2 p.m. Toronto reports 18 new confirmed, 1 probable case of COVID-19.
10:30 a.m. For the third day in a row and the fifth time in the following week, Ontario reports fewer than one hundred cases of COVID-19
10:00 a.m. Canada agrees to symptoms with the Pfizer Pharmacist and the U.S. Modern Biotechnology Corporation to obtain millions of doses of its coVID-19 experimental vaccines.
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.
6:05 p.m.: As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Ontario’s regional health units are reporting a total of 41,760 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19, including 2,821 deaths, up 78 new infections in 24 hours.
The province continues to be at its lowest rate of new infections since well before the pandemic first peaked in Ontario in the spring. Ontario has averaged 96 cases per day over the last seven days, down from a peak of nearly 600 daily, seen in mid-April.
On Wednesday, 20 of Ontario 34 health units reported no new cases; none reported more than 20 cases.
Meanwhile, a fatal case was reported Wednesday in Chatham-Kent, Chatham-Kent. The Southwest Ontario Gym is the only region in the province that has lately inconsistent and has its worst infection rate since the beginning of the pandemic, a still low number of 8.3 instances consistent with the day during the following week.
Early Wednesday, the province reported that 66 Ontario residents are recently hospitalized for COVID-19, 30 in intensive care, 15 with respirators.
The star count includes some patients reported as “maximum likely” cases of COVID-19, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or background that imply that they are maximum maximums likely inflamed with the disease and have not yet gained a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate data, published daily at 10:30 a.m., may be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that in case of discrepancy, “data reported through (health units) should be considered as the maximum updated”.
6 p.m.: The Alberta government has announced $48 million for shelters and network organizations that helped homeless people the COVID-19 pandemic, but is still wondering how the cash will be distributed.
“This essential currency will ensure the continuation of the vital paintings of our partners,” the Minister of Social and Community Services Rajan Sawhney said Wednesday.
He adds to the $25 million announced in March.
4:20 p.m.: Ottawa has revealed the main points of a $469 million program to help Canadian fishermen cope with the economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan said Wednesday the Fish Harvester Benefit and Grant Program, which was first announced in May, will be open for applications from Aug. 24 to Sept. 21.
In total, more than 28,000 nationwide are expected to be eligible for the program, which also covers province-approved inland fishing companies.
3:50 p.m.: About 125,000 people in Quebec between the ages of 18 and 69 have COVID-19, according to a new exam published Wednesday through the Quebec blood collection company, more than 3 times the official number reported by fitness authorities.
But the Hema-Quebec study indicates the majority of Quebecers remain vulnerable to being infected by the novel coronavirus, agency vice-president Dr. Marc Germain said.
“The conclusion is obvious,” Germain said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s a very small proportion of the population who have been exposed to the virus during the first wave. And that means there are many people in the population who are susceptible to being infected.”
It also means Quebec is far from developing what’s known as a natural or herd immunity against the virus, said Dr. Gaston De Serres with Quebec’s institute for national health, which collaborated on the study.
So-called herd immunity occurs when enough of a population has contracted a virus and developed an immune response to it, helping to prevent them from getting reinfected and transmitting it. “With this data, it shows that herd immunity in Quebec is not present,” said De Serres. “Forget it.”
The Hema-Québec antibody test referred to a pattern of another 7,691 people over the age of 18 to 69 who donated blood between May 25 and July 9. It revealed that 2.23% of donors had been inflamed with COVID-19. The review indicated that the highest infection rates were in Montreal and Laval, with just over 3 consistent with the penny, while in other maximum parts of the province, the rate decreased greatly by 1.29 consistent with the penny.
3:45 p.m.: Quebec reported 155 new coVID-19 instances on Wednesday, bringing the total number of others with proven infections to 60,000. The province also reported two deaths more attributed to the new coronavirus, for a total of 5687.
2:53 p.m. Coronavirus control in the United States is declining even as infections remain the main ones and the death toll rises to more than 1,000 per day, a disturbing trend that officials largely characterize to the discouragement of Americans who have to wait hours for control and days or weeks. to the results.
An Associated Press analysis found that the number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states. That includes places like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa where the percentage of positive tests is high and continuing to climb, an indicator that the virus is still spreading uncontrolled.
In the midst of the crisis, some fitness officials are calling for the advent of another type of verification that would produce effects in minutes and would be reasonable and sufficient enough for millions of Americans to review themselves, but also less accurate.
“There’s a sense of depression that we want to do anything else,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute.
Widespread testing is essential to engage the epidemic as the United States approaches a gigantic five million infections and more than 1 to 7,000 deaths of more than 700,000 worldwide.
