Bismarck, ND – The North Dakota Nurses Association says it does not support the move to allow health care workers who have tested positive for coronavirus but have no symptoms to stay on the job.
Amidst the skyrocketing coronavirus cases in North Dakota, government Doug Bergham supports the idea of reducing stress on both hospitals and medical personnel. Bergum says hospital administrators called for action and interim state health officer Dirk Wilke amended the order to allow it to be enforced.
The Nurses Association says the CDC’s guidelines say the decision should be left to the positive nurse on what to do. The association says other measures, such as wearing masks, should be used to reduce demand on the health care system before implementing the strategy.
Republican Bergham does not support the statewide mask order. Instead, he emphasizes personal responsibility.
According to Johns Hopkins statistics, the highest per capita new coronavirus case in the country is in North Dakota, with one in every 83 residents tested positive in the past week.
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Detroit – Michigan’s largest school district, will suspend individual classes next week, and join other districts, which have seen an increase in coronavirus cases.
Detroit Superintendent Nikolai Witty says they can’t ignore the climbing infection rate, which reached about 5% last week. The suspension will last until January 11.
Whitty faced criticism from some teachers and activists, who gave the district’s nearly 1,000,000 students an individual choice. He said families deserve choices.
Michigan Governorate. Gretchen Whitmer plans to talk about coronavirus later on Thursday. In a separate incident, officials at major hospitals plan to speak out about the impact of the growing coronavirus case.
The state recorded 6,008 new infections and 42 more deaths on Wednesday.
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MINEPOLIS – Minnesota’s largest school district will close its elementary schools because the coronavirus is shortening it on staff and bus drivers.
The Anoka-Hennepin district will transition to distance education. Elementary students have been participating in individual classes two days a week since September 15th.
St. Paul’s Pioneer Press reports that Enoka-Hennepin’s middle and high schools switched from a hybrid schedule to distance learning on Nov. 4.
State guidelines suggest districts consider closing all schools when the number of new cases in the county is more than 50 per 10,000. The district said its two-week new case rate among employees is 86 per 10,000.
The district serves about 38,000 students. He has not set a date for the closure of primary schools.
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W. Washington – Dr. Anthony Faucci says he does not believe the United States will need a lockdown to fight coronavirus if people wear masks to cut social distance.
The country’s top infectious disease specialist says “horsemen are coming” in the form of vaccines. “Help is really on the way,” he says.
“If they prove to be safe and effective, the vaccine is being developed, it will have a big positive effect,” Fauqi told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday. He says he could deploy in December and early next year. He says he hopes that by April, May and June, “ordinary citizens” will be able to get the vaccine.
Meanwhile, Fauci says Americans can do basic things to stop the spread of the deadly virus. This includes wearing a mask “universal”, avoiding crowds, keeping social distance and washing hands. It sounds easy in the face of a very difficult challenge but “it really makes a difference,” he says.
Fawcett’s message echoes that of President-elect Joe Biden, who this week hinted that fighting the raging epidemic would be an immediate priority for his new administration.
U.S. It leads the world with more than 241,000 deaths and 10 million coronavirus cases.
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KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week, has been hospitalized.
Spokeswoman Ulya Mendel told the Associated Press that her symptoms remain mild and her condition is “nothing serious.” Zelensky announced Monday that he had contracted the virus.
Mendel says he was moved to a hospital in Kiev because “coronavirus patients have better conditions for self-isolation and care.”
Zelensky’s Chief of Staff, Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance have been diagnosed with Covid-19.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian government ordered the closure of non-essential businesses over the weekend to stem the rapid growth that has erupted.
Health officials reported another 11,057 coronavirus cases on Thursday. A total of 500,865 confirmed cases and 9,145 deaths have been reported in Ukraine.
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TOKYO – The Japanese government will reduce capacity in major athletic and cultural events for another three months amid a resurgence of the coronavirus.
Economic Rehabilitation Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura says the number of new cases has increased daily in recent weeks and reached a daily record of more than 1,600 in August.
As of Thursday, 1,546 coronavirus cases were reported, bringing the total confirmed cases to 111,711. 1,851 people have died in Japan.
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Nairobi, Kenya – Africa’s top health official says the continent has seen an average%% increase in new coronavirus cases in the past month, as parts of the continent return to 1. 1. Infections have returned to parts of billions of people.
“We expect it to happen,” says John Nakengasong, and warns that when the virus returns for another wave, it “returns with full force.”
The African continent is approaching 2 million confirmed cases, including the deaths of just over 1.9 million people now.
