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  Taiwan tightens border controls on six African countries due to new Omicron variant  Taiwan has announced tighter border controls due to the new Covid-19 variant Omicron, the island’s Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC) announced Friday. South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe have been added to its list of "high-risk countries" beginning Monday, November 29, the government said. Passengers who have traveled to or transited through these six countries in the past 14 days will have to undergo 14 days quarantine at a government quarantine facility and Covid-19 testing. Flight crew members of Taiwanese airlines returning from or who have transited through high-risk countries will also be required to undergo quarantine in a designated hotel or a company dormitory for 14 days.  Taiwan's CECC classifies the new variant as "highly transmissible” and states the new measures aim to “reduce the risk of the variant entering the community." Hon

Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization ( WHO ), said India also needed to be wary of a new type of coronavirus, Omicron. He fears the new strain could be much more contagious than the delta identified in India. The scientist advised maintaining the hygiene rules including wearing masks and vaccination to deal with the new type. Swaminathan said this in an interview given to NDTV. A new type of corona was identified in South Africa last Tuesday. In addition to South Africa, new such findings have been made in Botswana, Israel, Hong Kong, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. The WHO has given a new name to the corona, 'Omicron'. The company described the type as "worrying". The idea is that it is far more contagious than all previous types of the corona. However, experts have not yet confirmed whether the Omicron is more or less deadly than other types of the corona. Asked about comparing Omicron with other

The Corona Epidemic Is Rapidly Declining In Seven Countries: Coronavirus has already killed about two and a half million people worldwide. However, in countries where the epidemic has been rampant for so long, the situation seems to be slowly coming under control. But infections and deaths are rising rapidly in a few other countries. Some of these countries are again quite populous. Brazil is now at the top of the seven countries where deaths and infections are rising rapidly. The situation is similar in Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru. In addition, the situation is rapidly deteriorating in Canada, Russia, and India. WorldMeters.info is publishing all-time information about the coronavirus epidemic . According to this website, the number of corona infected patients around the world was around 35 lakh 40 thousand till 12 midnight Bangladesh time on Sunday. Death touches two and a half lakhs. About 11 lakh have recovered. After China, the epidemics became more severe

That amount is in addition to the 600 million mobilized by the Executive on Tuesday for communities and municipalities. The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, announced this Thursday that the Government will deliver another 210 million euros to the autonomous communities for them to allocate to public services dedicated to dealing with the coronavirus crisis . That amount will add to the 600 million already announced in the economic measures decree approved last Tuesday: 300 from a fund expressly created to reinforce the social services of communities and municipalities and another 300 that will come from allowing the municipalities to spend their surplus accumulated from 2019. Sánchez today chairs the first virtual Council of Ministers in the history of Esp The Government will mobilize up to 200,000 million to alleviate the impact of the coronavirus With regard to these figures, the 300 million that the central State will put directly will serve fundamentally to