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22:52 Brazil reported 55891 new cases of coronavirus and 1,156 deaths in the last 24 hours, to the Ministry of Health. The country now has a total of 2,343,366 cases, with a death toll of 85,238.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who downplayed the effects of the pandemic, is also among those infected. Yesterday he tested positive for COVID-19 for the third time. It was first tested on July 7 and has been quarantined ever since.
19:52 The World Health Organization has reported a record accumulation of coronavirus cases worldwide in one day, with a general expansion of 284,196 in 24 hours.
The number of deaths increased by another 9,753 people, the largest accumulation in a day since the record 9,797 deaths on April 30.
The last highest daily jump in new instances was 259,848 on July 18. The deaths averaged 5,000 consistent with July, compared to 4,600 consistent with The Day of June.
According to WHO, 69,641 of the new were in the United States, 67,860 in Brazil, 49,310 in India and 13,104 in South Africa.
The largest increases in new deaths were 3,876 in Peru, 1,284 in Brazil, 1,074 in the United States, 790 in Mexico and 740 in India. Peru recently revised its knowledge of COVID-19 and in one day increased its total number of deaths to 3,000.
19:30 The World Health Organization has expressed its fear of a resurgence of COVID-19 in Europe, the AFP news agency reports.
THE WHO European bankruptcy has reported an increase in cases on the continent over the more than two weeks. He lobbied that stricter measures would be needed to combat infections.
Like other regions, Europe is suffering to balance restrictions with a desire to revive economies that have been devastated by the virus and the next closure.
The persistent danger was highlighted Friday by the death of a 3-year-old woman in Belgium, the country’s youngest coronavirus death.
“The recent increase in COVID-19 cases in some countries following the flexibilization of physical estrangement measures is worrying,” a WHO-Europe spokeswoman told the AFP.
WHO’s vast European region includes former Soviet republics such as Kyrgyzstan, the maximum domain affected in line with the capita with 335 new cases in line with another 100,000 people in the following two weeks.
In Spain, the fitness government is facing outbreaks in Aragon and Catalonia, where the government has reintroduced local restrictions. Residents of Barcelona and its suburbs have been asked to leave their homes for only one essential item for two weeks.
18:40 Without tourists in sight, Machu Picchu celebrated the 109th anniversary of its rediscovery through the American explorer Hiram Bingham.
Every year, on this day, the 15th-century Inca citadel attracts more visitors than usual, however, Peru’s largest tourist site has been closed to the general public since March.
The government had hoped to reopen Machu Picchu in time for its anniversary, but had to give up on a relentless accumulation of COVID-19 cases in the Andean country.
Darwin Baca, mayor of the district where the citadel is located, told the AFP news agency: “The reopening date has not yet been set. It will probably be in August, as the instances are expanding in [the city near] Cusco.”
Peru’s tourism draw has been closed to the public for months
17:40 Formula One will return to the German Nurburgring in October for the first time since 2013, as a component of a new timetable that has been severely interrupted by the pandemic.
The Eifel Grand Prix will be held in October in the Eifel region of West Germany, and is one of the 3 European races that have been added to the calendar, with the Portuguese Grand Prix in Portimao two weeks later and the Emilia-Romagna GP in Italy. November 1. The race in Portugal will be the first time the country will host an F1 race since 1996 and will have spectators present.
However, occasions in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Canada defected this year due to the pandemic.
F1 said it still hoped to be able to perform between 15 and 18 races “and finish in the Gulf in mid-December.”
The game was greatly affected by the pandemic, and the season was postponed a few hours before the trials for the first race in Melbourne after McLaren’s team announced that the members had tested positive and would not be in the race.
The season still began this month with two races in Austria before heading to Hungary last weekend. The next two races will be held at Silverstone in the UK on 31 July and 7 August.
17:00 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted that his government would possibly have reacted too slowly to the epidemic because the coronavirus was not well understood in its early stages.
