UK All-Party Parliamentary Group calls for ‘urgent clarity’ new restrictions; Chile to loosen restrictions for those vaccinated against Covid-19; US ‘travellers should avoid all travel to Japan,’ says CDC
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New Zealand is pausing its quarantine-free travel bubble with Victoria for three days after a recent cluster of community cases in the Australian state grew to five.
The country’s Covid-19 response minister, Chris Hipkins, said the suspension would begin at 7.59pm NZT and would be under constant review.
Victoria introduced ten days of restrictions in greater Melbourne on Tuesday, including limits on public and private gatherings and mandatory mask-wearing indoors, after a fifth person contracted the virus in the north of Melbourne. Four community cases were announced a day earlier.
Authorities are scrambling to identify and test close contacts of the cases, and have also asked people who have visited a number of locations to get tested and quarantine.
The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus has called on the Government to provide “urgent clarity” on restrictions in areas in England where the Indian variant is spreading.
Official guidance has been updated to advise against all but essential travel in Bedford, Blackburn and Darwen, Bolton, Burnley, Kirklees, Leicester, Hounslow, and North Tyneside, where the variant is growing fastest.
The guidance appears to have been changed last week without an official announcement and Layla Moran, who chairs the APPG on Coronavirus, said this risked causing “confusion and uncertainty”.
She said: “This is a major change to policy that will have a huge impact on people’s lives. Simply updating the Government website without an official announcement is a recipe for confusion and uncertainty.
“Local people and public health leaders in these areas need urgent clarity from the Government. Matt Hancock must come before Parliament and make a public statement to explain these new rules.
“It seems crucial lessons have still not been learnt about the importance of clear messaging during a pandemic.”
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