Portugal has tightened its coronavirus lockdown, banning all non-essential travel abroad and hiring foreign medics, as hospitals struggle and deaths reach record highs. Portugal reported a record 303 deaths and 16,432 new cases on Thursday.
A row has erupted in
Paris over a hospital union’s allegation that civil servants are getting Covid vaccinations, despite older medical staff being first in the queue.
New
Czech measures to stop people mixing come in at midnight tonight. People will no longer be allowed to take family members on trips to rented cottages and pass them off as business trips. The wearing of higher-protection FFP2 masks is being recommended on public transport too.
Germany has reported a fall in infections over the past week and says the current transmission rate is down to 94.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to health officials. However, 839 further deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.
