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January 18, 2021
PRAGUE (AP) PRAGUE The fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K. has been found in the Czech Republic, a health official said Monday.
The National Institute of Public Health confirmed its findings after it announced over the weekend it was testing suspected samples.
Health Minister Jan Blatny says the variant accounts for about 10% of all sequenced samples in in the country. No further details were provided.
The country of 10.7 million has reported 891,852 confirmed coronavirus cases and 14,449 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The daily infection rate has been in decline since Jan 6., prompting the government to allow stores selling stationary and children’s clothes and shoes to reopen. The country still remains under a tough lockdown with a nighttime curfew.
Govt eases lockdown restrictions after ‘coldest, cruellest and deadliest month’ 29th January 2021
Lockdown restrictions will be partially eased as from Monday, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Friday, even as he confirmed another three deaths and implored people to stay at home unless absolutely necessary.
Speaking at the weekly press conference in No.6 Convent Place, Mr Picardo said the rate of infection had decreased significantly in parallel to a massive rollout of Covid-19 vaccines to frontline workers and the most vulnerable.
As of Friday, some 12,860 people had been jabbed with their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and another shipment of over 8,000 doses was expected to arrive on Saturday on an RAF flight.
Spain tightens pandemic controls on cross-border movement
Eyleen Gomez 29th January 2021
Spain said on Friday that Gibraltar residents will only be allowed across the border during the current public health pandemic if they demonstrate essential reasons for travel, and on the proviso Campo residents receive reciprocal treatment from Gibraltar’s immigration authorities.
Gibraltar has so far largely escaped the tight pandemic controls applied at all of Spain’s other borders, particularly in respect of travellers from the UK amid concern about the virulent Kent strain.
Residents of the Rock were allowed to cross into Spain, as were people who were legally resident there, subject to Spain’s domestic Covid restrictions including bans on travel between municipalities.
Another four deaths as Gibraltar loses its most valued generation
Pic: David Parody 26th January 2021
Four more deaths from conditions related to Covid-19 were confirmed on Tuesday by the Government of Gibraltar, as Chief Minister Fabian Picardo mourned the loss of so many members of the evacuation generation.
All four were in their 80s or 90s, and two were residents of the Elderly Residential Services.
“The loss of another four residents of Gibraltar today is tragic and my deepest sympathies go to all those who have lost a loved one to this terrible virus,” said Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, said.
53 Dead in Gibraltar in 10 Days After Experimental Pfizer mRNA COVID Injections Started
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Editor, Health Impact News
Gibraltar is a British Colony at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula attached to the country of Spain. It’s population is just over 30,000 people, and it is best known for its huge “rock,” the “Rock of Gibraltar.”
I have been contacted by residents in Gibraltar stating that 53 people have died in 10 days immediately following the roll out of injections of the Pfizer mRNA COVID injections, and calling it a “massacre.”
Local media reports confirm the deaths, but blame them on COVID, and not the COVID injections.