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ORLANDO, Fla. — The politician of Orlando asked residents connected Friday to halt watering their lawns and washing their cars for a slightest a week, saying h2o usage needed to beryllium chopped backmost due to the fact that of the caller surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations.

The Orlando Utility Commission treats the city’s h2o with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily spell toward h2o attraction person been diverted to hospitals for patients suffering from the virus, Mayor Buddy Dyer said.

The city-owned inferior typically goes done 10 trucks of liquid oxygen a week but its supplier precocious said that it would beryllium chopped backmost to 5 to 7 trucks a week to accommodate hospitals, said Linda Ferrone, the inferior commission's main lawsuit and selling officer.

Ferrone said the determination is unprecedented and that if things got worse the metropolis mightiness person to contented a boil h2o alert.

About 40% of the inferior commission’s potable h2o is utilized for irrigation truthful immoderate strains connected the h2o proviso volition beryllium greatly reduced if residents halt watering their lawns, washing their cars oregon utilizing unit washers, she said.

Since the 1990s, the inferior has utilized liquid oxygen to region the flimsy discoloration and rotten-egg odor that is recovered people successful Florida’s h2o supply.

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— U.S. appeals court keeps CDC’s intermission connected lodging evictions

— San Francisco: Full vaccination needed to participate restaurants, bars

— AP-NORC poll: Vaccine requirements favored in U.S.

— South Africa opens vaccines to each adults to boost participation

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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:

MIAMI — Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds adjacent to the salaries of schoolhouse committee members if schoolhouse districts successful 2 counties don’t instantly bash distant with strict disguise mandates.

School boards successful Broward and Alachua counties received a informing Friday from the State Board of Education giving them 48 hours to locomotion backmost their decisions to necessitate masks for each students.

Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran said successful a connection that the districts successful those 2 areas are violating the Parents’ Bill of Rights and a precocious July enforcement bid by Gov. Ron DeSantis that prompted rules limiting however acold districts tin spell with disguise requirements.

The Republican politician ordered the state’s wellness and acquisition departments to travel up with rules truthful that parents tin take whether their children deterioration them.

DeSantis maintains that masks tin beryllium detrimental for children’s improvement and that younger children simply don’t deterioration masks properly.

Statewide, Florida is adding an mean of astir 20,300 caller COVID-19 infections per day, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

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LAS VEGAS — Half of each eligible Nevadans are present afloat vaccinated against the coronavirus, pushing the authorities person to the nationalist vaccination complaint of astir 60% for each radical 12 years of property and older, authorities wellness officials said Friday.

Gov. Steve Sisolak said the 50% of residents 12 and older who are present afloat vaccinated is an “incredible milestone to reach.”

Among those 12 and older, 60.5% person initiated vaccination, Nevada wellness officials said.

Nevada’s 14-day mean of caller regular COVID-19 cases and positivity complaint some continued caller declines done the week aft a dependable emergence began successful aboriginal June erstwhile statewide restrictions were dropped.

Average regular caller cases stood astatine 928 connected Thursday, the 3rd regular diminution since the mean was 1,107 connected Monday. That was the highest mean since 1,113 connected Jan. 31 earlier numbers began a dependable diminution to arsenic debased arsenic 135 successful aboriginal June.

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ATLANTA — The mayors of immoderate of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming Gov. Brian Kemp’s caller bid that aims to bounds section efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

The 4 Democrats besides defended masks arsenic indispensable during the state’s latest COVID surge. An email sent to the governor’s bureau by The Associate Press was not instantly returned.

Kemp signed an enforcement bid Thursday that says cities cannot necessitate businesses and sports teams to enforce section pandemic restrictions.

The determination came amid an detonation successful COVID cases fueled by the delta variant among those who are unvaccinated.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s wellness bureau became the latest radical Friday to inquire lawmakers to marque it wide that schoolhouse districts tin necessitate students to deterioration masks without losing authorities fund wealth oregon immoderate different penalties.

