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From Friday, evening dining banned in restaurants, while bars and other leisure venues ordered to close, under tough package of Covid-19 measures to fight fifth wave of infections.
Cargo crew who have laid over at overseas places or taiwan will be required to stay in designated quarantine hotels for seven days until obtaining negative tests. >> airline warns the new measure will lead to dramatic disruptions in service. airlines that violate covid measures face a ban from operating passenger flights. joining me now is dr. ivan hung, a clinical professor and chief of the infectious services division. they say the city is at a tipping point as it faces a potential fifth wave with omicron. do you share her concerns? >> yes. i think recently we have several imported cases of ...
From israel. cases are expected to surge in the coming days. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right, anna. so the expectation is that this additional booster shot or the fourth dose of the covid vaccine, which was approved today, and as of last night was approved over 60s and health care workers will offer an additional health care protection and israel's fifth wave which is getting higher all the time. we just got the latest figures in the last hour. 6,500 people. it's at 1.88, the rco level. that's the highest level. the initial rollout of the vaccine to those over 60s and heal...
“It is not possible to talk about the fifth wave currently," said Dr Jihan Al-Assal, Vice-President of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus.
Surpassed 100,000 covid-19 cases in a single day. despite that surge, the spanish government has decided now to reduce the quarantine period for those who test positive from ten to seven days. cnn's melissa bell is following all of it again for us from paris. and melissa, france has broken a new european record as we were just saying. you know, it seemed to really even leave the health minister there in a state of shock. the key metric, though, here, how are hospitals fairing so far in france? >> reporter: well, for the time being but what the health minister had to say to a parliamentary comm...