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    Summary for Tuesday, 9th November


    • Denmark has proposed reinstating the use of a digital “corona pass” to be presented when Danes visit indoor bars and restaurants, as the country is entering a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    • Bulgaria’s daily Covid deaths rise to record high as the European Union’s least vaccinated country grapples with a fourth wave of the pandemic. A further 334 people died of the virus on Tuesday, the highest daily death toll since the start of the pandemic, Reuters reports.

    • The US welcomes back travellers after an 18-month non-essential travel ban was lifted on Monday. Travellers from 33 previously banned countries are now allowed in, but they must be vaccinated. The US also reopened its land borders with Canada and Mexico.

    • Thousands of anti-vaccination mandate protesters, some threatening violence, gathered in Wellington, New Zealand, on Tuesday.

    • UK prime minister Boris Johnson was seen maskless in Hexham hospital in Northumberland as cases among MPs rise.

    • The UK will begin rolling out Merck’s molnupiravir Covid-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month.

    • UK reports 32,322 Covid cases and 57 deaths.

    • NHS workers in England must be legally required to get Covid vaccinations before the winter.

    • French Covid hospitalisations see highest daily rise since August. The number of people hospitalised because of Covid went up by 156 over the past 24 hours, the highest daily rise since 23 August, to reach a one-month peak of 6,865.

    • New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland will likely end an almost three-month lockdown later this month, prime minister Jacinda Ardern announced.

    • Japan recorded no daily deaths from Covid-19 for the first time in 15 months on Sunday, according to national broadcaster NHK.

    • Singapore and Malaysia will allow quarantine-free travel between both countries for individuals vaccinated against Covid-19. The two neighbours will launch a vaccinated travel corridor between Changi Airport and Kuala Lumpur International Airport from 29 November.

    • It will be “impossible” for Nigeria to meet its target of vaccinating 40% of its population by the end of the year because Covid is not being taken seriously, health experts warn. Fewer than 1.5% of the country’s 206 million population has been fully vaccinated.

    • In China, esidents in the city of Heihei, in the north-eastern Heilongjiang Province, are being offered major cash rewards for tips on the continuing Delta outbreak.
      Authorities announced the 100,000 yuan ($15,640) rewards as an incentive as its total tally of cases in this outbreak reached 240.
      “It is hoped that the general public could actively cooperate with the tracing of the virus and provide clues to the probe,” the declaration said.

    • In New Zealand an unusually large protest gathered steam in central Wellington today when about 2,000 people, some threatening violence, rallied against vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Protests took place across the country with some participants waving large Trump flags. Attacks on both police and reporters were also documented.
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    Singapore rules unvaccinated patients to pay for their hospital bills

    Covid-19 patients in Singapore who remain unvaccinated by choice will have to pay for their hospitalisation bills from 8 December, the government has ruled.
    Medical bills of all Singaporeans, permanent residents (PRs) and long-term pass holders, other than for those who have tested positive soon after returning from overseas travel, are currently covered by the government.
    Health minister Ong Ye Kung described the decision not to pay for unvaccinated people infected by Covid-19 an “important signal” to those who are still holding off on getting their jabs.
    Speaking at a press conference on Monday the minister urged all those eligible to get vaccinated.
    “Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizeable majority of those who require intensive inpatient care, and disproportionately contribute to the strain on our healthcare resources,” the ministry of health said.
    The new billing measure applies only to those who choose not to be vaccinated despite being medically eligible, and who are hospitalised and are on Covid-19 treatment facilities on or after 8 December, the Straits Times reported, citing the minister.
    Those who are ineligible for vaccination, such as children under 12 years of age, and those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons will continue to have their bills fully covered by the government, the ministry said.

