Minute by minute: Long-term covid bothers more than a million people in Britain – SME.sk

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08:42 WORLD – There are 991 coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic. There are 315 people with the infection in hospitals, 64 of whom are in serious condition.

08:07 WORLD – At least 11 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines it is necessary to produce 70 percent of the population in each country of the world for vaccination, said Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Tedros added that this goal can be achieved at the current level of production if the distribution of vaccines is even.

07:30 WORLD – In Texas, a federal court sent a man to prison for 15 months, which extended the hoax about goods in a supermarket that was allegedly licked by a person with Covid-19.

“My cousin has a Covid-19 and has been licking everything for the last two days because we paid him,” Christopher Perez wrote on Facebook last April, referring to a store in San Antonio. He also shared the misleading media report that a man working with a covid was working in another branch of the same supermarket chain. The post about licked food was deleted after 16 minutes, but its screenshot was sent to the authorities by an anonymous whistleblower.

06:34 WORLD – In the United Kingdom, more than a million people suffer from long-term symptoms of covid, showed the latest data from the National Statistical Office (ONS). In the four weeks to September 5, 1.1 million people suffered from a long covid. Symptoms of covid lasting more than four weeks are considered long-term covid.

06:27 WORLD – In Germany, there were 10,429 new cases of the disease in the last day coronavirus, this is a similar number as a week ago, where there were 10,118 infected.

0:04 WORLD – Ukraine has ordered compulsory vaccination of teachers and civil servants. Ukrinform added that primary and secondary school staff, university teachers, civil servants and staff from scientific institutions will have one month to be vaccinated with the first dose vaccines.

If they do not do so, they will be “suspended” without the right to a salary, said the Ministry of Health, which stated that by the end of September, 46 percent of teachers in Ukraine had been vaccinated.