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—President Trump heads to Phoenix to visit the Honeywell factory.
– South Korea reported only two new cases of coronavirus
—The official British coronavirus victim is the highest in Europe.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Coronavirus outbreak has forced Indonesia to postpone simultaneous regional elections scheduled for September 23 which will reach more than 100 million voters.
President Joko Widodo has signed Government Regulation in Lieu of Law on Monday which regulates this year’s election delays from September to December or even longer depending on the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the world’s fourth most populous country, the official website of the State Secretariat said Tuesday night.
Elections have been planned to be held simultaneously in 270 regions throughout the archipelago to elect 9 governors, 37 mayors and 224 district heads, with eligible voters reaching at least 105 million.
The regulation was issued after the country’s General Election Commission’s decision to postpone the preparatory phase for regional elections in late March after revealing that election organizers had also captured COVID-19 disease and stakeholders moved to delay elections.
“Delaying regional elections this year is the most likely option to avoid COVID-19 from spreading further into rural areas,” the previous electoral authority said.
Indonesia, which holds almost 270 million, has recorded a total of 12,071 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 872 deaths on Tuesday afternoon
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported two new cases of coronavirus because the epidemic continues to slow.
Figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bring Wednesday the national total to 10,806 infections and 255 virus-related deaths. KCDC said the two new cases were detected during an inspection at the airport and no new local transmissions were reported from South Korean cities.
While more than 1,100 state cases have been imported, those cases have declined in recent weeks as authorities improve border controls, such as imposing two-day quarantine on all passengers coming from abroad.
With the caseload slowing, the South Korean government has eased social distance guidelines and is preparing to reopen schools. South Korea’s professional baseball league starts its new season without fans in the stands on Tuesday.
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun during a virus meeting on Wednesday called for vigilance and instructed officials to prepare for a possible second wave of infection. He said preventing many hospitals in the densely populated metropolitan area of Seoul would be key.
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NEW YORK – The election of the main president of the New York Democratic Party must take place on June 23 because canceling it would violate the constitution, a judge said on Tuesday.
US District Judge Torres Analysis ruled after hearing an argument the day before because lawyers for retracted presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang argued that it was wrong to overturn the main.
The judge said there was enough time before the primary problem occurred to find out how to do it safely.
Democrats from the State Election Council voted to cancel the main election even though New York still plans to hold congressional and state level elections on June 23. They cited coronavirus as a reason to cancel the election because Joe Biden is now not opposed. .
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SACRAMENTO, California – A federal judge said that California Governor Gavin Newsom has the right to ban church assemblies to prevent the spread of the corona virus. Judge John Mendez ruled on Tuesday that Newsom had the right to temporarily ban church meetings for public health.
The Cross-Cultural Christian Center in Lodi and pastor Jonathan Duncan alleged that Orderom staying at home in March violated their constitutional right to freedom of religion and assembly. The church held the service until the church landlord, under threat of minor violations from local health officials, changed the door to the church, banning the congregation from gathering on Palm Sunday.
A lawyer for the church said the judge’s refusal to request a temporary restraining order would not stop them from continuing their case.
Mendez said the order to stay in state and local homes was a legitimate exercise of emergency police force and did not violate the church’s constitutional rights. Mendez noted that the Supreme Court more than 100 years ago upheld the government’s right to use police power to promote public safety during a public health crisis.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Restrictions on home stay in North Carolina are being enforced starting Friday.
Democratic Governor Roy Cooper signed an executive order on Tuesday. His administration said the COVID-19 case was generally stable, and testing, tracking and health care supplies had increased enough to ensure increased trade and movement.
Cooper’s decision to relax orders after five weeks came after governors in many other Southern states acted.
Cooper said health officials were driving when decisions were made, with input from employers and businesses about the types of restrictions.
North Carolina has reported more than 12,250 positive cases and more than 450 related deaths, according to state health data.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Federal prosecutors accuse a Kentucky man who has a gun in his house of threatening the governor and the Kentucky state police on social media.
The man, 25-year-old Jeremiah Wooley, apparently made a threat by referring to social media posts about state troops going to the Kentucky church to enforce social distance, according to court documents filed in federal cases.
State police arrested Wooley at his home in Kevil last week and accused him of threatening the governor and state police under false names. U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisville announced the allegations and federal firearms accusations against Wooley on Tuesday.
Investigators found about a dozen firearms at Wooley’s house, including what federal agents described as “assault-style rifles,” .50-caliber rifles and a bucket of 50 hand grenades that were either inert or made into new items. Police said the house also had components to assemble grenades, including black powder.
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TRENTON, N.J. – Drug makers who can speed up the recovery of COVID-19 patients say they are working with other companies to enable them to make remdesivir for other parts of the world.