    Chinese city offers cash for clues as Covid outbreak declared a ‘people’s war’

    Helen Davidson - The Guardian
    Residents of a Chinese city bordering Russia have been offered major cash rewards for tips on the continuing Delta outbreak, with local officials declaring a “people’s war” on the virus.
    Authorities announced the 100,000 yuan ($15,640) rewards for residents in Heihei, in the north-eastern Heilongjiang Province, as its total tally of cases in this outbreak reached 240.
    “It is hoped that the general public could actively cooperate with the tracing of the virus and provide clues to the probe,” the declaration said.
    According to state media, officials have urged people in the border city to immediately report any instances of illegal hunting, animal smuggling, or people crossing the border to fish. It also warned of severe penalties for people who intentionally conceal relevant information.
    China’s health commission reported another 62 locally transmitted symptomatic cases on Monday, and 43 on Tuesday, adding to the more than 940 cases recorded in at least 20 provinces nationally since October, in the country’s worst outbreak since Wuhan in early 2020.
    The government is committed to a Covid zero strategy, and is deploying an escalating array of measures in its attempts to eliminate the virus from the community again.
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    Ukraine records highest daily death toll of the pandemic with 833 fatalities

    Ukraine registered a record 833 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said this morning. The previous high of 793 deaths was on 6 November.
    Reuters report that the ministry’s data showed 18,988 new infections were reported over the past 24 hours.

    India could resume vaccine supplies to Covax programme within weeks – reports

    India could resume deliveries of Covid-19 shots to global vaccine-sharing platform Covax in a few weeks for the first time since April, two health industry sources have told Reuters. It would end a suspension of supplies that has hurt the vaccination efforts of poorer countries.
    Krishna N Das reports that based on an informal approval from India, Covax officials have started planning allocations of the Covishield shot for various countries. Covishield is a licensed version of the AstraZeneca shot made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine maker.
    SII has nearly quadrupled its output of Covishield to up to 240m doses a month since April, when India stopped all exports in order to inoculate its own people during a surge of cases.
    “There will need to be purchase orders confirmed to SII, labelling and packing, export authorisation granted for each of these shipments,” a source told Reuters. “So the first deliveries, assuming the Indian government grants export authorisation, won’t happen until a few weeks from now.”
    SII CEO Adar Poonawalla told Reuters last month that the company could send 20m to 30m doses a month to Covax in November and December, which would increase to “large volumes” from January once India’s own needs were met.

    Chief exec: Between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England are unvaccinated

    There are between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England who are unvaccinated against coronavirus, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents England’s NHS trusts, has said this morning.
    He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that as well as the risk of workers infecting colleagues, patients and visitors, there is also a risk to the health service if large numbers of staff leave as a result of mandatory vaccination.
    PA Media quotes Hopson saying: “The other risk we need to manage is the fact that there is also a patient safety and a quality of care risk if the NHS does end up as a result of this losing significant numbers of staff.
    “And that’s why we’ve said very clearly that we want the government to work very closely with us to maximise the number of people who take up the vaccination voluntarily before we hit the deadline, to think very carefully about the deadline because clearly we’re about to enter what we think is going to be the most difficult winter for the NHS on record.”
    He said it is “probably slightly less” than 100,000 staff who remain unvaccinated “because those figures are slightly old and we’ve been working really hard with NHS staff to ensure that they do take up the vaccine”.
    Hopson added: “Happy to say somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000.”
    Yesterday, in his first intervention into the Covid crisis since leaving government, former UK health secretary Matt Hancock suggested the date for mandatory vaccinations for NHS staff should be far earlier than the currently mooted April.
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    The seven-day average for new cases in Bulgaria trending downwards since the beginning of November
    This suggests the country’s current wave of Covid infections may have peaked. Official figures today show that Bulgaria recorded 5,286 positive cases in the last 24 hours. That’s a bit up on the seven-day average, and will no doubt have authorities monitoring the next couple of days very closely. The test positivity rate was 11%.
    Bulgarian media reported that of 8,516 patients in hospital in total, 723 of them are in intensive care. Bulgaria’s population is 6.9 million people, and it has the lowest vaccination rate in the EU, with only 29.7% of adults having received at least one dose.

