NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) – India reported 76,472 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, slightly lower than the record breaking numbers of the past couple of days, but extending a run that has made the country’s outbreak currently the world’s worst.
“The news of Kanyakumari MP, Shri H Vasanthakumar’s untimely demise due to Covid-19 has come as a shock,” Rahul Gandhi, a leading member of the Congress party said in a tweet late on Friday.
(Reporting by Neha Arora; editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Jane Wardell)
India has reported a total of 3.46 million cases during the pandemic, a tally that places them behind the United States and Brazil in terms of total caseload.
However, the south Asian country has reported higher single-day case rises than both those countries for almost two weeks.
Portugal’s Minister of Labour and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, told the Web Summit conference in Lisbon last week, that while the pandemic has accelerated remote working, it exposed the need for government regulation.
He said: ‘It’s going to be the patients that suffer the collateral damage if there is a bitter dispute between the doctors and the Government. And I’m afraid in all this hot air and emotion it’s the patients who are being forgotten.
New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a knife-wielding “extremist” who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.
It found that a quarter of 2,000 adults it surveyed were planning to spend more than usual at pubs, bars and restaurants and suggested this meant that if they were allowed to trade freely, they could receive around £10.2billion in spending.
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The Daily Telegraph reported today that Prime Minister Boris Johnson could grant extra financial support for pubs and restaurants, with a government source telling the newspaper: ‘We recognise that we need to do more.’
Environment Secretary George Eustice told LBC Radio this morning that just eating a Scotch egg ‘probably would count,’ but Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has previously remarked that a Cornish pasty on its own would not be acceptable.
Portugal’s Minister of Labour and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, said last week that the pandemic exposed the need for government regulation of remote working (pictured, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon)
The Lithuanian goverment last year promised to support “those fighting for freedom” in Taiwan and last week sent only a transport minister to a virtual summit between leaders of China and 17 European countries, signalling its apparent concern over Chinese policies.
In its findings, Caterer.com stated that while the return of customers would have delivered a much-needed festive boost for the struggling industry, much of the sector now faces crisis amid a tighter tiered system and tougher restrictions.
The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2020 that the United States was trying to rally European governments to avoid Nuctech, whose screening systems for cargo, luggage and passengers are becoming a fixture at ports, border crossings and airports across Europe.
In the weeks since the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan from a U.S.-backed government, reports have highlighted how biometric website and Afghan payroll website databases might be exploited by the new rulers to hunt their enemies.
Wetherspoon owner Tim Martin has been one of the most vociferous critics of the government’s lockdown plans and has written a letter to MPs today accusing Boris Johnson of creating ‘economically ruinous policies, with no health benefits.’
It is not yet clear what impact the industrial action would have on patient care, but it could lead to rejecting to see more people in-person, fewer visits to care homes and refusing to write certificates for people medically unable to get a Covid jab.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move on Friday he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure website marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.
Spokesman Neil Pattison said: ‘It’s clear that the public are incredibly keen to get back to enjoying hospitality venues, but this analysis reveals just how damaging the new Government restrictions will be for our sector.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait next week, the Pentagon said on Friday, in a “thank you” tour for allies and troops that helped in the massive U.S.-led airlift from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Austin planned to leave on Sunday and meet with regional officials as well as U.S.