YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, began its first day on Monday under further blockade, and initial implementation measures looked lax.
The city and its suburbs have been subjected to further restrictions as the government attempts to stop an increasing number of coronavirus cases and deaths last month through an outbreak in western Rakhine state.
The new restrictions allow banks and monetary services, fuel service stations, food and refrigerated warehouse corporations, pharmaceutical and medical device corporations, drinking water corporations and factories that generate hygiene products to remain open, but many other companies and outlets were operating as before Monday.
Office buildings and towers have been closed to comply with orders that company staff and other organizations will have to paint from home.
City citizens are not expected to leave their officially designated neighborhoods, however, checkpoints only operate in a few spaces severely affected by the virus, and street vendors may move freely in and out of other neighborhoods.
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YPSILANTI, Michigan – The University of Eastern Michigan will apply wastewater on campus to detect the COVID-19 virus and other symptoms of infectious diseases.
The tests, which are part of the plan back to the school campus, aim to track the presence of coronavirus in the sewage of aisles and component complexes.
Surveillance can lead to early detection of asymptomatic cases of the virus, according to the school.
“The verification effects will allow us to identify worrying trends and expand individual verification among urgent populations if necessary,” said EMU President James Smith.
Researchers and fitness officers said they can track the progress of a network-based coronavirus outbreak by reading the waste that is removed from their bathrooms. Tests have shown that wastewater is infectious biomarkers that can indicate virus expansion or relief on a network or around a university campus.
EMU in Ypsilanti works with Michigan-based Aquasight on testing.
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ATHENS, Greece – A spokesman for the Greek government said more than two hundred people had tested positive for coronavirus among the thousands of asylum seekers admitted to a new camp on the island of Lesbos after the chimney in the old one.
Speaking at a regular briefing on Monday, Stelios Petsas said that another 7064 people who had entered the new Kara Tepe camp had been examined and that 243 of them had been positive.
The average age of the others yielded positive results of 24 years and the maximum asymptomatic, Petsas said. Another 160 people, basically police and administrative bodies of workers who had been in contact with the migrants, were evaluated and all tested negative for the virus.
Petsas said Lesbos cases would be added to official Greek coronavirus figures on Monday.
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PRAGUE – Roman Prymula has been selected for the czech Republic’s new fitness minister, just hours after his predecessor resigned from office.
Adam Vojtech announced his resignation Monday amid a record of coronavirus infections in the country.
As Deputy Minister of Health, Prymula led the government’s reaction to the coronavirus pandemic in the spring for some time.
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BERLIN – The Bavarian city of Munich is stepping up its measures against coronaviruses, as it faces one of the infection rates in Germany.
The city’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, said Monday that as of Thursday, only five other people or members of two families are allowed to meet, and that no more than 25 people can attend personal indoor meetings such as birthdays, weddings or funerals. occasions can accommodate up to 50 more people. The occasions can accommodate another hundred people inside and up to two hundred outdoors, as hygiene concepts are already in place.
“We want to particularly reduce the number of other people who gather,” Reiter said, lamenting the fact that many other people in Munich no longer adhere to the social esttachment measures that already exist, such as keeping their distance when queuing outdoors. department stores or disguised as a face-goer in places where it is already mandatory, such as department stores or public transport.
The mayor also said that in crowded public places, other people will have to wear a mask at all times.
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MADRID – Spain’s main opera space has been criticized after an exhibition had to be cancelled amid loud protests from spectators complaining about the lack of social distance in circular seats.
Videos shared online through several participants in the Sunday functionality of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Un Ballo in maschera” at the Teatro Real in Madrid showed complete rows on the highest and cheapest audience platform, while attendance on the estimated maximum terrain was reduced by leaving empty seats.
The functionality was canceled after several bursts of applause and shouts of functionality and although the theater moved some spectators and presented to rewind the price of its tickets, the Teatro Real said in a statement.
The theater, which opened an investigation into the incident, said attendance had been reduced to 905 seats, or 51. 5% of the total. The existing regulations in Madrid restrict cultural representations to 75% of the public.
The incident comes at a time when inequality is being debated in Spain after the Madrid regional government placed some deficient working-class neighborhoods partially enclosed with some of the worst signs of spreading the virus. the deficient.
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BERLIN – Official knowledge shows that Germany experienced nearly 30,000 fewer marriages in the first six months of this year than the previous year due to restrictions similar to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federal Statistical Office said Monday that 139,900 couples were married between January and June, a low of 29,200 since the first part of 2019. Many registry offices have kept ceremonies to a minimum or closed at the height of the first wave of infections. .
