MADRID – The Spanish army is setting up a cash hospital in Zaragoza as the northern city struggles to prevent a further increase in coronavirus cases.
The Aragon region, house of Zaragoza, has led Spain in the seven days with 242 hospitalizations and 32 deaths by COVID-19.
The army claims to have responded to a request from the government of Aragon to install the hospital box in the parking lot of one of its hospitals in Zaragoza. The army says it will be in a position to be used if it is mandatory until Friday.
The regional fitness government says the cash hospital is a precaution it deserves for hospitals to succeed in their capacity, as they did in many parts of Spain during the months of March and April, when the pandemic first hit.
During this first wave of viruses, several cash hospitals were installed in Spanish cities.
Spain had controlled to control the virus until a stable build-up in cases in the northeastern and central regions in recent weeks.
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s fitness minister warns young people about the ease of coronavirus transmission.
The new instances have been in 3 figures for several days. Vassilis Kikilias tweeted that the average age of other people in poor health with the virus in Greece in August had been reduced to 36 years.
The government has imposed new restrictions in some areas, ordering bars and restaurants to close between 7 a.m. and some of the country’s top tourist destinations.
Greece was first credited with managing the coronavirus epidemic well, imposing an early blockade that kept infections and deaths low. But he has noticed a resurgence of the virus after lifting restrictions and opening up to visitors as he tries to bring tourism to life.
On Wednesday, Greece reported 196 new cases of coronavirus and a new death, bringing the total number of infections shown to 5942 and the death toll to 214.
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BUCHAREST, Romania – The Romanian fitness government says the country has set a new record for a day’s new COVID-19 infections, with 1,415 reported in the last 24 hours.
Despite the ascending end, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said he believed Romania had managed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and hopes that there will be “no problems” in the national local elections to be held in late September. The elections were scheduled for June, but were postponed because of the pandemic.
A report published this week through the National Institute of Public Health predicts that the number of cases can nearly double to 2,800 during the first week of September.
On Wednesday, Romania reported 65,177 cases of viruses and 2,807 deaths.
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – A Chinese municipality donated 40,000 medical grade masks to the capital of Maryland amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Donations from Changsha, China, were first presented to Annapolis city officials in April, when the need for masks among public protection personnel was superior at the start of the pandemic, Annapolis city manager David Jarrell said Tuesday.
The relationship between Annapolis and Changsha began with a former city administrator. The two municipalities are now sister cities.
The mask arrived this month, with one of the boxes containing American and Chinese flags with a message that read: “Come on, annapolis city! Changsha’s best wishes! True unity inspires others to paint in combination to succeed over adversity.” the Capital Gazette reported.
Another note from Yani Xia, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese city, accompanied the shipments. “We sincerely hope that you and everyone else in Annapolis will continue to be healthy and courageous to persevere at this difficult time,” Xia says.
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BRUSSELS – The Brussels government is introducing mandatory masking regulations in the Belgian capital after an increase in cases.
Brussels’s president Rudi Vervoort said the number of new infections in the city had reached the Belgian red line of 50, consisting of 100,000 inhabitants on average over the more than seven days.
A press claims that the use of the mask is now mandatory for all persons over the age of 12 in all public facilities and personal facilities available to the public.
Brussels is home to the main establishments of the European Union and NATO military alliance and has a population of approximately 1.2 million. The mandatory mask is also in position in the port city of Antwerp.
Belgium has one of the most consistent per capita mortality rates in the world. Approximately 10,000 others have died in a country of 11.5 million more people.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has denounced a culture of individuality through the pandemic, which has sacrificed the care of the weakest members of society.
Francis, speaking at his hearing Wednesday, asked the faithful to “overcome our collective and non-public individualism” as expert paintings towards a cure for the coronavirus, “that has affected us all indiscriminately.”
The pontiff says that “the pandemic has revealed how vulnerable and interconnected we all are,” while making us “more aware of the spread within our societies of a false and individualistic way of thinking, which rejects human dignity and relationships as customer goods and creates a “disposable” culture.
He called on others to “look with conscience at our brothers and sisters, especially those who suffer,” and to recognize “human dignity in each and every person, regardless of race, language, or condition.”
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said expanding a COVID-19 vaccine “is not a race to be the first.”
Azar’s comments on a stopover in Taiwan on Wednesday are attached to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, raising doubts about the science and safety behind the alleged achievement.
Azar argues that the United States combines the powers of its government, economy, and biopharmaceutical industry to “provide effective vaccines as temporarily as possible, for the advantages of American citizens, but also for the peoples of the world.”
He says the United States has awarded a complex production contract for a vaccine that is being developed through Moderna and has entered into origin agreements with five other corporations that have vaccine development.
He says 4 of the six corporations have reported verification effects that appear to produce more antibodies against the virus than other people who survived COVID-19, with no serious side effects.
Azar said candidate vaccines from two corporations have entered the third phase of the trials, while the Russian vaccine has just embarked on this step and the data have been revealed.
He said the U.S. procedure allows the production of a “safe and effective reference vaccine” in tens of millions of doses until the end of the year.
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BERLIN – Germany’s fitness minister has expressed fears about the increased number of coronavirus infections in the country and has called on his compatriots to respect social estrangement and hygiene regulations.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said there have been ever smaller epidemics in almost every region.
