+34Drone shows long queues for Covid-19 tests in Israel.
Tourists board boats as the coronavirus disease pandemic continues in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, January 3, 2022.If an employee has been diagnosed with Covid-19, an employer may only allow them to return to work after the mandatory 10 days of self-isolation.
, which said the employee may need to undergo a medical evaluation confirming their fitness to work. “At present, retesting people who have experienced mild illness, and have recovered from Covid-19, is not recommended,” said the NICD. “A person is considered safe to return to the workplace and discontinue self-isolation if they are no longer infectious. This means they developed their first symptoms more than 10 days prior and have not experienced any symptoms for at least three days . However, returning to work is dependent on the patient’s clinical state of health.”Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has indefinitely deferred the reopening of schools, citing high numbers of Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant.In his New Year address, Mnangagwa said the opening of schools would be “delayed until further notice”, and only examination classes would be allowed to reopen on January 10.Australia's antitrust regulator said on Tuesday it has contacted suppliers of Covid-19 rapid antigen test kits to examine pricing pressures in the market, as calls grow louder for the government to make the tests free amid a severe shortage of the kits.India reported 37,379 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, the most since early September as the Omicron coronavirus variant overtakes Delta in places such as the capital New Delhi.January 04 2022 - 06:15British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the right measures were in place to tackle the surge in Covid-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant given the high levels of vaccination in the country.The FDA authorized the use of a third dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 yearsDrone footage showed endless lines of cars along the roads leading to COVID-19 testing centers in the cities of Jerusalem and Ashdod in Israel.