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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1082 valign=top style='width:811.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><a href="https://www.gemportal.co.zw/"><b><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=1068 height=374 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D6AC4D.A3A86630"></span></b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Zimbabwe COVID19 Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>COVID-19 update: As at 02 November 2020, Zimbabwe had 8 389 confirmed cases, including 7 939 recoveries and 245 deaths. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=761 height=1033 id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6B1D8.CB0764C0" alt=Image></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.3pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:35.25pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Coronavirus: India Records 45,231 New COVID-19 Cases In A Day, Tally Crosses 82-Lakh Mark</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;color:var(--ff-one)'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: According to the Union Health Ministry, the active COVID-19 cases in country stand at 5,61,908.</span></b><span class=pst-byli><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:21.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>India recorded 45,231 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, government data shows. The daily case count was 3.6 per cent lower than yesterday's 46,963. With this, the country's overall coronavirus cases since January surged past 82.29 lakh.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;margin:1.5rem 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In this period, 496 people lost their life to COVID-19, which has claimed more than 1.2 lakh lives till now. The country's Covid fatality rate has remained steady at 1.5 per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;margin:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India is the world's second-worst affected country after the United States, which has nearly 92 lakh infections and logged record 1 lakh-plus cases in a day yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;margin:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Active cases dropped to 5.61 lakh as 53,285 people fought off COVID-19 over a one-day period. More than 75.4 lakh people have recovered from the coronavirus disease till now, pushing the recovery rate to 91.7 per cent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;margin:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Maharashtra - the worst affected state in the country with total 16.8 lakh cases with 44,024 deaths - logged the third highest daily Covid numbers at 5,369.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;margin:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Health experts and scientists have warned of a rise in cases as winter sets in and people venture out amid the ongoing festival seaso<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:22.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;font-size:2rem'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Here are the Updates on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases:<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:22.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Festive Season, Laxity Caused Spike In Covid Cases In Delhi: Officials</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Delhi has been reporting over 5,000 coronavirus cases everyday for the last seven days. This has prompted the Home Ministry to review the situation in the national capital. In a meeting chaired by Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, they discussed strategy for the city that is likely seeing a third surge in COVID-19 cases.<br><br>Officials who participated in the meeting attributed the surge in COVID-19 cases in Delhi to festivals, more movement of people and laxity in adhering to safe behaviour. They said the Home Ministry is putting efforts for more testing, contact-tracing and treatment, especially in critical zones.<br><br>The Home Ministry said people using Delhi Metro should strictly follow coronavirus safety guidelines. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"Lab Reports Say Negative": Air India As 19 Test Positive On China Flight</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><br>Air India has reacted to reports that 19 Indians who flew to China's Wuhan - where the Covid pandemic originated in December last year - on a "Vande Bharat" flight on Friday tested positive for the virus on arrival. In a statement to NDTV Air India said it "strictly adheres to all safety protocols" and that all passengers on its Wuhan flight held negative Covid test reports from certified labs.<br><br>"All our passengers to Wuhan boarded the flight from Delhi with negative Covid reports from certified labs. Air India strictly adheres to all safety protocol laid down by regulatory bodies and conforms to requirements at destination airports," the statement said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Chhattisgarh records 1,700 new COVID-19 cases, 58 deaths</span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>With 1,700 new COVID-19 cases and 58 more deaths, Chhattisgarh's count rose to 1,90,513 and the count to 2,208 on Monday, a health official said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The number of people who have recovered increased to 1,66,391 after 240 people were discharged from various hospitals, while 1,324 patients completed their home isolation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>during the day, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The state now has 21,914 active cases, the official informed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Raipur district reported 102 new cases, taking its total count to 41,583, including 609 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France sees record new cases; WHO warns it's 'not too late' to take critical action</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Indonesia</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> has reported 2,973 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 418,375, according to data from the country’s health ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The country has also reported an additional 102 deaths, taking the total number of fatalities to 14,146.