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DENVER — Denver Mayor Michael Hancock says the metropolis volition mandate each metropolis employees and backstage assemblage workers successful high-risk settings to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.

Denver’s nationalist wellness measurement announced Monday applies to much than 10,000 municipal employees similar constabulary officers, firefighters, and sheriff’s deputies.

Hancock says the bid includes congregate attraction settings including nursing homes, stateless shelters, hospitals, correctional facilities. It besides applies to employees of nationalist and backstage schools and higher acquisition institutions successful the county.

Officials accidental aft Sept. 30, workers who bash not get vaccinated but are required to bash truthful nether the mandate volition not beryllium allowed to enactment onsite.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Fauci says much suffering lies up arsenic coronavirus cases surge again

— UK eases question restrictions arsenic manufacture lobbies for more

— Iran records highest number of regular COVID cases successful pandemic

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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:

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland has been seeing rising cases of COVID-19, but nary deaths were reported connected Monday greeting for the latest 24-hour period.

The authorities reported 447 caller confirmed cases connected Monday, and hospitalizations accrued by 25 to 281 successful the state.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman, the main enforcement of the state’s 5th astir populous jurisdiction that includes the authorities superior of Annapolis, announced Monday that masks volition beryllium required successful each region buildings by everyone, careless of vaccination status, starting connected Thursday.

Pittman, a Democrat, besides said that starting Sept. 13, the region volition statesman requiring region employees to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon play grounds of a antagonistic trial for COVID-19, with suspension without wage imaginable for employees who bash not comply.

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JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi’s section of wellness reported Monday that the authorities saw astir 5,000 caller confirmed cases of COVID-19 implicit the play arsenic the microorganism surges statewide.

That’s an summation of much than 5 times the fig of caller cases — 796 — reported 3 weeks agone connected July 12.

“Delta surge accelerating rapidly — delight beryllium harmless and support your family,” State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs tweeted.

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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s largest physicians enactment is urging each wellness attraction organizations to necessitate that their employees beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19.

Despite the pleas for voluntary vaccinations, Wisconsin and the federation proceed to spot melodramatic increases successful coronavirus infections, superior owed to the dispersed of the delta variant among those who are unvaccinated.

The plea Monday from the Wisconsin Medical Society follows past week’s telephone from dozens of nationalist wellness attraction organizations, including the American Medical Association, for employer-mandated vaccinations.

“Health attraction needs to proceed to pb the combat against COVID-19,” said Wisconsin Medical Society COVID-19 Task Force Chairman David Letzer. “The lone anticipation to bushed this microorganism is done a important summation successful vaccinations. Mandates akin to what we already person successful spot for measles oregon influenza are needed. It’s clip for each wellness attraction employers to pb by example, bash the close happening and instrumentality this indispensable adjacent step.”

Health attraction systems successful Wisconsin requiring employer-mandated vaccinations see the Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin, the Mayo Clinic Health System and Ascension Wisconsin.

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Public colleges and universities successful Minnesota volition beryllium requiring masks beryllium worn connected campuses to assistance halt the dispersed of COVID-19 arsenic the delta variant of the microorganism is surging.

The University of Minnesota said Monday that it volition necessitate each students, employees and visitors astatine its 5 campuses to deterioration masks indoors starting Tuesday, careless of their vaccination status.

The Minnesota State nationalist assemblage strategy said disguise mandates should beryllium implemented astatine immoderate of its 37 campuses that are located successful counties with precocious transmission rates. As of Thursday, that included 8 assemblage colleges and 2 universities, but the Star Tribune reports that fig is increasing.

Target besides updated its masking policy, saying that starting Tuesday, masks volition beryllium required for employees and powerfully recommended for customers successful areas wherever viral transmission is high.

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JACKSON, Miss. — The politician of Vicksburg has tested affirmative for COVID-19 arsenic cases ascent statewide successful Mississippi.

Mayor George Flaggs Jr. released a connection Monday that helium would beryllium quarantining for the adjacent 5 days portion sick with the virus.

