ROME – The number of new coronavirus cases in Italy has fallen below two hundred for the first time in a week, with 159 cases reported on Monday, according to figures from the ministry of fitness.
This brings the total number of Italy to 248,229 and the deaths to 35,166.
Lazio, the central region that includes Rome, now has the number of patients hospitalized by COVID-19 in all 20 regions of Italy. Health officials said nine of the new bodies in the region were brought in through travellers from Romania, Ukraine, the Dominican Republic, Iran, India and Bangladesh.
Two infection teams have also been tracked in popular beach areas near Rome. Monday’s figures tend to be declining as they don’t come with weekend figures.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said white House Coronavirus Working Group chief Dr. Deborah Birx harmed the Trump administration when he said viral infections in U.S. urban and rural areas marked a “new phase” for the pandemic.
It’s a rare reprimand of Birx. Trump accused her of “biting the hook” in responding to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who told ABC “This week” that she had lost confidence in Birx because Trump had appointed her and that the president had disseminated incorrect information about the virus.
Trump, in a tweet Monday, Birx’s reaction to Pelosi is “pathetic.”
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Birx said his comments were driven by knowledge and that he would focus his 40-year career on knowledge to implement life-saving programs.
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ELWOOD, Indiana – A school in central Indiana is within two days of its opening after at least one member tested positive for coronavirus, while other districts in the state also reported positive tests between academics and employees.
Elwood Junior Senior High School ends this week, the Indianapolis Star reported Monday.
Several other people are quarantined. According to the school district, no student was reported to have been in close contact with staff.
The Elwood District is northeast of Indianapolis and has about 1,500 students. The district began its school year on Thursday. Students will get commandos almost this week before returning to their general schedules.
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PARIS – About 340 passengers and the team are confined to a cruise ship sent to Tahiti after a traveller tested for the virus, The French Polynesian police station said Sunday night.
Everyone on board the cruise ship sent by Paul Gauguin is being tested and will remain in their cabins awaiting the results, he said in a statement.
The South Pacific archipelago began reopening to tourists last month and required all visitors to be tested before arriving and 4 days after entering the country.
A passenger aboard the Paul Gauguin reported a positive car last week, and a moment through doctors showed the infection on Sunday, according to the press release.
The user traveling with the passenger in poor health tested negative and both were taken off the boat, the police station said.
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BRANDON, S.D. – Thousands of enthusiasts filled the pits on a racetrack in South Dakota despite the growing number of coronavirus cases in the state.
Fans arrived at Huset’s Speedway on Sunday night to reopen the track, which has been closed for several years. The 9,000-seat race track almost at full capacity, with the mask almost obsolete, Argus Leader reported.
The All Star Circuit belongs to NASCAR legend Tony Stewart.
South Dakota’s fitness reported 88 new cases of coronavirus and a new death on Sunday.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in South Dakota increased with the recently reported death. The number of virus cases shown in the state has increased to 8,955.
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EL CAIRO – Egyptian churches reopened to the faithful on Monday for the first time in more than 4 months due to a coronavirus blockade.
The Coptic Orthodox Church said in a statement that it would obtain faithful in its churches with restrictions that come with social estrangement and mask dressing.
Other churches are also reopening in the Arab world’s most populous county, which has noticed a steady decline in coronavirus infections in the past two weeks.
Christians make up about 10% of Egypt’s one hundred million predominantly Muslim inhabitants.
Egypt on Sunday reported its lowest coronavirus level in more than two months, with 167 infections and 31 deaths.
Overall, Egypt reported approximately 94,450 cases shown, 4,865 deaths.
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GENEVA – The World Health Organization says a complex team examining the origins of the coronavirus outbreak ended their project in China and the UN fitness firm agreed on the main points for deploying a larger team, i.e. in the area of the suspected outbreak.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “international team” would be deployed in Wuhan, the city where the COVID-19 pandemic reportedly erupted last year. Tedros said the “terms of reference” had been developed through WHO and China, but did not specify.
Dr Michael Ryan, WHO’s head of emergency, noted “gaps in the epidemiological landscape” and said appropriate studies and knowledge to be collected would be evaluated.
“The genuine trick is to pass on to the human teams what happened first, and then systematically go back for the first sign that crossed the barrier of human animal species,” Ryan said.
“Once this barrier has been crossed, it goes on to more systematic studies on the animal side,” he added.
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PARIS – Spas along the Atlantic coast of France, panoramic walks along the Loire, farmers markets in the Alps: they are some of the many places in France, where now everyone is forced to wear a mask.
Regulations on masks that will come into effect on Monday are in addition to a national decree last month that requires others to wear masks at all outlets and other indoor public places. It also increases pressure on the government to impose the use of masks at the national level.
France is experiencing an increase in coronavirus infections, with lots of new groups in recent weeks, especially when other young people gather in oceanfront cafes or dance parties and families gather for the summer holidays.
Several sites in France have started ordering outdoor masks in recent days. As of Monday, 69 cities in the Mayenne region of western France have imposed regulations on masks, as well as parts of the northern city of Lille and the coastal city of Biarritz in the French Basque Country.
France reported 7,000 new cases last week, after almost controlling the virus with a strict two-month national blockade, and showed 30265 virus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A Norwegian cruise line stopped everything and apologized Monday for procedural errors after a coronavirus outbreak in an inflamed shipment that was lit with at least 4 passengers and 36 team members.
The other 40 MS Roald Amundsen that tested positive were admitted to the University Hospital of Northern Norway in Tromsoe, north of the Arctic Circle, where the ship is recently moored.
