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August 30, 2021 In

Russia

in the last 24 hours there have been 18,325 new cases of Covid-19 and 792 deaths caused by the disease: this was reported by the national anticoronavirus operations center, taken up by the Interfax news agency.

In total, since the beginning of the epidemic in Russia were proven 6,901,152 cases of Covid-19



To deal with the fourth wave of Covid-19, today in

France

is mandatory Green passes for employees working in facilities open to the public.



Workers will need to demonstrate that they have a full vaccination certificate, a negative test of less than 72 hours, or evidence of recovery from Covid-19 of at least 11 days and less than 6 months. In particular, employees of rooms for auditions, conferences, projections and meetings are affected by the provision; concert and show halls, cinemas, museums and festivals; indoor sports facilities; conservatories, when welcoming spectators, and other places of artistic education; amusement arcades, zoological parks, amusement parks and circuses, fairs and exhibitions, libraries.



Employees of cruise ships and ships, discos, clubs, bars and restaurants, corporate restaurants, takeaway points of sale and motorway restaurants, as well as room services and breakfasts in hotels must also show a health pass. Ditto for workers in long-distance transport, or trains such as Tgv, national flights or inter-regional buses and in large shopping centers of over 20,000 m2.

Japanese



health authorities

suspended the use of another million doses of the Covid vaccine produced by the American pharmaceutical company Moderna after the discovery of other contaminated batches and the death of two people who had received the vaccine from the first withdrawn batches.



Tokyo had already suspended the use of 1.63 million doses last Thursday due to the presence of "foreign substances" in the vials. The new contaminated lots, according to international media, are two and have been found in the prefectures of Gunma near Tokyo and Okinawa (south). So far, a total of over 2.6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine have been suspended in the country.