“After being administered 2 COVID-19 tests, the archetypal of which was negative, my doc has confirmed that the 2nd trial was positive,” helium said.

Flaggs said helium is “looking guardant to a speedy recovery” and that helium plans to instrumentality to enactment successful a week. Vicksburg is simply a metropolis of astir 22,000.

Mississippi’s section of wellness reported astir 5,000 caller cases of COVID-19 implicit the past 3 days. The authorities of astir 3 cardinal radical has seen astir 350,000 COVID-19 cases since the commencement of the pandemic.

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NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo says workers successful New York City’s airports and nationalist transit strategy volition person to get vaccinations oregon look play investigating for the coronavirus, but helium stopped abbreviated of mandating either masks oregon inoculations for the wide public.

Speaking to reporters Monday, the Democrat says helium nary longer has the ineligible authorization to marque masking mandatory.

The Democrat urged bars and restaurants to follow a argumentation of lone serving vaccinated radical and said that much hospitals should necessitate workers to get vaccines.

An mean of astir 2,300 radical person been investigating affirmative for COVID-19 regular crossed New York authorities implicit the past week, up from astir 300 caller cases per time successful precocious June.

Shortly aft Cuomo spoke to reporters, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said helium was “strongly recommending” that adjacent vaccinated radical instrumentality to wearing masks indoors erstwhile not astatine home, but besides declined to marque masking mandatory.

The politician and politician person resisted re-imposing disguise mandates, alternatively stressing vaccination arsenic the cardinal to warring the pandemic. De Blasio announced past week that metropolis employees would person to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September oregon look play COVID-19 testing. Cuomo aboriginal announced a akin regularisation for authorities employees.

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CHICAGO — An yearly festival successful Chicago’s Little Italy vicinity has been canceled for a 2nd consecutive year, mostly to debar further stressing vendors already struggling to find workers, organizers said.

The Taylor Street Little Italy Festa, which typically draws tens of thousands of radical to the vicinity successful mid to precocious August, was canceled past twelvemonth due to the fact that of COVID-19.

This year’s cancellation was partially driven by rising COVID-19 cases and the delta variant’s emergence, said Ron Onesti, president of Onesti Entertainment, the radical that puts connected the event. But helium said the superior origin was that going up with the festival would enactment an further strain connected businesses, peculiarly Taylor Street restaurants, struggling successful a choky labour marketplace to find workers, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“It is nary concealed that labour is simply a occupation for everyone, and connected Taylor Street it is truly prominent. Some businesses already person to adjacent connected Sundays oregon trim their hours to get by,” Onesti said.

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MIAMI — Miami’s nationalist infirmary Jackson Memorial has conscionable expanded its intensive attraction portion by 58 beds arsenic a effect of a emergence successful COVID-19 hospitalizations.

A spokeswoman for Jackson Health System said the web continues to attraction for different patients, and elective surgeries and transplants are inactive taking place.

On Monday, 33 hospitals were reporting a captious staffing shortage successful the state. The fig is doubly what it was during erstwhile microorganism surges since the pandemic began.

“We bash person further ICU beds, which could beryllium converted to COVID units if it gets to that point,” said Tania Leets-Santana, the spokeswoman..

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, determination are 10,389 patients presently hospitalized who person COVID-19 arsenic of Monday. The Florida Hospital Association said the authorities reached its highest past twelvemonth connected July 23, with 10,170 hospitalizations.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — One of Florida’s largest wellness attraction systems says galore hospitalized COVID-19 patients volition lone beryllium capable to person guests virtually, not successful person, successful bid to escaped up abstraction astatine its hospitals.

Exceptions volition beryllium made for children nether the property of 18, obstetrics, pediatrics and extremity of beingness situations, Advent Health’s Central Florida part said Monday successful a statement.

“The crushed we are adjusting our presumption is to guarantee we person capableness successful the future,” the connection said. ”Our hospitals are designed successful specified a mode that spaces are flexible and expandable.”

The wellness attraction strategy past week stopped performing non-emergency surgeries successful bid to escaped up resources for COVID-19 patients, of which 94% were unvaccinated.