2:17 p.m. For Esther Adhiambo, this year was intended to be a year of end and new beginnings. She planned to finish high school, enroll in a university, and locate a task to help her single mother, who runs a small sewing business in The Matiro slum in Nairobi.
By contrast, for Adhiambo and other Kenyan academics, 2020 turns out to be the year it disappeared. Education officials announced in July that they would cancel the school year and force academics to repeat it. They are not expected to return to school until January, the same beginning of the school year in Kenya.
Education says Kenya is the only country that has gone so far as to claim a general wash throughout the school year and order academics to do it again.
2 p.m. There are 18 new instances shown, 1 probable case in Toronto today, says Dr. Eileen de Villa. She says the double digits are “good news.” It is too early to know what accumulation, if any, in cases would possibly be similar to the reopening of Stage 3 that began on Friday, however, says that more activity is expected. It is hoped that not because things are necessarily going wrong, but because the reopening brings us closer and that something is likely to accumulate in some cases, according to fitness experts.
2 p.m. As Ottawa and airlines communicate about tactile search, federal officials are analyzing the amount of data corporations deserve to provide and how knowledge deserves to flow.
Concerns about the level of detail airlines provide have been greatest in British Columbia, where the provincial health officer has lamented a lack of movement from federal officials.
Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said Tuesday there could be improvements to the data that airlines provide as part of efforts to trace the potential spread of COVID-19.
A federal government official tells The Canadian Press the issue revolves around information collected for domestic flights, with one of the hurdles being finding an agreement that satisfies all parties involved.
The official wasn’t authorized to speak on the record because efforts are being headed by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The federal health agency already requires airlines to provide information on travellers arriving on international flights who are subject to strict quarantine rules and Tam says there hasn’t been a confirmed case of in-flight transmission.
1:52 p.m. Florida reported 5,409 coVID-19 instances on Wednesday, leading the state to more than a million infections.
This makes Florida the post-California time between states where the disease has been diagnosed.
Florida now has 502,739 cases, while California fitness officials reported about 520,000 cases Tuesday.
The number of reported test results in Florida was under 61,000 for the third straight day, likely a result of numerous test sites closed due to Tropical Storm Isaias.
A total of 57,272 effects were recorded on Tuesday, up from 88,244 the previous week on July 28.
1:49 p.m. The number of new coronavirus infections in Spain continues to increase to 1,772 cases on Wednesday.
That since 1178 the day before. More than 60% of new instances have been detected in the northeastern regions of Madrid and Aragon. Two of the country’s 19 autonomous regions did not provide their figures.
New instances have been accumulated in Spain since a three-month blockade ended on 21 June. At the end of July, the daily accumulation exceeded 1,000. This has led other European countries to ask that Spanish travellers be quarantined on arrival.
Several parts of the country have imposed new restrictions on movement and impose masks.
Meanwhile, the government of the Canary Islands will be the first region in Spain to cover the expenses of tourists, both local and foreign, who test positive for coronavirus while on vacation in the archipelago.
The local government says an agreement has been reached with an insurance company for medical expenses, repatriation or prolonged remains if tourists are quarantined.
Spain has shown more than 305,000 cases and only 28,500 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
1:49 p.m. The French government raises the glass to the wine industry.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Wednesday 80 million euros ($95 million) in monetary aid to make a stopover on wine in the city of Sancerre, in central France. It adds to the aid already provided to the industry in May.
He says the aid will improve storage of surplus product and help unsold grapes be distilled into other materials. Winegrowers estimate that the coronavirus crisis has generated a shortfall of at least 1.5 billion euros due to the shutdown of bars, restaurants, festive gatherings and tourism.
1:30 p.m. Health officials reported no new deaths similar to COVID-19, however, 146 new instances were tested in British Columbia. A weekend.
Provincial fitness officer Dr. Bonnie Henry broke down the account of new cases, which took up a four-day period. From Friday to Saturday, 43 instances were registered, while from Saturday to Sunday 29 were registered, from Sunday to Monday 46 were registered, and from Monday to Tuesday, 28 new instances of COVID-19.
This weekend’s case numbers bring the total number of cases in the province to 3,787.
Dr. Henry said the number of instances over the long weekend is not unexpected, as we now see instances of other people exposed to occasions until two weeks ago.
“This is a concern, because the majority are related to what happened prior to this long weekend,” she said. “The source of these cases is varied, and as we’ve talked about many times, this is something that we take very seriously in public health. To track down and trace how everybody, every single case, became infected is important to us.”
Case counts continue to rise across the province, with multiple exposure events continuing to cause an impact. Interior Health is now reporting 377 cases total, 137 of which are linked to the Kelowna exposure events.
In a press release sent out last week, Interior Health noted they have changed the way they are reporting cases linked to the “Kelowna cluster”.
