4:10 p.m. A child at day camp at the Barbara Frum Community Center tested positive for COVID-19.
11:05 a.m. The COVID-19 pandemic nearly doubled Ontario’s already exorbitant budget deficit to a record $38.5 billion.
10:51 a.m. Ontario reports new cases of COVID-19 today and a new death from the disease.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Wednesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
4:15 p.m. For the first time in 65 years, Sugar Plum will dance at the level of the National Canadian Ballet.
The company announced Wednesday that it canceled its annual production of “Nutcrackers” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its fall season.
Artistic director Karen Kain said he is “particularly sorry” for canceling “The Nutcracker.”
4:10 p.m. A boy who attended day camp at the Barbara Frum Community Center, one of CampTO’s 120 sites in Toronto, tested positive for COVID-19, announced the city in a press release Wednesday. He said the camper was eliminated from the camp with symptoms last week and is isolating himself.
According to the press release, CampTO systems at The Barbara Frum and Glen Long Centres will close for the rest of the week and the center will go through a thorough cleanup before the resumption of CampTO on Monday, August 17.
3:26 p.m. Colombian officials say they arrested two Florida men wanted in the United States for illegally promoting a bleach-like chemical as a miracle cure for the new coronavirus and other diseases.
The Colombian prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that Mark and Joseph Grennon were arrested in the beach town of Santa Marta, and were shipping their “Miracle Mineral Solution” — chlorine dioxide — from there to clients in the United States, Colombia and Africa.
The seven Americans had died from the use of the substance.
Mark Grenon is the archbishop of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, founded in Bradenton, Florida, which focuses on the poisonous chemist as an intentional sacrament that he believes can cure a wide variety of diseases ranging from cancer to autism and malaria. and now COVID-19.
A federal ruling in Miami ordered the self-proclaimed church in April to avoid the promotion of the substance, but this was ignored.
3:24 p.m. Georgia’s largest school district fought Wednesday to publicize online learning for its 180,000 students, and parents complained that students can simply join the Gwinnett County system.
Meanwhile, Cherokee County quarantined 1,156 students after seeking school learning, adding about 330 students to yesterday’s total. They are at home because of imaginable exposure to coronavirus since the categories resumed last week.
Approximately 70 academics and the 40,000 district of Cherokee County testified positive for coronavirus, according to the knowledge published Wednesday on the district’s website. It is not known if some were inflamed at school.
3:24 p.m. The Greek fitness government has announced 262 new coronavirus infections, the highest number since the outbreak began.
Two deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 216. The total number of cases shown is 6,177.
Greece imposed an early blockade that kept the number of infections and deaths low. But the number of instances shown has increased significantly since the lifting of restrictions and the reopening of the country to foreign visitors.
The government imposed new restrictions on some areas, adding the closure of bars, restaurants and cafes at some of the country’s major tourist sites between 7 a.m. and 7 a.m.
3 p.m. On Wednesday, the British government replaced the collection of coronavirus deaths, a move that has reduced the official death toll in the country to more than 5,000.
The Department of Health reported that the new total of 41,329, compared to 46,706. It remains the highest number of deaths in Europe.
The government announced last month that it was reviewing how death statistics were compiled, after academics noted that in England, the count included anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 and then died without a cut-off point between positive and death. means that some other people recorded as coronavirus deaths would likely have died for other reasons, and the proportion would increase over time.
2:30 p.m. Training at home after quarantine after the MLS return tournament, all 3 Canadian groups are waiting to know where and when they will play next.
It’s just the latest step in a stop-start MLS season, with the U.S. border looming large during the global pandemic.
But it turns out that Montreal Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps can see a lot in the near future.
“There will be an era when we will face Canadian groups, in the hope that it will take us longer, that there will be a solution that will allow us to play matches opposed to the Eastern Conference groups that are in the United States,” he said. Toronto coach Greg Vanney.
On Saturday, the MLS released a series of dates for the United States in what he called the first phase back to play in the domestic markets.
2:30 p.m. NBA players can have a circle of close family or friends in the season’s reset bubble with them until the end of the month.
And that raises the possibility of having a genuine, albeit small, incentive section for some playoff games.
The league detailed policies for group guest arrivals Wednesday in a memorandum, a copy of which was received through The Associated Press. The opportunity to bring visitors to the bubble at Walt Disney World will only be for groups that qualify for the circular moment of the playoffs, and the earliest a guest will be able to comply with quarantine regulations and meet with a player is August 31.
