12.28 Sweden pauses use of Moderna vaccine for younger age groups The country is trying to speed up Covid vaccinations, with 13% of its 98 million people inoculated so far, one of the lowest rates in Asia.
The move follows similar steps taken by neighbouring Thailand, which will next month expand locations in its pilot scheme to allow vaccinated visitors.įoreign arrivals to Vietnam fell to 3.8 million last year down from 18 million in 2019, when tourism revenue was $31bn, equivalent to 12% of GDP. “We are moving step by step, cautiously but flexibly to adapt to real situations of the pandemic.” “We are only open when it’s truly safe,” the government said in a statement.
It will from December also allow tourists from approved countries to visit Unesco world heritage site Halong Bay and Hoi An, the highlands town of Dalat and beach destination Nha Trang. Vietnam last month announced it would reopen the resort island Phu Quoc for vaccinated travellers from November. Vietnam imposed tight border controls at the start of the pandemic in an effort to keep Covid vout, with some initial success, but that harmed its burgeoning tourism sector, which typically accounts for about 10% of gross domestic product.
Vietnam is planning from December to reopen key tourist destinations to vaccinated visitors from countries deemed a low Covid risk, the government said on Wednesday, ahead of a full resumption targeted for June next year. In addition to the immune system, cells lining blood vessels that supply the affected areas also appeared to play a critical role in the development of Covid toes and chilblains. They also found an overlap with type I interferon, a key protein in the antiviral response. They found one mechanism behind both types of the condition involved the body generating an immune response with high levels of certain autoantibodies, which mistakenly target and react with a person’s own cells and tissues as well as the invading virus. Researchers behind the study, which has been published in the British Journal of Dermatology, examined 50 participants with the condition and 13 with similar chilblains lesions that arose before the pandemic. It typically develops within a week to four weeks of being infected and can result in toes and fingers becoming swollen or changing colour. The symptom results in chilblain-like inflammation and redness on the hands and feet, with the condition sometimes lasting for months at a time.
The skin condition known as Covid toe may be a side-effect of the immune system’s response to fighting off the virus, according to a study. In the United States, officials in the Houston metropolitan area said in August they would pay $100 to any person receiving a first dose of a Covid vaccine, after the president Joe Biden called for state, local and US territorial governments to provide such payments to boost inoculation rates. 27, the nation of 2.8 million had the worst rates of Covid spread in the EU, as well as the second worst mortality rate, with 646 new cases and 81 deaths per 10,000 people, a European Commission agency said. “If this helps at least some people to take the right decision and avoid severe form of the disease, or death - this is an investment worth doing”, Šimonytė added.ĭuring the two weeks until Sept.
The already vaccinated will get the payout if they take a booster shot until end of March next year. If parliament approves the scheme next week, the government will spend up to 27 million euros to pay over-75s who got their full vaccination between September and November. Two-thirds of the 4,965 Covid deaths in the country have been in this age group. “We are unable to convince them to vaccinate otherwise”, the prime minister Ingrida Šimonytė said during a televised government meeting.Īlthough 73% of all Lithuanian adults are vaccinated, in line with the EU average, about a third of over-75s remain unvaccinated, according to government data, one of the worst in the bloc. The Lithuanian government on Wednesday proposed to pay 100 euros to people aged 75 or old to take the Covid-19 vaccine, to boost the inoculation rate for the group, which lags in the European Union.