“We are currently seeing a broader network transmission, so we are expanding our reports to focus on all Kelowna-related instances of its exposure or infectious period,” reads in the press release.
The new report format replaces the total number of instances in Inner Health, but reclassifies many as related to the Kelowna cluster.
1:37 p.m. With the germination of new coronavirus groups abroad, the U.S. cruise industry. It’s extending its suspension of operations until October.
The Cruise Lines International Association, which represents more than 50 companies and 95% of ocean-going cruise capacity, said Wednesday that if conditions in the U.S. change, it would consider allowing short, modified sailings.
A no-sail order for U.S. waters initially issued by the Centers for Disease Control in March has been extended through Sept. 30. The CLIA has extended its travel suspension twice.
A Norwegian cruise line halted everything and apologized Monday after a coronavirus outbreak aboard an inflamed ship with at least five passengers and 36 team members. The health government fears that the ship has spread the virus to dozens of villages and villages along Norway’s west coast. The hurtigruten cruise line was one of the first to resume sailing in June, offering cruises from Germany to Norway.
Positive coronavirus tests have also been reported this week on cruise ships in Italy and Tahiti.
The risk of infection aboard a cruise ship is elevated because of the close quarters. Between March and July, there were 2,973 reported cases of COVID-19 or COVID-like illnesses about ships in U.S. waters, according to the CDC. As of July 10, there were still 14,702 crew members aboard 67 ships.
12:54 p.m. New Brunswick reports 4 new COVID-19 instances today.
Premier Blaine Higgs told reporters the cases involve temporary foreign workers who arrived from Mexico.
Higgs says they were identified during screening when they arrived in Moncton and they are now in isolation.
He says they were stationed for Miramichi, New Brunswick.
The new cases of the virus are the first reported in the province in over two weeks.
New Brunswick has had a total of 174 confirmed cases with 168 people recovered from the virus and two deaths.
12:13 p.m. Nova Scotia’s progressive Conservatives have launched an estimated $634 million plan into the province’s long-term care sector.
Chief Tim Houston said his party would quickly climb 2,500 rooms to a bed in the system, rent 2,000 nurses and nursing assistants, and identify a new additional investment option for subsistence if it eventually trained the government.
Houston says the COVID-19 pandemic has “highlighted” the importance of single rooms for citizens of long-term care services when it comes to controlling infections and slowing the disease in an institution.
Of the 64 deaths in Nova Scotia to date of the pandemic, 53 have occurred at the Northwood Long Term Care Centre in Halifax, an older centre with no single rooms.
Houston says he’s also submitted a proposal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking federal support for a further 1,000 single-bed rooms.
11:50 a.m. Time and food for two pandas is up at the Calgary Zoo.
Er Shun and Da Mao arrived in Calgary in 2018 after spending five years at the Toronto Zoo and were to remain in the Alberta city until 2023.
Calgary Zoo president Clement Lanthier says the facility spent months trying to overcome transportation barriers in acquiring fresh bamboo and decided in May that it was best for the animals to be in China, where their main food source is abundant.
But he says the Zoo hasn’t been able to approve international permits, as the COVID-19 pandemic created changes to import laws and animal quarantine facilities.
Lanthier says the continued travel delay is putting the health and welfare of the animals in jeopardy.
He says the zoo is only able to source fresh bamboo reliably from British Columbia, and that supply is expected to run out in September.
11:43 a.m. Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google.
The Covidwise app was available on the tech giants’ app stores Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.
“We’re using every possible approach to fight this virus and keep Virginians healthy,” Northam said in a statement provided to AP that encouraged all Virginians to download the app. “The COVIDWISE app is completely anonymous, protects personal privacy, and gives you an additional tool to protect yourself and your community.”
It comes nearly four months after Apple and Google said they were partnering on creating app-building software for public health agencies trying to contain the spread of the pandemic. Canada and a number of European countries have already rolled out apps using the tech companies’ framework.
11:25 a.m. Turkey’s interior ministry announced new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus after daily confirmed cases peaked back above 1,000.
The interior ministry says its units will conduct “one-on-one monitoring” for people who have been required to self-quarantine, especially in the first seven days of isolation.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted a widespread inspection will take place across Turkey Thursday. The ministry also says contact tracers will be assisted by law enforcement or teachers and imams in smaller settlements.
It says it won’t accept any violations of mask wearing and social distancing at events such as weddings or circumcision ceremonies. Gatherings after funerals will be restricted.
Businesses and transportation meeting safety requirements will be awarded a “safe space” logo after three inspections.
Latest statistics show nearly 235,000 confirmed infections and 5,765 deaths in Turkey.
11:37 a.m. Chicago’s mayor on Wednesday announced that the U.S.’s third-largest school district will not welcome students back to the classroom, after all, and will instead rely only on remote instruction to start the school year.
