【無了期唔知幾時完嘅武漢肺炎】國際疫情討論區09

Moderna Covid vaccine no longer authorised for booster doses in France

France's High Authority for Health decided on Friday not to inject the innoculation developed by Moderna for the country's booster vaccination campaign. RFI looks at the reasons behind the move.

The French health regulator decided on 15th of October to no longer allow the Moderna vaccine to be injected as a booster dose against Covid-19.

Only Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine is used for the booster campaign henceforth for over 65s, immunocompromised people and their relatives, people at risk as well as health workers.

If Moderna had been used until now, the health authority (HAS) did not question its use "in order not to disrupt current campaign".

Friday's move comes as Scandinavian countries flagged up their concerns about potential heart risks.

At the beginning of the month, Sweden and Finland suspended the use of Moderna for those under 30.

Denmark and Norway formally advised against Moderna for people under 18, while Iceland suspended the use of the US laboratory's messenger RNA vaccine as a booster dose altogether.

This follows concerns about the possible risk of inflammation of the myocardium, the heart muscle, and the pericardium, the membrane covering the heart.

33,740 new cases and 1,015 new deaths (new national record) in Russia

3,895 new cases and 13 new deaths in the Netherlands

Worsening. Winter is coming.
Death of God is also coming.

3,994 new cases (new national record) and 7 new deaths in Singapore

43,738 new cases and 223 new deaths in the United Kingdom

Keep worsening.

美國各地數以千計未注射疫苗打工仔面臨潛在失業風險

美國愈來愈多州份、城市或私人企業，開始強制打工仔接種新冠疫苗，令各地有數以千計未打針的工人，面臨潛在失業風險。

最新受到外界關注的例子，是華盛頓州立大學在當地星期一，解僱美式足球總教練及他的4名助手，理由是他們未能遵守州政府的接種疫苗要求；該名教練早前以宗教原因，申請豁免打針。

另外，芝加哥及巴爾的摩等城市，大批警察及消防員亦可能在未來幾日失去工作，當局要求他們報告自己接種疫苗的情況，或按規定定期接受病毒檢測。

Boris Johnson declared the pandemic all but over. Now UK cases are soaring

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/20/uk/uk-europe-covid-infections-cmd-gbr-intl/index.html

Some key sentences:
The country has quietly endured stubbornly high cases, hospitalizations and deaths when compared to the rest of Europe. Britain has registered nearly half a million cases in the past two weeks -- and almost 50,000 on Monday -- more than France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined. The UK reported 223 deaths on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since early March.
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Hospitals in Britain are now close to buckling once again under the strain of new admissions.
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"Exceptional policies lead to exceptional outcomes," Deepti Gurdasani, an epidemiologist at Queen Mary University in London, told CNN. "It's very predictable. This is a consequence of opening everything up."
"We're approaching winter, and things are only going to get worse," she added.

34,073 new cases and 1,028 new deaths (New national record again) in Russia

3,727 new cases and 13 new deaths in Austria

worsening rapidly

3,480 new cases and 8 new deaths in Slovakia

Worsening rapidly

18,912 new cases and 495 new deaths in Ukraine

Keep worsening. Yesterday, it set a new national record of new deaths = 538.

3,854 new cases and 17 new deaths in Belgium

Keep worsening!

2,076 new cases (new national record) and 17 new deaths in Belarus

4,574 new cases and 10 new deaths in the Netherlands

Worsening rapidly.

1,127 new cases and 4 new deaths in Denmark

Worsening

Big spike in Covid cases as Victoria hits 70 per cent vaccine milestone

Victoria has recorded 2,232 new locally-acquired Covid-19 cases, as Melbourne spends its last day in lockdown.

The state also recorded 12 Covid-related deaths and three cases in hotel quarantine who acquired their infection overseas.

At 11.59pm on Thursday, Melbourne will come out of lockdown, after Victoria surpassed 70 per cent vaccination coverage.
On Sunrise this morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 70.51 per cent of Victorians aged 16 and over are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

"Because of everything Victorians have done, tomorrow we can start getting back to the things we love,' Premier Daniel Andrews tweeted on Thursday morning.