Johnson told the BBC that there were “very open questions” about the closure that had been presented too late.
“It’s something new, we didn’t perceive as we would have liked in the first few weeks and months. The only thing we didn’t see at first is the extent to which it was transmitted asymptomatically from one user to another,” he said.
The UK implemented its blockade on 23 March, while other European countries acted earlier. Italy entered a national blockade on March 9, while Spain did the same five days later. France did the same on 17 March.
German schools closed on 13 March and the country closed its borders with Austria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland two days later. Blockade measures were taken across the country on 22 March.
14:10 Germany will soon offer loose coronavirus tests to all German citizens returning from abroad to prevent them from a wave of infection during the summer holidays.
State fitness ministers agreed to the new measure at an assembly on Friday afternoon.
“Those who return from at-risk countries deserve to be tested, and those returning from countries will also have the opportunity,” said Berlin Health Minister Dilek Kalayci.
Under the plan, those returning from safe spaces will not be presented with evidence directly at airports, but would have the option of performing loose tests elsewhere within 72 hours of entering the country.
Health ministers also agreed that “random checks” would be carried out “at the ports of border access.”
Kalayci said the controls would be, first of all, voluntary and that all tourists returning from countries considered to be the main threat deserve to be isolated at home for two weeks if they test positive or refuse to accept a check. In the run-up to the meeting, some had requested a mandatory verification.
1:15 p.m., the Chinese capital, Beijing, reopened theaters friday as rates and cases of coronavirus infection continue to decline in the country.
Cinemas in parts of the megacity that are considered to have little threat of transmission have begun to admit viewers under social estrangement regulations. Tickets must be booked in advance, assistance is limited to 30% capacity and meals and drinks have been prohibited.
It is mandatory to go through temperature checks and provide an online record of your movements to enter, as in many places in China.
Cinemas have been closed for about six months, but began reopening this week in major cities across the country. Beijing has spent more than two weeks without any incident caused by local transmission, which led the government to lift many restrictions on activities.
12.30 pm Russia will resume a series of flights abroad from 1 August, announced Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova.
The most sensitive destinations on the list are the uk capital, London, the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Ankara and the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania. Flights will take off and land from Moscow, St. Petersburg and the southern port city of Rostov-on-Don.
Flights are improving as transmission in the country slows, Golikova told state television.
Other destinations are expected to be added in Turkey from 10 August.
International flights have been blocked since 30 March following the imposition of blocking measures to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The most recent figures show only 800,000 cases of infection and just over 13,000 deaths in Russia.
11:47 The Spanish government is pressuring agricultural employers to provide more housing and transportation for seasonal migrant workers, a senior lawmaker said Friday. Fears grow that poor living situations create hot spots for coronaviruses.
“Infections in rural areas do not occur in farms or in camps, they occur in shipments and lodgings,” agriculture minister Luis Planas said in an interview with the national radio Cadena Ser.
He made comparisons with Germany and France, where officials also feared that the movement of tens of thousands of seasonal agricultural products would spread COVID-19.
Employers should offer “decent living conditions” to employees. Spain’s Ministry of Fitness reported on Thursday 971 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the largest daily accumulation of the country since the end of a lockdown.
Planas’ comments came here the same day a United Nations report said that Spain’s living situation for its seasonal staff was “deplorable” and demanded that the country do so.
Read more: Spain honors coronavirus sufferers at memorial ceremony
11:00 A sudden increase in cases in Hong Kong may be due to the territory’s preference to allow “essential personnel”, such as seafarers and truck drivers, to skip 40 when they enter the city, according to some fitness experts.
After analyzing virus samples from recent cases shown, Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong School of Medicine, said that the resurgence of the maximum virus probably occurred from those imported cases.
He said the wave was “probably due to imported [cases], may be only team members or sailors exempt from quarantine.”