The city’s decision to abandon its plan to have students attend in-person classes for two days a week once the fall semester starts Sept. 8 came amid strong pushback from the powerful teachers union and as school districts around the country struggle with how to teach their children during the coronavirus pandemic.
When Chicago officials announced their hybrid-learning plan last month, they said it was subject to change depending on families’ feedback and how the coronavirus was faring in the area.
On Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot attributed the change in plans to a recent uptick in confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city.
11:28 a.m. Quebec added 155 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the total number of people infected to 60,000.
The province also added two deaths, for a total of 5,687 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The Health Department reports two fewer patients in hospital for 167, with 19 of those in intensive care, also a reduction of two.
11:25 a.m. In South Carolina, hospitals and the state health department say demand for coronavirus testing remains high even as testing numbers have dipped in the last two weeks.
In some cases, people may be deterred by the long wait times at certain testing sites. Others forego the tests when their health insurance won’t cover them, says Dr. Patrick Cawley, CEO of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Cawley told a state legislative committee Tuesday insurance companies typically don’t pay for tests for asymptomatic patients. It’s one of the biggest barriers to people getting tested in the state, Cawley says.
Health officials announced 1,168 new confirmed cases and 52 confirmed deaths Tuesday. The state has reported 93,604 confirmed cases and 1,774 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
11:25 a.m. Arizona officials say 517 inmates at the state prison in Tucson tested positive Tuesday for the coronavirus.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry says nearly half of the prisoners housed at the Whetstone unit have tested positive for the virus. The cases among inmates in the prison’s Whetstone unit were discovered in a push to test all 39,000 state prisoners.
Officials say 564 corrections employees have tested positive for the virus
Before corrections officials discovered the cases at the Whetstone unit, the agency reported 890 other inmates had tested positive and 21 inmates had died statewide.
Arizona has 180,500 confirmed cases and more than 3,800 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
11:23 a.m. The federal government is moving ahead with plans to make it easier for provinces and territories to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure projects to address the challenges posed by COVID-19.
Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says $3.3 billion out of the $33 billion that Ottawa has previously promised in matching funds for provincial and territorial projects will be available for projects related to the pandemic.
Those projects include retrofits to public buildings such as schools and long-term care facilities, measures related to physical distancing such as new bike and walking paths and those designed to protect against floods and wildfires.
McKenna says the federal government plans to introduce a faster application process for provinces and territories to apply for federal funds, with Ottawa footing up to 80 per cent of the bills for approved projects.
The new approach comes as most provinces are looking at re-opening schools in the next month and trying to guard against new outbreaks of COVID-19 at nursing homes.
While the measure is expected to be welcomed by provinces and territories, each must sign an agreement with the federal government before it can apply for funding.
10:30 a.m. For the third consecutive day and fifth time in the last week, Ontario is reporting fewer than 100 cases of COVID-19, with 86 new cases today, a 0.2% increase, Health Minister Christine Elliott reported on Twitter. With 146 more resolved, we also continue to see a persistent decline in the number of active cases in the province. Hospitalizations continue to decline. Locally, 29 of the province’s 34 public health units are reporting five or fewer cases, with fully 22 of them reporting no new cases at all.
10:28 a.m. An antibody study by Quebec’s blood collection agency has concluded that about 2.23 per cent of the province’s adult blood donors had contracted COVID-19.
The seroprevalence study by Hema-Quebec and the province’s public health institute tested the blood of 7,691 people between the ages of 18 and 69 who donated blood between May 25 and July 9.
When extrapolated to the rest of the population, the study estimated that some 124,800 adults contracted the virus since the pandemic began.
The Quebec government reported some 37,000 cases for the 20 to 69 age group in the same period.
The study revealed that the highest rates of infection were found in Montreal and Laval, with just over three per cent, while in most of the rest of the province the rate was much lower at 1.29 per cent.
Authorities will contact the donors who had COVID-19 antibodies to document their symptoms in order to estimate how many of them were asymptomatic.
10:11 a.m. A provincial supreme court judge says a civil rights group can participate in a court challenge of Newfoundland and Labrador’s COVID-19 travel ban, but not make arguments about enforcement measures.
Justice Donald Burrage rendered his decision today in St. John’s on the second day of proceedings.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed a claim along with Halifax resident Kim Taylor in May that alleges the restrictions violate the charter and fall outside the province’s jurisdiction.
Burrage granted the association public interest standing to make legal arguments about the ban itself.
The special measures order from the province’s chief medical officer of health in May banned anyone but permanent residents and asymptomatic essential workers from entering the province.
