The Latest: Russia’s virus-related deaths hit record in July

By The Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russia’s authorities statistic bureau shows a grounds 50,000 deaths successful July were related to the coronavirus.

The study from the Rosstat bureau says 50,421 radical suffering from the coronavirus died during the month, sharply higher than the erstwhile grounds of 44,435 successful December.

However, the bureau says lone 38,992 deaths were straight attributed to the illness COVID-19. In different 5,206 deaths, the coronavirus was assessed arsenic apt the main origin but that much probe would beryllium need; successful 1,449 different cases the microorganism contributed to deaths but was not the main cause.

The study says Russia has registered a full of 215,265 virus-related deaths by the extremity of July — much than the 180,840 cited by the nationalist coronavirus task force.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Mask statement moves from schoolhouse boards to courtrooms

— Contact tracing takes a backmost spot during latest COVID-19 surge

— UK prepares to vaccinate younker ages 12-15 earlier schoolhouse starts

— How overmuch interaction could Sturgis rally person connected microorganism caseload?

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— Find much AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Health officials crossed 5 states person linked 178 microorganism cases to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

In the 3 weeks since the rally kicked off, South Dakota wellness officials person reported 63 cases among rallygoers truthful far. The epicenter of the rally, Meade County, is reaching a per capita complaint akin to the hardest-hit states of the South. Health officials successful North Dakota, Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin each reported cases among radical who attended the 10-day rally that attracted much than 500,000 people.

Health experts are disquieted that ample gatherings crossed the Upper Midwest volition provender a caller question of the virus.

“This coronavirus wood occurrence volition support burning immoderate quality wood it tin find,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, manager of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “It volition find you, and it’s truthful infectious.”

The Black Hills region’s largest infirmary system, Monument Health, says hospitalizations from the microorganism roseate from 5 to 78 this month. The infirmary was bracing for much COVID-19 patients by converting rooms to intensive attraction units and reassigning staff.

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LANSING, Mich. — At slightest fractional of Michigan’s nationalist K-12 students are required to deterioration masks successful school.

Several counties, including six of the 10 astir populated ones, mandate look coverings for students, teachers and unit indoors careless of vaccination status. Health officials constituent to a accelerated summation successful coronavirus cases from the much contagious delta variant, saying masks helping to trim the microorganism spread. They enactment kids nether 12 cannot beryllium vaccinated.

Policies alteration astatine schools successful 76 counties wherever wellness departments person recommended, but not required, masking.

The bureau of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says astir 54% of students successful accepted nationalist schools are taxable to look covering requirements.

The authorities Department of Health and Human Services, successful collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has utilized extracurricular probe to estimation however agelong it would instrumentality for determination to beryllium a greater than 50% accidental of transmission if 1 infectious kid attends a people of 25 simple students.

With implicit masking, it is 120 hours. It drops to 24 hours with imperfect masking and 3 hours with nary masking.

Dr. Sarah Lyon-Callo, the state’s apical epidemiologist, says masking reduces the accidental of being infected successful schoolhouse by 40% to 75%.

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BERLIN — Thousands turned retired successful Berlin to protestation the government’s coronavirus measures, contempt bans against respective planned gatherings.

Police banned 9 planned demonstrations for Saturday, including 1 from the Stuttgart-based Querdenker movement, the astir disposable anti-lockdown question successful Germany. A tribunal ruled successful favour of allowing 1 protest, planned for 500 people, connected Saturday and Sunday.

More than 2,000 constabulary officers were stationed astir the metropolis to respond to those who showed up contempt the bans.

Meanwhile, a counter-protest called the “Love Train,” implicit with techno music, drew a ample assemblage of its own. Those demonstrators enactment authorities restrictions to dilatory the dispersed of the coronavirus.

The Saturday protests travel amid debates successful Germany astir however and whether to enforce restrictions for unvaccinated people, a question taking connected much urgency arsenic coronavirus lawsuit numbers rise.

Similar protests took spot successful Berlin successful aboriginal August, which ended successful clashes with constabulary and hundreds of radical detained.

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LONDON — The British authorities says it is preparing to vaccinate children ages 12-15 against the coronavirus, adjacent though the inoculation run has not yet been approved by the country’s vaccine advisors.

The Department of Health said it wants “to beryllium acceptable to deed the crushed running” erstwhile support comes and beryllium successful presumption to present shots successful schools erstwhile the caller world twelvemonth starts successful astir of the country. The instrumentality of children to people successful September is expected to thrust up Britain’s already precocious coronavirus corruption rate.

Britain is presently giving coronavirus vaccinations to radical 16 and up, arsenic good arsenic those betwixt 12 and 15 with underlying wellness conditions oregon who unrecorded with susceptible adults.

Britain’s medicines regulator has approved the usage of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for the 12 to 15 property group. But the Joint Committee connected Vaccination and Immunization, which sets policy, has not signed disconnected connected shots for astir adolescents that young.

The United States, Canada and respective European countries are already vaccinating radical who are astatine slightest 12 years old.

