Country recorded an additional 292 fatalities.
FIFA points out that it has been in contact with the entities involved, including the federations of the countries concerned and their confederations, to make decisions.
“It is clear that the situation is not yet normalized enough to reach a level where it is possible to hold both tournaments,” he concludes, leaving a word of gratitude to everyone involved.
Country registered an additional 18,040 cases.
The Portuguese Government has a team on the ground to accompany Portuguese drivers held in the UK, some of whom may not be able to spend Christmas in Portugal.
Less family members gathered, wearing a mask, not staying in closed spaces for a long time, ventilating the premises. These are some of the advice from the Directorate-General for Health for this year’s Christmas dinner.
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14h12 – 70 more deaths and 4378 new cases in Portugal
In the last 24 hours, there were 70 more deaths and 4,378 new cases of Covid-19. In total, Portugal accounts for 6,413 deaths and 387,636 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
A further 4,087 recovered cases were registered, in a total of 312,533 recovered cases.
There are fewer 137 cases of hospitalization and six fewer cases of hospitalization in intensive care. In total, 2,853 people with Covid-19 and 505 are hospitalized in intensive care.
The North region remains the most affected, with 1,952 new cases and 28 more deaths in the last 24 hours.
In Lisbon and the Tagus Valley there were 1,271 new cases and 24 deaths. In the Center region there were 810 more cases and 13 deaths and in Alentejo there are 200 new cases and four deaths.
In the Algarve there were 94 more cases and in the autonomous regions, Madeira registered 34 more cases and one death and the Azores another 17 cases.
13h14 – Brazil suspends flights to and from the United Kingdom
Brazil has suspended flights to and from the United Kingdom for an indefinite period due to the new strain of coronavirus detected in that country.
12:40 pm – DGS publishes norm on vaccination campaign
“Vaccination against Covid-19 Comirnaty must respect the general vaccination rules, contained in the National Vaccination Program Standard in force”, except in some aspects specifically mentioned in this standard, DGS refers in the document released on Tuesday and published on your website.
Comirnaty was developed by the BioNTech and Pfizer laboratories, the first to be approved by the European Medicines Agency, and is indicated from 16 years old and must be administered in two doses with a minimum interval of 21 days.
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11h43 – Montalegre home with positive cases
The home of S. José da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Montalegre, in the district of Vila Real, has 18 positive cases, of which three are employees and 15 are users.
11h41 – Outbreak at Mourão’s home
An outbreak at the Nossa Senhora das Candeias home in Mourão, Évora, already has at least 48 positive cases, between users and employees. Of the 62 users, 38 are positive. There are still ten cases among the 43 employees.
11:32 am – The pandemic figures
As of 10 am on Thursday, there were at least 1,731,936 deaths reported by Covid-19 worldwide.
The number of infection cases to date is 78,678,240, according to the count of the France-Presse agency. At least 49,787,800 are considered recovered cases.
10:45 am – New variant alert in Nigeria
The African Union’s African Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday that a new variant of the coronavirus may have emerged in Nigeria, but warned that more research is needed.
10h43 – Israel imposes third confinement
The country announced on Thursday that it will impose a third confinement at the national level to combat the evolution of the pandemic.
The restrictions take effect on the night of next Sunday and will last for 14 days.
10h35 – Macron is no longer in isolation
The French President no longer has symptoms of Covid-19 and will end the seven-day isolation, the Elysee Palace announced today.
The French head of state was in isolation after testing positive for the new coronavirus on December 17.
At the time, the positive test led to the isolation of several political leaders with whom Emmanuel Macron had met, including the Portuguese prime minister.
10:24 – France. Regulator approves vaccine
HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé), medical regulator in France, announced this Thursday that it approved the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, after the green light given by the European Medicines Agency, last Monday.
According to the French regulator, the vaccine may be administered to people aged 16 and over, including the elderly.
10 am – Record of contagions in Russia
Russia today recorded a new maximum daily number of Covid-19 cases, with 29,935 new infections and 635 deaths, the country’s health officials announced.
In total, the country has had 2.96 million contagions since the beginning of the pandemic according to data recorded in the 85 regions of the country.
Regarding the number of deaths, Russia records a total of 53,096 deaths associated with the new coronavirus, according to official statistics.
9h58 – Germany registers 802 deaths
Germany recorded 802 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, 104 more deaths than the day before, and 32,195 new infections from the new coronavirus.
The maximum number of new infections was reached last Friday, with 33,777 new positive cases, while the maximum number of fatalities was registered on Wednesday, with 962.
The number of positives since the beginning of the pandemic in the country, at the end of January, is currently 1,587,115. There were also a total of 28,770 deaths.
9:37 am – China suspends flights with the United Kingdom
China has suspended all flights with the United Kingdom as a preventive measure, taking into account the recent discovery of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mutation in the country.
9h03 – India with 312 dead
India recorded 312 deaths due to Covid-19 and 24,712 infections in the last 24 hours. Since the beginning of the pandemic, India has counted 10,123,778 cases of the new coronavirus, remaining as the second country with the most infections, behind the United States.
With 146,756 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, India is the third country in the world with the most deaths, after the United States and Brazil.
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8h50 – Mexico exceeds 120 thousand dead
Mexico has exceeded 120,000 deaths by covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, after registering 816 deaths in the last 24 hours. There were an additional 12,511 infected.
With these figures, the country increased the total number of deaths to 120,311 and cases to 1,350,079.
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8:30 am – USA reports 3,254 dead
The United States recorded an additional 3,254 deaths and 212,315 new infections with the new coronavirus, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.
The country now accounts for 18,409,666 cases and 325,539 deaths from covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Christmas brings relief from restrictions
Until next Saturday there will be some relief from the restrictions that have been applied due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There is no ban on movement between municipalities and the curfew is only between 2 am and 5 am, even in high, very high and extreme risk counties.
Last week, the prime minister said that the evolution of the pandemic showed that it was not necessary to “pull the handbrake for Christmas”. António Costa also showed confidence in the Portuguese and believes that the Portuguese will pass the court “with care”.
On Saturday, December 26, for municipalities at very high and extreme risk levels, the ban on driving on public roads starts only at 11 pm and not at 1 pm, as has been the case over the past weekends.
On Sunday, the 27th, the municipalities of very high and extreme risk will once again have a mandatory curfew from 1 pm and trade and restaurants must also close at that time.-
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