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All updates from Central European Time (CET).

13:21 | The Catalan government is demanding an extension of the curfew order

The government will tomorrow ask the High Court of Catalonia (TSJC) to extend the curfew in Catalonia, which is currently in force for 148 municipalities, and to extend it by another week until August 27, to avoid meetings of only a maximum of 10 people. Corona virus infection.

According to a report by the Ministry of Health, the Generalization has changed the existing criteria for the last fifteen days of this new extension, in which imprisonment from one to six o’clock in the morning has affected municipalities with 250 incidents. Cases to 100,000 citizens in two weeks, now it raises the limit to 125 infections.

13:14 | Slovenia Govt controls traffic across the country without certification

Those who do not have a European vaccine certificate, have been infected with the disease or have a recent negative result in Slovenia can only travel 12 hours across the country this Tuesday, while they will not be able to enter the country without that certificate from next Monday. Those who do not have the appropriate Govt certificate can go inside if they are guaranteed to pass the 10 day isolation and where to do it.

12:50 | Tribal concern cases in Australia

Australian authorities on Tuesday expressed their “deep concern” over the detection of the COVID-19 pandemic in aboriginal communities, which may be particularly sensitive to the corona virus. The Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales (which includes the cities of Sydney and Canberra), Gladys Perezglian, said the epidemic was “extremely worrying”, so the area was locked up to prevent an outbreak.

It is the first major epidemic in geographically isolated tribal communities and is highly susceptible to COVID-19. Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said at least five medical-military teams would be stationed in the region from Wednesday to assist local officials in the vaccination campaign.

11:06 | Georgia records new daily rise in cases

Georgia has reported 6,208 COVID-19 cases and 47 deaths in the past 24 hours, a new daily high since the outbreak began in the tiny Eurasian country, health officials said Tuesday.

Health President Ekaterina Tigardze announced today that the mandatory use of masks in the open will be reintroduced, which was removed on average on June 22nd. “It’s an effective measure to protect against infection,” Dicardze said in a press release in which he did not rule out adopting health restrictions if the situation continued to worsen.

09:15 | New Zealand has been locked up for three days

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinta Artern has ordered the imprisonment of more than five million people in the country for three days after finding out about the social unrest in Auckland since February 28.

Despite the fact that Auckland, the most populous city in New Zealand, has a population of nearly 1.7 million and a population of over 1,600, the move comes at midnight due to fears that the case found today is with delta variation. The neighboring Coromandel Peninsula will be controlled for seven days.

“We have only one chance. We have to go strong and fast to stop broadcasting,” said Jacinta Artern, a global admirer of Govt-19 management who justified the lock-up with reporters in Wellington.

06:35 | The Olympic Village reopens to parachutes in between health activities

The Olympic Village in Tokyo reopened on Tuesday, a week before the start of the Paralympic Games and amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections in Japan.

“I understand that Paralympic athletes have different challenges compared to the Olympians,” Tokyo 2020 executive director Toshiro Mudo told the media, adding that the organization will work to prevent parachutes from becoming infected with the virus.

06:33 | New Zealand has registered the first case of a local epidemic in six months

On Tuesday (08/17/2021) New Zealand filed its first case of COVID-19 due to a local infection in six months, prompting efforts to trace its origin. “A firm and early response is the best tool to eliminate potential spread, and everyone in New Zealand must remain calm, polite and do their part when we gather additional information,” the health ministry said in a statement. Cabinet meeting in this regard.

lgc (afp / efe)