ROME – Italian fitness experts say nursing homes and other apartments where other people with disabilities and other “fragile” people live gradually allow visitors to return with strict regulations to protect against the spread of coronavirus.
Deaths in nursing homes stood out in the high death toll in the early months of the pandemic in Italy, where the epidemic began in Europe.
The Higher Institute of Health, which advises the public fitness formula of Italy and the Ministry of Health, issued rules on Thursday recognizing that meeting with the enjoyed is an integral component of the well-being of citizens.However, the recommendations call for “avoiding handshakes, kisses and hugs”between citizens and in assemblies, preferably outdoors.
If citizens are confined to a bed, only one guest will be allowed.If rules are followed through government, new citizens may be admitted, adding hospitals.
But they would like coronavirus testing and will have to remain in a separate component of the facility, away from existing residents, for 14 days.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VIRUS EPIDEMIC
– Nevada church resumes war over COVID-19 rules
– The White House faces skepticism about that of a vaccine
– Governor Cuomo will allow New York to reopen restaurants
– Milwaukee health commissioner resigns and cites partisan barriers
– An independent organization designated through WHO to review its coordination of the reaction to the coronavirus pandemic will have all internal documents, fabrics and emails from the UN agency.
– Growth in the U.S. service sector, where many Americans work, slowed in August after an uptick in July, indicating persistent coronavirus disorders.
– Due to bureaucratic restrictions and obstacles, more than a million unemployed people will not get a $300 check promised through President Donald Trump.
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
NORMAN, Oklahoma – More than a dozen University of Oklahoma academics on Thursday outdoors amassed administrative construction of the university to protest what they say is an insufficient reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.
Student Kellie Dick, an elderly woman from Shawnee, told The Associated Press that academics violated norman’s university and city protection orders in bars, restaurants, and fraternity and sorority activities.
In his words: “We want others to wear their masks.I don’t want this to kill more people than he’s already done.”
Protesting academics presented a list of 12 programs that come with online courses for maximum subjects, twice-weekly loose coronavirus tests for academics, university and university staff, and a ban on social gatherings of more than 25 people.
Early Thursday, the university’s COVID-19 official told oklahoma State Higher Education Regents that transmission of the virus in classrooms had not been known, but that the spread of the virus is occurring in spaces that OR simply cannot control.
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MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee’s fitness commissioner resigns from a new position, increasing control of partisan coronavirus battles.
Jeanette Kowalik joins a national fitness policy tank in Washington, D.C.
Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit on the state’s Supreme Court this spring, ending Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ “safer at home” order to curb the spread of the virus., which has denounced the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate.
Milwaukee reported more than 17,700 cases and more than 275 deaths.Wisconsin reported 1,142 deaths, according to the State Department of Health Services.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) – Federal agents on Thursday searched two nursing homes near Pittsburgh, one of which had the worst coronavirus outbreak in Pennsylvania and is under investigation across the state on suspicion of criminal negligence.
U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said officials were at the Brighton Welfare and Rehabilitation Center in Beaver County, as at the Mount Lebanon Welfare and Rehabilitation Center, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
More than 330 citizens of Brighton’s for-profit nursing home have conducted tests to detect the virus since late March and at least 82 have died, the newspaper reported.
A Pennsylvania attorney general’s workplace spokesman showed that the workplace was involved in the execution of the order.
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MADRID – Spain on Thursday added nearly 9,000 new infections to a total of more than 488,500 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Approximately 3,600 of the new instances have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours, the remaining instances in recent days have still been reported.
The Community of Madrid, with a population of 6.6 million, concentrates more than a third of the new cases in the country, and about 16% of its hospital beds are lately faithful to the remedy of patients with COVID-19, the highest rate in Spain.
With 40 new deaths recorded on Thursday, the total number increased to 29,234.The figure does not reflect those who died without being examined for the virus.
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FURMAN, S.C.- A fraternity at the University of South Carolina has been suspended for at least 4 years after hosting a couple of parties that led to the coronavirus.
In a statement, Furman University said Kappa Alpha held parties in its fraternity space on August 21 and 22 and that nearly 60% of those attended, at least 29 academics, tested positive for coronavirus.Those who tested positive were quarantined, according to the University.
