The Latest: Australia city extends lockdown as clusters grow

BRISBANE, Australia — A lockdown of Australia’s third-largest metropolis Brisbane was extended until Sunday due to the fact that of a increasing COVID-19 outbreak.

Brisbane and respective surrounding municipalities successful Queensland authorities were owed to extremity a three-day lockdown connected Tuesday. But the Queensland authorities connected Monday announced the hold aft 13 locally acquired infections of the highly contagious delta variant were detected successful the latest 24-hour period.

Australia’s largest city, Sydney, and surrounding cities successful New South Wales authorities are successful their sixth week of lockdown. The New South Wales authorities connected Monday reported 207 caller locally acquired infections.

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Peter Dutton said helium was quarantining astatine location successful Brisbane and would be Parliament remotely. He said successful a connection helium has tested antagonistic but indispensable quarantine due to the fact that of a microorganism clump astatine his sons' school.

Dutton was infected with the coronavirus successful March 2020 during a travel to Washington, D.C. He has since been afloat vaccinated.

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Lawmakers who be Parliament successful idiosyncratic look regular saliva tests for COVID-19, indispensable deterioration masks and indispensable signifier societal distancing.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s authorities plans to somewhat easiness its strict coronavirus borderline controls to let migrant workers from the Pacific to harvest crops and vino grapes.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday it plans to let immoderate workers from Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu to participate without them going done the accustomed request to walk 2 weeks successful quarantine.

Ardern said details of the program are inactive being worked done and she can’t yet accidental however galore workers mightiness beryllium eligible.

She added that the fig of specified workers presently successful New Zealand was astir 3,000 abbreviated of the 10,000 typically needed for the harvest.

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There are nary existent outbreaks successful Samoa, Tonga oregon Vanuatu, which person reported a full of conscionable 7 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.

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PHOENIX — Health officials successful Arizona connected Sunday reported much than 2,000 caller COVID-19 cases for the 2nd consecutive day.

They accidental the 2,306 caller cases and 5 further deaths pushed the state’s totals to 929,541 cases and 18,251 known deaths since the pandemic began much than a twelvemonth ago.

Arizona had reported 2,066 caller cases and 22 deaths connected Saturday, the highest regular full since aboriginal March. The numbers person been rapidly climbing with 1,759 cases and 15 deaths reported Thursday and 1,965 cases and 24 deaths reported Saturday. Public wellness officials successful the authorities and elsewhere property the worsening dispersed to the precise contagious delta variant and debased vaccination rates.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina is requiring students to deterioration masks indoors this autumn arsenic the dispersed of COVID-19 has sped up crossed the state.

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School officials said that masks are again required wrong field buildings fixed Richland County’s precocious coronavirus transmission rate.

The announcement follows precocious updated national guidance that calls for mask-wearing indoors careless of vaccination presumption successful areas wherever the delta variant is rapidly spreading.

Young adults person the lowest vaccination complaint crossed property groups successful South Carolina. But nationalist colleges and universities successful South Carolina can’t necessitate students to get inoculated aft lawmakers banned schools from making the vaccine a information of enrollment.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A time aft it recorded the astir caller regular cases since the commencement of the pandemic, Florida connected Sunday broke its erstwhile grounds for existent hospitalizations, acceptable much than a twelvemonth ago.

The Sunshine State had 10,207 radical hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to information reported to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

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The erstwhile grounds was from July 23, 2020, much than a half-year earlier vaccinations started becoming widespread. Florida past had 10,170 hospitalizations, according to the Florida Hospital Association.

Florida is present starring the federation successful per capita hospitalizations for COVID-19, arsenic hospitals astir the authorities study having to enactment exigency country visitors successful beds successful hallways and others papers a noticeable driblet successful the property of patients.

In the past week, Florida has averaged 1,525 big hospitalizations a day, and 35 regular pediatric hospitalizations. Both are the highest per capita complaint successful the nation, according to Jason Salemi, an subordinate prof of epidemiology astatine the University of South Florida.

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