BERLIN – The Berlin government says protesters will have to wear a mask to stop the spread of coronavirus after a demonstration in which thousands of people ignored social estrangement regulations last weekend.
The German news firm dpa reported that the Berlin state executive had agreed to make the mask mandatory for protests with more than a hundred participants.There will be exceptions for car and bicycle rallies.
Until now, the mask was sometimes not necessary unless the minimum distance of 1.5 meters between the participants could be maintained.
Police ordered the dissolution of a giant demonstration on Saturday because the participants had not complied with the rules.Opposing manifestation of masked dresses and other measures of protection against the pandemic.
Most of the participants wore a mask at the demonstrations in Berlin, adding a giant Black Lives Matter rally in June and a demonstration of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS EPIDEMIC
– 900,000 in Finland a virus search app
– In U.S. Army academies, COVID-19 is the enemy to defeat.
– Pandemic brings times for farmers, making hunger worse
– Hong Kong initiates mass for the virus amid public doubts.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
LISBON, Portugal – Portugal introduced its first tactile search application for the coronavirus, called Stayaway Covid, after weeks of delays due to privacy issues and amid dubious good fortune for programs implemented through European governments.
The smartphone app uses Bluetooth generation to locate whether other people have been near an inflamed user with coronavirus and uses a recently developed app programming interface through Apple and Google.
Health Minister Marta Feared said at the launch of the app tuesday that she was “voluntary, confidential and trustworthy.”
The developers of INESC TEC claim that the application has no non-public data.
But D3 – Association for the Defense of Digital Rights of Portugal, a non-profit group, says that public data on the application code is incomplete.He also asked for the code that shows how Apple and Google use knowledge to make it public.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Schools in much of Bosnia have reopened due to restrictions on coronaviruses and despite the large number of new infections daily.
The Republika Srpska, a part of the Serbian-dominated part of the country, has to open the number one schools and secondary schools completely.In the Croatian and Bosnian Federation, which includes the capital Sarajevo, the government has opted for a combined approach, combining online courses with classic courses.
Although less affected by coronavirus than the largest countries in Western Europe, Bosnia has reported more than 19,000 cases to date and nearly six hundred showed deaths.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Finnish fitness government says 900,000 others have downloaded a coronavirus tracking app a day after its launch.
The Koronavilkku app aims to locate whether a user has been exposed to coronavirus, according to the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.It says the loose app created to help break the infection chains.App users send randomly generated code via Bluetooth to others when they are in close contact.
“The Koronavilkku cell app is part of the government’s strategy of testing, traceability, isolation and treatment,” said the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health, Kirsi Varhila.
The app has been in Finnish and Swedish, the two official languages of the Nordic country, and an English edition is scheduled for later this year.
Finland has recorded more than 8,000 and reported 335 deaths.
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PRAGUE – The Czech Republic has the new school year, so it is mandatory to wear a mask again on public transport.
Health officials have argued that the measure may only involve attendance involving the coronavirus pandemic, as approximately 1.4 million primary and secondary school academics use public transportation every day of the week.
The masks are also at Prague International Airport, government and state offices, clinics and pharmacies from Tuesday.
Strict hygiene measures have been implemented in schools, but the government has overturned its initial order for everyone to wear protective masks in school buildings.
Face masks have only been in schools in Prague, one of the hardest-hit areas in the Czech Republic, with nearly forty-five people more inflamed equivalent to 100,000 inhabitants.
Education Minister Robert Plague said approximately 20 of the approximately 12,000 schools remained closed because teachers were quarantined.
Czech schools were closed on 11 March and some of them reopened partially at the end of May on a voluntary basis.
The Czech Republic recorded 24,618 cases of COVID-19, 424 deaths, according to government figures.
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BEIJING – Children returned to school Tuesday in Wuhan City in central China, the epicentre of the home of the coronavirus outbreak that has been blocked for months, but has noticed new cases of local transmission in weeks.
State media reported that 1.4 million young people in 2,842 kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools are a component of a return to national school.
