The Latest: Pakistan locks down Karachi amid new surge

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities person imposed a lockdown successful the confederate Sindh province, including the commercialized hub of Karachi and different municipality centers, amid an alarming summation successful COVID-19 cases.

The lockdown began Saturday and is acceptable to past until Aug. 8, contempt absorption from the national authorities and the section concern community.

Sindh’s main curate Murad Ali Shah said Friday that a abrupt emergence successful microorganism cases has flooded hospitals successful Karachi, the provincial capital. The caller surge appears linked to galore of the crowd-attracting activities earlier this period during the Muslim vacation of Eid al-Adha.

The Sindh provincial authorities is closing each markets, but for pharmacies, bakeries, state stations and market stores, which inactive indispensable adjacent by 6 p.m. All transport betwixt cities is halted and nationalist busses aren’t operating. Private cars and taxis are constricted to 2 people.

Ongoing examinations astatine schools and universities are besides postponed until aft the lockdown.

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Nationwide, Pakistan connected Saturday reported 65 deaths and 4,950 caller microorganism cases successful the past 24 hours. The South Asian state has reported 1,029,811 confirmed cases and 23,360 virus-related deaths since the commencement of the pandemic.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

DALLAS — An administrative tribunal justice has ordered that anyone entering a Dallas County courthouse indispensable beryllium wearing a disguise to beryllium admitted.

The bid Friday by Administrative District Judge Maricela Moore requires masks to beryllium worn successful the communal areas of the George Allen Courthouse, which houses the county’s civilian courts; the Frank Crowley Courthouse, which houses its transgression courts; and the Henry Wade Building, which houses its juvenile courts. Those refusing could beryllium barred from entering the buildings.

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The bid comes aft Gov. Greg Abbott repeated his bid banning immoderate disguise mandates by immoderate state, region oregon section authorities entity. However, it cites arsenic its authorization a Texas Supreme Court bid “that confirms the judiciary’s authorization to instrumentality tenable actions to debar exposing tribunal proceedings and participants to the menace of COVID-19.”

Also cited is an sentiment from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bureau upholding wide judicial authorization to power orderly tribunal proceedings.

The bid is effectual starting Monday. A connection to Abbott’s bureau seeking remark was not instantly returned.

The bid came arsenic COVID-19 was connected a renewed rampage crossed the state, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 15,893 caller cases Friday, the astir since Feb. 3. Of those, 726 caller cases came from Dallas County. Over the past 2 weeks, the rolling mean of regular caller cases has risen by 183% to 5,100.

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As of Thursday, the astir caller time reported by authorities wellness officials, 5,846 radical were successful Texas hospitals with COVID-19, the astir since Feb. 26. Fifty-seven caller COVID-19 deaths were reported Friday, 5 of them successful Dallas County.

Texas had astir 44% of its colonisation afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 arsenic of Friday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s good beneath the nationalist mean of 57.2%.

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HONOLULU — Hawaii officials announced 622 caller COVID-19 cases, the highest fig of confirmed infections since the commencement of the pandemic.

The full included cases from laboratory reporting delays from the past 3 days, officials said, but the fig is inactive a important spike for the authorities of astir 1.4 cardinal people. The seven-day positivity complaint is present 5.1%, and officials said the mean regular lawsuit number implicit the past 3 days is present implicit 300.

Previously, the grounds precocious full for confirmed cases successful a azygous time was 355 acceptable successful August 2020.

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Officials said the surge is associated with the highly contagious delta variant. Just implicit 60% of Hawaii residents are afloat vaccinated.

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ATLANTA — Local officials successful Georgia are scrambling to summation vaccination rates adjacent arsenic much schools proceed telling students and employees to deterioration masks successful the look of rising COVID-19 corruption rates.

At slightest 23 districts statewide, covering astir a 3rd of the nationalist schoolhouse population, present accidental they volition necessitate everyone to deterioration a mask. Dooly County had already started people connected Wednesday, and idiosyncratic astatine the 1,200-student district’s precocious schoolhouse tested affirmative for the respiratory illness, prompting a disguise mandate.

The Montgomery County schoolhouse territory connected Friday delayed its commencement day by a week until Aug. 10, saying it had a unit shortage due to the fact that excessively galore teachers had been quarantined aft vulnerability to COVID-19.

Districts person been shifting argumentation aft the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week advised cosmopolitan disguise usage successful schools.

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Some parents are protesting disguise mandates. Dozens of opponents gathered extracurricular the medication gathering connected Friday successful Gwinnett County, Georgia’s largest schoolhouse district.

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NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is implementing a mandatory indoor disguise mandate careless of vaccination presumption and requiring that each metropolis employees and metropolis contractors beryllium vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The politician and apical officials sounded the alarm during a rapidly called Friday day quality conference, noting the alarming spike successful coronavirus infections successful a metropolis that was an aboriginal blistery spot for the pandemic.

“All of our radical request to disguise up erstwhile they are indoors,” Cantrell said.

The metropolis has a small implicit 4,000 employees, and each volition beryllium required to get vaccinated, effectual immediately, she said. Contractors wanting to enactment for the metropolis indispensable besides get vaccinated.

Officials said the mean regular lawsuit number successful the metropolis has astir tripled, and six radical person died successful the past week. Especially concerning were the fig of children falling ill, officials said.

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“This touches everyone successful our community,” said Cantrell. “Our children are dying.”

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CHICAGO — There is present an indoor disguise advisory successful Chicago for everyone implicit 2 years old.

The enactment taken Friday comes arsenic the Centers for Disease Control recommended people, adjacent if vaccinated, deterioration masks indoor successful areas wherever determination is simply a precocious transmission of COVID-19.

Chicago’s wellness section has announced the metropolis surpassed 200 caller coronavirus cases per time connected Friday.

Public wellness commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady says the measurement advising indoor disguise usage was made to forestall further dispersed of the highly contagious Delta variant.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 2,348 caller confirmed oregon probable cases of COVID-19, the 2nd clip successful 3 days the tally has topped 2,000.

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TORONTO — The Public Health Agency of Canada says 2 travelers who arrived successful Toronto from the U.S. person been fined adjacent to CDN$20,000 (US$16,029.37) for providing fake COVID-19 impervious of vaccination documents and lying astir pre-departure tests.

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The brace besides didn’t comply with requirements to enactment astatine a government-authorized edifice oregon to get tested upon arrival, the bureau said successful a caller merchandise Friday.

The travelers arrived past week and were handed 4 fines totaling CND $19,720 ( US$15,804.96) each.

“For each travelers coming to Canada, it is important to beryllium informed and to program successful advance,” the merchandise said. “It is the traveler’s work to guarantee they are eligible to participate Canada and that they conscionable each of the mandatory requirements.”

Canada eased quarantine requirements connected July 5 for afloat vaccinated Canadians and overseas nationals with an exemption to participate the country, but they indispensable upload their impervious of vaccination documents to the ArriveCAN app earlier entry.

Those who are not afloat vaccinated are inactive required to enactment for 3 days astatine a government-approved hotel, quarantine for 14 days and acquisition tests pre-departure, post-arrival and 8 days later.

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