“When they entered Hong Kong, there were no quarantine measures or rapid testing. You may believe that some of the team members, the hotel they are staying in, may possibly be downtown,” he said.
“The number of other exempted [arrivals] is not small, so this poses a threat to Hong Kong unless the number decreases,” said Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Hong Kong Health Protection Center.
However, other officials said that the settlement is necessary, insisting that it is a “misunderstanding” that the newer wave is simply because of such an exemption.
More than 1,000 infections have been reported in the territory since early July, more than 40% of the total since the virus first hit the city at the end of January.
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10:46 A three-year-old woman died in Belgium after testing for coronavirus amid an outbreak of new infections, fitness officials reported.
The announcement came a day after Belgium re-implemented restrictions to stop the spread of the virus, adding the installation of masks in crowded public spaces.
The woman suffers from several similar serious illnesses, according to a statement. She is believed to be the youngest user to die of coronavirus headaches after the death of a 12-year-old boy in March.
Belgium reported nearly 65,000 cases and more than 9,800 deaths.
10:14 The world health organization’s chief scientist estimates that between 50% and 60% of the population will want to be vaccinated for a protective effect of “collective immunity.”
Group immunity is achieved through vaccination and occurs when the maximum of a population is immune to disease.
Studies in some countries heavily affected by the pandemic show that about 5% to 10% of others now have antibodies, in some countries this rate reaches 20%, said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.
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Read more: Coronavirus: Is India on the verge of ‘collective immunity’?
“Because there are waves of this infection passing through countries, other people will expand the antibodies and those other people will be immunized for a while, so they will also act as barriers and barriers to spread,” Swaminathan added.
For collective immunity to be an herbal infection, you must have several waves and you’ll see the morbidity and mortality we’re seeing now,” he said.
Other experts have estimated that 70% to 80% of the population wants antibodies before there is a collective immunity effect.
In the early stages of the pandemic, countries such as Britain and Sweden advised the establishment of collective immunity in reaction to outbreaks. However, researchers are now also finding evidence that coronavirus immunity may not last indefinitely, as some cured patients have tested positive for the virus at a time.
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09:42 Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov went into quarantine after the head of his political workplace tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, according to a report from the government’s press workplace.
Borisov, 61, whose first coronavirus control showed a negative result, will remain remote until the effects of a moment check conducted early Friday are published.
Bulgaria recorded a spike in infections in the last month. On Friday, the country reported 268 new cases, bringing the total to 9,853,329 deaths.
09:32 The German newspaper Bild reports that the official coronavirus tracking app has worked well for five weeks due to a challenge affecting millions of Android smartphones.
According to the report, some Huawei and Samsung phone users, for example, did get ratings if they had come into contact with the virus.
The Ministry of Health showed that some Android operating systems prevented the app from running in the background to save energy. While this did not allow the app to exchange data with other phones, it would have prevented or delayed sending notifications about the potential infection threat.
In a statement, the ministry says that Android settings can prevent any app from running properly. He said the challenge was solved with an update released on Wednesday.
Read more: First day of use of coronavirus tracking in Germany
SPD virtual policy spokesman Jens Zimmermann for a “quick explanation” by Health Minister Jens Spahn.
“It’s more than annoying that politicians find out about this case in the media,” he told the Reuters news agency. “I would have liked to see an open communication from the Ministry of Health,” he added.
09:06 The number of passenger flights in China has recovered to about 80% of its pre-stay level, according to the country’s aviation regulator.
On July 23, the Chinese operated 13,059 passenger flights, China’s Civil Aviation Administration said.
The number of air passengers transported has also recovered, approaching 70% of the grades observed last year.
Global aviation is strongly tracking capacity in China as a harbinger of recovery trends.
China has reopened its economy. However, the country continues to see cases erupting in some areas, while many cities still live with virus-related restrictions.
Beijing also has more foreign flights, but asks all arriving passengers to provide negative COVID-19 control effects before boarding.