But Burrage denied the group standing to challenge changes to the province’s Public Health Protection and Promotion Act, also adopted in May, that allows peace officers to detain and transport people to exit points in the province and expands their search powers.
A lawyer for the province argued Tuesday that there is no evidence related to the enforcement powers because they have not been applied to anyone, including Taylor.
The association’s lawyer, however, said the measures are unconstitutional on their face.
The province has defended the ban as being necessary to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
10 a.m. Canada is signing deals with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and U.S.-based biotech firm Moderna to procure millions of doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccines.
Procurement Minister Anita Anand is announcing the deals this morning in Toronto, which will see Canada get access to the vaccines if they prove to be both safe and effective.
Both companies began Phase 3 clinical trials of their vaccine candidates in the last week, large-scale tests to determine how well the vaccines work.
Earlier in July both Pfizer and Moderna reported positive results from smaller trials.
The Phase 3 trials will both test the vaccines on 30,000 people, and results are expected in the fall.
Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam warned Tuesday about expecting a vaccine to provide a quick end to the pandemic, saying they provide hope but likely no silver bullet for the novel coronavirus.
9:47 a.m. Pfizer Canada and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the government of Canada to supply their BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV2, subject to clinical success and Health Canada approval.
Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed, but the terms were based on the timing of delivery and the volume of doses. As requested by the Government of Canada, deliveries of the vaccine candidate are planned for over the course of 2021.
“We continue to be committed to partnering with the Canadian government to help fight this pandemic and are pleased with their collaborative approach to addressing a national COVID-19 immunization strategy with public health officials,” said Cole C. Pinnow, President, Pfizer Canada. “With our combined efforts, we know there is no health challenge that we cannot address.”
“As the development of effective COVID-19 vaccines continues around the world, we commend the work of Pfizer and BioNTech, which will provide Canadians access to a vaccine candidate for the virus. This agreement is another critical step in our government’s efforts to keep Canadians safe and healthy as the pandemic continues to evolve,” said Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement.
9 a.m. The Star has found that Transport Canada is relying on scant peer-reviewed scientific evidence regarding the spread of COVID-19 on airplanes in its decision not to mandate social distancing on commercial flights.
When asked for the scientific evidence guiding its recommendations to airlines, Transport Canada initially provided none, saying only that safety measures are “based on the best available science and evidence.”
When pressed by the Star for that evidence, the agency provided just one peer-reviewed study looking at an outbreak of COVID-19 that affected 16 passengers on a flight from Singapore to Hangzhou, China, in late January. The study concluded that one passenger may have become infected on the flight.
Read the full story from the Star’s Kenyon Wallace: Is flying safe during COVID-19? Here’s the scant bit of scientific evidence Transport Canada is relying on
9 a.m. Even though Public Safety Minister Bill Blair asked prison and parole officials this spring to consider releasing low-risk inmates early due to the threat posed by COVID-19, there was no increase in the number of prisoners released during the first three months of the pandemic compared to a year earlier.
In fact, there were slightly fewer inmates released, according to new information obtained by the Star.
The federal inmate population nationwide did fall by about 600 — from 13,958 on March 1 to 13,357 on May 24, show records from the Correctional Service of Canada.
But the decline is attributed not to a rise in inmate releases but to “releases from federal custody continuing to outnumber admissions,” according to the records. In other words, the drop appears to have been driven more by court shutdowns and fewer offenders being sentenced.
Read the full story from the Star’s Douglas Quan: Remember the chatter about releasing inmates early to ease spread of COVID-19? It didn’t happen
8:52 a.m. The Netherlands’ two most populous cities began ordering people to wear face masks in busy streets Wednesday amid rising coronavirus infection rates, but many people in the Dutch capital’s famous red-light district still did not wear them.
Police in Rotterdam said a number of people opposed to the mask order staged a protest in the downtown area where masks became obligatory.
Amsterdam ordered masks to be worn in the red-light district and busy shopping streets and markets. Many visitors to the narrow lanes and canal-side roads of the historic neighbourhood ignored the instructions, despite signs informing people of the new measure.
Municipality workers stood at the entrance to one downtown Amsterdam shopping street wearing signs saying in Dutch and English that masks were required and handing them out to people who didn’t have one.
The Dutch capital’s local health authority said around 5% of people who got a test over the last week were positive, more than double the 2% from the previous week.
Among clusters being tracked in the city was one at a strip club in the red-light district where at least one customer and 10 staff have tested positive, according to a statement from the health authority. The owner voluntarily closed the club.
8:46 a.m. Lockdown restrictions have been reimposed in the Scottish city of Aberdeen after a coronavirus “cluster” was reported.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says all hospitality venues in the city need to be closed by end of business Wednesday. Those living in the area should not travel more than five miles unless for work or essential trips. People are asked not to go into other houses.
