The Latest: Hungary reports 5-month high in new daily cases

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Hungary recorded its highest regular fig of caller COVID-19 cases successful 5 months Thursday amid a spike successful coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations.

Officials reported 1,141 caller cases, the highest regular full since May 14. The summation pushed the fig of cases truthful acold this week to a 37% leap implicit the aforesaid play past week. The state of astir 10 cardinal has 742 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the highest fig since aboriginal June.

Pandemic containment measures successful Hungary person been mostly repealed since aboriginal July, and masks are not required successful immoderate nationalist areas.

On Monday, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences recommended that masks beryllium worn successful enclosed areas, astatine events and connected nationalist proscription successful bid to “curb the 4th question of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

As of Thursday, 66.6% of Hungarian adults were afloat vaccinated, beneath the European Union mean of 74.7%, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Bali reopens to overseas travelers arsenic COVID-19 surge subsides

— Experts accidental comfort is key erstwhile choosing a look mask

— FDA grapples with timing of booster for J&J COVID-19 vaccine

— Russia, WHO disagree connected erstwhile support volition travel for Sputnik V

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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:

MOSCOW — Russia connected Thursday recorded the highest regular numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths since the commencement of the pandemic, a rapidly surging toll that has severely strained the nation’s wellness attraction system.

The government’s coronavirus task unit reported 31,299 caller confirmed coronavirus cases and 986 deaths successful the past 24 hours.

The state has repeatedly marked grounds regular decease tolls implicit the past fewer weeks arsenic infections surged amid a dilatory vaccination complaint and lax enforcement of measures to support against the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Tuesday that astir 43 cardinal Russians, oregon conscionable astir 29% of the country’s astir 146 cardinal people, were afloat vaccinated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has emphasized the request to velocity up the vaccination rate, but helium besides has cautioned against forcing radical to get vaccine shots.

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DENPASAR, Indonesia — The Indonesian edifice land of Bali reopened for planetary travelers to sojourn its shops and white-sand beaches for the archetypal clip successful much than a twelvemonth Thursday - if they’re vaccinated, trial negative, hail from definite countries, quarantine and heed restrictions successful public.

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However, overseas visitors whitethorn beryllium dilatory to arrive. No planetary flights to Bali were scheduled connected the archetypal time of the reopening, and a tourism authoritative forecast question would prime up successful November.

Bali’s airdrome volition invited caller overseas arrivals from 19 countries that conscionable World Health Organization’s criteria specified arsenic having their COVID-19 cases nether control, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the authorities curate who leads the COVID-19 effect successful Java and Bali, said successful a connection precocious Wednesday.

He said each planetary formation passengers indispensable person impervious they’ve been vaccinated 2 times, trial antagonistic for the coronavirus upon accomplishment successful Bali and acquisition a 5-day quarantine astatine designated hotels astatine their ain expense. They’ll besides person to travel stringent rules astatine hotels, successful restaurants and connected beaches.

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PRAGUE — Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has received a 3rd dose of a coronavirus vaccine and utilized the accidental to entreaty to his country's radical to get vaccinated.

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The 67-year-old Babis is among much than 30,000 Czechs who person gotten booster shots. The Czech Republic has offered vaccine boosters since Sept 20 to individuals implicit property 60, wellness attraction workers and different susceptible groups.

Yet much than 340,000 radical implicit the property of 65 haven’t received a azygous shot, a crushed for concern, Babis said.

“I’m calling connected everyone to get vaccinated,” the premier curate said. “The vaccination is the lone solution to prevention lives.”

The Czech Republic has reported astir 1,500 caller coronavirus cases for 3 consecutive days, numbers unseen since aboriginal May.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California justice has partially blocked an bid taking effect this week that requires authorities situation employees to beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus.

A Kern County justice issued a impermanent restraining bid that prevents enforcement of the vaccination mandate for unionized guards.

The mandate is owed to instrumentality effect Friday and it volition inactive use to different workers astatine prisons that person wellness attraction facilities The mandate is aimed astatine preventing different coronavirus outbreak similar 1 that killed 28 inmates and a correctional serviceman astatine San Quentin State Prison past year.

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The California Correctional Peace Officers Association opposes the measure.

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MELBOURNE, Australia — Coronavirus lawsuit numbers successful Australia’s Victoria authorities person surged to 2,297, the highest regular infections successful the state since the pandemic began past year.

But officials said Thursday the authorities volition unfastened up from pandemic restrictions arsenic planned erstwhile the 70% treble dose vaccination rates for radical property 16 and older are reached sometime adjacent week.

State Premier Daniel Andrews says the lawsuit numbers volition beryllium “less relevant” erstwhile the vaccination people is reached.

Officials said that 11 COVID-19 deaths were besides recorded successful the latest 24-hour period.

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported much than 1,000 caller coronavirus infections for the 100th consecutive time arsenic a delta-driven outbreak continues to dispersed successful the greater superior area.

Health officials accidental 1,580 of the 1,940 caller cases reported Thursday are successful the Seoul metropolitan region.

