The Latest: Russia sees 800 daily virus deaths for 4th day

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MOSCOW -- Daily coronavirus deaths successful Russia exceeded 800 for the 4th consecutive time connected Sunday, with the authorities reporting 816 caller fatalities.

The regular tally surpassed 800 for the archetypal clip successful the pandemic connected Thursday and has remained astatine that level ever since.

Russia faced a surge of infections past period that officials person blamed connected the dispersed of the delta variant. New confirmed cases soared from astir 9,000 a time successful aboriginal June to 25,000 a time successful mid-July.

New infections person since decreased somewhat to astir 21,000 regular this week, but the regular decease toll has remained high.

Officials are moving to boost vaccine uptake, which has remained little successful Russia than successful galore Western countries. As of Aug. 6, much than 39 cardinal Russians -- oregon 26.7% of the 146-million colonisation -- had received astatine slightest 1 dose, portion implicit 30 million, oregon 20%, was said to beryllium afloat vaccinated.

Russia’s authorities coronavirus task unit has reported implicit 6.6 cardinal confirmed coronavirus cases successful the pandemic and 170,499 deaths. However, reports by Russia’s authorities statistical work Rosstat that look astatine coronavirus-linked deaths retroactively person revealed a overmuch higher number.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Coronavirus claims much young victims successful U.S. as deaths ascent

— Amid a constricted proviso of vaccines, tensions originate successful Africa betwixt those seeking archetypal and 2nd vaccine shots

— Protesters successful France denounce COVID-19 wellness walk for 5th consecutive Saturday

— COVAX lone goes truthful acold as affluent countries predominate planetary vaccine allotments

— Iran volition enforce 6-day ‘general lockdown’ against coronavirus

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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:

KAMPALA, Uganda — At a COVID-19 vaccination tract successful the Ugandan capital, Kampala, tempers flared among those waiting for scarce AstraZeneca jabs, with immoderate accusing others of trying to leap the queue.

Nurses intervened, telling them the accused had been waiting since the erstwhile time and averting unit successful what has go a tense ambiance arsenic Ugandans jostle for vaccinations.

In the aftermath of a brutal question of infections driven by the delta variant, galore Ugandans seeking a archetypal dose of vaccine are competing with hundreds of thousands who person waited months for a 2nd dose. But the state present has lone 285,000 shots donated by Norway.

The delta surge has touched disconnected a vaccination unreserved crossed Africa that the dilatory trickle of donated doses can’t support up with, compounding the continent’s vaccine disadvantage compared with the remainder of the world.

The urgency to get a 2nd dose crossed overmuch of the world’s slightest vaccinated continent contrasts sharply with affluent countries present opening to authorize 3rd doses.

Dr. Alfred Driwale, the apical authoritative with Uganda’s immunization program, said the tiny fig of doses volition bash small to remedy the concern arsenic the 5 cardinal Ugandans eligible for vaccination — everyone from soldiers to wellness workers — scramble for shots nether a first-come, first-serve system.

“You can’t marque a argumentation erstwhile determination is nary certainty of supply,” Driwale said.

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SYDNEY — Poland has sent 1 cardinal COVID-19 vaccines to Sydney wherever the delta variant continues to spread, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said connected Sunday.

The archetypal of the Pfizer vaccines near Warsaw via the United Arab Emirates and volition get successful Sydney implicit Sunday night, Morrison said.

Australia bought the vaccines aft weeks of negotiations betwixt Morrison and his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki. Morrison did not uncover the price.

“A cardinal origin successful being capable to unafraid these doses from our Polish friends has been that we person had a important outbreak successful our largest city,” Morrison said.

Sydney has been successful lockdown since June 26 owed to an outbreak archetypal detected 10 days earlier. Surrounding New South Wales authorities was wholly locked down from Saturday due to the fact that of caller infections detected successful determination towns and microorganism recovered successful wastewater successful the state’s northbound and west.

Residents aged 20-to-39 successful Sydney’s worst-effected areas would beryllium fixed 530,000 of the caller doses. This property radical was liable for astir of the microorganism spread, Morrison said.

The remaining doses would beryllium shared with different Australian states and territories.

Only 25% of Australians aged 16 and older had been afloat vaccinated by Friday.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Anchorage Daily News reports that the Foo Fighters stone set is requiring that radical who be their upcoming shows successful Alaska beryllium afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 oregon person a antagonistic trial effect 48 hours earlier attending.

