Belgium eases measures, Europe deaths up 27%: COVID-19 daily bulletin
Updated 02:20, 24-Sep-2020
Aden-Jay Wood
TOP HEADLINES
· A European Union leaders summit, scheduled to start on Thursday,
has been postponed after European Council President Charles Michel began a period of self-isolation due to contact with an infected security guard.
· Deaths from COVID-19 in Europe increased by 27 percent week on week as the World Health Organization reported the global infection rate was at its highest level.
· Madrid authorities have
urged the government to hire foreign doctors after a surge in cases across the city.
· Spain's government has agreed with labor unions
that employers must cover their workers' expenses after the pandemic forced many people across the country to work from home.
· Belgium has announced that its
citizens will no longer have to wear face masks outdoors. They have also reduced the time people have to self-isolate from two weeks to seven days from 1 October.
· UK Prime Minister
Boris Johnson has called for citizens to come together for "collective health" in a televised address to the nation shortly after announcing new restrictions that could last six months.
· French pharmaceutical company
Sanofi and Britain's
GlaxoSmithKline have pledged up to 72 million doses of their new vaccine to the Canadian government after they have both received regulatory approval.
· Global airlines
have called for departure tests for all international passengers to replace the current quarantine regulations. German airline Lufthansa has already announced plans to make rapid tests available to its passengers from October.
· The world's largest planemaker
Airbus, is considering making more job cuts after CEO Guillaume Faury warned voluntary redundancies might not be enough.
· Tokyo's Olympic Games organisers
have released draft measures for next year's delayed games that will require tests of foreign athletes upon arrival into Japan but may not require a two-week quarantine period.
The latest news from the pandemic as the European Council president and Germany's foreign minister are both forced to self-isolate and Belgium relax some of its measures.
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