Over the weekend, national wellness information showed that Florida connected Friday reported 21,683 caller cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day full since the commencement of the pandemic.

Advent said Monday that it had capable supplies of ventilators, monitors and different specialized instrumentality to beryllium capable to rapidly person spaces successful the infirmary to some modular and ICU level rooms should they beryllium needed.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Springfield infirmary reached a “sad caller record” connected Sunday erstwhile the fig of coronavirus patients successful its attraction roseate to 187, an head said.

CoxHealth CEO Steve Edwards urged residents via Twitter to get vaccinated “to support others, to support children, to support our community.”

On Saturday, Edwards wrote connected societal media that the infirmary had 180 infected inpatients, which astatine the clip was a caller record, according to the Kansas City Star. The fig was arsenic debased arsenic 28 patients astir 8 weeks ago, helium said.

“I can’t recognize the motivations of radical disparaging healthcare providers and diminishing the world of this pandemic,” Edwards said connected Twitter, arsenic wellness officials proceed to impulse Missourians to get vaccinated arsenic the much assertive delta variant added to caller spikes successful infections and deaths.

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong person Carrie Lam says authorities would reclassify countries into high, mean and low-risk, and update quarantine requirements to favour vaccinated travelers arsenic it seeks to forestall imported coronavirus infections from leaking into the community.

Under the caller measures announced Monday, lone vaccinated Hong Kong residents volition beryllium capable to instrumentality to Hong Kong from countries deemed high-risk. For medium-risk countries, lone Hong Kong residents and vaccinated non-residents tin instrumentality to the city.

All arrivals indispensable contiguous a antagonistic coronavirus trial effect taken wrong the 72 hours earlier they committee their formation to Hong Kong.

Authorities besides said civilian servants indispensable get vaccinated oregon get regular coronavirus tests astatine their ain expense.

Staff successful quarantine hotels and astatine the airports, arsenic good arsenic employees astatine schools and homes for the aged and the disabled were besides ordered to get vaccinated oregon wage for regular investigating successful the future.

Certain edifice workers who are unvaccinated volition besides request to beryllium tested each 7 days alternatively of each 14 days.

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KARACHI, Pakistan — Hundreds of Pakistani businessmen, mostly store owners, person rallied successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Karachi against the caller imposition of a lockdown determination amid an alarming summation successful COVID-19 cases.

The demonstrators connected Monday demanded the lifting of the lockdown, saying their businesses are being hurt.

The lockdown, which began implicit the weekend, volition stay successful spot until August 8.

The demonstrators promised to adhere to societal distancing rules. It was not wide whether the authorities volition judge their demand.

But earlier announcing the lockdown, authorities had repeatedly asked radical to halt violating societal distancing rules successful bid to debar strict measures.

Pakistani authorities accidental they imposed the lockdown amid a surge successful caller infections and fatalities.

The South Asian state of implicit 216 cardinal radical has reported 103,9695 confirmed cases and 23,462 virus-related deaths since the commencement of the pandemic.

On Monday it reported 40 caller deaths successful the past time and 4,858 deaths.

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BUCHAREST, Romania — The 2nd 150,000 doses of a planned 500,000-dose proviso of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines person arrived successful Moldova — a donation from the United States to assistance the erstwhile Soviet republic inoculate its tiny nation.

The vaccine donation is portion of the U.N.-backed COVAX programme that is shipping coronavirus vaccines to mediocre countries to assistance combat the planetary pandemic.

Moldova, a federation of astir 3.5 cardinal sandwiched betwixt Romania and Ukraine, has truthful acold administered much than a cardinal vaccine doses, but lone 495,000 person been afloat inoculated against COVID-19.

The U.S. Embassy successful Moldova wrote Monday that the American radical “are honored” to nonstop the vaccines, adding: “These are azygous changeable vaccines, which tin inoculate fractional a cardinal Moldovans against the Coronavirus.”

Meanwhile, the Moldovan authorities urged radical to beryllium vaccinated.

Since the pandemic began, Moldova has recorded much than 259,000 infections and 6,255 radical person died.

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