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France is allowing health workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients.

In a shock move, the French National Assembly rejected a push to transform the nation’s COVID pass into a fully vaccine passport.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Joe Biden’s mask and vaccine mandates for Texas Head Start programs.

Pressley announced on New Year’s Eve that she tested positive for coronavirus, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted.

The Austrian government has announced it will be extending the general lockdown for all unvaccinated residents as the Omicron variant of the Wuhan virus spreads across the country.

The video shows officers from NYPD’s Strategic Response Group asking several unvaccinated patrons to leave the restaurant. 

PARIS (AP) – France’s government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on unvaccinated people to get coronavirus jabs, as the omicron variant fuels a record surge in infections.

Delta Air Lines said Monday updated pandemic cleaning rules inside a Shanghai airport were to blame for the reversal of a flight outbound from Seattle in midair, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Germany’s highest court said that officials must craft rules to protect disabled people if hospitals triage patients during the pandemic.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper mocked President Joe Biden for abandoning his campaign promise to end the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and instead declaring on Monday that “no federal solution” to the problem exists.

More Americans plan to attend a religious services this Christmas after attendance waned during the coronavirus pandemic last year.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that “Getting jabbed… not just for ourselves” but for others as well is “the teaching of Jesus Christ” in a Covid-heavy Christmas message. 

Anti-Covid passport protestors broke through a police line to protest in front of the Romanian parliament, entering the building’s courtyard before being stopped by police.

The Supreme Court announced late Wednesday that it will hear oral arguments in appeals against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates for businesses with 100-plus employees and for healthcare workers.

The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) said Wednesday that more attention needs to be paid to the deleterious effects of measures such as school closings and lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Blair has called for preparations for a fourth vaccination rollout and rejected the legitimacy of debate around corona passports.

An independent café owner in the South Korean port city of Incheon announced plans on Tuesday to remain open 24 hours in the coming days to protest state-mandated business curfews designed to curb Chinese coronavirus transmission, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.

The British government purchased wraparound cover advertisements in the nation’s top newspapers to promote the vaccine booster campaign.

Twenty-five out of 50 states must once again abide by President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

Deputy British Prime Minister Dominic Raab has refused to rule out that England may once again be forced into a lockdown before Christmas. England is once again facing the prospect of lockdown restrictions being imposed during the holidays with the

The implementation of vaccine passports in France is a “disguised” mandate, the country’s Minister of Health admitted on Sunday.

Piers Corbyn has been arrested over footage in which he apparently called for people to “burn down” the homes of pro-lockdown politicians.

Leading political figures in Germany have signalled that they would support a vaccine registry to collect a list of those vaccinated.

Central London descended into chaotic scenes on Saturday after police squared off with demonstrators in a large-scale protest against the latest coronavirus restrictions.

A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 employees or more.

The British government is reportedly drafting plans for a two-week “circuit breaker” lockdown amid doomsday predictions from scientific advisors.

From Saturday, December 18th, travellers from Britain to France will need “compelling reasons” to enter the country, following the increase of Omicron cases in the UK, despite the UK scrapping its own ‘Red List’.

The real estate sector of the U.S. economy broke many records during the coronavirus pandemic, including high prices and people moving.

Britain’s increasingly ugly, bought and paid for tabloid media is ramping up its war against so-called ‘vaccine refuseniks’ and it is starting to get really vicious and unpleasant.

Several U.S. hospital systems rescinded their vaccine mandates after a federal judge blocked Biden’s mandate for healthcare workers.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus will start vaccinating kids between the ages of 5 to 11, the government said Monday in fresh bid to head off another COVID-19 surge following the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.

Boris Johnson appeared to issue a veiled threat to citizens that failing to “get boosted” as a matter of urgency could see their “freedoms” and “way of life” taken away in an address to the nation.

Spain’s birthrate declined by over five per cent during 2020, further reducing the already low birthrate in the country, while the mortality rate jumped nearly 18 per cent.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Armenia’s parliament approved a law Friday that would allow employers to fire workers who refuse to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result.

BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers are debating a bill Friday that would require staff at hospitals and nursing homes to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs.

A member of the populist Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has expressed concern that amendments to a law on administrative enforcement could be used to imprison unvaccinated people for as long as a year.