Abu Dhabi will remove the need to quarantine for all vaccinated travellers arriving from international destinations starting Sunday, said the Abu Dhabi government media office on Twitter on Thursday. Source link
Aug. 30, 2021 — Liberty University in Virginia announced a temporary campus-wide quarantine due to a spike in COVID-19 cases among students and staff. The quarantine began Monday and is scheduled to end on Sept. 10, according to The Associated Press. The university has about 15,000 students and 5,000 faculty and staff on campus. … Read more
Kochi: After taking initiatives during the Covid first wave to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) , now IMA, through its “I Safe” project, is reaching out to those in home quarantine. To begin with, it has been decided to loan oximeters to those in home quarantine for free. During the peak of the second wave, there … Read more
The Foreign Office, which issues travel advice that is independent from the government’s traffic light system, is stressing that not all amber countries will be approved for international travel on 19 July. However, it has updated its approved list and it now has several amber list countries including France, Greece, Morocco, Switzerland, the US, Jamaica … Read more
Responding to Mr Hancock’s comments, Green MP Caroline Lucas, vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, said scrapping quarantine measures would be “reckless” and called for the government to focus on upgrading systems at airports. Source link
At home in Bradford, Aftab’s wife, Norin Akhtar knew that hotel quarantine would be very hard for Mohammad, who is 84, is paralysed on one side of his body as a result of a stroke, and uses a wheelchair. So she started emailing and calling CTM, the company contracted by the government to handle quarantine … Read more
If a trial is successful, close contacts of people with Covid may no longer have to self-isolate for 10 days. Source link
Leila Kubesch, Spanish teacher, Norwood High School, Cincinnati, OH. Andrea Wader, parent; president, John C. Fremont Elementary PTA, Long Beach, CA. Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security; associate professor of epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. Craig Broeren, superintendent, Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools, Wood County, WI. Burbio.com: … Read more
Hotel quarantine rules for people coming from “red list” countries seem less strict than those in Australia. Source link
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Fully vaccinated Americans can now skip quarantines if they are exposed to someone infected with COVID-19, new federal guidelines say. “Fully vaccinated persons who meet criteria will no longer be required to quarantine following an exposure to someone with COVID-19,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and … Read more