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13:21 | The Catalan government is demanding an extension of the curfew order

The government will tomorrow ask the High Court of Catalonia (TSJC) to extend the curfew in Catalonia, which is currently in force for 148 municipalities, and to extend it by another week until August 27, to avoid meetings of only a maximum of 10 people. Corona virus infection.

According to a report by the Ministry of Health, the Generalization has changed the existing criteria for the last fifteen days of this new extension, in which imprisonment from one to six o’clock in the morning has affected municipalities with 250 incidents. Cases to 100,000 citizens in two weeks, now it raises the limit to 125 infections.

13:14 | Slovenia Govt controls traffic across the country without certification

Those who do not have a European vaccine certificate, have been infected with the disease or have a recent negative result in Slovenia can only travel 12 hours across the country this Tuesday, while they will not be able to enter the country without that certificate from next Monday. Those who do not have the appropriate Govt certificate can go inside if they are guaranteed to pass the 10 day isolation and where to do it.

12:50 | Tribal concern cases in Australia

Australian authorities on Tuesday expressed their “deep concern” over the detection of the COVID-19 pandemic in aboriginal communities, which may be particularly sensitive to the corona virus. The Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales (which includes the cities of Sydney and Canberra), Gladys Perezglian, said the epidemic was “extremely worrying”, so the area was locked up to prevent an outbreak.

It is the first major epidemic in geographically isolated tribal communities and is highly susceptible to COVID-19. Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said at least five medical-military teams would be stationed in the region from Wednesday to assist local officials in the vaccination campaign.

11:06 | Georgia records new daily rise in cases

Georgia has reported 6,208 COVID-19 cases and 47 deaths in the past 24 hours, a new daily high since the outbreak began in the tiny Eurasian country, health officials said Tuesday.

Health President Ekaterina Tigardze announced today that the mandatory use of masks in the open will be reintroduced, which was removed on average on June 22nd. “It’s an effective measure to protect against infection,” Dicardze said in a press release in which he did not rule out adopting health restrictions if the situation continued to worsen.

09:15 | New Zealand has been locked up for three days

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinta Artern has ordered the imprisonment of more than five million people in the country for three days after finding out about the social unrest in Auckland since February 28.

Despite the fact that Auckland, the most populous city in New Zealand, has a population of nearly 1.7 million and a population of over 1,600, the move comes at midnight due to fears that the case found today is with delta variation. The neighboring Coromandel Peninsula will be controlled for seven days.

“We have only one chance. We have to go strong and fast to stop broadcasting,” said Jacinta Artern, a global admirer of Govt-19 management who justified the lock-up with reporters in Wellington.

06:35 | The Olympic Village reopens to parachutes in between health activities

The Olympic Village in Tokyo reopened on Tuesday, a week before the start of the Paralympic Games and amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections in Japan.

“I understand that Paralympic athletes have different challenges compared to the Olympians,” Tokyo 2020 executive director Toshiro Mudo told the media, adding that the organization will work to prevent parachutes from becoming infected with the virus.

06:33 | New Zealand has registered the first case of a local epidemic in six months

On Tuesday (08/17/2021) New Zealand filed its first case of COVID-19 due to a local infection in six months, prompting efforts to trace its origin. “A firm and early response is the best tool to eliminate potential spread, and everyone in New Zealand must remain calm, polite and do their part when we gather additional information,” the health ministry said in a statement. Cabinet meeting in this regard.

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Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Climbing to the mountain cities

Those who want to vaccinate people in the mountains of southeastern Turkey should be eligible. Vaccination is very important in mountain villages, Dr. Jane Erolp said in an interview with DW: “People often live very close” and the virus is spreading fast. Also, people do not like to go to hospitals, so we have to go to her.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Vaccine for frost and cold

Most older people do not go to the vaccination center alone. In the Myra Valley, in the western Italian Alps, very close to the French border, doctors go door-to-door to vaccinate people over the age of 80 against the corona virus. Along the way they have religious support.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

By plane to the Yukon River

By sending the corona virus vaccines, this nurse travels to the eagle by plane. With less than 100 people living at the foot of the Yukon River in Alaska, USA, many vaccination programs are a priority for indigenous peoples because they live so far away that the next health center is far away.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Not only vaccinating but also calming down

Anselmo Dunupala washes her hands before vaccinating an elderly woman. Every day, this 49-year-old man walks through the mountains in southwestern Colombia to explain how important the vaccine is to people in the local language. He is a member of the Misak who lives there. They are very skeptical about vaccination because they have so much faith in traditional medicine and its religious leaders.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

It takes hours to get vaccinated

The men and women walked for four hours to get vaccinated in the remote city of Nueva Colonia in central Mexico. They belong to the tribe of Vixarica. Internationally they are well known as Huicholes.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Vaccine on a boat

Olga Pimentel painted along with her boat vaccination team. The Nossa Senhora Livramento community in Rio Negro, Brazil can only be reached by river. “Good! It doesn’t hurt,” the 72-year-old said with a smile, “Viva SUS, the Brazilian public health organization!” Shouted.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Vaccination without electricity

For a long time, right-wing populist president Jair Bolzano was not in favor of a vaccine against the corona virus in Brazil. Guillotines, descendants of indigenous peoples and African slaves, were the first to be vaccinated. Including Raimunda Nonada, 70. His community was vaccinated by candlelight because of the lack of electricity.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Home doctor in Japan

In Japan, too, the doctor goes home to get vaccinated. Although Japanese cities are one of the largest cities in the world, there are also small, isolated cities in the East Asian country of Kidaki, inhabited by only a few hundred people. For anyone who can’t make it to the next big city, a doctor is a pleasure to visit at their home.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

The most valuable vaccines in Indonesia

In early January, they also started vaccinating in Indonesia. On the boat, paramedics sailed to distant islands. Vaccines in the refrigerator were so valuable, there were security guards to protect the doses.

Corona virus: Vaccine in remote and unusual places

Vaccinated as a super-bed event

India is currently the worst affected country. In mid-March, paramedics arrived at the village of Bahakajari on the Brahmaputra River. These women wanted to register to be vaccinated. No mask, no safety distance. We hope this condition does not cause more infections.

Author: Ute Steinwehr, Philipp Böll