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Home›Washington Health Care›Live: Daily coronavirus updates, December 21: What you need to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world

Live: Daily coronavirus updates, December 21: What you need to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world

By Tomas S. Mercer
December 21, 2021
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More than half of U.S. states, several business coalitions and church groups are calling on Supreme Court justices to block the Biden administration’s mandate demanding that employees at large companies get vaccinated or routinely tested for the virus .

At the same time, the administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift lower court rulings blocking the immunization mandate for healthcare workers at facilities that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding.

As of Sunday, health officials had administered more than 60 million booster doses of COVID-19, meaning about 30% of the fully vaccinated population in the country received a booster.

Former President Donald Trump was booed by a crowd in Dallas when he revealed he had received the recall. Trump made the reveal Sunday night on the final stop of “The History Tour,” a live interview show he performed with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.

We are updating this page with the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the Seattle area, the United States, and the world. Click here to see live updates from previous days and all of our other coronavirus coverage, and here to see how we’re tracking the daily spread across Washington.

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Spain faces new restrictions despite high vaccination rates

Despite vaccination rates that make other governments envious, Spain faces the stark truth that with the new omicron variant rampant, these winter holidays will not be a time of unbridled joy.

The country had hoped to build on the willingness of 80% of its entire population of 47 million (90% of those over the age of 12) to queue for vaccines with little or no money. prompting and widespread use of face masks to have a Christmas that looked a lot more like 2019 than last year.

But the incredibly rapid spread of the omicron variant that reached Spain less than a month ago is starting to put pressure on hospitals, even though experts agree that being vaccinated reduces further. considerably the risk of becoming seriously ill.

Catalonia, home to the northeastern city of Barcelona, ​​is poised to become the first Spanish region to reestablish serious limitations and put a damper on holiday joy. One in four people hospitalized in Spain with COVID-19 is in Catalonia.

Read the story here.

-The Associated Press

7:21

Entry controls in Japan will remain until more is known about omicron

Japan will maintain its recently reimposed strict border controls, which prohibit most foreign entry, until more information is known about the omicron variant of the coronavirus, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday.

Kishida said he would also require 14-day quarantines at government-designated facilities for those who come in close contact with omicron patients, instead of the current stay-at-home policy.

Kishida did not specify a timeline for border controls, among the world’s strictest, which had been briefly relaxed but were later reinstated amid the global upsurge of the omicron variant.

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—Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press

6:21 a.m.

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Seattle Times Staff and News Services


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