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class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 11:44 PM</div> <a href="#story3322"><h3>Turkey to delay return to classrooms by nearly a month</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 11:34 PM</div> <a href="#story3321"><h3>London, UK — More than 5,000 wiped off UK virus toll following review</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 11:13 PM</div> <a href="#story3320"><h3>Madrid, Spain — Surge in Spain's virus cases prompts regional smoking ban, field hospital</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 10:38 PM</div> <a href="#story3319"><h3>Sao Paulo, Brazil — Brazil clears four COVID-positive footballers to play</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 10:16 PM</div> <a href="#story3318"><h3>Seoul, South Korea — Bus stop newest front in South Korea's coronavirus battle</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 09:50 PM</div> <a href="#story3317"><h3>Buenos Aires, Argentina — Argentina surpasses 5,000 coronavirus deaths</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 09:22 PM</div> <a href="#story3316"><h3>Peshawar, Pakistan — KP reports 88 more cases, no new deaths</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 08:59 PM</div> <a href="#story3315"><h3>Islamabad, Pakistan — ECC approves additional funds of $3million for SAARC COVID-19 fund </h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 08:43 PM</div> <a href="#story3314"><h3>Moscow, Russia — Medics to get anti-COVID shots in two weeks, rejects safety concerns: Russia</h3></a> </li> <li> <div class="update_time">12 August 2020 | 08:31 PM</div> <a href="#story3313"><h3>Mohammad Hafeez sent into isolation for violating social distancing protocols</h3></a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mrec"> <div id="div-gpt-ad-1584625401280-0" style="width: auto; height: auto;"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1584625401280-0'); }); </script> </div> </div> </div> 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that a gradual return to classrooms will be possible from September 21, he added.</p><p>Selcuk said the decision is based on advice from the scientific committee advising the government, which met on Wednesday before the minister´s formal announcement.</p><p>Schools and universities were shut down in March along with most public spaces as Turkish authorities rushed to prevent the virus outbreak crippling the country's health system.</p><p>Officials then decided to keep them shut for the rest of the academic year.</p><p>So far a total of 243,180 people have been infected with COVID-19 in Turkey, 5,873 of whom have died, according to government data published Tuesday.</p> </div> <div class="share_icon"> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.tv%2Fliveblog%2Fcoronavirus%23story3322" class="btn-share--facebook"> <img 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<div class="by_author"><h5>By: AFP</h5></div> <div class="description"> <p>Britain has revised down its death toll from the coronavirus pandemic by more than 5,000 to 41,329 following a review into the way fatalities are recorded.</p><p>In England, a person who died at any point following a positive test would previously have been counted in the toll, regardless of the cause of death.</p><p>But only those dying within 28 days of a positive test will now be included in the figures, bringing England into line with the rest of the United Kingdom.</p><p>The official number of people who have died from the virus in Britain has fallen from 46,706 to 41,329 under the new system, a 12% fall.</p><p>"The way we count deaths in people with Covid-19 in England was originally chosen to avoid underestimating deaths caused by the virus in the early stages of the pandemic," said John Newton, director of health improvement at Public Health England.</p><p>The new figure means that Britain now has fewer 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The new daily number excluded Madrid, which did not provide fresh data due to technical difficulties.</p><p>In scenes reminiscent of the epidemic’s March-April peak, TV footage showed air force personnel setting up dark green tents to serve as a field hospital in Zaragoza, Aragon’s regional capital in northeastern Spain.</p><p>Set to open on Friday, the facility attached to Zaragoza’s University Clinic hospital will be used as a triage centre and temporary ward, the air force said in a statement.</p><p>With 571 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Aragon has the highest prevalence of the virus in Spain. Navarre, with the second-highest rate, has just 159 cases per 100,000 people.</p><p>Despite having some of the lowest levels of the virus, northwestern Galicia issued a blanket ban on smoking on the street and on restaurant terraces when social-distancing cannot be guaranteed.</p><p>Under Spain’s decentralised government, each region is largely in charge of its own response to the virus, leading to a patchwork of different restrictions and preventative measures.</p><p>Wealthy northeastern Catalonia is set to expand a mass-testing program in the coming days to include several neighbourhoods of its capital, Barcelona. </p> </div> <div class="share_icon"> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.tv%2Fliveblog%2Fcoronavirus%23story3320" class="btn-share--facebook"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750im_/https://www.geo.tv//assets/front/images/detail-facebook.svg"> </a> <a target="_blank" 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<div class="description"> <p>The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has cleared four footballers who tested positive for the new coronavirus to play a match tonight against reigning Brazil and South American champions Flamengo, saying they were no longer contagious.</p><p>The four players from Atletico Goianiense were initially barred after testing positive Sunday, but the club successfully appealed the decision to the CBF´s medical committee.</p><p>The committee reversed the players' medical suspension late Tuesday, saying their infections were more than 10 days old, that they had observed the necessary quarantine and that they were no longer contagious.</p><p>The ruling came just in time for Goianiense's season debut against Flamengo, the current holders of the Copa Libertadores and Brazilian league titles.</p><p>The head of the CBF medical committee, Jorge Pagura, said the decision was based on recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that have been endorsed by the World Health Organization.</p><p>"After a positive PCR test result, 10 days is sufficient to release the patient" from quarantine, Pagura told news site <i>Globoesporte</i>.</p><p>The CBF did not say when the four players were initially diagnosed.</p><p>Pagura said they did not need to undergo another test.</p> </div> <div class="share_icon"> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.tv%2Fliveblog%2Fcoronavirus%23story3319" class="btn-share--facebook"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750im_/https://www.geo.tv//assets/front/images/detail-facebook.svg"> </a> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://twitter.com/share?text=Sao+Paulo%2C+Brazil+%E2%80%94+Brazil+clears+four+COVID-positive+footballers+to+play&url=https://www.geo.tv/liveblog/coronavirus#story3319" class="btn-share--twitter"> <img 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Seoul, offering protection from monsoon rains, summer heat, and the novel coronavirus.</p><p>To enter, passengers must stand in front of an automated thermal-imaging camera, and the door will only slide open if their temperature is below 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit).</p><p>A separate camera is installed lower down to test children.</p><div class="medium-insert-images ui-sortable medium-insert-active"><figure contenteditable="false"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750im_/https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2020-08-12/_5091645_updates.jpg" alt="" class=""> <figcaption class="" spellcheck="false" contenteditable="true">A man (R) checks his temperature in front of a thermal imaging camera to enter a shelter booth designed to protect passengers from monsoon rains, summer heat and the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a bus stop in Seoul on August 12, 2020. — AFP</figcaption><grammarly-extension style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; pointer-events: none; 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funds of $3million for SAARC COVID-19 fund </h2> <div class="by_author"><h5>By: Web Desk</h5></div> <div class="description"> <p>The Economic Coordination Committee approved additional funds of $3 million to be contributed to the SAARC COVID-19 Emergency Fund, a statement from the Press Information Department read. </p> </div> <div class="share_icon"> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.tv%2Fliveblog%2Fcoronavirus%23story3315" class="btn-share--facebook"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750im_/https://www.geo.tv//assets/front/images/detail-facebook.svg"> </a> <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001750/https://twitter.com/share?text=Islamabad%2C+Pakistan+%E2%80%94+ECC+approves+additional+funds+of+%243million+for+SAARC+COVID-19+fund+&url=https://www.geo.tv/liveblog/coronavirus#story3315" class="btn-share--twitter"> <img 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drug.<br></p><p>President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, after less than two months of human testing.</p><p>The vaccine has not yet completed its final trials. 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