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AndyinPA wrote: Wed Nov 17, 2021 3:12 pm I just read somewhere yesterday that Germany closed all of its Christmas markets. I'm sure other countries will follow.
So will they be dumping all the undrunk Christkindl Glühwein on the US market at bargain prices? ;)

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I hope so! :lol:
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New variant? Or delta?
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Seems to be Delta, but it is mutating.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/europe/a ... index.html
CNN)Austria is going back into a national lockdown and plans to become the first country in Europe to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all eligible people as the nation's coronavirus crisis deepens, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Friday.

Schallenberg said his government would look to impose the national vaccine requirement from February 1. Just under 66% of Austria's total population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union, where cases are surging.

The national lockdown -- the first in Europe this fall -- starts Monday and will last for 10 days minimum, and could be extended for a further 10 days, Schallenberg told reporters at a news conference in Vienna.

"We don't want a fifth wave. We don't want a sixth and seventh wave. We don't want to have this discussion next summer," Schallenberg said.
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With Ukraine setting records almost daily for COVID-19 infections and deaths, health care workers are stretched to the limit.

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As coronavirus infections hit Ukraine, a single shift for Dr. Oleksandr Molchanov now stretches to 42 hours — 24 of them in Kakhovka’s hospital, followed by another 18 hours spent visiting tents set up to care for 120 COVID-19 patients.

While vaccination rates in Eastern Europe have generally lagged, Ukraine has one of the lowest in the region. But because of its underfunded and struggling health care system, the situation has turned dire nearly two years since the virus swept into Europe.

The country is setting records almost every day for infections and deaths, most recently on Tuesday, when 838 deaths were reported.

“We are extinguishing the fire again. We are working as at the front, but our strength and capabilities are limited,” said Molchanov, who works at the hospital in the city in southern Ukraine on the Dnieper River. “We are working to the limit.”

After his grueling shift, the 32-year-old doctor goes home to sleep and recover.
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I think all the protests are a great idea. They should make them protest inside though, so they don't get cold or wet or something.

Inside. In small, badly-ventilated, cramped rooms.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-22/ ... /100636370

Just as Australia's vaccine rollout was gathering steam, a group of medical researchers from across the country identified a concerning trend.

Key points:
Medical researchers have compiled information on the COVID-19 jab for pregnant women
They say the resources have been viewed by 50,000 practitioners nationally
It's hoped the information will assuage risk and safety concerns

Of the almost 400 midwives they surveyed between late March and early May, fewer than half felt they were receiving enough information about COVID-19 vaccination.

Notably, that compared to 80 per cent of doctors who felt well-informed.
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Really not sure where to put this. I found the link in a twitter comments, since misplaced. We may have discussed some of this before.

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Itali ... eb/plague/
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Crossposting from COVID Variants -

Israel detects its first case of new, highly mutated COVID-19 strain

2 other returnees from Malawi also suspected to have contagious B.1.1.529 variant; all 3 were vaccinated; PM calls meeting, urges purchase of PCR kits that better detect the strain
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-de ... 19-strain/

Now now there are 4 cases - that was fast.
Israel bars travel from most of Africa in effort against ‘worrying’ new COVID strain
With four possible cases of highly mutated B.1.1.529 variant detected in country, government tasks military with locating those who arrived from Africa over past week
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ba ... id-strain/

Also, Wall Street is not happy.
Stocks sink on new COVID variant; Dow Jones loses 900 points
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/26/ ... investors/
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Lani wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 3:12 am Seems to be Delta, but it is mutating.
I think they were talking about the German Christma wine. :lol:
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WHO warns of shortage of 1-2 bln COVID vaccine syringes

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November 9, 2021 12:36 PM CET Last Updated 20 days ago

GENEVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - There could be a shortage of one to two billion syringes needed to administer COVID-19 vaccinations in 2022 which could also impact routine immunisations and undermine needle safety, the World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday.

National health authorities should plan their needs well in advance to avoid the "hoarding, panic buying and type of situation" seen early in the pandemic with the lack of personal protective equipment, WHO expert Lisa Hedman said.

"We could have a global shortage of immunisation syringes that could in turn lead to serious problems such as slowing down immunisation efforts as well as safety concerns," she told a U.N. briefing.

A shortage could lead to delays in routine vaccinations, particularly for children, and other health services, and it could also encourage the unsafe reusing of syringes and needles, particularly in poorer countries, Hedman added.

About 6.8 billion COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered globally, almost double the number of routine vaccines, Hedman said, compared to total manufacturing capacity of about 6 billion immunisation syringes a year.




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Six Omicron cases found in Scotland as ministers resist calls for tougher rules
UK minister insists no new restrictions should be needed over Christmas despite spread of Covid variant

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Couple with Covid arrested at Schiphol after escape from quarantine hotel
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Monday November 29 2021, 10.30am, The Times

Sixty-one people who had arrived at Schiphol on two flights from South Africa have tested positive for coronavirus infection, Dutch authorities said.

A married couple who bolted from a quarantine hotel after testing positive for Covid have been arrested on a Spain-bound plane at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, Dutch military police said.

The couple, whose names were not released, were turned over to health authorities after they were captured “in an airplane that was about to depart” yesterday, police said.

The Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool reported that the couple, a Spanish man and Portuguese woman, were trying to fly to Spain.

