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By The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has extended done the extremity of the October a COVID-19 authorities of exigency that relaxes immoderate wellness attraction regulations to assistance hospitals with coronavirus patients.
The bid was scheduled to expire Tuesday. The bid was aimed astatine helping hospitals set to the caseload from the virus, al.com reported. Ivey archetypal ordered the “limited, narrowly-focused” authorities of exigency connected Aug. 12 due to the fact that of a surge from the delta variant of the coronavirus and Alabama’s debased vaccination rate.
The governor’s bureau said Friday’s proclamation relaxes regularisation to let expanded capableness successful wellness attraction facilities and easier shipment of exigency instrumentality and supplies. It besides allows out-of-state doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to signifier successful Alabama nether expedited licenses oregon impermanent permits.
The fig of patients successful Alabama hospitals with COVID-19 fell nether 1,000 connected Friday, the archetypal clip since July. The fig of caller regular cases successful Alabama has dropped much than 70% since aboriginal September, the governor’s bureau said.
However, the governor’s proclamation says the pandemic “continues to contiguous a superior menace to nationalist health, taxing Alabama hospitals, galore of which were already struggling to unit their facilities.”
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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:
— Marchers successful Rome protestation workplace vaccine rules, requiring “Green Pass”
— Brazil coronavirus deaths surpass 600,000, 2nd globally down U.S.
— Russia hits microorganism decease grounds arsenic autumn surge persists
— San Francisco to invited cruise ships aft 19-month hiatus
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— See each of AP’s pandemic sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
ROME — Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome’s Via Veneto and different main streets connected Saturday, immoderate clashing with police, to protestation a authorities regularisation requiring COVID-19 vaccines oregon antagonistic tests to entree workplaces adjacent week.
The certification successful Italy, known arsenic a “Green Pass,” takes effect connected Friday and applies to nationalist and backstage workplaces.
To get one, radical indispensable either person had astatine slightest 1 COVID-19 vaccine dose, papers betterment from the unwellness successful the past six months oregon trial antagonistic successful the erstwhile 48 hours.
Both employees and employers hazard fines if they don’t comply. Workers successful the nationalist assemblage tin beryllium suspended if they amusement up 5 times without a Green Pass. This summer, Green Passes were required successful Italy to participate museums, theaters, gyms and indoor restaurants, and instrumentality long-distance trains and buses oregon home flights.
The protesters held an authorized protestation successful Piazza Del Popolo. Then immoderate near the immense quadrate and clashed with constabulary arsenic they went to an unauthorized march. Police successful helmets and carrying shields and batons blocked them from marching down a thoroughfare that runs past Premier Mario Draghi’s office.
As of Saturday, 80% of those 12 and older person been afloat vaccinated successful Italy.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada this week became 1 of the past states to see accelerated antigen tests successful its coronavirus tallies.
Health experts accidental the alteration could supply a fuller representation of the pandemic. Health officials accidental they weren’t added earlier due to the fact that their constricted resources, with unit had focused connected vaccines and interaction tracing confirmed cases.
Nevada and Maryland were the past 2 holdouts that didn’t publically study antigen tests successful defiance of national guidance. Concerns astir the proviso of accelerated tests and varied ways states study them reflects the lack of a nationalist investigating strategy.
Nevada’s hospitals person been pushed to adjacent capableness during the pandemic, its unemployment broke nationalist records, and 435,000 radical person tested affirmative for the virus. Nevada wellness officials admit omitting accelerated tests from its tally constricted the public’s knowing of the pandemic’s dispersed successful the state.
The accelerated antigen tests, which observe the beingness of viral proteins alternatively than the coronavirus itself, instrumentality results successful minutes. Traditional molecular tests sent to labs tin instrumentality days to process but are shown to beryllium much accurate.
The accelerated tests turnaround times person led to their wide usage successful prisons, schools and nursing homes.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Cruise ships are returning to San Francisco aft a 19-month hiatus brought connected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor London Breed announced the Majestic Princess volition sail into the larboard of San Francisco connected Monday. It’s the archetypal cruise vessel to dock successful the San Francisco Bay Area since March 2020, erstwhile the Grand Princess captured the world’s attention. The vessel was carrying radical infected with the coronavirus, and thousands connected committee were quarantined arsenic it idled disconnected the California coast.
The Majestic Princess volition sail from Los Angeles for a weeklong California seashore voyage that volition see an overnight halt successful San Francisco. The larboard of San Francisco expects to invited 21 cruise ships done the remainder of the year.
Passengers volition person to amusement they were vaccinated astatine slightest 14 days earlier embarking connected the cruise and person impervious of vaccination. They indispensable besides person a antagonistic COVID-19 trial taken wrong 2 days of their embarkation, according to a connection from Princess Cruises, a Carnival Corp. subsidiary that operates the vessel.
The CDC’s latest cruise vessel guidance recommends passengers amusement impervious of vaccination and a caller antagonistic test. It advises travelers who are astatine higher hazard for terrible COVID-19 unwellness to debar cruises.
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HONOLULU — Honolulu volition let a constricted fig of fans astatine University of Hawaii shot games arsenic it begins easing coronavirus restrictions.
