Colombia has 800,000 cases, Argentina exceeds 700,000; France 14,000 new cases; Australian state of Victoria lifts curfew
Last updated: September 27, 2020 at 04. 37 BST
Cases of coronavirus in Colombia, which is nearly a month after the onset of a national reopening after a long quarantine, have exceeded 800,000, while in Argentina, infections have exceeded 700,000, while the pandemic continues to take over the Americas.
Colombia has 806,038 shown of the virus, the Ministry of Fitness said Saturday, with 25,296 reported deaths. The assets were 78,956.
The country now has the fifth largest number of cases in the world, and five of the 10 most affected countries in the world are in Central or South America: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Argentina, Chile has the number 12 cases.
Colombia began more than five months of blockade in March and is now in a much more relaxed “selective” quarantine phase, allowing dinner in foreign restaurants and flights.
Concerts and other primary occasions are prohibited and land and river borders are closed.
Intensive care teams in Bogota, which handle one-third of cases in Colombia, have a capacity of approximately 50% according to local fitness authorities.
Argentina also reached a vital milestone on Saturday, surpassing 700,000 instances, according to Johns Hopkins, with new daily infections and deaths among the five most sensitive in the world. Argentina reported a moving average of 11,082 new instances in seven days, only India, the United States, France and Brazil, all countries with a much larger population than the South American nation.
Argentina, already going through a devastating economic crisis, is among the first Latin American countries to put into force a strict quarantine, but a slow rest in time and the spread of instances from the capital to the provinces have noticed that cases are soaring.
In Mexico, the cases shown of coronavirus increased to 726431 on Saturday, according to data from the Ministry of Fitness, with a death toll of 76243. Tests.
In Brazil, which has the highest number of deaths at the time in the world, the United States, a failure has cancelled a championship football match between Palmeiras and Flamengo after at least 16 Rio players tested positive for Covid-19 and their rivals responded. asking the whole league program to stop.
The decision, made through a labor court in Rio de Janeiro, follows an appeal through the club’s employees’ union, which said they and their families would be in danger if the attack occurred.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the country’s sports court had rejected Flamengo’s request to prevent the match.
The number of deaths internationally reaches one million. Johns Hopkins data show 992,984 deaths, and the United States accounts for approximately 20% of them.
In Australia, the prime minister of Victoria’s most affected state announced a loosening of some restrictions after 8 weeks of fourth-level measures, which come with the removal of curfew from nine o’clock at night. at 5 a. m. from Monday and primary school youth will resume face-to-face learning starting October 12.
China reported 14 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, with 15 cases reported a day earlier, the national fitness authority said, adding that all cases were imported infections involving foreign travelers.
In Hong Kong, the fitness government reported a case on Saturday, a traveler arriving from Bahrain.
In the UK, paintings by many doctors, nurses, fundraisers and volunteers will be identified on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which will be rescheduled for June to load programmes for key players in the early months of the pandemic. October 10th.
Saudi Arabia plans to resume tourist visas until early 2021 after months of suspension amid strict measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.