Category: World News

Delta variant coronavirus continues to spread in southeast China’s Fujian province. Authorities said today that 50 more infections have been detected in the province. This brings to 152 the number of infected people since the outbreak of the delta variant last Friday. A lockdown had been ordered in two major cities in the province, Putian and Xiamen, as a result. The Chinese government is pursuing a “zero covid strategy.” With curfews, mass testing, contact tracing, quarantine and strict entry restrictions, the country has the coronavirus largely under control. Recently, however,…

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The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) region with the Australian capital Canberra remains in lockdown for another month. The regional government made this decision today after authorities in the territory reported 22 new coronavirus infections within 24 hours. Canberra is surrounded by the state of New South Wales, which has been particularly hard hit by the current wave and has been in lockdown for just over a month. In mid-August, a CoV case was confirmed in the ACT for the first time in a year. The regional government further reported that…

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Italy starts third dose of vaccination against coronavirus. Lazio in central Italy, with Rome as its capital, will be the first Italian region to immunize immunocompromised patients and people considered particularly susceptible. “Starting next week, we will begin vaccinating transplant patients. We will continue to safeguard human lives and the future,” Lazio regional president Nicola Zingaretti said via Facebook on Sunday. In September, Italy plans to start with people such as oncology and transplant patients and then vaccinate people over the age of 80, nursing home residents and health care…

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More than 224 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.6 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Protests against tighter Corona rules in France again brought more than a hundred thousand people to the streets for the ninth weekend in a row. However, participation in the demonstrations, which were spread across the country, dropped again on Saturday (Sept. 11). According to France’s Interior Ministry, 121,000 people protested, 20,000 fewer than the previous…

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More than 223 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. U.S. President Joe Biden is ramping up pressure on the minority of his countrymen who are still unvaccinated. Speaking at the White House on Thursday (9/9), Biden said many people in the US are frustrated at the nearly 80 million Americans who are still unvaccinated. Thanks to free, effective and safe vaccines, they have the tools…

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The government in Bratislava is allowing Pfizer’s Corona vaccine for children 5 years and older. The vaccination is voluntary and will be administered by pediatricians, Slovak media report.Biontech/Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has been open to all school children in Slovakia since Thursday. The government in Bratislava approved the vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds, Slovak media reported. Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky stressed that the vaccination is voluntary and will be administered at the request of parents and with the approval of the child’s pediatrician. In the EU, the vaccine is generally approved…

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More than 222 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Only about one in 5,000 has contracted the coronavirus despite being vaccinated twice. That’s according to new data from America. As the “New York Times” writes, detailed figures from the American states of Utah, Virginia and King County were examined. In regions, which are less strongly affected by Corona, the risk sinks even again and would…

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In Chile, children as young as six years old are to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the future. On Monday next week, the vaccination campaign for children between the ages of six and eleven will begin, Health Minister Enrique Paris said Wednesday during a visit to the city of Arica in the north of the country. The children are to be vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.Earlier this week, the Public Health Institute had granted the vaccine emergency approval for children six years and…

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New Zealand is largely lifting its nationwide Corona lockdown after three weeks. Restrictions would be eased starting Wednesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday (Sept. 6). Only in the major city of Auckland on the North Island, the center of the current outbreak, would the rules initially continue to apply, Ardern said. The government in the island nation had imposed a nationwide lockdown on Aug. 18 after the discovery of a single case of corona. At times in late August, more than 80 cases a day were recorded. In the…

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