Argentina yesterday passed the threshold of three million infected by Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020. From May 1st, the Argentine government has introduced a new program of stringent measures for the ‘red zones’ – with curfew night, reduced traffic, ban on meetings and online classes – mainly affecting the capital, Buenos Aires, and the cities of its surrounding province, as well as other major population centers.
Germany removes restrictions on vaccinated people
Germany loosens the restrictions for the immunized probably as early as next weekend. The measures were agreed by the parliamentary groups of the government parties, CDU / CSU and SPD, according to what Bild anticipates. When they come into effect, the immunized will not have to respect the night curfew, at 10pm and 5am, which applies in most of the country. They will not have to submit negative quick tests to access non-essential shops and other services (museums and amusement parks, among others) and they will not have to comply with quarantine rules. Furthermore, the immunized will be able to meet without limitations and will not count in the general calculations of restrictions.
Germany, Oktoberfest canceled again this year
Also this year, Oktoberfest was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to various German media, including the picture, the decision to postpone the popular Munich beer festival, also a very popular tourist destination, for the second year in a row, would have been taken at a meeting attended by the Bavarian governor among others Markus Soeder and the mayor Dieter Reiter. Until last year, Oktoberfest had always been held for over seventy years. The party was skipped during the two world wars, as well as in 1923 but this time due to the devastating economic crisis.
Denmark also excludes Johnson & Johnson serum from the vaccination campaign
Denmark has decided not to use the Covid vaccine manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. The decision was adopted during a meeting chaired by the Minister of Health, Magnus Heunicke, following the very rare cases of blood clots found after the administration of the vaccine. For the same reason Denmark had decided to block vaccinations with AstraZeneca. Vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna account for the majority of the doses administered in the Scandinavian country of nearly 6 million people. According to official data, more than 1.2 million residents have received the first or both doses.
Pfizer donates $ 70 million worth of Covid treatment drugs to India.
“We are deeply concerned about the plight of Covid in India and our hearts go out to you, your loved ones and all the Indian people,” said Albert Bourla, President and CEO of Pfizer. With these words Pfizer announces the shipment of its drugs, worth 70 million dollars, from its distribution centers in the United States, Europe and Asia, India.
Pfizer donates $ 70 million worth of Covid treatment drugs to India
Von der Leyen: “Let’s revive tourism”. The EU opens to the entry of vaccinated people, but with an anti-variants emergency brake
The Commission has proposed to Member States to relax restrictions on non-essential travel, but also plans to be able to quickly restrict access from countries affected by variants. Children excluded from vaccination should be able to travel with their vaccinated parents if they have a test performed no more than 72 hours prior to arrival.
Von der Leyen: “Let’s revive tourism”. The EU opens to the entry of vaccinated people, but with an anti-variants emergency brake
Ema evaluates Pfizer-BioNTech for teens
The European Medicines Agency has begun evaluating the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for the 12 to 15 age group. It reads in a note from the EMA.
Britain could cancel the distancing
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a “good chance” of being able to eliminate the obligation to keep a distance of at least one meter to prevent Covid infections by 21 June. Johnson, however, has slowed down on the resumption of tourist travel abroad from the United Kingdom, confirming the intention to open some loopholes from May 17, but with caution and strict limitations in order not to feed the risk associated with the variants of the virus and the possibility of re-importing cases. of Covid from abroad. “We want to do some travel opening” from May 17, “but I don’t think the people of this country want to see an influx of disease from everywhere else, and I certainly don’t want that,” the British Tory Prime Minister cut short. conversing with reporters on the sidelines of a visit to Hartlepool, England, three days before the local elections on Thursday 6. Asked about the government’s intention to draw up a ‘green list’ of lower-risk foreign countries to which to resume travel for tourism after May 17, Johnson then glossed over, specifying that an announcement will be given “when possible”.
Reopening in France
End of travel bans and partial return to class of middle and high school students: anti-Covid measures begin to ease from today in France, which is experiencing a slow but gradual decline in hospitalizations. On the eve of these reopening the number of patients in intensive care units remained stable at around 5,600 patients, after several days of slow decline, according to data from Public Health France.