In most cases, players would be limited to four guests. The league told teams that any guests would have to be either family members, “longtime close personal friends with whom a player has an established, pre-existing, and known personal relationship,” private security staff and established family child care providers.
ESPN first reported on the contents of the note.
2 p.m. Toronto recorded 8 new COVID-19s today, Mayor John Tory announced at a press conference.
1:43 p.m. The B.C. The Ministry of Education has stated that young people will return to school two days later than planned as part of a slow resumption of schooling.
Education Minister Rob Fleming told reporters Tuesday that academics would not be expected to date the original September 8 to give principals and teachers more time to prepare for school amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ministry now says staff will meet on September 8, while academics will be welcomed in study rooms until September 10.
A government guidance committee, set up for schools to plan for their restart, will take into account operational rules next week on issues ranging from protection and fitness protocols to supporting students’ intellectual fitness.
The change in the start date comes after concerns were raised by the BC Teachers’ Federation and the BC Principals’ and Vice-Principals’ Association.
The president of the federation, Teri Mooring, requested more points from the government’s school plan, and said the data needed for educators and parents.
Authorities said the case was referring to a user of about 60 years in the Fredericton area.
Health says they suspect the case is similar to a trip and similar to a case reported Tuesday.
They say that the inflamed user no longer has symptoms and has spent the 14 days contagious from the virus.
There are now 8 COVID-19 assets in New Brunswick.
The cases announced Tuesday and Wednesday are under investigation.
1:27 p.m. Toronto will get $400 million to transit as a component of the first provincial investment circular for safe restart. Ontario will provide up to $1.6 billion in emergency investments to municipalities facing COVID-19 as a component of the safe restart agreement. News comes as the province prepares to cope with a record deficit of $38.5 billion.
1:20 p.m. The federal government has announced another $305 million for Aboriginal peoples to fight COVID-19.
Aboriginal Services Minister Marc Miller said cash was intended to help Aboriginal communities prepare for emergencies and prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
He says communities can also use cash for a variety of other measures, adding assistance to the elderly and vulnerable, food insecurity, education and other supports for youth, and intellectual fitness assistance.
The new investment will pass the Aboriginal Community Support Fund, bringing the total to $685 million this year.
A portion of the investment will also pass to First Nations living outside the reserves, as well as to inuit and mestizos living in urban centers, assigned through an application process.
Miller says Ottawa is committed to ensuring that Aboriginal leaders have the equipment and want to put into effect various facets of their pandemic plans.
“This funding will provide crucial support to key community initiatives that strive to prevent, prepare for and respond to COVID-19 in First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities,” he said.
While 12 other schools in Lawrence County planned to begin the classic categories Wednesday, Superintendent Jon Bret Smith told the Decatur Daily that students at Moulton Elementary and High Schools in Northern Alabama would start the school year by taking online categories.
Education officials learned Monday that a user connected to the two schools had tested positive for the coronavirus disease. Public fitness officials delay reopening by two weeks. Together, there are more than 105 employees in schools.
School officials informed 10 other people who were in contact with the person. Computers are distributed for online courses.
12:25 p.m. Italy has added 481 more cases of coronavirus and the government is determined to impose tests or quarantines on Italian tourists returning from coronavirus hot spots.
Some regional governors have announced plans or proposals for immediate use at airports or quarantined after Italians returning from their holidays in Malta, Croatia, Spain and Greece tested positive once at home. Other groups have been assigned to newly arrived migrants and migrant centres.
According to Italian reports, Regional Affairs Minister Francesco Boccia met with regional governors on Wednesday.
France and Germany have announced evidence on arrival after their instances exceeded 1000. In Italy, where the virus first struck in Europe in February, the diversity of new instances from three hundred to 500 is consistent with the day.
Italy has 251,713 infections shown. With 10 more deaths, the total number of deaths shown amounts to 35,225.
11:47 p.m. Prince Edward Island reports new COVID-19 cases.
Chief public health officer Dr. Heather Morrison said today the five cases involve essential workers who arrived on the Island July 30 from outside the country.
Morrison says the five men have been isolated since their arrival and have reportedly had contact with each other.
The men, two in their 30s and 3 in their 40s, paint in it and have come from a country that is not the United States.
Morrison didn’t say what domain they were running in, but he said it wasn’t health.
E.e.i. he had a total of 41 cases shown of the new coronavirus and no deaths from COVID-19, and Morrison said there is no indication of transmission of the virus on the network in the province.
