Thread by @fredwalton216

1) Coronavirus live news: new rules for travel in England; New Zealand to phase out elimination strategy theguardian.com/world/live/202…

2) Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask US federal regulators this week to authorise a booster shot of its Covid vaccine, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing officials familiar with the company’s plans;

3) Vaccinations have made people more confident to sit in enclosed spaces without masks, the UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said, prompting scientists to warn that such messages risk complacency, and that mask use is vital in limiting the spread of covid;

4) From today, all British arrivals to India will have to spend 10 days in quarantine, even if they are double-jabbed. They will also have to take a test within 72 hours of travelling to India, along with another test on arrival and a third one eight days later;

5) Israel is going a step further than most other countries in its mandatory vaccination campaign: citizens will now need a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine if they want the “green pass” that will allow entry to restaurants, gyms and many other venues;

6) All 12 to 15 year olds in Wales will be offered a covid 💉 by the end of October half-term, the Welsh Health Minister has said;
7) UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced more funding for job creation, to boost the economy following the end of covid furlough payments;

8) European nations are diverging over plans for Covid booster shots, with some moving ahead and giving the extra jabs even before the region’s drug watchdog rules on whether they are safe and effective;

9) Teachers in New York are supposed to be fully vaccinated against Covid as of today, one of the first such mandates for educators in the US;

10) India’s coronavirus death toll edged closer to 500K, after 180 more deaths were recorded on Monday. The toll is now 448,997, with more than 33M cases. However, the number of cases and deaths are far lower than the peaks of May and June;

11) New Zealand is going to phase out its controversial policy of trying to eliminate the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. Ardern said the arrival of vaccines meant it could transition towards a new policy in three stages;

12) A major change in rules for international travel in and out of England, came into force at 4am BST on Monday morning. The traffic-light system was replaced with a single red list of countries subject to the toughest restrictions;

13) Australia’s Delta outbreak appears to have leveled off,
with more than half the country in extended lockdowns and vaccination rates starting to approach national targets, ministers said on Monday;

14) Indonesia COVID-19 data for October 4.

https://twitter.com/nuicemedia/status/1444957176028557312

15) India COVID-19 new daily cases data for October 4.

https://twitter.com/AseemShri/status/1444876462352334848

16) New Zealand update for October 4.

https://twitter.com/radionz/status/1444861640780910596

17) According to the country’s National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, the UAE registered 189 new cases, 287 recoveries and one death in 24 hours.

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/1444986962864132100

18) Malaysia reports 9,075 new cases today.

https://twitter.com/theedgemalaysia/status/1444902367648903172

19) WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region report, as of October 3.

https://twitter.com/whoemro/status/1444967129422381060

20) Thailand rolled out Covid 💉 to high school students for the first time on Monday, as it seeks to boost its immunization rate ahead of a planned school reopening next month;

21) Resident doctors in Nigerian public hospitals called off a nine-week strike on Monday, saying some of their grievances had been addressed but others including salary arrears remained outstanding, Reuters reports;

22) The EU drug regulator said on Monday that people with a severely weakened immune system may be given a third dose of Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna at least 28 days after their second dose;

23) On Monday, 883 deaths and 25,781 new coronavirus cases were reported for Russia, taking the official death toll
to 210,000. Calculations based on publicly available mortality data suggest the “excess death” toll between start of pandemic and July this year is nearly 600K;

24) Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, on Monday called a parliamentary election for October 31 and vowed to bolster the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, shortly after being formally confirmed by lawmakers in the top job, Reuters reports;

25) About 95% of all FT school employees have received at least one dose of a covid 💉 , Mayor said, including 96% of teachers % 99% of principals. More than 18K shots were given to staff members since Sept. 24, and 43K doses given since the mandate was announced in late August.

https://twitter.com/Crof/status/1445033458040860684

26) Cases have been on the decline since peaking at more than 5,000 a day in August amid a wave driven by the infectious Delta variant. Tokyo and much of Japan last week exited a state of emergency over COVID-19 that had lasted for almost six months.

https://twitter.com/Crof/status/1445027949430784003

27) Senegal on Monday logged only two new daily COVID-19 infections, the lowest number since the pandemic reached the country and two months after the rate of new cases hovered at record highs, the health ministry said on Monday.

https://twitter.com/Crof/status/1445027411624554498

27) SouthwestAir to require all employees to be vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/krisvancleave/status/1445132064412643329

28) Marc Pilcher, Emmy-winning hairstylist & makeup designer known for his work on Bridgerton, has died of Covid-19 at 53. News of Pilcher’s death comes weeks after he won a Creative Emmy for his work on the Netflix hit. He was double-💉& had no underlying health conditions;

29) As of 9am on Monday, there were a further 35,077 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK, the government has said in its daily release of figures. A further 33 people died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Monday, bringing the official tally to 136,986;

30) Northwell, which employs more than 76,000 people said in a statement that vaccinating all of its employees would allow the provider to “provide exceptional care at all of our hospitals, without interruption and enable all our facilities to remain open and fully operational.”

https://twitter.com/DSlotnik/status/1445167823672709121

31) B.C. reported 1,986 new covid cases of COVID-19 & 10
more deaths over past 3 days: 617 new cases from Fri to Sat; 707 cases from Sat to Sun; & 662 cases from Sun to Mon.
Currently there’s 5,986 active covid cases in B.C. A total of 326 people are in hospitals, w/142 in ICUs;

https://twitter.com/crof/status/1445175787720626179

32) Victoria state update for October 5.

https://twitter.com/vicgovdh/status/1445140582205059077