Life has largely returned to general in Wuhan, where the new expired coronavirus was first detected last year.After what critics called an attempt to forget about the outbreak, the city underwent a 76-day blockade in which citizens were confined to their homes.and box hospitals were opened to help an overworked medical system.
Wuhan marked a vital milestone on Sunday when his most recent case, a patient who had brought the virus from abroad, was discharged from a city hospital.
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MOSCOW – The number of cases shown of coronavirus across Russia exceeded one million on Tuesday, and the government reported 4,729 new cases. Russia has the fourth number of cases in the world after the United States, Brazil and India.
Experts say the actual number of victims of the pandemic is much higher than all reported figures, due to limited evidence, minor cases omitted and cover-up of cases by some governments, among other factors.maximum portions of the country.
Last month, the Russian government announced the approval of the first coronavirus vaccine, a resolution Western experts found with skepticism and unease when the injections were tested on a few dozen people.Last week, officials announced the start of complex trials of the vaccine in 40,000 people.
It is not clear that vaccination of at-risk equipment, such as doctors and teachers, announced earlier this year will be part of the trials or carried out in parallel.
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LONDON – Hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren are returning to school, and the country is nervously watching as the reopening of schools leads to an increase in coronavirus infections.
Tuesday marks the beginning of the quarter for about 40% of schools in England and Wales, and the rest will reopen in the coming days.
Most young people have not attended school full-time for more than five months since a national closure was imposed in March, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s passing government says the threat to the fitness of young people with COVID-19 is much less than the threat to their education.well-being if they don’t go back to school.
Schools have put in position measures to touch between children, such as staggered break periods and stay scholars in “bubbles” with their elegance or age group.Facial blankets are needed in not unusual spaces of top schools in districts with top rates of coronavirus infection.
While many parents are nervous, the government says those who refuse to send their children back to school face fines.
Scottish pupils returned in August, so there have been only small and limited school-like outbreaks.
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LONDON – AstraZeneca states that a possible coronavirus vaccine has entered Phase III trials in the United States to determine the efficacy and protection of the product.
AstraZeneca, founded in Cambridge, England, says that up to 30,000 adults of racial, ethnic and geographic equipment in the United States will participate in the trial and is funded through sets of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services.
AstraZeneca says the progression of the vaccine called AZD1222 is advancing worldwide with overdue trials in the UK, Brazil and South Africa.More trials are planned in Japan and Russia.The possible vaccine invented through the University of Oxford and a related company, Vaccitech.
Meanwhile, AstraZeneca is intended for large-scale production of the vaccine.
Oxford Biomedica said Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the “commercial manufacture” of AZD1222. The company says it will reserve capacity at a new production facility in Oxford, England, for an initial era of 18 months, with the agreement extended for another 18 months.
Oxford Biomedica says you will get 15 million pounds ($20 million) in reserve fees, plus up to 35 million pounds for making several large-scale batches of the vaccine, if effective.
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PARIS – Millions of young French people begin returning to school on Tuesday despite the recent rise in virus infections, in a national experiment aimed at bri saving inequalities and reviving the economy.
“The virus is still there, and you have to be alone,” President Emmanuel Macron said in an Instagram video aimed at more than 12 million French schoolchildren on their first day back.
He spoke masked. Masks are mandatory during the school day for all students over the age of 11, as well as for all teachers and school staff.
Masks are also mandatory from Tuesday at all French paint sites, as the government encourages parents to return to paintings while searching for infections. France reported 3082 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, below the last few days but still above its European neighbours and well above.the few hundred daily cases reported in May and June, before the summer holidays, caused an additional buildup of infections.France has reported more than 30,600 deaths similar to the virus.
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BEIJING – Chinese academics began a full return to normal categories on Tuesday after two weeks without new cases of local transmission in the country.
About 75% of the fellows had already returned to school and the rest will return from Tuesday.
Reports imply that the scholars had their temperature checked upon arrival, but regulations on social distance and wearing the mask vary in the region.