11:47 a.m. Quebec’s fitness government says 19 other people died from COVID-19 at an event for seniors in Montreal rule last spring, however, 10 of the deaths are reported today due to a delay in knowledge transmission.
Officials say in a statement that Place Kensington, which bills itself as a luxury residence in Westmount, saw a total of 19 residents die from the novel coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health said that space no longer had active instances and that the government was ready for a similar scenario to not happen again.
Quebec added a total of 12 new COVID-19 deaths, of which occurred more than a week ago.
The province recorded new cases of the disease, bringing the total to 60,813 and the death toll is 5,709.
The number of hospitalizations in COVID-19 remains solid at 151, and another 20 people are in resuscitation.
11:30 a.m. Russia has ruled out foreign considerations about the protection of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine and announced that mass inoculation will begin this month before clinical trials are complete.
“Western colleagues, who would possibly feel the competitive merit of Russian drugs, are seeking explicit reviews that are absolutely unjustified in our view,” Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Wednesday. “This vaccine is a platform that is already well known and studied,” he said, adding that other countries had developed antidotes through accelerated testing programs.
Authorities plan to start vaccinating the medical corps of workers and other at-risk teams within two weeks voluntarily, Murashko said. The vaccine will be available to the entire population from October.
(Update) 11:05 A.M. The COVID-19 pandemic nearly doubled Ontario’s already exorbitant budget deficit to a record $38.5 billion.
Finance Minister Rod Phillips, who projected a $20.5 billion deficit in March, above last year’s $9.2 billion deficit, reported Wednesday’s reach of the coronavirus record in the provincial treasury by revealing the first quarterly results.
The epidemic has killed more than 2,800 Ontarions and claimed nearly 1.2 million jobs, with up to businesses forced to close due to a state of emergency that lasted from March 17 to July 24.
Phillips, who pledged $17 billion last spring to alleviate COVID-19, the new spending had risen to $30 billion.
In addition to Ottawa, Queen’s Park has awarded 375,000 frontline employees a $4 per hour transitional pay on the occasion of a pandemic to praise them for their efforts against COVID-19. This $1.55 billion program includes $424 million in provincial cash.
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10:56 a.m., Quebec is making an investment of $18.9 million to create a pool of computer equipment for students returning to school following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education Minister Jean-Fransois Roberge announced that the government is buying around 30,000 laptops and tablets for the poorest students.
Roberge says the devices will be reserved for young people who don’t have a computer or who don’t have an exclusive, as well as for grades 10 and 11 students who will stick to exchanging learning schedules in person and remotely.
He says laptops and computers will also pass on to young people who are at risk or have learning problems.
The Quebec back-to-school plan announced this week calls for maximum elementary students and top schools to physically return to elegance at the end of the month.
A distance education service will be presented to students with physical fitness disorders who put them at increased risk of COVID-19 headaches or who live with those who suffer from it.
The Department of Health reported 95 cases, to 33 cases unusually low the day before, that related to an adjustment of Toronto Public Health statistics.
“At the local level, 28 of the province’s 34 public fitness devices report five or fewer cases, and 16 of them have reported new cases,” health minister Christine Elliott said on Twitter.
Wednesday’s cases were comparable to last week’s cases, when the province had fewer than a hundred new infections consistent with the day for seven consecutive days. Health officials are closely following the counts of children, who are expected to return to school in September.
Toronto had the most of new infections with 19, followed by Peel with 16 and Ottawa with 13. The Windsor-Essex domain, which passed to level 3 of the reopening of the business on Wednesday, had eight new cases, while neighboring Chatham-Kent had seven. Hamilton had six and Niagara four, according to branch figures calculated at 4pm. the day before.
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10:22 a.m. Brazil’s grandmother first died Wednesday after more than a month of fighting COVID-19 in a public hospital on the outskirts of Brasilia.
Maria Aparecida Firmo Ferreira, 80, grandmother of Michelle Bolsonaro, married to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. She had been hospitalized since July 1 after testing positive for coronavirus.
The fitness secretariat of the Federal District of Brazil showed his death.
President Bolsonaro and Michelle Bolsonaro were diagnosed with COVID-19 last month. The president, who has recovered, has minimized the severity of the virus.
Brazil has more than 3.1 million cases shown of coronavirus and more than 103,000 deaths, world ranking.
10:22 a.m. Switzerland plans to allow public meetings of more than 1,000 people at sporting events and concerts from October 1.
