Indonesia is considering reopening its international borders to frequent travellers, even as it is dealing with the largest virus outbreak in the country.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in a briefing on Thursday (Oct 22) that the issue is still being negotiated by different authorities and the government has not set a time frame for when a decision will be taken.
Since April, Southeast Asia's largest economy has closed its borders to foreign tourists. As coronavirus infections continued to spread across the region, an earlier plan to reopen Bali's tourist hotspot to foreign travelers in September was scuppered.
Romania recorded an all-time negative high of 4,902 single-day coronavirus cases and 98 Covid-19 associated deaths on Thursday.
The Strategic Communication Group said that more than at any other time, 778 patients with the virus were being treated in intensive care units. For Covid-19 patients, Romania has a total of 1,000 beds in intensive care.
The count on Thursday came after Wednesday 's previous total of 4,848 cases. It is the fifth time that over 4000 cases have occurred in a single day. A total of 196,004 cases were registered in Romania, with 141,089 patients recovering.
Another plane with refugees from Greece arrived in Hanover today. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, there are 104 people: 27 unaccompanied minors and sick children with their parents and siblings.
The 17 families are to be admitted to Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Bavaria, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia. The minors are also distributed to different federal states.
A week ago a plane with 26 refugee families from Greece had already arrived. The 40 adults and 61 children on board this machine formed the first contingent of a total of 1,553 migrants whose admission the federal government had already decided a month ago.
The newly designated risk areas (see below "New since the last change") are effective from Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 12:00 am.
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#Bulgaria: the administrative districts / oblasts Razgrad, Sofia city and Sliven are now also considered risk areas.
#Estonia: the Jogeva region is considered a risk area.
#Ireland: all of Ireland is now considered a risk area.
#Italy: the regions of Aosta Valley, Umbria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Veneto, Latium, Abrruzzo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Sardinia and the autonomous province of Bolzano are now also considered risk areas.
EU citizens with previous convictions could be turned away at the UK border after the end of the Brexit transition period. This emerges from plans by the British Home Office that have now become known in London.
Specifically, those citizens from the European Union who have spent more than a year in prison or who have committed a crime in the past twelve months are to be denied entry.
However, without an agreement with the EU, Great Britain could have problems checking the criminal history of EU citizens because this would require access to EU databases. This means that even those who have been sentenced to less than a year in prison could be turned away.