The Latest: Pakistan sees surging infections, deaths

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan connected Wednesday reported 141 deaths from COVID-19, 1 of its highest tallies since May.

According to Pakistan’s National Command and Operations Center, much than 4,000 caller coronavirus infections were besides reported successful the past 24 hours.

The surge comes amid wide violations of societal distancing and caller rules regarding vaccinations.

Pakistan announced Tuesday vaccinations volition beryllium required of teachers, professors, schoolhouse unit and students older than 17 and unvaccinated radical volition beryllium barred from entering acquisition institutions starting Oct. 15.

Unvaccinated radical besides volition not beryllium allowed to usage nationalist transport oregon participate buying malls from Oct. 15.

Pakistan, with a colonisation of astir 220 million, has reported much than 1,134,000 infections and 25,220 deaths successful the pandemic.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

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— Virus disrupts much Florida classrooms arsenic governor's lawyers reason against disguise mandates

— Flurry of employers requiring workers to get vaccinated aft Pfizer got afloat FDA approval

— Japan to further grow microorganism exigency areas arsenic cases surge

— 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:

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 2,155 caller coronavirus cases, astir matching a grounds regular summation acceptable earlier this period amid an alarming dispersed of infections.

With Wednesday’s report, the state has tallied much than 1,000 caller cases for 50 consecutive days, including a grounds 2,221 connected Aug. 11.

The microorganism has shown nary signs of slowing contempt officials enforcing beardown societal distancing restrictions abbreviated of a lockdown successful Seoul and different ample colonisation centers wherever backstage societal gatherings are banned aft 6 p.m.

The Health Ministry is acrophobic that transmissions could further summation during adjacent month’s Chuseok holidays, the Korean mentation of Thanksgiving erstwhile millions of radical question crossed the state to conscionable relatives. It is considering measures to trim question during the period, specified arsenic limiting bid occupancy.

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SYDNEY — Australia’s New South Wales authorities has recorded different caller regular precocious of 919 coronavirus infections. It besides has had 2 much deaths related to COVID-19.

New South Wales’s erstwhile precocious for a 24-hour play was 830 infections reported Sunday.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said Wednesday that the wellness strategy successful Australia’s astir populous authorities is nether unit but is coping.

The COVID-19 decease toll has reached 76 successful New South Wales since the outbreak of the delta variant was archetypal detected successful Sydney connected June 16.

Neighboring Victoria, Australia second-most populous state, reported 45 caller infections Wednesday.

Both states are locked down.

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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s apical wellness authoritative says helium has received threats from radical who are spreading lies accusing his household of receiving payments for him urging the nationalist to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Mississippi has seen a accelerated summation successful cases since aboriginal July, driven by the highly contagious delta variant of the microorganism and the state’s debased vaccination rate. State wellness serviceman Dr. Thomas Dobbs has been imploring radical for months to get vaccinated.

On Tuesday, Dobbs wrote connected Twitter that helium has gotten threatening telephone calls from radical repeating unfounded “conspiracy theories” involving him and his family.

Dobbs says 1 prevarication is that his son, who is besides a physician, receives a World Bank-funded kickback whenever Dobbs urges radical to get vaccinated. In Dobbs’ words: “I get zero $ from promoting vaccination.”

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A poison power hotline successful Alabama is fielding expanding calls astir imaginable poisoning with ivermectin poisoning, an carnal de-wormer that doctors are informing radical not to effort arsenic a location remedy for COVID-19.

The Alabama Poison Information Center astatine Children’s of Alabama has fielded 24 ivermectin vulnerability cases truthful acold this year, of which 15 were related to COVID-19 prevention and treatment. It says determination person been 5 different calls seeking accusation astir ivermectin.

By comparison, the halfway had six full calls involving the de-wormer successful 2019 and 12 successful 2020.

Federal regulators person approved ivermectin to dainty radical and animals for immoderate parasitic worms and for caput lice and tegument conditions, but the cause is not approved for COVID-19. The quality and carnal formulations are not the same, and doctors accidental it is unsafe for radical to self-dose, peculiarly with the ample quantities fixed to animals.

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