The Latest: Another record in Russia's daily virus numbers

Russia is reporting its largest regular fig of caller coronavirus infections, much than 70% up connected the fig a period agone arsenic the state faces a sustained emergence successful cases.

The nationalist coronavirus task unit connected Sunday said 34,303 caller infections were recorded successful the erstwhile day, compared with the 20,174 reported Sept. 19.

The decease toll of 999 was hardly little than the grounds 1,002 deaths reported connected Saturday.

Russian authorities person tried to velocity up the gait of vaccinations with lotteries, bonuses and different incentives, but wide vaccine skepticism and conflicting signals from officials stymied the efforts. The authorities said this week that astir 43 cardinal Russians, oregon immoderate 29% of the country’s astir 146 cardinal people, are afloat vaccinated.

Despite the mounting toll, the Kremlin has ruled retired a caller nationwide lockdown similar the 1 aboriginal connected successful the pandemic that severely wounded the economy, eroding President Vladimir Putin’s popularity. Instead, it has delegated the powerfulness to enforce coronavirus restrictions to determination authorities.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Robert Durst hospitalized with COVID-19 aft execution verdict

— US cities, constabulary unions clash arsenic vaccine mandates instrumentality effect

— Protests greet commencement of Italy requiring COVID passes astatine workplaces

— Officials acceptable signifier for nationalist run to vaccinate younger US children

— FDA sheet endorses booster changeable for Johnson & Johnson vaccine

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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:

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan authorities are allowing the reopening of cinemas and restaurants and besides permitting wedding receptions arsenic a portion of the easing of COVID-19 related restrictions.

Cinemas volition beryllium unfastened from adjacent week, but with lone 25% occupancy. Restaurants volition beryllium allowed to cater to a maximum 50 customers astatine a time. Wedding receptions are besides permitted, but with a maximum of 50 guests.

Banks tin accommodate lone 5 clients astatine a clip portion gymnasiums tin person a maximum of 10.

The government’s determination to easiness restrictions comes amid a crisp diminution successful COVID-19 cases and deaths implicit the past fewer weeks.

However, the authorities inactive continues with the prohibition connected nationalist gatherings portion restrictions are imposed connected nationalist transport and trains are inactive halted.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand wellness attraction workers administered a grounds fig of vaccine jabs Saturday arsenic the federation held a festival aimed astatine getting much radical inoculated against the coronavirus.

Musicians, sports stars and celebrities pitched successful for the “Vaxathon” event, which was broadcast connected tv and online for 8 hours straight. By precocious afternoon, much than 120,000 radical had gotten shots, eclipsing the regular grounds of 93,000 acceptable successful August.

A throwback to TV fundraising “telethon” events that were fashionable from the 1970s done the 1990s, it comes arsenic New Zealand faces its biggest menace since the pandemic began, with an outbreak of the delta variant spreading done the largest metropolis of Auckland and beyond.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who chatted with motorists astatine a drive-through vaccination halfway successful Wellington, initially acceptable a people of 100,000 jabs for the time but upped that to 150,000 aft the archetypal people was met.

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She besides acceptable a people of 25,000 shots for Indigenous Maori, whose vaccination numbers person been lagging and who person been deed hard by the latest outbreak.

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MAINE — Opponents of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for wellness attraction workers successful Maine filed an exigency entreaty to the U.S. Supreme Court aft being dealt different ineligible decision connected Friday.

The entreaty was filed hours aft the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals successful Boston denied a petition to halt the mandate from going into effect. The Supreme Court antecedently rejected appeals of vaccine requirements for New York City teachers and Indiana University unit and students.

The vaccine mandate successful Maine, announced by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, requires wellness attraction workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus oregon hazard losing their jobs. The authorities begins enforcing the mandate connected Oct. 29.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Northern California justice has tentatively ruled that authorities situation officials acted with deliberate indifference erstwhile they caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak astatine 1 of the world’s astir celebrated prisons past year.

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But Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard said vaccines person changed the scenery truthful overmuch since past that officials are nary longer violating inmates’ law rights.

The suit stemmed from the botched transportation of infected inmates successful May 2020 from a Southern California situation to San Quentin. The coronavirus past rapidly sickened 75% of inmates astatine the situation northbound of San Francisco, starring to the deaths of 28 inmates and a correctional officer.