Sturgeon says the cluster of 54 cases have been traced to a bar but more than 20 other pubs and restaurants are involved. The rise in cases has contributed to a greater concern there was a significant outbreak in the city.
The restrictions will be reviewed next Wednesday and may be extended, if necessary.
8:46 a.m. New Zealand’s unemployment rate showed a surprising improvement to 4% during the midst of the nation’s virus lockdown, although the headline number doesn’t tell the full story and joblessness is likely to increase in the months ahead.
However, the figure is much higher than the maximum that other people expected and came here as good news for the government through Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern before next month’s general election.
New Zealand statistics show that the unemployment rate for the quarter ending in June fell by 4.2% in the last quarter. But the number of hours worked also reduced by a record 10% and increased the number of other inactive people.
Since other people who are not actively looking for paintings are not considered unemployed, the figures do not reflect many job losses, as most people were unable to look for paintings on the closure. And many employees have been protected through a government-funded wage subsidy scheme for the pandemic that will expire next month.
8:46 A governor in Japan is filing a skeptical complaint after promoting a garganty product as cash against coronavirus, a claim that, despite his doubts, has emptied some shelves from pharmacies.
Shares of Shionogi & Co. and Meiji Holdings Co., which make Isojin, soared in Tokyo Tuesday trading after Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura made the comments.
Yoshimura referred to an examination conducted through the Osaka regional government on a pattern of only 41 people. Experts said such an examination is inconclusive.
Shionogi and Meiji’s shares were already down on Wednesday, while subsequent Japanese media reports discredited Yoshimura’s claim.
Daily confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been shooting up in Japan, to more than 1,000 people.
8:46 a.m., Mexico on Tuesday released a near-record total of 857 recently shown COVID-19 deaths, raising the number of deaths in the country to 48,869, the third number in the world.
The Ministry of Health reported that just over one million coronavirus tests have been performed, and that to date, nearly 450,000 people tested positive.
Mexico has had a positive rate of about 45% to 50% since the first few weeks of the pandemic, largely because the maximum of others has only been tested after presenting abundant symptoms.
8:46 a.m. Hong Kong reported 80 new coVID-19 instances and 4 more deaths, while new instances in mainland China fell to just 27.
Hong Kong has noticed cases shooting in a new wave of infections, however, new cases have now receded by double digits.
Authorities in the semi-autonomous Chinese city have ordered masks be worn in all public places, slapped restrictions on indoor dining, banned many activities and increased testing for coronavirus. Hong Kong has recorded a total of 3,669 cases and 42 deaths from COVID-19.
Of mainland China’s cases, 22 were in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital and largest city Urumqi has been the centre of China’s latest outbreak. China has reported 4,634 deaths among 84,491 cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
China said Tuesday it was working with the World Health Organization on an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but gave no word on when that would get underway.
8:46 a.m. Nevada health officials say 95% of the 980 new coronavirus cases reported statewide during the last day were in the Las Vegas area.
State coronavirus response officials said Tuesday that Clark County residents accounted for 931 of the positive COVID-19 tests reported. Confirmed cases statewide topped 52,000, and 15 more deaths brought Nevada’s total to at least 862.
Separately, the governor’s office issued a report tallying $16.7 billion in federal coronavirus funding to Nevada since Congress approved a $2.2 trillion emergency aid bill in March.
The report says nearly $2.2 billion went toward $600-per-week payments to idled workers statewide.
8:46 a.m. President Donald Trump says more Americans will be lost to COVID-19.
Trump was interviewed on a Fox Business Network on Tuesday. Trump said the relationship has been “very badly hurt” by the spread of the coronavirus and he repeated his belief China should have contained it.
The president noted the American death toll, saying somewhat prematurely that 160,000 had died from the disease caused by the virus. He told host Lou Dobbs: “We’re going to lose more.”
Trump added that millions would have been lost had he not intervened and “just let it ride.’
The U.S. death told from COVID-19 stood at more than 156,000 on Tuesday evening.
8:46 A technical challenge has caused a delay in counting the effects of coronavirus in California, which calls into question the accuracy of recent knowledge showing an improvement in infection rate and hinders efforts to track spread.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said Tuesday that in recent days, California has not earned a full count of electronic lab reports due to the unresolved problem.
The state’s data page now carries a disclaimer saying the numbers represent an underreporting of actual positive cases per day.
The latest daily tally posted Tuesday showed 4,526 new confirmed positives, the lowest in more than six weeks.
7:18 A cruise ship with more than two hundred people docked at a Norwegian port on Wednesday and ordered everyone to remain on board after a passenger from one past tested positive for coronavirus on his return to Denmark.
