President Donald Trump’s Emergency Clearance of Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Patients Sunday
Ontario Reports New COVID-19 Cases, No New Coronavirus Deaths
South Korea added 397 new coronavirus cases, counting its 10th consecutive day of triple-digit increase
Sunday, the latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world. This record will be updated on the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
10:20 p. m. : Manitoba broke on Sunday his record for a day of new COVID-19 cases, which he said the maximum fitness came here from the configuration of network life.
But the authors insist that other people focus too much on numbers.
Seventy-two new instances of COVID-19 were recorded in the province on Sunday, compared to the previous record of 42, which was set the previous day.
The province’s director of public health, Dr. Brent Roussin, told a news convention that Sunday’s new instances were in network environments.
The province says initial research shows that most of the new instances are the result of more than is done due to known groups in those environments in the Prairie Mountain Health Region in western Manitoba.
Health Minister Cameron Friesen said at the press conference that Hutterite communities are cooperating and running with public fitness officials to verify and restrict the spread of the virus.
Hospitalization rates in Manitoba remain low, and the province reported that seven other people with COVID-19 went to the hospital on Sunday, adding one in extensive care.
“I think it is vital to look beyond today’s giant numbers to perceive that a significant portion of the figures reported today is due to the fact that tests are being conducted in the colonies and that is a smart thing to do,” Friesen said, urging others not to stigmatize anyone.
“Remember that the Hutterian colonies were among manitoba’s first teams to sew masks, bring food to food banks, supply masks to hospitals, and other things. And they’ve also been there in the past, the same way. “
7:05 p. m. Array: President Donald Trump announced on Sunday the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for 19-19 PATIENTS, to a rate he called a “advancement,” said one of his most sensible fitness officials. described as “promising,” and other fitness experts said more was needed before celebrating.
The announcement came after days when White House officials reported politically motivated delays through the Food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine and remedy for the disease that disappointed Trump’s chances of reelection.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Trump stood in the midst of the announcement of FDA approval (this makes it less difficult for some patients to get a remedy) at a press convention On Sunday night.
Blood plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from coronavirus and antibodies, may be offering benefits to those with the disease, but the evidence so far has not been conclusive in terms of its effectiveness, at the time of management and the required dose.
Emergency use authorization is the same as full FDA approval.
5:40 p. m. Array: Victoria, BC, the police said that at the moment at night in a line they interrupted in the same apartment of the center and they fined one of the assistants.
Police said they were called to a one-bedroom suite in a multi-unit residential building just after Sunday for reporting a party.
They had visited the same suite the night before, interrupting one of about 30 and fining the host $ 2,300 for failing to meet provincial COVID-19 fitness guidelines.
Police said they met an organization of 15 others this time and ordered the party to disband.
One guest refused to cooperate, then was arrested and fined $230 for abusive or belligerent habit under the COVID-19 Measures Act.
Police said the guest was later released at the scene and no more tickets were distributed.
4:45 p. m. : Here are the most recent COVID-19 numbers shown in Canada at 4:27 p. m. August 23, 2020:
124,896 are displayed in Canada.
_ Quebec: 61,673 displayed (including 5,740 deaths, 54,682 resolved)
Ontario: 41,402 displayed (including 2,797 deaths, 37,595 resolved)
Alberta: 12,748 displayed (including 230 kills, 11,374 resolved)
_ British Columbia: 4,915 displayed (including 202 deaths, 3,889 resolved)
_ Saskatchewan: 1,600 shown (including 22 deaths, 1,472 resolved)
Nova Scotia: 1,080 displayed (including deaths, 1,008 resolved)
Manitoba: 944 displayed (including 12 deaths, 576 resolved)
Newfoundland and Labrador: 268 shown (including 3 kills, 265 resolved)
_ New Brunswick: 189 shown (including 2 deaths, 178 resolved)
_ Prince Edward Island: shown (including 40 resolved)
Yukon: 15 shown (15 resolved)
Canadians repatriated: thirteen showed up (thirteen resolved)
Northwest Territories: five shown (five of which are resolved)
Nunavut: no cases were shown
Total: 124,896 (presumption 0, 124,896 showed 9073 deaths, 111 112 resolved)
This report through The Canadian Press was first published on August 23, 2020.
4:35 p. m. Array: Ontario reports new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths from the novel coronavirus.
The province reported 106 cases recently resolved on Sunday.
The total number of instances is now 41,402, 2,797 deaths, and 37,595 instances marked as resolved.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said 29 of the 34 public fitness teams in the province reported five or fewer new cases, while thirteen reported none.
Elliot says the province was able to conduct more than 23,300 tests the day before.
She says that ICU admissions and the number of patients on ventilators will decline.
11:31 a. m. : Quebec today reports 74 new cases of COVID-19, while hospitalized patients and extensive care patients have declined.
Health officials say the most recent infections show the total at 61,673 since the start of the pandemic.
The Health Department also added one more death with an unknown date, bringing the total to 5,740.
11:25 a. m. : Nova Scotia reports a new death related to COVID-19 and two new cases of viruses.
The province says a man died in the northern area, which encompasses the Colchester-East Hants, Cumberland and Pictou areas.
The case is related to an earlier case of COVID-19 of a traveler arriving in Nova Scotia from outside the Atlantic bubble.
Authorities say the deceased is not a resident of a long-term care home.
The two new instances announced on Sunday are also in the north and connected to past instances.
To date, Nova Scotia has reported 1,080 COVID-19 cases and 65 deaths, seven active cases in the province.
