South African president hails chance to ‘turn the tide’; EU steps up guidance on non-essential travel from outside bloc; parts of China to suspend religious gatherings
- Germany considering Russian and Chinese vaccines
- French minister criticises UK’s ‘risky’ vaccine strategy
- What we know about the South African variant of Covid
- See all our coronavirus coverage
Many places in China plan to suspend religious gatherings during the upcoming Spring Festival holidays to control the coronavirus outbreak, the Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Authorities of Ninghai county, Ningbo of East China’s Zhejiang Province will temporarily close all religious venues and suspend all religious activities from 6 February, the newspaper reported.
Apart from Ninghai, Beijing, Chengdu of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and many other places across China have also ordered the suspension of all religious venues, according to the newspaper.
The Global Times is published by the ruling Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper.
The European Union toughened its restrictions on visitors from outside the bloc on Monday, with travellers only allowed to enter freely from countries with very low numbers of cases and almost none of the more virulent variants.
Ambassadors for the bloc agreed the new measure for travel from non-EU countries, including Britain, at a meeting in Brussels, an EU diplomat told Reuters. Its copy outlined the following EU guidelines on non-essential travel:
EU countries are encouraged to grant access without restrictions, such as mandatory quarantines, only under strict criteria.
The visitor would have to come from a country with no more than 25 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over 14 days, an infection rate lower than in all EU countries.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/02/coronavirus-live-news-eu-tightens-rules-for-foreign-visitors-first-covid-vaccines-arrive-in-south-africa
No comments:
Post a Comment