Travellers arriving in the UK from six countries must isolate themselves for 14 days from Saturday.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced Thursday night that France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba would be removed from the list of runners.
He said: “Knowledge shows that we want to remove France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba from our list of runners so that the coronavirus keeps BAS infection rates. If you arrive in the UK after 04:00 on Saturday from those destinations, you will want to isolate yourself for 14 days”.
Resolution comes amid considerations of emerging infection rates in Covid-19.
The government said Thursday that 18 other patients died after testing positive for Covid-19. This raises the death toll in hospitals, nursing homes and the network to 41,347 in the UK.
In addition, 28 members of the P-O Pride of Hull are self- isolating the property after a moment showed a Case of Covid-19 on board. The insulating members were transferred to York’s pride, which would be treated as a “hospital ship.” You can read the full story here.
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People arriving in the UK from France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba from 4 a.m. on Saturday, August 15 will have to isolate themselves for two weeks, and countries will be removed from the exemption list.
The Joint Centre for Biosecurity and Public Health in England reported a significant replacement in the COVID-19 threat in all six destinations, leading ministers to remove them from the existing list of corridors.
Data from France show that during the following week (August 7-13), there has been a 66% increase in recently reported cases and a 52% increase in the weekly occurrence rate of 100,000 inhabitants, indicating a sharp increase in COVID-19.
There has been a stable accumulation in new cases reported in the Netherlands over the last 4 weeks, with a 52 consistent with the accumulation of cents in new cases reported between 7 and 13 August. Over the next week, there has been a 273% increase in new cases reported in the Turks and Caicos Islands and 1.106% of new cases reported in Aruba. Malta has recorded an accumulation of 105% in new cases reported in the last seven days.
At the same time, the Commonwealth Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FCO) has also updated its recommendation to recommend escying all that is still essential for France, Monaco, the Netherlands, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba.
The government has made it clear that it will take decisive action if it is mandatory to involve the virus, adding that countries will be temporarily removed from the travel runners list if the threat of public fitness for others returning from a specific country without self-isolation becomes too high. .
France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba have been removed from the UK’s list of runners after aware of a significant increase in the COVID-19 threat, and passengers had to isolate themselves. themselves on their return from these countries from 4 a.m. on Saturday, August 15.
Travelers are advised to check fcO’s latest recommendation prior to travel and have completed a passenger location form before returning home. The Government continues to monitor accumulation in internationally reported cases closely and will keep all countries and territories under constant control.
Travellers arriving in the UK from six countries must isolate themselves for 14 days.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced Thursday night that France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba would be removed from the list of runners.
He said: “Knowledge shows that we want to remove France, the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba from our list of #coronavirus corridors to reduce infection rates. If you arrive in the UK after 04:00 on Saturday from those destinations, you will want to isolate yourself for 14 days. »
The Ireland National Public Health Emergency Team has been informed of cases shown from Covid-19.
There are now a total of 26,929 cases shown.
No new deaths were recorded, he said Thursday night.
The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK increased to 18, bringing the total number of deaths in all environments to 41,347.
The Department of Health said that due to technical problems, knowledge about the number of new instances of coronavirus will be released today.
Five positive cases of coronavirus have been shown in Orkney, while the head of the local fitness council warned that the virus is “spreading rapidly” on the islands.
The group is connected to a fishing boat with a recent ongoing investigation along touch seek NHS Highland, NHS Grampian and NHS Orkney.
Spain has reported almost 3,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health showed 2,935 infections, bringing the total to 337,334.
The ministry also said that another 70 people had died in the last seven days, with a total of 28,605 killed.
The French Ministry of Health reported on Thursday 2669 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, setting a new record after the blockade for the moment on a consecutive day and bringing the cumulative number of cases of the country to 209365.
The seven-day moving average of new infections, which corresponds to the average weekly information reporting irregularities, has risen to 1,962, a total that has doubled in the next two weeks and is to degrees not noticeable from beyond April.
The world will have to spend at least $100 billion on new equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic, World Health Organization leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday.
More than 20.69 million other people are thought to have become inflamed with the new international coronavirus and nearly 750,000 have died, according to a Reuters count.
Boris Johnson has promised to be “absolutely ruthless” in deciding to introduce quarantine regulations for tourists returning from France.
Officials are investigating whether to include France on the red list of destinations where tourists will have to isolate themselves for 14 days after returning to the UK, and a resolution is expected tonight.
“Surely we will have to be ruthless about it, even with our closest and dearest friends and partners. I think everyone understands,” Johnson said on a stopover in Northern Ireland.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization downplayed the danger of coronavirus adhering to food packaging and suggested to others who are not afraid of the virus entering the food chain.
“People aren’t afraid of food, food packaging or food delivery,” Mike Ryan, director of WHO’s emergency program, said at a briefing.
“There is no evidence that the food chain is in the transmission of this virus.”
Northampton is on the verge of a local blockade after nearly 300 employees in a sandwich factory whose M-S source tested positive for Covid-19.
A total of 292 of Greencore’s 2,100 workers in the city tested positive for the virus and self-aalysed.
A case of coronavirus was shown in the P-O Pride of Hull.
Another 28 people are self-isolated with symptoms and have been transferred to Pride of York, which is being treated as a ‘hospital ship’.
Read the full story here.
No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported at hull and East Riding hospitals.
The news comes after Hull Live on Monday, as hospitals in Hull and East Yorkshire recorded their moment of coronavirus deaths in four days.
The University of Hull Hospital Trust had lasted nearly a fortnight without deaths until Friday’s unhappy announcement that there had been a victim.