Organizers will have to apply for permission and comply with the social distance.
Switzerland, one of the first countries in Europe to ban large-scale occasions on 28 February to combat coronavirus.
The Swiss government says any resolution to allow for individual occasions will fall to Switzerland’s 26 cantons (states) and will have the local viral situation.
After its weekly cabinet meeting, the Swiss government said: “This cautious reopening takes into account the wishes of society and the economic interests of sports clubs and cultural venues.”
Government officials must also make the mask mandatory on all scheduled and charter flights to and from Switzerland, starting on Saturday.
10:22 Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has opposed maruca abroad, adding countries to her list of European countries where the non-essential is not recommended.
The red list of Countries of Norway included the Netherlands, Poland, Cyprus, Iceland, Malta and parts of Sweden and Denmark, adding the Faroe Islands.
Norway had in the past included in the red list: France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria.
People in those countries should be quarantined for 10 days.
Last week, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported that almost all cases in Norway came here from abroad.
Norway has 9,750 shown and 256 deaths.
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.
During that first wave of the virus, the army put up several field hospitals 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.
10:22 a.m. The Greek health minister warns other 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 imposed new restrictions in some areas, ordering the closure of bars and restaurants 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 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.
10:22 a.m. The Romanian fitness government says the country has set a new one-day high for new COVID-19 infections, with 1,415 cases shown in the last 24 hours.
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.
10:22 a.m. A Chinese municipality donated 40,000 medical grade masks to the Maryland capital 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 masks arrived this month, with one of the boxes featuring American and Chinese flags with a message that read: “Go, City of Annapolis! Best Wishes from Changsha! True unity inspires people to work as one to overcome 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 want you and everyone else in Annapolis to stay healthy and have the courage to persevere at this difficult time,” Xia says.
10:22 Pope Francis denounced a culture of individuality through the pandemic, which sacrificed the care of the weakest members of society.
Francis, speaking at his hearing on Wednesday, asked the faithful to “overcome our non-public and collective individualism” as expert paintings towards a cure for 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.”
10:22 a.m. The German health minister expressed fear of the growing number of coronavirus infections in the country and called on his compatriots to respect social estrangement and hygiene regulations.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said smaller outbreaks have occurred in almost every region.
He told Deutschlandfunk radio that the infections were caused by travelers returning from abroad, but also by others who feasted or collected for the family circle.
He says, “This obviously, if we are all careful now, can lead to some impulse” 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, summer vacations end in several states and students often return to normal categories and do not have to wear masks.
Germany recorded 218,519 shown and 9,207 deaths.
10:22 a.m. The Singapore government says maximum foreign staff can now repaint because their bedrooms have been cleaned from COVID-19 after months of blocking 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 Department of Labor said Tuesday night that the 17 separate bedrooms have been cleaned.
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.
10:22 a.m. The amount of coronavirus 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 rigorously apply 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.
10:22 a.m. New showed that community-transmitted coronavirus cases in China fell to a figure 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. 25 additional 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 has recorded 4,634 deaths from COVID-19 among 84,737 cases. Hong Kong, a densely populated semi-autonomous southern Chinese city, also recorded another six deaths to bring its total to 58 among 4,181 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.
10:22 a.m. South Korea reported 54 new cases of COVID-19 as aptitude government paintings to stop transmissions as a component of an increase in 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.
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 much lower count. For the most part, only others with significant symptoms are tested in Mexico.
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.
9:05 a.m. Amica at Erin Mills, a personal retirement home in Mississauga, reported an outbreak after a member tested positive for COVID-19.
The member last worked on August 7 and is now recovering at home on a salary, Amica Senior Lifestyles said in a statement. Every time one or more cases occur, Peel Public Health puts the gym in an epidemic state “as a precautionary measure,” he added.
“We performed a complete tactile mapping and decided that this team member was dressed in the appropriate private protective equipment (PPE) in construction at all times and followed all protection protocols, minimizing any threat to our residence,” he said.
8:41 a.m. (update) Finance Minister Rod Phillips is about to disclose pandemic tax COVID-19 on the books of the province of Ontario.
Phillips will present the first quarterly monetary effects of the year at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
That will include the early weeks of the outbreak that has killed more than 2,800 Ontarians and cost 1.15 million jobs as most businesses were forced to close due a state of emergency that extended from March 17 until July 24.
On March 25, the Treasurer announced a $17 billion plan for the coronavirus, injecting $3.3 billion more in physical care plus $3.7 billion for props.