The General Assembly enactment the disguise prohibition point into the fund successful aboriginal June erstwhile South Carolina was seeing an mean of 150 COVID-19 cases a day. Ten weeks later, the authorities is seeing astir 3,520 caller cases each day.

And that dire caller lawsuit mean comes earlier astir 700,000 nationalist schoolhouse students completed their archetypal week backmost successful classrooms.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Board voted unanimously Friday to inquire the House and Senate to travel backmost successful peculiar league to “provide section authorization for disguise mandates.”

House and Senate leaders person not responded.

Gov. Henry McMaster is against requiring masks successful schools.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Western Michigan’s 2 largest counties ordered masks successful schools done sixth people Friday, citing the hazard of the COVID-19 delta variant and young children who don’t suffice for vaccines.

The orders came from wellness departments successful Kent and Ottawa counties.

Teachers and unit members who are vaccinated inactive indispensable deterioration masks successful schools, the counties said.

Kent and Ottawa articulation astatine slightest 3 counties with akin schoolhouse disguise policies: Allegan, Kalamazoo and Genesee. Some schoolhouse districts elsewhere are acting connected their own.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declined to bid a statewide disguise mandate successful schools, though her main aesculapian executive, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, said it would apt trim the dispersed of COVID-19.

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SALT LAKE CITY -- The politician of Salt Lake City has issued a disguise bid successful the city’s schools arsenic the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreads.

Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Friday that she utilized her exigency powers to contented the order. She says she plans to enactment with wellness officials to find erstwhile it tin beryllium lifted.

The bid comes a week aft the Salt Lake County Council overturned a schoolhouse disguise mandate that the county’s apical wellness authoritative issued. Mendenhall says the bulk of assembly members had privately told her that they feared retaliation and urged her to contented the order.

Masks were required successful classrooms past year, but nether a caller authorities law, schoolhouse disguise mandates are present banned. Local wellness departments tin contented a regularisation but lone with the enactment from elected region leaders, and anti-mask advocates person been vocal successful their opposition.

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JACKSON, MISS. — Mississippi’s lone Level 1 trauma halfway and teaching infirmary announced Friday it volition mandate each employees and students to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s argumentation requires employees and students beryllium vaccinatedi by Nov. 1.

The argumentation is simply a reversal from a erstwhile regularisation enactment successful spot past period that allowed employees oregon students to skip the vaccine if they agreed to deterioration a N95 disguise portion connected campus.

In a missive Friday, a apical authoritative astatine the aesculapian halfway said it’s clip for the instauration to instrumentality assertive action. Mississippi has the highest per capita complaint of caller coronavirus cases successful the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Those who garbage vaccination whitethorn look “corrective enactment up to and including termination oregon dismissal,” according to the missive by Dr. Alan Jones, the center’s subordinate vice chancellor for objective affairs. He adds those seeking accommodations indispensable taxable requests by Sept. 10.

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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has opened vaccine eligibility to each adults to measurement up the measurement of inoculations amid a coronavirus surge fueled by the delta variant.

The federation started offering shots to everyone aged 18 and older Friday arsenic the fig of vaccinations stalled to little than 200,000 a day, down from 250,000 earlier this month. It’s importantly little than the people of 300,000 the authorities had hoped to execute by this time.

On Friday, South Africa recorded much than 13,000 caller cases and 317 confirmed deaths. South Africa has 2.6 cardinal confirmed cases, 35% of the Africa’s total.

South Africa has vaccinated much than 10 cardinal of its 60 cardinal people, of which much than 4.6 cardinal are afloat vaccinated. Nearly 80,000 radical person died during the pandemic.

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco became the archetypal large metropolis successful the federation to necessitate impervious of afloat vaccination against COVID-19 connected Friday for radical eating wrong restaurants, moving retired successful gyms oregon attending indoor concerts.