“We are at a critical juncture in responding to this,” says Nakengasong, urging governments and citizens to follow public health measures. With 19 million tests so far, testing across Africa is a challenge. The countries with the highest number of cases last week were Congo at 37%, Kenya at 34% and Nigeria at 117%.
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BERLIN – Germany’s National Center for Disease Control says it is seeing temporary signs that the country’s coronavirus infection is slowing, but warns that some hospitals could reach capacity limits in the coming weeks.
A four-week partial shutdown began in Germany on November 2. On Thursday, the Robert Koch Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, said 21,866 new cases had been reported in the last 24 hours among the country’s 83 million people. That is short of the record set at 23,399 on Saturday, but about 2,000 more than a week earlier.
The head of the organization, Lothar Wyler, said Thursday he was “cautiously optimistic” because “the curve is growing a little sharper, it’s flat.” But he said “we don’t know yet whether this is a steady growth.”
According to Johns Hopkins University, Germany has more than 738,000 cases and is ranked 14th in the world. It killed about 12,000 people, ranking 19th.
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PARIS – Some doctors and fresh virus statistics from France suggest the current wave of infections is peaking, and relief is in sight.
The French prime minister is giving a news conference on Thursday evening about the two-week impact of the partial new lockdown, and authorities are expected to begin regaining control of the virus.
Businesses are being forced to reopen, but imprisonment measures are set to remain in place until at least December 1.
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BERLIN – Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa has launched a test program that it hopes will ensure the safety of passengers and flight crews amid the coronavirus epidemic and encourage more people to fly.
The airline said Thursday that all passengers on the morning flight from Munich to Hamburg had taken the so-called antigen test and only after showing quick results were they allowed to come out to be negative for coronavirus.
Passengers were not charged for the test, but it would be carried out and an extra time of about an hour had to be blocked for the result to be ready, the airline said.
For two flights during the trial period, passengers who refuse to test or who cannot show that they had a negative PCR test will be booked no more than hours before boarding.
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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Interior Ministry has banned smoking in public places across the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The ministry said in a statement late Wednesday evening that smoking would be banned in busy streets, bus stops and public squares when needed.
It said the nationwide mask order in public places should always be followed. It states that smokers regularly violate the rule of the mask, which has been in force for several months.
The ministry also said that depending on the increase in the number of critically ill patients, the province may decide to impose a curfew on people over the age of 65. The governors of Istanbul and Ankara have already taken action again this week, allowing senior citizens to leave their homes only between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
In late May, Turkey has seen an increase in infections after partial downfalls and the resumption of businesses.
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SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean court has granted bail to a religious leader arrested in Gust, alleging he and his church disrupted the government’s antivirus response.
The Suwon District Court on Thursday cited concerns about the health of 88-year-old Lee Man Na-ha, chairman of the Shinchenji Church of Jesus, saying there was no longer a serious threat to destroy evidence given the progress of the plaintiff’s investigation. The court required Lee to wear electronic tracking devices and not leave his home.
Prosecutors have accused Lee and his church of violating infectious disease laws by deliberately concealing some of the church’s membership and reporting his gatherings to avoid widespread quarantine.
Lee and his church have strongly denied the allegations, saying the church is cooperating properly with health officials.
More than 5,200 cases of South Korea’s 27,942 coronaviruses have been linked to the church.
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New Delhi: 47,905 new cases of coronavirus infection have been reported in India, a daily record in New Delhi on Thursday.
In the country’s capital, the rise of 5,933 cases is the highest in any major Indian city and people flock to the areas for ping on Saturdays before Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
In the last 24 hours, 85 deaths have been reported in New Delhi. Death due to long-term illness and medical treatment is a volatile indicator of the effect of the virus.
Overall, India’s new cases remained stable. The health ministry also registered 550 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 128,121.
The number of confirmed cases in India – currently the second largest in the world behind the United States – has crossed 6.6 million.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Health officials in New Zealand have told people working in central Auckland to stay home on Friday or limit their movement as they continue to investigate coronavirus cases from an undisclosed source.
Officials say they are urgently investigating the current activities of a landlord working at a couple store. They say the student lives next to a hotel where vigilance is being maintained from people coming from abroad, some of whom have tested positive in recent weeks.
COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says authorities are examining the genome of the student’s case to see if there is any connection to the hotel’s cases, and they will announce on Friday whether they will change New Zealand’s warning level.
The case is a blow to a country that has been largely successful in its efforts to stem the spread of the virus.
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