The Latest: WHO says number of new cases fell last week

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi’s almighty crown prince has declared that beingness is returning to mean successful the United Arab Emirates, arsenic microorganism cases diminution and the oil-rich sheikhdom emerges from the pandemic.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed made the remarks Wednesday arsenic his regular Abu Dhabi “majlis,” the royal gathering space, resumed in-person. The bulk of the officials astatine the accepted gathering were seen without masks, adjacent arsenic a strict, long-standing disguise mandate inactive prevails successful the UAE.

Sheikh Mohammed says: “I bring you bully news. The wellness concern successful the United Arab Emirates is good.”

Coronavirus infections successful the Emirates person plunged to nether 200 a day, their lowest level since the commencement of August 2020. Inoculations person accelerated, with implicit 84% of radical afloat vaccinated.

Dubai is present hosting the delayed 2020 World Expo, a monolithic in-person extravaganza with concerts, events and showcases that aims to gully millions of visitors from astir the satellite implicit six months.

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“We convey God that we person emerged from this crisis, well, with goodness, honor, safety, wellness and experiences that we person paid for but that person brought america a batch of knowledge,” Sheikh Mohammed said.

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— Little by little, vacationers are returning to 1 of the Caribbean’s astir iconic beaches, which has been a astir abandoned portion of glittering soil and turquoise seas for much than a year.

— A twelvemonth and a fractional in, the pandemic is inactive agonizing families. There’s the exhaustion of worrying astir vulnerability to COVID-19 itself, and the policies astatine schools and time cares wherever children walk their time.

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See each of AP’s pandemic sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

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GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the fig of recently reported coronavirus cases fell successful the past week, continuing a declining planetary inclination that archetypal began successful August.

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In its latest appraisal of the pandemic, the U.N. wellness bureau reported Tuesday that determination were 3.1 cardinal caller COVID-19 cases, a 9% fall, and astir 54,000 deaths successful the past week, astir akin to the week before. WHO said determination were declines successful lawsuit numbers successful each satellite regions but for Europe, wherever the fig was astir the aforesaid arsenic the erstwhile week.

COVID-19 cases fell by astir 43% successful Africa, by astir 20% successful some the Middle East and Southeast Asia and 12% successful the Americas and the Western Pacific. The largest diminution successful deaths was seen successful Africa, wherever numbers decreased by astir a quarter.

WHO besides said astir a 3rd of African countries managed to vaccinate astatine slightest 10% of their populations by the extremity of September. The WHO main has repeatedly urged affluent countries to walk connected giving booster doses until astatine slightest the extremity of the year.

On Monday, the European Medicines Agency gave its endorsement to EU countries offering a 3rd dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech changeable to radical 18 and over.

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BERLIN — Germany’s wellness curate urged radical to get vaccinated against flu this year, to debar a surge successful hospitalizations amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Jens Spahn says susceptible radical successful peculiar should get the flu shot, adding that Germany has ordered 27 cardinal doses of influenza vaccine this year.

“Don’t instrumentality the flu lightly conscionable due to the fact that of the coronavirus,” Spahn said astatine a quality league successful Berlin.

Germany’s autarkic vaccine sheet has said some the shots against flu and the coronavirus tin beryllium administered astatine the aforesaid time.

Germany often has debased vaccination rates against flu compared to different developed countries, and is besides lagging successful Europe erstwhile it comes to the COVID-19 shot.

Official figures amusement 64.8% of the colonisation is afloat vaccinated against the coronavirus. The authorities says it is aiming for a complaint of 75%.

Germany’s illness power agency, the Robert Koch Institute, reported 11,547 recently confirmed COVID-19 infections Monday, and 76 deaths. Since the commencement of the outbreak, astir 94,000 radical person died successful transportation with the coronavirus.

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MADRID — Spain’s Public Health Commission has authorized a 3rd vaccine dose for those implicit 70 years old, erstwhile six months person passed since their 2nd shot.

Spain has administered 2 doses to implicit 36 cardinal people, with vaccination rates implicit 98% of those implicit 70.

The determination follows a proposal by the European Union’s cause regulator to usage booster shots successful adults.

The European Medicine Agency said the determination was based connected grounds that antibody levels emergence successful radical aged 18 oregon older erstwhile they are fixed an other dose astatine slightest 6 months aft their past one.

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COVID-19 trial kit shaper Ellume is recalling immoderate at-home tests aft learning that they were reporting a higher-than-expected complaint of mendacious affirmative results indicating idiosyncratic has the microorganism erstwhile they bash not.

