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France:
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced mandatory full vaccination for the country’s health workers — including doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers — by 15 September. He also announced that from 21 July ‘health passes’, a certification proving a person has been vaccinated or had a recent negative test, will be required to enter shops, bars, cinemas and long-distance train journeys. Less than 40% of the population is fully vaccinated. After the president's announcement Doctolib, the site used to book jabs, crashed as huge numbers tried to secure appointments.
 
odyssey06 said:
France:
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced mandatory full vaccination for the country’s health workers — including doctors, nurses, office staff and volunteers — by 15 September. He also announced that from 21 July ‘health passes’, a certification proving a person has been vaccinated or had a recent negative test, will be required to enter shops, bars, cinemas and long-distance train journeys. Less than 40% of the population is fully vaccinated. After the president's announcement Doctolib, the site used to book jabs, crashed as huge numbers tried to secure appointments.
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Great to see a government taking the lead on this. We should be doing the same.
 
This is a bit unexpected coming out of summer and with so many people vaccinated.

Concern at increasing numbers of unvaccinated young people and pregnant women being admitted to hospital with Covid-19...
Of all Covid-19 patients in ICU yesterday, 60% were not vaccinated and 13% only had received one jab. Hundreds of procedures have been cancelled in recent weeks, including some urgent cancer surgeries, due to the pressure on the system.

www.thejournal.ie

Warning of further surgery cancellations in Northern Ireland as Covid ICU pressures mount

There are concerns over the numbers of unvaccinated young people and pregnant women being admitted.
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What's so unexpected?

80% or more hospitalisations are non vaccinated....this was totally expected.

If you refused to be vaccinated expect the consequences..

Child (12 - 15) registered on Wednesday night and is receiving vaccine tomorrow..
 
Coronavirus levels have been rising across the UK since restrictions were eased:
The latest snapshot survey of infections by the Office for National Statistics shows around one in 70 people in England had Covid-19 in that week up to 20 August, up from one in 80 the previous week.
In Wales, the figure was around one in 120 people – the highest level there since the week to February 12 – while in Scotland it was around one in 140, which was a rise from one in 200 in the previous week.
One in 40 people in Northern Ireland had Covid-19 in the week to 20 August.
Yesterday health officials in Northern Ireland reported 1,313 positive cases and six deaths of patients with Covid in the previous 24 hours. In the Republic, the Department of Health reported 1,382 new Covid cases... There is concern in Northern Ireland about the number of younger people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19... there had also been several admissions to intensive care of women who are pregnant or who have had their babies.

www.thejournal.ie

UK's surging Covid rates provided 'sobering' lesson as Cabinet agreed 'new phase'

The government was quick to caution people that 22 October should not be seen as Ireland’s ‘Freedom Day’.
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odyssey06 said:
Coronavirus levels have been rising across the UK since restrictions were eased:
The latest snapshot survey of infections by the Office for National Statistics shows around one in 70 people in England had Covid-19 in that week up to 20 August, up from one in 80 the previous week.
In Wales, the figure was around one in 120 people – the highest level there since the week to February 12 – while in Scotland it was around one in 140, which was a rise from one in 200 in the previous week.
One in 40 people in Northern Ireland had Covid-19 in the week to 20 August.
Yesterday health officials in Northern Ireland reported 1,313 positive cases and six deaths of patients with Covid in the previous 24 hours. In the Republic, the Department of Health reported 1,382 new Covid cases... There is concern in Northern Ireland about the number of younger people being admitted to hospital with Covid-19... there had also been several admissions to intensive care of women who are pregnant or who have had their babies.

www.thejournal.ie

UK's surging Covid rates provided 'sobering' lesson as Cabinet agreed 'new phase'

The government was quick to caution people that 22 October should not be seen as Ireland’s ‘Freedom Day’.
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The Nordies aren't taking the vaccine though. That's the main problem there.
 
Biden announces tough new workplace rules in US for vaccinations or weekly testing.
The rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans.
And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid will have to be fully vaccinated.
Biden is also signing an executive order to require vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government. That covers several million more workers.

www.thejournal.ie

Biden blames continued Covid-19 spread on 'distinct minority of Americans'

Measures include all US-based employers with more than 100 workers will have to ensure employees are vaccinated.
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I seem to remember some similar pronoucements here...

FORMER FRENCH HEALTH minister Agnes Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were grounds to prosecute her...
Buzyn, who resigned from her post in February last year, weeks after the first Covid cases were confirmed in France, has faced criticism and ridicule over her initial statements about the pandemic.
She said initially in January 2020 that there was “practically no risk” of importing Covid-19 from the Chinese city at the origin of the outbreak, Wuhan, and then said the “risk of a spread of the coronavirus among the population is very small”. A month later, as she left the ministry to launch a failed bid to become Paris mayor, she claimed that “the tsunami has yet to come”, in an apparent contradiction of her earlier statements.

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Former French Health Minister charged over handling of Covid-19 pandemic

She’s been charged with “endangering the lives of others”, the prosecutor of the Republic’s Court of Justice said.
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ITALIAN WORKERS IN both the public and private sector will have to display a health pass to access their workplaces from 15 October under a decree issued by Premier Mario Draghi’s coalition government.
The measures are the first by a major European economy to require proof of vaccination, a recent negative virus test or recovery from Covid-19 in the previous six months for all categories of workers.

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Italian government to require all workers to display Covid pass

Public and private sector employees will have to produce a health pass to access their workplaces from October 15.
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Russia
Government tally recorded 929 Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, Russia’s highest daily virus death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Several Russia-made jabs have been available for months, but authorities have struggled to encourage its vaccine-sceptic population to get inoculated.

www.thejournal.ie

Russia reports 929 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

Russia’s total deaths from Covid-19 now stand at 212,625 – the highest toll in Europe.
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odyssey06 said:
Russia
Government tally recorded 929 Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, Russia’s highest daily virus death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Several Russia-made jabs have been available for months, but authorities have struggled to encourage its vaccine-sceptic population to get inoculated.

www.thejournal.ie

Russia reports 929 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours

Russia’s total deaths from Covid-19 now stand at 212,625 – the highest toll in Europe.
www.thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie
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The Russian public simply do not trust its government, and to be honest they have good reason.
Of course that distrust isn't going to save them from the virus and I fear many will continue to die.
 
www.bbc.com

Covid: UK's early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say

But the new report by MPs fails to reflect the views of bereaved relatives, campaigners say.
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Wonder what will happen about this, one Tory has already said the were in " a fog of uncertainty ", another lady who lost her mother last March has vowed "to fight for the truth ".

They got praise for the vaccine rollout and its investment in vaccines, yeah sure they kept as much as they could and almost drove Pfizer away . Again can't go into details.

Edit, Jeremy hunt has described the UKs covid response as a game of football, terrible first half great second?????

Jeremy almost 80,000 people died in the first half, have you no shame.
 
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