{"id":38421,"date":"2021-10-28T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/oct\/28\/coronavirus-live-singapore-sees-unusual-surge-in-cases-europe-covid-deaths-rise-14-in-a-week"},"modified":"2021-10-29T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:24:09","slug":"coronavirus-live-singapore-sees-unusual-surge-in-cases-europe-covid-deaths-rise-14-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38421","title":{"rendered":"Covid live: Vallance warns of \u2018difficult UK winter\u2019; Moscow in partial lockdown amid record Russian cases, deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief scientific adviser to UK government says high level of cases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/oct\/28\/coronavirus-live-singapore-sees-unusual-surge-in-cases-europe-covid-deaths-rise-14-in-a-week?page=with:block-617a60848f08fe3ad9f41cbc#block-617a60848f08fe3ad9f41cbc\">\u2018remains a concern\u2019<\/a>; Russia records over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/oct\/28\/coronavirus-live-singapore-sees-unusual-surge-in-cases-europe-covid-deaths-rise-14-in-a-week?page=with:block-617a5b768f08ea671ec0c0ba#block-617a5b768f08ea671ec0c0ba\">40,000 new cases and record 1,159 Covid deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/28\/russia-brings-in-harsh-new-covid-measures-amid-record-cases-and-deaths\">Russia brings in harsh new  measures amid record cases and deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/28\/india-over-100-million-people-fail-to-turn-up-for-second-covid-vaccine\">India: over 100 million people fail to turn up for second Covid vaccine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/28\/eu-gives-go-ahead-nhs-covid-pass-proof-full-vaccination\">EU gives go-ahead to UK\u2019s NHS Covid pass as proof of full vaccination<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/28\/face-mask-row-in-japan-over-cost-of-80m-left-in-storage-unused-abenomask\">Face mask row in Japan over cost of 80m left in storage unused<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\/all\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Stephen Reicher is a member of the Sage subcommittee in the UK advising on behavioural science, and he writes for us this morning saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/28\/covid-measures-choice-restrictions-science-freedom-infections-safe\">Covid measures give us choice \u2013 they are not restrictions on British life<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Regarding ventilation, I would institute a system whereby all public spaces were required to indicate their \u201cclean air\u201d status<\/strong>, just as kitchens in restaurants are required to indicate their hygiene status. I would also improve the messaging so that people know how important it is and how to know when they are safe. This wouldn\u2019t amount to a restriction. It\u2019s a protection. It doesn\u2019t limit choice. On the contrary, in increasing the number of spaces that are safe, it gives us more choice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/oct\/28\/coronavirus-live-singapore-sees-unusual-surge-in-cases-europe-covid-deaths-rise-14-in-a-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief scientific adviser to UK government says high level of cases \u2018remains a concern\u2019; Russia records over 40,000 new cases and record 1,159 Covid deathsRussia brings in harsh new  measures amid record cases and deathsIndia: over 100 million people fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,221,783,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-singapore","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38448,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38421\/revisions\/38448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}