Coronavirus newest: Fujifilm faucets native firm for Avigan approval in China

Nikkei Asia is monitoring the unfold of the brand new coronavirus that originated within the central Chinese language metropolis of Wuhan.

International circumstances have reached 41,118,064, in line with Johns Hopkins College in Baltimore. The worldwide dying toll has hit 1,129,710.

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Thursday, October 22 (Tokyo time)

1:16 p.m. India’s COVID-19 tally tops 7.7 million after 55,839 new circumstances have been reported previously 24 hours, up from 54,044 the day past. The dying toll jumped by 702 to 116,616.

1:00 p.m. Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings says it has partnered with Shanghai-based Carelink Pharmaceutical to hunt approval in China for Avigan to deal with COVID-19 and influenza. Carelink will use Fujifilm’s knowledge on Avigan in in search of imported drug approval. The businesses additionally plan to develop an injectable type of the drug.

11:30 a.m. Japan is contemplating easing entry restrictions on enterprise vacationers for stays of as much as three days in an try and revive financial exercise, authorities sources say. The territories being thought-about for the scheme embrace Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. The plan might take impact subsequent month.

10:33 a.m. South Korea confirms 121 new circumstances, up from 89 a day in the past. Complete infections attain 25,543 with 453 deaths.

9:10 a.m. China will proceed to droop outbound group excursions and ban journey companies from permitting inbound excursions because of the threat of a resurgent virus this winter, authorities say. China first suspended each home and outbound excursions in January.

9:03 a.m. China studies 14 new circumstances for Wednesday, in contrast with 11 a day earlier. All 14 have been imported. The nation additionally studies 25 new asymptomatic sufferers, in contrast with 15 a day earlier.

7:40 a.m. The variety of COVID-19 sufferers in U.S. hospitals hits 40,000 for the primary time since August, in line with a Reuters tally, because the nation battles a surge in infections led by Midwest states. Hospitals have seen a 36% rise in coronavirus sufferers over the previous 4 weeks, and Midwest hospitals are setting new data day-after-day.

5:30 a.m. The development of Japanese staying house extra amid the nation’s COVID restrictions has not sparked a hoped-for child growth, knowledge exhibits. Pregnancies reported to native governments from January to July fell 5.1% on the yr to 513,850, the well being ministry says. That is a decline of about 28,000 pregnancies, with the lower for the months of Could to July an excellent sharper at 11.4%.

3:15 a.m. The Worldwide Financial Fund’s newest Regional Financial Outlook for the Asia-Pacific area attracts three preliminary classes from Asian nations’ coronavirus responses: The primary is, “Containment measures must be activated early, when an infection charges are nonetheless low.” Subsequent, “Exiting lockdowns after the virus has been suppressed results in higher well being and financial outcomes.” Lastly, “A complete testing and tracing system can decrease the danger of second waves.”

2:13 a.m. Brazil well being authority Anvisa says trials of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and College of Oxford would proceed after the dying of a volunteer concerned within the assessments. The volunteer was a Brazilian who had been given a placebo, a Brazilian newspaper reported.

1:45 a.m. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is again in Tokyo after a global diplomatic debut that was punctuated by COVID-19 assessments. Suga took PCR and antigen assessments earlier than leaving Japan and upon his return. He additionally flew with fewer aides than is customary, granting a request by his hosts to maintain his entourage at a minimal, in line with Japan’s International Ministry. Learn extra about his journey.

12:30 a.m. German Well being Minister Jens Spahn examined optimistic for the coronavirus, the well being ministry says, including that he had positioned himself in house quarantine.

Wednesday, October 21

10:59 p.m. The Czech authorities orders most outlets and companies to shut and seeks to restrict motion to important journeys solely to curb Europe’s quickest progress in new coronavirus infections, studies Reuters.

9:04 p.m. Iran’s well being ministry studies 5,616 new coronavirus circumstances for the earlier 24 hours, the best day by day quantity since February. That brings the nationwide tally to 545,286 within the Center East’s hardest-hit nation.

