Brazil reports 42,159 Covid-19 cases and 1,056 deaths. Other Covid19 updates: 🇦🇺 Australia's Victoria reports 29 local cases 🇺🇲 United Airlines makes shots compulsory for US employees 🇦🇷 Argentina partially reopens as it approaches 5 mln cases Read more:
An aerial view shows the Parque Taruma cemetery amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, July 7, 2021. Brazil had 42,159 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,056 deaths, the Health Ministry has said.
Victoria, Australia's second most populous state and home to nearly 7 million people, on Thursday night entered into its sixth lockdown since the pandemic began, just weeks after exiting the last one. United Airlines Inc has become the first US airline to require vaccinations for all domestic employees, joining a swelling list of companies mandating jabs for workers as cases rise.
Earlier in the day, United, the No. 3 US carrier by revenues in 2019 according to government data, said its 67,000 US employees would need to show proof of inoculation for a vaccine fully approved by the US Food and Drug Administration .Argentina will relax restrictions as infection and mortality rates falls, the government has announced, even as the South American nation approaches 5 million cases with more than 107,000 deaths.
Vaccinations have increased in recent days after a surge in virus transmission last month, in the dead of the Southern Hemisphere winter when more people were tempted to socialise indoors, away from the icy winds coming up from the Antarctic. The plant, owned by Emergent Biosolutions, was producing vaccines for AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson but US health regulators in April halted operations following a discovery that J&J's vaccine was contaminated with material used in the AstraZeneca shots.
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