BALTIMORE, MD – The death toll from Covid-19 in the United States has surpassed 350,000, as experts point to the possibility of coronavirus cases and other deaths due to deaths gathered during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that early Sunday morning U.S. Threshold passed. More than 20 million people in the country have been infected. The U.S. has begun using two coronavirus vaccines to protect health care workers and nursing home residents and staff but the rollout of the inoculation program has been criticized for being slow and chaotic.
Record numbers of cases have been reported in multiple states in the past few days, including North Carolina and Arizona. Mortuary owners in hard-hit Southern California say they are overflowing with corpses.
U.S. The highest number of deaths in the world so far has been recorded in Covid-1, followed by Brazil, where more than 1,195,000 deaths have been reported.
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BREAK out the virus:
– India has approved two COVID-19 vaccines, Pave the way for a massive inoculation program. The vaccines are from Oxford University and AstraZeneca and local firm Bharat Biotech.
– Britain’s prime minister is warning of new sanctions Further coronavirus infection increases. On Monday, the country plans to increase vaccination using the Xford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
– Louis Letlane, 41, of Louisiana congressional electorate, who died of COVID-19 complications, is remembered as a man who loved people And felt to serve others.
– Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koik is urging the national government to declare a “state of emergency” to curb the growing coronavirus infection. Concerns are mounting ahead of the Olympic Games in July.
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Jones warned on Sunday that more severe lockdown sanctions are likely in England as the country runs on new coronavirus variants pushing infection rates to their highest record levels.
Johnson insisted he had “no doubt” that the schools were safe and urged parents to send their children back to England where they could be sent back to class. Unions representing teachers have called on schools to turn to remote learning for at least two more weeks because of the new variant, which scientists say is 70% more contagious.
The UK is in the midst of an acute epidemic, recording more than 50,000 new coronavirus infections a day in the last five days. On Saturday, it reported 57,725 new cases every day. There have been about 75,000 virus-related deaths in the country.
“We have fully agreed to do whatever it takes to keep the virus under control, which could include drastic measures in the coming weeks,” Johnson said in an interview with the BBC. ”
In and around parts of the British capital, there are approximately 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.
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BERLIN – The governor of a leading German state has vowed to extend the country’s lockdown until the end of January and said schools should not reopen soon.
Germany’s current lockdown came into effect on December 16 after a partial shutdown that began in early November failed to reduce new coronavirus infections. Initially it is set to end on January 10th.
It is clear that Chancellor Angela Merkel and 16 German governors will agree to raise it when they review the situation on Tuesday. The question is how long, and to what extent schools will open.
The lockdown should be extended to the end of January, Bavarian Governor Marcus Soder told Sunday’s Build M Sontag newspaper. “Simplicity in haste will take us a long way” and Austria has shown that the “open-closed-open-close model” does not work.
Some officials advocate opening primary schools as soon as possible. But Soder, whose state is infected with the virus above average, said it would be “irresponsible” to send all students and teachers directly back to school.
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New Delhi: India on Sunday authorized two COVID-19 vaccines, paving the way for a massive inoculation program to curb the coronavirus epidemic in the world’s second most populous country.
The Indian drug regulator has given emergency powers to vaccines developed by Oxford University and UK-based drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, and others developed by the Indian company Bharat Biotech.
Drugs Controller General Dr. Venugopal G Somani said both would require two doses and the decision was taken after a “careful investigation” by the Central Drugs Standards Control Organization, the pharmaceutical regulator of India. Both vaccines are cheaper and easier to use than Pfizer and Moderna because they do not require ultra-cold storage facilities.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the vaccine approval a “turning point in strengthening the vigorous fight”. Modi tweeted, “Congratulations India.”
India’s initial immunization scheme aims to vaccinate 100,000 million people by August – health care workers, front-line staff, including the police, and those considered vulnerable to their age or other diseases.
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SYDNEY – More Australian states and territories are imposing travel bans to prevent new outbreaks of coronavirus in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
The Australian Australian Capital Territory has closed off non-residents along Sydney’s north coast, where eruptions are most concentrated, Greater Sydney and other smaller centers, unless they have an exemption.
The island state of Tasmania has banned anyone directly involved in the recent Victorian case, giving a list of exposure sites where confirmed cases are found. The move required travelers to be isolated for 14 days upon arrival after Tasmania declared Greater Sydney and the Wollongong area south of Sydney as moderate risk zones, while restricting entry to Sydney’s northern coast.
Three new cases were reported in Victoria on Sunday. In all, 21 local Victorian cases have been received in recent days, all linked to the outbreak in New South Wales. The Victoria border is now closed to all travelers to New South Wales.
