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Operations resumed at the world’s largest gold mine in Indonesia, the company running it said, after staff blocked the site to protest that they could not visit their families due to virus problems.
Miners at the Grasberg complex in the country’s eastern component of Papua reached an agreement with US operator Freeport, who said he would resume bus transportation for staff to return home. This week, more than 1,000 employees demonstrated on the mine’s main front of the mine over the resolution of cancelling the bus to Timika city in reaction to considerations of the spread of coronavirus infections. Many staff members had been unable to leave the site, a high-altitude open pit mine that is also a primary copper mine, for six months.
Several buses left the mine on Friday night, dressed in those who had been granted permission, said local corporate spokesman Kerry Yarangga.
Azerbaijan has extended some restrictions on the blocking of coronavirus, adding the closure of its borders, until 31 September after an additional increase in the number of infections, the government said.
Azerbaijan, which has noticed a build-up of coronavirus cases between 130 and 180 in recent weeks, will reopen museums and exhibition halls from 1 September, the government announced.
But grocery malls will remain closed and public shipping will be limited as long as the cross-region ban is maintained, the government said.
Azerbaijan took action against coronavirus on 24 March and has continually prolonged them.
The south Caucasus country of about 10 million other people had recorded 35,986 cases of the new coronavirus and 527 deaths on Saturday.
A German regional court has given the go-ahead to the planned mass protests in Berlin opposed to the coronavirus brakes, ruling against the capital’s ban on such demonstrations.
The police, who have deployed 3,000 officials to control crowds expected to succeed in 20,000, are ready for the violence imaginable as antivirus activists urge social media fanatics across Europe to arm themselves and gather in Berlin.
So far, Germany has controlled the coronavirus crisis more than many of its European counterparts, with rigorous assistance involving infections and deaths.
But new infections have accelerated in recent weeks, as in much of the world.
Indonesia reported its increased accumulation of new coronavirus infections for the third day in a row, the Ministry of Health said.
Saturday’s 3,308 cases raise Indonesia’s number of infections to 169,195, while 92 new deaths have brought their death toll to 7,261, according to the website.
The 107th Tour de France starts in Nice, but even the magnificent scenery of the Cote d’Azur in the south of France masks the fact that it is a festival that has been deeply altered by the pandemic.
After a strong accumulation of coronavirus infections in France, restrictions have intensified again.
Only an incredibly limited number of spectators will attend the race, as the Cote d’Azur region is now designated as a “red zone”, a hot spot for the virus.
Initially, 5,000 spectators were allowed to watch. Today, a few dozen have the honor of taking on the start and end of the first stage.
Ukraine has recorded a record 2,481 cases of new coronaviruses in more than 24 hours, it said Saturday, up from 2,438 the previous day.
The increase comes after Ukraine this week imposed a transitional ban on the maximum entry of foreigners into the country until 28 September and extended the blocking measures until the end of October to involve a recent increase in cases.
The country has reported a total of 116,987 infections and 2,492 deaths from the virus.
Russia said 111 other people had been killed by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 17025.
Russia’s Coronavirus Working Group reported 4941 new cases, bringing its national level to 985346, the fourth number of cases in the world.
Namibia will lift the blocking restrictions, which will allow the reopening of foreign travel and alcohol intake on the floor from September, President Hage Geingob announced, but has prolonged the curfew overnight as COVID-19 cases continue to increase.
The southern African country of two million other people now has 6,906 cases of COVID-19 and the disease has not yet decreased: of its 65 deaths, 55 were in August alone.
But as with other southern African countries, leaders are assessing the effect of the virus on the enormous economic and social damage caused by the closures.
India has reported 76472 new cases of coronavirus, below the record number of more than two days, but it follows a series that has made the epidemic in the country the worst in the world.
India reported a total of 3.46 million pandemic cases, a number that puts it behind the United States and Brazil in terms of the total number of cases.
However, the South Asian country reported higher increases in one day in cases than those two countries for approximately two weeks.
The death toll in India has risen from 1,021 to 62,550, according to the knowledge of the federal Ministry of Health, even though local media have reported that some national restrictions may be reduced from next week.
The state of Maharashtra in western India, home to India’s monetary capital, Mumbai, recorded 331 deaths, the largest accumulation of a day of any state in the following two days.