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The superior country has been nether South Korea’s toughest societal distancing measures abbreviated of a lockdown since July. Private societal gatherings of 3 oregon much radical are banned aft 6 p.m. unless each participants are afloat vaccinated.

Officials accidental people’s vexation with societal distancing is becoming an expanding situation and anticipation the improving vaccination complaint volition let much flexible measures soon.

As of Thursday morning, astir 61% successful the colonisation of much than 51 cardinal were afloat vaccinated.

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SAN DIEGO — Beleaguered concern owners and families separated by a nonessential question prohibition are celebrating aft the Biden medication says it volition reopen U.S. onshore borders adjacent month.

Travel crossed onshore borders from Canada and Mexico has been mostly restricted to workers whose jobs are deemed essential. New rules volition let afloat vaccinated overseas nationals to participate the U.S. careless of the crushed starting successful aboriginal November.

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Unlike aerial travel, for which impervious of a antagonistic COVID-19 trial is required earlier boarding a formation to participate the U.S., nary investigating volition beryllium required to participate the U.S. by onshore oregon sea, provided the travelers conscionable the vaccination requirement.

The 19-month coronavirus restrictions had economic, societal and taste impact, preventing buying and cross-border household gatherings erstwhile relatives unrecorded connected antithetic sides of the border.

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BUCHAREST, Romania — Doctors successful Bucharest issued an unfastened missive titled “a outcry of despair” arsenic the country’s overwhelmed wellness attraction strategy copes with grounds cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

The College of Physicians of Bucharest wrote a missive addressed to Romanians that says the aesculapian strategy has “reached the limit.”

On Wednesday, Romania confirmed 15,733 caller infections and 390 deaths, bringing the full fig of deaths to 40,461. Data from wellness authorities bespeak that much than 90% of coronavirus patients who died past week were unvaccinated.

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Hungary has agreed to supply attraction to respective twelve COVID-19 patients from Romania successful the coming days to assistance easiness the load connected hospitals.

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GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the fig of planetary coronavirus cases fell successful the past week, continuing a downward inclination that began successful precocious August.

In its latest play appraisal of the pandemic published connected Wednesday, the U.N. wellness bureau says determination were astir 2.8 cardinal caller cases and 46,000 confirmed deaths successful the past week, a driblet of 7% and 10% respectively. Europe reported a 7% emergence successful cases, portion each different satellite regions reported a decrease.

WHO says Europe besides had the biggest emergence successful deaths successful the erstwhile week, with 11% much COVID-19 deaths. WHO says the highest numbers of caller cases successful Europe were reported successful Britain, Turkey and Russia.

The biggest drops successful cases came successful Africa and the Western Pacific, wherever lawsuit numbers fell by 32% and 27%, respectively. Deaths successful some regions fell by much than a third.

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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is wrestling with however to determine connected booster doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

Other manufacturers privation to connection boosters six months aft superior vaccination. But J&J projected a scope of times, from 2 months to six months. In a reappraisal posted Wednesday, FDA scientists didn’t scope a steadfast conclusion, citing shortcomings with J&J’s data.

On Thursday and Friday, an FDA advisory sheet volition urge whether to backmost boosters of some the J&J and Moderna vaccines. An other dose of Pfizer’s vaccine already is disposable to definite Americans.

Pfizer and Moderna person provided the bulk of U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. More than 170 cardinal Americans person been afloat vaccinated with those two-dose shots portion little than 15 cardinal Americans got the J&J shot.

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MOSCOW — The caput of the Russian sovereign money bankrolling the changeable says Russia is acceptable to supply up to 300 cardinal doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative.

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That’s contempt the deficiency of WHO support and Sputnik V vaccine accumulation issues that are drafting concerns worldwide. Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev and the World Health Organization had vastly antithetic takes Wednesday connected erstwhile the Russian vaccine would get WHO’s stamp of approval.

Sputnik V is already being utilized successful 70 countries astir the satellite contempt not yet authorized by the U.N. wellness agency. Some officials successful countries, particularly successful Latin America, person expressed concerns they aren’t getting the vaccine’s 2nd changeable successful clip to decently innoculate their people.

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MIAMI — Families of COVID-19 patients are asking hospitals to rethink visitant policies a twelvemonth and a fractional into the pandemic, which has killed 716,000 radical successful the U.S.

The relatives accidental they’re being denied the close to beryllium with loved ones astatine a important time. Doctors besides are progressively telling hospitals to unbend restrictions to let patients to spot their families.

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Hospitals successful astatine slightest a half-dozen states person loosened restrictions governing visits to COVID patients. Others, however, are lasting firm, backed by studies and manufacture groups that bespeak specified policies person been important to keeping hospital-acquired infections low.

The University of Utah Health this twelvemonth announced its hospitals would let up to 2 big visitors for the full infirmary enactment with protective instrumentality and precocious vaccinated oregon recovered from the virus. Many hospitals person made exceptions lone for coronavirus patients who are astir to die.

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