08:55 Germany’s state and federal health ministers are discussing the imposition of mandatory coronavirus tests on tourists returning from high-risk countries amid developing considerations of infection spikes in popular holiday destinations.
One of the proposals that ministers will make on Friday is the status quo of COVID-19 control stations at German airports and make checks mandatory for returnees.
Read more: Coronavirus: mandatory tests suggested for returning German tourists
Passing stations are already in service at German airports in Frankfurt and Munich, however, there is no legal responsibility for passengers to participate.
Germany has rules in place for others returning from one of more than one hundred high-risk countries, as it is known through the country’s public fitness agency, the Robert Koch Institute.
Returnees are expected to enter a 14-day home quarantine and register with the physical fitness authority.
Read more: German trackers promise to stumble upon coronavirus
Turkey, one of Germany’s top holiday destinations, along with the United States, Egypt and Israel, is lately on RKI’s high-risk list.
But infection rates have also increased recently in the resorts of Croatia and Mallorca, Spain, which are with Germans.
Germany has now shown almost 205,000 cases and more than 9,000 deaths.
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08:39 A Vietnamese tested positive for coronavirus in the central city of Da Nang, ending a 99-day era in which Vietnam did not record network transmission, state media reported.
First, doctors suspected that the 57-year-old had contracted pneumonia, but positive checks came from two separate control centers, local newspaper VnExpress reported.
Fifty other people who were in contact with the guy were isolated and the entire hospital locked up. Several others who had been in contact with the man also showed symptoms, said Nguyen Tien Hong, deputy director of the Da Nang Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vietnam has tried to control the spread of the virus and has reported no deaths. All new recent cases come from Vietnamese citizens repatriated after being stranded abroad.
08:06 Austria and England have brought more stringent needs for mask wearing since today. After a significant increase in infection rate in Austria, citizens of supermarkets, banks, post offices, hospitals and retirement homes will now have to wear facial protection. In the past, masks were only needed on public transport and pharmacies.
In England, if masks were already mandatory on public transport, they will now also be mandatory in shops. However, this requirement will only apply to England, the rest of the United Kingdom. The UK has recorded more than 298,000 cases and more than 45,500 deaths.
07:49 Payments for the unprecedented stimulus of the coronavirus approved by the leaders of the European Union will begin at the time of next year, said the bloc’s Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, according to quote.
Countries may only use one-tenth of the aid and budget program of 1.8 trillion euros ($2 trillion) opposed to coronavirus in anticipation of the plan’s approval, Gentiloni said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
It advised that the block approve new resources, such as virtual tax and CO2 tax, to pay off the usual debt between 2026 and 2056.
“Otherwise, individual countries will be forced to pay the cash because Europe has not gone to pay the non-unusual debt,” Gentiloni said.
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07:20 India has surpassed the death toll in France, with a total of 30,601 deaths. In the last 24 hours, India has recorded 740 new deaths from the virus and 49,310 new infections, according to official data.
An antibody test this week showed that nearly a quarter of others in the capital, New Delhi, have the virus, nearly 40 times the official figure.
The death toll is the sixth highest in the world, the United States, Brazil, Great Britain, Mexico and Italy. It also has the third highest number of instances with nearly 1.3 million infections.
Read more: India reports record increase in coronavirus cases
07:00 Vietnam, one of Asia’s largest consumers of products, has suspended all “living or dead” imports and committed to “eliminating” illegal markets across the country.
The directive, signed by the leader of the communist country, follows the scandal over the links between the unregulated sale of wild animals and the origins of coronavirus in neighboring China.
“The Prime Minister orders the suspension of imports of wild animals, dead or alive, from his eggArray … parties or products,” says the order posted Thursday on the government’s website. “All citizens, especially the public officials of Array … they will not have to participate in poaching, buying, selling, transporting Array … illegal wild animals.”
The country also “resolutely markets and trade sites that illegally industrialize wildlife,” the decree said – caution against poaching, trafficking, storage and advertising of animals, birds and reptiles.
