The Latest: Virus cases decline in hard-hit Australia states

Australia's New South Wales authorities has recorded 10 caller deaths and 667 locally acquired COVID-19 cases successful the past 24 hours, arsenic its outbreak continues to ease.

“Three weeks agone we had 1,599 cases," authorities Health Minister Brad Hazzard said Sunday. "And conscionable 3 weeks aboriginal contiguous I americium precise pleased to beryllium capable to archer the assemblage that we are down, I wanted it down to zero if we tin get it there, but 667 contiguous locally acquired cases.”

Meanwhile, the authorities of Victoria recorded 1,220 caller assemblage acquired cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths successful the past 24 hours. The state, Australia's 2nd astir populous, acceptable a grounds of 1,488 caller cases connected Saturday.

“I privation to convey each and each 1 of those much than 71,000 Victorians who went and got tested," Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said Sunday. "It is captious to us, knowing wherever this microorganism is, wherever it isn’t.”

There were 71,275 tests conducted Saturday successful Victoria and 36,248 vaccine doses administered. There are present 11,785 progressive cases successful the state.

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The Australian Capital Territory recorded 38 locally acquired cases successful the past 24 hours.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 successful US arsenic delta variant rages

— Russia: Antibody tests for COVID-19 stay popular, origin successful debased vaccine rate

— Far-right protesters successful Romania cull microorganism restrictions

— California to necessitate COVID-19 vaccines for schoolchildren

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska connected Saturday activated exigency situation protocols that let 20 wellness attraction facilities to ration attraction if needed arsenic the authorities recorded the nation’s worst COVID-19 diagnosis rates successful the U.S. successful caller days, straining its constricted wellness attraction system.

The declaration covers 3 facilities that had already declared exigency protocol, including the state’s largest hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center successful Anchorage.

Among the factors that led the authorities to activate the situation of attraction standards see scarce aesculapian resources wrong immoderate facilities, constricted unit and trouble transferring patients to different facilities due to the fact that of constricted furniture availability. Other factors included constricted renal replacement therapy and oxygen supplies.

According to information collected by Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering, 1 idiosyncratic successful each 84 successful Alaska was diagnosed with COVID-19 from Sept. 22 to 29. The adjacent highest complaint was 1 successful each 164 radical successful West Virginia.

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Statewide, 60% of eligible Alaskans are afloat vaccinated.

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ATLANTA — Four parents are suing the Cobb County schoolhouse territory connected behalf of their children, saying the nonaccomplishment of Georgia’s second-largest schoolhouse territory to necessitate masks means their students cannot safely be in-person classes due to the fact that of their disabilities.

The suit was filed Friday successful national tribunal successful Atlanta. It says the 107,000-student suburban Atlanta territory is violating national instrumentality governing however students with disabilities are treated successful nationalist schools. The suit asks a justice to bid the territory to travel CDC guidelines connected masks and different issues. The territory has defended its stance amid repeated protests.

“Rather than utilizing the known and disposable tools to mitigate the menace of COVID-19 and support plaintiffs’ entree to schoolhouse services, programs, and activities, the territory has acted with deliberate indifference to plaintiffs’ rights to inclusion, health, and education,” the ailment alleges.

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The suit asks that U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. bid the territory to travel CDC guidelines, including not lone connected masks but connected issues similar ventilation, carnal distancing and interaction tracing.

Whether to necessitate masks successful Cobb schools has been the absorption of protestation for months. Like galore successful Georgia, Cobb lifted its disguise bid astatine the extremity of past year. Many districts reimposed disguise orders arsenic schoolhouse began this August, due to the fact that of the accelerated dispersed of the delta variant of COVID-19. Cobb, though, dug successful saying that masks would lone beryllium powerfully recommended.

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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State University says little than a 3rd of its students submitted impervious of vaccination for COVID-19 by a Thursday deadline to different acquisition play investigating oregon permission the university.

While 72.3% of the university’s employees provided impervious of vaccination, lone 30% of students did, officials said Friday.

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It’s not wide however galore students who didn’t taxable impervious of vaccination by the deadline program to taxable play trial results, officials said.

“We’re not wherever we privation to beryllium with our vaccinated students,” said Jon Webster, the school’s COVID-19 task manager. “We privation to marque definite we’re protecting each of our students.”

Failure to taxable vaccination accusation oregon play trial results tin effect successful pupil suspension oregon unit termination, officials said.

Students tin get vaccinated astatine immoderate constituent successful the semester and cease the play required investigating erstwhile achieving afloat vaccination, Webster said.

He said the assemblage was continuing to scope retired to students done substance message, email, societal media and different channels.

Several students said Friday they were unaware of the mandate’s details, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden mourned “the achy milestone” of 700,000 American deaths from COVID-19, a time aft the U.S. surpassed that people connected Friday.

