South Africa registered 566 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total to 2,926,914. A further 11 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, taking total official deaths to 89,515. A total of 24,346,917 people have been vaccinated.
Belgium reinstated a requirement for people tofour days a week into mid-December, despite opposition from business groups. The country also extended mandatory mask wearing to 10-year-olds and will mandate indoor mask wearing even in venues where access is regulated by a Covid pass.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the country’s vaccination rate of about 80% had shielded the former hotspot from the worst of the latest wave of the pandemic. Spain’s 14-day average infection rate climbed 67% in two weeks to 82 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, but remained well below that of countries including Germany and Austria, where less than 70% of the population is vaccinated.for access to indoor spaces and events as Europe battles a winter surge in infections.
Cases are rising in the city as the weather cools and the holidays approach. Early in the week, the mayor opened up booster shots to all adults. About 42,000 New Yorkers received boosters on Monday and Tuesday, according to the city. Authorities need to expand a mask mandate to cover all indoor spaces, ban large events, support work-from-home arrangements and make entry to non-essential places such as restaurants and theatres hinge on carrying vaccination certificates, the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors said. Masks currently are required only on public transportation.
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