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Indonesia Medical Association (IDI) said earlier on Tuesday that 161 doctors, including nine dentists, had died from the virus in the March to October period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hungary</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> has recorded a record number of daily coronavirus infections and deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the last 24 hours, 84 Covid-19 patients have died, while coronavirus infections rose by 3,989 to 86,769, koronavirus.gov.hu <a href="https://koronavirus.gov.hu/cikkek/3989-fovel-emelkedett-beazonositott-fertozottek-szama-es-elhunyt-84-kronikus-beteg"><span style='color:windowtext'>said </span></a>on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hungary Today reports on the “black day”:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The death toll rose to 1,973, while 20,856 people have made a recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There are 63,940 active infections, while 4,767 patients are hospitalised, 348 on ventilators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fully 30,984 people are in official home quarantine, while the number of tests carried out stands at 1,111,991.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Current restrictions in Hungary include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>controls at the border<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>restrictions on large events<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>wearing face masks obligatory in shops, public transport, cinemas, theatres, shopping malls, health-care and social-care facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>From Monday, mask-wearing will also be mandatory at entertainment venues, restaurants and catering facilities at sporting events.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Restaurants and entertainment venues must close after 11pm.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo7;background:white;margin-bottom:0.375rem;padding-left:1.25rem'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Visits to hospitals and nursing homes are banned.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> is hoping that a new antigen test will help it avoid closing nursing homes to visitors, as Europe grapples with a second wave of Covid infections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Press Association</span></strong> reports:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>So-called antigen tests, which look for a specific protein on the virus, were first launched months ago. They are cheap and fast, but experts said at the time they are also less accurate than the standard PCR test, which detects even the tiniest genetic trace of the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>We have a new strategy. We can now basically perform rapid tests on visitors to nursing and care homes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nursing homes will receive up to 20 free monthly tests per resident. These can be used to test patients, staff and — crucially — visiting relatives, who might be unwitting carriers of Covid-19, posing a potentially devastating threat. Merkel said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Health insurers will cover the costs for a certain number of visitors each month. That’s huge progress in terms of protection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany has one of the world’s oldest populations. More than 24 million people are 60 or older and about 900,000 people live in nursing homes. A further 2.5 million younger people have serious disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>That means almost 30% of Germany’s population of 83 million are particularly vulnerable to the virus, Merkel said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Germany</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> has reported about 550,000 coronavirus cases — less than half the number recorded in Britain, Spain and France. 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Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK</span></strong>, where a lockdown is coming into force on Thursday, retailers, hairdressers and restaurants in England are extending opening hours and seeing their strongest bookings in months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;background:#F6F6F6'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Retail and hospitality in England open extra hours before lockdown<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>International tourist arrivals to <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Spain</span></strong> fell 87% year-on-year in September, official data showed on Tuesday, as restrictions related to a steep increase in coronavirus infections dissuaded many from travelling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Reuters reports that over the first nine months of the year, some 16.8 million foreign tourists visited Spain, around 75% fewer than in the same period of 2019, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Tourists spent 90% less in September than in the same month a year ago, INE said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France</span></strong> one Parisian is getting infected with Covid-19 every 30 seconds, while every 15 minutes there is a Parisian arriving in hospital as a result of the disease, health minister Olivier Véran said on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Reuters reports that Véran made the comments to RTL Radio in response to demands by Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to open up small bookshops and other smaller stores to try to keep commerce and social activity ticking over despite a new lockdown in France.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Véran said any such move was too risky given the high Covid-19 infection rates in the French capital. He said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>She cannot ignore the fact that every 15 minutes, in the hospitals of Paris, there is someone ill who has been hospitalised with Covid. She cannot ignore the fact that every 30 seconds, there is a Parisian who has been contaminated.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>We want to save the Parisians and the French people and we do that with determination and consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France reported a record 52,518 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, while the country’s Covid-19 death toll rose by 416 to 37,435.