New Covid cases jump by 23 percent in the Americas. Other key updates: 🇮🇹 Italy tightens restrictions for unvaccinated 🇸🇰 Slovakia approves 2-week lockdown 🇷🇺 Putin urges Russia to get jabs Read more:
Wednesday, November 24, 2021New cases have jumped 23 percent in the Americas in the last week, mostly in North America where both the United States and Canada are reporting increasing infection rates, the Pan American Health Organization said, warning that the region might be facing a relapse as in Europe.
The Ukrainian government has required teachers, doctors, government employees and other groups of workers to be fully vaccinated by December 1. A government decree said all those still unvaccinated will not be able to access cinemas, discos, restaurants, theatres and sports events from December 15, while anyone using public transport will have to be vaccinated or have a negative test as of December 6.Italy also makes booster jab for health workers mandatory from December 15.Slovakia's government has approved a two-week national lockdown amid a record surge of coronavirus infections.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made another appeal to sceptical Russians to vaccinate themselves but remained opposed to mandatory vaccinations. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic, the UN health agency said cases and deaths globally have risen by about 6 percent , with about 3.6 million new infections and 51,00 new deaths reported in the previous week.Slovakia has reported its highest daily rise in new cases, just ahead of a government meeting likely to agree a short-term lockdown to quell the world's fastest surge in infections.
About 35 percent of South Africans are fully vaccinated, higher than in most other African nations, but half the government's year-end target.Daily cases in Germany have hit a new record of 66,884, the highest single-day increase since the beginning of the pandemic.
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