GENEVA – The World Health Organization is pronouncing a new nomenclature for variants of COVID-19 that were known in the past, and uncomfortable, either through their numerical codes of technical letters or the countries in which they first appeared.
In the hope of finding a fairer and more understandable balance, WHO said it would now refer to the variants of greatest concern, called “variants of concern”, with letters of the Greek alphabet.
Thus, the first worrying variant of its kind, which first gave the impression in Britain and would possibly also be known as B. 1. 1. 7, will be known as the ‘alpha’ variant. in South Africa and has been nominated B. 1. 351, it will be known as the “beta” variant.
A third gave the impression that for the first time in Brazil it will be called the “gamma” variant and a fourth that the “delta” variant was first discovered in India. Future variants that “of interest” will be classified with the following letters of the Greek alphabet.
WHO said an expert organization had developed the new system, which will not update clinical naming systems but will offer “simple, easy-to-say labels” for variants.
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HERE’S MORE HAPPENING:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians headed to camps, beaches and restaurants over the long weekend holiday as the state was ready to abandon some of its coronavirus rules.
The beaches of Southern California have been occupied by families who barbecue and play in the sand and surf. Business owners say they are rushing to hire staff to take calls from visitors, as virus cases have declined and vaccinations have increased.
The rise and recreation comes as California prepares to roll back social distancing and masking regulations on June 15 if coronavirus cases remain low. Recently reported infections in the state have fallen below 1,000 in some days. The positivity rate was 1%.
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WINDOW ROCK, Aries – The Navajo Nation reports two new cases of COVID-19 and no more deaths.
Tribal fitness officials say the most recent figures released Sunday night have brought the total number of cases since the pandemic began more than a year ago to 30,841 on the vast reserve that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. .
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said other people will have to continue to get empties, wear masks and practice social distancing while honoring infantrymen on Remembrance Day.
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LIMA, Peru – Peru announced a sharp increase in the number of DEATHS from COVID-19, saying there have been more than 180000 deaths since the pandemic hit the country early last year.
The announcement was made at the presidential palace with the presentation of a report through an organization in charge of analyzing and updating the death toll. The effects of the study estimate the new number at 180764 for a population of approximately 32. 6 million, compared to recent data. indicating that another 69342 people have died from COVID-19.
Health Minister Oscar Ugarte said the criteria for assigning the novel coronavirus as a cause of death were changed. Previously, only those who “had a positive diagnostic test” were killed by the virus, but other criteria have since been incorporated.
The new COVID-19 figure includes deaths reported between March 2020 and May 22 this year. Among Latin American countries, Brazil and Mexico reported higher mortality rates from the disease.
On Monday, the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus surveillance site reflected the past figure of just under 70000 deaths in Peru. Questions about the number of deaths in Peru arose shortly after the pandemic began.
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey has announced additional easing of its COVID-19 restrictions, a remaining curfews at night and on weekends, following a drop in the number of infections.
After a closet meeting, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said restaurants and cafes, which can only open for delivery or takeout, could settle for consumers sitting until nine o’clock Tuesday night. Businesses such as gyms and amusement parks could also reopen until nine o’clock at night.
The start of evening curfews was postponed by an hour, starting at 10 p. m. Erdogan said Sunday curfews remain in place, but that other people would be free to leave their homes on Saturdays. Staff members will continue to paint remotely or on a rotating base in offices.
At the same time, the country’s education minister said number one and high school academics would return to elegance to attend face-to-face classes twice a week. In less populated towns and villages, schools would reopen full-time.
Earlier this month, the number of COVID-19 infections fell below 10,000 for the first time since March 1, after reaching a record of more than 63,000 cases in mid-April.
On Monday, the Ministry of Health reported 6,933 new and 122 deaths in the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths in the country is 47,527 with more than 5. 2 million infections.
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DETROIT — A giant mural honoring a detroit firefighter and other state workers who died of COVID-19 was unveiled in the appearance of a building.
Fire Department Capt. Franklin Williams dominates the paint, but there are photographs of the driving force of a bus that emotionally begged for COVID-19 coverage before contracting the virus, and a 5-year-old woman, Skylar Herbert, who is the daughter of a firefighter and police officer.
Williams, 57, eligible to retire from firefighters but sought painting until age 60, died last summer.
The mural, which stands in front of a Detroit chimney station, created by artist Charles “Chazz” Miller with the help of academics from the University of Detroit Mercy, reported the Detroit Free Press. It was unveiled on Sunday.
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FALLON, Nevada – Doctors and nurses are staffing cell clinics in the United States so that other people in small towns and remote rural spaces can get vaccinated.