    China broadens definition of 'close contact' in Covid cases

    Vincent Ni - The Guardian
    China has broadened its definition of close contact in the latest drive to control the further spread of the virus as winter descends.
    The new methodology says that those who happen to be in the same area at the same time as an infected person for a short period of time may now need to be asked to get a test or quarantined, according to notices circulating in Chinese press and on social media in recent years.
    Officials call this method of reducing infection “spacial-temporal overlap”, but the exact definition of it appears to be varying among provinces. In recent days, explainers are being produced by local media outlets to inform the public of how it works in practice.
    In Chengdu, for example, a “spacial-temporal overlap” contact has to meet two criteria: 1) someone’s phone appeared to be within the same 800-meter spacial-temporal grid as the phone of an infected person for more than 10 minutes; 2) either of the party’s phone has lingered there for over 30 hours in the last 14 days.
    Chinese media said that Chengdu police had found 82,000 people at the risk of being identified as “spacial-temporal overlap” having deployed this method. These people have now been alerted by the local CDC, reports said.
    On Tuesday, 62 new cases were reported in the country, making the total number of Covid cases to at least 941 since 17 October.

    Three out of four transport staff in London have been subjected to violence at work during the Covid crisis
    The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said its study of workers in public-facing roles on London Underground and Transport for London rail networks showed they need more support.
    More than half of staff reported being threatened with physical violence, 28% were racially harassed, 14% reported being spat at or targeted with bodily fluids and 7% had been sexually assaulted, said the union.
    Three out of five respondents said they believed violence had got worse since the pandemic.
    Most of the 1,000 workers surveyed said the government’s “mixed messaging” around the lifting of Covid restrictions had made the situation worse for staff.
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    Passengers travelling on a busy London underground train. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock

    PA Media quotes RMT general secretary Mick Lynch saying: “Life on the front line of London’s transport has got harder and more dangerous for the key workers who have kept the capital moving during the Covid crisis.
    “I don’t want to hear more condescending ‘thank yous’ from government ministers who are trying to drive down our members’ living conditions while sowing chaos in their shambolic response to the coronavirus.
    “We need a total sea-change in attitudes toward staff in which we see them as central to rebuilding passenger confidence and to creating a safer working and travelling environment.”
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    Announcement expected today re a deadline for mandatory vaccination for NHS staff
    Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents NHS trusts, said that he was expecting an announcement on a deadline for mandatory vaccination for NHS staff today.
    PA Media quote him telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “That’s what we’re expecting today - that there will be a mandatory vaccination deadline.”
    Hopson continued: “But I suspect that come the deadline, whenever it is set, there will still be some staff who are adamant that they don’t want to get vaccinated and that is a very significant risk for the NHS.”
    Officials from the Department of Health and Social Care have said they are not commenting on speculation over the proposals.
    Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has also refused to be drawn on the issue this morning. He told BBC Breakfast: “I don’t comment on leaked reports about what the Government may or may not do, and that’s just not the professional thing for a minister to do.”

    Thailand set to reopen borders with Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos to allow migrant labour
    Thailand plans to reopen its borders to workers from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, a government official said today, in a bid to ease a labour shortage that is hurting its export and tourism-dependent economy.
    Pairote Chotikasathien, from the Ministry of Labor, said the rules relating to vaccination status for the migrant workers, quarantine procedures and Covid-19 testing will be decided on Wednesday.
    Reuters report that Thailand’s big exporting industries such as food and rubber production rely heavily on migrant labour. But strict border controls and quarantine rules have virtually halted all labour migration.
    Pairote estimated the country needed 420,000 foreign workers at this time, mostly in the construction, manufacturing and seafood industries. Many workers left the country as it battled its worst Covid-19 outbreak earlier this year and have not returned.

