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With EU countries agreeing to introduce a European corona pass for people to travel, it would be technically possible to introduce such a pass as early as July. But then the registration of all vaccinations at the RIVM must be in order before then. At the moment there are still major backlogs, also acknowledges outgoing minister Hugo de Jonge, reports Nieuwsuur.
So far, according to the RIVM, for example, only slightly more than half of the injections taken by the GPs have been registered. Less than half of the vaccinations placed in healthcare institutions have not been entered into the central system (CIMS) of the RIVM. In total, this amounts to approximately 1 million injections that have been taken, but are not properly registered with the RIVM.
According to the National General Practitioners Association (LHV), the systems of the general practitioners are now linked to the RIVM system and the data is therefore automatically passed on. But according to the RIVM they are still missing. It is not clear what the cause is.
17.23 – AOb: we follow OMT, but we are concerned about teachers
“If the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) says that the schools can open fully again, then we will follow that,” says the General Education Union (AOb) in response to the cabinet decision that secondary schools can open completely again. However, the organization is concerned that teachers may soon be standing unprotected in front of the classroom in a situation where it may be difficult to keep a distance or poorly ventilated.
The chairman of the AOb, Tamar van Gelder, says that it will be “quite a job” for schools to get everything realized and to be able to receive all students. The 1.5 meter rule between pupils will indeed lapse, but all other measures in schools will remain intact. This means that students have to keep their distance from the teacher and that things like masks and walking directions will continue to exist in school buildings.
Above all, Van Gelder thinks “that vaccination should be urgent.”
14.55 – More than 100,000 Belgians have had corona peppers via reserve list
Some 103,000 people in Belgium have had a corona prick through the reserve list, reports the Vaccination Task Force. More than a million residents of the country have signed up for this list, which aims to prevent vaccine wastage.
It is mainly people who are vaccinated according to the regular vaccination campaign. According to the task force, only a few thousand people in their twenties and thirties have been called up for a vaccination via the reserve list.
Since the beginning of April, people in Belgium have been able to register for the Qvax reserve list. People are invited for a vaccination if it turns out that someone with an injection appointment does not show up. The invitation is sent via text message and email and must be accepted within half an hour before it goes to someone else.
Almost 4.3 million inhabitants of Belgium have had a first corona prick. That is 46.5 percent of the adult population. More than 1.6 million of them have been fully vaccinated.
12.45 pm – Investigation committee: Bolsonaro did not want to buy corona vaccines
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro initially had no intention of buying corona vaccines and focused on group immunity. This is reported by the head of the parliamentary investigation committee that is looking at what has gone wrong in the government’s corona approach.
Research leader and senator Renan Calheiros argues that everything indicates that Bolsonaro had a preference for group immunity. He first denied the disease, called it the flu, and then resisted isolation and quarantine. Then he downplayed the use of masks and encouraged crowds to gather. ”
Calheiros argues that the achievement of group immunity is why the right-wing populist president did not immediately spend the money that Congress had released for the purchase of corona vaccines. The study, which started at the end of April, looks not only at delays in the purchase of vaccines, but also, among other things, the Amazon region, which has been hit hard by the corona crisis.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
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It is not yet clear whether Bolsonaro has committed criminal offenses. More research is needed for this, according to Calheiros. The final report can form the basis for a criminal investigation. The popularity of Bolsonaro, who himself became infected with the corona virus last year, has now reached a low point, according to polls.
Calheiros is regarded as a critic of Bolsonaro. The president and his allies have tried to impeach him in the investigation because his son is the governor of one of the Brazilian states and state funding is under investigation. Calheiros himself says he can act impartially.
Brazil has almost 16 million confirmed infections with the corona virus. According to official statistics, nearly 450,000 people have died in the country after an infection. Only in the United States have more deaths been documented. About 18 percent of the Brazilian population has had a first corona pepper, 8.5 percent has been fully vaccinated.
9:15 a.m. People from 1967 and 1968 can book an appointment for corona vaccination
People born in 1967 and 1968 can make an appointment online from Saturday to get vaccinated against the corona virus. They receive the Janssen vaccine and therefore only need to be vaccinated once, GGD GHOR reports.
Previously, care workers from mental health institutions and hospital workers who have direct contact with patients have already been vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine. The appointment can be made via www.coronavaccinatie-afspraak.nl. The written invitation to the vaccination will then be sent by post within a few days. People who have previously received a vaccination call but have not used it and now want the injection can also make an appointment.
GGD GHOR points out that it makes no sense for people born after 1968 to schedule an appointment now. “These appointments are canceled. GGD GHOR Nederland filters and checks scheduled appointments by year of birth every day. People who have invalidated an appointment will be notified that their appointment will be canceled and / or will not pass the check at the vaccination site. ”
2:14 am More than one million corona deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean
The total official death toll from the corona pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean passed one million on Friday. Since the virus first emerged in Latin America at the end of February last year, more than 31.5 million infections have also been detected in the southwestern continent.
Funeral directors take a corona victim to his or her final resting place in Rio de Janeiro. The Indian variety has now also been found in the largest country in South America.
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About 90 percent of all corona deaths in the area come from five countries, where 70 percent of the continent’s population lives. Brazil has suffered the most from the corona pandemic with 446,309 deaths of all Latin American countries, followed by Mexico (221,080), Colombia (82,233), Argentina (73,391) and Peru (67,253).
In contrast to Europe and the United States, the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus in Latin America and the Caribbean does not yet want to gain momentum.
Until recently, the situation was particularly alarming in Brazil, with sometimes 3000 deaths per day. The daily number of deaths has now decreased by more than a third. Mexico saw an even stronger decline. There, an average of 1,300 corona deaths per day were registered there in January. Now there are an average of 170.
In Colombia there has been an increase. There, the daily number of deaths has reached an unprecedented level with about 500 deaths per day. In Argentina, things are also going in the wrong direction. The country that reported record numbers with 35,543 new infections and 745 deaths in a day on Tuesday, has announced a new, strict lockdown starting Friday evening for at least the next nine days.
10:42 pm Germany restricts British access further to Indian corona variant
Germany is imposing far-reaching restrictions to prevent the British from spreading the so-called Indian variant of the corona virus. The United Kingdom will be considered a virus variant area from Sunday, while the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German counterpart of the RIVM, already classified the country as a risk area a week ago.
As of Sunday, airlines will only be allowed to transport Germans or residents of Germany from the United Kingdom. They must be in quarantine for two weeks. This also applies after arrival by train or bus.
The United Kingdom is the first European country to designate the institute as a virus variant area. To date, eleven countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have fallen into this highest-risk category.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week expressed concern about the mutation referred to as B.1.617.2. He accelerated the pace of second vaccinations for people over 50 and people with medical conditions in affected regions. The World Health Organization (WHO) sees this mutated virus version as worrying and more contagious.
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