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12 Dec: Deutsche Welle: Coronavirus digest: German police officers injured in COVID protest
by ar/fb (AP, dpa, Reuters)
Fourteen police officers were injured during a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictionsin the town of Greiz in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, police said Sunday...
Having organized on social media, 1,000 protesters gathered and formed a procession on a bridge Saturday. Police stopped the effort, but several protesters tried to break through police lines, prompting police to use tear gas.
The German dpa news agency said the confrontation was aggressive as firecrackers were set off in the direction of police. Two injured police officers were temporarily out of commission from injuries while another was treated in the hospital, authorities said.

The police have identified 207 of the protesters. They issued 108 orders to leave the area and initiated 44 criminal proceedings. There are also 47 proceedings for administrative offenses underway...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank reported that more than half a billion people have been forced into extreme poverty in the last year. They cited increasing health care costs amid the earliest waves of infections during the pandemic...

Also in Germany, Joshua Kimmich, a mid-fielder on the national soccer team who regularly plays for FC Bayern Munich, told public broadcaster ZDF that he now wants to be vaccinated against the virus.
“In general, it was just difficult for me to deal with my fears and concerns,” Kimmich told ZDF. “That’s why I was undecided for so long.”...

In the Netherlands, Dutch police arrested a man who offered kits online to self-infect with the coronavirus at home. On the site, buyers were promised the disease sample was not older than three months and allegedly “the latest mutations and variants are included” were included in the kit.
Authorities were unclear if the kits even worked but have since released the man...

In Brazil, Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled Saturday that travelers arriving in Brazil must present proof of vaccination.
President Jair Bolsonaro is opposed to the ruling and called for more lenient procedures. But the judge said he did not wish for the country to become a haven for what he described as “anti-vaccine tourism.”
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-german-police-officers-injured-in-covid-protest/a-60096573