{"id":39171,"date":"2021-11-23T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/23\/covid-news-live-india-records-smallest-daily-rise-in-cases-in-18-months-despite-festivals"},"modified":"2021-11-23T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:12:26","slug":"covid-live-europe-death-toll-set-to-pass-two-million-by-march-warns-who-people-in-ni-urged-to-work-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39171","title":{"rendered":"Covid live: Europe death toll set to pass two million by March, warns WHO; people in NI urged to work from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest updates: global health agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/23\/covid-news-live-india-records-smallest-daily-rise-in-cases-in-18-months-despite-festivals?page=with:block-619cd4088f08adafd1602035#block-619cd4088f08adafd1602035\">says Europe remains \u2018in  firm grip\u2019 of  pandemic<\/a>; Stormont ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/23\/covid-news-live-india-records-smallest-daily-rise-in-cases-in-18-months-despite-festivals?page=with:block-619cccf88f0831fdaebba237#block-619cccf88f0831fdaebba237\">agree new Northern Ireland<\/a> measures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/astrazeneca-chief-links-europes-covid-surge-to-rejection-of-firms-vaccine\">AstraZeneca chief links Europe\u2019s Covid surge to rejection of firm\u2019s vaccine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/23\/covid-news-live-india-records-smallest-daily-rise-in-cases-in-18-months-despite-festivals?page=with:block-619c8c4c8f08a29130809a5e#block-619c8c4c8f08a29130809a5e\">Slovakian prime minister Eduard Heger considers 3-week lockdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/austria-re-enters-covid-lockdown-as-europe-battles-virus-surge\">Germany issues warning: \u2018vaccinated, cured or dead\u2019 by end of winter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/pandemic-hits-mental-health-of-women-and-young-people-hardest-survey-finds\">Young women\u2019s mental health hit hardest by pandemic, research shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the latest from Reuters on the situation in Germany, where the acting health minister called on Tuesday for further restrictions to contain a \u201cdramatic\u201d surge in coronavirus cases as the country\u2019s infection rate hit a record high and the United States advised against travel there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seven-day incidence rate &#8211; the number of people per 100,000 to be infected over the last week &#8211; hit 399.8 on Tuesday, up from 386.5 on Monday, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed.<\/p>\n<p>Access to healthcare is expensive and, in an emergency, villagers are forced to walk for hours to the nearest health facility. For women, the lack of facilities, combined with patriarchal attitudes, means they have had no control over their reproductive health. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatafrica.org\/\">Communities Health Africa Trust<\/a> (Chat) organises mobile healthcare outreach to poorly served communities such as Lekiji. Chat identifies vulnerable communities with limited access to health facilities and significant family planning needs, and brings health provision and education to their door.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of roads is no barrier to their work. If they cannot reach the communities by car, they switch to an older form of transport: camel. In the past three years Chat has reached more than 100,000 people with behaviour-changing messages that focus on family planning but include TB, HIV and Covid prevention services across 14 counties in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/nov\/23\/covid-news-live-india-records-smallest-daily-rise-in-cases-in-18-months-despite-festivals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest updates: global health agency says Europe remains \u2018in  firm grip\u2019 of  pandemic; Stormont ministers agree new Northern Ireland measuresAstraZeneca chief links Europe\u2019s Covid surge to rejection of firm\u2019s vaccineSlovakian prime minister Eduard Hege&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2654,"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":[1066,221,533,62,1229,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-germany","category-india","category-slovakia","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\/39171","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\/2654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39171\/revisions\/39172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}