LONDON British Health Secretary Matt Hancock says scientists have identified another new variant of the coronavirus in two people, both of whom are contacts of recent arrivals from South Africa. Hancock told a press briefing that anyone who has been in South Africa in the past two weeks, together with their close contacts, have to quarantine themselves “immediately.” Hancock said the evidence collated so far suggests that the new variant has “mutated further” than the one that recently prompted the British government to tighten restrictions across large parts of England and which led to
Italians who lost family members to COVID-19 seek â¬100 million in damages
Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking â¬100 million (more than $156 million Cdn) in damages.
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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 9:45 AM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
A member of the medical staff washes his hands while working at the COVID-19 division at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo in April. Italy has seen more than 1.9 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 70,000 deaths.(Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images)
Around 500 relatives of people who died of COVID-19 in Italy said on Wednesday they were initiating legal action against regional and national authorities, seeking â¬100 million (more than $156 million Cdn) in damages.
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Families of Covid victims in Italy take government to court Claudio Lavanga
ROME Five hundred families of coronavirus victims are taking legal action against Italy s regional and national governments, whom they deem responsible for a series of omissions, mistakes and delays during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The families say the national government and regional authorities in the hard-hit Lombardy region were unprepared for the crisis as the virus hit and did not take actions that could have prevented a national lockdown and subsequent economic damage, as well as loss of life.
Italy became one of the early epicenters of the pandemic, with its health care system pushed to the breaking point. Nearly 70,000 people died from coronavirus in Italy so far, the highest fatality count in Europe.
JERUSALEM Israel’s Health Ministry says it has detected the country’s first known cases of the new variant of the coronavirus.
The ministry announced Wednesday that it found the variant in three people who are in government-run quarantine hotels after returning from the U.K. The source of a fourth case is still under investigation.
Israel this week tightened its restrictions on entering the country, barring nearly all foreigners and requiring all returning Israelis to isolate in state-run hotels for 10 to 14 days. Flights from the U.K., Denmark and South Africa have been banned altogether.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country is pressing ahead with a vaccination campaign it kicked off this week, while also weighing further lockdown restrictions.