Pujemona, Tony Comino and Clara Ponsati won seats in the European Parliament in 2019, where they received immunity as MEPs, reports AP.

400 deputies voted for the abolition of Pujmon’s parliamentary immunity, 248 were against, and 45 abstained.

Pujemon and several of his colleagues fled to Belgium in October 2017, fearing arrest after referendum on the independence of Catalonia which Spain declared illegal.

Pujamon’s legal team is planning to appeal the waiver of immunity before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

All are the subject of European arrest warrants issued by Spain, which is requesting their extradition in connection with their role in organizing the referendum on independence in 2017, which the Spanish court considers illegal, Reuters reports.

Belgium has so far rejected Spain’s requests. A court in January refused to extradite Luis Puig, another former member of the Catalan government living in Belgium, on charges of misuse of public funds.

Various leaders on the independence of Catalonia have been convicted in Spain on the same charge of rebellion in 2019 and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison.

The World Health Organization has serious reservations about the EU Commission’s plan for a “digital vaccination passport against Covidi-19”.

The WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told the daily Die Welt that he was not sure how long the immunity would last after vaccination against the coronavirus. The WHO therefore rejects the required vaccination booklets.

“We understand that governments are facing a political reality,” said the Belgian doctor, adding that the launch of these booklets, which have been announced for this summer, is “probably inevitable”.

“But this is not a WHO recommendation,” he added. The European Commission will present the draft law on the “digital green booklet” on March 17. It will record coronary vaccinations, COVID-19 disease and negative tests. The goal is to find a safe way to lift restrictions and travel to Europe. The technical conditions for this booklet are expected to be ready within three months so that vaccinated people can prove their immunization throughout Europe without the risk of counterfeiting.

Kluge expects the pandemic to end in about ten months. He assumes that 2021 will be another year with COVID-19, and that 2020 was as Terra Incognita puts it. “A year later we know a lot more. “That’s why I assume the pandemic will end in early 2022,” he said, adding that this did not mean the virus was gone, but it would no longer be a destructive intervention.

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Creator of Swedish strategy in the fight against the corona ACKNOWLEDGES: Immunity of Swedes LESS THAN EXPECTED

Collective immunity to the corona virus in Sweden is most likely lower than previously estimated, said today Anders Tegnel, a leading epidemiologist in this Scandinavian country and the creator of an unusual strategy in the fight against corona.

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The number of dead and infected has increased in previous months and is achieving the worst results, Reuters reports.

Tegnel was strongly against the state of emergency and restrictive measures, as well as wearing masks, he admitted that the country is struggling with the second wave of the corona, although he said in August that the second wave was unlikely for Sweden.

– I do not think that defining anything is important now, but we see that the corona is spreading simultaneously in many regions at the moment – he said at the press conference.

Sweden registered 4,658 newly infected people today, a little less than the worst day that happened last week, while 40 people died.

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