International coronavirus cases have exceeded 20.4 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 12.7 million people have recovered and more than 745,000 have died.
Here are the updates:
Kazakhstan will ease its restrictions on coronaviruses from August 17, the government said citing the taSS news firm.
UK employers have published the number of vacant positions since the country entered its coronavirus blockade in March, according to a survey.
Total job openings rose to 126,000 between August 3 and 9 to August 1.10 million, the Confederation of Recruitment and Employment (REC) said.
However, the total number of vacant positions remained well below the 1.35 million that were active in early March, before the lockout, REC said.
Seven African countries will begin administering coronavirus antibody tests starting next week, a regional firm said Thursday, as part of efforts to extend the epidemic on the continent.
“Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Nigeria and Morocco are the first country organization to pursue it,” said John Nkengasong, director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Addis Ababa.
Western governments conduct antibody tests to determine how many of their citizens have been infected, hoping this will help them reopen their economies.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 25 more coronavirus infections and 3 more deaths on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 905, with 20 deaths.
More than 430 of the total cases are due to the central city of Danang, where the new outbreak began last month.
The ministry said 133,340 more people were quarantined in the country, adding 5,361 in hospitals, 25,043 in centralized quarantine centers and the rest at home.
The Finnish government supports the government’s new public skills council to wear masks on public transport and in other conditions where social estrangement is possible, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said.
The health government reported 41 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, a record since last May, bringing the total to 7,683 since the start of the pandemic.
Prior to Thursday, Finland did not officially have the use of masks.
French unemployment fell to a 37-year low this quarter as a multi-year downtrend was exaggerated through a coronavirus block that prevented other people from looking for work, showed knowledge of statistics firm Insee.
The unemployment rate fell to 7.1 percent from 7.8 percent in the first quarter, falling to its lowest point since the 1983 quarter, when it was 7 percent.
INSEE warned that awareness of unemployment during the first two quarters of 2020 was distorted by the blockade from mid-March to mid-May, which reduced the number of other persons classified as unemployed by preventing them from employment.
The Philippine Ministry of Health reported 4,002 new coronavirus infections and 23 more deaths in the country.
In a bulletin, the ministry said the total number of cases shown in the Philippines had increased to 147,526 in Southeast Asia, while the deaths shown had reached 2,426.
The Philippines plans to launch clinical trials for a Russian coronavirus vaccine in October after Russia becomes the first country to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, raising considerations on protecting the rapid speed of its development.
Indonesia has reported 2098 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 132816, according to the knowledge of the country’s Ministry of Health.
Knowledge also showed 65 more deaths, bringing the total to 5968.
A Malaysian court has jailed an Indian for five months for violating a home quarantine order, in dozens of new coronavirus infections, state news firm Bernama reported.
The 57-year-old man, who lives in Malaysia and owns a place to eat in the northern state of Kedah, pleaded guilty to four counts of violating a mandatory 14-day home quarantine order when he returned from India in July.
He was also fined 12,000 ringgit ($2,864) by the Alor Setar Magistrate’s Court, which held a special hearing at a Kedah hospital where the accused was undergoing treatment, Bernama reported.
Hong Kong reported 69 new cases of coronavirus, 65 of which were transmitted locally, while the government warned that the global monetary center still faces a critical era for the virus, which has noticed a resurgence since early July.
Since the end of January, more than 4,200 others have become inflamed in Hong Kong, 65 of whom have died. Thursday’s figure rose from 62 on Wednesday.
Nearly 6% of others in England were probably inflamed with COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic, researchers who read the prevalence of infections, millions more than those who tested positive for the disease, said.
A total of 313,798 other people tested positive for COVID-19 in the UK, adding 270,971 in England.
However, a study that evaluated more than 100,000 people in England to detect antibodies against coronavirus showed that nearly 6% of other people had antibodies, suggesting that 3.4 million other people already had COVID-19s by the end of June.
The prevalence of infections gave the impression of being higher in London, where 13% of other people had antibodies, while minority ethnic teams were two to three times more likely to have had COVID-19 than whites.
Russia reported 5057 new cases of the new coronavirus, bringing its national level to 907758, the fourth number of cases in the world.
