The Belgian prime minister has unveiled a series of drastic social estrangement measures aimed at preventing a further blockade amid a wave of COVID-19 infections.
Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said that starting next Wednesday, outdoor contacts from the family circle will be limited to the same five other people over the next four weeks. Lately, Belgian citizens are allowed to meet 15 other people. The measures do not apply to young people under the age of 12.
Wilmes said new measures, which also include reducing crowd limits on public occasions to 100 other inmates and two hundred others outdoors, may be enough to impose additional restrictions and ensure that young people can return to school en masse. September.
Wilmes suggested that others start running remotely whenever possible, saying buyers now buy alone and restrict the time they spend at outlets to 30 minutes.
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.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS OUTBREAK:
– President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Tested for COVID-19
– The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine has started
– WHO cites twice as much in the last six weeks
– The White House and the GOP Senate have looked back at the virus for $1 billion
Uncertainty over tensions between the US and China, the pandemic pushes gold to trade
– Two baseballs have been postponed due to virus problems
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HERE’S WHAT’S GOING ON:
DA NANG, Vietnam – About 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, are being evacuated from the popular Vietnamese beach of Da Nang city after more than a dozen people were shown with COVID-19.
The evacuations were announced Monday through the government.
Vietnam, regarded as a good fortune in the battle against the coronavirus, re-imposed a social estrangement order in Da Nang after the cases were confirmed.
A 57-year-old man was inflamed on Saturday by coronavirus, the country’s first local case since April. The Ministry of Health says 14 more cases have been shown since then.
The new epidemic worries tourists in the city and many have interrupted their travels.
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MADRID – Spanish hoteliers recommend that foreign tourists take a coronavirus check when they leave their own country and make one before returning home.
The Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations says that such a European standard would cause all travelers from certain countries to be quarantined when they arrive home.
Spain’s tourism sector is recovering from the British government’s resolution last weekend that requires travellers arriving in England from Spain to be quarantined for 14 days.
The president of the confederation, Jorge Marichal, said in a video posted on social media on Monday that Spanish hotels are willing to pay for the tests to their visitors at the end of their stay.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for coronavirus, the highest-ranking U.S. official in positive to date.
According to two other people familiar with the situation, they spoke under anonymity because they were not allowed to speak by name.
The White House showed that O’Brien had mild symptoms and was “self-insulated and fleeing a safe place off site.” The White House says that “there is no threat of exposure to the president or vice president” and that “National Security Council cadnts remain uninterrupted.”
The news was first reported through Bloomberg News, which reported that O’Brien had stuck the virus after a family circle event.
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MIAMI – Two primary championship games scheduled for Monday night were postponed because the Miami Marlins face an outbreak of coronavirus that has blocked them in Philadelphia.
The Marlins’ first home game against Baltimore canceled, such as the New York Yankees game in Philadelphia. The Yankees would have been in the same clubhouse the Marlins used last weekend.
The Marlins postponed their return flight on Sunday night after their last opposition to the Phillies.
A user familiar with the resolution of postponing the game Marlins-Orioles told The Associated Press that the resolution was taken due to fitness precautions. A user at the moment showed the postponement of the Yankees-Phillies game. The two spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because the postponements had not been announced through Major League Baseball.
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NODDIAN – The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine test began with the first of 30,000 volunteers expected to verify injections created through the U.S. government, one of many applicants in the final stretch of the global vaccine race.
There is still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed through the National Institutes of Health and Modern Inc., will protect. The exam began on Monday.
Volunteers may not know if they are getting the genuine photo or a fake version. After two doses, scientists will largely monitor which organization reports maximum infections while painting daily, especially in areas where the virus is still spreading unchecked.
Modern said vaccination took place in Savannah, Georgia, the first site to begin among more than seven dozen checkpoints across the country.
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STRAWBERRY, Wing. – An Alabama pastor said more than 40 others had become inflamed with coronavirus after attending a multi-day revival at a Baptist church.
Pastor Daryl Ross of Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Marshall County said the faithful, adding themselves, tested positive after the congregation organized a series of devotees with a guest pastor for several days last week.
“The whole church has it, a lot, ” said Ross, quoted through Al.com.
Ross said the two-member cases were serious and that no one had been hospitalized on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON – The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, said that other people were “mobilizing” is an explanation for why some of the “tops” of coronavirus cases observed in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas.
The coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, Dr. Deborah Birx, said last week that “we will already see a limit” or stabilization of instances in those most affected states.
