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STAC concluded no review of the hospitality shutdown should happen before the new year. Credit: ITV Channel TV
ITV News can reveal two government ministers tried to stop Jersey’s hospitality lockdown.
Senator Lyndon Farnham, the Deputy Chief Minister and consultant to the Royal Yacht Hotel, and Senator Ian Gorst, the External Relations Minister, wrote to the Chief Minister, Health Minister, and Dr Ivan Muscat in early December calling for hospitality venues, other than pubs, to be allowed to reopen to serve alcohol alongside a substantial meal.
The revelation is contained in a new batch of minutes from STAC, the Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell, which advises ministers on how best to manage the pandemic.
VIENTIANE, Jan 12 (Xinhua): Local authorities have been urged to monitor border crossings to prevent people from entering Laos illegally from Thailand, to stem the spread of Covid-19 after a widespread outbreak in Thailand.
Many Lao workers are returning home from Thailand, both legally and illegally, sparking fears of a second wave of Covid-19 in Laos, local daily
Vientiane Times on Tuesday quoted Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Phonepaserd Sayamounkhoung as saying. The taskforce and health authorities are concerned that Lao workers are returning from Thailand and entering Laos illegally by crossing the Mekong River, said Phonepaserd.