Bodoe Mayor Ida Pinneroed told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that the SeaDream 1’s 85 crew members would all be tested for the virus and that authorities were in contact with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health on whether the 123 passengers should be as well.
“We take each other very seriously,” the mayor said.
The Norway-based company that owns the ship, SeaDream Yacht Club, said the former passenger had no symptoms of COVID-19 during the earlier voyage and had travelled home from Tromsoe on Aug. 2. The person underwent a routine virus test upon arrival in Denmark and it came back positive on Tuesday.
All the other passengers from the infected individual’s trip must self-isolate for 10 days, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said.
7:13 a.m. The World Health Organization is sending dozens of senior experts to South Africa to help the nation deal with the world’s fifth-highest number of coronavirus infections.
South Africa has shown more than a million cases of COVID-19 and expects the first wave of infections to peak by the end of August, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize told reporters. WHO is responding to a request for assistance by finishing 43 specialists, many of whom arrived on Wednesday, he said.
While South Africa has had reduced hospital admissions in recent weeks and its official virus death toll of 8,884 people is relatively low, medical researchers have found a discrepancy between the country’s confirmed COVID-19 fatalities and the number of excess natural deaths.
6:57 a.m. The Australian hot spot at Victoria on Wednesday announced a record 725 coVID-19 instances and 15 kills, while businesses in melbourne city were ready to close as new pandemic restrictions were implemented.
The 24-hour record was marginally higher than the 723 cases and 13 deaths reported last Thursday.
From late Wednesday, many non-essential businesses including most detail retailers, hair-dressers and gyms in Australia’s second-largest city will be closed for six weeks. People employed in essential jobs will have to carry passes under Australia’s toughest-ever lockdown restrictions.
Like Melbourne hospitals, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews announced that non-emergency surgeries will be restricted in hospitals in regional Victoria, where infections rates are lower.
“It will be very difficult, but it’s to lower those numbers,” Andrews said of the new restrictions.
He added that “the ion of more than 700 instances is sustainable.”
An online page of the Victorian government crashed wednesday when it hit through a must-have service staff who applied for an income that would allow them to leave their homes to paintings from Thursday.
6:57 a.m. India has reported more than 50,000 new instances of coronavirus for the eighth consecutive day, resulting in more than 1.9 million instances shown in the country since the start of the pandemic. The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday an increase of 52,509 new instances and 857 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The ministry said India’s cure rate among COVID-19 patients had reached 66.31%. It also stated that a record of 661,892 samples had been verified in the last 24 hours, bringing cumulative control to more than 2 million. He also said that 50% of deaths occurred in the organization aged 60 and over, 37% of deaths in the organization aged 45 to 60, and 11% in the organization aged 26 to 44. In gender distribution, 68% of the deceased were men and 32% were women.
6:47 a.m. Novavax Inc.’s shares have experienced massive fluctuations in long-term operations, as investors have critically looked at the first knowledge of their experimental vaccine opposed to COVID-19 after a 3800% uptick in inventory this year.
The shares fell to 34% after Tuesday’s market, before reducing the decline. Operating before normal Wednesday hours, they went up 21 percent.
The two-injection regimen when administered concurrently with Novavax’s immune-boosting technology generated antibody responses that were four times higher than those seen in people who had recovered from the disease. Some of the healthy adults in the study experienced side effects including fever, headache and fatigue.
Confusion about vaccine knowledge occurred after a media report incorrectly indicated that trial participants had been hospitalized for severe reactions. The vaccine appears to be present in more than a hundred patients who have won it, according to the company. Reactions to the shooting were sometimes mild for two days or less. One patient who received the vaccine had a mild skin infection that was found not to be related to the vaccine.
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The speed of the new instances decreased from Tuesday’s record of 680 to 48,789, mainly in the southern coal region of Silesia and in a poultry processing company in the western district of Wielkopolska.
The government expects about six hundred new instances per day over the next period, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said Wednesday. The government will soon announce new restrictions, adding restaurants and marriages, to combat the epidemic in 20 affected countries, he said.
4:10 a.m. Nearly a portion of Canadians would have elections if the federal control body finds that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has violated the Conflict of Interest Act for the WE charity case, according to a new survey.
The Léger and Association of Canadian Studies polls also suggest that the WE controversy took a bite out of Trudeau’s popularity as well as that of the federal Liberal Party, putting conservatives on the success of the victory.
“For me, those numbers will worry or worry liberals right now because even though it’s summer, it raises a lot of eyebrows,” Léger’s executive vice president Christian Bourque said.
The online survey of 1,531 Canadian adults took place from July 31 to August 2, in the days following Trudeau’s appearance before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about the WE agreement. You can’t be given a margin of error because Internet surveys aren’t actually thought to be random.
