China has reported a drop of more than 50% in newly shown cases, a imaginable sign that its latest primary outbreak in the northwestern Xinjiang region would possibly have been ongoing.
However, in Hong Kong, infections continue to increase, with more than a hundred new cases reported on Saturday among a population of 7.5 million. Officials have re-imposed recovery restrictions and mask requirements.
South Korean prosecutors arrested the elder leader of a secret devout sect related to more than 5,200 of the 14,336 cases shown in the country. He denied accusations of concealing members and not reporting demonstrations to broader quarantines.
On Friday, the Mexican fitness government reported 688 new deaths, bringing the country’s total to 46,688. That puts Mexico ahead of the UK, which has 46,119, according to Johns Hopkins University’s account.
In Vietnam, a third user died of coronavirus headaches, authorities said Saturday, a day after recording his first death while battling a new epidemic after 99 days of a local case.
All three died in a hospital in Da Nang, a hot spot with more than a hundred cases last week. Thousands of visitors had traveled to the city for the summer holidays and lately are being tested in Hanoi and other places.
On Saturday, twelve more instances were shown, all connected to Da Nang Hospital. The city has beefed up security and set up more checkpoints to prevent others from entering or leaving the city, which has been closed since Tuesday.
A makeshift hospital has been set up in a sports auditorium and doctors from other cities have been mobilized to help.
“I need to get tested to avoid worrying if I have the virus or not,” said Pham Thuy Hoa, a bank official who returned to the capital from Da Nang. “We have to be guilty for the whole community.”
India recorded its highest peak of 57118 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing its charge of coronavirus cases to approximately 1.7 million, and July accounted for approximately 1.1 million infections.
The country’s Ministry of Civil Aviation is delayed by the resumption of foreign flights for one month until 31 August. But it will continue to allow several foreign airlines in the United States, Europe and the Middle East to operate special flights to evacuate stranded citizens.
The global pandemic has had an effect on almost every facet of this year’s Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, with only 1000 pilgrims living in Saudi Arabia, up from 2.5 million last year.
The poverty caused by the pandemic makes it more difficult for many to participate in the four-day Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” in which Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute meat to the poor.
“I can buy food for my family,” Somali official Abdishakur Dahir said. “We’re just surviving for now. Life is getting more and more complicated.”
The Saudi Health Ministry said there have been no cases of pilgrims by COVID-19 this year. All were tested, their movements monitored with electronic bracelets and had to be quarantined before and after.
In the United States, the imminent arrival of Hurricane Isaiah forced the closure of some checkpoints even as Florida reached a new daily death record.
“We had to put security first,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Giménez said at a news convention Friday.
In Utah, the Salt Lake City School District School Board announced that their schools would begin the year with all online courses only in reaction to an increasing number of cases shown in the city. Just days after the reopening of Indiana public schools, at least one student and one school member in the Indianapolis districts tested positive for the virus.
The debate about school vacancies came when Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected a tweet from President Donald Trump that said America’s global leadership in coronavirus cases due to higher evidence.
Fauci said the scale of the epidemic in the United States is the result of several factors, adding the opening of some states too temporarily and non-compliance with federal guidelines.
On Friday, the director of the World Health Organization predicted that the pandemic will be felt for “the coming decades.”