Restaurants and bars posted signs and added other unit to statesman verifying people’s impervious of vaccination earlier allowing them in.

The caller regularisation goes beyond New York City, which requires radical to beryllium astatine slightest partially inoculated for a assortment of indoor activities. Local concern groups person supported the caller vaccine mandate, saying it volition support their employees’ and customers’ wellness and support them from having to bounds capableness indoors.

The bulk of 36,000 metropolis workers accidental they are vaccinated, but astir 4,300 person not. This week, the metropolis sent letters recommending a 10-day suspension without wage for 20 employees successful police, occurrence and sheriff’s departments who refused to study their vaccination presumption by the Aug. 12 deadline, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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WASHINGTON — A national appeals tribunal connected Friday allowed the COVID-related intermission connected evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stay successful place.

That sets up a apt showdown earlier the nation’s highest court. A three-judge sheet of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by Alabama and Georgia realtors to artifact the eviction moratorium reinstated this month.

The realtors are apt to entreaty to the Supreme Court, which voted 5-4 successful June to let the moratorium to proceed done the extremity of July. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who joined the bulk — warned the medication not to enactment further without explicit legislature approval.

As of Aug. 2, astir 3.5 cardinal radical successful the United States said they faced eviction successful the adjacent 2 months, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.

The caller moratorium temporarily halted evictions successful counties with “substantial and precocious levels” of microorganism transmissions and would screen areas wherever 90% of the U.S. colonisation lives. The tribunal combat allows clip for the organisation of $45 cardinal successful rental assistance that’s been approved but not yet used.

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BOSTON — The acting politician of Boston says masks volition beryllium required for each indoor nationalist places starting Aug. 27 to assistance incorporate rising coronavirus infections.

Kim Janey’s bureau says the mandate volition use to everyone property 2 and older who enters a business, retail shop, club, authorities bureau oregon immoderate different nationalist venue.

Janey says the disguise mandate comes up of the accomplishment of much than 50,000 assemblage students from crossed the nation, and a instrumentality to classes for much than 50,000 Boston Public School students.

On Thursday, Gov. Charlie Baker said tens of thousands of authorities workers volition request to beryllium they’re afloat inoculated against COVID-19 by October oregon hazard losing their jobs.

Massachusetts remains 1 of the astir vaccinated states successful the nation, with much than 64% of residents afloat inoculated. But cases person been expanding successful caller weeks.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — More than 200 University of Virginia students who didn’t comply with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine request person been disenrolled up of the autumn semester.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that the schoolhouse disenrolled 238 students, including 49 who were enrolled successful autumn courses. University spokesperson Brian Coy says the students were disenrolled aft “receiving aggregate reminders via email, text, telephone calls, calls to parents that they were retired of compliance.”

They tin re-enroll if they comply with the vaccine request oregon record an exemption by Wednesday.

About 96% of students person been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a quality release. The assemblage granted 335 imperishable vaccine waivers for students with spiritual oregon aesculapian exemptions. It granted 184 impermanent vaccine waivers for students who couldn’t get vaccinated but mean to get a vaccine connected campus. Exempt students indispensable beryllium tested play and deterioration a disguise indoors and outdoors successful communal spaces.

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NASHWILLE, Tenn. — When Congress sent states billions of dollars aboriginal successful the coronavirus pandemic to assistance marque schools safe, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee saw an opportunity.

He utilized portion of the windfall to further his extremity of offering schoolhouse prime options for parents, sending millions to charter schools that run without accepted nationalist oversight. That included funneling much than $4 cardinal to caller charters that are not scheduled to unfastened until astatine slightest adjacent year.

It was an casual mode for the Republican politician to beforehand a long-held priority. For Lee and immoderate different GOP governors, the discretionary wealth was a accidental to sidestep their authorities legislatures and beforehand schoolhouse choice, which typically involves backing charter schools oregon offering vouchers truthful parents tin usage payer wealth to wage backstage schoolhouse tuition.

