The Latest: New Zealand reports 1st virus vaccine death

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has reported its archetypal coronavirus vaccine death.

A wellness committee that monitors vaccine information said Monday a pistillate died from myocarditis aft taking the Pfizer vaccine. The committee said the pistillate apt developed the information due to the fact that of the vaccine, though she had different aesculapian issues which whitethorn person contributed.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said myocarditis was a precise uncommon broadside effect and determination was wide grounds that taking the vaccine was overmuch safer than being infected with COVID-19.

Health authorities person truthful acold administered vaccines to much than 2 cardinal New Zealanders. The committee declined to reply questions from The Associated Press, including the woman’s property and the day of her death, citing protocol due to the fact that a aesculapian examiner, known arsenic a coroner, is investigating the lawsuit further.

Also Monday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Auckland would stay successful strict lockdown for astatine slightest 2 much weeks and the remainder of the state for astatine slightest 1 much week, but with somewhat less restrictions, arsenic the federation battles an outbreak of the delta variant.

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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:

SINGAPORE — Singapore has afloat vaccinated 80% of its population, reaching a milestone that would marque the state “more resilient to COVID-19,” according to a apical authorities official.

Singapore’s 80% vaccination complaint among its 5.7 cardinal colonisation ranks it among the astir vaccinated countries successful the world.

“It is the effect of the corporate effort of galore radical moving down the scenes, and the radical of Singapore coming guardant to instrumentality attraction of themselves and the radical astir them,” said Singapore’s wellness curate Ong Ye Kung successful a Facebook station Sunday.

Singapore already began easing coronavirus restrictions earlier this month, allowing those who are afloat vaccinated to dine astatine restaurants. It volition besides unfastened question lanes with Germany and Brunei that would let vaccinated travelers from these countries to sojourn Singapore without having to service a mandatory quarantine period.

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Singapore has reported 67,304 coronavirus infections truthful far, with 55 deaths.

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SYDNEY — Australia’s occurrence successful protecting its Indigenous peoples from the pandemic has ended with the decease of a antheral successful his 50s.

The man, who was not vaccinated against COVID-19, died successful Dubbo Base Hospital westbound of Sydney successful New South Wales authorities connected Sunday, authorities authorities authoritative Scott McLachlan said Monday.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said earlier this period that among the astir important achievements of Australia’s pandemic effect were the information that COVID-19 had been kept retired of Outback Indigenous communities and nary Indigenous Australian had died from the virus.

The Australian authorities past twelvemonth restricted question to Outback Indigenous communities due to the fact that their radical are considered peculiarly susceptible to disease.

Indigenous Australians relationship for 3% of the colonisation and person poorer health, little acquisition levels and shorter beingness expectancies than different taste groups. Indigenous adults relationship for 2% of the Australian colonisation and 27% of the situation population.

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Australia has been comparatively palmy successful stamping retired COVID-19 clusters successful the past. But a delta variant outbreak that started successful Sydney successful June and has locked down New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory is proving much stubborn.

Four radical died of COVID-19 connected Sunday, bringing Australia’s decease toll from the pandemic to much than 1,000. Just 6.3% of Indigenous radical successful the Dubbo country are afloat vaccinated, compared with 26% of the wide population.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The fig of caller coronavirus cases successful New Zealand has fallen importantly for the archetypal clip since an outbreak was detected astir 2 weeks ago.

Officials anticipation it is an denotation that a strict nationwide lockdown mightiness beryllium moving to halt the virus’s spread.

Health authorities connected Monday reported 53 caller assemblage cases, down from 83 a time earlier. Some of that alteration whitethorn person been attributable to less tests being completed.

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New Zealand’s authorities is pursuing an elimination strategy successful which it tries to stamp retired the microorganism wholly whenever it appears. The authorities enactment the state into the toughest signifier of lockdown aft the archetypal lawsuit of the existent delta-variant outbreak was detected Aug. 17.

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HONOLULU -- Hawaii has reported astir 1,700 caller COVID-19 cases, which is the state’s highest level for the pandemic, though officials enactment that the number includes a backlog from 1 lab.

The Hawaii Department of Health reported 1,678 cases Sunday, portion noting that it included a partial catch-up of reporting aft 1 laboratory experienced strategy errors from Aug. 15 to Aug. 25.

The authorities saw 10,817 caller confirmed coronavirus infections documented successful the past 14 days.

The authorities wellness manager Dr. Elizabeth Char says that “this tidal question of cases is straining our quality to respond astatine each levels — our hospitals, our labs and adjacent our morgues are nearing oregon astatine capacity.”

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Hawaii besides reported 2 deaths from COVID-19, some women older than 60 with underlying wellness conditions. That brings the state’s totals since the pandemic began to 62,229 coronavirus cases and 589 deaths.

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ATHENS, Greece — Clashes erupted successful Athens connected Sunday evening betwixt the constabulary and immoderate participants successful a protestation rally against COVID-19 vaccinations.

Police estimation the participants successful the rally successful cardinal Syntagma Square astatine betwixt 7,000 and 8,000.

As the past of the speeches denouncing authorities plans to marque vaccinations for wellness workers and students mandatory were finishing, immoderate youths attacked constabulary lasting earlier the tomb of the Unknown Soldier adjacent to the Greek Parliament with bottles, firecrackers and immoderate firebombs.

Police utilized teardrop gas, stun grenades and a h2o cannon to disperse protesters, who shouted obscenities astatine the constabulary and against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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While implicit 5.7 cardinal radical successful Greece’s colonisation of 10.7 cardinal person been afloat vaccinated, determination has been a caller resurgence of cases and hospitalizations, astir wholly fueled by the delta variant and chiefly affecting the unvaccinated.

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