Police said a rock was hurled through the window of an ambulance carrying a patient.Īt least five officers were injured, with one taken away by ambulance with a knee injury, during the melees, officials said. A fire in a street of The Hague during a demonstration against the Dutch government’s COVID-19 measures, on November 20, 2021. Protesters hurled fireworks at police and set fire to bicycles in The Hague, as cops used horses, dogs and batons to chase the crowds away, the BBC reported. In the Netherlands, a second night of riots broke out Saturday over a partial lockdown, one day after police opened fire on people protesting the rules in Rotterdam. Violent protests have broken out against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns across Europe amid new tough rules to curb winter waves of the virus.ĭemonstrators angry about the new measures gathered in Austria, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland, the French territory of Guadeloupe and the Netherlands to protest the moves. This lingering symptom still affects millions years after COVID infectionĬNN parent company used Chris Cuomo to lobby brother Andrew for help during Covid: report Wuhan lab scientists researching coronavirus were the first to contract COVID-19: report
The senior official credited with the early success of the Covid vaccine rollout in England is returning to the NHS to resume her role overseeing the programme, months after leaving to become the head of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street delivery unit.
The Romanian government is to re-introduce a night curfew and make health passes mandatory for entry to most public venues from Monday.Romania has reported record numbers of daily coronavirus deaths and infections this month and the hospital system is stretched to breaking point. Six Romanian Covid-19 patients have been transported to the central Polish city of Lodz for treatment, Polish authorities said.Health officials should have known about major failings at a private UK Covid testing lab within days of the problem arising, rather than taking weeks to shut down operations at the site, senior scientists say.Unvaccinated people in Austria could face new lockdown restrictions if coronavirus case numbers continue to rise, the country’s chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, has said.Local public health chiefs in England have broken from the government’s official guidance to recommend plan B measures to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.The whole world must be vaccinated to stop new Covid variants from developing, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
Russia reported a further 1,075 Covid deaths on Saturday, its fifth straight daily record, as authorities prepare to shut workplaces across the country and lock down Moscow.In a wide-ranging interview with The Times newspaper, the UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has said shops, pubs and restaurants must not shut again as the vaccine rollout meant there could be “no more lockdowns”.A prominent Covid adviser to the UK government has said he is “very fearful” there will be another Christmas lockdown as he urged the public to do everything possible to reduce transmission of the virus.The total number of cases is now 8,734,934 and the death toll is 139,461. The UK has recorded 44,985 new coronavirus cases and a further 135 deaths in the last 24-hour period, government figures show.23.58 BST A summary of today's developments
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