The death of Prime Minister Stephen McNeil, the man, is a “clear reminder” that COVID-19 is still active in Nova Scotia.
10:25 a. m Array: Ginette Barton-Sinkia only needs her children to succeed this year.
With her two children, over the age of thirteen and six, returning to the study rooms in September, Barton-Sinkia believes it is the right time for parents to join and attendance schools to create an environment for young people to return to half of COVID. 19 pandemics.
His circle of relatives spent time living in California, he said, where it is general for teachers to send a list of mandatory materials to the classroom with the youth at the beginning of the year so that parents can participate.
Learn more about Jenna Moon of the Star about the mother who is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her children in school.
10:08 am: The EU industry commissioner is under intense pressure to resign after attending a golf occasion despite the pandemic’s ban on public gatherings.
The paintings of Phil Hogan, an Irishman who is expected to play a key role in industry talks with the UK, are at risk amid a developing crisis resulting from a dinner organised through a golf company in western Ireland, in which more than 80 others people participated. An increase in coronavirus cases recently led Ireland to re-impose restrictions on public meetings that were at ease in early summer.
The Minister of Agriculture and the Vice-President of the Senate resigned a week after confirming their attendance at the event.
Hogan issued a “full and deep apology” for the incident.
Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he shared the public’s anger over the golf event, but said the apology helped and told RTE that Hogan might not be as familiar with the coronavirus scenario in Ireland as he did not found in the country.
9:32 a. m Array: Without fanfare, federal and provincial governments have begun targeting drug possession and the crimes of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving as possible fees that can be diverted from the criminal justice formula to reduce the long delays that have been aggravated through the COVID- 19 pandemic.
But just as the pandemic has accelerated the modernization of Ontario’s courts, with Teleconferences and Zoom trials replacing the need for face-to-face appearances, policy adjustments to the rates of juvenile offenders are hailed as unprecedented, and some predict that they will lead to historic, vital and long-sought-after reform of the corrupt judicial system.
Read more from Star’s Betsy Powell on how Ontario prosecutors are quietly defeating more drug owners and impaired driving rates from criminal courts.
9:00 a. m. Fix: Germany organized a pop concert on Saturday to see how attendees can spread the coronavirus if they had it. Researchers who read COVID-19 filled the component of an arena in Leipzig with volunteers, gathering knowledge in a “real” simulation of a pop concert but with strict fitness and protection controls.
7:00 a. m Matrix: The number of coronavirus cases in India was 3 million on Sunday, the world’s leading country in new infections such as disease in poor rural spaces in the north and richer and larger populations in the north. South.
Health reported 69,239 new cases and 912 deaths, bringing the total to 3,044,940.
Cases have stabilized in the two largest cities in India, and serological surveys show a prevalence among citizens of the capital New Delhi and the monetary center of Mumbai.
5:50 a. m. Matrix: South Korea added 397 new cases of coronavirus, counting its tenth consecutive day of three-digit accumulation as the rate of spread of the virus approaches the degrees the country experienced at its worst. epidemic in the spring.
The resurgence, which began in the densely populated capital region before spreading to virtually every major provincial city and town during the following week, is a major setback for the country, which wants to promote its tough profits against the virus.
After avoiding strict measures of social estating for considerations about a fragile economy, officials have now banned giant gatherings, closed nightclubs, beaches and churches, and have disposed of professional sports enthusiasts in a desperate effort to stop broadcasts.
Sunday’s surge in infections marked the third consecutive day of more than three hundred and the highest since the 483 instances reported on March 7, when the country faced a spike in transmissions in its southeastern region.
5:15 a. m. Arrangement: The Governor of Sicily orders that all successful migrants on the island via sea be transferred from the Mediterranean island as a component of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.
The ordinance, signed through Governor Nello Musumeci, entered into force on Sunday and stipulates that all centres that house migrants hoping to process asylum programs will be closed until the end of Monday.
His order, in force until September 10, also prohibits any ship, in addition to charity ships, from bringing immigrants to the island.
5:00 a. m. : On Sunday, the government of Pakistan reported 4 more deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest number of deaths in the country since March.
The announcement raises hopes that Pakistan is on track to fully engage the coronavirus despite a fragile fitness system.
The National Command and Control Center also reported 591 new instances, raising the number of instances in the country to 275,836, 6,275 deaths.
Pakistan experienced a sudden increase in infections and deaths in June, but showed that cases and deaths have declined since then. The most recent progression comes days after the Pakistani drug regulator approved the final-stage testing of a coronavirus vaccine manufactured in China.
Saturday 7:30 p. m. : The U. S. House of Representatives, at a rare session on Saturday in August, passed a law that would oppose operational adjustments to the U. S. Postal Service since the beginning of the year and supplement the firm with $25 billion (US) to help maintain degrees of service for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said his house would not conform to the House bill, but that Republicans are willing to reverse the postal service as a component of a COVID-19 aid program.
The White House issued a veto threat, the House bill “seeks to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to impose counterproductive restrictions on the already limited operational flexibilities of the USPS. “
Saturday 6:30 p. m. : Ryan Imgrund, a biostatistician at the Southlake Regional Health Center in Newmarket, tracked the number of actual reproductions, or how many others with COVID will sometimes infect, for the Ontario pandemic. one to keep infections low.
Since July 29, the number in the province has fallen from 0. 8 to 1. 35. Imgrund said, “Consider me. “
Read the full story of Star’s May Warren here
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