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After two years of the

, the countries that are advancing in vaccination against Covid-19 are normalizing their lives.

will remove

still in place against the coronavirus,

with the disease with the idea that the United Kingdom "lives with Covid".

This certain return to normality will mean

Covid-19 disease, although it is intended to continue with the ability to detect new variants, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested in an interview with the BBC.

"We don't need to keep spending at a rate of $2.7 billion a month," he has said, as cases and deaths decline.

Starting tomorrow, Australia will operate more than fifty international flights, a number that will gradually increase.

Of course,

certificate at least 14 days before

the departure of your flight.

The WHO has announced against the "dangerous narrative" that the pandemic is coming to an end due to the high vaccination rate in some countries and the lower severity of the omicron variant.

"The pandemic has not passed when there are 70,000 people dying a week from a disease that is treatable, when 83% of the population of Africa has not yet received a single vaccine," said its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Queen Elizabeth II of England contracted covid-19 with "mild" symptoms

Queen Elizabeth II of England, who will turn 96 next April, has been infected with Covid-19 with "mild" symptoms, as reported by Buckingham Palace, AFP reports.

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The pope praises the "heroic health personnel in the pandemic and every day"

Pope Francis today remembered "the heroic health personnel" during the

, "who continue to be heroic every day",

of the Angelus in Saint Peter's Square.

Francis explained that today in

, instituted on February 20, as it was the date on which the

and asked the faithful gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro a round of applause for them.

"We want

who are close to the sick, heal them, help them and make them feel better because no one is saved alone and in illness we need someone to help us," he said leaning out in the pontifical palace, reports Efe.

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12.31

The Region of Murcia registers 383 cases of Covid and four deaths in the last 24 hours

The Region of Murcia has recorded a total of

in the last 24 hours ,

, and four deaths from this cause, reports Europa Press.

Specifically, of the 383 positives, 117 correspond to Murcia, 63 to Cartagena, 25 to Lorca, 17 to Cieza, 16 to Molina de Segura, 15 to Puerto Lumbreras, 12 to Alcantarilla and 10 to Yecla and Torre Pacheco.

The rest are distributed in various municipalities.

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12.00

UK studies ending free Covid screening tests

Britain wants to retain the ability to detect new variants of the coronavirus, but will stop spending as much on free tests

, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday, Reuters reports.

Johnson will set out plans this week for the country to "live with Covid" amid suggestions that

and some health screenings could be ended.

Asked by the BBC how the country would detect the arrival of new variants, Johnson said: "I want to make sure we have the ability to detect things and recover as quickly as necessary," he said.

"We need resilience... but, for example, in testing.

($2.7

billion) a month, which is what we were doing in January," he said during the interview. .

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11.54

The regional presidents will analyze the situation of the Covid-19 in La Palma

Part of the regional leaders who will attend the Conference of Presidents

, which as of today are all except the Catalan, Pere Aragonès, will ask the head of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for more co-governance in the management of the funds Europeans and, some, a more determined impulse to reform regional financing, reports Efe.

What will be the twenty-sixth Conference of Presidents, which will be preceded on Wednesday by an institutional act presided over by the king and queen of recognition of the island after the volcanic eruption, will once again give the regional presidents the opportunity to present, albeit very briefly, their positions on various issues.

These are

-which the Government and communities already review weekly in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System-, the economic and social recovery and the state of execution of the Recovery Plan Funds, cooperation in matters of emergencies in civil protection and the modification of the Regulations of the Conference of Presidents.

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11.51

New day of sharp declines in active cases in La Rioja

La Rioja registers this Sunday a sharp decrease in the number of its active cases, going from 1,993 yesterday to 1,734 today, 259 less, according to Europa Press updated data from the Rioja Government.

For its part, and pending data on accumulated incidence, healthcare pressure or positivity, among others (which will not be known until Monday), La Rioja had 32 people admitted last Friday, 4 of them in the ICU.

The Cumulative Incidence at 14 days was 1,054.97 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and at 7 days it was 419.80.

Also, positivity was at 24.86 percent.

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11.20

Most Covid-19 indicators continue to improve in Catalonia

Most of the Covid19 indicators in Catalonia

, so that the risk of a resurgence is 862 (53 less than yesterday), the AI14 (cumulative incidence at 14 days) is 1,306 (121, 14 less) and in the last 24 hours no new deaths have been reported.

In the Intensive Care Units (ICU) there are 273 people admitted (five less than yesterday), reports Efe of the data updated this Saturday by the Department of Health of the Generalitat.

The total number of hospitalized for

is 1,790, a figure that also continues to decline, with a decrease of 22 on the last day.

The number of confirmed cases with PCR tests or rapid antigen tests (TAR) in the last seven days is 2,290,717, that is, 2,403 more than yesterday.

The rate of spread of the virus (Rt) rose slightly again, as in recent days, and stood at 0.68, two hundredths more than yesterday.

