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LONDON (AP) – The British government waited too long to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, missing a chance to contain the disease and leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, a parliamentary report concluded Tuesday.

An official at the U.N. said he will press at the upcoming climate summit regulating the used car market to advance electric vehicles.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart London, Sir Graham Brady, whose role as the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs makes him the most powerful Conservative in the United Kingdom outside of government, criticised the “heavy-handed” policing seen during Australia’s strict coronavirus lockdowns.

Six million people in Spain are in severe poverty, a figure that has increased by 50 per cent since 2018 as the pandemic fuels even more economic problems for Spaniards.

Senior minister Nadhim Zahawi has said that the UK does not need a Canadian-style vaccine mandate; but the British government has already made vaccination mandatory for care home workers and is considering the same measures for the more than one million staff in the NHS.

Sir Graham Brady said he will resist the mission creep of coronavirus vaccine passports into a social credit score “at all costs”.

KEYSTONE, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) told Breitbart News exclusively that she believes President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold life-saving monoclonal antibody medicine from sick Americans with coronavirus nationwide including in her state constitutes “rationing” of the treatment.

Boris Johnson’s government has once again raised the spectre of imposing a vaccine passport scheme under a so-called “Plan B” for the winter.

As the so-called fuel crisis continued, the government has put the army on standby to deliver petrol and is recruiting foreign workers while critics blame Brexit. However, former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has blamed the coronavirus lockdown for slowing the processing of drivers’ licences and long-term planning failures by haulier firms and government.

President Joe Biden said Monday he wanted to get up to 98 percent of Americans vaccinated before the country could go back to normal.

London’s Metropolitan Police shut down a peaceful protest against vaccine passports and other coronavirus restrictions on Saturday.

Johnson’s government is counting on vaccines to do the heavy lifting against the virus, supplemented by voluntary “common sense” behaviour.

Unvaccinated Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl could be banned from attending large political events as the city of Vienna tightens its Wuhan virus rules.

Social distancing could return in the Winter if there is a “significant uptick” in hospital admissions for the Chinese coronavirus, but a “full-blown lockdown” is unlikely, Professor Neil Ferguson has said.

Healthcare workers — before coronavirus vaccines were even available — were notably heralded as “healthcare heroes.”

Six United Airlines employees are suing the company for its “draconian” Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.

The Chinese coronavirus has officially killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Axios reported on Monday.

Anti-lockdown protesters faced off with Melbourne police, forcing police vehicles to retreat as they smashed windows and hurled projectiles.

Labour’s mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who backs continued mask-wearing on public transport, has said, “we may need vaccine passports”.

Lockdown has forced many Canadian voters into long lines to vote on election day due to the reduction in the number of polling places.

A frustrated Boris Johnson plans to press Joe Biden over his failure to act on a pledge to ease travel restrictions on British citizens, months after Britain did the same for American citizens.

The number of children who went to Accident and Emergency in England suffering from severe mental health problems increased by more than 50 per cent since the beginning of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Escalator falls at tube stations have increased because Britons are frightened of catching coronavirus if they hold onto the handrails, a London Underground official has said.

Tony Blair said the government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports to stop another lockdown.

Nigel Farage said that he will not “obey” any future coronavirus lockdowns if Boris Johnson once again backtracks on his freedom promises.

(AFP) – Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.

French authorities have suspended 3,000 healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated against coronavirus, with France’s health minister saying that many have since agreed to be inoculated now that they had seen “the mandate was a reality”.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid ruled out domestic vaccines passports for pubs before not ruling them out “unless… something happens”.

Pfizer and BioNTech are set to seek FDA approval in November for their COVID vaccine to use in children between 6 months and 5 years old.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended domestic vaccine passports, calling them a “game-changer”.

Conservative MPs have warned that allowing children to override the wishes of their parents and be vaccinated against coronavirus could “pit parents against parents” and put too much pressure on children.

Boris Johnson has suggested that Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who said that domestic vaccine passports are off the table, and Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi, who said they were going ahead, are “both right” in the latest instance of unclear messaging coming from the government.

Chris Whitty announced on Monday that children from the ages of 12 to 15 years old will be offered coronavirus vaccinations in England.

The chief of the UK’s biggest union has warned that tens of thousands of people could lose their jobs under the government’s plans to enforce vaccination on care home staff and potentially for NHS staff.

The streets of France were flooded for the ninth straight week with protesters against President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport scheme.