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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Caracas on Tuesday when his country delivered medical materials for crisis-affected Venezuela to cope with the new coronavirus pandemic.
Turkey has been a key backing of Venezuelan Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, who oversaw a six-year economic crisis in the once thriving OPEC country, but has resisted 18-month US efforts to overthrow it through sanctions. about the country’s oil sector.
“Neither sanctions nor blockade, nor any kind of scenario will save us from deepening our economic and industrial relations,” Venezuelan Chancellor Jorge Arreaza said in a state television broadcast after an assembly with Cavusoglu.
As tensions between Caracas and Washington have intensified in recent years, Turkey has deepened its economic ties with Venezuela, exporting products for a state food distribution program and buying gold from the South American country.
Hundreds of New York University students and staff covered the front of a white marquee for coronavirus testing before the resumption of some categories in early September, a scene that is expected to take place on many U.S. campuses in the coming weeks.
NYU evaluates academics who have selected in-person learning, with courses for undergraduate academics starting September 2. The university, in many buildings throughout Manhattan, also offers academics remote learning functions or a combined intermediate program.
Indigenous protesters in Brazil agreed to suspend their blockade on a key road in the midst of a legal battle, but pledged to fight for more help against COVID-19 and end deforestation. Brandishing bows and dresses with classic feather headdresses and frame paint, dozens of ethnic protesters Kayapo Mekranoti had been blocking the BR-163 road through the Amazon rainforest since Monday morning. The road is an artery for farmers in Brazil’s agricultural center to send corn and soybeans, two of the country’s main exports, to the amazon’s river ports and beyond.
The Canadian province of Quebec has announced its goal of addressing beyond mistakes in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, while preparing its fitness sector for a wave of coronavirus at the moment imaginable.
Once the most COVID-19 province in the country, Quebec will encourage hiring in the public fitness sector, reduce screening times, and ensure that staff and care staff can no longer paint in multiple long-term care facilities. a practice in the past accused of spreading the virus. Health Minister Christian Dube told reporters.
Boeing has introduced a circular of voluntary layoffs to reduce the size, the company said, while navigating a brutal advertising aviation market and is back up and running the 737 MAX.
The measure comes with 10% relief in the previous year, as advertising airline consumers postpone deliveries and cancel orders, affecting Boeing’s profits.
“While we have noticed signs of pandemic recovery, our industry and our consumers continue to face challenges,” the aerospace giant said in a message to the AFP.
Ireland has particularly tightened its national limitations on coronaviruses in an attempt to involve an increase in cases, urging everyone to limit visitors to their homes, public transport and the elderly to limit their contact.
An increase in cases for more than 3 weeks, after Ireland had one of the lowest infection rates in Europe for several weeks, took its cases cumulative over 14 days consisting of 100,000 inhabitants to 26 and led to the first blockade last week.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats in Congress were willing to halve their bill of coronavirus relief to reach an agreement on the new law with the White House and Republicans.
“We will have to verify to succeed in this agreement now,” Pelosi said in an online interview with Politico. “We are able to cut our bill in part to fulfill the wishes now. We’ll retire it in January. We’ll see you in January. But for now, we can cut the bill in part.”
South Korea ordered the closure of nightclubs, museums and buffet restaurants and banned meetings in and around the capital, as an explosion of new cases of coronavirus has led to fears of a momentary primary wave.
The country’s “track, control and treat” technique to combat the virus has been promoted as a global model, however, it is now battling several computers that are basically connected to Procheckant churches.
Zimbabwe has abbreviated a night curfew imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and a prolonged opening hours despite the accumulation of cases, the government said after a weekly closet meeting.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced last month a curfew starting at 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., however, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said she had left travelers un transported.
The French Ministry of Health has reported 2,238 new coronavirus infections, less than recent daily peaks, but still in the degrees last observed in the blockade from March to May imposed to stop the spread of the disease.
The seven-day moving average of the case count, which eliminates irregularities in daily reports, is now above 2000 for five consecutive days, a point last observed in mid-April.
Australia has won a possible “promising” vaccine opposed to coronavirus, the prime minister announced, saying the country would manufacture it and offer loose doses to the entire population.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia has reached an agreement with Swedish-British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to get the COVID-19 vaccine he is preparing with Oxford University.
Montenegro will postpone the start of the school year by one month due to the “uncertain” prestige of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Education said.