Among the most common animal products that are smuggled in are tiger parts, rhino horn and pangolins used in classical medicine. Vietnam reported just over 400 cases and no deaths.
06:18 Following the outbreak at the abattoir in Tunnies, Germany, which saw more than 2,000 inflamed workers, the researchers found that the virus likely spreads to others within a radius of more than 8 meters of a single inflamed person. .
Researchers found that the virus had attached to several workers from a so-called super spreader, a farm animal butcher, in May.
The effects come from an articulation through the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Clinic and the Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI).
“A supercasting procedure has been applied for the outbreak in Tunnies,” said Adam Grundhoff, co-author of the study.
The number one transmission took position inside the slaughterhouse, where the air in the flow cooled to 10 degrees Celsius [50 degrees Fahrenheit], Grundhoff said. Researchers noted a low new air intake combined with intense physical work.
“In these conditions, a distance of 1.5 to 3 meters is clearly not enough to prevent transmission,” he added.
He then installed a new air purge formula to prevent the virus from spreading through the air.
Despite considerations that neighborhoods close to the labor force in the predominantly immigrant city of Tunnies may have played a role in the spread, investigators said they saw no link.
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03:35 Germany has recorded 815 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 204,183.
With 10 more deaths, the total number of deaths in Germany increased to 9,111.
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01:55 A study in Brazil found that hydroxychloroquine is a useless drug to treat COVID-19.
Randomized controlled trials (RCEs) conducted at 55 hospitals in Brazil have shown that the antimalarial drug is effective against the virus. The study also found that the drug had potentially destructive side effects, such as an increased threat of liver and center problems.
“Among patients hospitalized with mild to moderate COVID-19, the use of hydroxychloroquine, alone or with azithromycin, did not present a clinical condition at 15 days compared to popular care,” the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who took the coronavirus test this month, praised hydroxychloroquine. He drove several times for widespread use and would even have taken it himself.
The study authors also identified their limitations, adding that “the trial definitely excludes a great advantage from control drugs or really extensive damage.”
Brazil has reported 59,961 new instances in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of instances shown to nearly 2.3 million. It also reported 1,311 new deaths, bringing the country’s death toll to 84,000.
The government stated that the actual number of instances is likely to be much higher than the instances shown.
One survey showed that less than 8% of Mexican companies got government assistance during the economic recession and pandemic. While several corporations said they did not know they could get state aid, others interviewed said they had asked for and had not gotten help.
The Mexican economy is expected to contract by 10% or more this year.
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01:02 Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, has reintroduced restrictions as new coronavirus equipment has emerged in Sydney. Group bookings in restaurants, cafes and clubs will be limited to 10, while rooms can accommodate up to 30 hundred people.
Only a hundred other people can attend funerals and places of worship, while weddings and corporate occasions will be limited to 150 other people with strict social estrangement regulations.
Australia has reported just over 13,000 cases and 133 deaths. However, there has been an increase in infections in recent weeks, particularly in Melbourne.
00:10 U.S. President Donald Trump canceled the Republican conference in Florida, where he will be officially announced as the party’s presidential candidate, prompting an increase in coronavirus cases in the state.
Trump said it’s not the right time to hold a “grand-busy convention.”
“The timing of this occasion is the right one, it’s the case of what’s happened recently,” he said.
Trump’s announcement came hours after the number of instances shown in the United States exceeded one million.
00:00 Catch up on Thursdays on the coronavirus here.
To report on the coronavirus pandemic, unless otherwise noted, DW uses figures provided through the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in the United States. The JHU updates the figures in real time, compiling knowledge from global fitness organizations, state and national governments and other official public sources, all of which have their own data collection systems.
Germany’s national statistics are compiled through its public fitness agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). These figures have the transmission of knowledge of national and local qualifications and are updated approximately once a day, which can result in a deviation from JHU.