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The president says successful a connection “the astonishing decease toll is yet different reminder of conscionable however important it is to get vaccinated.” He says the federation has “made bonzer progress” successful the combat against the coronavirus successful the past 8 months due to the fact that of vaccines.

Biden says acknowledgment to vaccines, “hundreds of thousands of families person been spared the unbearable nonaccomplishment that excessively galore Americans person already endured during this pandemic.”

He notes much than three-quarters of each Americans property 12 and up person received astatine slightest 1 vaccine dose, including astir 94% of each seniors.

Biden says: “If you haven’t already, delight get vaccinated. It tin prevention your beingness and the lives of those you love. It volition assistance america bushed COVID-19 and determination forward, together, arsenic 1 nation.”

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RENO, Nev. -- Employees astatine each nationalist universities and colleges successful Nevada are required to get COVID-19 vaccinations by Dec. 1 oregon look imaginable termination.

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All caller hires indispensable beryllium their vaccination presumption nether the caller policy. Meanwhile, coronavirus lawsuit trends are improving successful municipality areas but person worsened successful astir agrarian parts of the authorities wherever vaccination rates are the lowest.

The Desert Research Institute has the highest vaccination complaint astatine 87% followed by the University of Nevada Reno astatine 82%. UNLV reported 75%. Rural Elko-based Great Basin College had the worst complaint astatine 66%.

On Wednesday, astir 64% of each authorities employees had been afloat vaccinated, successful accordance with Gov. Steve Sisolak’s bid successful July that required shots oregon impervious of antagonistic coronavirus tests, says DuAne Young, the governor’s argumentation director.

Nearly 65% of residents property 12 and older person 1 vaccination and 56% are afloat vaccinated, according to authorities data.

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SALT LAKE CITY — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thanked members who person followed religion guidance, which has been to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

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Church President Russell M. Nelson spoke Saturday astatine a league taking spot again without afloat attendance owed to the pandemic. For the archetypal clip successful 2 years, leaders were backmost astatine the faith’s 20,000-seat league center, with respective 100 radical watching successful idiosyncratic and others connected television. The Tabernacle Choir astatine Temple Square returned to the conference.

The Utah-based religion has repeatedly encouraged its 16 cardinal members worldwide to bounds the dispersed by getting vaccines and wearing masks. Last week, religion officials announced masks volition beryllium required wrong temples to bounds the dispersed of the virus.

Utah experienced a summertime surge among unvaccinated residents, causing infirmary ICUs to scope adjacent capableness successful aboriginal September. Data from the Utah Health Department showed successful precocious September that authorities residents who are unvaccinated are astir six times much apt to dice from COVID-19 and 7 times much apt to beryllium hospitalized than those who are vaccinated.

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About 64% of Utah residents ages 12 and older were afloat vaccinated.

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BUCHAREST, Romania — More than 5,000 far-right protesters person gathered successful Romania’s superior of Bucharest to cull caller pandemic measures pursuing a surge of coronavirus infections.

Daily infections successful the federation of 19 cardinal person skyrocketed from astir 1,000 cases a time a period agone to a grounds 12,590 caller cases connected Saturday.

That was Romania’s highest regular fig of infections since the commencement of the pandemic. The summation is putting hospitals nether unit arsenic intensive attraction units scope their capacity.

The mostly mask-less marchers blocked traffic, honked horns and chanted “Freedom!”

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PHOENIX — Arizona reported astir 100 COVID-19 deaths connected Saturday, a time aft the state’s pandemic decease toll passed 20,000.

The authorities coronavirus dashboard reported 95 deaths and 2,942 confirmed cases, expanding Arizona’s pandemic totals to 20,134 confirmed deaths and 1.1 cardinal cases.

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Arizona’s seven-day rolling mean of regular deaths roseate by a 3rd successful the past 2 weeks, expanding from 33 connected Sept. 16 to 43 connected Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The rolling mean of regular caller cases declined during the aforesaid period, dropping from 2,742 to 2,621.

The authorities besides reported the fig of COVID-19 patients occupying infirmary beds accrued somewhat to 1,798 connected Friday.

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JACKSON, Miss. — The person of a Mississippi pediatricians’ enactment is urging schoolhouse districts to support disguise mandates successful spot to dilatory the dispersed of COVID-19.

Dr. Anita Henderson of Hattiesburg is president of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She says astir 30% of youths ages 12 to 17 successful the authorities are vaccinated, and “now is not the clip to fto our defender down.”

Mississippi has reported 9 pediatric deaths from COVID-19. Some schoolhouse districts are repealing disguise mandates. Among them are the Madison County and Rankin County districts successful cardinal Mississippi and the Ocean Springs territory connected the Gulf Coast.

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Mississippi had a important surge successful COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations starting successful July. Numbers person dilatory decreased successful caller weeks. However, Mississippi is among the lowest vaccinated states successful the nation.

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