Balkan countries have discussed how to safely resume categories after an expanding summer of coronavirus infections.
The number of coronavirus deaths in Turkey has increased from 20 to 6016, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health, and the total number of known cases amounts to 251805.
Data showed that 1,263 new instances were known in the last 24 hours, at 1,233 a day earlier.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an intellectual aptitude crisis in the Americas due to increased tension and use of drugs and alcohol during six months of lockdowns and home care measures, said the regional director of the World Health Organization.
“There is an urgent need for intellectual aptitude to be felt as an essential component of the pandemic response,” Carissa Etienne said at a virtual briefing at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington.
Chile’s GDP plummeted by 14.1% this quarter, the Central Bank said, after the coronavirus pandemic hampered economic activity, with the exception of the major mining sector.
Among the sectors most affected are industry, structure and the hotel and catering sector. In the first quarter, Chile’s GDP rose by 0.2%.
“In the last quarter of the year, economic activity declined by 14.1% at the same time last year,” the Central Bank said.
Polish Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski said he resigns from office, at the time of the ministry’s two-day resignation, which has been the subject of growing complaints about his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Szumowski’s technique at the start of the pandemic made him Poland’s top trusted politician in April, but his symbol was marred by scandals surrounding the acquisition of enthusiasts and masks.
Szumowski has denied wrongdoing.
The Lebanese government has announced a new blockade and a curfew to stem the outbreak of coronavirus infections.
The new measures will come into force on Friday and last just over two weeks, the internal ministry said, adding that they will not carry out cleanup work or assist efforts following the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4.
The airport remains open and all traffic to and from is allowed if passengers can show the government a price ticket for their trip.
A non-player examined COVID-19 in the controlled environment that will host this year’s Western-Southern Open and US Open in New York next month, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) said.
The individual is asymptomatic and has been informed that he will have to isolate himself for at least ten days, while the contact search has been introduced if someone else deserves to go to quarantine, the USTA said in a statement.
The World Health Organization says the planet has the amount of coronavirus immunity needed to induce collective immunity, where a sufficient amount of the population would have antibodies to prevent spread.
Collective immunity is sometimes achieved through vaccination and scientists estimate that at least 70% of the population will have to have antibodies to prevent an epidemic. But some experts have warned that even if a part of the population is immune, there may be a protective effect.
WHO emergency chief Michael Ryan largely rejected this theory at a press conference and said we do not live “in the hope” of collective immunity.
“As a global population, we are far from the immunity levels needed to prevent transmission of this disease,” he said. “This is not a solution or a solution we are looking for.”
An increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the more than two weeks is “alarming” and may bring an additional increase in the near future, the UAE’s 1930s fitness minister said.
The United Arab Emirates has recorded 365 new cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, the government said, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the Gulf state since the start of the pandemic to 64906 with 366 deaths.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that restrictions on coronaviruses may no longer be loosened as Germany is facing an outbreak of new infections.
She suggested that Germans stick to hygiene precaution regulations and reminded travellers returning from high-risk spaces that quarantine is not an “but an obligation” option until they simply check negative.
“We see greater mobility and closer contact leading to more cases,” Merkel said at a press convention in Dusseldorf.
The UK registered 1,089 new COVID-19 instances, up from 713 on Monday, according to government figures.
Twelve other people died after giving coronavirus positive in 28 days. The UK has recorded more than 1,000 cases in 8 of the last 10 days.
Dozens of doctors in at least two of Kenya’s 47 counties went on strike for late payments, insufficient non-public protective devices (PPEs) to treat coVID-19 patients and lack of health insurance, a trade union official told Reuters.
Kenya has a total of 30,636 infections shown, with 487 deaths, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
Health personnel say they’ve won a good enough PPE, but the government has said it has distributed enough for everyone.
Brazil approved human clinical trials for a possible COVID-19 vaccine developed through Johnson and Johnson, the fourth candidate to verify in the Latin American country that holds the key to the global vaccine race.
Health regulator Anvisa said he had given the study the green touch, which will see another 6,000 people in Brazil volunteer to verify the candidate vaccine for Johnson-Johnson’s pharmaceutical subsidiary, Janssen.
Hello, it is Elizabeth Melimopoulos who resumes updates from my colleague Hamza Mohamed in Doha.