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 5,824 new cases of coronavirus infections and 552 more deaths, bringing the total to 585,738 cases and 63,146 deaths.
The government has stated that the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
Malaysia has extended its movement restrictions on the occasion of a pandemic, adding a ban to foreign tourists until the end of the year.
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in a televised confrontation that global bodies were on the rise and that the country had noticed sporadic virus groups even though the stage was under control.
Malaysia has recorded more than 9,000 cases and deaths.
The Australian state of Victoria recorded its lowest accumulation of new coronavirus cases in nearly two months, but the government warned that there would be no rush to lift restrictions on social distance.
State officials reported 94 new COVID-19 infections and 18 deaths on Saturday. This is the first time the number of new daily instances has fallen below one hundred in 8 weeks and a stable downward trajectory continues this week.
“Every day we see that strategy works is a smart day, but we just want a little more time to be sure that we’re defeating this and that we can gradually, regularly and safely open up,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said at a televised press conference.
A court in the German capital, Berlin, has upheld an earlier ruling in which the mild weekend protests against the restrictions of coronavirus took place in reaction to a police appeal.
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Authorities announced the ban this week after an occasion organized through the same organizers this month stopped because the tens of thousands of participants were not wearing masks or did not maintain the required distance from each other.
Argentina recorded new cases of coronavirus on Friday, its highest jump, but the government continued its plans to ease lockout measures.
“Today we can take the next step by allowing meetings of up to 10 more people outdoors, keeping the distance of two meters and using a mask. This will indeed be the country,” President Alberto Fernandez said in a statement. TV address.
Pandemic restrictions in the country began on March 20. The new, quieter regulations are expected to last at least until September 20.
Colombia’s most sensible football league will resume betting in September, Sports Minister Ernesto Lucena said Friday that matches are played without spectators.
The league suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Today, the good news for Colombia is that no later than the third week of September we will have football,” Lucena said on President Ivan Duque’s night tv show. “It will be behind closed doors – as we have said from the beginning – there will be no capacity for the public.”
Researchers in Nevada have reported what could be the first documented case of coronavirus reinfection in the United States, following previous reports this week from Hong Kong and Europe.
A 25-year-old Reno man with mild COVID-19 symptoms was first inflamed with the virus in April, recovered and tested negative twice, and tested positive for his back in June. He was much sicker at the time, with pneumonia that required hospitalization and oxygen treatment.
The effects have still been published or reviewed through other scientists, but have been published on a study site.
Scientists at the University of Nevada, the Reno School of Medicine, and the Nevada State Laboratory of Public Health said they would show through complicated genetic testing that the virus related to each of Reno’s human infection examples represented genetically other strains.
The case “should cement in our minds that there is no such thingArray … how “invulnerability” to the virus, even if it already had it, said Mark Pandori, director of the Nevada Public Health Laboratory.
“You can get healthy again and this disease can be serious.”
Most U.S. states have rejected the new COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), News firm Reuters reported, to a move that public fitness experts said showed a growing distrust of pandemic management through the recommendations of the U.S. president. , Donald Trump. Administration.
At least 33 states continue to propose tests to others who have been exposed to COVID-19 and have no symptoms, rejecting rules published through the CDC this week that testing would likely be unnecessary.
Reuters said 16 states had not responded to comment requests and North Dakota said it had not made a decision.
A Brazilian court has ruled out Wilson Witzel, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, for alleged corruption in the procurement of medical materials and services.
In a journalist, the governor described his 180-day suspension through a federal framework as a politically motivated “circus” led by a prosecutor linked to President Jair Bolsonaro’s circle of relatives and on the basis of false testimony from his former form secretary.
Along with the court’s decision, federal police arrested nine other people and carried out 83 raids against Witzel affiliates friday as part of their investigation, prosecutors said.
Canada is extending restrictions on travelers arriving in the country for another month to combat the spread of COVID-19, Public Security Minister Bill Blair announced on Twitter.
Canadian citizens and returning permanent citizens will remain subject to strict quarantine measures, he added.
Arrivals in Canada must last 40 days.
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera ongoing on the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Zaheena Rasheed in Male, Maldives.
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