Belgium’s Risk Assessment Group has announced a 21-day quarantine for patients with monkeypox after three people in the country were diagnosed with the virus, which has surfaced in over a dozen countries in the past week. The health authority issued the declaration on Friday. A fourth case of monkeypox was …
Read More »Two men fined $3,600 each for leaving quarantine for 1 minute
A pair of Indonesian fishermen have been fined NT$100,000 (US$3,610) each by Taiwanese health authorities for leaving their quarantine hotel rooms for just over a minute. The men had arrived in Taiwan by plane on November 15, 2020 and checked into a quarantine facility. On the evening of November 22, …
Read More »Netherlands forces unvaxxed & vaxxed Americans to quarantine
Fully vaccinated travellers from the United States will now have to undergo 10 days of quarantine in the Netherlands after Amsterdam designated the country a “very high risk” area over a surge in Omicron cases. The US was added to the Netherlands’ list of “very high risk countries” on Thursday, …
Read More »CDC unveils new Covid-19 quarantine guidance
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has cut its guidance for isolation of people newly infected with Covid-19 to five days from 10, saying the virus typically spreads early in the course of illness. The change stems from growing evidence that Covid-19 transmission usually occurs within a …
Read More »Woman sets Covid quarantine hotel on fire
The blaze engulfed the top floor of the Pacific Hotel in the northeastern city of Cairns on Sunday morning, forcing an evacuation of more than 160 guests. There were no injuries, but the damage to the building was “significant” and forced authorities to relocate people to other Covid-19 quarantine facilities. …
Read More »Military police raid plane to arrest couple trying to flee quarantine
The dramatic incident unfolded at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on board a flight that was set to depart for Spain at ‘around 6.00pm’ Sunday, the Netherlands armed forces confirmed in a statement. The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee at Schiphol has arrested a couple this evening who had fled from a quarantine hotel… …
Read More »Top EU ministers in quarantine over positive Covid test
Castex, who is fully vaccinated, announced on Monday that he tested positive for the virus. He will be quarantined for 10 days but continue to work, his office said in a statement. The French PM found out his daughter had tested positive for the coronavirus when he returned from Brussels, …
Read More »Vietnamese man gets FIVE YEARS behind bars for breach of Covid-19 quarantine & spreading virus
The accused, Le Van Tri, was charged with “spreading dangerous infectious diseases to people,” a crime which carries a penalty of five to 10 years in prison if it results in the death of at least one person under Vietnam’s criminal code. Tri was found to have traveled to Ho …
Read More »Joe Biden never mentioned ‘quarantine camps’ for Covid ‘high-risk’ individuals… but last year the CDC certainly did
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a paper that floated the totally not suspicious idea of relocating “high-risk” individuals into green zone “camps.” While the proposal didn’t attract much attention at the time, as draconian anti-Covid measures are beginning to ramp up, and basic human rights …
Read More »Boris Johnson wants to waive quarantine rules for COP26 attendees jabbed with Chinese & Russian vaccines – media
Johnson supports plans to allow thousands of foreign delegates, who have received China’s Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines, or Russia’s Sputnik V, to attend the COP26 climate-change summit in Glasgow in November without quarantining upon arrival, the Times reports. Only the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson …
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