On Sunday, eight new local cases were reported in New South Wales. There are 161 active cases in the state, most of them in the north coast of Sydney and 13 out of liquor stores.
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BEIJING – Chinese authorities have tested more than 4. million million residents in the northeastern city of Shenyang after discovering a new coronavirus cluster there, but have confirmed only four cases.
On Sunday, another case was reported in a separate town in Liaoning province. On Sunday, China reported 11 new domestic infectious cases – five in Liaoning, four in northeastern Heilongjiang province, one in Beijing and one in Hebei province, outside Beijing.
Officials across China are on high alert as new cases come out. Bus and taxi services were suspended after four new cases were reported in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province. It has temporarily closed all business locations in the city except markets and closed residential communities.
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PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducie has rejected a call from the state’s Higher Education Officer’s Ducie to order public schools to use inst instant notification only for the next two weeks unless they apologize to health officials.
Amid the growth of coronavirus in the state, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kathy Hoffman, said Saturday that schools need a two-week “quarantine period” when educators and local officials review health data and determine what type of instruction is appropriate for their communities. .
A spokesman for the governor said the deuce would not issue an order because how to open schools is a local decision.
About 8,900 additional known COVID-19 cases and 46 deaths were reported in Arizona on Saturday.
Many schools in Arizona will begin classes next week after the winter holidays.
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RAILWAY, NC – North Carolina has the highest number of COVID-19 cases reported daily.
On New Year’s Day, 9,527 confirmed cases were reported in the state. More than 1,000 cases have been registered on the state’s previous high figures. About 9 cases were reported on Saturday. The two-day case was released by the state health department on Saturday.
Secretary of State for Health Dr. “We are starting 2021 in the most dangerous state of this epidemic,” said Mandy Cohen.
A total of more than 558,000 cases have been reported in North Carolina.
On Saturday, 15.5% of the tests were positive, the highest rate since the epidemic began. In addition, record ID, 1979 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 and 783 people were in the intensive care unit. With another 144 deaths reported, the number of states has risen to about 6,900.
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NEW YORK – New York government Andrew Cuomo says more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported in the state since the epidemic began.
That figure was reached when New York recorded about 15,000 new positive tests on Friday. Experts say the official number of coronavirus cases represents a significant undercover represents, as many people in the New York City area became infected with the coronavirus last spring when testing was not widely available.
New York is the fourth state to record more than 1 million positive COVID-19 tests, after California, Texas and Florida.
A total of 128 Kovid-19 deaths were reported in New York on Friday.
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LOS ANGELES – Hospitals in the Los Angeles area are struggling to provide enough oxygen for sick coronavirus patients. There was some relief on Saturday when the Army Corps Engine F Engineers crew arrived.
Government Gavin News’s Fis says the crew helped some elderly people improve their oxygen delivery systems. In addition to the lack of oxygen, they are also having difficulty keeping up with the demand for oxygen oxygen tanks to take discharged patients home.
The worst affected are in the southern part of the state, where hospitals are overcrowded with patients and intensive care units. The MakeShift ward is set up in tents, arenas, classrooms and conference rooms.
California started the new year with a record 585 coronaviruses on Friday in a single day. The state’s public health department on Saturday registered more than 34 newly confirmed cases, with a total of six confirmed cases. 2. million.
A total of 26,357 confirmed confirmed COVID-19 deaths have occurred in California.
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Phoenix – About 8,900 coronavirus cases were reported in Arizona, leading to a two-day epidemic in the state.
There were 10,060 cases reported on Friday, a two-day confirmation, bringing the total to 18,943. The state’s previous two-day high was 17,649 on December 13-14.
Arizona recorded 46 deaths on Saturday, bringing the total to 9,061.
Arizona had the second-worst diagnosis rate in the past week, just behind California.
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Window ROCK, z res. – Navajo Nation has reported 266 confirmed coronavirus cases and seven more deaths.
The figures, released late Friday night, show there have been 23,429 cases since the outbreak and the total number of tribesmen has risen since 813 deaths were confirmed.
The number of infections is thought to be much higher than reported because many people have not been screened, and studies suggest that people may become infected without feeling sick.
Reserves of this breed include parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Reservations were under weekend lockdown that began Friday evening and ends Monday at 5 p.m.
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LOS ANGELES – Southern California funeral homes are turning to bereaved families as space for their bodies dwindles.
The head of the California Funeral Directors Association says the mortuaries are “sinking”.
An average 30 bodies are removed a day at a funeral home, five times more than usual. Mortuary owners are calling each other to see if anyone can handle the overflow, and the answer is always the same – they’re full.
Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the crisis in California, has surpassed 10,000 Kovid-19 deaths. As of Friday, 585 coronavirus deaths have been reported in California.
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