Covid. Anti-lockdown revolt in Rotterdam, 7 injured. Today demonstrations also in Austria

• Covid: protests in Rotterdam, police shoot, two injured

• Covid.

  Bavaria, lockdown in the most affected areas.

  Saxony closes bars and nightclubs

• The mandatory green pass has broad support in Europe

• The Lockdown in Austria scares the stock exchanges with the price of oil also falling sharply

• Covid.

  Record of deaths in Russia, full hospitals in Bavaria, lockdown in Austria

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November 20, 2021 At least seven people were injured in clashes that broke out in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, during a demonstration against anti-Covid restrictions. This was specified by the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, also referring to 20 arrests. "The police have regained control of the city center," said the first citizen quoted by broadcaster Nos.

"Fires were set in various places and fireworks were used and the police fired several warning shots (in the air)," police explained. Water cannons were also used to disperse the protesters, who shouted "freedom" by throwing objects and stones at the agents. At least one police vehicle and several civilian cars parked in the city center were burned. In addition, stones were thrown at the firefighters who were trying to put out the fires and a journalist was attacked, whose camera was destroyed. A situation, which led the municipality to decree at least until dawn an "emergency ordinance" which prohibits the presence of people in various stations and streets of the city center.Police are still deployed in central Rotterdam, even though the situation is "under control," Aboutaleb said.

The Netherlands reintroduced the restrictions after a rebound in Covid-19 cases to historic levels, with more than 21,000 new infections reported on Friday.

Protests were called for today in Austria against the government's decision to impose a new lockdown and compulsory vaccination against Covid from next February on Monday. In Vienna, several thousand people are expected to take to the streets for the demonstration organized by the far-right party Fpoe whose leader Hebert Kickl, who is currently infected with Covid, says that Austria is sliding towards "dictatorship" .

The police have foreseen a massive deployment of forces, with 1300 agents who will guarantee order and compliance with anti-Covid security measures, which provide for the obligation for demonstrators to wear Ffp2 masks. The lockdown that will begin tomorrow is expected to end for the vaccinated maximum on December 13, while the restrictions will continue for the unvaccinated.

To give support to hospitals facing the new wave of Covid, the Greek government has started foreclosing on private doctors. Police officers gave 85 private doctors orders to report to public hospitals this morning to take up service. According to legal experts cited by the Greek media, doctors who fail to show up face sentences of up to three years in prison.

The Greek government's decision comes after an appeal was made to private doctors at the beginning of November to volunteer to support the public hospital system. But only forty doctors had made themselves available so far. According to data provided by the association of hospital doctors, at least 150 doctors are needed.

The National Health Commission of China has announced the detection of 23 new coronavirus positives, 3 of which due to the local infection in Liaoning and Jilin. The remaining 20 cases have been detected between overseas travelers to Shanghai, Guangxi, Shandong, Guangzhou, Yunnan and Fujian. Health authorities also reported having detected 16 asymptomatic cases, all but one "imported" from abroad.

The total of this type of infections under observation is 487, of which 345 from other territories. The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 1,158, of which 12 serious. According to the reports of the institution, since the beginning of the pandemic , 98,450 people were infected in the country, of which 92,656 managed to recover and 4,636 died. To date, 1,301,242 close contacts with infected people have been followed, of which 38,664 are still under observation.

The Honduran authorities recorded two deaths and 60 new cases of Covid-19 on the day the Central American country received more than 395,000 doses of anticovid vaccines from the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer, with new data released in the daily bulletin of the National System of risk management (Sinager), Honduras has accumulated 377,420 infections and 10,388 deaths since 11 March 2020, when the first two cases of the disease were recorded in the country.

In 2021 alone, Honduran health authorities reported a total of 7,154 deaths and 251,863 coronavirus infections. 147 hospitalized, including 79 in stable conditions, 51 serious and 17 in intensive care. So far 3,212,890 people, 33.8% of the total population, have been immunized with both doses of the anticovid vaccines and 4,530,165 million (47.7%) have received the first, Sinager said.

Honduras has a population of 9.5 million, of which it is hoped to immunize at least 70%, according to official sources.Today the country has received 395,460 doses of vaccines from Pfizer, adding to the 3,632,850 already received. , as part of a contract between the Honduran government and the pharmaceutical company for 4.4 million of the coronavirus preparation, according to the authorities. More than 10 million doses of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines received from Honduras since last February, between purchased and donated, according to official data.

Brazil has recorded another 13,355 cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, thus exceeding 22 million infections since the beginning of the pandemic. According to reports from the Ministry of Health, another 226

people lost their lives due to Covid, thus bringing the total number of deaths to 612,370.

Brazil is the second country in the world for the number of deaths, behind the United States (770,000), and the third for the number of cases, behind the United States (47 million) and India (34.5 million).

The Colombian Ministry of Health yesterday recorded 2,157 new cases of Covid-19 and 50 deaths, bringing the cases to 5,042,822 and 128,013 deaths caused by the pandemic.

During the day, Minister Fernando Ruiz announced that starting from 1 December "to enter leisure areas, not only the first dose of the vaccine will be needed, but the complete schedule".

"This implies - he added - that we don't want a Christmas with epidemic problems, we don't want a bitter January - said Ruiz - since until now it was possible to enter bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues with a single dose of the vaccine" .