Travel warnings, bans on accommodation, rapidly increasing numbers of corona cases: Many people who want to travel do not know shortly beforehand whether something will actually come of their trip.
If you want to fly to Greece, you will now also have to deal with air traffic strikes. Greece holidaymakers who want to fly back to their home country must also expect major problems:
several unions have called the air traffic controllers and civil aviation employees to go on strike tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. They demand more money and the hiring of additional staff. Numerous flights have already been canceled at Athens Airport.
Affected passengers should contact their airline to rebook.
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Greece is strengthening the security systems at the land and sea borders with Turkey. Behind this is probably the fear of a new influx of migrants. Five meters high, 27 kilometers long, 63 million euros expensive:
Greece is arming itself with massive barriers on the Evros river against the feared new migrant flows from Turkey. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inspected the construction work over the weekend.
The Greek land border with Turkey is 206 kilometers long. For the most part, but not continuously, it follows the course of the Evros River (Turkish: Meric). The Evros was the scene of a week-long trial of strength in the spring:
Liège Province hospitals are sounding the alarm. In the houses CHU, CHR and CHC, an occupancy of 112 percent of phase 1B was achieved. Phase 1B means that half of the hospital beds must be reserved for corona patients.
Currently more patients with other pathologies are being treated with it than the disaster plan allows. That said the medical director of the Liège University Hospital, Pierre Gillet. Patients are already being transferred to other hospitals.
Operating theaters would be converted into Covid stations from Monday. The first patients in the intensive care units will soon have to be transferred to other houses. The biggest problem, however, is the thin staffing levels. There is a massive shortage of nurses.
Chinese lawmakers have imposed new biosecurity laws to adopt disease and risk management programs following months of international backlash. In order to report any potential health threats, health workers are encouraged.
As part of wider measures to strengthen its management of disease outbreaks, Beijing passed a new law on Saturday to protect whistleblowers who reveal knowledge about public health emergencies. It is also hope that the new biosecurity law would correct structural shortcomings,
such as those that hindered China's initial response to the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese lawmakers said. The new legislation, which comes into effect next year on April 15, calls on people to report "events that threaten biosecurity."
Montenegro, a small Balkan state of 13,812 square kilometers and slightly more than 642,500 inhabitants, today ranks first for every 100,000 inhabitants in the number of Covid-19 infections in Europe.
Montenegro has 2,385 cases of the latest coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data from the European Center for Statistics (@EU_Eurostat).
The @Vijestime newspaper calls the results of the National Coordination Body (NKT) in the fight against the pandemic devastating and points out that, according to Eurostat itself, in terms of the number of positive cases,
On Sunday, the German embassy in Baghdad announced that Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi @MAKadhimi would soon be visiting Berlin.
The meeting will take place on 20 October in Berlin, according to a statement released by the Embassy, in which the two parties will negotiate bilateral relations, economic cooperation, the fight against COVID-19, the war against ISIS,
as well as foreign and regional issues of shared interest. A government source has previously announced that the Iraqi Prime Minister will be on a European tour (London, Paris and Berlin) accompanied by a high-level government delegation,