COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Sri Lankan government has extended school holidays for two more weeks, delaying categories amid a wave of COVID-19 patients from two teams in Colombo and the capital suburbs.
Schools had to reopen on November 9, but the government announced Tuesday that the categories would resume until November 23.
Schools were closed last month as a precautionary measure after a new group of coronavirus infections erupted targeting a clothing factory in the densely populated western province, where the capital is located. Another organization later emerged aimed at the country’s main fish market.
Both teams now have more than 7,856 cases shown, adding 275 in the last 24 hours. The total number of pandemic cases is 11335 with 21 deaths due to COVID-19.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– The United States is at a crossroads on the eve of Election Day, facing difficult selection among applicants amid a historical pandemic.
– U. S. hospitals in the U. S. But it’s not the first time They are looking for more nurses as the coronavirus pandemic grows, leading to a fierce festival and higher costs
– Germany starts a partial blockade, while several European countries tighten restrictions this week
– The BBC that Prince William of Great Britain contracted the virus in April, at about the same time as his father, Prince Charles.
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– Monitoring of the AP coronavirus pandemic in http://apnews. com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews. com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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HERE’S MORE HAPPENING:
NEW DELHI, India – India recorded 38310 cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, maintaining an overall slowdown even as new infections continue to appear in its capital, New Delhi.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health also reported 490 more COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,23097.
With a total of 8. 2 million cases of coronavirus, the pandemic, India is the most affected country at the time after the United States, but has noticed a steady decline in daily cases.
However, fitness officials say New Delhi remains plagued by its third and worst wave of infections to date. Over the next week, there have been more than 5,200 cases in an average day. The Ministry of Health attributes the increase of the city to the festival season, like others. people flock to the markets for shopping.
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TOPEKA, Kansas. – An outbreak of proven coronavirus cases in Kansas is severely affecting some of the state’s largest rural counties, and even urban officials are involved in other people not adequately following public fitness councils.
Of Kansas’ 20 counties with a number of new cases consisting of 1,000 inhabitants in the following two weeks, all two have less than 10,000 and a dozen fewer than 3,000.
But fitness officials elsewhere say the virus also spreads because other people move into the circle of family gatherings like weddings, baby showers and barbecues. On September 1, there are other people who infect others in their own homes.
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OMAHA, Nebraska – Increased COVID-19 cases in Nebraska has led to a record hospitalizations that are overloading the state’s fitness care system, he said Monday.
The number of other people hospitalized in the state with the new coronavirus set a record on Sunday with 613, one more than the day before. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are higher in the following month, according to the state’s online tracking portal.
Dr. Cary Ward, a leading medical officer at CHI Health’s 14-hospital network in east Nebraska and western Iowa, said in a video call with reporters that the number of COVID patients had doubled positive in recent weeks on the network. He said that if the trend continued, “all hospitals in the state could be at full capacity in no time. “
Nebraska’s largest hospitals have begun restricting elective surgeries as they struggle to cope with the accumulation of COVID-19-related hospitalizations. The number of cases shown increased to 934 on Sunday in Nebraska, which has the seventh rate of new cases in the country.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The number of others treated for coronavirus at Iowa hospitals continued to increase on Monday, which led doctors and hospital officials to warn that their amenities can be overcome effortlessly to lessen the spread of the virus.
Data from the Iowa Department of Public Health indicated 1,469 new cases shown and 17 more deaths within 24 hours of a weekend reporting more than 2,800 new cases per day.
The seven-day moving average in Iowa has been highest in the last two weeks from 25. 5% on October 18 to 36. 4% on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Iowa is now the third tallest in the country, South Dakota and Wyoming.
All 99 Iowa counties have a positivity rate above 7. 5% and 46 are above 15%, an indication that the virus is aggressively spreading through the state.
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HARTFORD, Conn. – Rising rates of new coronavirus in Connecticut have postponed plans to resume jury trials in state courts, the court said Monday.
Supreme Court President Richard Robinson announced a proposal in September for citizens to return to jury prestige on November 2, about 8 months after the march suspended trials when the virus swept the state.
The plan has been suspended indefinitely and will be reassessed weekly, said Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, spokesman for the judiciary.
Governor Ned Lamont’s workplace said the number of cases was increasing, adding a one-day positive verification rate of 6. 1% on Thursday, while Friday’s rate fell to 2. 5%. The rate was less than 1% during the summer.
Connecticut also continues to see an increase in hospitalizations and deaths. There were 329 other people in the state hospitalized by COVID-19 on Friday, the maximum since early June. The state also reported seven other virus-related deaths on Friday, bringing the overall pandemic in the state to 4,616. More than 71,000 other people in the state tested positive.
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HONOLULU – U. S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has asked that he not be to blame for being in a Hawaii park that closed due to coronavirus restrictions.
Adams’ attorney, Michael Green, testified on his behalf. Adams is not in Hawaii for Monday’s hearing. His assistant, who also cited him last month, also pleaded not guilty.
