Coronavirus live news: Social gathering banned in Los Angeles as infections rise by 21,000 in Germany Country

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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 21,695 to 1,028,089, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Saturday.

The reported death toll rose by 379 to 15,965, the tally showed.
The Australian Capital Territory has recorded one new Covid-19 case in a returned traveller.

Health authorities say the woman in her 20s contracted the virus more than a month ago while overseas.

She returned a low positive result during routine testing on day one of mandatory quarantine. We believe this represents her old overseas-acquired infection.

She is not considered infectious and contract tracing will not be required.

The woman returned to Australia on a government-facilitated charter flight that arrived on 26 November.

People at very high risk of contracting coronavirus due to health problems, who were made to shield during the pandemic, have been given the same priority as the over-70s to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in the UK.

People aged 18 or older deemed “clinically extremely vulnerable” are in the same priority group as those aged 70 and over, according to the provisional vaccine priority list published by Public Health England.

It means people with conditions such as blood, bone or lung cancer, chronic kidney disease and Down’s syndrome have been placed in priority group four of nine.

The updated list, which is subject to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approving a vaccine supply, also lists the conditions that fall in priority group six for at-risk adults aged 18 to 65.

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Health officials in South Australia are concerned by the lack of testing in the state as cases associated with the Parafield cluster continue to trickle in.

Only 3,840 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, despite the state being plunged into a brief lockdown less than two weeks ago.

“In terms of testing, it has been quite a drop and I was a little bit disappointed when I saw this number this morning,” the state’s chief health officer, Nicola Spurrier, said in a press conference today:

I want to see that go higher ... I think it was the weather – it was so hot, most people stayed inside, which was a sensible thing to do. Let’s see what the numbers are today.

She again urged anyone with even the mildest symptoms to get tested, saying the cluster remained “a really significant concern for me and also for most of South Australians I am sure”.

Just a bit more from Reuters on the news of new lockdowns in Los Angeles:

The Los Angeles County measures, affecting some 20 million people living in and around the nation’s second-largest city, go beyond a curfew imposed last week by the California governor, Gavin Newsom – barring social gatherings and other non-essential activities across most of the state between 10pm and 5am.

Taken together, they represent the most stringent Covid-19 measures imposed on the Los Angeles area since California’s first-in-the-nation statewide lockdown in March, early in the pandemic. They also are among the most restrictive in effect nationwide.

State and local authorities have instituted, or reimposed, a wide range of limitations on social and economic activity in hopes of blunting a wave of coronavirus infections raging out of control across the country following a late-summer lull.

Political leaders and health officials have also escalated public appeals to pandemic-weary Americans in recent days urging them to stay home, avoid gatherings and curtail Christmas shopping as they wait for promised vaccines.

In announcing the latest temporary constraints, LA county health officials said the daily tally of newly documented infections had exceeded 4,500 cases for five straight days, crossing a threshold previously set for additional measures to curb the contagion.

Under the new LA County order, which runs through 20 December, residents are advised – but not required – to stay home as much as possible and to always wear face coverings when outside their homes and around others.

But any social gatherings of people from more than one household are prohibited, whether in public or private, and whether indoors or outside. The latest order still permits some measure of commercial activity, albeit at reduced levels.

It lowers the maximum occupancy levels for “essential” retail businesses, including grocery stores, to 35% of capacity, while non-essential retail locations such as indoor shopping malls and personal care services such as nail salons can remain open at 20% of capacity.

Beaches, trails and parks remain open, too, so long as individuals keep their distance from others outside their households and wear a mask. The same applies to golf courses, tennis courts, skate parks and other outdoor recreational venues.

All indoor and outdoor service at bars, restaurants, wineries and breweries remains prohibited under an earlier county order that restricted them to takeout and delivery only.

Health officials around the country have warned that the holiday travel season and onset of colder weather – leading to greater social mixing and people congregating indoors – is fuelling a Covid-19 surge that has sent infections, hospitalisations and deaths to record levels.

Nearly 388,000 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed across Los Angeles County to date, including more than 7,600 deaths, with 10% of all diagnostic tests coming back positive – twice the rate considered concerning by health authorities.