The number of new cases in California falls; Cuba restricts domestic travel; India has 97,570 infections. Follow all developments
The French fitness government reported on Saturday 10561 new cases shown of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a new record as the number surpassed 10,000 for the first time.
A past record of 9,843 new infections reported on Thursday.
Portugal’s structure and production corporations are going to reclaim the economy, Bloomberg reports.
“The economy is recovering rapidly, more than expected in Portugal and Europe,” Finance Minister Joao Leao said Friday in Berlin, where he attended an assembly of EUROPEAN finance ministers, but warned that the picture remains “very uncertain. “
In the third quarter, Portugal’s structure sector “is working very well” and the production sector is recovering, Leao said, although tourism remains seriously affected under pressure.
The Portuguese economy is expected to contract by 9. 8% this year, after six years of expansion that have contributed to the unemployment rate and budget deficit.
Portugal has the third debt ratio in euro dominance after Greece and Italy.
Although California’s maximum is still closed, officials are beginning to see symptoms of hope as new cases and hospitalizations collapse, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The most populous state in the United States still has the highest instances in the country, however, considering the population, states like Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and Louisiana are worse off.
Over the next week, an average of 93,527 daily tests have been performed and state-round positivity has decreased to 3. 7%.
But the crisis is over.
As of September 11, 14,269 Covid-19-related deaths had been reported in California, and as of Saturday morning, the total number of infections shown was 755,705.
On Friday, California reported its largest accumulation of deaths in five days, and during the following week, the state recorded an average of 3464 new cases and 89 new deaths in line with the day.
As noted elsewhere, racial disparities persist: Latinos in the state are now 3. 4 times more likely to test positive than whites.
The Venice Film Festival in person closes the first show of foreign films of the Covid era, with critics, filmmakers and actors applauding the organizers for the audacity of organizing the festival in the middle of a pandemic and for making known how to return to the cinema safely. .
The festival’s coveted Golden Lion Awards were awarded Saturday night in front of a masked audience that obviously doesn’t have the power of Hollywood stars, as restrictions related to coronavirus have alienated all American productions, the Associated Press reports.
Eighteen films competed for the awards in the big competition, adding a record 8 directed across women.
The fact that the 10-day festival has been positioned a miracle, given that northern Italy at the end of February has become point 0 of the coronavivrus epidemic in Europe.
The Cannes Film Festival has been cancelled and other primary foreign festivals in Toronto and New York have selected to move basically online.
But after Italy controlled to tame its infections with a strict 10-week blockade, Venice went ahead, albeit according to security protocols that in the past would have been unthinkable for a festival with stunning images and a glamorous clientele.
The face masks were indoors and outdoors.
The public was excluded from the red carpet and the paparazzi, who chased the stars in charter boats when they arrived at the Lido in water taxis, received socially remote positions on land.
While it is too early to say that the measures have worked, there have been no rapid reports of infections among festival-goers, and compliance with masking orders and social estating appear to be high.
Hospitals in England are conducting stress tests on “major incidents” to see if they are in a position for a momentary wave of Covid-19, as the number of admissions begins to increase.
Coronavirus cases have doubled every seven days and there are symptoms that the buildup is starting to spread in hospitals.
Last Wednesday, 136 patients were admitted to England, twice as many as any day last week, with a total of 863 people being treated.
Reports from my colleague James Tapper.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex tested negative on his back for coronavirus and will leave his self-disalrillation on Saturday, a week after being in contact with those who had a positive result, his workplace said, according to Reuters.
Castex had already tested negative for Covid-19 since sharing a car last weekend with the director of the Tour de France cycling race, who then tested positive.
France is dealing with a resurgence of coronavirus cases, and on Friday the prime minister presented plans to speed up testing and boost measures in some cities as the government seeks to avoid a repeat of the spring national blockade.
Thousands of others demonstrated in German cities on Saturday against measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, while many marched in the Polish capital Warsaw.
Approximately another 8,000 people marched in the city of Munich in southern Germany, according to an estimated police, and most of them ignored a municipal ordinance requiring the use of masks.
There was at least a thousand in Hanover, central Germany, and there was some other demonstration in the western city of Wiesbaden.
Tens of thousands of people attended the protests in Berlin last month.
The motion consists of several other groups, from self-proclaimed “freethers” to vaccine activists, conspiracy theorists and far-right activists.
Although clashes foggy the last demonstration in Berlin in late August, no unrest has been reported on Saturday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she understood why others were in a challenge with the restrictions imposed and claimed that others were free to criticize government policy during nonviolent demonstrations.
And in what gave the impression of being a reaction to accusations of censure through some protesters, he noted that many others envied Germany for the freedom to publicly thank others and demonstrate.
In the Polish capital Warsaw, several hundred people joined a demonstration that marched through the city centre.
Some protesters carried posters denouncing what the “lies” told about the pandemic said.
Other posters denounced Microsoft billionaire-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates, the target of conspiracy theories about the virus, or the resignation of the government, AFP reports.
Cuban state media reported Saturday that interprovincial shipping will close and the curfew will spread in Havana until the end of the month, as the coronavirus outbreak in the capital spreads to other regions.
While most of the country remains new to schools and open retail activities, local government has strengthened masking, social estating and other measures, and imposed quarantines anywhere cases appear, Reuters reports.
Cuba necessarily contained its coronavirus outbreak at the end of June by isolating patients and contacts and relaxing blockade restrictions.
But he hardened them in Havana in August and has not yet involved an increase in cases there with about two hundred reported last week.
There have been smaller outbreaks in a handful of Cuba’s 14 provinces.
The central province of Ciego de Avila suffered the worst outbreak to date after Havana, with 28 of the 60 cases reported in the country on Saturday, all others in Havana.
Nearly a hundred patients were transferred on Thursday to a hospital in the neighboring province of Camaguey de Ciego de Avila for lack of hospital space.
In August, a brigade of nurses left eastern Granma province for the capital as if they were part of the medical corps of 4,000 workers sent abroad to combat the pandemic.
While just under 4,700 cases have been reported since the first in March and 108 deaths, the Caribbean country under embargo in the United States has been virtually bankrupt due to the cost of the pandemic in tourism, remittances, investment and trade.
Economic expansion is expected to fall by nearly 10% this year, according to foreign organizations, and there are long queues for commodities and shortages of certain foods and medicines.
The UK reported 3,497 new cases of coronavirus, according to the government’s knowledge published Saturday, up from 3,539 the previous day.
He also reported new deaths due to Covid-19.
Friday’s figure is the highest number of daily cases reported since mid-May, and Britain will introduce a new ban on social gatherings on Monday to stem the growing number of infections.
Here are the key developments at a glance:
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have proposed to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. U. S. (FDA) expanding the recruitment of its core Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine test to about 44,000 participants, announced Saturday.
The initial target figure for the test is 30,000 participants, in which corporations said they expected success over the next week, Reuters reports.
According to The Pfizer website, the company uses more than 120 clinical trial sites in its efforts to expand a vaccine and, as of Monday, 25,189 trial participants had already been registered.
The proposed expansion would allow companies to enroll others up to the age of 16 and others with chronic and solid HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B.
Drug brands that are rushing to expand a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine committed in July to ensuring that their larger clinical trials would come with teams of volunteers.
“Diversity in clinical trials is a precedent for Pfizer and is critical given that Covid-19 has a disproportionate effect on communities of color in the United States,” Pfizer’s advertising director John Young said at a hearing before the U. S. Congress. July.
If the test is successful, corporations can submit the vaccine for regulatory approval starting in October, putting them on track to obtain up to one hundred million doses by the end of 2020 and 1. 3 billion by the end of 2021.