8:48 p.m. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says on Fb that his authorities won’t purchase China’s Sinovac vaccine, after the well being minister mentioned on Tuesday it might be included within the nation’s immunization program.

7:27 p.m. Malaysia studies 732 new infections, elevating its whole to 22,957. It additionally recorded six new deaths, bringing the overall variety of fatalities to 199.

5:28 p.m. Indonesia studies 4,267 new infections, taking the general tally to 373,109, knowledge from the nation’s COVID-19 job pressure confirmed. It additionally confirmed 123 new deaths, taking whole fatalities to 12,857.

4:01 p.m. The Tokyo Metropolitan Authorities mentioned 79 % of volunteers for subsequent summer time’s Olympics and Paralympics are involved in regards to the unfold of the coronavirus. Greater than 13,400 registered volunteers responded to the metropolitan authorities’s survey, which was was performed in August.

3:18 p.m. The Jap Chinese language metropolis Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, begins taking purposes from residents who want to be dosed with a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine. The 2-dose routine will value 456 yuan (about $68), in line with state broadcaster CCTV. No vaccine developer anyplace has accomplished last stage of trials, however China permits folks with pressing want, together with medical employees, to obtain candidate vaccines underneath an emergency association.

2:14 p.m. India studies 54,044 new circumstances within the final 24 hours, up from 46,790 the day past, pushing the nation whole to 7.65 million. The dying toll jumped by 717 to 115,914.

2:05 p.m. The coronavirus pandemic is threatening already growing old Asian economies with a child bust, sending some governments scrambling to introduce new applications to encourage residents to marry and have extra youngsters.

1:00 p.m. Malaysia’s shopper worth index fell for the seventh straight month in September, declining 1.4% from a yr earlier, authorities knowledge confirmed. The drop was greater than the 1.3% decline forecast by 10 economists in a Reuters ballot. In August, the index had fallen 1.4%.

12:06 p.m. All Nippon Airways will put up a worst-ever web lack of 500 billion yen ($4.74 billion) for fiscal 2021 because it suffers from a pointy decline in passengers because of the coronavirus pandemic, Nikkei discovered on Wednesday.

11:30 a.m. Australian retail gross sales fell 1.5% in September from the month earlier than, preliminary estimates confirmed, though analysts mentioned a strong rise in quarterly gross sales on a yr in the past nonetheless augered effectively for an economic system going through its worst downturn in a technology. The month-on-month fall in September adopted a 4% decline in August, reflecting a second-wave outbreak and strict lockdown in Victoria, the second-largest state.

11:21 a.m. Financial institution of Japan board member Makoto Sakurai mentioned the central financial institution should take “swift and applicable” motion if the coronavirus shock delays the nation’s financial restoration. If the pandemic takes longer than anticipated to comprise, that might push extra corporations underneath, saddle business banks with unhealthy loans and threaten Japan’s monetary system, he mentioned.

10:43 a.m. Australia’s most closely hit state, Victoria, logged a sixth consecutive day of recent circumstances within the low single digits. The state authorities mentioned it was on observe to announce recent easing measures over the weekend. The state hopes to revitalize outside eating over the summer time within the hard-hit hospitality sector by permitting pop-up eating places in public gardens and downtown parking tons.

10:41 a.m. Cathay Pacific Airways says it can slash 8,500 jobs as a part of a significant restructuring to cope with its ongoing woes introduced on by the pandemic. Hong Kong’s flagship provider may also remove Cathay Dragon as a separate unit for regional flights with quick impact and divvy up its routes between its most important Cathay Pacific model and finances unit Hong Kong Categorical.

9:59 a.m. Venezuela plans to vaccinate residents with Russian and Chinese language therapies that might arrive in December or January, President Nicolas Maduro says.