Teachers unions and different critics presumption the efforts arsenic a mode to siphon wealth distant from accepted nationalist schools.

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ATLANTA — The mayors of immoderate of Georgia’s largest cities are slamming Gov. Brian Kemp’s caller bid that aims to bounds section efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

In an unfastened missive connected Friday, the mayors of Atlanta, Savannah, Athens-Clarke County and Augusta-Richmond County suggested the Republican politician was putting authorities supra nationalist health. The 4 Democrats besides defended masks arsenic indispensable during the state’s latest COVID surge.

Kemp signed an enforcement bid Thursday that says cities cannot necessitate businesses and sports teams to enforce section pandemic restrictions. The determination came amid a surge successful coronavirus cases fueled by the delta variant among the unvaccinated.

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NEW DELHI — India’s cause controller has fixed exigency usage support to Zydus Cadila’s COVID-19 vaccine, the country’s archetypal for the adolescents successful 12-18 property group.

ZyCoV-D, India’s location developed DNA-based vaccine, is simply a three-dose vaccine and tin utilized for adults also, India’s Health Ministry said connected Friday. This benignant of vaccine uses engineered DNA to trigger an immune response.

Interim results from phase-III objective trials successful much than 28,000 volunteers showed superior efficacy of 66% for symptomatic RT-PCR affirmative cases, the ministry said.

The institution successful a connection said it plans to manufacture 100-120 cardinal yearly doses of ZyCoV-D.

Pankaj R. Patel, Chairman, Cadila Healthcare Ltd., said “We are peculiarly blessed that our vaccine volition lend to this combat against COVID-19 and alteration the state to vaccinate a larger colonisation particularly successful the property radical of 12-18 years.”

India has vaccinated 570 cardinal people, with hardly 11% afloat inoculated, according to the Health Ministry. India has astir 1.4 cardinal people.

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NEW YORK — New York City’s nationalist schools volition necessitate COVID-19 vaccinations for student-athletes and coaches participating successful “high-risk” sports including football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, lacrosse and rugby.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says the students and coaches indispensable get astatine slightest 1 dose earlier the commencement of competitory play. The politician told vigor presumption WNYC that bowling is connected the database due to the fact that it is indoors.

Masks volition beryllium required for each students and unit erstwhile schoolhouse starts connected Sept. 13. There is nary vaccination request for teachers oregon eligible students.

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GENEVA — The World Health Organization has issued a telephone for experts to articulation a caller advisory radical to code the agency’s attempts to further analyse the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a connection connected Friday, the U.N. wellness bureau says the caller technological radical would supply WHO with an autarkic investigation of the technological enactment done to day to pinpoint the origins of COVID-19 and to counsel the bureau connected indispensable adjacent steps. The experts besides volition supply guidance connected captious issues regarding the imaginable emergence of different viruses susceptible of triggering outbreaks, specified arsenic MERS and Ebola.

In March, a WHO-led squad of planetary experts issued a preliminary study that deemed it “extremely unlikely” the origins of COVID-19 were linked to a laboratory. Although astir experts deliberation it’s astir probable the microorganism jumped to humans from animals, the mentation that a laboratory was progressive has gained traction successful caller months. An quality reappraisal was ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden to analyse the possibility.

WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged past period it was “premature” to regularisation retired the laboratory leak theory. The agency’s squad person said during a travel to China that helium was disquieted astir information standards astatine a installation adjacent to wherever the archetypal quality COVID-19 cases were detected successful Wuhan.

WHO says it is seeking up to 25 officials with applicable expertise to use for its caller technological advisory radical by Sept. 10.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. authorities is extending a prohibition connected nonessential question on the borders with Canada and Mexico to dilatory the dispersed of COVID-19.

That’s contempt expanding unit to assistance the restriction. U.S. borderline communities babelike connected shoppers from Mexico and Canada and their governmental representatives person urged the Biden medication to assistance the ban.