The Russian Working Group on Coronavirus said 124 more people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing their official death toll to 15384.
The United States, Brazil, India and Russia are currently the worst-hit countries in the world.
The closest fit to the coronavirus discovered in horseshoe bats in Yunnan, southern China. Thailand has 19 species of horseshoe bats, but researchers said they had not yet been tested for the new coronavirus.
The Team at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Health Sciences of the Thai Red Cross took saliva, blood and stool samples from bats before releasing them. Read more.
07:25 GMT – Limited tests? Rwandan researchers have an idea
They use a set of rules to fine-tune the organization’s verification process, which verifies batches of samples of people’s equipment and then checks the user separately only if a safe batch tests positive for COVID-19. Grouped checks retain infrequent check materials.
According to the researchers, Rwanda’s mathematical technique makes this procedure more efficient. This is a credit for emerging countries with limited resources, where other people have to wait several days for results. Longer expectations mean a greater chance of spreading the virus without knowing it.
The Brazilian state of Paraná has signed an agreement to verify and produce the new Russian coronavirus vaccine, officials under pressure that they deserve to ensure first of its protection and effectiveness. The vaccine deserves to obtain Brazilian regulatory approval and comprehensive phase 3 clinical trials, or large-scale human trials, before being produced in Brazil, southern state officials said. Production, if continued, probably would not begin until 2021, said Jorge Callado, director of the Paraná Institute of Technology, who signed the agreement with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
German health minister Jens Spahn told ZDF tv that he hoped there would be a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months and indeed next year.
“I’m sure in the coming months, and next year, there’s probably going to be a vaccine,” Spahn said.
He refused to give a month express and said it was not yet imaginable to say how many times other people deserve to be vaccinated or how long they will be granted immunity.
India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections, while the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 47,000.
Infections increased to 66,999 on Thursday from the previous day to be successful in a total of approximately 2.4 million so far, India’s Ministry of Fitness said.
The country, with the largest number of instances in the world, the United States and Brazil, has now reported a jump of 50,000 or more instances each day for 15 consecutive days.
Ukraine recorded a record increase of 1,592 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the National Security and Defense Council said.
The number of infections has increased dramatically in Ukraine in the last two months, as the government has eased some restrictions, allowing cafes, churches and public transport to reopen.
Hong Kong International Airport said mainland Chinese passengers can simply transit through Hong Kong to other destinations from August 15 to October 15, in a special twist for their dominant airline Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Transit in the other direction, to mainland China, will continue to be banned at a time when the Chinese aviation regulator has seriously limited the number of foreign flights due to considerations of coronavirus.
Tourism giant TUI and the German government agreed on a major aid program to help the company in its 2020-2021 winter season.
The Hannover-based company agreed on Wednesday with a package of 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) with German state lender KfW. The new budget adds to the company’s 1.8 billion euro loan in April.
Chief executive Fritz Joussen said that while the organization had already brought “massive” reductions in charges, “no one knows when a vaccine or drug will be obtained and what effect the pandemic will have on individual markets in the coming months.”
Jorge Rodríguez, Venezuela’s communications minister and adviser to President Nicolás Maduro, said he had been diagnosed with coronavirus.
“While I’m in good general condition, I’ll have to respect the isolation measures and mandatory care to beat the virus,” Rodriguez said on Twitter.
Argentina and Mexico will produce the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for Latin America maximum, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez said after an assembly with corporate executives involved in the project.
An agreement signed between British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and INSUD’s biogeneration company mAbxience includes the generation movement to produce first 150 million doses of the vaccine to supply all of Latin America Brazil, according to the Argentine government.
Mexican chancellor Marcelo Ebrard later said on Twitter that the deal had been pushed through Fernandez and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He said the vaccine could be produced through 250 million doses.
Players from the National Football League (NFL) in the United States can expect COVID-19 tests until September 5, the players’ union said before the start of next month.
The league has conducted 109075 COVID-19 tests between players and coaches from the start of education camps through Tuesday, NFL medical director Allen Sills told reporters with a positive overall rate of 0.46% and a positive player rate of 0.81%. .