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Veran, speaking on RTL, warned his countrymen and women that, “Christmas would not be a normal celebration”. He added:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Christmas will remain a celebration. We must anticipate the fact that the virus will still be here, it will not stop at Christmas so we have to adapt.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The ability to celebrate Christmas and hold end-of-the-year parties would be directly dependent on the results of the lockdown and a lowering of the pressure on hospitals, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet (you can read what he said about the research on Covid and children <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/09/what-we-are-learning-about-covid-19-and-kids"><span style='color:windowtext'>here</span></a>), from the Pasteur Institute and a member of the scientific advisory group, said that “if the lockdown works well in the different French regions, we expect a 65-80% drop in infections after one month. It will take two months for a drop of 80-90%. We will arrive, therefore, in the Christmas period”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Based on these estimations Fontanet said certain measures could be loosened “but the circulation of the virus would be more significant at Christmas”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Apologies for the slightly fuzzy translation, my French is significantly more rusty than I would like.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;line-height:1rem;padding:0.1875rem 0px 0.75rem 0.625rem;font-size:0.75rem;right:1.25rem;bottom: 0.25rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The <strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Czech Republic</span></strong> has reported 9,241 new coronavirus cases and 225 new deaths in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The tally of infections rose to 350,896 in the nation of 10.7 million people, while deaths stood at 3,654.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The increase in deaths was spread over several days because of reporting issues, however, and was not limited to the past 24 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Meanwhile professional athletes in the country will be allowed to train in indoor facilities from Wednesday, reports Inside Scoop, a Czech news site in English. They have been closed since October 12 due to the epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Individual competitions will be able to resume only if they meet certain criteria. Regular testing will probably be one of the requirements. All matches will take place without spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Perhaps my favourite Covid-related Czech news story story, however, comes from South Bohemia. It’s a couple of days old, but worth posting here for the picture alone in my humble opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Czech Republic is currently operating a strict 9pm curfew, which has encouraged some people to be a little creative, according to Expats CZ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>One exception that allows people out of the house at night is walking a dog, but not everybody has one.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;background:white;margin-bottom:0.5rem'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>That didn’t stop a man in České Budějovice, South Bohemia. He was caught by local police “walking” a toy stuffed dog in the city center at náměstí Přemysla Otakara II. A Czech News crew was following the police to document them dealing with curfew violations and captured the incident. Images has since gone viral over social media.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Massive, massive thanks to Helen Sullivan for her particularly Herculean efforts today. She really makes the rest of us look bad, all of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>That’s it from me after a day of running this and our Vienna blog. Phew. Good thing there’s no other big news happening today?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It’s over to Alexandra Topping for the next while.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>China changes school curriculum to reflect Beijing's positive Covid narrative<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Chinese government-endorsed content about the pandemic and the “fighting spirit” of the country’s response will be added to school curriculum, the country’s ministry of education has said, in a move to enshrine the country’s narrative of success against the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The content will be added to elementary and middle school classes in biology, health and physical education, history, and literature, and will “help students understand the basic fact that the Party and the state always put the life and safety of its people first”, the ministry said on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Students will learn about key figures and deeds which emerged during the epidemic prevention and control efforts. They will learn to foster public awareness and dedication, to enrich knowledge about the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics,” the ministry said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the UK, companies are scrambling to put staff back on furlough after the scheme was due to close at the end of October but will now continue throughout this month amid new lockdowns. However, for those already made redundant it is too late.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I spoke to people worried about their futures:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The number of furloughed workers in the UK is expected to more than double this month to as many as 5.5 million as the government places England into national lockdown and expands its emergency Covid-19 wage support schemes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;margin:1.25rem 1rem 5rem'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Economists said businesses were set to claim for billions of pounds of additional state support from the furlough scheme over the coming weeks, amid the enforced closure of non-essential venues for the second time this year:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 4 2927658</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. 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