for $1 billion
– President Donald Trump hopes to get credit for his administration’s competitive crusade for a coronavirus vaccine
– Two baseballs have been postponed due to virus problems.
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The governor of Kentucky ordered that domestic bar and restaurant service be shut down and suggested that school districts wait until later in August to resume user categories in a new circular of movements to combat the accumulation of coronavirus cases.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday that his decisions followed the recommendations of federal fitness officials to verify the opposite of the escalation of COVID-19 cases.
Beshear ordered the bar to close for two weeks, starting Tuesday. Restaurants will have to restrict indoor capacity to 25%, outdoor spaces would probably not be restricted if social distance rules are followed, Beshear said.
The crackdown comes weeks after Kentucky’s bars reopened and restaurants were allowed to increase domestic capacity to 50%. But bluegrass status has been hit through a record or near-record number of COVID-19 instances for more than a week.
Defending his actions, the governor said, “This is our state. This is the lives of our people. And that’s our economy at stake. I think we’re going to do the right thing.”
Beshear also recommended that public and private schools wait until at least the third week of August to resume in-person classes to help control the virus’ spread.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas has reported a build-up of approximately 700 more COVID-19 deaths due to a replacement in the way the state collects death data, representing a bleak drive in the state’s combat as opposed to the coronavirus pandemic.
The new figures released Monday show the state now with 5,713 COVID-19-identified fatalities, compared with 5,038 reported Sunday. The new figures include 44 new deaths reported Monday.
Texas had noticed a dramatic build-up in newly shown cases, hospitalizations and deaths over the month that, and Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the effects can be shocking.
State health officials said the new death totals are compiled by using the cause of death listed on death certificates, instead of waiting for local and regional public health authorities to report them to the state. Death certificates are required by law to be filed within 10 days.
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BISMARCK, N.D. — Health officials in Washington, D.C., haved placed North Dakota on a list of high-risk coronavirus states.
The designation means that anyone in North Dakota who makes a “non-essential trip” to the nation’s capital will have to be quarantined for 14 days after arrival. People on “essential” trips monitor themselves for 14 days, restrict contact with others, and quarantine them if they have symptoms of COVID-19.
D.C.’s definition of “essential travel” comes for government purposes but with tourism, the Bismarck Tribune reported.
The designation comes at a time when COVID-19 assets in North Dakota have reached a new high. The number of assets on Monday rose to 1,058, 33 more than Sunday’s record.
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ATLANTA – Georgia continued to waver Monday with a heavy burden of COVID-19 cases with emerging deaths across the state.
The number of patients shown in Georgia hospitals has increased, erasing what had been days of declining hospitalization.
The number of cases reported during the day remains high, but has shown symptoms of limitation in recent days after an upward spiral since early June.
Georgia passed 3,500 deaths from the pandemic. Its seven-day average of deaths at the highest level on Monday since coronavirus infections began.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana small businesses that have been hammered by the coronavirus outbreak and haven’t received federal aid can start applying Tuesday for grants of up to $15,000 to cover pandemic-related expenses.
State lawmakers created the federally funded Main Street Recovery Program of $275 million. Dollars must be sold out quickly.
It is estimated that more than 450,000 corporations are eligible, however, less than 20,000 would be to collect bills if each earned the maximum subsidy.
Treasurer John Schroder oversees the program. Encourage corporations to register their documents on opening days. The Treasurer has created an online page to louisianamainstreet.com to settle for requests.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. fitness officials support Americans with a developing list of imported hand sanitizers that may be infected with poisonous chemical methanol.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Monday that there are growing reports of injuries from others using, such as drinking, unauthorized disinfectants, which can lead to blindness, center disorders and death.
The active element that kills germs in valid disinfectants is ethyl alcohol, which is consumable. But some Mexican corporations have replaced it with poisonous methanol, or wood alcohol, which is used in antifreeze.
The FDA first issued a warning to the customer about last month.
Last week, the firm sent a letter of caution to Mexican CV manufacturer Eskbiochem SA for the marketing of a disinfectant containing more than 80% methanol and falsely stated that it was “FDA approved”.
The FDA has published a “do not use” list of more than 80 disinfectants on its online page and has blocked their importation. The firm said it was working with stores to pick up products that remained on U.S. shelves. Illegitimate gels do not mention methanol as an element in their packaging.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee is on the verge of particularly reducing new cases of coronavirus and wants to take more powerful steps to prevent its spread, warned Deborah Birx, director of the White House COVID-19 working group, who met with fitness. and local leaders Monday in Nashville.
Birx recently met Nashville as one of 11 cities with an outbreak of coronavirus cases requiring competitive action, while noting that many rural areas in the state have experienced a disruptive epidemic.
“We have made many mannequins and we discover that if everyone wears a mask, all Tennessians, in all public spaces and avoids going to bars, closing bars and restricting their food inside, we can have an effect on minimisation in new cases as we did with the shelter,” Birx told reporters.
“Tennessee is at this tipping point,” Birx said.
But his comments failed with Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who promised to shut down the state’s economy and withstood repeated calls for a statewide masking mandate.
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LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas health officials closed a busy coronavirus control in a casino parking lot and replaced it with an indoor operation in a city-owned convention hall.
Clark County and the University Medical Center announced Monday that the Cashman Center will open on August 4, replacing the Array casino hotel at Texas Station. or who have been exposed to COVID-19.
Nevada’s fitness reported on Monday 997 new cases, but there were no more deaths.
