The Hospital Garcia de Orta in Almada, a town neighboring the Portuguese capital has tested 28 other workers who came into close contact with the positive case and all of them returned as negative, according to a statement released late on Tuesday.
An additional group of 28 hospital users have been identified as at possible risk and authorities were following up with them, it said. The hospital said it will close both emergency and outpatient pediatric service for two weeks. Portuguese authorities on Monday reported what appeared to be the first confirmed cases of local omicron transmission in Europe after recording 13 positives among members of the Belenenses SAD professional soccer club, including a player who had returned from South Africa where the strain was first identified.
The nation bloc had previously expected the shipments to begin Dec. GENEVA — Switzerland is putting off a planned party for its next president and considering enhanced restrictive measures amid rising coronavirus case counts and concerns about the emergence of a new COVID variant.
The country of about 8. The all-time high count was just over 8, per day, recorded in late October Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID have been rising, but remain far below peak levels about a year ago. The Swiss government said it was considering a new tightening of anti-COVID restrictions such as by requiring all attendees of indoor public gatherings to show a COVID certificate that shows vaccination or recovery from the virus, or a recent negative test, up from gatherings of more than 30 people now.
It was to take place in his native region of Ticino along the Italian border. The Swiss presidency rotates every year among the seven members of the executive Federal Council, and Cassis is set to take over from current president Guy Parmelin. The updated travel guidance during the COVID pandemic comes as dozens of countries have barred flights from southern African countries where the omicron variant was brought to international attention last week.
WHO says the move unfairly punishes Botswana and South Africa for doing the right thing and being transparent about the emergence of a new variant. WHO said that as of Sunday, 56 countries were reportedly implementing travel measures aimed at curbing the spread of omicron. The woman, who shows no COVID compatible symptoms and was double-vaccinated, had arrived in a different flight to the first case of omicron recorded in Spain, a year-old man with two doses of coronavirus vaccine who traveled over the weekend.
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But lethal attacks on politicians and party activists have more than doubled this year compared with the prelude to the previous election in , making Honduras one of the most dangerous places in the world in which to campaign for office, according to Isabel Maria Albaladejo, the local representative of the U.
High Commissioner for Human Rights. The government has dismissed the spike in the killings, saying that all but one of them had no connection with politics. Most did not lead to arrests.
In March, a supporter of Mr. The child miraculously survived. Several months later, Ronmel Rivera, a mayoral candidate in San Luis, narrowly survived an assassination attempt when a gunman shot him seven times in a local shop. Rivera suffered minor injuries and now campaigns under the escort of three police officers and one bodyguard whose automatic weapons visibly scare voters in the impoverished outlying hamlets.
No one has been detained for that fatal shooting or the attack on the child, Abraham, which occurred in the presence of several witnesses. He is now trying to sell his land and join a migrant caravan heading for the United States. She unrolls a six-foot-long paper organizational chart full of names of officials and their connections to irregular public contracts, offshore companies and missing state funds.
Yet only 2 percent of corruption cases are ever brought to court, according to the council. Castellanos said. He is also accused by U. The corruption scandals multiplied during the pandemic, as officials took advantage of expedited public purchases to siphon funds intended for medical equipment, outraging the population and plunging Mr. Few believe the system of graft that flourished under Mr.
The main opposition candidate, Xiomara Castro, has promised to reinstate the international corruption investigators, but her plan may be undermined by Mr. He is accused of meeting drug traffickers to accept bribes, discussing cocaine shipments to the United States, and financing his election campaign with funds hand-delivered by a notorious Mexican cartel boss. These accusations, which Mr. Any formal charges against Mr. They could also upset the balance of power in the bureaucracy and security forces, which Mr.
No one knows where the accusations against Mr. He was also named a target of an investigation in a separate case brought by the same prosecutors against a Honduran drug trafficker, Geovanny Fuentes. Fuentes were convicted. In a filing this year, prosecutors said Mr. The shadow of organized crime on the Honduran elections goes beyond Mr. One of the two leading opposition candidates, Yani Rosenthal, recently finished a prison sentence in the United States for doing business with drug traffickers.
In recent months, Mr. This has fueled speculation that Mr. Facing a court case in Honduras would give Mr. In Honduras, few investigations reach a verdict. Source link. The reintroduction of mandatory face masks brings England closer in line with the rest of the U.
The government said Tuesday that 22 cases of the omicron variant have been identified, a number that is expected to rise. The Greek government decided upon the measure in response to a surge in new daily infections and the emergence of the omicron variant.
It will take effect on Jan. Vaccination mandates were introduced over the summer for health care workers and fire service rescuers in Greece, with those failing to comply being suspended from their jobs indefinitely without pay. The government has ruled out imposing new lockdowns but says it is targeting the elderly with tougher restrictions to protect the public health service as ICU occupancy is near capacity nationwide.
The measures are likely to include restrictions on shopping for unvaccinated people and limiting crowds at soccer matches, along with possible moves toward a vaccine mandate for all. Many states have tightened rules of their own accord, but experts and politicians have called for more coordinated national action as infection rates hit new highs.
MOSCOW -- Russian authorities on Tuesday tightened coronavirus restrictions because of the omicron variant, even though the country has yet to report its first confirmed case. Popova also said that results of PCR tests for coronavirus, used in many Russian regions to gain access to public places, will remain valid for only 48 hours instead of 72 hours.
The new measures were announced on Tuesday after cases of the newly identified coronavirus variant omicron turned up in those countries. On Friday, the Swiss government initiated a similar requirement for travelers from Belgium, Hong Kong and Israel, and banned all flights from seven countries in southern Africa where cases of the variant were first detected.
The federal government has purchased and distributed millions of doses of the drugs, which are infused or injected by health professionals.
Because of mutations in the omicron variant, health authorities have warned that some vaccines and antibodies may lose their potency. The company also says it is testing alternate antibodies that may be more effective against the new variant. Spain has no direct flights to southern Africa.
The order will take effect on Thursday.
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