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Coronavirus Live Updates: Russia Approves a Possible Vaccine - The New York Times
Aug 11, 2020 3 mins, 21 secs
The number of virus cases worldwide has now passed 20 million.

A Russian health care regulator has become the first in the world to approve a vaccine for the coronavirus, President Vladimir V.

Putin announced on Tuesday, though the vaccine has yet to complete clinical trials.

The Russian dash for a vaccine has already raised international concerns that Moscow is cutting corners on testing to score political and propaganda points.

Putin also said that one of his daughters had taken the vaccine.

The Russian vaccine, along with many others under development in a number of countries in the effort to alleviate a worldwide health crisis that has killed at least 734,900 people, sped through early monkey and human trials with apparent success.

Russia’s minister of health, Mikhail Murashko, has said the country will begin a mass vaccination campaign in the fall, and said on Tuesday that it would start with teachers and medical workers this month.

The World Health Organization maintains a comprehensive list of worldwide vaccine trials.

The coronavirus has now sickened more than 20 million people worldwide, a number that has doubled in about six weeks, according to a New York Times database.

The United States leads all countries in cases, with 5.1 million.

The next highest caseloads are Brazil, with three million confirmed cases, and India, with 2.3 million.

The virus is resurgent in Europe at the moment, with Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain among the countries seeing cases rise.

President Trump is considering new immigration regulations that would allow border officials to temporarily block American citizens and legal permanent residents from returning to the United States from abroad if authorities believe they may be infected with the coronavirus.

Trump has imposed sweeping rules that ban entry by foreigners into the United States, citing the risk of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad.

Under the proposal, which relies on existing legal authorities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the government could block a citizen or legal resident from crossing the border into the United States if an official “reasonably believes that the individual either may have been exposed to or is infected with the communicable disease.”.

The draft, parts of which were obtained by The New York Times, explicitly says that any order blocking citizens and legal permanent residents must “include appropriate protections to ensure that no Constitutional rights are infringed.” And it says that citizens and legal residents cannot be blocked as an entire class of people.

Jim Justice of West Virginia, a Republican, said the order would cost his state $26 million a week.

New Zealand on Tuesday confirmed its first locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus in months, shortly after its 100-day milestone without any new such infections.

The new cases immediately triggered “level three” restrictions in Auckland for three days, which means residents are instructed to stay home other than for essential personal movements, while the rest of the country will follow social-distancing measures.

The nation of five million people was able to declare itself free from the coronavirus in June after strict lockdown measures were implemented, and has been hailed as a model of successfully fighting the virus.

Johnson described on Monday, medical experts said, the government will have to be ready to sacrifice a hallowed British institution — pubs, as well as restaurants, which reopened a few weeks ago but are increasingly viewed as among the greatest risks for spreading the virus.

The government, they said, had not developed plans for how teachers should handle sick students or communicate with parents if there is an outbreak.

The Namibian government will auction fishing rights in a bid to raise desperately needed funds to fight the pandemic.

The southern African country has recorded only 3,101 cases of the coronavirus and 19 related deaths, but cases are expected to increase in the coming weeks, in line with much of the rest of Africa

Last month, the government ordered the closure of schools for 28 days as part of a new set of restrictions aimed at curbing rising virus cases

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