9:14 a.m. New Zealand studies two new circumstances linked to a port employee who examined optimistic over the weekend in addition to 23 imported circumstances, taking the nation’s whole confirmed circumstances to 1,556.

9:09 a.m. China studies 11 new mainland circumstances for Tuesday, down from 19 a day earlier. The nation has now reported a complete of 85,715 confirmed circumstances because the outbreak started, with a dying toll of 4,634.

6:24 a.m. Officers in California, house to Disneyland, gave no clear date for the reopening of huge theme parks, saying they need to wait till a county’s COVID-19 threat stage drops to the bottom tier of “minimal” unfold, studies Reuters.

4:28 a.m. The Brazilian authorities will embrace China’s Sinovac vaccine in its nationwide immunization program, state governors say after a gathering with the nation’s well being minister, along with the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford College.

3:00 a.m. Scientists at Imperial Faculty London plan to intentionally infect wholesome volunteers with the coronavirus early subsequent yr on this planet’s human problem path. The research, backed by 34 million kilos, or $44 million, of British authorities funding, is scheduled to start in January in London. The goal is to learn how folks immunized with totally different vaccines reply to the virus.

Such a research might save time in eliminating a lot of vaccine candidates.

1:30 a.m. The U.S. studies greater than 58,000 new coronavirus infections, the best quantity since Aug. 5, signaling a worrisome development.

The variety of new infections reported Monday is increased than the 48,210 reported Sunday, and likewise increased than the 41,653 reported every week earlier, in line with knowledge compiled by Johns Hopkins College,

When the seven-day common is bigger than the 14-day common it suggests infections are accelerating.

Tuesday, October 20

10:40 p.m. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the nationwide lockdown to curb the unfold of Covid-19 “could also be over, however the virus continues to be round,” urging folks to proceed taking all precautionary measures in opposition to the coronavirus.

“If you’re stepping out with out masks, you’re placing [others around you] in danger,” he says, as folks flock to marketplaces forward of upcoming festivals. Modi provides that he’s working to make sure everybody within the nation can have entry to a vaccine as soon as it’s developed.

India’s whole circumstances at present stand at over 7.5 million, in line with knowledge from Johns Hopkins College.

8:30 p.m. Hong Kong’s unemployment price rises to six.4% for July to September, up from 6.1% for the earlier rolling three-month interval, marking the best determine since 2004 throughout the aftermath of the SARS epidemic.

7:45 p.m. Circumstances are coming down in some international locations, however not Russia, which simply reported a day by day document of 16,319. In the meantime, Malaysia continues to grapple with its newest wave, reporting 862 circumstances — barely shy of the document 871 logged on Sunday.

5:30 p.m. Indonesia studies 3,602 new coronavirus circumstances, bringing the overall variety of infections to 368,842, authorities knowledge present. There have been additionally 117 new deaths brought on by the virus, taking the overall fatalities to 12,734.

5:00 p.m. The Philippines studies 1,640 new infections, the bottom day by day improve in infections in 4 weeks, and 17 further deaths. Complete confirmed circumstances elevated to 360,775, whereas deaths reached 6,690 — the second highest tallies in Southeast Asia behind Indonesia.

4:14 p.m. Officers in Qingdao, the place 12 circumstances have surfaced this month, say they’ve discovered adequate proof for the primary time exhibiting the virus can survive for lengthy durations on the outer packaging of frozen meals, then be transmitted. To stop additional infections, Qingdao will take a look at each bundle of frozen items, and handlers will probably be required to remain in designated areas and be examined each three to 5 days.

3:10 p.m. Pfizer and BioNTech SE announce the Japan begin of mixed Section I and Section II medical trials of their mRNA vaccine candidate. The research will recruit 160 folks 20 to 85 years outdated. The prescription drugs earlier agreed to produce Japan with 120 million doses of their now experimental coronavirus vaccine within the first half of 2021.

