[EN DIRECT 2 SEPTEMBRE 2020] All developments in the COVID-19 pandemic

Whether in Quebec or elsewhere on the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting our lives.

Here you will find all the news throughout the day related to this crisis affecting the population, governments and the economy.

LAST REVIEW

PLANETARY

Case: 25 785 890

Dead: 857 821

IN THE COUNTRY

Case: 129,425

Dead: 9132

IN QUEBEC

Case: 62,614

Dead: 5762

All news

9:04 am | Soccer: three players from Paris SG positive for COVID-19.

9:02 am | A teachers’ union will resort to the courts to force Quebec to set up an accelerated screening for COVID-19 in the school network, after the sending of a formal notice which has remained unanswered.

8:38 am | More than 600 students at a Koranic school in Indonesia have tested positive for the coronavirus, an official from the Ministry of Health said, confirming a new major source of contamination in the country.

8:21 am | Pakistan, unexpectedly good student of COVID-19.

7:34 am | Three children aged 10 to 17 have been removed from their families in Sweden after being confined for four months by their parents, “scared” by the epidemic of the new coronavirus, their lawyer announced on Wednesday.

6:48 am | COVID-19: new tools for cleaning airplanes.

6:43 am | Viruses: restrictions reintroduced in Glasgow.

Scottish authorities on Wednesday imposed restrictions limiting social interactions in Glasgow and western Scotland, to fight a resurgence of the new coronavirus.

Under these measures, which entered into force since midnight, affecting around 800,000 people, the population is prohibited from receiving and visiting members of another household, after 66 new cases were identified in the area on Tuesday. according to Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

“It appears that the transmission (of the virus) takes place within homes and between homes, rather than in pubs and restaurants,” she said Tuesday evening when announcing these measures, which must be subject to ‘an evaluation in a week.

Scotland has also introduced a two-week quarantine for travelers from Greece due to an increase in cases imported into Scotland from the country’s islands.

A little further south of the United Kingdom, in the English region of Manchester, local elected officials ruled premature the lifting of restrictions on Wednesday banning gatherings between members of different households in Bolton and Trafford, calling on the government to push them back.

6:37 am | Coronavirus: first case in the main migrant camp in Greece.

Greece announced on Wednesday the first case of contamination with the new coronavirus in the Moria migrant camp, the main one in the country, where nearly 13,000 asylum seekers live in unsanitary conditions.

“A 40-year-old Somali has tested positive,” a source from the Greek Migration Ministry told AFP.

6:36 am | Virus: Maldives imposes restrictions on tourism after soaring cases.

The Maldives have tightened entry conditions for visitors after an upsurge in coronavirus cases in more than a dozen tourist resorts, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Tourism constitutes an essential resource of this archipelago of the Indian Ocean made up of 1190 small coral islands and popular with honeymooners or celebrities.

From now on, all tourists will have to present a certificate of negative test for the COVID-19 disease upon arrival, the ministry said.

The country reopened to tourism in mid-July, welcoming its first international flight since the suspension of these links in mid-March. Visitors were then not required to be tested or present a certificate of non-contamination.

Since the reopening of tourist complexes, 29 local employees and 16 foreigners have been tested positive and placed in solitary confinement in the facilities, according to the authorities.

Last week, the Maldives, which has a population of 340,000, recorded more than 1,000 new infections, bringing the total number of cases to 8,003, with 29 deaths.

The pandemic affects in particular disadvantaged people, migrant or local workers, in the capital Malé, where the government has imposed a nighttime curfew since early August, extended to neighboring uninhabited islands.

TO READ | People who have traveled to Montreal or Ontario are considered more at risk of having contracted COVID-19 and they are placed in a “warm” zone in Quebec hospitals.

TO READ | The implementation of “bubbles” to separate children in four summer camps in Maine, United States, along with a host of other prevention measures, has helped protect more than 1,000 people from COVID-19, reveals a American study.

TO READ | Almost four months after catching COVID-19, a nursing student still remains positive for the virus, which will possibly prevent her from doing her internships, but not from working in a CHSLD, she laments.

[EN 5 MINUTES] One patient at church, 91 infected.

TO READ | Many seniors do not hide their fear of the possibility of a second wave hitting Quebec in the fall, which could be dramatic for this part of the population.