Coronavirus: London and Lisbon Ease Quarantine Restrictions | News from Germany on world events

The world is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic – with restrictions and vaccinations. According to the Worldometer portal, since the beginning of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the infection has been identified in more than 163 million inhabitants of the planet. More than 3.3 million cases have died, more than 142 million people have recovered. > is following the events of Monday, May 17 (Moscow time).

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Executive Director UNICEF Henrietta Fore urged G7 member countries to donate excess doses of coronavirus vaccine to the UN Covax program. According to the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, which is responsible for the implementation of the Covax program, due to the temporary cessation of India’s vaccine export, the shortage of volumes required for the program will amount to about 140 million doses by the end of May, and by the end of June – 190 million doses. India did not comply with vaccine supply contracts, as it used drugs produced in the country to immunize its own population.

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Turkey after a period of hard lockdown, which lasted almost three weeks in the country, it removes a number of quarantine restrictions. Residents of the country are again allowed to leave their homes during the daytime. However, from 21.00 there is a curfew. Cafes and restaurants in the country remain closed to the public, but can sell takeaway food. Shopping malls and clothing stores are reopening. The issue of opening schools in Turkey has not yet been resolved. The new rules should be in effect until June 1.

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IN Estonia On May 17, mass vaccination of the population aged 16 and over begins. At the same time, in the country, unlike Germany and some other states, there are no priorities in terms of age and profession: anyone can get vaccinated. BioNTech / Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be used to vaccinate patients under 50. The rest of Estonia’s residents will be able to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca.

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Hamburg, which has the status of an independent federal state in Germany, plans to open restaurants serving visitors on the street already from Trinity, which this year is celebrated in Germany on 23 May. As the first burgomaster of the city Peter Tschentscher said on the air of the public-legal TV channel ARD, on May 18 he is going to submit a corresponding proposal for discussion in the Senate. According to the politician, Hamburg very effectively slowed down the growth in the number of infections.

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In France the authorities record a decrease in the daily increase in coronavirus infections (as of the evening of May 16 – 13,948 cases), as well as the number of deaths in patients with COVID-19 (81) compared to the previous day.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,877,787 people have been infected with coronavirus in France, 107,616 residents of the country have died during this time with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. There are 4255 people in intensive care units at the moment in France.

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UK and Portugal Ease Quarantine Restrictions

Authorities UK and Portugal loosened up restrictions on the pandemic. Residents of the United Kingdom are again allowed to meet indoors in groups of up to six. Restaurants and pubs can serve visitors indoors, museums, cinemas and gyms are reopening.

Portugal prepares to receive tourists from the EU

In turn, Portugal is loosening quarantine restrictions for travelers arriving in the country from most other EU states. Specifically, this will affect those EU countries where the number of new infections over the past two weeks has not exceeded 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Visitors from these countries, subject to a negative test, can now enter Portugal without “emergency”.

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In Germany, in the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Franconia and the federal state of Saxony, as well as in the Czech Republic at the same time, church services were held in memory of the victims of the coronavirus pandemic. In all these regions, the epidemiological situation was very difficult a few months ago.

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