The IA7 (rate of cases confirmed by PCR or 7-day ART per 100,000 inhabitants) is 484.59, while yesterday it was 515.42 (a decrease of 27.43).

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10.52

Aragon reports 420 new cases of coronavirus and no deaths in the last 24 hours

The Autonomous Community of Aragon has reported 420 new cases of coronavirus, no deaths and 1,765 epidemiological discharges, results corresponding to this Saturday, February 19, 2022.

By provinces, 325 infections have been recorded in

and 1,176 recovered;

in

, 64 positives and 406 discharges;

and in

, 30 cases and 179 people recovered, reports Europa Press from the provisional data on the Salud Aragón website.

The health areas with the most positives this day have been Valdespartera, with 25 new infections, followed by Torrero-La Paz, with 19;

Catalonia-La Jota Avenue, with 16;

and Sagasta-Ruiseñores, with 15.

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10.03

China to help Hong Kong build coronavirus quarantine centers

Hong Kong is in "a war" to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak, a senior city official said on Sunday, a day after

for Covid-19 positives.

The city, one of the most densely populated in the world, is facing the worst wave of coronavirus since the pandemic began, with thousands of infections recorded every day, AFP reports.

Like mainland China,

which has largely prevented the spread of the virus but isolated the business hub from the rest of the world.

Since the outbreak of the highly contagious omicron variant, authorities have fallen short, mainly because of

in dealing with such an outbreak.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that

, Hong Kong's largest construction company,

to isolate around 10,000 people.

He also announced that

to accommodate some 20,000 people.

Deputy Chief Executive John Lee wrote on his official blog on Sunday that the government is "in a war" against Covid-19.

"With the strong support of the motherland, we will win the battle," he said.

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09.57

The coronavirus causes Barcelona to close 2021 with a hotel investment record

Barcelona closed 2021 with a historical record for hotel investment, 721 million euros, far from the 264 million registered in 2019, due to the cash problems that many companies have suffered due to the covid-19 crisis have forced them to hang up the 'for sale' sign.

As the partners of the real estate developer and consultant 3Capital, Juan Gallardo and Roger Serrallonga, explained to Efe, when it was seen that the crisis generated by the covid in the Barcelona tourism sector was going to take a long time and the

arrived , "they began to negotiate operations".

In this context,

, albeit without the great discounts they expected to have on prices.

"We went from a market with a large number of buyers and little or no supply to

," says Gallardo, who recalls that throughout 2020 only five operations were carried out, whose investment amounted to 153.7 million, but that there were already many negotiations under way that ended up being closed last year.

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08.30

India lowers 20,000 coronavirus cases for the first time this year

India lowered this Sunday for the first time so far this year the barrier of 20,000 daily infections by coronavirus and

driven by the omicron variant, reports Efe.

The Ministry of Health reported in a statement that the number of cases during the last 24 hours amounted to 19,968, the lowest figure since the more than 16,700 positives on December 31, when the wave of infections was in full swing until reaching its peak at the end of January with almost 350,000 cases.

In addition

, when just a month ago it was around 17%.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers that the pandemic is only under control in a country if the positivity rate is below 5%.

With these latest data, the total number of infections registered since the start of the pandemic in India now amounts to 42.8 million and the Asian country is only behind the United States, with more than 78 million cases, according to data. from Johns Hopkins University.

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07.39

Police forcibly retake part of control of downtown Ottawa

The Canadian police used "irritating substances" and

, where hundreds of protesters

in protest against the sanitary measures imposed to stop the spread of covid .

In a show of force that lasted all day,

in the heart of normally quiet Ottawa, where clashes and arrests on Friday soared the tension.

to contain several protesters who refused to leave the protest

.

One group formed a human chain and gassed the police.

"Today we made very significant progress to safely evict this illegal protest from our streets," said Deputy Chief of Police of the Canadian capital, Steve Bell, at a press conference, AFP reports.

He added, however, that

. "

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07.33

The United Kingdom will eliminate the obligation to isolate itself for those infected with Covid-19

The United Kingdom

, including the obligation to isolate for those infected with the disease, reports Efe.

Downing Street -the British Prime Minister's office- advanced this announcement that the head of government himself, Boris Johnson, will formalize next week, in a strategy that has been criticized by many voices in the scientific community for the risk of triggering the virus transmission.

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07.20

Australia: "Come and have some of the best experiences you can imagine"

Some 56 international flights will land in the next 24 hours in

since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.

"There are more than 1.2 million people around the world who have visas and can come (...) Tourists are coming back and my message is: pack your bags, come and have some of the best experiences you can imagine," he said. Morrison at a press conference, reports Efe.

The president added that

, mainly in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the largest in the country.

Travelers must have a vaccination certificate against covid-19 showing that they completed their scheme at least 14 days before the departure of their flight.

In addition, they must complete a

carried out a maximum of 72 hours before the departure of the flight.

Australia applied some of the toughest border closures and confinements in the world to control covid-19 at the start of the pandemic, but in recent months it has been relaxing measures in the face of increased vaccinations.

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