Hina’s National Health Commission reported 10 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, all outside the country. China has reported a total of 4,634 COVID-19 deaths out of 85,058 cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. , expired last year.
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JERUSALEM – Israel has opened its new school year as it faces a consistently high rate of coronavirus infection, with restrictions in place to check to prevent the spread of the virus.
Classes start Tuesday in maximum of the country, with an estimated 2.4 million scholars returning to school. But in 23 communities that the fitness ministry classified as outbreak epicenters, the reopening will be delayed.
Students from third graders onwards will have to wear a mask with elegance.Class sizes for maximum grades will be limited to 18 students.Middle and higher school students will elegantly examine only twice a week, and the rest of the positions online.
Israel has recorded more than 116,000 cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, totaling 939 deaths.The country experienced a primary peak in new cases after the economy and schools reopened after the national closure in May.
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NEW DELHI – A one-day peak of just about 70,000 new instances of coronavirus, the smallest building up in the beyond six days, brought India’s overall overall to just about 3.7 million.
The Health Ministry reported 819 deaths in more than 24 hours on Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths to 65,288.
India reports the highest daily workload in the world for about 3 weeks and is the third most affected country, the United States and Brazil, but now it performs approximately one million tests every day and the cure rate of viral patients is more than 76%.
Meanwhile, the federal government announced Monday that the country’s parliament would resume on September 14 with strict physical estrangement criteria, and was suspended in March just before the announcement of a national blockade to involve the pandemic.
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MANILA, Philippines – Partial reopening of gymnasiums, hairdressers and internet cafes was allowed in the Philippine capital on Tuesday, as the government further eased quarantine restrictions despite the country’s maximum coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia.
President Rodrigo Duterte, however, placed the southern city of Iligan under a slight blockade after an increase in network infections, underlining how COVID-19 cases have spread from the capital, Manila city, the epicentre of the pandemic in the country..
The night curfew has been shortened in the capital’s top municipalities and outlying provinces, the new regime, which will last one month.
Duterte announced that medical staff, who could be evicted simply because the owners feared they would bring the virus, would get loose housing and food near their hospitals.
More than 220,000 COVID-19 cases, totaling some 3,500 deaths, have been reported in the Philippines, which have struggled to balance public mobility to curb the virus with the revival of a recessive economy.
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong has introduced a massive voluntary program for coronavirus as a component of a strategy to break the chain of transmission of the third disease outbreak in the city.
The control program began Tuesday with citizens visiting more than a hundred control centers with more than 5,000 volunteers and aims to identify silent carriers without symptoms likely to spread the disease.
The virus detection programme has become a focus of political debate in Hong Kong.Many distrust the resources and body of workers provided through the Central Chinese government and fear that their DNA may be collected during the exercise.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – The state of Victoria, Australia’s most affected, has reported its lower count of new COVID-19 cases since June, as the blockade continues to slow infections.
On Tuesday, the fitness branch reported 70 new infections and deaths in more than 24 hours, the lowest count of new infections since 67 were reported on June 30.
The last average of a week is 104 new by day, up from 184 last week.
The statewide six-week closure is scheduled to end on September 13, and the government will make plans to reopen the economy next Sunday.
The infection rate is expected to drop to double digits until September 13.Health officials said such relief in infections would be needed before restrictions can be safely lifted.
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WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease specialist, said Labor Day weekend will be key to determining whether the United States has a “good start” to involve the coronavirus this fall.
Fauci said Monday that he had “great confidence in the American people” to wash his hands, practice social estrangement, wear masks, avoid crowds, and gather outdoors at weekend celebrations.He said it was vital to avoid a buildup of coronavirus cases like this.like those who noticed after Memorial Day and the Fourth of July vacation.
He made the comments in a call to the White House convention with the governors, whose audio he received through the Associated Press.
Vice President Mike Pence said he shared Fauci’s acceptance as true with other Americans to celebrate the holiday responsibly.
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