Coronavirus live news: COVID cases in South Korea top 3,000; Northern Ireland to relax travel rules

Russia An additional 22,041 COVID cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 7,398,415.

The highest number of cases were in Moscow, which recorded 3,211 infections, while St Petersburg recorded 1,907 cases.

Another 822 Covid patients died in a span of 24 hours, while 16,325 were cured across the country.

President Nayib Bukele said a booster shot would be offered to Salvadoran health workers, vulnerable and elderly people.

The Central American nation of about 6.4 million people has received 12m vaccines since February, Reuters reports.

Bukele said on Twitter that the third shots would be given to people over 60, frontline health workers, teachers, the armed forces, police and firefighters, as well as people from Salvadorans.

“Keeping in mind the success of the third dose in Israel, we have decided to start with the third dose in El Salvador,” the president said. From Sunday, people will be able to book an appointment for vaccination.

Panama, Ecuador and Chile are also offering third jobs for at-risk populations.

Israel Encouraged by the US to give booster shots to as many patients as possible, the US is moving forward with its campaign to give a third dose for those over 12.

The AP news agency reports that Israeli officials attribute their third wave of suppression to the booster shot rollout, and expect the US and others to expand their campaign in the coming months.

The decision reinforced our results that the third dose is safe,” said Dr Nadav Davydovich, head of the School of Public Health at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. “The main question now is of priority.”

The WHO has called on countries to hold off on giving booster doses until at least the end of the year so that people in poor countries can get their initial dose.

Davydovich acknowledged the problem, saying: “We know for certain that the current system of vaccine nationalism is hurting all of us, and that it is creating variants”, but added that the problem is “much wider than in Israel.” “.

Northern Ireland The UK will relax rules on COVID-19 testing for international travel from October in line with the rest of the country.

From 4 October, fully vaccinated travelers will no longer have to take the pre-departure test upon arrival from non-red list countries from 4 October.

This change, which will come into effect from 4 am on October 4, has been welcomed by the travel industry.

The announcement follows a simplification of travel rules in England, whereby the travel traffic light system was replaced by a red list. Pre-departure testing has also been abolished for jabbed passengers, while passengers returning to England from October will be able to take a lateral flow test instead of PCR on the second day.

cases of covid South Korea Topped 3,000 this week for the first time after a three-day holiday.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) told Reuters that another 3,273 infections were added to the country’s tally as the outbreak continued to grow.

Of the new cases, 3,245 were locally transmitted and 28 were imported, taking the total number of cases to 298,402 infections with 2,441 deaths. More than 77% of domestic cases were in the capital Seoul and neighboring areas of the city, where nearly half of South Koreans live.

The death rate remained low, at 0.82%, helped by the rollout of its vaccine. South Korea has vaccinated 73.5% of its 52 million population with at least one dose of the vaccine, and has completely vaccinated about 45%.