Several countries have record increases in infections, covid passports will be required. There were more than 3,000 cases – Startitup

The total number of people vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine is 2,486,032, with 1,130 more vaccinated the previous day. Informs NCZI.

Increase in the number of infected

Britain has seen the highest daily increase in disease-related deaths in the past 24 hours COVID-19 from the beginning of March. The British Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday that 223 people had died on the last day who had tested positive in the previous 28 days. covid.

Total number of deaths related to covidom, which has been recorded in Britain since the beginning of the pandemic, has risen to more than 138,000. The new coronavirus has infected more than 8.5 million cases.

The latest daily increase is the highest since March 9, when 231 infected people died. The number of new cases of the disease is also rising sharply in Britain. On Monday alone, the local authorities reported almost 50,000 new cases and so-called the seven-day incidence, ie the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, reached 435, according to the DPA agency.

However, the British government is not yet considering reintroducing restrictions. Since the government in July, the so-called On Freedom Day, it abolished most of the measures, whether wearing veils indoors or proving vaccination certificates or a negative coronavirus test result had become a rarity in England, the DPA said.

In Britain, almost 79% of the population over the age of 12 has been fully vaccinated against coronavirus.

Singapore also reports records

New infections also break records in Singapore, where they recorded 4,000 infections earlier this week. With reference to the local Ministry of Health, the DPA agency informed about it on Tuesday.

In this city-state with a population similar to Slovakia, a total of 155,000 people have been infected with coronavirus – half of them in the last four weeks alone. Skillful in connection with covidom 246 people died in Singapore.

Until the end of August, Singapore was largely spared from the outbreak of delta, such as that of neighboring Malaysia, and therefore introduced a lockdown.

In Singapore, 84% of people are fully vaccinated. Of the positive cases detected over the past four weeks, people vaccinated with two doses account for almost half.

Mandatory covid passports

From Thursday, due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation, Covidpas will have to prove itself in Bulgaria when entering the interiors of restaurants, cafes, hotels, concert halls, but also cinemas, fitness centers, museums, shopping centers and swimming pools. This was stated by the Bulgarian Minister of Health, Stoycho Kacarov, informs Reuters.

“The number of new cases of infection and deaths is rising. This forces us to introduce further measures. All indoor activities should be performed with a digital covid certificate, “ said Kacarov.

The head of the health department also announced that upon entering the workplace, they must covidpas, ie a certificate of vaccination, overcoming the disease COVID-19 or a negative test result must also be submitted by all healthcare professionals and nursing home staff.

Schools in regions with more than 750 infections per 100,000 inhabitants will have to switch to distance learning. According to Kacarov, in the event of a worsening of the pandemic situation, measures may be tightened or a nationwide lockdown may take place.

Bulgaria, with a population of seven million, has the lowest vaccination rate among Euroblock countries. At least the first dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine is vaccinated there with about 25% of the population.

The EU average is 80%. It also has the highest coronavirus mortality rate in the last two weeks among EU countries.

Sources: Reuters, MZSR, NCZI, DPA