In view of the significantly increased number of cases, the restrictions in Poland are to be tightened again. It should be about entry restrictions and new mask rules, says Health Minister Adam Niedzielski to the radio station TOK FM.
In addition, the measures would have to be more regionally oriented. The new restrictions should come into force on Saturday, but it can also be done earlier. An announcement is planned for today. The minister pointed out that with 12,146 new positive tests,
there was an increase of more than 3,500 cases within a week. Poland had first relaxed some restrictions by opening ski slopes as well as cinemas, hotels and theaters with a capacity of up to 50 percent.
The authorities have also warned that the easing will have to be reversed depending on the situation.
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Tajik authorities under Navrouz Jaffarov, head of the Directorate for Sanitary and Epidemiological Security, Emergency and Urgent Medical Care at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population,
stated in an interview, to allow forwginery to enter the country without a PCR-based test if they have a COVID-19 vaccination.
“Foreign nationals may travel to Tajikistan without a PCR-base test if they have a COVID-19 vaccination certificate issued more than a month prior to arrival in the country. But if a foreigner was vaccinated 2 or 3 weeks prior to arrival in Tajikistan,
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn attended a dinner with about a dozen entrepreneurs in Leipzig on October 20, 2020, one day before his positive Corona test. This is reported by the "@derspiegel".
At this point in time, the numbers in Germany rose again significantly, and on the morning of the same day Spahn had warned on @ZDF: "We know above all where the main contagion points are. Namely when celebrating, when socializing, at home privately or at home,
on a event party or a party in a club." In the evening, according to the report, he drove to Leipzig (Sachsen), where a dinner was held in the private apartment of a friend of Spahn's. Several guests are said to have donated to the @CDU during the dinner, reports one participant.
According to reports from the "MDR", the Thuringian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) has been taking action against a criminal neo-Nazi network since the early morning.
Investigations will be carried out against several suspects who are said to belong to the right-wing extremist brotherhoods "Turonen" and "Garde 20".
According to the report, 27 residential and business premises are currently being searched in Gotha, the Gotha district, Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) and Hesse (Hessen). Around 500 police officers, including the Special Operations Command (SEK), are on duty.
Vietnam tested today, in its second stage trial, the human testing phase, its selfmade Nano covax vaccine. 35 people got a test injection of the vaccine at the Medical military University. Diffrent doses of 25mcg, 50mcg and 75mcg,
had been tests on a varaity of people. According to a university official, a total of 560 volunteers aged 18-60 years, including those with multiple diseases, including hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes, will participate in a second-stage trial in Hanoi and
Long An province of the Mekong Delta. Results of the trial will be announced in May 2021. The vaccine should be a single shot vaccine against #Covid19.
After the sharp rise in the number of corona infections, elementary and special schools and kindergartens in the Saxon Vogtland district have to close again. That applies from Monday, announced the district office in Plauen.
Emergency care is guaranteed. "The point is to limit the nationwide high infection rate in the district," said Minister of Education Christian Piwarz. The CDU politician also emphasized that the number of infections in schools was inconspicuously low.
The 7-day incidence in the Vogtland district is currently reported by the Robert Koch Institute as 201 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants. The district office explained that the value is twice as high as the critical limit value of 100 specified in the
Two people died of anthrax in Burkina Faso. The government of the West African country announced that a third person, who is believed to have contracted the anthrax pathogen from an infected cattle, is being treated in a hospital.
The infectious disease broke out in Guéguéré in the province of Bougouriba in southwest Burkina Faso, which had been under observation since January for cases of anthrax in cattle. According to the government, people fell ill because they had eaten dead cattle.
"Immediately afterwards we found two deaths," said Minister of Livestock, Modeste Yerbanga. “Investigations by the health authorities have shown that they died of anthrax.” In order to contain the spread of the disease,