However, Gilead Sciences did not say anything about what the price would be for injection, in the US or elsewhere.
California company gets U.S. approval on Friday for emergency remdesivir use. That happened two days after a Gilead study found the drug shortened recovery time for virus patients hospitalized to an average of 11 days, compared to 15 days for those who received standard supportive care.
Gilead said it was discussing granting voluntary licenses with several pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers to make remdesivir “for Europe, Asia and the developing world at least 2022.” It envisions a consortium of producers to make enough medicine for the world.
Gilead has been urged by patient groups, politicians and others to make remdesivir affordable, given the high price it charges for drugs for HIV and hepatitis C.
There is no cure for this virus, which has killed more than 255,000 people worldwide.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Republican Governor Greg Abbott gave Texas hair and nails permission to reopen this week. Gyms will be allowed to reopen later this month.
Republicans made the announcement while emphasizing the country’s declining coronavirus infection rates. Some health officials continue to warn that easing restrictions too quickly will result in new infection hot spots.
Abbott’s urge to let the barbershop and hair salon open on Friday made Texas move faster than he had suggested a week ago when the governor allowed his stay at home to end. Restaurants and retailers were allowed to reopen last Friday under limited capacity.
Texas has 33,000 cases and more than 900 deaths related to the virus. But Abbott continues to stress that the infection rate in Texas is below 5 percent, which is down from more than 7 percent two weeks ago.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania has reported 554 deaths due to the corona virus to a total of 3,000, while Governor Tom Wolf said he was not committed to a specific schedule to lift pandemic restrictions on living at home in the state or region.
The large number of new deaths reported by the state Department of Health were spread over the previous two weeks, the agency said, while reconciling the figures with deaths reported by the local agency or hospital.
Still, it is a striking number as reported by the state and comes when the Wolf government moves to ease its restrictions on business movements and activities.
Wolf said on Tuesday that he would stick to the reopening process which depends on what he sees as an indicator related to safety.
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NEW ORLEAN – The number of Louisiana deaths caused by diseases caused by new coronavirus exceeds 2,000 in the number issued by the state health department, and the number of confirmed cases is close to 30,000.
More than 20,300 of those infected are now estimated to recover, according to figures. The number of those hospitalized with the disease remains above 1,500, but it is still far below the peak of more than 2,100 inpatients in early April. The number who needed a ventilator was 194, down from 220 the day before.
The number of deaths – 2,042 – increased from 1,991 the day before.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri moves ahead with plans to execute convicted killers on May 19, unlike other countries that have delayed execution during the coronavirus pandemic.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Governor Mike Parson did not plan to delay the execution of Walter Barton. Other countries delay execution because of the risk of spreading the virus and limiting social distance on meeting sizes.
Corrections Department spokeswoman Karen Pojmann said each of the three witness witnesses’ execution spaces would be limited to 10 people or fewer, according to the country’s coronavirus limits.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine moved executions scheduled for July and August to 2022. The Tennessee Supreme Court delayed executions scheduled for June to early 2021. Texas delayed five executions.
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BETHEL, Maine – A restaurant owner who recently shared what he said was the Maine governor’s personal cellphone number on national television had immediately violated his order again.
Rick Savage allows customers to have dinner at Sunday River Brewing Co. after he decided it would not interfere with federal brewing permits. He previously lost his state license on Friday after opening it for dinner customers.
A pandemic order fought the Democratic Government of Janet Mills allowing restaurants to open only for takeout orders until June 1. The governor’s office did not respond Tuesday to asking for comment.
Savage complained Mills was not acting fast enough to reopen the economy after ordering restrictions to fight the corona virus. Savage became the voice of an angry business owner last week when he denounced Mills on Fox News Channel and shared a telephone number.
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SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Governor Kate Brown has announced the limited opening of several state parks, outdoor recreation facilities, and other areas for daily use in easing some of the restrictions imposed due to coronavirus.
Officials say daily use will slowly return to other state parks starting next week. The popular Columbia River Gorge gorge parks and recreation areas and beach areas will remain closed for now. Brown said the Oregon people must reinvent responsibly.
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LONDON – A prominent epidemiologist whose work has greatly influenced the closing steps of Britain has resigned from his position as a government adviser after a newspaper revealed he violated social rules that alienated.
Professor Neil Ferguson said he “made an error of judgment” and regretted “any clear message that undermined around the need to maintain social distance.”
His statement came after the Telegraph reported that he had allowed his married lover to visit him at home during lockouts.
Ferguson led a team at Imperial College London who modeled the spread and impact of the corona virus in data that was instrumental in pushing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose locking measures.
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