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PHOENIX — Arizona’s 3 authorities universities volition comply with national mandates for authorities contractors and necessitate their employees to beryllium afloat vaccinated for COVID-19 by Dec. 8 unless granted exemptions, officials announced Friday.

The request by the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University includes undergraduate and postgraduate students who are besides assemblage employees, the authorities Board of Regents said successful a statement.

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The connection cited President Joe Biden’s enforcement bid regarding connected compliance with national COVID-19 workplace guidance and said the universities person “hundreds of millions of dollars successful national contracts, backing captious research, employment and acquisition efforts.”

“We respect idiosyncratic opinions regarding the vaccine and volition see disablement (including medical) and spiritual accommodations accordant with national rules,” the connection added.

A regents spokeswoman did not instantly respond erstwhile asked what would hap to an worker not complying with the mandate.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The governing assemblage of Alaska’s largest metropolis has overridden the mayor’s veto of an exigency bid instituting a disguise mandate for 60 days.

Alaska Public Media reports the Anchorage Assembly connected Thursday overturned Mayor Dave Bronson’s veto of the measurement requiring masks by astir everyone successful indoor nationalist spaces.

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The ordinance mandates radical deterioration masks successful indoor nationalist places and communal spaces. It provides immoderate exemptions. Businesses indispensable contradict introduction to radical who aren’t wearing masks.

The bid could beryllium canceled earlier than 60 days if 2 of Anchorage’s 3 hospitals are not operating with situation attraction protocols oregon if the metropolis does not person a precocious transmission complaint of COVID-19.

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PORTLAND, Maine — A national appeals tribunal has denied an exigency petition to halt a COVID-19 vaccine mandate from going into effect successful Maine.

The rule, announced by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, requires wellness attraction workers to get vaccinated against the illness by Oct. 29 oregon hazard losing jobs. Opponents of the mandate challenged it successful national tribunal and a justice declined to artifact it earlier this week.

A three-judge sheet of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit successful Boston issued a one-sentence connection connected Friday that said the petition for an exigency halt to the mandate was denied, the Bangor Daily News reported.

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Health workers successful the authorities needed to get their last changeable by Friday to comply with the mandate successful time.

Most already have. State officials said earlier this week that the compliance complaint astatine hospitals successful the authorities was much than 90%, and it was much than 80% successful immoderate different types of wellness attraction facilities specified arsenic intermediate attraction facilities.

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OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska’s lawyer wide said Friday that helium won’t question disciplinary enactment against doctors who prescribe controversial, off-label drugs to dainty and forestall coronavirus infections arsenic agelong arsenic they get informed consent from patients and don’t prosecute successful misconduct.

The bureau of Attorney General Doug Peterson released a ineligible sentiment saying it didn’t spot information to warrant ineligible enactment against wellness attraction professionals who prescribe ivermectin, a decades-old parasite treatment, oregon hydroxychloroquine, a malaria cause that erstwhile President Donald Trump took to effort to forestall a COVID-19 infection.

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“Based connected the grounds that presently exists, the specified information of prescribing ivermectin oregon hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 volition not effect successful our bureau filing disciplinary actions,” the Republican lawyer wide said successful the opinion.

Many wellness experts and starring aesculapian groups person been trying to halt the usage of some drugs, arguing that they tin origin harmful broadside effects and there’s small grounds that they help.

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BERLIN — The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech accidental they person requested that their coronavirus vaccine beryllium licensed for children aged 5 to 11 crossed the European Union. If authorized, it would beryllium the archetypal accidental for younger children successful Europe to beryllium get immunized against COVID-19.

In a connection connected Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech said they had submitted information to the European Medicines Agency, including late-stage results from a survey investigating their COVID-19 vaccine successful much than 2,200 children aged six months to 11 years, utilizing a little dose than what’s usually fixed to adults.

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The companies said those results showed a “strong immune response” successful the children and that the vaccine was besides recovered to beryllium safe. There are presently nary COVID-19 vaccines licensed for usage successful children younger than 12 successful Europe oregon North America; the shots made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are authorized for children 12 and older successful the European Union.

Earlier this month, Pfizer and BioNTech asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to greenish airy their vaccine for kids aged 5 to 11.

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