The politician and the politician accidental they’re relaxing rules for outdoor amusement venues arsenic vaccination rates emergence and the diminution of lawsuit counts, trial positivity rates and hospitalizations. Starting Wednesday, outdoor venues tin let up to 1,000 attendees oregon up to 50% of their afloat capacity, whichever is smaller.
Attendees volition request to beryllium vaccinated, deterioration masks and support carnal distance. Restrictions connected indoor entertainment, outdoor weddings, play tournaments and roadworthy races volition beryllium eased.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation reported 51 coronavirus cases and 1 decease connected Friday.
It was the 3rd consecutive time the people reported astatine slightest 1 coronavirus-related decease aft going six days with nary further deaths.
Navajo officials are urging radical to get vaccinated, deterioration masks successful nationalist and minimize travel. The tribe’s preservation is the country’s largest astatine 27,000 quadrate miles and it covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
The latest numbers accrued the tribe’s totals to 34,3350 confirmed cases and 1,454 confirmed deaths.
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MOSCOW — Russia has reached different grounds regular decease toll from COVID-19, with 968 deaths registered connected Saturday.
The nationalist coronavirus task unit has reported a persistent rise, with astir regular records successful October. It’s astir 100 much regular deaths than successful precocious September.
The task unit besides reported much than 29,000 caller regular infections. Authorities says the steep emergence successful cases and deaths is due to the fact that of the nation’s debased vaccination rate.
The lawman premier curate says 47.8 cardinal Russians, oregon 33% of the population, person received astatine slightest 1 dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
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SAO PAULO — Brazil has topped 600,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, the second-highest planetary toll down the United States.
However, caller less cases and deaths person encouraged mayors and governors to admit fans into shot matches and let bars and restaurants enactment unfastened late.
The country’s mean regular decease toll has hovered astir 500 for a month, down sharply from much than 3,000 successful April. Almost 45% of the colonisation is afloat vaccinated, and a booster changeable is being administered to the elderly.
The U.S. has surpassed 710,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths.
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ROME — Italy volition connection a 3rd dose of a coronavirus vaccine to each radical implicit 60 who completed vaccination astatine slightest six months ago.
The Health Ministry says booster shots besides volition beryllium offered to those with “fragile” wellness conditions, careless of age. Italy already had approved giving a 3rd dose of the vaccine to radical implicit 80 oregon surviving successful attraction homes, on with wellness attraction personnel, transplant recipients and those with depressed immunity.
Ministry authorities person said a 3rd changeable to each who person been vaccinated isn’t nether consideration. In Italy, 80% of those 12 oregon older person been afloat vaccinated.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — The proportionality of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents has risen sharply successful the past month, though the changeable remains broadly protective.
That’s according to caller statewide wellness data. The latest Department of Health statistic connected alleged “breakthrough” infections amusement from Sept. 5 to Oct. 4, vaccinated radical represented conscionable implicit a 4th (26%) of much than 135,000 caller infections and astir 5,000 infirmary admissions crossed the state.
That’s up from conscionable 6% of cases and 5% of hospitalizations betwixt January and September. Pennsylvania residents who stay unvaccinated are inactive acold much apt to declaration the coronavirus, go hospitalized and dice than those who got the shot.
Dr. Denise Johnson, the state’s acting doc general, says the information reinforced the lawsuit for booster shots. Last month, U.S. wellness officials approved a 3rd dose of the Pfizer vaccine for each Americans 65 and older, on with younger radical with wellness issues oregon those successful high-risk, frontline jobs.
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County sheriff says helium won’t enforce the county’s vaccine mandate successful his agency.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva oversees the largest sheriff’s section successful the region with astir 18,000 employees. He said Thursday successful a Facebook Live lawsuit that helium doesn’t program to transportation retired the county’s mandate.
Los Angeles County employees had to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Oct. 1. The mandate was issued by enforcement bid successful August and allows lone spiritual and aesculapian exemptions.
Villanueva says his employees are consenting to beryllium terminated alternatively than get vaccinated. More than 26,000 radical person died of the coronavirus successful Los Angeles County.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama’s apical wellness authoritative is urging radical who’ve not been vaccinated for the coronavirus to get a changeable wrong the adjacent week to assistance forestall different vacation spike of infections and deaths.
Dr. Scott Harris says it takes 5 oregon six weeks for idiosyncratic to summation the maximum magnitude of immunity aft the archetypal vaccine successful a shot-two process. He says that means clip is moving retired for radical to person “the safest imaginable Thanksgiving.”
Harris says helium was “cautiously optimistic” the holidays won’t beryllium arsenic deadly arsenic past twelvemonth due to the fact that of vaccinations and the ample fig of radical who person antibodies aft contracting the virus.
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NEW YORK — A sheet of vaccine experts volition conscionable successful aboriginal November to see whether to urge the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 12.
The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices scheduled a two-day gathering for Nov. 2-3, wellness officials said Friday. The Pfizer taxable is expected to instrumentality up portion of the agenda.
The experts are anticipating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration volition person decided by past whether to authorize usage of the Pfizer vaccine for children betwixt ages 5 to 11. The committee’s occupation is to assistance the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make recommendations for doctors and the nationalist astir which vaccines should beryllium utilized and however they should beryllium given.
Currently, Pfizer vaccines are authorized lone for radical 12 and older.
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