The effects of the survey occur when the federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion investigates Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau for violating conflict-of-interest regulations regarding the government’s ruling to grant WE a single source contract to administer $912. volunteer student program.
4 a.m. A Canadian company is telling the government Wednesday that its trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on animals completely blocked the virus, but it must conduct human trials to know whether it has found a possible cure for the pandemic.
And a leading fitness care expert says the effects are promising even if they haven’t been peer-reviewed.
Providence Therapeutics says it needs federal funding to move forward, but it has not heard back from the Trudeau government since May, the month after submitting a $35-million proposal to conduct first-stage human trials.
Providence has told the government it could deliver five million doses of its new vaccine by mid-2021 for use in Canada if it were able to successfully complete human testing, but it has heard nothing.
Eric Marcusson, the San Francisco-based co-founder of Providence and its chief science officer, says the company has concluded testing on mice that showed its vaccine was able to block the entry of the novel coronavirus into their cells.
4 a.m. Wednesday A new study suggests Canadians, especially women, will face a potentially explosive increase in mental illness for years after the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over.
In the long run, Deloitte’s test estimates that emergency room visits for stress and anxiety disorders will accumulate from one to three, according to pre-pandemic penny-to-pandemic rates.
In addition, it is estimated that between 6.3 and 10.7 million Canadians will seek medical attention for intellectual fitness disorders, a massive accumulation of 54 to 163 consistent with a penny above pre-pandemic levels.
The consulting company says governments deserve to fund intellectual fitness services, suppliers deserve to prepare for demand, and insurance corporations deserve to review policy options.
Estimates are based on research into what happened in the years following the Fort McMurray chimney in 2016, which forced the evacuation of another 88,000 people and destroyed more than 2,400 homes in Alberta.
It is also based on long-term research that has an effect on Canadians on the “Great Recession” of 2008-09, a global economic collapse that was not as profound or as lasting as expected effect on the COVID-19 crisis.
Wednesday 12:05 p.m. The Walt Disney Company lost nearly $5 billion (USA) In April, May and June, while their theme parks were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a presentation made by Disney executives on Tuesday.
It cost the company $3.5 billion (U.S.) just to close the parks during the third quarter, on top of the $1 billion (U.S.) it cost to shut them down the second half of March.
In all, the company posted a loss of nearly $5 billion (U.S.) for the third quarter, including a $2 billion (U.S.) loss in its parks, experiences and products segment.
Disney’s domestic parks — Disney World and Disneyland, as well as Disneyland Paris, resorts and cruise operations were closed for the entirety of the quarter and the final two weeks of the previous quarter.
“This is a very dubious moment,” CEO Bob Chapek said tuesday in an online broadcast of the effects. “We deserve to be in a smart way once customer trust returns.”
7:30 p.m.: The Minister of Health of B.C. urges citizens to attend parties and personal meetings after the recent accumulation in instances of COVID-19 in the province.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said many of the most recent cases come from such occasions and the numbers are a reminder that other people will have to comply with public fitness regulations this summer.
British Columbia’s most sensible doctor, Bonnie Henry, says transmission remains low and citizens want to make sure it stays.
She says the non-unusual points in many of the most recent cases are talking, laughing and sharing drinks and food, especially indoors, as well as spending time in crowded areas.
In a briefing tuesday, Henry reported that 146 new instances of COVID-19 were detected since Friday and that there have been no more deaths.
Active instances increased to 319, while another 3,273 people recovered from the disease.
5:45 p.m.: from 5:00 p.m. On Tuesday, Ontario’s regional health offices reported a total of 41,682 reported or likely cases of COVID-19, 2,820 deaths, versus 125 new infections in 24 hours.
The expansion in instances across the province included a spike in Chatham-Kent, which on Tuesday reported 40 new instances for the 3 days of the long civic weekend.
Along with Southwestern Public Health, Chatham-Kent is one of two Ontario fitness sets that is lately experiencing its rate of case expansion since the onset of the pandemic.
Elsewhere, cases continue to decline and the province is at its lowest rate of new infections since before the pandemic peaked in Ontario in the spring.
Ontario has averaged 98 instances consistent with the day over the past seven days, to a peak of approximately six hundred consistent with the day in mid-April.
Meanwhile, three fatal cases were reported, two in Toronto and one in Simcoe-Muskoka.
The star count includes some patients reported as “maximum likely” cases of COVID-19, meaning they have symptoms and contacts or background that imply that they are maximum maximums likely inflamed with the disease and have not yet gained a positive laboratory test.
The province warns that its separate data, published daily at 10:30 a.m., may be incomplete or replaced due to delays in the reporting system, stating that in case of discrepancy, “data reported through (health units) should be considered as the maximum updated”.
Read Tuesday’s evolving dossier