Coronavirus Live News: Global Cases Top 35 Million When Walter Reed’s Doctor Calls Trump “Insanity” | World News

Meanwhile, in England: A new three-tiered lockdown system is being planned, with leaked government documents paving the way for possible more severe restrictions, including closing bars and banning all social contact outside of domestic groups.

The draft traffic light-style plan, as seen by The Guardian, is designed to simplify the current patchwork of localized restrictions, which apply to about a quarter of the UK. It also reveals tougher measures that could be imposed by the government at the local or national level if Covid cases are not controlled.

On Sunday, the number of cases increased by 22,961 after it emerged that more than 15,000 test results had not previously been transferred to computer systems, including contact trackers.

Called “Covid-19 Proposed Social Distancing Framework” and dated September 30, it has not yet been approved by issue 10 and the measures could still be watered down.

Alert level 3, the most serious, contains stricter measures than those seen so far in local blockades since the start of the pandemic. They include:

• Closing of hotel and leisure businesses.
• No social contact outside your home in any setting.
• Restrictions on overnight stays away from home.
• Non-professional organized sports or other community hobby groups and activities, such as social clubs in community centers, are not allowed.
• Places of worship may remain open.

Jessica Elgot and Heather Stewart report:

Shortly after a masked American president, Donald Trump, got into a car driven by a Secret Service agent, wearing a medical gown, face shield, and mask, a treating physician at Walter Reed Medical Center, where Trump is currently being treated for the coronavirus, he condemned the trip. , calling it “insanity”. At least one other Secret Service agent was also in the car.

In a second tweet he said: “The irresponsibility is amazing.”

Dr. James Phillips is a full-time ER Physician at Walter Reed.

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Speaking of the President of the United States: A treating physician at Walter Reed Medical Center, where Trump is being treated for the coronavirus, condemned the president’s decision to let fans waiting outside the hospital make it happen, calling it “insanity.” “:

Moments ago, Dr. James Phillips tweeted: “Every person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘step’ now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They can get sick. They may die. For political theater. Sent by Trump to put their lives at risk for the theater. This is crazy “.

Meanwhile, the global total of coronavirus cases has passed another milestone, with 35 million infections confirmed by Johns Hopkins University, that of the US president among the staggering total.

So far, 1,035,208 people have died.

Here are the other key developments of the last few hours:

• The UK reported 22,961 new cases on Sunday – a staggering figure that Public Health England has said is ‘artificially high’ due to backlog of case reports. This has meant that the 15,841 cases that went unreported between September 25 and October 2 were added to the figures for Saturday and Sunday, with worrying implications for the country’s contact tracing system.
• Donald Trump did not reveal his positive test result immediately, according to the Wall Street Journal. The president said on Fox News Thursday night that he was waiting for the test results when he already knew about the positive rapid test result, and only made the disclosure after the most thorough detection of Covid-19.
• Trump, who has been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, made a brief appearance by car where he greeted the followers from a car. It reportedly lasted about a minute.
• Ireland’s National Public Health Emergency Team has recommended the nationwide transition to the highest level of restrictions, Level 5. It follows 364 new coronavirus cases that were reported on Sunday.
• All the bars in Paris will close from Tuesday after the capital was put on maximum alert level, Reuters reported. It occurs when the number of cases in France increased from 12,565 to 619,190.
• Brazil has reported 8,456 more cases, bringing the total to 4,915,289. Deaths increased by 365, bringing the death toll to 146,352, said the Health Ministry.
• South AfricaThe health minister said another 1,573 coronavirus cases were confirmed on Sunday., bringing the total to 681,289. Deaths increased by 38 to 16,976.