Canada precocious began letting afloat vaccinated U.S. citizens participate the country.

But the Department of Homeland Security said successful a tweet Friday the restrictions connected nonessential question were inactive needed to minimize the dispersed of COVID-19 and the delta variant. It extended the prohibition until astatine slightest Sept. 21.

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BERLIN — Germany is declaring Crete and different Greek islands fashionable tourer destinations a “high-risk area” for COVID-19, meaning that galore radical who haven’t been vaccinated volition request to quarantine upon arrival.

Germany’s nationalist illness power center, the Robert Koch Institute, says Crete and Greece’s confederate Aegean islands volition beryllium added to the database of “high-risk areas” connected Tuesday. Kosovo and North Macedonia, arsenic good arsenic portion of Ireland and Dominica, volition beryllium added to the database connected Sunday.

However, parts of Spain, including the Canary Islands, Catalonia and the Valencia region, are being dropped from the list.

People arriving from “high-risk areas” -- the little of 2 German COVID-19 hazard categories -- indispensable quarantine for 10 days if they haven’t been vaccinated oregon precocious recovered. That play tin beryllium chopped to 5 days with a antagonistic test.

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ONEIDA, Wis. — Two American Indian tribes successful northeastern Wisconsin volition wage its members and employees to get a coronavirus vaccination.

The Oneida and Menominee tribes are offering a $500 inducement for vaccinations. That includes those who person already been inoculated.

For the Menominee Nation, members property 12 and older and tribal employees who are afloat vaccinated connected oregon earlier Oct. 31 are eligible to person the incentive. Oneida tribal members and employees person until Sept. 30 to amusement impervious of their vaccination to person the $500.

Debbie Danforth, manager of the Oneida Nation Division of Health, says the purpose is 75% vaccination successful the community.

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DENVER — Anxiety successful the United States implicit COVID-19 is astatine its highest level since winter.

The heightened interest is reflected successful a caller canvass from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It comes amid different nationwide spike successful infections, spurred by the highly contagious delta variant.

More authorities governments and schoolhouse districts are adopting masking and vaccination requirements and the nation’s infirmary furniture capableness is erstwhile again stretched to the limit.

The canvass shows astir 6 successful 10 Americans privation vaccination mandates for those attending movies, sports, concerts and different crowded events. They besides privation mandates for those traveling by airplane and for workers successful hospitals, restaurants, stores and authorities offices.

The canvass shows that 41% are “extremely” oregon “very” disquieted astir themselves oregon their household becoming infected with the virus. That is up from 21% successful June, and akin to January’s surge astatine 43%.

Nearly 200 cardinal people, oregon conscionable implicit 60% of the U.S. population, had received astatine slightest 1 vaccine dose, according to the CDC. Just implicit 50% are afloat vaccinated. More than 620,000 Americans person died from the coronavirus.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients successful northeast Florida, the mention of the state’s latest surge.

But the patients rapidly filling wards successful Jacksonville are younger than past summer’s highest outbreak. And they’re getting sick faster.

The caseload is much than treble that surge astatine Baptist Health’s hospitals. They’re making bash by converting bare spaces, adding much than 100 beds and moving overtime to transportation radical to get vaccinated.

Florida accounts for 1 successful 5 cases nationwide arsenic the highly contagious delta variant spreads. Baptist’s aesculapian manager says they’re “bracing for the worst.”

Duval County, which consists astir wholly of Jacksonville, is simply a racially divers Democratic bastion. Nearly one-third of Jacksonville’s colonisation is African American.

Pastor George Davis buried six religion members nether the property of 35 successful conscionable 10 days. All had been healthy, each unvaccinated. Now his religion members tin simply locomotion crossed the hallway each Sunday and speech with a aesculapian adept astir their vaccine concerns. Davis besides hosted 2 vaccination drives, wherever much than 1,000 radical got shots.

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