Live updates: Polish PM urges vaccinations as deaths rise

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WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s premier curate got a booster changeable against the coronavirus and made an affectional entreaty to citizens to get vaccinated arsenic 570 caller deaths successful 1 time were reported from COVID-19.

Mateusz Morawiecki’s entreaty connected Wednesday was made to a federation with a vaccination complaint of conscionable 54%. The numbers those afloat vaccinated person risen precise dilatory successful caller weeks, though fears of the caller omicron variant person appeared to spur immoderate to yet get vaccinated.

Poland besides reported implicit 29,000 caller infections, the highest corruption complaint since a microorganism question successful the outpouring made cardinal Europe a planetary blistery spot.

Morawiecki said Christmas could beryllium overmuch much peaceful if millions much successful the federation of 38 cardinal get shots soon. He stressed that Christmas is simply a clip erstwhile children conscionable their grandparents, and that galore specified gatherings successful the past person “unfortunately … ended tragically.”

He besides spoke successful favour of a connection to let employers to cheque whether their employees are vaccinated -- an thought gathering with resistance.

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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC:

— U.S. moves to toughen investigating requirement for travelers

— Nigeria detects archetypal lawsuit of omicron from an October sample, weeks earlier South Africa alerted the satellite astir the variant

— Japan starts booster COVID vaccinations amid omicron scare

— Austrian lockdown extended done Dec 11 arsenic planned

Go to https://APNews.com/coronavirus-pandemic for updates passim the day.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING TODAY:

GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the complaint of summation of coronavirus cases held dependable implicit the past week, though its African, Western Pacific and European regions each reported gains.

At the aforesaid time, caller deaths globally linked to COVID-19 fell 10 percent.

The U.N. wellness agency, successful its latest play epidemiological study connected the pandemic, said lawsuit counts changeable up 93% successful Africa, though it cautioned astir interpreting excessively overmuch from that precocious fig due to the fact that it was mostly owed to “batch reporting” of antigen tests by South Africa.

The report, for the archetypal time, referred to the caller omicron variant that was christened connected Friday aft being detected successful South Africa and Botswana. WHO said the variant has present been reported successful a “limited number” of countries –- though it has dispersed widely, into 4 of the WHO’s six regions.

As of Sunday, much than 280 cardinal cases and much than 5.2 cardinal deaths person been tallied owed to the pandemic, WHO said.

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BERLIN — Germany’s intensive attraction relation is calling for nationally azygous restrictions to beryllium imposed instantly and informing that the fig of COVID-19 patients requiring intensive attraction volition deed a caller precocious earlier Christmas.

German national and authorities leaders are expected to determine Thursday connected caller measures to curb a crisp caller emergence successful coronavirus infections. Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz says helium volition backmost a connection to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for everybody adjacent year.

The DIVI relation said Wednesday that much than 6,000 patients with COVID-19 volition request intensive attraction care earlier Christmas and the all-time precocious from past twelvemonth volition beryllium exceeded. It said that much than 2,300 caller patients were admitted to ICUs successful the past week alone, and that transferring patients wrong Germany isn’t a semipermanent solution.

The relation called for astatine slightest 1 cardinal vaccinations, including boosters, to beryllium administered per day. The fig of vaccinations has risen sharply successful caller days but is inactive abbreviated of that mark, astatine an mean 660,000 per time implicit the past week.

Germany connected Wednesday reported its highest one-day decease toll since February, with 446 much deaths bringing the country’s full truthful acold to 101,790.

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GENEVA — The caput of the World Health Organization is hailing steps by its subordinate states to motorboat enactment toward an planetary statement to assistance forestall and hole for aboriginal pandemics successful the aftermath of the coronavirus.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the statement determination during a long-planned peculiar league of the U.N. wellness agency’s members was “cause for celebration.” It sets disconnected enactment toward creating an “intergovernmental negotiating body” to draught an agreement, which is apt to instrumentality months if not years to beryllium finalized.

“Of course, determination is inactive a agelong roadworthy ahead. There are inactive differences of sentiment astir what a caller accord could oregon should contain,” helium said.

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LISBON, Portugal — Portugal is entering a alleged authorities of calamity -- the 2nd this twelvemonth -- to curve an upward inclination successful coronavirus infections contempt having 1 of the strongest vaccination records successful Europe.

The authorities of calamity is 1 measurement beneath the country’s apical level of alert.

The state is tightening rider power successful airports, seaports and onshore borders, requiring antagonistic coronavirus tests for astir incoming visitors arsenic portion of the caller acceptable of rules that footwear successful Wednesday.

Face masks are again required successful enclosed spaces and coronavirus vaccination oregon COVID-19 betterment tests are required to participate restaurants, cinemas, gyms and hotels.

Experts judge that Portugal’s vaccination rate, which astatine 87% of implicit 10 cardinal residents is 1 of the highest globally, has shielded the state from the corruption spikes experienced by bluish European countries recently.

Still, hospitalizations person been rising since September. Authorities connected Tuesday recorded 2,907 caller infections connected Tuesday, with 833 radical successful hospital, 116 successful intensive attraction units and 15 deaths.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia said it detected its archetypal lawsuit of the caller coronavirus variant omicron.

The kingdom’s state-run Saudi Press Agency said the lawsuit came from a national coming from what it described arsenic a “North African country.”

The study said the infected idiosyncratic and his adjacent contacts had been quarantined.

The lawsuit marks the first-known lawsuit of omicron being detected among Gulf Arab nations.

Much remains chartless astir the caller variant, which has been identified successful much than 20 countries, including whether it is much contagious, whether it makes radical much earnestly ill, and whether it tin thwart the vaccine.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the apical U.S. infectious illness expert, said much would beryllium known astir the omicron strain successful 2 to 4 weeks arsenic scientists turn and trial laboratory samples of the virus.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Health officials accidental a concertgoer who attended a gig successful bluish Denmark with a section DJ has tested affirmative for the caller coronavirus variant omicron.

The performance was attended by astir 2,000 radical connected Saturday successful Aalborg. The Danish Patient Safety Authority has urged each those who attended the lawsuit to beryllium tested, Danish broadcaster DR said Wednesday.

Statens Serum Institut, different authorities bureau that maps the dispersed of COVID-19 successful Denmark, said Tuesday that 4 cases of omicron had been reported successful the Scandinavian country. It was not instantly wide if the concertgoer was included oregon if it was a caller case.

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TOKYO — Japan has asked planetary airlines to halt taking caller reservations for each flights arriving successful the state until the extremity of December successful a further tightening of already strict borderline controls.

The proscription ministry says the petition is an exigency precaution.

The determination by the world’s 3rd largest economy, coupled with its caller instrumentality to a prohibition connected overseas visitors, is among the astir stringent anywhere, and much successful enactment with cloistered neighbour China than with immoderate different democracies successful the region.

It comes arsenic scientists enactment frantically to find conscionable however threatening omicron is.

Japan has confirmed a 2nd lawsuit of the omicron variant successful a idiosyncratic who arrived from Peru, 1 time aft it reported its archetypal lawsuit successful a Namibian diplomat.

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