Meanwhile, Indiana University officials called for the closure of the 40 women’s sorority and sorority houses on their Bloomington campus, saying their higher rates of coronavirus infections make them dangerous. Tests at some homes have revealed infection rates above 50 percent.
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NEW YORK – Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he will not allow New York City to reopen its indoor dining restaurants until the city has a plan to monitor and comply with coronavirus prevention regulations.
The governor says he believes restaurants are opening in New York, but the state doesn’t have enough staff to monitor the city’s 27,000 restaurants.The rest of the state outdoors New York City has allowed food indoors to partial capacity since June.
When faced with pressure from the places-to-eat industry, it has noticed that business collapsed amid the pandemic and a great deal of staff unemployment assistance.More than three hundred restaurateurs who need to reopen have sued New York and the state, claiming more than $2 billion, because of the continued ban on indoor eating.
New Jersey recently announced its goal of allowing indoor food at a capacity of 25% starting Friday.Connecticut began allowing indoor food in part of its capacity in June.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hoped the city would be on track to allow indoor food last June, when it entered the third phase of Cuomo’s slow reopening plan.
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PHOENIX – Arizona Fitness has reported 1,091 new cases of coronavirus and 65 deaths, bringing the general condition to 203,953 cases and 5,130 deaths.
This is the first day the Department of Health Services has reported more than 1,000 more cases since August 13, when 1,351 were reported.
Arizona, a national hot spot in June and July, however, instances and deaths have since lay down. Seven-day moving averages for new daily instances and reported daily deaths across the state continued to decline through Wednesday.
The moving average for new instances went from 873 on August 19 to 486 on Wednesday, while the moving average of deaths went from 41 to 28.
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BERLIN – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has rejected the concept that his country in the face of the coronavirus pandemic is radically different from that of any other European country.
Speaking Thursday after an assembly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said that “there has been some exaggeration about the differences.”
Lofven said the Nordic country had brought a combination of legislation and recommendations on how other people behave as had been largely followed by swedes.
Sweden, a country of approximately 10.2 million people, has more than 84,700 cases of coronavirus and 5,832 deaths, to Johns Hopkins University.
Germany had about 3 times as many laboratory-shown cases and less than twice as many deaths, despite having an eight times larger population.Germany, a country of 83 million people, has more than 248,000 cases shown and 9,326 deaths.
While some in Germany have asked the government to adopt the more flexible Swedish model, Merkel says the two countries have taken an approach.
“Compared to France, Spain or Italy, we also had vital freedoms,” he says, noting that Germany has not imposed a general blockade like those countries.
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LONDON – An independent panel appointed through the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the reaction to the coronavirus pandemic has said it will have complete all internal documents, fabrics and emails from the United Nations agency.
The group’s co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, announced thursday the other 11 members, including Dr Joanne Liu, who was a squeathing CRITIC of WHO when she led Doctors Without Borders 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Also on the panel: Dr. Zhong Nanshan, a famous Chinese physician who was the first to publicly verify the transmission of coronavirus from person to person; Mark Dybul, who led the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and David Miliband, former British Foreign Secretary and Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee.
Clark says she and Johnson Sirleaf chose panel members independently and that WHO set up to influence their elections.
“We will have to pay tribute to the more than 25.6 million people known to have contracted the disease and the 850,000 people who died from COVID-19,” says Johnson Sirleaf.
The committee will meet on 17 September and every six weeks until April, and plans to report to WHO on initial progress in November before submitting a final report next year.
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Honolulu.
State officials plan to conduct a test run at H-3 on Thursday.The Federal Highway Administration had rejected Hawaii’s request to use the road for the event, which had an effect on traffic, industry and safety.
The state receives $180 million in annual investment allocations from the Highway Agency, said Ed Sniffen, deputy director of the Hawaii Highway Division.Niffen says, “It’s too vital for the public that we don’t pass those tests.”
Democratic Gov. David Ige calls the road a “safe place.”
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MIAMI – The Florida government says a 16-year-old student was arrested for orchestrating a series of network outages and cyberattacks during the first week of classes in the state’s largest district.
Miami-Dade school police say he is a student at South Miami High School and say there may be other people concerned about the cyberattacks that have plagued Miami-Dade schools all week.
He is accused of a PC in an attempt to defraud, delinquery and unlawful interference at an educational institution.
Authorities say the student told police that he had carried out eight attacks on the school’s computer formula “designed to overwhelm the district’s networks.”