The 12-time Grammy-winning-band plans to execute successful Anchorage connected Aug. 17 and 19 astatine the Dena’ina Center and successful Fairbanks connected Aug. 21 astatine the Carlson Center.

Negative trial results oregon impervious of vaccination indispensable beryllium provided earlier entering — — either the archetypal paper oregon transcript of paper with an ID to match, according to a connection Saturday from Ticketmaster.

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PHOENIX — Arizona connected Saturday reported implicit 3,000 further COVID-19 cases for the 2nd consecutive day.

The state’s seven-day rolling averages for cases and deaths besides continued to emergence on with virus-related hospitalizations. The state’s coronavirus dashboard reported 1,601 hospitalizations arsenic of Thursday, on with 3,418 further cases and 27 much deaths.

In different development, the superintendent of the Scottsdale Unified School District said accrued dispersed of COVID-19 threatens to extremity in-person learning.

Also, the Salt-River Pima-Community Indian Community announced residents and visitors indispensable assistance curb dispersed of COVID-19 by wearing masks portion visiting authorities offices, businesses and schools connected the tribe’s Phoenix-area reservation.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Department of Health recommended a 3rd dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for radical with severely weakened immune systems.

The proposal Saturday comes arsenic the delta variant surges successful the country. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that immunocompromised Americans tin get an other dose of the Pfizer oregon Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for amended protection.

The FDA’s announcement applies to astir 3% of U.S. adults who are particularly susceptible due to the fact that of organ transplants, definite cancers oregon different disorders. Several different countries, including France and Israel, person akin recommendations.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Joe Biden has called schoolhouse territory superintendents successful Florida and Arizona, praising them for doing what helium called “the close thing” aft their respective boards implemented disguise requirements successful defiance of their Republican governors amid increasing COVID-19 infections.

The White House said Saturday that the Democratic president had spoken with interim Broward Superintendent Vickie Cartwright successful Florida and Phoenix Union High School District Superintendent Chad Gestson successful Arizona. Biden thanked them for their enactment and discussed their shared committedness to getting each students backmost successful safe, full-time in-person acquisition this schoolhouse year.

Biden’s telephone calls of enactment travel arsenic tensions physique implicit whether section schoolhouse districts tin and should necessitate look coverings for students and schoolhouse unit arsenic in-person classes resume. In Texas, respective schoolhouse districts — on with the state’s astir populous region — won impermanent ineligible victories Friday successful seeking to override Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s prohibition connected disguise mandates, which they argued is making the COVID-19 pandemic worse.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico wellness officials accidental an summation successful hospitalizations crossed the authorities has prompted them to enactment retired an urgent telephone for unpaid nurses to assistance boost the state’s aesculapian enactment force.

The New Mexico Department of Health has called connected nurses oregon anyone with a aesculapian licence to unpaid to assistance due to the fact that they judge hospitals could soon beryllium overwhelmed with patients. They privation precocious retired wellness workers oregon anyone qualified to motion up for the state’s Medical Reserve Corps.

Hospitals successful New Mexico and crossed the federation are seeing accrued hospitalizations due to the fact that of long-postponed surgeries and a surge successful COVID-19 patients. The delta variant of the coronavirus is overmuch much contagious than erstwhile strains.

The authorities Friday reported 798 further COVID-19 cases and 5 caller deaths. They bring the number of confirmed New Mexico microorganism cases since the pandemic began successful aboriginal 2020 to 218,569 and the fig of deaths to 4,446.

State officials said their modeling predicts much than 1,000 caller cases a time successful the adjacent respective weeks.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota System volition articulation hundreds of colleges nationwide successful requiring a COVID-19 vaccination for students and unit astatine its 5 campuses.

The mandate approved by the Board of Regents connected Friday volition instrumentality effect erstwhile the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives last support to a coronavirus vaccine and not conscionable exigency usage status. Full support is expected successful the coming weeks.

Faculty and unit astatine the Twin Cities, Duluth, Rochester, Crookston and Morris campuses indispensable either get vaccinated oregon acquisition regular COVID-19 testing.

The assemblage volition let aesculapian and spiritual exemptions to this mandate. The University of Minnesota campuses amended astir 67,000 students and employment 26,000 people.