2:50 p.m. A Kuwaiti-flagged livestock ship docked off Australia’s west coast is evacuated after at the least half the 52 crew take a look at optimistic for COVID-19, Reuters studies. The cluster is the fourth detected aboard a ship arriving at a Western Australia port over the previous month, in a state that has in any other case been freed from the virus for weeks.

2:00 p.m. India studies 46,790 circumstances within the final 24 hours — the bottom day by day rely in almost three months — bringing the nation whole near 7.6 million. The dying toll jumped by 587 to 115,197.

12:30 p.m. Thailand’s economic system faces extreme shocks from the pandemic, with a restoration anticipated to take at the least two years, the nation’s new central financial institution governor says. Financial issues could be solved in time however there are “no magic bullets,” Financial institution of Thailand Gov. Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput instructed a briefing.

11:26 a.m. Japan and China are anticipated to agree as early as this month on resuming enterprise journey between the 2 international locations, Japanese authorities sources say. Beneath the deliberate settlement, short-term vacationers will probably be exempted from a 14-day self-isolation interval upon arrival supplied they take preventive measures.

11:00 a.m. South Korea confirms 58 circumstances, marking the fifth straight day of fewer than 100 circumstances. Of the brand new infections, 41 have been regionally transmitted.

10:10 a.m. Australia’s Victoria state could hasten the easing of social distancing measures after reporting only one case on Tuesday, State Premier Daniel Andrews says. New infections have been down from 4 on Monday, extending a run of single-digit day by day will increase to nearly every week.

9:40 a.m. China studies 19 circumstances for Oct. 19, up from 13 a day earlier. All new infections have been imported. The nation additionally studies 24 asymptomatic sufferers on the day, in contrast with 33 a day earlier.

9:15 a.m. Passengers touring to Hong Kong and Italy from the U.Ok.’s Heathrow Airport will bear a one-hour coronavirus take a look at earlier than flying out underneath plans to open up worldwide journey, The Instances studies. Speedy assessments will probably be launched from Tuesday at Heathrow to permit journey to international locations the place a detrimental take a look at result’s wanted to keep away from quarantine, the newspaper mentioned.

5:30 a.m. The Dow Jones Industrial Common closes down 400 factors because the prospects dimmed for a last-ditch effort between the White Home and Congress to barter a coronavirus reduction bundle.

5:00 a.m. U.S. President Trump assaults Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s high infectious illness professional, in a convention name with marketing campaign aides, calling the physician a “catastrophe”

“Persons are uninterested in listening to Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who obtained it mistaken,” Trump says.

4:55 a.m. The operator of two eating places in Yokohama’s Chinatown — one of many greatest in Japan — is making ready to file for chapter. This could mark the eating district’s first chapter linked to the coronavirus pandemic, in line with the native department of analysis agency Teikoku Databank.

The 2 eating places, Sangokuengi and Mankinro Bekkan, have already closed. Their enterprise was in decline earlier than the pandemic, Teikoku Databank says.

2:30 a.m. It’s unlikely Britain will see widespread use of a coronavirus vaccine earlier than subsequent spring, the federal government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance says. There isn’t a confirmed vaccine in opposition to the virus, and growth of 1 is seen as key to containing outbreaks which have remerged globally in current weeks.

2:00 a.m. A carefully watched gauge of U.S. housing market sentiment has hit a document excessive for the second straight month as People go away cities to purchase single-family houses within the suburbs.

“Visitors stays excessive and record-low rates of interest are retaining demand robust because the idea of ‘house’ has taken on renewed significance for work, research and different functions within the COVID period,” says Chuck Fowke, chairman of the Nationwide Affiliation of House Builders.

The affiliation studies that the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose to 85 in October, up 2 factors from the earlier month. Forecasters surveyed by Dow Jones had anticipated about 82.

1:30 a.m. The Maldives’ gamble to open borders in mid-July has begun to reap small however promising returns as worldwide airways arrive with Western vacationers in search of a reprieve from the life-sapping grip of the pandemic to laze on the nation’s luxurious resorts.

