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By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia acceptable 2 regular records successful the past week for affirmative coronavirus cases arsenic the pandemic continues to ravage the state.
Thursday’s full of confirmed cases was a grounds 1,738, lone to beryllium breached by Saturday’s full of 1,821, according to authorities wellness data. The erstwhile one-day precocious of much than 1,700 was acceptable connected Dec. 31.
The statewide full of 7,849 affirmative cases for the six days ending Saturday has already passed the seven-day full for the erstwhile week, which had been the second-highest during the pandemic. Sunday’s figures volition beryllium released connected Monday.
The highest for 1 week was astir 8,200 cases successful aboriginal January, a clip erstwhile microorganism vaccines were being offered lone for radical ages 65 and older.
The magnitude of play microorganism deaths statewide has gone up steadily since aboriginal August, erstwhile six deaths were reported for the week of Aug. 9. There person been 83 deaths successful the past week and 3,207 overall.
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— UK ditches plans for vaccine passports astatine crowded venues
— Chinese metropolis with coronavirus outbreak stops buses, trains
— Japan passes 50% vaccination rate, whitethorn easiness limits successful Nov.
— See AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says helium plans to articulation different Republican governors successful challenging President Joe Biden’s sweeping caller vaccine request successful court.
Ricketts said connected “Fox News Sunday” that Nebraska’s lawyer wide has been consulting with different attorneys wide who judge the national authorities is overstepping its authorization by mandating that each employers with much than 100 workers necessitate them to beryllium vaccinated oregon trial for the microorganism weekly, affecting astir 80 cardinal Americans. The astir 17 cardinal workers astatine wellness facilities that person national Medicare oregon Medicaid besides volition person to beryllium afloat vaccinated.
“This is truly going to make immense problems for each tiny businesses and for our American workers. and again, you shouldn’t person to marque the prime of keeping your occupation oregon getting a jab successful the arm,” Ricketts said.
In Nebraska, Ricketts has encouraged radical to get vaccinated and deterioration masks but helium has resisted mandates to bash either.
The seven-day rolling mean of regular caller cases successful Nebraska has risen implicit the past 2 weeks from 715.14 caller cases per time connected Aug. 27 to 822.86 caller cases per time connected Friday arsenic the highly contagious delta variant of the microorganism spreads.
Ricketts said helium is focused connected making definite hospitals person capable capableness to grip the surge successful COVID-19 cases.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says national vaccination mandates announced by President Joe Biden past week wounded efforts to flooded the public’s absorption to taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Republican politician has been notable successful moving to transportation reluctant Arkansas residents to beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus. But successful an quality connected NBC’s “Meet the Press” connected Sunday, Hutchinson said a broad national vaccination mandate “hardens the resistance.”
The expansive rules mandate that each employers with much than 100 workers necessitate them to beryllium vaccinated oregon trial for the microorganism weekly, affecting astir 80 cardinal Americans. And the astir 17 cardinal workers astatine wellness facilities that person national Medicare oregon Medicaid backing besides volition person to beryllium afloat vaccinated.
Hutchinson said national requirements are “counterproductive,” interfering with authorities vaccination efforts alternatively of supporting them.
“We talked astir the information that we’ve historically had vaccination requirements successful schools,” helium said. “But those person ever travel astatine the authorities level, ne'er astatine the nationalist level.”
“And truthful this is an unprecedented presumption of national mandate authorization that truly disrupts and divides the country. It divides our concern betwixt the national authorities and the states. And it increases the part successful presumption of vaccination erstwhile we should each beryllium unneurotic trying to summation the vaccination uptake,” helium added.
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LONDON — Britain’s wellness caput said Sunday that authorities person decided not to necessitate vaccine passports for introduction into nightclubs and different crowded events successful England, reversing people amid absorption from immoderate of the Conservative government’s supporters successful Parliament.
Sajid Javid said the authorities has shelved the thought of vaccine passports for present but could reconsider the determination if COVID-19 cases emergence exponentially erstwhile again.
“We’ve looked astatine it decently and whilst we should support it successful reserve arsenic a imaginable option, I’m pleased to accidental that we volition not beryllium going up with plans for vaccine passports,’ Javid told the BBC.
The U-turn came conscionable days aft the government’s vaccines curate and the civilization caput suggested that vaccine passports would inactive beryllium necessary, contempt increasing absorption from lawmakers. Such passports are required successful different European countries, similar France.
In particular, members of the governing Conservative Party person objected to specified passports arsenic an unacceptable load connected businesses and an infringement connected residents’ quality rights.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo authorities connected Sunday decided to postpone the motorboat of the schoolhouse twelvemonth adjacent week and toughened restrictive measures pursuing a continuous hike of the regular cases.
The authorities decided to postpone opening of the elementary, secondary, and precocious schools from Monday to Sept. 26, the 2nd two-week postponement, due to the fact that “the epidemiological concern with COVID-19 successful Kosovo continuous to beryllium grave.”
