New Zealand has resumed quarantine-free travel with New South Wales today, even though the Australian state’s government has extended restrictions in greater Sydney for another week.
From New Zealand’s perspective, the fact no further community cases have been discovered gives us confidence we’re not overlooking a large hidden outbreak after all.
While a few cases might trickle in over the days ahead, provided these are linked to the cluster, they shouldn’t lead to another pause in travel.
The ban on quarantine-free travel was put in place last week in response to two new cases of COVID-19 in Sydney. It was the third time travel has been paused from a specific state, which highlights the challenges in tracking the risk of an outbreak across jurisdictions with different systems in place.
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New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the world, the latest count being more than 15,34,98,053 cases and 32,16,383 deaths.
We highlight some of the important stories from around the world. Nine Customs workers were fired on 2 May for refusing to get a jab of the Covid-19 vaccine in New Zealand. The number of people in South Africa saving their money has increased even in the middle of low interest rates, trend analysts have revealed.
Israel records fewest Covid cases in a year
Israel’s health ministry revealed Sunday that the country reported 13 new coronavirus cases Saturday. Israel hasn’t registered this low a number of cases since last May, reports
A vaccinated airport worker in New Zealand tests positive for Covid-19
From Angus Watson in Sydney
An information board displays a public health notice for the NZ Covid Tracer App in a deserted check-in hall at the International Terminal of Auckland Airport in Auckland, New Zealand, on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Brendon O Hagan/Bloomberg via Getty Images
An airport worker in New Zealand tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday, a day after the country opened a travel bubble with Australia.
New Zealand s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the border worker was fully vaccinated early on in the country s vaccine rollout.
The individual s job is to clean planes that have flown internationally from countries where Covid-19 is widespread, according to a media release from New Zealand s Ministry of Health. The worker was employed at Auckland Airport.
Mexican president will livestream getting vaccinated to reassure the country of its safety
From CNN’s Karol Suarez
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to give his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City on Tuesday, April 20. Fernando Llano/AP
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his morning news conference that he will get vaccinated at the end of the conference, and it will be streamed live for the country to watch, reassuring the public of the vaccine’s safety.
“At the end of the presser, once Q&A’s are done, I’ll get vaccinated, here in front of you, so all the country can watch. I’ll get vaccinated because I want to make a call to the elderly, those that aren’t getting the vaccine, for any reason they have. To tell you that we’re sure there’s no risk at all. No danger. No adverse reactions,” he said today.
Johnson & Johnson stands by “positive benefit/risk profile” of its Covid-19 vaccine
From CNN s Jacqueline Howard
A pharmacist volunteer prepares doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine during a pop-up clinic in Detroit, Michigan, on April 12. Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images
Johnson & Johnson believes that the benefits of its coronavirus vaccine outweigh the risks, Dr. Paul Stoffels, the company s chief scientific officer, said during an earnings call on Tuesday morning.
Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of the J&J Covid-19 vaccine over six reported US cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot” out of almost seven million doses administered.