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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa reports that more than 8,300 new cases of coronavirus showed, while the country with the 5th number of cases in the world has 10,000 deaths.
The new health ministry figures push the total cases on the African continent past the 1 million mark.
South Africa accounts for more than all virus cases in Africa, with 529,877.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize expressed her cautious optimism this week as the rate of new instances declined. But he warned that surveillance will need to continue “to avoid a new wave.”
COVID-19 deaths in South Africa are recently 9,298, with more than new deaths reported.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VIRUS BRUTE:
– Deaths in the United States are expected to succeed in approximately 300,000 as of December 1
– Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine tested for the virus
– Dr. Fauci says that the public protects the slow virus; expects a vaccine in 2021
– Congressional negotiations on a massive aid package opposed to COVID-19 are still ongoing. Leaders are fast reaching their deadline for an agreement on Friday.
– A newsletter informing others in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, about the coronavirus pandemic shocks some readers, thanks to the weekly contributions of the city’s poet laureate.
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Track the AP pandemic in http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah will no longer allow schools to allow academics who have been exposed to coronavirus to gain elegance after doctors and educators refuse.
The state issued a new advice Thursday that any student or instructor who has been in close contact with a displayed case be quarantined at their home for 14 days.
The replacement of the rules comes a week after Gov. Gary Herbert and fitness officials announced a superseded quarantine option that would have allowed students exposed to symptoms to attend school.
Herbert also announced Thursday that the procedure for implementing mask capture orders at the point would still be streamlined and would no longer require state approval.
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HELENA, Mount Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said counties will be able to hold a mail-in vote in November to restrict the coronavirus.
The order issued on Thursday. The Montana Secretaries and Registrars’ Association and the Montana County Association had suggested to the governor last month that he allow the option to vote on general election by mail.
Republicans have criticized the order of Democratic pastors, saying the electorate has the right to move to polling stations if that’s how they need to vote. One Republican official said that “if Montanans can safely move into the store, they can safely move to their polling place to vote on polling day.”
Bullock issued a similar order allowing the number one elections to be held by mail on June 2. This primacy has noticed a record voter turnout.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Gov. Charlie Hannema’s spokesman said Thursday that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, the country’s first governor to test for coronavirus, became engurised when he kissed two of Tulsa’s friends.
At least one of the two men, whom Hannema did not identify, was positive for the virus. The assembly took place on July 10 in Oklahoma City and was not similar to Stitt’s participation in a June 20 election rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa.
Stitt announced on July 15 that he was quarantined after testing positive.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported 41,401 cases of coronavirus and 593 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, a buildup of 837 cases shown and 10 deaths from those reported Wednesday.
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CHICAGO – Illinois reported that nearly 2,000 new cases of COVID-19 showed that public fitness officials continued to warn Thursday that there could be a reversal of the state’s progress in opposition to the coronavirus if things don’t change.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced 1,953 cases shown, since last May, and 21 deaths. Overall, the state reported that 188,424 showed cases of COVID-19 and 7,594 deaths.
Public fitness officials say 41,686 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours and that the average seven-day rate for testing is 4%.
The numbers arrive as Chicago Public Schools, the third largest school district in the country, before this week to give up in-person instruction and will begin the school year with remote learning alone.
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LONDON – Britain has announced that travellers from Andorra, Belgium and the Bahamas will be quarantined for two weeks from Saturday, following a build-up of coronavirus cases in all 3 locations.
The authorities say that COVID-19 instances in Belgium have quadrupled since mid-July and that in Andorra, new instances consistent with the week have increased five-fold in the same constant period. They added that the Bahamas has also noticed a significant increase in case rates.
Authorities now say that not all trips to Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas take position unless they are must-have travel.
Britain also announced Thursday that it had added Brunei and Malaysia to its list of countries, meaning that quarantine is not required upon arrival of those posts, following a minimisation in the cases shown there.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana citizens who struggled to pay for the costs of rent or application for the coronavirus pandemic have an additional week before the end of state protections opposed to evictions and application closures, despite a recent investigation that found that more than 40% of the state’s tenants are unable to pay their rent.
