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The World Health Organization has reported a record number of coronavirus cases worldwide, with at least 307,930 confirmed cases in just one day.
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Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state and the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, has reported 35 new cases, the lowest daily rise in three months.
- According to Johns Hopkins University, over 28.8 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and over 922,000 have died. About 19.5 million people have recovered.
Here are the latest updates:
September 14, Monday
03:35 GMT – Doctors protest against easing social distancing rules in Philippines
Doctors in the Philippines have expressed opposition to the government’s plan to relax physical distancing rules in the country, saying it is too early to relax the rules.
In an online forum on Monday, Dr Antonio Dance, the country’s leading expert on university health law, said the Department of Transportation should not change its rule of one meter between passengers, as this could lead to increased transmission.
The government plans to gradually reduce social distancing rules on public transport to half a meter on September 28 and 0.3 meters on October 12 to increase the capacity of trains and buses. The country has more than 261,000 cases of the disease and at least 4,371 people with deaths due to the pandemic.
03:05 GMT – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rises by 927 to 260,355
The German Monitoring for Infectious Diseases reported that the number of COVID-19 cases in the country increased by 927 to 260,355.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) also said on Monday that the death toll has risen by one to 9,350.
02:50 GMT – Israel restores isolation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country will re-establish a new lockdown regime across the country this week amid renewed COVID-19 cases.
Starting Friday, schools, restaurants, shopping malls and hotels, as well as other businesses, will be closed and movement restrictions imposed.
The isolation is expected to last at least three weeks, when measures can be relaxed depending on the rate of increase in the number of cases and deaths. There are over 155,000 cases in Israel and about 1,100 deaths.
02:01 GMT – Saudi Arabia lifts international restrictions on Tuesday
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced that it would partially lift restrictions on international flights starting Tuesday, six months after the pandemic was imposed travel restrictions.
After January 1, Saudl will also lift all restrictions on air, land and sea transport for Saudi citizens, but the exact date will be announced later in December.
Non-Saudi Arabian citizens with valid travel documents can enter Saudi Arabia as long as they are not infected with the virus, according to the Saudi Arabian Press Agency.
01:42 GMT – New Zealand to lift most coronavirus restrictions on September 21
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that the nationwide coronavirus restrictions will be lifted on September 21, with the exception of the largest city of Auckland, which is the epicenter of the second wave of infections.
Ardern said Oakland’s restrictions will be revised next week.
01:25 GMT – Trump indoor rally plan triggers virus warning
Supporters of US President Donald Trump, many without masks, gather for an indoor rally in Henderson, Nevada, despite warnings of mass gatherings. [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]
US President Donald Trump was scheduled to hold his first fully private rally in months in Nevada, but authorities have warned the rally could violate coronavirus crowd size restrictions.
Indoor rallies during the pandemic proved problematic for Trump, who came under fire after a June rally that was later linked to a spike in cases of the virus.
Plans for a rally in Henderson, Nevada on Sunday drew criticism from local officials, who noted that events with more than 50 people were banned due to the coronavirus, Reuters news agency reported.
01:02 GMT – South Korea reports a decline in the number of new infections: 109 positives.
South Korea’s Coronavirus Monitoring Agency reported at least 109 COVID-19 cases on Monday – the 12th straight day the infection rate has remained below 200.
Yonghap quoted the Korea Agency for Disease Control and Prevention as saying that of the newly reported cases, 98 were of domestic origin, bringing the total to 22,285.
Five deaths were also reported, up from three on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 363.
00:45 GMT – About 71,000 people die from coronavirus in Mexico
Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported 4,408 new cases of coronavirus and 217 additional deaths, bringing the total to 668,381 and the death toll to 70,821.
The government said the real number of infected is likely higher than the confirmed cases, and the country has also reported more than 120,000 additional deaths in recent months.
00:10 GMT – Australia’s Victoria sees lowest rise in COVID-19 cases
Victoria, the second most populous state in Australia and the center of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, reported the lowest number of new cases in three months.
State r35 new cases and seven deaths were reported on Monday.
Melbourne has begun to loosen some of the restrictions it has put in place to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Residents are now allowed to spend two more hours outside each day, and the city’s controversial night curfew has been reduced by one hour.
00:05 GMT – WHO reports record one-day increase in cases, to 307,000
The World Health Organization has reported another record number of coronavirus cases worldwide – at least 307,930 cases in just one day.
The previous record reported by WHO on 6 September was 306,857.
The largest number of cases are in India, the United States and Brazil, with India reporting 94,300 cases on Sunday. Europe is also seeing an increase in the number of cases.
The largest number of cases are in India, the United States and Brazil, with India reporting 94,300 cases on Sunday. [Divyakant Solanki/EPA]
00:01 GMT – Greece reports 207 new cases of COVID-19, preparing to reopen schools
Greece’s health authorities have reported 207 new cases of coronavirus, including 29 cases from abroad and three more deaths, as the country prepares to reopen its schools on Monday.
The total number of cases is currently 13,240 and 305 deaths. Of the total number of cases, about three quarters were registered in August, the average age was 39 years. Meanwhile, among the dead, the average age was 78 years.
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Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
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“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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