When stay-at-home orders are lifted on Thursday night, Melburnians would have endured 77 days in the current lockdown.

Across the six lockdowns since the start of the pandemic, Melbourne has been under tight restrictions for 263 days.

With some pubs in the city to reopen at midnight, staff at hospitality venues will be allowed to go into work after the curfew kicks in at 9pm to get their venues ready, but patrons will need to wait until 11.59pm to leave home.

Once lockdown lifts, there will be no limit on why people can leave their homes and the curfew will be scrapped.
Home gatherings of up to 10 will be allowed, and hairdressers and hospitality businesses will reopen for the fully vaccinated.

Thursday's total of locally-acquired cases is the second highest Victoria or any Australian jurisdiction has recorded over the course of the pandemic.

新加坡延長防疫措施至下月21日

https://lihkg.com/thread/2744620/page/1

102 new cases in New Zealand

Keep worsening!
High vaccination rate = high number of new cases

普京批准全國關閉工作場所一周以遏止疫情

俄羅斯總統普京批准政府建議，由本月30日至下月7日起，關閉工作場所一星期，以遏止新型肺炎疫情惡化。

普京同官員開會時又說，部分地區的停工令可能提早開始，延遲結束。

莫斯科市長已宣布收緊防疫措施，60歲或以上未接種疫苗人士，要遵守四個月的居家令。

俄羅斯的疫情有惡化跡象，單日新增破紀錄的1028宗死亡個案，再多超過34000人確診。

英官員警告5百萬人仍未打針 冬季或每日增十萬宗確診

英國新增4萬9千宗新型肺炎確診個案，連續八日超過四萬宗，單日多230人死亡，是3月以來新高。醫療機構預計未來幾星期入院人數會上升，醫護團體要求政府重新採取防疫措施。不過衛生大臣賈衛德表示，暫時仍未需要實行新的緊急防疫措施，但強調如果情況有變，政府一定會行動，以免醫院不勝負荷。

賈衛德說疫情仍未過去，現時仍有5百萬名16歲以上人士未注射疫苗，如果他們拒絕打針，冬季時每日可能有10萬宗確診。他呼籲民眾需要盡快注射新冠疫苗和加強劑，以及注射流感疫苗。他又說英國政府亦已預訂73萬劑兩款治療新冠肺炎的口服藥物，應付疫情。

2,626 new cases and 13 new deaths in Australia

Still at the peak.

貧窮國家無法獲得疫苗 世衛料新冠疫情將延至明年

2021年10月21日週四 上午10:08·1 分鐘文章

艾爾沃德呼籲富裕國家放棄在國際社會上領取疫苗的輪候位置。
世界衛生組織表示，由於較貧窮的國家無法獲得所需的新冠疫苗，預料疫情大流行將會延至明年。

英國廣播公司報道，非洲只有少於5%的人口曾經接種過新冠疫苗，遠低於其他洲的約四成數字。世衛高級官員艾爾沃德認為，全球疫苗接種的速度需要加快，呼籲富裕國家放棄在國際社會上領取疫苗的輪候位置，令藥廠可以優先考慮貧窮國家的需要，又建議富裕國家就早前承諾捐出的疫苗數量進行盤點。

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Eevn with the vaccines, we all know that the pandemic will continue in 2022. No need for the stupid WHO to tell us this.

【Now新聞台】10月21日新型冠狀病毒疫情速報：

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孔繁毅：復必泰對付變種病毒佳，作為第三針較理想。

美國食品及藥物管理局批准使用莫德納及強生疫苗加強劑。

俄羅斯疫情嚴峻，普京批准月底全國停工一周。

新加坡延長防疫措施至下月21日。

英國或面臨每日新增十萬宗確診，但當局無意再度收緊防疫措施，呼籲盡快接種疫苗及加強劑。

孔繁毅 speaks down the Chinese Sinovac vaccine indirectly.

Please arrest 孔繁毅 for violating the National Security Law!

A new Delta descendant is rising in the UK. Here's what to know

Full article at https://us.cnn.com/2021/10/20/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-20-10-21/index.html