In Nevada, Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere, the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent cell phones to pharmacies, clinics and other vaccination sites.
Nevada volunteer doctors and nurses partnered with the National Guard to deliver thousands of vaccines to communities that state officials say might not be offering vaccines in any other way. Vacicountrys fades.
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BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said a rule allowing the federal government to demand strict measures against the pandemic in regions with the highest infection rates could expire in late June, as the country has seen a steady decline in COVID-19 cases in weeks.
Merkel told reporters in Berlin that the so-called “emergency brake” she had pushed despite resistance from some state governors had “effectively had an effect” in flattening the infection curve.
The German Agency for Disease Control said Sunday it had gained 1,978 new cases of COVID-19 and 36 deaths. A total of 88,442 more people have died from coronavirus infection in Germany and the country has recorded nearly 3. 7 million cases since the start. of the pandemic.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is praying for an end to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic, social and interpersonal it has caused.
Francis presided over a special night Monday in the Vatican Gardens that included the rosary prayer, the reading of scriptures and hymns sung by some three hundred people, as the conclusion of a month-long prayer marathon that began May 1 with a similar event. service in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Francis sat in front of a replica of one of his favorite icons of the Virgin, known as the knot-unsucking mary, who are faithful to the icon pray for Mary’s intercession to solve their problems.
In opening the service, Francis said there are many “knots that tighten around our lifestyles and knot our activities: those are the knots of selfishness, indifference, the economic and social knots, the knots of violence and war. “
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PARIS – France opened vaccination against the virus to adults of all ages early Monday, earlier than expected, as vaccine deliveries accelerated.
More than 48% of the French adult population gained at least one dose and more than 20% gained two, according to public fitness authorities. of vaccines.
Anyone 18 and older can sign up for an injection, and those aged 12 to 15 will also have access to it soon, after the European Medicines Agency authorized the use of the Pfizer vaccine for this organisation last week. Minister Jean Castex said “the horizon is brightening,” but warned others to remain vigilant.
Patients with the virus still occupy more than part of the resuscitation beds that France had before the pandemic, but their numbers have been declining for weeks and the country is reopening its restaurants, department stores and tourist sites.
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LONDON – Britain’s fitness government aims to vaccinate another 15,000 people in one day at London’s Twickenham rugby stadium as part of a race to involve a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus.
The strain, first known in India, accounts for the majority of new cases in the UK, which is experiencing a build-up of infections after weeks of decline. Scientists say the variant is more transmissible than even the dominant strain in the past discovered for the strain. first time in the UK, however, existing vaccines effectively oppose it.
Many scientists are urging the Conservative government to delay plans to lift social distancing and other restrictions until June 21, saying more people want to get vaccinated before measures can be safely relaxed. The government will announce its resolution on June 14.
Three-quarters of UK adults have gained a dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and nearly half have received either dose.
The Vaccination Centre at Twickenham is providing standing-in vaccinations to others in north-west London, a hot spot for the variant known to Indians, on Monday.
Health officials in the northwestern English city of Bolton, which had rates of the new variant, said infections were beginning to decline after a crusade of mass testing and “mass vaccination. “
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NEW YORK — Bars and restaurants in New York state are no longer scheduled to close as the coronavirus curfew for indoor dining ended Monday.
With this, institutions can return to the final hours allowed through their liquor license or other regulations. A similar pandemic curfew for outdoor dining ended on May 17, with some local governments having their own end-time regulations for outdoor tables.
Restaurateurs moved forward to the last few hours as they tried to recover from their company closures and other limitations of the virus crisis.
“Lifting the curfew is important,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance. “We are a city 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so there are many other people who would still be outdoors to eat and drink twelve at night. “
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GENEVA – The head of the World Health Organization has welcomed the adoption of a “landmark resolution” through WHO member states aimed at preparing for major viral outbreaks such as COVID-19 and has intensified calls for the adoption of a foreign treaty on the pandemic. .
Following an asymmetrical reaction to the coronavirus with the WHO at its centre, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments as the UN fitness company closed its annual meeting.
Among other things, the meeting, which brings together all WHO member states, has voted on a $6. 1 billion budget for the company over the next two years, representing a 16% increase over the previous biennial budget.
The meeting also elected the government of Syria, where fitness personnel and other civilians were killed, wounded and driven from their homes in a decade-long civil war, as a member of the executive board.
One solution proposed some concrete measures to fight pandemics, in addition to the creation of a six-person organisation to compile the proposed reforms and report back next year.
Supporters of the solution said it had not been very innovative and that its main goal was to combine non-unusual goals amid the economic and human devastation of the pandemic.
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