Browsing: Covid-19

The Sun says PEOPLE who have had their coronavirus booster vaccine are protected against the new Omicron variant.

The Metro says Coronavirus infections in South Africa have risen by 403% in a week as the Omicron variant continues to spread.

Arab News says Countries should apply “an evidence-informed and risk-based approach” with any travel measures related to the omicron variant.

The Daily Express says BORIS JOHNSON will host a Downing Street televised press conference tonight as he pleads with Britons to abide by new Covid rules.

BBC News says Face coverings have become mandatory again on public transport and shops in England in an effort to slow the spread of the Omicron.

The Guardian says Ministers are targeting a return to half a million UK Covid jabs a day as the waiting time for boosters was cut to three months.

The Guardian says The Covid booster vaccination scheme could be significantly expanded as early as Monday.

France24 says Swiss voters firmly backed the law behind the country’s Covid pass in a referendum Sunday.

Aljazeera says South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on countries to “urgently” reverse “scientifically unjustified” travel restrictions.

BBC News says Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from Tuesday.

The Sun says SOUTH Africa is among six countries set to be slapped with a travel ban in a desperate bid to halt the arrival of a terrifying new Covid strain.

BBC News says Travellers arriving in England from several southern African countries will have to quarantine amid warnings over a new coronavirus variant.

France24 says Morocco has decided to suspend flights to and from France, where daily coronavirus infections are rising, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.

The Metro says The head of the Oxford jab programme says almost every Covid-19 patient in intensive care units (ICUs) has not been vaccinated.

The Independent says A new Covid-19 variant has emerged that has an “incredibly high” number of mutations, scientists are warning.

Sky News says the WHO has suggested it is time for countries to have a conversation about mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, saying: “It’s a healthy debate to have.”

The Metro says Britain could be avoiding the current Covid wave sweeping Europe because it has used the AstraZeneca jab more widely, scientists say.

The Guardian says Slovakia’s prime minister Eduard Heger is “intensively” considering a possible three-week lockdown amid a jump in Covid-19 cases.

The Independent says Healthy young people are unlikely to need annual Covid boosters, experts and government advisers believe.

The Sun says THE Delta Covid variant may mutate itself into self-extinction and has already done so in one part of the world, scientists claim.

The Metro says Europe’s latest surge of Covid infections has highlighted the ‘critical’ importance of getting vaccinated, a government scientific adviser has claimed.

Austria became the first country in Europe to make vaccines mandatory by law and will face another full national lockdown from Monday and Germany has hinted it may follow join them.

The Sun says AUSTRIA will plunge itself into a nation-wide lockdown from Monday as Covid cases soar and hospital corridors fill with dead bodies.

The Metro says a faster-spreading strain of the Covid-19 Delta variant that is ploughing through Britain is responsible for 10% of cases, a new study has shown.

AstraZeneca Covid antibody treatment more than 80% successful at preventing disease