Tag: lockdown

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Former Argentine president sued for extending Covid-19 lockdowns beyond sanitary needs

  

  Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan and Buenos Aires City Congressman Yamil Santoro filed separate criminal complaints Monday against former President Alberto Fernández after Martín Guzmán, who served as Economy Minister under him, said in an interview that the Covid-19 quarantines were extended for political gain rather than out of a sanitary concern.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 20:34 UTC

  British PM says no lockdown before Christmas, but maybe later

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday admitted there will be no lockdown before Christmas in the United Kingdom, but at the same time, he admitted no course of action could be ruled out post-Dec. 25 in the fight against COVID-19.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 17:34 UTC

  Austria back to full lockdown, vaccination mandatory as of Feb. 2022

  

  Austria's Federal Government has announced a full lockdown regardless of vaccination status starting this coming Monday amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases. Austria will also become the fourth country in the world after Indonesia, Micronesia, and Turkmenistan to decree a compulsory immunization for the entire population.

• Monday, November 15th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Austria: Mandatory lockdown for all unvaxxed effective Nov. 15

  

  The Government of Austria has finally ruled in favor of a mandatory nationwide lockdown for all those unvaccinated against COVID-19, effective Nov. 15.

• Saturday, November 6th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  France, Netherlands and Britain on bird flu alert following a hundred outbreaks

  

  With Europe reporting over a hundred outbreaks of bird flu in recent months, the Netherlands and now France have ordered poultry farmers to keep their chickens indoors. The poultry lockdown measure has already been in place in certain areas in France since September.

• Friday, August 27th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine President indicted for skipping lockdown, pleas to buy his way out of trial

  

  A federal prosecutor indicted Argentine President Alberto Fernández for violating the sanitary restrictions he had himself decreed, after evidence surfaced of a large gathering at the Olivos Residence in July 2020 to celebrate the First Lady's birthday while the rest of the country was placed under quarantine.

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  New Zealand under total confinement until next Tuesday; 11 Delta variant cases

  

  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Friday that New Zealand will remain under confinement unit next 24 August because of the spread of a Covid 19 outbreak detected earlier this week in Auckland.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 11:14 UTC

  No more quarantine for all of Chile starting Wednesday

  

  Chilean health authorities have announced that no commune in the entire country will be under quarantine as of next Wednesday, as a part of the step-by-set program towards normalization.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  Wuhan braces for new restrictive COVID-19 measures, all citizens to be tested

  

  Wuhan, the Chinese city where the whole coronavirus pandemic kicked off in late 2019, is back under the spotlight following the decision of local health authorities to test the entire population in the aftermath of a new outbreak after 14 months with zero cases of domestic transmission.

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Santiago de Chile Metropolitan Region back under full quarantine

  

  The Chilean Government has announced Thursday that the Santiago Metropolitan Area will return to full quarantine as of this Friday in light of the increase in coronavirus infections.