Masks will be mandatory in workplaces in France, with the exception of individual offices where a worker is present, the French Ministry of Employment announced tuesday, as the government seeks to combat the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ministry added that house paintings would remain the recommended option for employees.
The Namibian government warns its citizens to rely on social media claims that elephant manure can cure COVID-19, as coronavirus infections accumulate more quickly.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Romeo Muyunda, told Reuters that the government had observed that elephant manure was increasingly being promoted as a component of COVID-19.
Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula said COVID-19 had no cure lately.
Cases of type 1 diabetes in young people in a small British study nearly doubled during the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in the country, suggesting an imaginable link between the two diseases requiring further research, scientists said Tuesday.
Although the study is based only on a handful of cases, it is the first to relate COVID-19 and type 1 diabetes that was just emerged in children, and doctors are attentive, researchers at Imperial College London said.
Karen Logan, who co-directed the study, said previous reports from China and Italy had pointed out that in hospitals young people were diagnosed with newly evolving type 1 diabetes, the pandemic.
South Africa, which has had one of the strictest anti-coronavirus blockades in the world for five months, eased its restrictions on Tuesday in reaction to a drop in new cases.
The country has its regulations to allow the sale of alcohol and cigarettes, and the reopening of bars, restaurants, gyms and places of worship, all limited to a maximum of 50 people.
Schools will reopen from August 24.
The Philippine Ministry of Health showed 4,836 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, the seventh consecutive day of notification of more than 3,000 cases and seven more deaths.
In a bulletin, the ministry reported that the total number of cases shown was more than 169,213, while the deaths reached 2,687.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday eased the strict blockade of coronavirus in the capital Manila and neighboring provinces to reopen the economy and business suffering, while the country has the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia.
Olympique de Marseille showed 3 more cases of coronavirus at the club, which raised the general to 4 before opening the new Ligue 1 season at home against St Etienne on Friday.
Marseille said on Tuesday that Monday’s tests had revealed no new cases, but had shown three suspected cases on Sunday.
Last season’s Ligue 1 was abandoned due to the global pandemic. Paris Saint-Germain was declared champion.
Indonesia reported 1,673 new infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 143,043, according to the knowledge of the country’s ministry of fitness.
Knowledge recorded 70 more deaths, bringing the total to 6277.
Foreign citizens of Dubai who have been still want permission to return to the city, said the emirate.
In March, the United Arab Emirates suspended non-citizens’ access as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus disease. Since then, citizens have been allowed to return gradually, either after obtaining a special exemption or through online registration, many remain abroad.
Last week, a federal policy was lifted that required foreign nationals to seek approval before returning to the Gulf state. However, Dubai still asks citizens to apply for an access permit, the emirate said in a statement.
Those travelling to the UAE must download a negative COVID-19 check before arrival.
Russia reported on Tuesday 4748 new cases of coronavirus, which raises its national level to 932493, the fourth in the world.
The reaction center to the country’s coronavirus crisis said 132 other people had died from the disease in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of coronavirus deaths to 15,872.
Marks and Spencer, the British retail chain that promotes clothing and food, will eliminate around 7,000 tasks as the coronavirus pandemic pushes shoppers away from its stores, he announced Tuesday. Task cuts, which will take place over the next 3 months, come with losses from its central centre, regional control and its UK stores, M-S said in a statement.
India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah was re-hospitalized on Tuesday after complaining of fatigue and pain, four days after noting that he had recovered from COVID-19.
Shah, assistant to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and virtual number two in his cabinet, has been admitted to the government-run Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, New Delhi, said the hospital in a statement.
“He is and continues with his hospital paintings,” he said, adding that he had now tested negative for COVID-19.
India recorded the third number of infections worldwide after the United States and Brazil, with cases exceeding 50,000 relative to the day since July 30.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak will register for a video assembly of OPEC ministers on Wednesday despite positive tests for coronavirus during a holiday in Russia’s Far East, the Ministry of Energy said.
“The minister feels good. It has no symptoms,” a ministry spokeswoman told reuters.
Novak is in Russia’s Far East as a component of a government delegation led by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who was the new coronavirus last April.
Brazil has recorded 684 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 108,536, the country’s ministry said.
At least 19,373 more people contract the virus, the ministry added, bringing the total to 3,359,570.