“A great factor that’s taking place is the period of keep has elevated, tripling over the last two months,” Minister of Tourism Abdulla Mausoom mentioned in an interview with Nikkei Asia. “The typical has been 20 days-plus, whereas in 2019 it was seven to eight days.”

Monday, October 19

11:39 p.m. Singapore Airways has withdrawn plans for three-hour scenic flights after receiving criticism from environmental teams.

The flag provider had sought to make use of grounded passenger jets for paid flights to nowhere again to the airport from which they departed.

The transfer garnered curiosity when it was first reported, however environmental activists declare it might result in pointless emission of greenhouse gases.

“They determined the negatives outweighed the positives,” an individual accustomed to the corporate’s plans says.

10:55 p.m. Shares in Japanese well being and wonder merchandise maker Unicharm contact an all-time excessive on the Tokyo Inventory Alternate on Monday as buyers guess on earnings progress fueled by continued demand for masks.

Katsuro Hirozumi, an analyst at Daiwa Securities, says the corporate may benefit from shoppers utilizing purchasing vouchers distributed as a journey incentive within the authorities’s Go To Journey marketing campaign.

10:15 p.m. Japan’s subsequent sumo match in November will let in about 5,000 spectators, twice the restrict for the earlier one in September.

9:55 p.m. Practically 300 Indian migrant employees who have been laid off by a building firm in Saudi Arabia owing to the coronavirus pandemic have sought the Indian authorities’s assist to gather unpaid earnings, Reuters studies, citing attorneys and campaigners.

6:36 p.m. Britain’s Oxford College says preliminary findings from a research on the long run impression of COVID-19 discovered a lot of sufferers discharged from hospitals nonetheless have signs of breathlessness, fatigue, nervousness and melancholy two to 3 months after contracting the virus.

5:47 p.m. Worldwide coronavirus circumstances surpass 40 million, in line with Johns Hopkins College. The U.S., India, and Brazil stay the worst affected international locations on this planet. However many European international locations, together with France, Germany and Italy, have not too long ago reported document day by day will increase in infections.

5:15 p.m. The Philippines data 2,638 new coronavirus infections and 26 further deaths. The nation’s whole variety of confirmed has reached 359,169, whereas its dying toll stands at 6,675.

4:50 p.m. Russia’s day by day tally of coronavirus circumstances surges to a brand new excessive of 15,982, together with 5,376 within the capital, Moscow, pushing the nationwide case whole to 1,415,316. Authorities reported 179 deaths within the final 24 hours, bringing the official dying toll to 24,366.

4:10 p.m. Poland plans to open a brief hospital on the nationwide stadium in Warsaw because it faces a spike in coronavirus circumstances and a well being care system overload, the federal government says. Poland has damaged data for day by day circumstances and deaths in current weeks, with docs reporting shortages of personnel, hospital beds and tools.

3:30 p.m. Tokyo studies 78 new infections, down from 132 a day earlier, bringing the capital’s whole to 29,046.

2:00 p.m. Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways says it expects to function lower than 50% of its pre-pandemic passenger flight capability subsequent yr because it nears completion of a strategic evaluation that might result in main job losses. The airline plans to function round 10% of its pre-pandemic capability for the rest of 2020, with most worldwide borders nonetheless closed.

1:32 p.m. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, comply with resume common flights between their international locations at an early date, and to implement a “enterprise observe” that will enable executives and expert employees to journey with no 14-day quarantine interval, supplied they observe sure COVID-19 precautions.

1:35 p.m. India’s coronavirus circumstances cross 7.5 million threshold after 55,722 recent infections have been reported within the final 24 hours, down from 61,871 the day past.The nation’s whole now stands at 7.55 million, whereas the dying toll has climbed to 114,610 after 579 new fatalities since Sunday morning.