A total of 53 new players were shown positives when they were admitted to the camp last month.
“Our purpose is the same: to have the safest environment imaginable for everyone,” Sills said. “We need to check to make sure there is no player, coach, staff member, officer, user, to enter a box with an active COVID infection.”
New Zealand reported 14 new cases of COVID-19, thirteen of which were transmitted infections, while the government was working to hint at the source of the country’s first outbreak in more than a hundred days.
There are now a total of 36 assets in the country.
More are expected in the coming days, he said.
Authorities said the thirteen locally transmitted infections were connected to Auckland’s circle 4 of family members where the most recent outbreak was first detected. Three of the new instances were produced in a refrigerated garage facility where one of the members of the family circle worked.
Walt Disney World actors, who argued that the coronavirus ion measurements proposed by the U.S. theme park. They were not enough for them, they settled a dispute over the COVID-19 evidence, according to a statement from the union.
The Actors’ Equity Association had asked Walt Disney Co to provide normal coronavirus evidence to its members, who wear a protective mask while acting as other park workers do.
Disney said Wednesday that it would supply the fair outdoor area of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, for a verification site through Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. The site will be open to Disney employees, known as cast members, and the public.
Australia nearly published its lowest one-day build-up in new COVID-19 instances in more than 3 weeks on Thursday, sparking hope that a momentary wave of new infections in Victoria will nevertheless be controlled.
Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, reported 12 new cases, while the state of Queensland said it had discovered new COVID-19 infections in the following 24 hours.
Unless there is a strong buildup in cases of states that have eliminated the virus well, this means that the total of 290 cases in Australia would be the smallest buildup in a day of new coronavirus cases since July 20.
The Australian government cautiously welcomed the decline.
“We have to wait and see what happens in the coming week to make sure the downward slope continues in the coming days,” Australian Deputy Medical Director Michael Kidd told Channel 9.
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 5,858 new cases of coronavirus infection and 737 more deaths, bringing the total in the country to 498,380 cases and 54,666 deaths.
The government has stated that the actual number of other inflamed people is much higher than the cases shown.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the COVID-19 pandemic only threatens progress in the fight against global poverty and peacebuilding, but the dangers exacerbate existing conflicts and “encourage new ones.”
The UN leader said at a Security Council assembly that several parties to the conflict had taken steps to defuse and prevent fighting following their March 23 call for a rapid ceasefire in conflicts around the world to combat coronavirus.
“Unfortunately, in many cases, the pandemic has led the parties to suspend hostilities or agree on a permanent ceasefire,” Guterres said.
The pandemic has also raised questions in development about the effectiveness of fitness systems, social services, accepted as true in establishments and systems of government, he said.
All of this makes our commitment to maintain peace more urgent than ever.”
The UN leader also warned that “without concerted action, inequality, global poverty and the prospect of instability and violence can grow in the coming years.”
Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra announced Sunday the return of a full curfew in reaction to a new outbreak of coronavirus cases in the country.
“We need and it’s bigger to take a step back so that we’re all guilty of the situations we’d all like to have,” he said.
The national curfew will ban meetings of the circle of family and friends.
The Peruvian government has reported more than 489,000 infections, a average of more than 7,000 new cases consistent with the day, and the death rate consistent with millions in the Americas, over Chile, the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
A coronavirus contact search app manufactured for England will begin its public testing on Thursday, according to the BBC.
The app will also allow users to scan barcode QR codes to record visits.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, one of President Donald Trump’s wisest negotiators with Democrats on assistance from U.S. coronavirus, has tried to blame a five-day interruption in talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Mnuchin questioned Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer that Republicans had invited more discussions but refused to give in to their initial $1 billion response.
He said Pelosi “has made it clear that she is unwilling to meet to continue negotiations unless we settle for his proposal in advance, which charges at least $2 trillion.”
The frictional problems between the two parties come with the amount of long-term unemployment benefit, attendance at state and local governments, cash for the reopening of schools, and other problems.
A Reuters/Ipsos ballot released Wednesday found that Americans spread the blame lightly between Democrats and Republicans.
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera ongoing on the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Zaheena Rasheed in Male, Maldives.