Another death was later recorded, which was only one of the six deaths in hospitals announced in England on Monday.
A British tourist tested positive for coronavirus while on vacation in Corfu.
The tourist and its entirety were quarantined in their five-star TUI Blue Atlantica Grand Mediterraeo Resort hotel room.
The check was taken on August 3 and the positive result returned on August 7, the Mirror reports.
Tourists have now been moved from the hotel to an isolation center where they will have to stay for 14 days.
Read the full story here.
Jet2 has cancelled more flights and holidays to Spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands and Cyprus.
The airline extended the suspension of flights after the Chancellery continued to advise 20 p imaginable trips to the peninsula and the Spanish islands, the Mirror reports.
Read the full story here.
The new troubling knowledge has seen six new coronavirus hot spots in the UK, adding spaces in Essex and Scotland.
Figures from COVID’s Symptom Study indicate that Halton, Cheshire, is now the hardest hit position, beating Blackburn as the number one hot spot.
After analyzing the data, experts Dumfries and Galloway, Thurrock, St Helens, Middlesbrough, Blackpool and Lancashire have become spaces of concern.
All six have been added to the app’s watch list, which also includes Tameside, Halton, Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen.
The health government has shown that thirteen coronavirus patients have died, bringing the total number of hospital deaths since the start of the pandemic to 34076.
The thirteen deaths occurred in England, none in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
This is a slight increase in yesterday’s accumulation of 11, compared to 77 deaths in total
A week ago, eight deaths were recorded, compared to 14 a fortnight ago.
Approximately two-thirds (67.4%) who were controlled by Covid-19 in the week ending August 5 in a regional or cellular control unit, a so-called “in-person” control, got their result within 24 hours.
This is less than 76.9% of the week and 90.7% of the week at July 1.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promised that until the end of June, the effects of all face-to-face testing would return within 24 hours.
He told the House of Commons on June 3 that he would get “all the evidence returned within 24 hours to the end of June, because of difficulties with postal testing or insurmountable disorders like that.”
No new coronavirus deaths have been reported in Scotland within 24 hours, Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.
A total of 2,491 patients died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus.
Speaking at the Scottish government briefing, the prime minister said that another 19,173 people had tested positive for the virus in Scotland, an increase of 47 times since the previous day.
Twenty-six of these new instances are in the area of Grampian’s health council, 10 in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and 3 in Orkney. There are another 258 people in the hospital with a Covid-19 shown or suspected, a minimum of seven in 24 hours. Of those patients, three were in intensive care, like yesterday.
Since the launch of NHS Test and Trace, 214,890 close contacts of others who tested positive for Covid-19 have been contacted through the tracking formula and have requested self-isolation.
This is 81.5% of a total of 263,515 other people known as relatives.
The remaining 48,625 people (18.5%) known as close contacts, but were not contacted.
Weekly figures show that 74.2% of close contacts were reached in the week ending August 5, to 72.4% last week, but below 90.7% in the first week of Test and Trace (week ending June 3).
A total of 52,735 other people who tested positive for Covid-19 in England have had their instances transferred to the NHS Test and Trace tactile search formula since its launch, according to department of health and social affairs figures.
Of this total, 41,254 others (78.2%) were contacted and asked to provide the main points of recent close contacts, while 9,938 (18.8%) were not contacted.
Another 1,543 people (2.9%) may not be reached. simply because your touch data has not been provided.
The figures are from 28 May to 5 August.
The coronavirus outbreak in the UK appears to have “largely dispersed” from the outset, said one of the scientists who directed a report on the prevalence of the virus.
The first patient to die with Covid-19 in the UK was recorded on 5 March, when it was thought that there were only 90 cases in the UK.
Helen Ward of Imperial College London told BBC Breakfast: “What was attractive (about the study) is that we can tell other people who have said that they not only tested positive, but we have also asked them about their symptoms so that we can get to the most, 70% of others who have reported symptoms , when they think they are infected.
And that’s in January, February, and indeed across the country, so you can’t say it in London and spread.
“From the beginning, it dispersed widely.”
The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has fallen by more than 5,000.
Now it’s 41,329, he announced.
The new figure was published after a recalculation based on a new definition of Covid’s deceased user.
Previously, other people in England who died at any time after a positive test, regardless of the cause, were counted in the figures.
There will now be a 28-day limit.
This was expected to provide a more accurate picture of the epidemic.
A coronavirus touch search app made over England will begin its public testing on Thursday, BBC News reported on Wednesday.
The software will build on Apple and Google’s privacy-focused approach to detecting one smartphone through another.
Engineers sought to solve problems with Bluetooth generation by wrongly reporting that other people were two meters away from each other.
The app will allow other people to scan barcode QR codes to record site visits, as well as put Apple and Google’s approach to tripping over other smartphones, the BBC reported.
Ibuprofen increases the threat of death by Covid-19, according to a new study.
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was controversy over the use of ibuprofen after a French fitness minister opposed its use.
British scientists have introduced a method for assessing links to the drug and Covid-19.
The Working Group of Experts of the Committee on Medicinal Products for Human Use concluded: “Lately it is not appropriate to link the use of ibuprofen to susceptibility to covid-19 or to the worsening of its symptoms”.
The Philippines plans to begin clinical trials of a Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, and President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to be inoculated in May 2021, the presidential spokesman said.
Phase 3 clinical trials in the Philippines are expected to take place from October to March 2021, after an organization of vaccine experts completed its review of phase one and two trials in Russia in September, Duterte spokesman Harry Roque said in a briefing.
On Tuesday, Russia was the first country to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, dubbed “Sputnik V” in popularity for the Soviet Union launch of the world’s first satellite.