{"id":38663,"date":"2021-11-05T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T09:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/05\/covid-news-live-hong-kong-expects-border-with-china-to-reopen-in-february-new-zealand-sees-record-high-covid-cases"},"modified":"2021-11-06T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T16:01:41","slug":"covid-live-germany-sets-second-consecutive-daily-record-for-new-cases-us-vaccine-manufacturer-loses-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38663","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live: everyone in Germany should get booster, says health minister; 1 in 50 in England had Covid last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/05\/covid-news-live-hong-kong-expects-border-with-china-to-reopen-in-february-new-zealand-sees-record-high-covid-cases?page=with:block-61853a8b8f08acc2f87bcad1#block-61853a8b8f08acc2f87bcad1\">German decision comes amid swelling fourth wave<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/05\/covid-news-live-hong-kong-expects-border-with-china-to-reopen-in-february-new-zealand-sees-record-high-covid-cases?page=with:block-6185270b8f08d02528cbdf64#block-6185270b8f08d02528cbdf64\"> figures show slightly slower growth in positive tests but officials urge caution<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/05\/pfizer-covid-pills-highly-effective-at-preventing-deaths-trial-suggests\">Pfizer pills highly effective at preventing Covid deaths, trial suggests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/chinese-journalist-jailed-over-covid-reporting-is-close-to-death-family-say\">Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting \u2018close to death\u2019, family say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/05\/australias-hospitals-overwhelmed-and-about-to-get-much-worse-warns-ama\">Australia\u2019s hospitals overwhelmed and \u2018about to get much worse\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/ventilate-home-stop-covid-spread-government-uk\">Ventilate your home to stop Covid spread, UK government says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/welsh-impact-covid-10-11-year-olds-cardiff-problems\">Welsh study shows impact of Covid on 10- and 11-year-olds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Germany recorded its second consecutive daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday as infections pick up across Europe, and its disease control centre said unvaccinated people face a \u201cvery high\u201d risk of infection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country reported 37,120 new infections over the past 24 hours, according to the centre, the Robert Koch Institute. That compared with Thursday\u2019s figure of 33,949 \u2013 which in turn topped the previous record of 33,777 set on 18 December last year.<br tabindex=\"-1\"><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/05\/covid-news-live-hong-kong-expects-border-with-china-to-reopen-in-february-new-zealand-sees-record-high-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German decision comes amid swelling fourth wave; figures show slightly slower growth in positive tests but officials urge cautionPfizer pills highly effective at preventing Covid deaths, trial suggestsChinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting \u2018clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"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":[41,50,1066,221,48,914,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","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\/38663","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38663\/revisions\/38675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}