    Bulgaria's current wave of Covid infections may have peaked
    The seven-day average for new cases in Bulgaria has been trending downwards since the beginning of November, suggesting the country’s current wave of Covid infections may have peaked. Official figures today show that Bulgaria recorded 5,286 positive cases in the last 24 hours. That’s a bit up on the seven-day average, and will no doubt have authorities monitoring the next couple of days very closely. The test positivity rate was 11%.
    Bulgarian media reported that of 8,516 patients in hospital in total, 723 of them are in intensive care. Bulgaria’s population is 6.9 million people, and it has the lowest vaccination rate in the EU, with only 29.7% of adults having received at least one dose.
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    Between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England are unvaccinated

    There are between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England who are unvaccinated against coronavirus, Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents England’s NHS trusts, has said this morning.
    He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that as well as the risk of workers infecting colleagues, patients and visitors, there is also a risk to the health service if large numbers of staff leave as a result of mandatory vaccination.
    PA Media quotes Hopson saying: “The other risk we need to manage is the fact that there is also a patient safety and a quality of care risk if the NHS does end up as a result of this losing significant numbers of staff.
    “And that’s why we’ve said very clearly that we want the government to work very closely with us to maximise the number of people who take up the vaccination voluntarily before we hit the deadline, to think very carefully about the deadline because clearly we’re about to enter what we think is going to be the most difficult winter for the NHS on record.”
    He said it is “probably slightly less” than 100,000 staff who remain unvaccinated “because those figures are slightly old and we’ve been working really hard with NHS staff to ensure that they do take up the vaccine”.
    Hopson added: “Happy to say somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000.”
    Yesterday, in his first intervention into the Covid crisis since leaving government, former UK health secretary Matt Hancock suggested the date for mandatory vaccinations for NHS staff should be far earlier than the currently mooted April.

    A group of hospitals in the Netherlands has called for the government to take new measures to stem rising Covid cases, saying they are “heading straight for a healthcare disaster” with neither space nor staff to handle more patients with coronavirus.
    Covid infections in the Netherlands, as in other parts of Europe, are approaching all-time highs despite adult vaccination levels around 85%.
    Last week, prime minister Mark Rutte’s government announced new measures to slow the spread of the virus, two months after scrapping social distancing rules.
    Steps included the reintroduction of face masks in stores and broader use of the country’s proof-of-vaccination “corona pass”.
    However, cases have continued to rise and the Netherlands’ Institute for Health (RIVM) is due to release new infection figures later on Tuesday that may pass the previous all-time high of 12,997 cases reported on 20 December.
    In a letter to Rutte’s government, the five hospitals in southern province of Limburg said:
    We are heading straight for a healthcare disaster and the whole system is becoming jammed.
    We’re convinced the rest of the Netherlands will be following us shortly.
    They urged fresh measures including beginning immediately with booster vaccination shots for elderly and vulnerable patients.
    Rutte’s government has said it will offer booster shots to patients over the age of 60 once six months has passed since they were fully vaccinated.
    His government is due to announce whether it will take fresh measures at a news conference scheduled for Friday.
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    Covid vaccine to be mandatory for all NHS England staff by April

    Denis Campbell - The Guardian
    All 1.4 million NHS staff in England will have to be vaccinated against Covid by next spring if they want to keep their jobs, Sajid Javid will confirm to MPs on Tuesday.
    The health secretary has decided to press ahead with making jabs compulsory despite health unions and some doctors’ organisations voicing strong opposition.
    The move means that about 100,000 frontline personnel who have not yet had both doses of Covid vaccine will have to get jabbed or face dismissal. Many of them are women who are or hope to become pregnant or who are from a minority ethnic background.
    Javid considered bringing in the new requirement before this winter, but opted to delay it until what is thought likely to be April 2022 after warnings that doing that sooner would exacerbate NHS understaffing by triggering an exodus of key personnel at the time when the health service is under its greatest pressure.
    The minister believes that, while some NHS staff may leave, making jabs mandatory will drive up vaccination rates by prompting refuseniks to finally get vaccinated in the same way that has already occurred with care home staff, who have to be immunised by this Friday or risk losing their job.
    While some care home workers are quitting rather than getting jabbed, vaccination rates in that sector have risen sharply since Javid announced in June that he was making it compulsory.
    He believes the change will enhance patients’ safety by making them less likely to contact Covid in healthcare settings from an NHS worker.
    The latest official statistics show that about 90% of NHS staff have already had two doses. In all 1,303,605 of the 1,452,256 NHS staff in England (89.8%) had received both jabs by 24 October, according to the NHS’s electronic staff record.
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    Randox: how one-man-band operation became a Covid testing giant