“An initial evaluation shows that there has been a flaw in many of our internal procedures,” said Daniel Skjeldam, Hurtigruten’s ceo. He said the company, which sails along Norway’s picturesque west coast, “is currently reviewing all the procedures and aspects of our own management.”
The cruise line contacted passengers aboard the MS Roald Amundsen for their departures from 17 to 24 July from Bergen to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, for their polar bears.
The 158 members of the MS Roald Amundsen team were evaluated and 122 tested negative. There were 209 visitors on the first holidays and 178 on vacations at the moment. But as the cruise line acts as a local ferry, traveling from one port to another along Norway’s west coast, the virus might not have been contained on board. Some passengers disembarked at the address and possibly had transmitted the virus to their local communities.
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BRUSSELS – The Belgian government says the number of coronavirus infections in the country continues to increase and it is unclear how strong a momentary wave of infections can be or how long it will last.
On average, about 491 more people tested positive on the day of last week, an increase of 68% over the past week. Belgium, a small European country of around 11.5 million more people, has been heavily affected by the virus. Nearly another 10,000 people have been killed.
“The virus is circulating intensely in our territory. The numbers continue to rise,” Frédérique Jacobs, the government’s spokesman for the COVID-19 crisis, said Monday.
She said the number of other people admitted to hospitals was increasing, admissions remain manageable, while “the number of other people in extensive care has doubled since early July.”
Most new infections occur in poorer, densely populated neighborhoods and in others over the age of 20 to 40, many of whom do not recognize the risks because their friends have no serious symptoms of the disease, Jacobs said.
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LONDON – The British government says it will start issuing coronavirus tests that produce effects in 90 minutes and can determine if you have COVID-19 or any other viruses like influenza.
The government said the two tests done in the UK will be sent to hospitals, nursing homes and laboratories starting next week. The government says doctors will differentiate COVID-19 from other seasonal respiratory viruses.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Monday that the tests “will be incredibly as winter approaches, so patients can follow the right recommendation to protect themselves and others.”
One of the checks, performed through Oxford Nanopore, analyzes swabs and saliva samples. The other is a DNA check that uses a device from London-based DnaNudge to give effect to the desire to send them to a lab. The government says thousands of devices will be sent to hospitals starting sept.
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ISLAMABAD – While Pakistan had one of its lowest 24-hour infection rates with only 330 new cases reported Monday, the government announced a new lockout across the country until August 17, with permission to open grocery stores and pharmacies.
Mosques and churches will also be allowed to open, but with social distances and masks.
The new blockade follows the Muslim holiday of Eid ul Adha, which ended on Monday in Pakistan. The blockade imposed to prevent an increase in the cases that occurred in June after Pakistanis celebrated the first Muslim holiday of Eid ul Fitr.
In mid-June, Pakistan recorded more than 6,000 new daily cases of the virus. Since then, it has been declining. The death rate also fell, with only 8 deaths reported on Monday.
Overall, Pakistan showed 280,029 cases, 5,984 deaths.
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CANBERRA, Australia – The Australian Prime Minister announced a payment of A$1,500 ($1,060) for staff who are in a conflicted state who will have to isolate themselves for 14 days and not have paid a license for ill health.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the payment to be made on Wednesday as crisis assistance and came forward after the Victorian government declared a COVID-19 crisis in the city of Melbourne on Sunday.
“It’s heartbreaking. This pandemic, this virus is wreaked havoc and the time has come, as has been the case with this pandemic, that we continue to help each other,” Morrison said.
The Victorian government is involved in the many infections being caused by others who are tested for COVID-19 and return to the paintings before getting the results, two days later.
Starting Wednesday night, non-essential businesses will close in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, to stem the epidemic.
Industries that will have to shut down on-site operations for six weeks come with a maximum of retail and production businesses. Most meat structure and plant companies will have to reduce their operations.
Victoria announced on Monday 429 new infections and thirteen more deaths overnight.
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MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte is re-imposing a moderate blockade on the Philippine capital and outlying provinces after medical teams called for resolution due to coronavirus infections alarmingly.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Monday that the city of Manila, the capital region of more than 12 million people, and five densely populated provinces would reapply stricter quarantine restrictions for two weeks from Tuesday. Mass public shipping will be prohibited and only one essential product will be allowed.
Leaders of nearly a hundred medical organizations held a rare online press convention on Saturday and warned that the fitness formula was overcome by spikes in infection and may give way when fitness staff become ill or renounce exhaustion and fear.
They asked Duterte to re-impose a strict blockade on the capital to allow “a waiting time” for fitness and allow the government to recalibrate its reaction to the pandemic.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines exceeded 103,000 on Sunday and is the time in Southeast Asia.
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NEW DELHI – The Indian fitness government has approved the Serum Institute of India for two and three trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed through oxford University.
Approval came Sunday night through the Indian Comptroller General of Drugs. At least 1,600 adults will participate in the trials.
Serum, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, mass produces the candidate vaccine developed by the University of Oxford. This is one of many developing applicants.
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in India exceeded 1.8 million on Monday with a peak of 52,972 new cases in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the Ministry of Health also reported 771 deaths in more than 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 38,135.
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BEIJING – An epidemic in the Xinjiang region of the far northwest china continues to decline, and 28 new ones were reported on Monday.
The 590-instance outbreak has been concentrated in the capital, Urumqi, where the government has conducted massive testing, cut public transport, moved away from communities, and limited travel.
Seven new instances were imported and eight were in the northeastern province of Liaoning. No new deaths were reported, leaving China’s total at 4,634 of the 84,428 reported cases of COVID-19.
However, although the most recent outbreak in mainland China appears to have peaked, the government of Hong Kong’s semi-autonomous Chinese city is suffering from infections, with more than two hundred added this weekend.
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