Victoria records five new cases of Covid-19 that bring the Melbourne epidemic to 35; British MPs call for action to save ‘lost summer’ music festivals
The Philippines said Saturday that others were allowed to repaint in Saudi Arabia, revoking a brief deployment ban after the kingdom said they would not be charged for Covid-19 evidence and quarantine upon arrival.
Reuters reports:
“Our fate in Saudi Arabia will no longer be at a disadvantage,” said Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello.
Philippine Airlines said it would settle for Filipino personnel on flights to Dammam and Riyadh, the booking replacing payment for passengers who were unable to board due to the deployment ban.
Bello apologized for the “unrest and momentary anguish” through her ban on Thursday and said, “I sense that suspension orders confusion and inflammation among our Filipino staff going abroad. “
More than a million Filipinos are running in Saudi Arabia, the preferred destination for Filipino staff in 2019, according to government data. Many Filipinos are hired as structure staff, domestic assistants or nurses.
In 2020, Filipinos in Saudi Arabia sent home $1. 8 billion in remittances, key to the consumer-driven economy.
With more than 1. 2 million cases and 20,722 deaths, the Philippines has the highest number of infections and casualties at the time in Covid-19 in Southeast Asia, Indonesia.
People are “very concerned” about the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus, but “relieved” by the scale of vaccine deployment, one expert said.
Professor Anthony Harnden, Vice-President of the JOINT Immunization and Immunization Committee of the United Kingdom (JCVI), told BBC Breakfast that the variant is “clearly more communicable. “
He said:
We want to be sure that we are in a very different position now because we have a highly vaccinated population and we just have to keep moving fast.
We know that with this particular variant, you want two doses to provide total protection, so we are very, very willing that everyone, especially high-risk groups, those over the age of 50 and those with a base disease, get their vaccination moment as soon as possible.
Unlocking the company in England will be a “gradual process” that requires a “prudent” technique, even if the government deadline to remove all legal limits to social contacts in the country on June 21 remains in place, he added, emphasizing the need. to “look very carefully” what it will do with the Indian variant in the next one or two weeks.
He said:
I think we want to take a look at this knowledge before unlocking it completely.
He advised that it was “better” to be on the “cautious side,” adding:
Even if we unlock, if you’re in a vulnerable position, especially if you haven’t been vaccinated, you’ll still need to be careful, even if the date of June 21 moves forward.
So I think we’ve all gotten used to living within the boundaries right now and I don’t think it’s a whole or anything, I think it’s going to be a slow process even if the date of June 21 is advanced.
Scotland’s Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said there is a “significant network transmission” of the coronavirus at critical points in the city of Glasgow.
The city will remain under point 3 of the Scottish restrictions until at least five June and Yousaf said paintings are being made to perceive the outbreak in southern Glasgow and how the Indian variant arrived.
El BBC Radio 4’s Today:
In a few concentrated hot spots . . . we’re watching network transmission.
Levels and numbers continue to increase.
Elsewhere in the country, “local fitness groups tell us that there are contained outbreaks” similar to those of schools or national groups, but this was not the case in Glasgow.
What we are seeing is that it happens in spaces where there is a giant and varied community, so there is a chance that the variant will come from trips abroad.
Therefore, we must get to the back of how you controlled to get in.
The state of Victoria in Australia has registered five new instances of acquired coronavirus, adding 4 similar ones to a food delivery driver, as the state enters on the day of its fourth blockade.
The update raises the total number of the most recent outbreak in Melbourne to 35.
56,624 tests were conducted in the 24 hours prior to Saturday morning, surpassing 47,462 tests the previous day.
On Saturday, the state’s Covid commander, Jeroen Weimar, said that 4 of the new instances were similar to a user who tested positive on Friday.
Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley said the user was a driving force for food delivery who visited “several retail outlets and grocery outlets in Melbourne city on May 18 and 19. “
There are now more than 150 exposure sites and more than 15,000 number one and secondary touches that will need to be isolated after possible contact with a user with Covid-19.
Foley claimed that the individual “painted his infectious period” but that they “showed no symptoms of Covid’s symptoms themselves. “He also thanked the food distribution company and consumers for their touch marker paintings.
Weimar said that 4 of the new cases announced Saturday were contacts from the delivery driver’s family circle, adding a student at Mount Ridley College in Craigieburn.
He said all four had only been remote for one day. The fifth case broke up and a Stratton Finance worker caught fire at an exhibition space in Mickleham.
On Friday night, the Victorian Department of Health announced new Level 1 exhibition sites, where others are at peak risk of contracting and spreading the virus.
