Curfews and other virus restrictions are returning to many regions of Spain as the country tries to curb a surge in more contagious Delta cases
The northeastern region of Catalonia is expected to ask the courts for permission to impose a nightly curfew in its hardest-hit cities, including Barcelona.
The coronavirus infection rate for people aged 20- 29 in Catalonia has jumped to 3,311 cases per 100,000 people, compared to a national average of 437 cases among people of all ages. Unlike in other waves of infections, deaths have remained low and hospital ICUs have so far not been overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients, possibly because patients are younger.
The court's decision comes in response to a petition filed by far-right party Vox, which argued the measures were overly harsh and constituted a suspension rather than a limitation of civil liberties. "We want to get out of this lockdown as soon as we can and that is why we have the settings in place that we have."
Among the seven new cases in the state, one person attended a football match at Melbourne Cricket Ground while contagious, making the country's biggest sports stadium a designated exposure site, the authorities said. But that drew criticism from the European Commission as it risked undermining an EU-wide Covid travel certificate.A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a "cruise to nowhere" has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of Covid-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board were confined to their cabins.
Singapore, which has seen relatively few domestic Covid-19 cases, launched "round trips" on luxury liners in November, with no port of call during a few days of sailing.
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