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Germany is heading for a major new nationwide lockdown to stem the rapid spread of the coronavirus after health experts said that to wait until after Christmas to wind the country down could cost tens of thousands of lives and overwhelm hospitals.

The country recorded almost 23,000 new cases on Wednesday morning, and 598 deaths, both rates higher than at any time since the start of the pandemic.

Leading politicians urged the government to act immediately to instigate what some media were calling a “blitz lockdown”.

Watch your back Poland!

Over 1,000 British Columbians protested their province’s increasing COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday, gathering at the Vancouver Art Gallery before marching throughout the surrounding area.

Ontario is reporting its highest number of deaths in COVID-19 patients in any 24-hour period since the spring.

The Ministry of Health says that 45 people who had tested positive for COVID-19 died on Thursday, marking a tragic new high for the second wave of the pandemic.

COVID-19: Four Pfizer vaccine volunteers develop Bell’s palsy

As the United Kingdom started inoculating people with the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, four volunteers who were administered the vaccine in the trial stage developed Bell’s palsy, according to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators. Bell’s palsy is a form of temporary facial paralysis.

The US FDA regulators, however, noted that it was still unclear how Bell’s palsy was caused in these volunteers due to Pfizer vaccine. The US regulators stressed that doctors should closely monitor the side effect of the vaccine and continue to watch on how many people it strikes.

Police in the West Midlands have proudly released footage of themselves using a petrol disc cutter to cut their way into a football club to break up an illegal ‘lock in’ in breach of Chinese coronavirus rules.

Billionaire globalist Melinda Gates is “incredibly disappointed” that President Trump has put Americans first in line to receive the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine.

Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that it’s America’s and other high-income countries’ responsibility to make sure impoverished nations get access to the vaccine just as quickly as everyone else. 

People gathering to protest COVID-19 restrictions this weekend could be hit with much larger fines and court injunctions, the city’s top bylaw officer warned Wednesday.

While senior city officials said they’re still reluctant to physically prevent the weekly demonstrations from occurring, hiking fines to the maximum $100,000 and using the courts to forestall them are options.

Related… Germany notes ‘violent potential’ among anti-lockdown protesters

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, said large turnouts of the “Querdenker” (lateral thinker) movement — seen at recent anti-Corona-lockdown protests — harbored “intensified escalation potential.”

The Cologne-based office tasked with upholding Germany’s post-war constitution told newspapers of the Funke Media Group on Thursday that this had been the case at large protests where far-right groups had urged attendance.

Employers are either terrified — or foolish.

Various statutes, discussed in previous columns, put them at risk of incarceration or multimillion dollar fines if they play fast and loose with COVID-19 and its potential impact on their employees and customers.