12:00 p.m. Thailand’s home automobile gross sales contracted for a 16th straight month in September, down 4.1% from a yr earlier to 77,433 autos because the coronavirus outbreak affected demand, the Federation of Thai Industries says. However gross sales rose 12.4% from August, helped by the easing of virus restrictions, authorities reduction measures and new mannequin launches. In August, automobile gross sales dropped 12.1% from a yr earlier.

11:10 a.m. China’s industrial output in September rose 6.9% from a yr earlier, knowledge exhibits, up from a 5.6% achieve in August and increasing for the sixth straight month in a lift to an economic system recovering from the coronavirus shock. China’s retail gross sales edged up 3.3% final month from a yr earlier, beating analysts’ forecast for 1.8% progress, in contrast with 0.5% progress in August.

11:00 a.m. China’s gross home product grew additional within the July-September quarter on rising consumption and exterior demand, reflecting the efficacy of its fiscal stimulus to beat the impression of the coronavirus. Development throughout the third quarter improved to 4.9% year-on-year, the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics says.

9:56 a.m. Australian shares achieve after Victoria state eased its months-long coronavirus lockdown and after U.S. officers mentioned a brand new stimulus bundle might move earlier than elections on Nov. 3. The S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.8% or 46.7 factors to six,223.20, led by miners and financials. The benchmark fell 0.5% on Friday.

9:34 a.m. Japan’s exports in September fell at a slower tempo than within the earlier six months as U.S.-bound shipments of vehicles began to get better from COVID-19 lows, authorities knowledge exhibits. Complete exports misplaced 4.9% year-on-year, a bigger decline than the two.4% drop anticipated by economists in a Reuters ballot. The newest studying follows six months of double-digit declines, together with a 14.8% drop for August.

9:20 a.m. The USA has misplaced a substantial diploma of affect within the Indo-Pacific area attributable to its home and worldwide dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic, in line with an evaluation launched by an Australian suppose tank. The Asia Energy Index, launched by the impartial Lowy Institute in Sydney, ranks 26 international locations and territories in line with the facility they’ve within the area.

9:05 a.m. China studies 13 new circumstances for Oct. 18, the identical as a day earlier. The entire new infections have been imported. China additionally studies 33 new asymptomatic sufferers, in contrast with 34 a day earlier.

6:00 a.m. Main corporations in Japan are set to rent 105,442 folks graduating from universities in spring, 11.4% fewer than seven months in the past, in line with a Nikkei survey. The double-digit lower is the primary since 2010, within the aftermath of the worldwide monetary disaster. Nikkei surveyed 1,036 companies, asking the variety of college students promised to be employed as of Oct. 1 and in contrast the figures for 927 corporations comparable with a yr earlier.

5:05 a.m. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte offers mayors the facility to close public squares as he unveils an extra bundle of measures to attempt to halt a pointy rise in circumstances, in line with Reuters. Each day circumstances on Sunday had hit a brand new document 11,705. “The state of affairs is crucial. The federal government is there, however everybody should do their half,” the prime minister says.

1:53 a.m. The pinnacle of the Worldwide Financial Fund requires important steps to deal with the more and more unsustainable debt burdens of some international locations, urging collectors and debtors to begin restructuring processes sooner relatively than later. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says the Group of 20 main economies might assist issues by extending a six-month freeze in official bilateral funds from low-income international locations however that extra pressing motion is required.

Sunday, October 18

7:05 p.m. Malaysian well being authorities report 871 new circumstances, a document day by day rely, elevating the nation’s whole infections to 20,498. The nation, which imposed focused lockdowns this month as infections surged, additionally data seven new deaths, bringing whole fatalities to 187.

5:07 p.m. The Philippines’ well being ministry studies 2,379 new confirmed circumstances and 50 further fatalities, bringing the nation totals to 356,618 circumstances and 6,652 deaths. It additionally says 14,941 extra people had recovered from COVID-19, bringing whole recoveries to 310,158.