He also committed another $10 billion in tax deferrals, doubling the projected deficit to $20.5 billion in a record spending plan of $174.3 billion. The budget deficit $9.2 billion last year.
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7:40 a.m. Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips will provide an update on the province’s first quarter finance on Wednesday. Phillips will speak at Queen’s Park at 11 a.m. and talk about the province’s reaction plan.
7:38 a.m. Windsor-Essex joined the rest of Ontario in Stage 3 of the province’s reopening plan.
Prime Minister Doug Ford made the announcement on Monday, the number of COVID-19 cases had been reduced enough to justify the measure.
The resolution means that a maximum of businesses and public spaces will be allowed to reopen, but the rules of public fitness on the physical distance and social “bubbles” of 10 other people remain in force.
In the past, outbreaks among migrant personnel on the farms of the domain had prevented Windsor-Essex from moving from stage 3, where other parts of the province entered in the month.
The mayor of Windsor said Tuesday that the municipality would move forward “cautiously” and ask for more resources if the number of instances increased.
Drew Dilkens praised the province for sending more resources to the region to coordinate the local reaction to agricultural epidemics.
5:45 a.m. The Brussels government is introducing mandatory regulations on masks in the Belgian capital after an increase in cases.
Brussels’s president Rudi Vervoort said Wednesday that the number of new infections in the city had reached the Belgian red line of 50, consistent with a population of 100,000 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.
Wednesday 5:38 a.m. The UK economy experienced the internal recession related to coronavirus among the world’s major trading economies after official Wednesday’s figures showed that it fell in fifth place only in this quarter alone.
The quarter-annual decrease of 20.4% between April and June is worse than anything else since registration began in 1955, the Office of National Statistics said.
After a 2.2% contraction in the first 3 months of the year, the UK economy is now in recession, explained as two quarters of contraction.
4:20 a.m. on Wednesday, 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 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.
Tuesday 10.40 p.m. The Australian state of Victoria reported on Wednesday a record 21 deaths from viruses and 410 new cases of an outbreak in the City of Melbourne that has led to a strict closure.
State Minister Daniel Andrews said 16 of the deaths were similar to nursing homes. The number of new cases in Victoria has declined from the peak, giving the government hope that the epidemic will subside.
Tuesday 9:19 p.m. BEFORE CHRIST. Scholars will not return to elegance on the scheduled 8 September, as the provincial government contemplates a slower return.
Children will be welcome back to elegance later in September after reviewing the BC’s latest Disease Control Center rules and the school’s operational policies for COVID-19, Education Minister Rob Fleming said Tuesday.
“Organizing the restart week in a way that brings together staff groups for a few days before gradually welcoming young people to make sure that all schools, the 1,500 in the province, are in a position to receive students is a smart idea. , and that’s the technique we’re going to use,” he says.
No official date has been set for young people to return to school.
Tuesday 5:09 p.m. Quebec Prime Minister Francois Legault says he does not believe that an eventual wave of COVID-19 strikes as hard as the first in Canada’s hardest-hit province.
“If we have a wave at the moment, we’ll be much more prepared,” Legault told reporters in Mascouche, Quebec, on Tuesday.
And that staff will wear a mask when meeting with patients, which he said was not the case at the beginning of the pandemic and contributed to the 5,000 deaths in nursing homes. “I think we’ll be better placed for that,” he said.
16:25 The Pan American Health Organization has expressed reservations that establishments in the region are negotiating to manufacture and distribute a new COVID-19 vaccine announced through Russia that has not yet been the subject of comprehensive testing of protection and effectiveness.
The organization’s deputy director, Jarbas Barbosa, said Tuesday at an online news convention from Washington that any vaccine deserves to be thoroughly evaluated to make sure the product is effective.
In Brazil, the government of the state of Paraná said it is negotiating with the Russian embassy to help expand a vaccine opposed to COVID-19 and will hold a technical assembly on Wednesday with the Russian ambassador.
Nicaragua previously announced its goal of producing a Russian vaccine and on Monday, Vice President Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega, again said that the country will contact Russian establishments to produce and even export a COVID-19 vaccine.
Barbosa said the vaccine had not yet passed all the mandatory steps to go through the World Health Organization or the Pan American Health Organization. He said global fitness officials were in talks with Russian officials to review their knowledge and clinical trials.
“It is only after this review, with transparency to this knowledge and all the information, that we will take a position,” he said.
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