- The UK reported 155 deaths on Saturday of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 within the past 28 days, and 30,693 new infections. The government figures show a fall from the 193 deaths and 34,029 new cases reported on Friday.
- Brazil registered 328 Covid-19 deaths on Saturday and 11,866 additional cases, according to data released by the country’s health ministry. The South American country has now registered a total of 609,388 coronavirus deaths and 21,874,324 total confirmed cases, Reuters reports.
- Costa Rican children aged five and above must get Covid-19 vaccinations, according to a new health ministry mandate, making the Central American country one of the first to adopt such a requirement for kids.
- Mexicans who need to cross the US land border for work or school are scrambling to get approved Covid-19 vaccines ahead of new rules set to go into effect next week, 20 months after the United States shut crossings for non-essential trips.
- Queues formed outside shops in Athens on Saturday on the first day of new restrictions that require the unvaccinated to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before entering a range of venues, Reuters reports.
- Booster jabs will be available to book a month earlier than expected in England for those who need them, in an effort to speed up the programme, the government has announced. Those eligible for the top-up vaccination will receive their booking invitation five months after their second dose instead of six, after a change to the system means boosters can be prebooked.
- Russia’s Covid-19 cases hit another one-day record as the country struggles to contain a wave of infections that has persisted for more than a month. The national coronavirus taskforce on Saturday reported 41,335 new cases since the previous day, exceeding the previous daily record of 40,993 on 31 October. The taskforce said 1,188 people with Covid-19 died, just seven fewer than the daily death record reported on Thursday.
- Eleven patients died on Saturday after a fire broke out in a hospital’s Covid-19 ward in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. There were 17 patients in the ward in the city of Ahmednagar where the fire started, said police inspector Jyoti Karkade. The remaining six patients were in stable condition, she added.
- Austria said on Friday it was barring those not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from cafes, restaurants, and hairdressers as the government struggles to convince people to get vaccinated. About 64% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated against Covid, one of the lowest rates in western Europe. Many Austrians are sceptical about getting jabbed.
- Mexico reported 261 new confirmed coronavirus fatalities and 3,574 further cases on Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 289,674 and total infections to 3,825,404, according to health ministry data.
- New Zealand’s 206 new daily community infections on Saturday carried it past the double-hundred mark for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, as the nation scrambles to vaccinate its population of 5 million.
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Brazil registered 328 Covid-19 deaths on Saturday and 11,866 additional cases, according to data released by the country’s health ministry.
The South American country has now registered a total of 609,388 coronavirus deaths and 21,874,324 total confirmed cases, Reuters reports.
The row in the UK over Tory sleaze reached new heights as MPs demanded details of any lobbying by Owen Paterson of government ministers on behalf of a company that won almost £500m of Covid-19 related contracts last year.
The crisis facing Boris Johnson also worsened after the former Tory prime minister, Sir John Major, described his successor’s attempts to block Paterson’s suspension from parliament last week for breaching paid advocacy rules as “shameful”.
A new Opinium poll for the Observer shows ratings for Johnson and his party have slumped dramatically since last weekend, with the prime minister’s personal approval figures hitting their lowest ever level.
The US administered 429,442,508 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 533,019,545 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those figures are up from the 428,006,540 vaccine doses administered by Nov. 4, out of 531,287,645 doses delivered, the CDC said.
The agency said 223,245,121 people had received at least one dose, while 193,627,929 people were fully vaccinated as of 6 am ET on Saturday, Reuters reports.
Almost every day for three weeks, Grace Lockyer would jump in her car and drive to a hill to attend her Zoom classes.
Located on her family’s property outside the town of Warialda in northern New South Wales, Australia, the hill was the only place she could get a decent internet connection.
For Lockyer, one of the many students completing her HSC from home during the NSW lockdown, limited access to internet and technology was just the tip of the iceberg.
Yet with exams set to commence on Tuesday, the end of a hard year is finally in sight.
To live and work overseas is a rite of passage for many Australians. Life abroad, however, took on a new sense of fragility with the rise of Covid-19. More than a million Australian citizens were forced to choose between riding out the pandemic in a foreign country, or returning to the relative safety of Australia.
Since March 2020, it is estimated about half of those living abroad chose to come back, while tens of thousands wished to return but were unable to.
Those that did make it were forced to swiftly recalibrate to a life they thought they had left behind, but with travel bans lifted for fully vaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents, a new choice has arisen.
Costa Rican children aged five and above must get Covid-19 vaccinations, according to a new health ministry mandate, making the Central American country one of the first to adopt such a requirement for kids.
The move would add Covid-19 to a list of other infectious diseases that Costa Rica has for years required children to be vaccinated against, Reuters reports.
“Our basic vaccination scheme has made it possible to subdue many of the viruses that cause suffering and health consequences and even fatalities in the underage population,” health minister Daniel Salas said.
Mexicans who need to cross the US land border for work or school are scrambling to get approved Covid-19 vaccines ahead of new rules set to go into effect next week, 20 months after the United States shut crossings for non-essential trips.
The rules specify that from Monday only foreigners who have received World Health Organization-approved vaccines can cross, which in effect bars those who received jabs including China’s CanSino Biologics and Russia’s Sputnik V, among others.
More than 15 Mexicans told Reuters that they were looking to get re-vaccinated, not with booster shots, but rather to simply comply with the new entry rule, which requires them to show proof of their vaccine status and will be enforced with random checks.
France reported 9,605 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, Reuters reports.
The country has had over 7.1 million cases overall.
A US federal appeals court issued a stay freezing the Biden administration’s efforts to require workers at US companies with at least 100 employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or be tested weekly, citing “grave statutory and constitutional” issues with the rule, Reuters reports.
The ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes after numerous Republican-led states filed legal challenges against the new rule, which is set to take effect on 4 January.
More data from Italy. The number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 – not including those in intensive care – stood at 3,173 on Saturday, up from 3,124 a day earlier.
There were 23 new admissions to intensive care units, down from 37 on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 392 from a previous 395.
Some 491,962 tests for Covid-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 543,414, the health ministry said, Reuters reports.
France has reported a cumulative total of 90,988 coronavirus deaths in hospital – an increase of 25 in the past 24 hours, Reuters reports.
It also reported 1,099 people in intensive care units for Covid-19 on Saturday, an increase of 10.
Italy reported 31 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, the country’s health ministry said.
It also reported 6,764 new infections, the same figure as the previous day, Reuters reports.
Italy has registered 132,365 deaths linked to Covid-19 since its initial outbreak in February last year, the second highest toll in Europe after the UK.
Queues formed outside shops in Athens on Saturday on the first day of new restrictions that require the unvaccinated to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before entering a range of venues, Reuters reports.
Coronavirus infections in Greece hit a new daily high almost every day in November, prompting authorities to announce new measures on Tuesday, which restrict access to cafes, restaurants, state services and banks, among other public spaces, to those who are either vaccinated or have a negative test.
Those vaccinated against Covid-19 must also present their certificates, resulting in long lines outside shops in the capital’s busiest shopping street, Ermou.
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