A complete list of display sites can be found here.
Foley announced what he was a record hat trick, with the state administering a record number of tests and vaccines in more than 3 days.
Taiwan reported on Saturday 486 new national instances of Covid-19, adding 166 aggregated instances to last-day totals as it continues to adjust its infection numbers after delays in test reports.
After effectively keeping the coronavirus at bay, Taiwan is lately on the brink of its first severe outbreak.
The island is desperately seeking vaccines for its population, and neighboring China Taiwan has presented its help, the BBC reported.
As of mid-May, the country had recorded only about 1,500 infections and 12 deaths, before cases began to increase dramatically.
On Tuesday, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung announced that 2 million doses of vaccine would arrive in Taiwan in June and 10 million by the end of August.
Russia reported on Saturday 9,289 new instances of Covid-19, adding 3,241 in Moscow, bringing the official national count from the beginning of the pandemic to 5,053,748.
The government’s anti-coronavirus working group said another 401 people had died for coronavirus-related reasons in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country to 120807.
The Federal Statistics Agency maintained a separate account and that Russia had recorded about 250,000 Covid-19-related deaths from April 2020 to March 2021.
Malaysia reported on Saturday 9020 new cases of coronavirus, the highest death toll since the onset of the pandemic.
This is the fifth consecutive day of new record infections, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 558,534.
The country’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has announced a national “total blockade” from 1 to 14 June that will apply to all social and economic areas, with only one essential and economic sectors indexed through the National Security Council that remain in operation. ABC reports. .
“With the most recent construction in cases where a drastic upward trend appears, the ability of hospitals across the country to treat patients with Covid-19 is very limited,” Muhyiddin said in a statement.
Professor Stephen Reicher, a psychologist at the British subcommittee Sage advising the government on behavioral sciences, said the “confusion” about government technique was undermining efforts towards the pandemic.
Before the flexible restrictions planned on 21 June in England, he said the government was on the “shelf” because it gave the impression that it had abandoned the principle of “data, not dates. “
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:
The knowledge we are seeing now suggests that we have a challenge. We know the scope of the challenge: it can be only serious, it can be very serious, we will be informed in the next week or two.
But the challenge for the government is: on the one hand, it fulfills what it has promised for so long, but on the other hand it is aware of the risks of doing so.
And that’s seen in the fact that they’re starting to act contradictoryly.
They tell us, for example, when we go to ling: “You can abroad, but don’t do it. “
They say about the social touch “you can hug, but please don’t hug. “They say about restrictions, “no restrictions, but please don’t come in and don’t leave access points. “
This contradiction, this sense of confusion, I think, undermines the response.
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Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Saturday that the country has detected a new variant of the coronavirus, which is an addition to the Indian and British variants of the Covid-19 and is spreading through the air, the online newspaper VnExpress reported.
Vietnam’s last wave of coronavirus, which began about a month ago, has so far recorded 3,595 local instances of Covid-19 in 33 cities and provinces.
He said coronavirus for the new wave is much more communicable, especially in the air. Laboratory viral cultures revealed that the virus replicated very quickly, he added, explaining why there were so many new cases in other locations in a shorter period of time.
To date, Vietnam has registered seven variants of coronavirus, adding those from the United Kingdom, India and South Africa.
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Caution is required as to whether England’s restrictions on coronaviruses can be lifted next month or whether “things will go wrong very, very quickly,” warned a professor whose argument against collective immunity helped provoke the first blockade.
Sir Tim Gowers, professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, told the Guardian that the problem of being “a little more careful” is much less than the problem of getting it wrong, as Covid’s UK instances increased to 4,184 on Friday. the largest building since April 1.
When asked about the next step in easing the closure in England, scheduled for June 21, Professor Gowers said he thought the plans were necessarily threatened, but suggested caution.
He said:
Because Boris Johnson has done something wonderful about the fact that all the steps are irreversible, he put himself in a position where once he took a step, he will be incredibly reluctant to back down, as it would be a wonderful change of direction. an embarrassing one coming down.
So I think if that’s how you’re going to touch things, then you have to be very, very careful with every step you take . . . And maybe each and every one is fine, maybe the number of other people vaccinated is just enoughArray. . “R” will generally remain under it with Indian variants.
But if things don’t work out, we know, because of math, that things are going wrong very, very quickly, or at least it wouldn’t seem so fast at first, but it will accumulate exponentially. pass to catch speed and a big problem.
Read my colleague Ben Quinn’s full story here.
Professor Christina Pagel, a member of Independent Sage at University College London, said the reopening will be delayed by a few more months.