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TOKYO — Tokyo City Hall has apologized for “confusion” amid its vaccination rollout targeting young people, aft crowds looking to get the changeable were turned distant from a installation successful the Shibuya district.

Health authorities connected Saturday switched to a preservation strategy alternatively of archetypal come, archetypal served. But much than 2,200 radical showed up to get vaccine assignment vouchers, immoderate waiting successful enactment since dawn, and 354 were selected by lottery to person shots, Japanese media reported.

Inoculations for those ages 16 done 39 began Friday.

Japan, which has 1 of the slowest COVID-19 vaccine rollouts successful the developed world, has prioritized giving shots to aged radical and past gradually moving its mode down by property group.

The latest improvement appears to antagonistic critics who had suggested young radical wouldn’t beryllium funny successful getting vaccinated.

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MIAMI — A teen successful a Florida region that leads the authorities successful COVID-19 cases per capita has died. Jo’Keria Graham died successful Columbia County conscionable days earlier she planned to commencement her elder twelvemonth of precocious school. The 17-year-old was successful isolation astatine her Lake City location aft investigating affirmative for the coronavirus.

The precocious schooler loved taking attraction of younger children and called her grandparents regular to cheque connected them oregon assistance astatine their office. She had seemed to beryllium connected the mend and asked her grandparents to bring her breakfast. They were connected their mode to driblet disconnected the nutrient erstwhile the miss collapsed successful the bath earlier this month.

“She was saying, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’,” her grandmother, Tina Graham, said Friday, noting the teen was buried successful her headdress and gown.

“We thought she was doing fine. Both of my sons had it, and 1 of my sons was truly really sick and she wasn’t adjacent arsenic sick arsenic helium was,” Graham said.

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LONDON — A caller British survey suggests radical who get COVID-19 from the extra-contagious delta variant are astir doubly arsenic apt to beryllium hospitalized than those who caught an earlier mentation of the coronavirus.

The delta variant spreads overmuch much easy than the alpha variant that antecedently was wide successful overmuch of the world. But whether it besides causes much terrible illness is unclear, thing hard to tease retired — successful portion due to the fact that delta took disconnected conscionable arsenic galore countries relaxed their pandemic restrictions adjacent arsenic ample swaths of the colonisation remained unvaccinated.

Researchers with Public Health England examined much than 40,000 COVID-19 cases that occurred betwixt March and May, erstwhile the delta variant began its surge successful Britain, to comparison hospitalization rates. The results were akin to preliminary findings from a Scottish survey that besides suggested delta triggered much hospitalizations.

Importantly, little than 2% of each the cases tracked successful the newest survey were among the afloat vaccinated.

The findings were published Friday successful The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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MOSCOW — Russian quality reports accidental a occurrence successful a infirmary killed 3 patients who were connected ventilators portion being treated for COVID-19.

State quality agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti said the occurrence took spot successful Yarsolavl, astir 250 kilometers (150 miles) northbound of Moscow.

Unnamed officials cited successful the reports gave assorted causes for the fire, saying either that a mattress caught occurrence oregon that it began successful a ventilator apparatus.

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KINSHASA, Congo — Authorities person arrested Congo’s erstwhile nationalist wellness curate pursuing allegations helium misappropriated much than $1 cardinal successful funds allocated by the World Bank to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Eteni Longondo has maintained his innocence, but helium was taken to the cardinal situation of Makala pursuing an hours-long tribunal proceeding successful Kinshasa, according to Inspector General of Finance Jules Alingeti.

It was not instantly known what circumstantial charges Longondo faced oregon whether helium had retained a lawyer.

The alleged acts of mismanagement had travel to airy during investigations carried retired astatine the Ministry of Health and the Central Bank of Congo, Alingeti said.

Longondo had been appointed to the wellness curate presumption successful 2019 and managed the archetypal question of the COVID-19 pandemic successful Congo anterior to being replaced successful April.

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MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of parents successful Mexico person resorted to filing for tribunal injunctions to get coronavirus vaccines for their children aft the authorities refused to see vaccinating those nether 18.

In the U.S. and different countries, puerility vaccinations are already underway, but Mexican officials person downplayed the hazard for minors. That is contempt the 613 deaths and 60,928 confirmed COVID-19 cases among radical nether 18 successful Mexico to date.

About 15 parents person won the injunctions and got their children shots arsenic the authorities presses schools to instrumentality to in-person classes Monday.

Alma Franco, a lawyer successful the confederate authorities of Oaxaca, was 1 of the archetypal to question vaccination for her children done the law appeals known successful Mexico arsenic “amparos.” Such appeals inquire a justice to onslaught down, frost oregon reverse a authorities enactment that whitethorn interruption the plaintiff’s rights.

Franco won the entreaty and got a vaccine changeable for her 12-year-old son, and past posted a transcript of the entreaty connected societal media truthful others could fundamentally transcript and paste it and record their own.

She said an estimated 200 parents person followed her way to effort to triumph vaccines.