Israel has barred entry to all foreign nationals and has ordered all returning citizens to quarantine regardless of their vaccination status, as part of the world’s most aggressive effort to stave off the new Omicron variant.
China’s latest coronavirus outbreak forced more than 20 Shanghai hospitals to “suspend out-patient and emergency medical services” on Friday “for epidemic prevention and screening,” China’s state-run Global Times reported.
The UK announced that it was banning flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries effective at noon on Friday, and that anyone who had recently arrived from those countries would be asked to take a coronavirus test.
Hong Kong has a very strict 21-day coronavirus quarantine rule for international visitors, but the rule was waived for JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon when he arrived by private jet on Monday.
A municipal health worker in southeastern China’s Shangrao city beat a woman’s pet dog to death with a crowbar on Friday while the woman was undergoing a state-run coronavirus quarantine outside her residence, Taiwan News reported Monday, citing security camera footage from inside the woman’s home that captured the incident.
Shanghai Disneyland shut down on short notice on Sunday and refused to allow any of the theme park’s 34,000 visitors to leave the facility until they were tested for the Chinese coronavirus after allegedly detecting just one new case of the disease in a woman who visited the site one day earlier, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday.
Chinese health authorities ordered two high-speed trains bound for Beijing to “urgently stop” on Thursday so they could place all passengers and staff under a seven-day quarantine, saying they suspected “close contacts of a positive COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] case were onboard,” the state-run Global Times reported Friday.
New Zealand’s federal government announced a new mandate on Monday that will legally require healthcare workers and teachers to receive a full dose of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine by January 2022, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.
Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party, Kuomintang (KMT), protested the coronavirus policy of the island’s ruling party at a legislative session on Tuesday, with several KMT members shoving opposing lawmakers to the floor of the parliamentary building and drenching others with water.
Florida’s Surgeon General has signed new protocols that allow for parents to choose whether or not to quarantine their child if the child is asymptomatic after exposure to the virus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday that he would “self-isolate” after someone in his entourage was diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus. On Thursday, Putin offered the surprising clarification that dozens of people in his inner circle have contracted the disease.
Communist officials in China’s Yunnan province forcibly quarantined over 5,000 residents of Jiegao district this week.
Shanghai government officials locked down at least 6,000 residents over the weekend to contain the city’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, Shanghai Daily’s online news platform, SHINE, reported Sunday.
A pregnant woman in Holguín, Cuba, accused the government of placing her in a Chinese coronavirus quarantine facility overrun with vermin, lacking water, and far from any health workers, the Spanish publication Diario de Cuba reported on Tuesday.
Japan’s health ministry on Monday released the names of three people it accused of violating a state-mandated coronavirus quarantine period after returning to Japan from overseas in recent days, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) reported Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have authority under maritime law to quarantine Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) houseboat, Almost Heaven, and everyone who attended a party with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
National Rugby League (NRL) players and their families have been banned from their balconies and ordered to tape them shut to stop Covid in parts of Queensland, Australia.
Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair has again called for the unvaccinated to be treated differently to the vaccinated, this time saying those who have had the shot should have a quicker process of exiting quarantine to mitigate against a “pingdemic”.
Vice President Kamala Harris will not quarantine herself after meeting with Texas Democrats who tested positive for the coronavirus, her office said Saturday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson quickly backtracked on using a little-known scheme for himself and Rishi Sunak to avoid coronavirus quarantine.
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been identified by the country’s test-and-trace system as a contact of a confirmed coronavirus case — but unlike thousands of his compatriots, he won’t have to stay home for 10 days.
The British government has implemented a new exemption for “senior executives” to ignore coronavirus quarantines.
Israel on Friday reinstated an indoor mask requirement only a week and a half after scrapping the mandate, as daily coronavirus cases in the country more than tripled in the space of a few days.
At least one good thing has emerged from the G7 summit: we now know that President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Bieber of Canada and the various other world leaders who’ve been sunning themselves in Cornwall are ocean-going, copper-bottomed hypocrites.
PARIS (AP) – France will impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from Britain to prevent the spread of a worrying virus variant first detected in India, the French government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said the new measure will
The Italian government is in a race against time to acquire new facilities for incoming migrants as arrivals surge and ships previously used for quarantine will soon no longer be available.
Hollywood actress and Goop wellness company founder Gwyneth Paltrow, whose net worth is estimated at $150 million, says she ate bread and drank alcohol “seven nights a week” in order to cope with quarantine protocols implemented in response to the coronavirus.
(AFP) — People arriving in Australia from coronavirus-ravaged India could face five years jail as the country strengthens an earlier travel ban, the government announced Saturday, in a bid to prevent the outbreak from spreading to its shores.
Police in Manila recently arrested a journalist for failing to wear a sanitary mask while riding his motorcycle alone in the city, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said Monday.
The first birthday celebration of an Indonesian girl named “Karantina Covidah Corona” has gone viral owing to the baby’s pandemic-inspired name. Photos of Karantina’s first birthday announcement flooded social media on March 29 after people noticed the girl’s unusual name,
A survey by the American Dental Association found an increase in stress-related dental damage since the beginning of the pandemic.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wore a black mask reading “FCKNG QRNTN” while on a tour of southeastern China’s Lijiang River on Monday.
Domestic travelers visiting New York State will no longer be required to quarantine upon their arrival beginning April 1, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced on Thursday.
The Member of Parliament for the Port of Dover has called for illegal migrants to be put on the same quarantine “red list” as legitimate travellers, including British citizens, entering the United Kingdom from high-risk countries.
Fully vaccinated people who meet certain criteria no longer need to quarantine when exposed to the Chinese coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed in a February 10 guidance.
Travellers arriving in the United Kingdom face up to ten years in prison if they were found to have lied about travel history and fines of up to £10,000 if they breach quarantine rules, Britain’s health secretary announced on Tuesday.
The British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has suggested using GPS tracking to surveil travellers who are quarantining upon arriving in the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong’s new “ambush-style” coronavirus lockdowns have caught residents off guard, with some reporting they were “trapped” inside shops and salons overnight by the last-minute quarantines.
The left-wing, pro-mass immigration Labour party is now taking Boris Johnson’s government to task over its lax border controls, as people continue to fly into the country despite the punishing internal lockdown on local people and businesses.
John Stamos said his 2-year-old son went to bed crying Thursday night after the actor quarantined himself for the third time due to coronavirus exposure.