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MIAMI – Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Florida on Monday to host a roundtable with researchers at the University of Miami to discuss final testing of the COVID-19 experimental vaccine.
Pence said the government will not rush the procedure for approving a vaccine. FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn said the timing of the vaccine trials had been compressed and that the company was conducting a real-time review of the data.
“We need to make sure we progress at an effective pace. I need to determine to the other people in Florida and others across the country that we will make no effort in the progression of this vaccine or any other vaccine,” Pence reporters said after the roundtable.
In Miami, 500 volunteers would get a genuine shot and 500 a model without being told which one. Thousands of other participants get photos at other sites across the country.
“It’s remarkable to think that 30,000 Americans are in a position to participate in this Phase 3 clinical trial,” Pence said. “They are doing more than their fair percentage to help our country in these difficult times.”
Pence said he believed that other high-risk people would be a priority, while maintaining that “tens of millions” of doses would be held in the United States.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Maria Sulayman, an intensive care nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami who tested positive and has just returned to the paintings after being in poor health for five weeks, said her nursing companions were “absolutely overwhelmed, absolutely exhausted and desperate.”
“We want some leaders to make the mask mandatory because our physical care systems are at the top. We can’t take care of that if nothing is done. We can’t take it anymore. Matrix… it’s pretty bad,” Sulayman said.
The nurses spoke at a virtual news convention Monday, urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to put politics aside and order a masking order across the state. Meanwhile, the union has submitted a series of public fitness videos asking the public to wear a mask for frontline staff (edited)
“It’s just science and our non-public ideals and political ideals have nothing to do with it,” said Dr. Dave Woolsey, who works in Jackson’s emergency room. “If we continue to play and extend to each other, it will only get worse. It won’t help the economy see everyone with health problems at home and not go out.”
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DOVER, Del. – Public fitness officials are encouraging others who have attended two recent church meetings in Delaware to take the COVID-19 test.
Authorities issued the news On Monday after learning that at least 3 members of Destiny Christian Church in Dover had tested positive for coronavirus. Officials noted that the church organized a three-day “prophetic conference” on the weekend of July 18, and a three-day “life conference” last weekend.
Authorities said the occasion attracted a few hundred people. State officials are running with church leaders to offer evidence to members of the congregation and attendees at the convention tuesday at the church.
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya’s president has prolonged the country’s curfew for 30 days and sales of alcohol in restaurants are prohibited, criticizes the “reckless” habit amid an outbreak of coronavirus infections.
President Uhuru Kenyatta spoke days after Africa’s most sensible fitness officer said the bodies were expanding “very, very quickly” in the economic center of East Africa. Now there are more than 17,000.
Kenyatta suggested that Kenya’s relatively low case fatality rate of 1.6% has given people “false comfort that this is not a serious health risk.”
He appealed to economic concerns, warning there will be “little tourism, scarce investment and falling trade if our headlines start to match those of countries that have been hardest hit by the pandemic.”
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LONDON – The British government is now advising 22 other people across Spain, adding the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
When it removed Spain from its list of safe countries on Saturday following a spike in coronavirus cases, the islands had been excluded.
Spain is traditionally the most popular summer holiday destination for British vacationers, with the islands particularly reliant on their tourism.
The government’s resolve to replace its recommendation and insist that anyone returning from the country be urged by a 14-day era has caused consternation among British tourists. Travel agencies such as TUI and Jet2 suspended flights in response.
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also said that he will curtail his holiday in Spain and return to the U.K. on Wednesday to deal with the fallout of the decision. He confirmed that he will self-isolate, like anyone else returning. His family will remain in Spain though.
The Spanish government has said the British government’s decision has been disproportionate.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria is making plans to take additional measures for companies and others most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The measures announced Monday by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov take place a week in anti-corruption protests that do not facilitate the government’s resignation.
The measures come with increased investment for doctors, monthly bonuses for retirees and a higher reimbursement for unemployed people. Funds will be provided for the physical care of children, retirement homes for the elderly and disabled.
Borisov said he will use state budget reserves to cover expenses.
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WASHINGTON – House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi is imploring Republicans and the White House to temporarily come to the negotiating table with Democrats on the upcoming coronavirus relief plan to save unemployment assistance and a moratorium on deportations that expire for millions of Americans.
Pelosi invited Republican leaders and White House negotiators to theirs on Monday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the Republican’s $1 million proposal Monday afternoon.
The Republican leader is poised to try again to unveil his plan after last week’s effort came to an abrupt halt amid infighting with the White House. It’s a long-awaited GOP counter-offer to Pelosi’s $3 trillion effort passed in May.
But even as Senate Republicans advance, the White House now suggests that a smaller contingency plan may be imaginable as Friday’s deadlines approach.
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BRUSSELS – The Minister of Belgium has presented a series of drastic social estrangement measures aimed at preventing a widespread re-closing amid an outbreak of COVID-19 infections.
Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said that from next Wednesday contacts outside family circles will be limited to the same five people over the next four weeks. Belgian residents are currently allowed to meet with 15 different people. The measures don’t apply to children under the age of 12.
Wilmes said the new measures, which also come with reducing crowd limits on public occasions to another hundred inmates and another two hundred outdoors, may be sufficient for additional restrictions and ensure that young people can return to school en masse in September.
After a sharp drop in infections, Belgium has noticed an increase in the number of cases shown in the last 3 weeks, in the province of Antwerp.