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6:35 am. Return of the curfew in Guyana but the carnival maintained on Saturday.
Most of the Guyanese population is again subject to a curfew to cope with a tidal wave of Covid-19 contamination, while vaccination stagnates at less than 40%, but the launch of the carnival is maintained Saturday. This curfew is between 8:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. However, restaurants, sports halls and cinemas benefit from exemptions until 10:30 p.m. The carnival will be maintained with a strict protocol and entry into the dance halls will be subject to the health pass.
6:25 am. Nearly 100,000 children orphaned because of the Covid in Peru.
The Covid-19 epidemic has orphaned around 98,000 children in Peru, according to the government of the most bereaved country in the world of its total population. "Our country unfortunately is the country with almost 98,000 children who lost their father, mother or guardian during the pandemic," said Minister for Women Anahi Durand, based on figures published by the medical journal The Lancet . The ministry currently pays a pension of 200 sols (about 50 dollars) to more than 18,000 families, but the number of beneficiaries should be extended, the minister said. The government intends to pay it to a total of 83,664 orphaned children and adolescents, in addition to psychological and educational support.
6:15 a.m. The Supreme Court in the United States is examining the obligation to be vaccinated for millions of American workers.
The Supreme Court of the United States is urgently examining the obligation to be vaccinated against Covid-19 that Joe Biden wants to impose as quickly as possible on millions of recalcitrant employees. After months of trying to convince the reluctant, the Democratic President announced in September that he wanted to make vaccination compulsory, especially in companies with more than 100 employees. The implementing decrees, published in early November, set at the beginning of January the deadline for employees to receive their first dose or otherwise agree to undergo a weekly screening, under penalty of a fine for their employers. Several republican states, as well as employers' organizations, had then multiplied the legal remedies, which led to contradictory decisions, and postponed the application of the measure.
6:10 am.
The agreement of the 2 parents requested to vaccinate 5-11 year olds.
The agreement of both parents, and no longer just one, will now be necessary to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11 against Covid-19, said the Ministry of Health.
The ministry said only children aged 5 to 11 were affected.
For children aged 12 to 15, the consent of one parent continues to be sufficient.
Finally, adolescents aged 16 and over can be vaccinated without parental consent.
Concretely, only one parent can be present during the vaccination appointment of a child from 5 to 11 years old, but he must be provided with a certificate on the honor according to which the second parent agrees, specified the Ministry.
6:05 am.
A slightly less strict protocol in schools.
The Ministry of National Education has slightly relaxed the health protocol at school. Students will no longer have to repeat the course of the three tests if a new positive case in their class appears within a period of less than seven days. Until now, elementary school students had to carry out a PCR or antigen test for each new positive case declared in the class, then carry out a self-test on D + 2 and D + 4 in order to continue to follow face-to-face lessons. Ditto for high school students aged 12 and over justifying a full vaccination (unvaccinated people must remain isolated for seven days). For these contact case students, this course will now be valid for the week, even if new positive cases are detected in the class in the days following the first case.
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