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Brazilian champion Flamengo has asked league organizers to cancel this weekend’s adjustment against Palmeiras after 16 of their players tried Covid-19.
Seven players tested ahead of Tuesday’s Copa Libertadores setting against Barcelona in Ecuador and several others, along with their coach and doctor, got the virus on their return.
“This is a situation,” said Rodrigo Dunshee, the club’s vice president of legal affairs.
It’s very killing this at the root. We can’t pass it on to other groups that will pass it on to other groups. The right thing to do is to delay this game.
Turns out we only have nine players and three goalkeepers.
The Brazilian Soccer Confederation has so far rejected the request, saying the Rio de Janeiro club has a team large enough to handle the withdrawals.
The Sao Paulo Players Union said it supported Flamengo’s appeal and CBF’s “irresponsible” refusal.
Flamengo, one of the clubs that pushed for the return of football in June, said he feared that calling marginal players for Sunday’s match would aggravate the situation.
There is no point in inviting young players to play their fitness and that of their families is at risk.
There is a massive threat that players who have not yet tested positive, test positive or Monday. We need, to ensure the (well-being) of all, that Flamengo does not play.
Brazil has the current number of coronavirus deaths after the United States: more than 135,000 Brazilians have died from the virus.
Football resumed in Brazil in June with Flamengo starting the national championship in Rio de Janeiro. Other state tournaments followed in July and August.
The French government would probably be pressuring others to download its Covid-19 touch search app, but when asked if it did, Prime Minister Jean Castex said it didn’t because it didn’t take the subway.
The app was introduced in early June with a great fanfare through the government, but 3 months later, only 2. 4 million other people out of 67 million people downloaded it.
Castex, who was forced to isolate himself this month after being in contact with someone who had tested positive for the virus, admitted that he had not downloaded the app.
“I’m pressuring the French to do it, but I haven’t, I’ll be fair to you,” he said.
When asked if his attitude to do what I don’t say what I do, Castex insisted that he did not teach lessons, but that in his work, implementation is not necessary.
“Look at my role! Unfortunately, in the performance of my duties, this means I take the subway. STOP-COVID is only attractive when you pass the subway or meet people,” he says. “I see fewer people. “
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tested for the virus this week and is under quarantine.
According to a fitness government report released on September 15, another 700,000 people have already uninstalled the app and gained less than two hundred alerts for Covid-19 this period.
Brazil has recorded 32,817 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours and 831 deaths from the disease.
South America’s largest country has recorded more than 4. 6 million cases of viruses since the start of the pandemic, according to ministry data, calling it the third worst outbreak in the world after the United States and India.
Nearly 140,000 more people have died from the disease in Brazil, which is the only time in the United States in terms of coronavirus deaths.
Novavax has begun a complex test of its Covid-19 experimental vaccine in partnership with the UK government’s Vaccine Working Group, boosting the company’s actions by 6% after the bell.
The trial is expected to recruit and vaccinate up to 10,000 participants over 18 to 84 over the next 4 to six weeks.
Knowledge of the evidence will be the tendering of regulatory licences in the UK, EU and other countries, the company said.
The test will recruit at least 25% of participants over the age of 65 and prioritize the maximum affected teams through Covid-19, the corporation said.
The French Open will only hold 1,000 more people a day, compared to the expected 5,000 spectators, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.
“We will apply the same regulations to Roland Garros as to other places. We’ll go from 5,000 to 1,000,” he said, adding that the figures included players and organizers.
With the Covid-19 behind in France, Health Minister Olivier Véran said Wednesday that up to 1,000 more people could participate in primary sporting events from Monday, but it is not known whether the Grand Slam tournament, which takes place, will include the post from September 27 to October 11.
Kenya’s anti-corruption firm has documented evidence of “criminal” habit through officials on the Covid-19 emergency team, according to a report submitted to the Senate.
The Anti-Corruption and Ethics Commission began investigating allegations of corruption in June regarding the acquisition and origin of the Covid-19 device through the Kenya Medical Supply Authority (KEMSA).
The commission said there are “irregular expenses” of 7. 8 billion Kenyan shillings ($71. 96 million).
The revelations come at a time when doctors in the East African country have introduced a series of movements on low wages and poor quality protective equipment to treat patients with Covid-19.
The supervisory body shared its initial findings with the Director of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the opposite fees to some officials and a system-wide review in the procurement authority aim to “seal corruption gaps in the future. “
The KEMSA holder suspended last month on accusations that he bought poor quality parts and inflated other prices.
Last month, police killed tear-fuel protesters in Nairobi, a demonstration opposed to alleged corruption over the acquisition of defense protection apparatus opposed to covid-19.
