Airlines calling for tests for all international passengers
coronairus
23 Sep 2020
/ 17:02
(CGTN Europe). Global airlines have called for departure tests for all international passengers to replace the current quarantine regulations.
• A European Union leaders summit, scheduled to start on Thursday, has been postponed after European Council President Charles Michel began a period of self-isolation after a security guard he had been in contact with tested positive.
• Deaths from COVID-19 in Europe increased by 27 percent week on week as the World Health Organization reported the global infection rate was at its highest level.
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for citizens to come together for "collective health" in a televised address to the nation shortly after announcing new restrictions that could last six months.
• Hundreds of students in Dundee, Scotland, are being told to self-isolate after a student at the city's Abertay University tested positive for the virus.
• French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline have pledged up to 72 million doses of their new vaccine to the Canadian government after they have both received regulatory approval.
• Global airlines have called for departure tests for all international passengers to replace the current quarantine regulations. German airline Lufthansa has already announced plans to make rapid tests available to its passengers from October.
• Spain's government has agreed with labor unions that employers must cover their workers' expenses after the pandemic forced many people across the country to work from home.
• The world's largest planemaker, Airbus, is considering making more job cuts after CEO Guillaume Faury warned voluntary redundancies might not be enough.
• Wine industry workers in Spain's Alava region must take a COVID-19 test before they go to work to prevent putting the grape harvest at risk.
• Johnson and Johnson has begun the final phase of testing of its single dose vaccine which could give them an advantage when it comes to mass immunization.
• Deaths from COVID-19 in Europe increased by 27 percent week on week as the World Health Organization reported the global infection rate was at its highest level.
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for citizens to come together for "collective health" in a televised address to the nation shortly after announcing new restrictions that could last six months.
• Hundreds of students in Dundee, Scotland, are being told to self-isolate after a student at the city's Abertay University tested positive for the virus.
• French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline have pledged up to 72 million doses of their new vaccine to the Canadian government after they have both received regulatory approval.
• Global airlines have called for departure tests for all international passengers to replace the current quarantine regulations. German airline Lufthansa has already announced plans to make rapid tests available to its passengers from October.
• Spain's government has agreed with labor unions that employers must cover their workers' expenses after the pandemic forced many people across the country to work from home.
• The world's largest planemaker, Airbus, is considering making more job cuts after CEO Guillaume Faury warned voluntary redundancies might not be enough.
• Wine industry workers in Spain's Alava region must take a COVID-19 test before they go to work to prevent putting the grape harvest at risk.
• Johnson and Johnson has begun the final phase of testing of its single dose vaccine which could give them an advantage when it comes to mass immunization.