    Rob Davies - The Guardian
    Within a year since February 2020, the UK’s pandemic response – and Randox’s role in it – became a matter of public scrutiny, not least due to the company being named in a lobbying scandal involving the Conservative MP Owen Paterson.
    Rob Davies examines how the healthcare firm went from a one-man-band operation to winning £500m in government Covid contracts.
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    Today so far


    • Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said he was expecting a UK government announcement on a deadline for mandatory vaccination for NHS staff today. He said there are between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England who are unvaccinated against coronavirus. Unison head of health Sara Gorton said it is wrong to “leap to the law” by bringing in mandatory vaccination instead of trying to persuade NHS workers to get jabbed.
    • More than four in ten adults in England who were hesitant about getting a coronavirus vaccine have since been vaccinated, figures suggest. Some 44% of people previously hesitant have since been jabbed, while 55% remained unvaccinated, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
    • Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, has defended UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s appearance at a hospital yesterday at times without a face mask, which was the subject of much criticism on social media. Raab said “In any clinical setting, you follow the rules that are applied there.” The website of the hospital Johnson visited states that visitors must wear masks at all time.
    • In New Zealand an unusually large protest gathered steam in central Wellington today when about 2,000 people, some threatening violence, rallied against vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Protests took place across the country with some participants waving large Trump flags. Attacks on both police and reporters were also documented.
    • Ukraine registered a record 833 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours
    • Thailand plans to reopen its borders to workers from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, a government official said today, in a bid to ease a labour shortage that is hurting its export and tourism-dependent economy.
    • Covid-19 patients in Singapore who remain unvaccinated by choice will have to pay for their hospitalisation bills from 8 December, the government has ruled.
    • India could resume deliveries of Covid-19 shots to global vaccine-sharing platform Covax in a few weeks for the first time since April. It would end a suspension of supplies that has hurt the vaccination efforts of poorer countries.
    • Residents of a city in China that borders Russia have been offered major cash rewards for tips on the continuing Delta outbreak, with local officials declaring a “people’s war” on the virus.
    • China has broadened its definition of close contact in the latest drive to control the further spread of the virus during winter. The new methodology says that people who happen to be in the same area at the same time as an infected person for a short period of time may be asked to get a test or quarantine
    • In the United States, there is a renewed campaign to vaccinate rural Americans due to the stark difference in Covid-19 cases and deaths among those living in less-populated areas compared with towns and cities.
    • In Australia a Carlton AFL player is refusing to have his Covid-19 vaccinations before the club’s pre-season training.
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    ‘Tens of thousands’ of NHS and care home staff could quit over Covid jabs
    Earlier, we reported that there are between 80,000 and 100,000 NHS workers in England who are unvaccinated against coronavirus, according to Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents England’s NHS trusts.
    He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that as well as the risk of workers infecting colleagues, patients and visitors, there is also a risk to the health service if large numbers of staff leave as a result of mandatory vaccination.
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    The UK’s Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, has tested positive for Covid.
    He is self-isolating and experiencing mild symptoms, the Great Yarmouth MP wrote on Twitter.
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    Russia says workplace shutdown helped turn tide on new cases
    Russia said the nationwide workplace shutdown it ended this week had helped turn the tide on a wave of Covid cases, even as officials on Tuesday reported the largest one-day death toll of the pandemic so far.
    All but a handful of Russia’s 80-plus regions on Monday ended a “non-working” period from 30 October to 7 November that was ordered by the president Vladimir Putin, the toughest nationwide restriction since the early months of the pandemic.
    The health minister told a televised government meeting on Tuesday that the increase in the number of patients receiving medical care had slowed last week for the first time since the beginning of August, though he said it remained “quite high”.
    “Undoubtedly, the fall is due to the … non-working days, the regional measures. These measures have turned the tide, and it is very right that a number of regions – five regions – have decided to extend the regime of days off,” said Mikhail Murashko.
    He said there were 1.36 million people under various kinds of medical supervision or treatment for Covid.
    The government coronavirus taskforce reported a record one-day death toll of 1,211 and reported 39,160 new cases in the last 24 hours, down from a peak of 41,335 on Saturday.
    In Moscow, the mayor Sergei Sobyanin said this coming week would be crucial for the capital and that it would be clear by the end of it what measures needed to be kept on. He said he hoped the situation would be more or less stable.
    Many regions that have lifted the workplace shutdown will now require visitors to present a QR code on their mobile phones when visiting cafes, restaurants or shopping centres to prove they have been vaccinated or previously had the virus.
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    Unvaccinated Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich is one of five players in Germany’s national football squad having to quarantine after one tested positive for coronavirus, the German federation (DFB) said Tuesday.
    Another Covid-positive player, Niklas Suele, is fully vaccinated and currently asymptomatic, added the DFB.
    Fellow Bayern teammates Kimmich, Serge Gnabry and Jamal Musiala as well as Karim Adeyemi of RB Salzburg, have been asked to isolate because they are close contacts of his, even though they have tested negative, DFB chief director Oliver Bierhoff said.
    “This news, coming so close before the final World Cup qualifiers, is bitter for the coaching team as well as for Die Mannschaft,” said Bierhoff.
    The latest high profile case comes as Germany is fighting a surge in new infections, with its seven-day Covid rate striking a new record on Tuesday.
    It also puts the spotlight again on Kimmich, who had sparked a fierce debate in the country last month when he revealed he opted not to get vaccinated, because of “personal concerns”.
    It even prompted the interior minister Horst Seehofer to urge him directly to rethink his position as “vaccination is the main weapon in the fight against the pandemic”.
    Kimmich appears to be in the minority as more than 90% of footballers and backroom staff in Germany’s top two leagues are vaccinated, according to figures released last month by the German Football League (DFL).