4:56 p.m. Indonesia studies 4,105 new coronavirus infections, taking the overall to 361,867, knowledge from the nation’s COVID-19 job pressure exhibits. The information provides 80 new deaths, taking the overall to 12,511. Each the variety of circumstances and deaths within the nation are the best in Southeast Asia.

3:32 p.m. Australia’s state of Victoria, the epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus outbreak, will see extra freedom of motion as of Monday after monthslong restrictions, however retailers and eating places should wait longer. After greater than 100 days in a strict lockdown that allowed two hours of outside exercise a day, the 5 million folks residing in Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, will be capable of spend as a lot time exercising outside as they want. Retailers and eating places could solely supply take-away or supply orders, with the state authorities eyeing their reopening by Nov. 1.

2:00 p.m. Thailand studies three further regionally transmitted circumstances, a day after reporting its first native infections in additional than a month. The three sufferers are relations of two Myanmar nationals who beforehand examined optimistic within the nation’s northern province bordering Myanmar, the federal government’s coronavirus taskforce says.

11:30 a.m. Saudi Arabia permits its residents and residents inside the dominion to carry out prayers at one in all Islam’s most holy spiritual websites, Al-Haram mosque in Mecca, for the primary time in seven months, state tv studies. Earlier this month Saudi Arabia allowed residents and residents to carry out the Umrah pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest websites, Mecca and Medina, after a seven-month pause attributable to coronavirus issues.

9:30 a.m. China studies 13 new circumstances for Oct. 17, the identical as a day earlier. The entire new infections have been imported. The nation additionally studies 34 new asymptomatic sufferers, in contrast with 11 a day earlier.

9:15 a.m. New Zealand studies a brand new case because the virus re-emerges after many days of no transmission inside the nation’s borders. The contaminated particular person was recognized early, limiting additional transmission threat.

3:20 a.m. France studies a document variety of new circumstances, 32,427, after reporting 25,086 on Friday. The entire variety of infections now stands at 867,197 whereas the overall deaths stand at 33,392, up by 90 from Friday.

Saturday, October 17

11:30 p.m. China’s illness management authority says contact with frozen meals packaging contaminated by residing new coronavirus might trigger an infection. The authority had detected and remoted residing coronavirus on the outer packaging of frozen cod throughout efforts to hint the virus in an outbreak reported final week within the metropolis of Qingdao.

5:29 p.m. Indonesia studies 4,301 circumstances, bringing the nation whole to 357,762.

4:45 p.m. Austria’s day by day variety of new circumstances has surpassed 2,000 for the primary time, in line with newspaper Kronen Zeitung.

1:52 p.m. Thailand studies its first two regionally transmitted circumstances in additional than a month.

10:06 a.m. China reported 13 new coronavirus circumstances within the mainland for Oct. 16, in contrast with 24 circumstances a day earlier, the well being fee mentioned on Saturday. As of Friday, mainland China had 85,659 confirmed coronavirus circumstances, the well being authority mentioned. The COVID-19 dying toll stands at 4,634.

7:51 a.m. Rankings company Moody’s lower the UK’s debt score to “Aa3” from “Aa2” on Friday over the large financial hit from the coronavirus disaster, Brexit and the dearth of clear finances plans from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authorities.

6:31 a.m. Europe’s tiny Andorra formally joined the Worldwide Financial Fund on Friday, changing into the disaster lender’s 190th member state because the tourism and trade-dependent principality struggles with the coronavirus pandemic.

5:20 a.m. Guitar gross sales have taken off within the U.S. throughout the pandemic. Homebound People appear to be placing extra money and time into on-line music classes.

Fender CEO Andy Mooney says the maker of the Stratocaster and different venerable fashions expects gross sales this yr to develop by double digits to a document excessive. Most of the consumers are younger newbies, and half of them are ladies and ladies, Mooney says.

4:07 a.m. Complete U.S. coronavirus circumstances have topped Eight million, with day by day new infections approaching a peak set in July. The virus is spreading notably in battleground states for subsequent month’s presidential election.

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