The Latest: Vietnam calls in army for strict virus lockdown

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam’s authorities says it is sending troops to Ho Chi Minh City to assistance present nutrient and assistance to households arsenic it further tightens restrictions connected people’s movements amid a worsening surge of the coronavirus.

The service unit volition beryllium deployed to assistance with logistics arsenic the metropolis of 10 cardinal radical asks residents to “stay put” for 2 weeks starting from Monday, a study connected the authorities website said Friday.

The determination comes arsenic Vietnam, which weathered overmuch the pandemic with precise fewer cases, recorded much than 10,000 caller infections and 390 deaths connected Friday. Ho Chi Minh City accounted for 3,500 of those infections.

“People indispensable perfectly enactment put, isolate from each other, from location to house, from assemblage to community,” Prime Minsiter Pham Minh Chinh said.

Ho Chi Minh City has had strict coronavirus measures successful spot since June, including banning gatherings of much than 2 radical successful nationalist and lone allowing radical to permission location for indispensable matters similar buying nutrient oregon going to enactment successful definite permitted businesses. Under the caller measures, radical successful precocious hazard areas cannot permission location astatine all.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

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— 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:

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco has go the archetypal large metropolis successful the federation to necessitate impervious of afloat vaccination against the coronavirus for radical to dine wrong restaurants, enactment retired successful gyms oregon be indoor concerts.

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

The caller regularisation goes beyond New York City, which lone requires radical to beryllium astatine slightest partially inoculated for a assortment of indoor activities.

Local concern groups successful San Francisco person supported the caller vaccine mandate, saying it volition support their employees’ and customers’ wellness and support them from having to bounds capableness indoors.

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is calling for schoolhouse districts to necessitate masks and says she is considering declaring an exigency arsenic hospitals strain to grip progressively young COVID-19 patients.

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Kelly said that “we truly privation radical to recognize that this is nary fooling around.”

The latest wellness section information shows 154 coronavirus clusters successful schools, with a full of 1,889 cases.

Kelly noted that schools successful different states person unopen down wholly implicit outbreaks. She says that until a coronavirus vaccine is approved for children nether property 12, utilizing masks tin assistance curb the dispersed of infections.

The politician said much COVID-19 patients were admitted to Kansas hospitals Wednesday than immoderate different azygous time during the pandemic and ICUs are astatine 100% capableness astatine six of the state’s largest hospitals, with two-thirds of the beds going to COVID-19 patients.

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ST. LOUIS — New COVID-19 infirmary admissions successful St. Louis are reaching wintertime surge levels and southeast Missouri hospitals are nether strain owed to a surge successful coronavirus cases and a emergence successful deaths.

On Thursday, hospitals successful St. Louis reported admitting 100 patients with COVID-19 — the astir since Jan. 16. A full of 585 radical were hospitalized, including 25 children. Twelve of the children are younger than 12 and not eligible for a coronavirus vaccine.

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The fig of COVID-19 patients hospitalized astatine Southeast Hospital and Saint Francis Medical Center successful Cape Girardeau has accrued much than 50% successful the past week and a half.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is calling connected parents to instrumentality earnestly the coronavirus risks for children and to guarantee students deterioration look masks.

Schools that resumed classes this period already person reported much than 5,300 students and 750 employees who person tested affirmative for the virus. Those numbers are expected to turn larger.

Edwards has enacted a statewide disguise mandate that includes schools. That has prompted aggravated outcries from immoderate parents who reason they should determine whether to enactment a disguise connected their children.

The politician said Friday: “Transmission is precise high. Simply put, we cannot support our schools unfastened oregon our kids harmless contiguous without masks.”

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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Dozens of wellness attraction workers and authorities employees person protested New Mexico’s mandate that they get a coronavirus vaccine.

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Nurses, infirmary clerical workers and authorities situation guards joined astir 150 radical astatine the authorities capitol Friday to show against the requirement.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered authorities workers to get vaccinated earlier this summer. A nationalist wellness bid issued this week expands the mandate to backstage manufacture workers successful delicate areas specified arsenic hospitals, nursing homes and schools.

Under the order, lone definite workers tin diminution vaccines if they taxable to play microorganism testing. Some unvaccinated infirmary workers accidental their employers volition occurrence them successful the coming weeks.

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HONOLULU — Sports teams astatine the University of Hawaii volition unfastened the autumn play with nary fans successful the stands astatine location contests.

Honolulu officials notified the assemblage that fans won’t beryllium allowed astatine season-opening events owed to the state’s existent surge successful coronavirus infections and hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.

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The assemblage said Friday that a determination to big fans volition beryllium re-evaluated successful coming weeks.

The determination applies to each autumn sports, including shot and women’s volleyball and soccer.

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

Mayor Buddy Dyer said said Monday that the liquid oxygen and different supplies ordinarily utilized to dainty the city’s h2o person been diverted to hospitals for patients suffering from the virus.

The city-owned inferior says it typically goes done 10 trucks of liquid oxygen a week but its supplier precocious said it would beryllium chopped backmost to 5 to 7 trucks a week to accommodate hospitals.

The inferior says astir 40% of the city’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.

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