It is unclear whether other marriages were delayed or cancelled. The number of marriages is the lowest for the first half since 2007, a year in which weddings on July 7 or 07. 07. 07 were popular.
The statistics workplace said the number of marriages increased in May and June, while Germany was softening restrictions on coronaviruses, it has not yet reached pre-crisis levels.
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MADRID – Police in the Spanish capital and its surrounding villages are preventing others from entering and leaving working-class neighbourhoods that have been partially blocked to combat the spread of Europe’s fastest coronavirus.
Monday’s police checks are for data purposes only, however, the government says law enforcement will be mandatory from Wednesday and that those who do not justify compliance will have to pay fines.
Around 860,000 inhabitants are affected by the new restrictions, which will have to justify the exterior of their neighborhood for professional, educational or medical reasons, the parks are closed and department stores and restaurants will have to restrict their occupancy to 50% in the affected areas. .
The target communities have a 14-day transmission rate of more than 1,000 cases consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, among those in Europe.
The move has provoked protests from others that restrictions stigmatize the poor.
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PRAGUE – The Czech Republic’s fitness minister has resigned to a record number of coronavirus infections.
Adam Vojtech says his resolution creates an area for a new technique for the pandemic.
The country did well in the spring, however, faced a record build-up in new cases shown over the following week.
On Thursday, the newspaper accumulates more than 3,000 in new instances.
It is not known without delay who will update Vojtech, who under pressure from the opposition to resign.
The Czech Republic has reported a total of 49,290 inflamed people and 503 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to government figures published on Monday.
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LONDON (AP) – Britain’s most sensible medical and clinical advisors are in a position to offer a stimulating assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic to the public on Monday as the government prepares to announce new measures for emerging infection rates.
Medical director Chris Whitty and scientific director Patrick Vallance will hold a televised briefing at 11:00 BST (10:00 GMT) in which they are expected to notice that infection rates are going in the wrong direction and that the UK is facing a complicated winter.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with ministers over the weekend to discuss the government’s response. Analysts expect the government to announce a series of short-term restrictions that will act as a switch to curb the spread of the disease.
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NEW DELHI – India has recorded nearly 87,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, with another 1,130 deaths.
With the announcement of the Ministry of Health on Monday, India now has more than 5. 4 million reported cases since the start of the pandemic and is expected to outperto pass the United States, most recently the country with the maximum reported cases, in a few weeks.
India’s total death toll in the pandemic is now 87,882.
More than 60% of active instances are concentrated in India’s 28 states: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
Despite the stable accumulation of cases, the government continued to ease viral restrictions on an economy that contracted by 24% in the current quarter.
On Monday, the Taj Mahal will reopen after a six-month close. There will be safe restrictions such as mandatory use of a mask, thermal protection of visitors and physical distance to the monument.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – All remaining viral restrictions will be lifted in much of New Zealand from Monday night, with the exception of the largest city, Auckland, which will continue to have restrictions for at least 16 days.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement Monday later with key lawmakers.
The country of five million other people again imposed some restrictions last month after an outbreak in Auckland that now appears to be under control.
As a component of the plan, the maximum collection sizes in Auckland will be higher from 10 to 100 on Wednesday, and the ceilings will be removed two weeks later.
“Auckland wants more time,” Ardern told reporters in the city. “Although we are quite convinced that we are on the right track, this prudent technique is still needed in Auckland. “
The health government reported any new instances on Monday. The number of active instances is 62, adding 33 on the network and 29 among travelers returning in quarantine.
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SEOUL, South Korea – The number of viruses in South Korea remained below 100 for the time being in a row, maintaining the tendency to slow down new infections.
The Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the 70 new additions in the last 24 hours raised the country’s total to 23,045 with 385 deaths.
South Korea counted 82 new instances on Sunday, marking the first time its jump has fallen to double digits in about 40 days.
South Korea conducts fewer tests on weekends, but the recent resurgence of the virus in South Korea has recently followed a downward trajectory amid strict social estating regulations since its account exceeded 400 by the end of August.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican fitness says the coronavirus pandemic has been declining for at least 3 weeks in 26 of the country’s 32 states.
Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s leader in the coronavirus pandemic, said at a press conference on Sunday that the downward trend had been observed in peak countries and that there had also been a minimisation of mortality, to which it happened. Europe, despite epidemics on this continent.
However, Mexico remains the fourth country with the maximum deaths from COVID-19, with at least 73,493 killed, only the United States, Brazil and India.
He also said the occupancy rate of national hospitals remained below 40%, however, he added that they expected a build-up in October due to coronavirus and the fact that it is flu season.
Mexico already has more than 697,000 officially enarmed people.
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