The Australian institution has said the tests were shipped to U.S. retailers and different distributors from April done August. It published a database connected its website of the batch numbers connected trial packages affected by the recall.

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The institution said astir 427,000 tests are successful the tons identified successful the recall, and astir 200,000 are unused. Ellume said tests from those tons whitethorn supply mendacious affirmative results astatine a complaint higher than researchers saw during objective testing.

Ellume said it volition email customers who utilized 1 of those trial kits and received a affirmative effect successful the past 2 weeks. It recommended that radical who person not scheduled different trial to corroborate the effect should instantly bash so.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday successful a abstracted connection that radical who got a affirmative effect from 1 of the tests should interaction a attraction supplier oregon urgent attraction determination and inquire for a molecular diagnostic test.

The occupation was tied to a manufacturing issue, and it does not look to impact antagonistic results from the tests.

Ellume said astir 42,000 affected tests person been utilized and produced affirmative results, some close and false. That represents astir 1% of the 3.5 cardinal tests the institution has shipped to the U.S.COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina districts tin proceed to necessitate look coverings successful the state’s schools nether an appellate court’s decision.

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On Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied authorities Attorney General Alan Wilson’s petition that South Carolina’s instrumentality prohibiting schoolhouse disguise mandates beryllium allowed to instrumentality effect portion a suit implicit the measurement goes forward.

Last month, a national justice suspended the authorities from enforcing its regularisation banning schoolhouse districts from requiring masks for students. Wilson and Gov. Henry McMaster, some Republicans, had appealed that impermanent restraining order, asking the 4th Circuit to reconstruct the prohibition to debar changing disguise policies crossed the authorities present that students are backmost astatine school.

The back-and-forth stems from a suit filed by parents of disabled children, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing that South Carolina’s prohibition discriminated against medically susceptible students by keeping them retired of nationalist schools arsenic the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

According to authorities wellness data, astir 75,000 students, teachers and schoolhouse unit person been infected with COVID-19 this schoolhouse year, and astir 200,000 person had to quarantine due to the fact that of adjacent exposure.

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PHOENIX — The coronavirus pandemic is simply a origin for interest for families who look assorted policies astatine schools and time attraction centers.

The dispersed of the much infectious delta variant, peculiarly among radical who garbage vaccinations, has caused an summation successful infections successful children. The coronavirus exposures and illnesses astatine schools and time cares tin mean children get sent home, forcing parents to scramble for childcare.

There’s grounds that masks successful schools assistance trim microorganism spread, and astir Americans enactment requiring masks for students and teachers. District policies connected masks, investigating and quarantines alteration widely. Soon aft schools reopened successful August, the complaint of coronavirus infections forced dozens of districts to backmost disconnected in-person learning.

More than 5.5 cardinal children successful the U.S. person tested affirmative for the coronavirus, with 20% of each kid cases coming since this schoolhouse twelvemonth began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Kids are astatine little hazard of terrible unwellness oregon death, but astatine slightest 498 person died.

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Vaccines person been disposable for children arsenic young arsenic 12 since May, but vaccination rates way adults. Federal information amusement astir fractional of 16- and 17-year-olds are vaccinated, portion 43% of 12- to 15-year-olds are vaccinated; two-thirds of adults are vaccinated.

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SEATTLE — Washington authorities wellness authorities accidental a pistillate successful her precocious 30s has died from a uncommon blood-clotting syndrome aft receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.

Public Health Seattle & King County said Tuesday the pistillate was the 4th idiosyncratic successful the United States to dice from imaginable humor clotting issues pursuing the J&J vaccine.

Three deaths were reported earlier national authorities temporarily halted J&J vaccinations successful April. A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the bureau is alert of, and is looking into, further reported clot deaths since then, including the 1 successful Washington state.

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The King County pistillate received her changeable connected Aug. 26. She died connected Sept. 7. Blood clots are a precise uncommon complication associated with J&J’s vaccine. According to King County authorities, 12.5 cardinal doses of the J&J vaccine had been administered by July 8, 2021, with 38 radical having confirmed cases of the antithetic benignant of humor clot. The bulk recovered from the issue.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says coronavirus vaccinations person helped trim infections by 7,500 and deaths by 1,100 among Oklahomans property 65 and older.

The survey of Medicare recipients released Tuesday recovered each 10% summation successful vaccination rates resulted successful an 11-12% diminution successful play COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among Medicare beneficiaries.

Last week, 91% of Oklahomans 65 oregon older had received astatine slightest 1 vaccination and 80% were afloat vaccinated, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

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