It besides decided that lone a constricted “essential staff” volition beryllium contiguous successful the nationalist institutions and each those contiguous determination should amusement confirmation they person been vaccinated oregon had a caller test.
Students besides request to amusement microorganism tests oregon vaccine confirmation to participate assemblage halls aboriginal this month, oregon to publication a country astatine their dormitories.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has reopened schools and different acquisition institutions aft 543 days of closure arsenic its microorganism concern eases and much radical are vaccinated.
Schools were closed connected March 17, 2020, aft the microorganism arrived successful the federation of implicit 160 cardinal people. Authorities decided to reopen aft astir 97% of the country’s teachers and unit person been vaccinated, the authorities says.
Wearing masks, students arrived Sunday greeting astatine schools that were decorated with balloons and ribbons. Many schools successful the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere talented candies and chocolates to children.
Education Minister Dipu Moni connected Sunday warned against immoderate lax enforcement of information measures. Initially, each people volition be erstwhile a week, authorities say.
Daily counts of deaths and affirmative cases person eased successful caller weeks. Over past week, connected mean 55 radical person died portion regular deaths were astir 250 successful precocious July. Bangladesh has recorded 26,880 deaths and much than 1.5 cardinal cases. The authorities says astir Bangladeshi adults volition beryllium vaccinated by the extremity of this year.
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TOKYO — Japan’s authorities says much than 50% of the colonisation has been afloat vaccinated.
Japan’s vaccine rollouts began successful mid-February, months down galore affluent countries owed to its lengthy objective investigating request and support process. Inoculations for aged patients, which started successful April, were besides slowed by proviso shortages of imported vaccines, but the gait picked up successful precocious May and has since achieved 1 cardinal doses per day.
Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who is successful complaint of COVID-19 measures, told NHK nationalist television’s play speech amusement Sunday that astir 60% of the colonisation is expected to beryllium afloat vaccinated by the extremity of September, connected par with existent levels successful Europe.
The authorities is studying a roadmap for easing restrictions astir November. That would let afloat vaccinated radical and those who trial antagonistic to travel, stitchery for parties oregon be wide events.
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BEIJING — China connected Sunday reported 46 caller coronavirus infections, including 20 locally acquired cases successful a confederate state wherever authorities are trying to incorporate an outbreak. No deaths were reported.
Nineteen of the locally acquired infections were successful Putian successful Fujian state and 1 successful adjacent Quanzhou, the National Health Commission reported. It said each different infections were believed to person been acquired abroad.
China’s decease toll stands astatine 4,636 retired of 95,199 cases.
The Health Commission announced Saturday it was sending experts to Putian to oversee disease-control work.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand is buying an other 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine from Denmark arsenic it tries to support its coronavirus vaccination programme moving astatine afloat speed, the authorities said.
The doses are connected apical of New Zealand’s regular shipments from Pfizer and travel a fewer days aft officials announced a akin woody with Spain for much than 250,000 other doses. New Zealand was dilatory to get its vaccination programme moving but has seen request spike since an outbreak of the delta variant successful Auckland past month.
That had near the state successful information of moving retired of doses up of a ample scheduled shipment successful October. New Zealand’s authorities has been attempting to destruct the microorganism wholly successful Auckland by imposing a lockdown but is uncovering the delta variant hard to stamp out, with different 20 regular assemblage cases reported connected Sunday. About 54% of radical successful New Zealand person had astatine slightest 1 dose and 28% are afloat vaccinated.
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YUCAIPA, Calif. — The hubby of a California caregiver who died of COVID-19 much than 2 weeks agone has died aft battling the illness himself.
A household subordinate told quality presumption KTLA-TV that Daniel Macias of Yucaipa died connected Thursday, leaving down 5 young children, including a newborn girl. He and his wife, Davy Macias contracted COVID-19 aft going connected a household travel to the formation and an indoor h2o park.
They were admitted to the infirmary days apart, and it was determination that a doc delivered the couple’s girl respective days earlier Davy Macias died. Her member said she was hesitant to get vaccinated due to the fact that she was pregnant.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Hospitals successful Iowa’s second-largest metropolis are limiting elective procedures due to the fact that of accrued numbers of patients driven partially by a surge successful COVID-19 admissions.
The Cedar Falls Gazette reports that some UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital and Mercy Medical Center confirmed Friday their facilities are preserving capableness due to the fact that of precocious diligent counts successful caller weeks. Cedar Rapids hospitals had not delayed oregon postponed elective surgeries and procedures since past fall.
St. Luke’s is limiting surgeries that necessitate a infirmary enactment to 10 per day.
Mercy officials confirmed that it besides is temporarily reducing the fig of elective procedures that necessitate infirmary stays aft surgery.
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