    UK reports another 33,117 Covid cases and 262 deaths

    The UK has reported another 33,117 coronavirus cases and a further 262 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, according to the government’s dashboard.
    This compares to 32,332 cases and 57 deaths reported in the 24 hour-period prior.

    Morocco will end a night curfew aimed at combating the spread Covid that it introduced in March 2020 starting from Wednesday, it said on Tuesday, after a fall in cases from the peak during the summer.
    Morocco has administered more coronavirus vaccine doses than any other African country, inoculating 24 million people out of a population of 36 million, and has imposed a vaccine pass for travel and access to public places.
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    France registered 12,476 new confirmed Covid infections on Tuesday, the highest level since 8 September, health ministry data showed.
    The total number of cases now stands at 7.23 million and the sliding seven-day average of new infections rose further to over 8,700.
    The closely watched incidence rate - the number of new infections per week per 100,000 people - rose further to 91, the highest since mid-September and now nearly double the official alert level of 50.
    The government uses the incidence rate to decide on regional and national lockdown measures. In dozens of French departments, children again have to put on masks in school as the incidence rate in their area is above the national average.
    The president Emmanuel Macron is due to address the nation on the coronavirus situation around 7pm GMT (8pm Paris time).

    France says booster shots will be part of Health Pass

    French President Emmanuel Macron announced that from 15 December, a valid Health Pass will require a Covid booster jab for the over-65s and vulnerable groups, in a move that seemed to signal a third shot will be required in future to fulfil vaccine mandates.
    Macron said in a televised speech that the rise in Covid cases and hospitalisations was alarming, calling on all citizens to get vaccinated as soon as possible, Reuters reported.
    “Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated to protect yourselves. Get vaccinated to live normally,” he said.

    Poland reported 13,644 new Covid cases on Tuesday
    Reported by local media Polskie Radio:
    Infections have ticked upwards for over a month. This time last week, the country has a seven-day average of 7,504 new infections a day.
    Poland also recorded 220 new Covid deaths in the last 24 hours. Last Tuesday the seven-day average was 81 deaths a day.
    New cases continue to be driven by Mazowieckie province, including the capital Warsaw, which saw 2,823 new positive results.
    There are 11,019 people in Polish hospitals with Covid and a further 381,895 people are quarantining.
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