Kenyan health workers have posted photographs on social media showing what they claim to be an insufficient protective equipment provided to them, such as combinations of porous dust that would not prevent the spread of the virus.
The French prime minister warned that the government could be forced to reconfigure spaces if the number of Covid-19 instances does not in the coming weeks and defended the serious restrictions taken on Wednesday.
Television Jean Castex France 2:
It’s race time.
The public should be attentive and attentive.
If we don’t act, we can be on stage in the spring.
When asked if France was heading for a new blockade, Castex said the government didn’t need it, but left the door open if the stage got worse.
“It may just mean a reconfiguration,” he said. The steps we’ve taken are to anticipate. “
The government ordered the closure of cafes and restaurants in Marseille for two weeks and closed all gymnasiums from Saturday, after hitting the city and the surrounding region on the Mediterranean coast on high alert for the spread of the virus.
Tougher measures were also announced in Paris and 10 cities, adding the closure of cafes and restaurants at 10 p. m.
The resolution infuriated politicians who care about the economic consequences and say that the government has panicked in its decision-making process.
“This is a serious moment and we will have to act. We have to hope that the virus doesn’t last 30 years and that we’ll locate a vaccine,” Castex said.
On Thursday 16096, the French fitness government reported new cases of coronavirus, a significant build-up since the previous record of 13498 and setting a fourth record of more infections in 8 days.
The number of other people who died in France from Covid-19 infections increased from 52 to 31,511, and the cumulative number of cases is now 497,237.
Rising rates of infection and, with it, renewed tension over the French hospital formula led the government to announce new restrictive measures on Wednesday, mainly in major cities, to involve the disease.
The Israeli minister defended his resolve to tighten the country’s blockade measures and added restricting people’s ability to demonstrate and pray in synagogues.
The country of nine million other people entered a time of blockade a week ago when infection rates reached record levels and the government would expand regulations restricting protests to teams of 20 starting Friday.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced months of protests calling for his resignation, rejected the fact that the new regulations were imposed to block the weekly rallies that opposed him, calling the accusations “absurd. “
“Protests,” he said, “show contempt for Israelis who are punished. “
Added:
The right to protest, such as the right to pray, the right to earn a living, the right to transport, are rights, sacred rights in a democracy, but they are not unlimited rights. The right to life is also a right.
Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, said in a statement that the timing of the blockade was “preventable,” but suggested to the public that it follow the new rules.
“The explanation for this is the failed, political, neglected and hysterical control of the crisis through this government and the Prime Minister,” he said.
“We will respect the regulations on demonstrations, even if they are pronounced for reasons that have nothing to do with the point. Array. . . we will demonstrate in capsules for 20 people,” he added. We will pray accountably and protest accountably. We will comply with all regulations. “
The Israeli parliament is evaluating government recommendations lately.
Hundreds of thousands of academics in Scotland have been banned from socializing and attending bars as coronavirus cases at more than 20 universities across the UK.
In a set of regulations agreed through Scottish university leaders, academics across the country were informed that they would not be allowed to socialize outdoors in their homes and would avoid bars, pubs and other places.
The new regulations come with the adoption of a disciplinary formula “yellow card/red card” that can lead academics to lose their place, while police will combat violations of regulations.
“All universities will make it transparent to academics that there will be no parties or outdoor socialization in their homes. Violations will not be tolerated,” Universities Scotland said after an assembly with Higher Education Minister Richard Lochhead.
Across Scotland, up to six more people from two families can gather in bars, restaurants or outdoors.
This comes after thousands of academics across the UK were forced to isolate themselves a few days after campus reopening, and ministers refused to rule them out of the house at Christmas to avoid covid-19.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state would conduct its own review of federally approved coronavirus vaccines due to considerations about politicizing the approval process.
Cuomo, a Democrat who has criticized U. S. President Donald Trump and the management of his coronavirus pandemic administration, told reporters that he would form a review committee to advise the state on vaccine safety.
Frankly, I’ll depend on the opinion of the federal government.
The state of New York will have its own review once the federal government has completed its review and declares that it is safe.
A significant proportion of patients who expand the life-threatening covid-19 bureaucracy have genetic or immune defects than their ability to fight the virus, according to research.
In articles published in the journal Science, the foreign consortium Covid Human Genetic Effort describes two disorders in critically sound Covid-19 patients that save them from producing a frontline immune molecule called interferon type 1.
Patients would have had these failures for years before the pandemic, or in the case of genetic errors, all their lives. The discovery would possibly help a mystery surrounding the coronavirus: why it leaves some patients in poor health or dying in intensive care, while others remain slightly affected or asymptomatic.