Filenews 17 July 2021
The increase in cases in some countries, the change in anti-pandemic measures in others, the ongoing lockdown in Australian cities and the Biden attack on those spreading fakenews about vaccines in the US are some of the developments around the Covid pandemic.
BRITISH
Britons returning home from France, even if they have been fully vaccinated for the Covid-19, should be quarantined upon arrival in England, the British Government announced last night. France thus becomes the exception to the rule that will henceforth apply to the countries included in the so-called "orange" list. The British Government had previously announced that fully vaccinated Britons returning from "orange" destinations, such as France or Spain, would not have to be quarantined from Monday, July 19. The Ministry of Health has clarified that the measure will not apply to France, because the Beta variant of the new coronavirus, which was first detected in South Africa, is widespread in that country. Therefore, those arriving from France should be placed in a 10-day quarantine, at home or in another accommodation, even if they have been fully vaccinated.
Germany
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany increased by 1,608 in the previous 24 hours, reaching 3,743,389, according to data released today Saturday by the Robert Koch Institute, the country's epidemiological surveillance body. The deaths of 22 Patients with Covid-19 in the same period increased the death toll of the new coronavirus pandemic to 91,359 so far, according to the same source.
USA
Large social media platforms, where false information about vaccines circulates, "kill people," us President President Joe Biden said. "The only pandemic we have affects those who are not vaccinated. They kill people," he insisted, responding to a reporter who asked him what message he was sending to platforms such as Facebook. The White House this week called on tech giants to fight against misinformation about vaccines. Yesterday, Biden's spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, specifically took a target on Facebook. "There are about 12 people who generate 65% of misinformation about vaccines on social networking sites. All of them are active on Facebook, and some have been kicked out of other platforms," he commented. The White House gave no details on those 12 people it blames. "Facebook must act faster to delete dangerous messages and those that violate its rules, which often remain for many days. It's a long time. The information is moving very quickly," Psaki added. Earlier today, at the regular briefing of journalists, the spokeswoman admitted that companies "have obviously made strides" but can do more.
Brazil
The Brazilian Ministry of Health informed yesterday Friday that in the previous 24 hours 1,456 patients with COVID-19 succumbed and 45,591 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed. The official account of the victims of the new coronavirus pandemic in Latin America's largest state has reached this stage 540,398 deaths out of a total of 19,308,109 infections. Brazil of 212 million people in The Hague is the world's second- records the second heaviest account in the world, behind only the US.
Tunisia
In the last 24 hours, a record number of daily deaths since the onset of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday Friday. According to the same source, 6,787 cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed over the same period, raising new concerns about the country's ability to fight the pandemic, with intensive care units overcrowded and lacking oxygen supplies. The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is very slow. According to the World Health Organization, the daily death toll in Tunisia is the highest in Africa and the Arab world. The total number of cases amounts to about 530,000 and deaths to over 17,200.
India
India announced yesterday that 38,079 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours, with the total number in the country rising to 31.06 million, according to health ministry figures. The death toll rose by 560, with the total rising to 413,091, according to ministry figures.
Australia
Authorities in Sydney ordered the construction sites to be suspended, banned unnecessary retail purchases and threatened to fine employers who force employees to work from the office as new CASES of COVID-19 continued to rise while the city has been in lockdown for three weeks.
Officials in the state of New South Wales, whose capital is Sydney, also banned hundreds of thousands of residents of the city's western suburbs -- the worst affected area -- from moving away from their neighbourhoods for work purposes, as they recorded 111 new cases in the past 24 hours compared with 97 a day earlier. The state also recorded another death due to the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll since the beginning of the year to three and the nationwide death toll to 913 since the onset of the pandemic.
"I can't remember another time when our state faced difficulties to such an extent," New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said at a televised news conference.
The city of 5 million people is the largest city in the world. Residents, Australia's largest, have been in lockdown since June 26, which is scheduled to expire on July 30, after a driver of a vehicle carrying staff at an airport brought the virus into the community and caused an outbreak of the highly contagious variant strain, according to authorities.
The neighbouring state of Victoria also announced a jump in daily COVID-19 cases to 19 from 6 the previous day, raising fears that the short lockdown expected to end on Tuesday could be extended. Victoria and the Sydney metropolitan area together host about $12 million in funding. residents, which means that almost half of Australia's population is in some kind of lockdown.
Australia has managed to avoid the high numbers of infections and deaths recorded by other countries in the early stages of the pandemic thanks to a series of measures such as border closures and house arrest of citizens. However, 18 months later, the federal government is being criticized for the slow development of the vaccination campaign. Just over 10% of the total population of 25 million people in the EU is living in poverty. Australian residents have been fully vaccinated, according to government data.
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