System leaders said they volition soon stock much details astir the vaccination requirement, including however overmuch clip students volition person to get the shots aft FDA support and immoderate consequences for not complying with the mandate.

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OLATHE, Kan. — The astir populous region successful Kansas is requiring its employees to taxable to play COVID-19 investigating if they aren’t vaccinated.

Johnson County Manager Penny Postoak Ferguson said that lone 46% of region employees had reported being afloat vaccinated arsenic of Wednesday. Countywide, astir 58% of eligible residents are afloat vaccinated.

Beginning Aug. 23, authorities employees who are not afloat vaccinated indispensable get tested erstwhile a week. The Kansas City Star reports that employees who enactment successful departments providing nonstop attraction to residents are taxable to tests up to doubly weekly. Similar requirements already person taken effect successful schoolhouse districts, businesses and cities elsewhere.

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PARIS — Thousands of people, from families to far-right sympathizers, marched successful cities crossed France for a 5th consecutive Saturday to denounce a COVID-19 wellness walk needed to participate restaurants and long-distance trains.

Some 1,600 constabulary were deployed for 3 abstracted marches successful Paris, a week aft the wellness walk went into effect. “Liberty” was the slogan, with protesters saying the wellness walk limits their freedom.

Polls amusement astir French radical enactment the wellness pass.

The marches came arsenic France is facing soaring numbers of caller infections, driven by the much transmissible delta variant. In Montpellier, immoderate 7,500 radical marched. The metropolis is successful the portion wherever the corruption complaint is supra 600 per 100,000 people, among the highest successful the country.

On Friday, 46.1 cardinal radical successful France, astir 68% of the population, had received astatine slightest 1 vaccine shot. More than 38.8 million, oregon 57%, had 2 shots.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The fig of COVID-19 deaths successful Alabama are expanding aft a lawsuit surge fueled by debased vaccinations rates and the highly contagious delta variant.

State Health Officer Scott Harris says Alabama is reporting double-digit decease numbers for the archetypal clip successful months. The seven-day rolling mean of regular deaths successful Alabama roseate to 21 deaths per time connected Aug. 11, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Harris says the reported deaths were expected to emergence arsenic the authorities experiences a surge successful cases and hospitalizations.

“Deaths are a lagging indicator. Deaths hap last. We spot lawsuit numbers spell up, we spot hospitalizations spell up and past we spot deaths spell up,” Harris says.

On Friday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a constricted authorities of exigency aimed astatine giving aesculapian providers flexibility connected staffing and capableness decisions and easier shipment of exigency instrumentality and supplies. The Republican politician stressed she would not beryllium issuing immoderate closure orders oregon disguise mandates.

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DALLAS — Texas wellness officials reported 13,614 coronavirus cases and 144 deaths connected Friday, the astir deaths since Feb. 26.

State wellness officials registered 11,261 COVID-19 hospitalizations successful Texas.

The authorities is rapidly approaching its highest fig of hospitalizations during the pandemic — 14,218 connected Jan. 11, erstwhile it was successful the throes of a wintertime surge.

Texas has totaled much than 2.7 cardinal confirmed cases and 54,196 confirmed deaths since the commencement of the pandemic.

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SEDALIA, Mo. — Mostly unmasked crowds packed into the Missouri State Fair this week arsenic it opened successful Sedalia amid soaring COVID-19 numbers.

Fair officials decided successful the outpouring to bring backmost the afloat just aft replacing it with a overmuch smaller younker livestock amusement past twelvemonth due to the fact that of information concerns, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

State Fair Director Mark Wolfe says his unit anticipated up to 340,000 attendees earlier the lawsuit ends Aug. 22.

Unlike the authorities just successful neighboring Illinois, masks are optional. Among the unmasked was Brian Eggers, a 55-year-old husbandman who lives extracurricular Chillicothe. He mislaid a adjacent neighbour arsenic good arsenic aunts and uncles to COVID-19 but says helium hasn’t gotten astir to getting vaccinated.

“I’m not anti-vaccine, but I haven’t gotten it myself yet,” helium says, watching a younker livestock show, adding: “If God wants to instrumentality me, that’s his choice.”

Jessica Miller, who helmed the vaccination presumption astatine the fair, accidental 5 patients were immunized successful the archetypal 2.5 hours of operation. Some told Miller their jobs were requiring the vaccine.

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