In an interview Monday on Fox and Friends on Fox News, Azar said the idea of officials “was because other people wear their masks.” He said they also had social distances and practiced smart hygiene, and praised the governors for the final bars, where it’s hard to be socially distant and wear a mask.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek government says that it will most likely expand the mandatory use of masks in churches and shopping malls, raising the developing public for government standards on security in the face of a pandemic.
Greece has maintained a low infection rate since the end of the blockade measures and its opening to tourism in recent weeks, but has noticed an increase in summer infections in cities, leading to 4,193 cases overall and 202 deaths on Sunday.
August 15 is a main festival of the Orthodox Christian calendar, the wonderful Dormition dinner of the Mother of God, and is celebrated every year with pilgrimages, parish fairs and other public gatherings in Greece.
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EFFIE, Minn. – Thousands of people showed up for what is called The Largest Rodeo in Minnesota, filling the stalls for the three-day occasion despite orders to restrict crowds due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The State fitness branch and the Minnesota Attorney General’s workplace imposed a spectator restriction at the event. Governor Tim Walz’s most recent order restricts occasions and entertainment to 250 socially remote people.
The stands remained complete or nearly complete in the 3 days of the 65th annual North Star Stampede rodeo in Effie, northern Minnesota, the Star Tribune reported.
The occasion’s organizer, Cimarron Pitzen, wrote in a Facebook post before the occasion that would not save them from protesting against what he described as “a ridiculous government for overreasonsing” and their right to meet.
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MADRID – The head of the regional government of Catalonia has said that the Archbishop of Barcelona is being investigated for a possible violation of hygiene rules by holding an unauthorized mass.
Juan José Omella on Sunday held a service in the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia through Antoni Gaudi in reminiscence for the coronavirus sufferers.
Catalonia has imposed strict restrictions on meetings while trying to stop a developing COVID-19 epidemic. The region reported 133 new cases on Saturday, the moment is accumulating in Spain.
Catalan leader Quim Torra said Monday that the regional fitness government had not given prior authorization for the ceremony, as required by existing rules.
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GENEVA “The coronavirus pandemic” continues to accelerate, and has doubled in the last six weeks, said the head of the World Health Organization.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said around 16 million cases have already been reported to the UN fitness agency, with more than 640,000 deaths worldwide.
Tedros will convene the WHO Emergency Committee later this week, a procedural requirement six months after the final declaration of a public fitness emergency for fear on 30 January over the coronavirus outbreak. The panel will advise you on the pandemic.
“COVID-19 has replaced our world,” he told reporters at WHO headquarters in Geneva on Monday. “He gathered people, communities and nations, and separated them.”
He cited some points that have been effective in some countries, adding political leadership, education, higher and hygiene and physical distance measures.
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LONDON – Low-cost airline Ryanair says the COVID-19 pandemic has wraged its rear line, with pandemic restrictions leading to a 99% drop in the number of first-quarter passengers compared to the same time last year.
The airline rated the quarter as “the most difficult” in its history, with a loss of 185 million euros ($216 million). He described a wave of COVID-19 as his “biggest fear.”
Travel restrictions led to a passenger contraction, with 500,000 passengers in the first quarter, to 41.9 million at the same time last year.
The cheap airline expects the air to depress in Europe for the next two or three years.
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PARIS – Morocco is banning everything to and from some of its major cities in an attempt to stop a small increase in coronavirus cases, even though the North African country has remained less affected than its northern European neighbors.
On Monday morning, an article from Moroccan ministry of fitness and interior cited through the WFP state news firm said there was a travel “ban” affecting the towns of Tangier, Tetouan, Fez, Meknes, Casablanca, Berrechid, Settat and the popular tourist destination of Marrakech.
The ministries said the resolution was taken because many Moroccans did not respect the encouraged measures through governments to combat the spread of coronavirus, such as social estrangement, the use of masks and the use of disinfectants.
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong will absolutely ban eating in restaurants and impose masks in all public places as the city fights a coronavirus outbreak that has worsened and inflamed more than 1,000 people in the past two weeks.
The improved measures will be effective for one week from Wednesday. They are an extension of a previous ban on eating at restaurants and restaurants after 6 p.m., as well as mandatory use of the mask on public transportation.
The ban on public meetings of more than 4 other people has also been strengthened, and meetings are limited to two other people.
Bars, beauty salons and game centres will be closed, and swimming pools and sports facilities will be closed from Wednesday. Restaurants and restaurants will be allowed to offer takeaways to customers.
In the past two weeks, another 1,164 people have become inflamed with coronavirus, most of which have been transmitted locally. The outbreak is the highest in Hong Kong to date, after the city reported several weeks without cases of local transmission in May and June.
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