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Boris Johnson’s official spokesman confirmed on Tuesday that the government intends to go ahead with the plan to introduce vaccine passports. 

A British veteran said that many veterans are willing to take a stand against the “tyranny” imposed by Boris Johnson’s government.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of London, demanding that the government does not implement the proposed vaccine passport system.

Communist officials in China’s Yunnan province forcibly quarantined over 5,000 residents of Jiegao district this week.

Over 200 businesses, faith, and political leaders in Britain joined with medical professionals to denounce vaccine passports.

Shanghai government officials locked down at least 6,000 residents over the weekend to contain the city’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, Shanghai Daily’s online news platform, SHINE, reported Sunday.

Local government officials in Australia had dogs due to be rescued from a council pound shot dead, to stop shelter workers from going to pick them up during Covid. 

(AFP) — Hundreds were arrested after violent clashes between anti-lockdown protesters and police in Australia’s two largest cities Saturday as the country recorded its sharpest rise in daily Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.

Samuel Deuth, a member of the pastoral team at Awaken Church in San Diego, California, spoke at the County Board of Supervisors meeting this week and blasted lockdowns and mandates while vowing to “never close” church doors again.

Imperial College London’s Professor Neil Ferguson had predicted there could be a “large wave of infection” once children go back to school and white-collar workers return to their offices this Autumn, in the latest doom scenario offered by one of the architects of Britain’s lockdown policies.

Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor Josh Green (D) is threatening another round of economic and travel restrictions, supposedly to prevent the spread of coronavirus — blaming the authoritarian measure on residents of the island who are not vaccinated against the disease.

(AFP) — Australia’s biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the “most concerning day of the pandemic” so far.

The chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) ordered his officers to “strictly enforce” a ban on outdoor exercise in the Philippine national capital, Manila, on Wednesday while the city remains under lockdown to limit transmission of the Chinese coronavirus.

Canberra ordered the entire Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to over 431,000 people, into total lockdown Thursday for seven days to contain four new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.

New Zealand is closing its borders for the remainder of the year, continuing the country’s embrace of a total isolationist strategy in its fight against the coronavirus.

Fully vaccinated people in England will be free from having to self-isolate if having had contact with a covid-positive case from next week, but they will be asked to wear a mask, limit social interactions, and take a PCR test.

Top members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government are lobbying for the implementation of vaccine passports in Germany.

Shuttering businesses, keeping children out of schools, and devastating economies with stringent lockdown measures is not the answer.

France’s controversial vaccine passport system came into effect on Monday, with police patrolling, demanding citizens present health papers.

Police in Switzerland have threatened to stop enforcing coronavirus measures if the restrictions become too unpopular with citizens.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for Americans to stand up to “petty tyrants” using “fear and propaganda” to control society.

A leading lockdown-sceptic Conservative MP has branded “disproportionate” plans being considered to pressure nightclubs to use vaccine passports during ‘covid surges’ as the price for staying fully open.

‘Professor Lockdown’ Dr Neil Ferguson has admitted that his latest doomsday predictions about a summer wave of the Chinese virus were “off”.

A contingency plan for the implementation of “firebreak” lockdowns in the winter have been drawn up by the British government.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) reaffirmed Wednesday that he will not implement a new face mask order or force businesses in the Lone Star State to close down due to the spread of the coronavirus, saying “lockdowns are wrong.”

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference on Tuesday that his state will not return to lockdown protocol in the wake of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, Australia, told a press conference on Tuesday that unvaccinated elderly people should avoid contact with their grandchildren after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in four local schools.

A police officer was attacked and killed Tuesday morning on a Metro Bus platform outside the Pentagon.

Beijing government officials cut off most transport into the city on Monday in an effort to protect China’s national capital from a nationwide surge of the Chinese coronavirus, the state-run Global Times reported.

The Pentagon is on lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired on a Metro Bus platform near the building.

Author Peter Hitchens has predicted that Britain could still be debating coronavirus restrictions in a year, after the UK has been under some form of lockdown or restrictions since March 2020.

A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.

Silicon Valley tech giant Youtube has banned the centre-right Sky News Australia network from uploading video content.

Almost half of Britons are avoiding social contact to reduce the chance of being caught up in the ‘pingdemic’ and asked to self-isolate, a poll has revealed.

Republican Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday, where he discussed new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) which recommends that vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in certain areas.