He told Deutschlandfunk radio that the infections were caused by travelers returning from abroad, but also by others who were partying or collecting for the family circle.
He says, “This obviously, if we are all careful now, can lead to a push” and the resurgence of the pandemic.
The German Robert Koch Institute, which traces the coronavirus, recorded 1,226 new infections on Wednesday. This is the figure since early May.
Spahn reiterated his calls to wear masks, to keep his distance and not to spend too much in social contexts.
He says: “When there is alcohol in between, when a festive occasion becomes a party, it can happen very, very quickly.”
Germany has been praised for maintaining the pandemic for a long time, however, the easing of measures and the return of travellers have led to an increase in infections in recent weeks. In addition, the summer holidays ended in several states and students often return to normal categories and do not have to wear a mask.
Germany recorded 218,519 shown and 9,207 deaths.
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SINGAPORE – The Singapore government says the maximum foreign staff can now repaint because their bedrooms have been cleaned from COVID-19 after months of closure and virus testing.
People living in overcrowded dormitories accounted for the majority of Singapore’s 55,353 cases. Only 27 deaths recorded in the city-state.
The Ministry of Labour said Tuesday night that the 17 separate bedrooms have so far been emptied as quarantine facilities.
He said all foreign staff living in the dormitories have been recovered or tested as virus-free, with the exception of 22,500 lone employees. Most can return to work, adding up 81% of the 387,000 employees in the construction, shipyard and procedures industries.
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NEW DELHI – The number of coronaviruses in India exceeded 2.3 million after adding 60,963 in the last 24 hours.
India also reported 834 deaths Wednesday for a total of 46,091 people. India has the third number of cases after the United States and Brazil, but only the fifth number of deaths, and the government says the mortality rate has fallen below 2% for the first time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video convention Tuesday with the most sensitive elected officials from 10 states that together account for about 80% of India’s general cases, urging them to put in place methods of containment, surveillance and contact search to carry the mortality rate. less than 1.%.
Modi also requested additional evidence in several states, such as the case in the Delhi capital region.
The Indian Medical Research Council, India’s leading medical study organization, said that more than 733,000 samples had been examined Tuesday to detect COVID-19, but did not say how many had undergone the popular RT-PCR check compared to antigen verification, less expensive and more effective blood tests, but less accurate , looking for antibodies.
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BEIJING – New cases of community-transmitted coronavirus in China fell to a figure on Wednesday, while Hong Kong recorded 33 cases of infection.
The National Health Commission said the nine new cases were discovered in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital, Urumqi, was in the midst of China’s last primary outbreak. Another 25 cases were brought through Chinese travelers who arrived from abroad.
China has largely contained the local spread of the pandemic that would have originated in the central city of Wuhan overdue last year before spreading around the world.
The government recorded 4,634 DEATHS from COVID-19 in 84,737 cases. Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous and densely populated city in southern China, also recorded six other deaths, bringing the total to 58 out of 4181 cases.
The government ordered the use of a mask in public places, restrictions on indoor food and other measures of social estrangement to involve its new epidemic. These measures appear to have succeeded in cutting the number of more than one hundred new cases reported by the end of last month.
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SYDNEY, Australia – The Australian state of Victoria reported on Wednesday a record 21 deaths from viruses and 410 new cases due to an outbreak in the city of Melbourne, which led the government to impose a strict blockade.
State Minister Daniel Andrews said 16 of the deaths were similar to nursing homes.
The number of new in Victoria has declined from the peak, giving the government hope that the epidemic will subside.
Meanwhile, 3 Melbourne vloggers have been fined more than $1,000 after posting a video on Chinese social media that shows them in violation of curfew regulations at night for a McDonald’s race, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The five-minute video, which has since been removed, showed foreign academics walking down the alleys, dodging police officers and dancing at a McDonald’s restaurant at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, ABC reported. Victoria police showed that each student was fined A$1,652 ($1,178).
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported 54 recent cases of COVID-19 as government paintings of fitness to stop transmissions of higher social and recreational activities.
The figures announced Wednesday through the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national bodies to 14,714 infections, 305 deaths.
The KCDC said that 35 of the new instances were local transmissions, all 3 reported in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan domain, which has been in the midst of a resurgence of the virus since last May.
The 19 cases were similar to foreign arrivals. The health government has declared that imported instances are less threatening because they require testing and impose two-week quarantines on all people arriving from abroad.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico reported a record of nearly 926 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 53,929.
The Ministry of Health reported 6,686 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases shown in the country to date to 492,522.
At this rate, Mexico will soon succeed in the one million cases shown, however, given the incredibly low rate of testing (less than 1.1 million tests in a country of approximately 130 million more people), the number would be a massive count. For the most part, only others with significant symptoms are tested in Mexico.
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PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said he plans to tell a visitor organization from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That the long delays in obtaining the effects of coronavirus control have been “very problematic” and pressure them for a vaccination strategy. implementation once it becomes available.
Long waits across the country for the effects of coronavirus control make them almost dead to involve the spread of the virus, according to public fitness officials.
The organization will travel on-site to Philadelphia until Thursday, as part of an excursion to a handful of cities across the country, Farley said.
Farley says he sees it as a way to show what the city has done in terms of prevention, contact studies and social estrangement efforts.
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