With a population of one million, Sao Paulo remains the hardest hit region in the country, with 702,655 cases and 26,899 deaths.
Hi, I’m Hamza Mohamed in Doha, Qatar, who succeeds my colleague Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur.
South Korea reported another 246 cases of coronavirus, adding 235 acquired on Tuesday its fifth day of three-digit increases.
Of the new cases, 131 were reported in Seoul and neighboring Gyeonggi Province.
Dozens of cases have been attributed to the church in Sarang Jeil, in the north of the capital, and the government has suggested that those who attended an anti-government rally on Saturday be examined because the faithful known to have the virus were provided at the demonstration. .
Hong Kong Post announced that it would conduct COVID-19 tests for approximately 3,800 workers guilty of mail delivery, external responsibilities and counter service.
The tests are scheduled for August 20 and 21 and Hong Kong Post expects the procedure to be completed within two days of the collection of a sample.
Chinese state media reports that a vaccine developed through a unit of the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) will not charge more than 1,000 yuan ($144.27) for two injections.
Sinopharm says his vaccine, lately in human trials in the United Arab Emirates, may be in a position for public use until the end of this year.
“Its value will be very high,” said Liu Jingzhen, president of Sinopharm, quoted by Guangming Daily.
More than two hundred vaccines have been developing lately, adding more than 20 in human trials.
The world’s regional director of the World Health Organization for the Western Pacific said that other young people, those between the ages of 20, 30 and 40, are at the root of the pandemic.
Takeshi Kasai said in a virtual briefing that many knew they had the disease.
“This increases the threat of spills to the most vulnerable: the elderly, those in poor health in long-term care, others living in densely populated and neglected areas,” he said.
A leading infectious disease expert says the coronavirus mutation in a more infectious strain may simply be “something good” because it appears to be less deadly.
Paul Tambyah, chief representative of the National University of Singapore and president-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, said the D614G strain is increasingly discovered in Europe, and was reported this week in Malaysia, told Reuters that viruses tend to be less fatal as they progress. Mutated.
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While New Zealand may have excluded imports of frozen food as the source of its most recent coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state media report that the southern city of Shenzhen is setting up a particular warehouse to address those imports.
All imported frozen foods will have to go through the facility, where they will be disinfected, before they can be processed, stored or sold in Shenzhen. Samples will also be taken for nucleic acid research.
New Zealand has excluded frozen food and freight transport as a cause of the coronavirus outbreak in Auckland.
Executive Health Director Ashley Bloomfield told the media that research showed that the virus did not pass through refrigerated food or fabrics from a bloodless garage where one of the other people diagnosed with the virus worked.
Auckland is blocked until 26 August and investigations continue on the origin of the outbreak.
American Democrats have begun the conference that will nominate Joe Biden as the party’s nominee in the November presidential election.
Actress Eva Longoria opened the occasion – arranged by COVID-19 – by saying that the pandemic “had affected us all.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo later addressed the convention and said outgoing President Donald Trump’s management was “dysfunctional and incompetent” and had failed to combat coronavirus.
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The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has abandoned plans to launch an app that allows others to reserve their post on the beach after public mockery.
Marcelo Crivella has been inundated with complaints and an avalanche of memes on social media after the proposal was delivered last week.
The mayor now says that the app will be removed and that staying seated on the beach will continue to be banned.
People have been allowed to swim in the ocean since the end of last month.
New Zealand has reported thirteen new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
Twelve of the cases are similar to an existing group that forced the closure of Auckland, the country’s city.
Thousands more took to the streets of Argentine peoples to show their opposition to President Alberto Fernández and his plans to impose greater restrictions on coronaviruses in the Buenos Aires region.
Protesters piled up in the center of town shouting “freedom, freedom,” waving flags and chanting anti-government slogans.
Argentina has recorded nearly 300,000 cases of the disease and 5,750 deaths. About 90% of cases occurred in Buenos Aires, where coronavirus boundaries lasted until August 30.
The Australian state of Victoria reported its lowest number of coronavirus cases in a month, raising hopes that the wave of epidemics in the state will subside.
Victoria has reported 222 cases of the disease in the last 24 hours.
He also reported 17 deaths.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) will reopen its doors, with fewer permitted and scheduled entrances and mandatory masks, on August 27.
MoMA has been closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is scheduled to open on August 29, while the Whitney Museum of American Art will reopen on September 3.
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