Adams and his assistant were in Hawaii to help deal with an increase in coronavirus cases. When a police officer discovered them in Kualoa Regional Park, which closed to avoid other people’s meetings, Adams was hunting and shooting in the park on the northeastern Oahu coast, according to the appointment.
Adams told the officer that he was going to Hawaii to paint with the governor of COVID-19 and that he didn’t know the parks were closed.
The crime is punishable as a misdemeanor and carries up to $5,000, up to one year in prison or both.
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BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker announced Monday a series of new measures aimed at reducing the accumulation of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts, adding a revised version to stay home, previous end hours for many companies, and a more complicated mask. Mandate.
New measures come at a time when viruses have increased by up to 278% since Labor Day and hospitalizations have increased by up to 145% over the same period.
The revised notice to stay in the house asks citizens to stay in the house between 10 p. m. and 5 a. m. The notice authorizes certain activities such as going to work, walking and buying food, buying food and assembling fitness needs.
Baker issued a new executive order requiring the early closure of many businesses and activities every night at 9:30 p. . m m. , adding that restaurants are required to avoid serving at the table and that liquor outlets are required to avoid alcohol promotion. 9:30 p. m.
The Republican also revised the state mask’s mandate to demand that those over the age of five wear a mask in public.
A previous mandate stipulated that other people wear a mask in public if they simply cannot socially distance themselves. Baker said the new mandate eliminates the language of social distancing.
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FILADELFIA – A colonial-themed dining spot on the site of a 1773 tavern in Philadelphia’s Old Town has closed its doors due to declining activity as a result of the cnavirus pandemic.
The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the last day of City Tavern activity is Saturday.
Veteran chef and owner Walter Staib told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the closure was “bittersweet” and followed months of commercial slowdown 4 nights a week. He said the restaurant had lost its main clientele of foreign travelers from China, Italy and Japan.
According to the restaurant’s website, the tavern in 1774 was “the unofficial meeting place” of delegates to the first Continental Congress near Carpenters’ Hall, with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams among the attendees. It was also the site of a farewell dinner in 1787 after the signing of the Constitution and a banquet in 1789 for Washington en route to New York for his inauguration.
The restaurant said the National Park Service owned the assets and opened City Tavern in 1976 to coincide with the bicentennial after a recovery based on old images, written accounts and insurance research. .
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TOPEKA, Kansas. – Kansas set the record for its highest number of coronavirus cases reported in seven days.
According to data from the fitness branch, the state recorded a moving average of 1,507 new cases shown and likely consistent with the day for the seven days ended Monday. This is approximately 18% more than the previous maximum of 1279 day-consistent instances during the seven days ending Friday.
The Ministry of Health said the state had recorded 89227 cases of coronavirus since the pandemic reached the state in early March, a buildup of 4046 or 4. 7% in 3 days.
The state has reported 17 more COVID-19-like deaths since Friday, bringing the overall pandemic to 1046. The moving average of 10 more deaths consists of the day for the seven days ending Monday. The state has reported more than 500 deaths since mid-September. .
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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas has outperformed California with the number of positive coronavirus tests in the United States to date.
The latest knowledge from Johns Hopkins University implies that 937,317 cases of COVID-19 had been reported in Texas on Sunday. California recorded 936,198 cases, followed by Florida with 807,412 cases.
Johns Hopkins data shows that the seven-day positivity moving average in Texas has risen from 7. 12% to 10. 72% over the past two weeks. For 100,000 people, Texas ranks 19th.
The actual number of cases is high because many other people have not been evaluated and studies recommend that other people might become inflamed and not feel sick.
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SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah County clerk’s workplace is quarantined Monday after being exposed to COVID-19, but officials say it probably won’t be long before the effects of the reports are announced. Elections.
Summit County Clerk’s office staff was exposed to coronavirus over the weekend and will be quarantined until the end of the week, said Secretary Kent Jones, who said he had won about 18,000 ballots by Friday. These effects will be published on Election Day. .
The clerk’s workplace will process all returned ballots by mail or in a mailbox when staff members are allowed to complete their quarantine, Jones said. The official ballot count will still be held on November 17 as scheduled.
If election staff get sick, other counties will have to be used to assist in the processing of ballots, Jones said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan government says it will resume flights to 4 friendly countries seven months after quarantine of the new coronavirus stopped advertising air travel.
The National Civil Aviation Institute reported monday that flights to Turkey, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Iran resumed, and in March President Nicols Maduro ordered dramatic quarantine measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Authorities say domestic flights in Venezuela will remain limited, with the exception of short flights to Los Roques, an archipelago of Caribbean islands popular with venezuela’s elite.
Venezuelan authorities report a steady decrease in new cases, with only a few hundred per day. They say a total of 800 other people died of approximately 92,000 infections overall. Government critics say it’s a significant recount.