The World Health Organisation has warned countries against reducing the quarantine period for people potentially exposed to coronavirus.
Across Europe, governments are battling to contain the fresh spike in cases, while wanting to avoid inflicting fresh damage on their economies and imposing broad new restrictions on their virus-weary populations.
Students wear face masks as part of COVID-19 measures at La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France.In Britain, new measures will take effect Friday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that pubs may have to close earlier to help avoid a"second hump" of coronavirus cases. Worldwide the pandemic has killed over 940,00 people since surfacing in China late last year, with the United States worst hit.
Its government called for hundreds of its citizens who are blocked on the Ukraine-Belarus border to return home. France has reduced the recommended time period for self-isolation to seven days, while it is 10 days in the UK and Ireland. Several more European countries, such as Portugal and Croatia, are also considering shorter quarantines.Elsewhere, a study released by Oxfam found that rich nations have already bought up over half the promised COVID-19 vaccine stocks.
The five leading vaccine candidates currently in late-stage trials will be able to supply 5.9 billion doses, enough to inoculate about three billion people, Oxfam said.
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