Governor Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday his goal of allowing the suspension of the deportation of rental homes in the state and his ban on disconnecting the public that expires on August 14.
The Republican governor said others who are behind their expenses without delay touch their owners or utilities to expand payment plans, or touch state agencies to get help to offset their payments.
Statewide, about 44% of contracting families cannot afford rent and are at risk of eviction, according to a July 31 investigation through investment bank StoutIus Ross, LLC.
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ATHENS, Greece – The Greek government has imposed a 10-day offensive on public meetings on the beach island of Poros and has reduced the opening hours of the island’s restaurants, bars and clubs due to a national increase in COVID-19 infections.
Health officials said a total of 153 proven new infections had been recorded nationwide in the last 24 hours, numbering in weeks.
For the next ten days, the use of masks will be mandatory in all indoor and outdoor public spaces on Poros, an island near the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. Restaurants, bars and nightclubs must be closed between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., while public meetings outdoors and indoors, in public and personal spaces, should be limited to nine people. And meetings such as parties, flea markets, open-air fairs or devout processions are prohibited.
Greek media reported that thirteen new infections have been reported on the island.
Greece has recorded more than 5,000 infections and 210 deaths.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A lawyer has said the city of Anchorage will sue a local company for violating an ordinance prohibiting food in restaurants and internal breweries for the coronavirus pandemic.
The Anchorage Daily News reported that attorney Kate Vogel said Anchorage will seek a state court order order ordering Kriner’s Diner to close service and comply with the emergency order.
This will be the first time a municipality has sued a company for violating an order since the pandemic began in March.
The place to eat continued with the catering this week after the order took effect on Monday and won a city paint suspension order on Tuesday.
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PHOENIX – Health says the number of known coronavirus-related deaths in Arizona has now exceeded 4,000.
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 1,444 cases of COVID-19 and 70 more deaths on Thursday. This brings the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 183,647 and the number of deaths to 4,002.
Some of the deaths were likely counted after health officials reviewed death certificates going back weeks. The news comes a day after Maricopa County public health officials confirmed 22 bodies were moved to portable storage coolers.
Authorities say the action taken after the Phoenix Metro coroner’s workplace has been filled by 86 percent.
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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana: A Louisiana ruling of approval upheld Gov. John Bel Edwards’ masking order and banned restrictions as legal and enforceable.
Judge Janice Clark issued her ruling after a two-day hearing in which the plaintiffs argued that Edwards’ regulations were illegal, unfair and exaggerating the coronavirus outbreak. Edwards management has countered regulations that have helped curb the spread of the virus and public safety.
“The court firmly believes that the governor deliberately exercised his strength, on behalf of the other people in that state and in an effort to be proactive in restricting the loss of life,” Clark said.
It was issued when the Louisiana Department of Health announced that the death toll from coronavirus had exceeded 4,000.
Louisiana has one of the nation’s consistent capita viral infection rates in the last two weeks. The state reports that more than 1,700 showed cases consistent with the day in the past two weeks.
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HELENA, mount. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock issued a directive allowing counties to hold general elections in November to restrict coronavirus.
The Democratic governor, running for the U.S. Senate, said the electorate does not have to decide between voting and his health.
State officials also announced Thursday that they would spend up to $20 million on tests and tactile search efforts at public universities. Higher education commissioner Clayton Christian said universities will not have universal testing policies. It will test the efforts of computers with the greatest threat of spread of the virus and academics most likely to contract it.
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LANSING, Mich. – Dozens of Michigans sang and waved symptoms at a rally at the Michigan Capitol to draw attention to the danger of reopening schools for face-to-face learning in the fall.
The rally and speeches at the Capitol marches were organized through MI CORE, a group of the teachers’ union.
“We are struggling to get back to school. For most of us, it means starting online,” said Nichole Hartrick, an instructor in the Dearborn School District and one of the event organizers.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer said more than a month ago that she was confident she was safe to retrain in person. According to your plan, in-person categories are allowed but not required. Several districts have announced their goal of starting only with online learning.
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