Dozens of passengers who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving on two flights from South Africa on Friday are being kept in quarantine at a hotel near Schiphol. It was not clear whether the arrested couple had tested positive for the new Omicron coronavirus variant.




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comment: I guess that all other passengers of the plane will be delighted to hear that they will now also be isolated for two weeks and be screened for the virus.
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How 2 Flights to Europe May Have Spurred Spread of New Variant
A confounding array of Covid rules and lax enforcement of mask wearing may have sent infected passengers on two KLM flights from South Africa on to “who knows where.”

By Jason Horowitz
Published Nov. 30, 2021 Updated Dec. 1, 2021, 5:35 a.m. ET

For the hundreds of passengers traveling from South Africa to Amsterdam on Friday, flight KL592 had all the trappings of international travel in the Covid era.

They came armed with paperwork proving their eligibility to fly, and check-in agents sifted through a bewildering assortment of requirements determined by final destination. Some countries, like the United States, required vaccinated travelers to show negative test results. Others didn’t. On the long flight, only some wore masks, passengers said, as flight attendants often let the slipping masks slide.

But while the flight was en route, and the passengers slept or watched their screens, everything changed on the ground.

Panic about the new Omicron variant that had been discovered in southern Africa prompted countries to close their borders. The arrivals descended into a new post-Omicron reality, and it was a hellish one, with hours spent breathing stale air as their planes sat on the tarmac, then fighting exhaustion in crammed waiting rooms, awaiting swab results in close quarters with fellow travelers who would turn out to be infected with the new and possibly more dangerous variant.

“We were in the same place, the same room,” said one passenger, Jan Mezek, 39, a laboratory technician whose company services swab-test machines and who was returning from a two-week work trip to his home in Prague. “I felt like a pig in a pen,” he said, adding: “They were completely spreading the virus around us.”

Of the more than 60 people on that and another KLM flight from South Africa who tested positive for the virus, at least 14 had Omicron, according to Dutch officials. The Dutch authorities have quarantined them — and arrested a couple who had tried to break out and fly to Spain — while requiring the hundreds who showed negative results from the PCR test administered at the airport to go home or board connecting flights to their final destinations.



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Switzerland (w/o link)

A college student in Bale tested positive for the coronavirus and it turned out to be already the Omicron variant. Origin of infection unknown. Whole school is in isolation (students to remain at home).
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Switzerland

:blackeye: one Swiss company names themselves Omicron SA https://www.omicron.ch/

Their field of expertise is IT security.

They claim to protect against viruses :blackeye:

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-03/ ... /100668440

Fiji is selling its model for travel as quarantine-free, and for the most part it is.

There are a range of conditions you have to meet to board the plane, including things travellers are getting used to such as pre-flight PCR tests and having an international vaccine certificate.

But it's what happens once you arrive that sets Fiji apart.

The deal is, international arrivals have to spend their first three nights in accommodation that has been accredited under a program called the Care Fiji Commitment (CFC).

At the 48-hour mark, there will be a rapid test, and after returning a negative result, visitors are free to leave the resort area and head further afield.

But from the moment visitors land, they are not restricted as they have been in traditional hotel quarantine models.

Approved transfer companies can move visitors between the airport and their resorts, then between resorts or to day trips and activities that are also approved by the CFC system.

For 48 hours, travellers have to stay within the CFC zone, but that covers countless resorts, restaurants, bars, pools, a long strip of beach and the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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Thailand

I am retelling this for shortness(?) without links.

Thailand in July implemented with some hickups the Thailand Sandbox model on Phuket. Phuket is essentially a longstreched island with a single bridge to the mainland in the north. This makes it possible to control the flow of people in and out of the island. The original design was to let foreign visitors (including Thai nationals) in to the Sandbox when double vaccinated with PCR test max 72 hrs prior to departure. Then transfer shielded direct from the arrival hall to the prebooked hotel or resort of choice. These accomodations have had government approval for special care of guests, as staff having been vaccinated (at lest 70% of persons). Guests get a first PCR test at attival at hotel, need to remain quarantained in room (with full room service) for at least 3 das, then second PCR test. When all tests negative they are allowed to roam the hotel or resort property for the remainder of the first week. When nothing happens then the guests are free to roam the whole of the island during the second week. When nothing happens then they are free to travel within Thailand. First hickup in August when Bangkok entertainment district was the origin of a fresh covid wave, Pucket went into total lockdown, then the country essentially went into lockdown and no travel opportunity out of the Sandbox. When things cooled down, the island of Ko Samui joined the Sandbox, visitors were allowed to transfer between the islands (I understand that hardly anyone was interested in that option). Original flights had to be booked directly into Phuket Intl airport, around September arrival thru Bangkok Intl was offered with direct protected transfer to connecting flights.

As of November 1 Thailand has opened up for visitors who are fully vaccinated, incoming with a PCR test, and now only need a one day quarantine at a approved hotel. The hotels work together with a hospital of their choice to provide a PCR test after arrival, when negative free to travel in Thailand. Visitors are expected to use the Thai tracing app, but this seems not to be enforced. It was expected that as of December 1 the one day quarantine would be replaced by a quick test upon arrival, but omicron made the government rethink.

Anyhow, for tourists visits are not interesting. Many restaurants are still closed (depending on provincal governments), restaurants may not serve alcohol, the national parks are still closed for visitors. Bars and entertainment venues have been ordered shut until least January 15.
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