Covid-19 restrictions lifted in England despite scientists' warning. Other key updates: 🇸🇸 South Sudan runs out of vaccines 🇦🇺 Australia to deport Katie Hopkins over virus breach 🇯🇵 Coco Gauff tests positive, to miss Tokyo Games More here:
Members of staff wear a face mask as they stand at the entrance of The Piano Works in Farringdon, in London, July 19, 2021. The UK government has lifted daily pandemic restrictions in England, scrapping all social distancing in a step condemned by scientists and opposition parties as a dangerous leap into the unknown.
He defended the reopening – dubbed "freedom day" by some media – despite scientists' grave misgivings after daily infection rates in Britain topped 50,000, behind only Indonesia and Brazil. The Southeast Asian nation's Covid-19 task force also announced 81 new deaths, bringing total fatalities to 3,422 and with 415,170 cases registered.Health authorities in South Sudan said that the country has run out of Covid-19 vaccines after exhausting the supply of AstraZeneca doses it received from the Covax facility in March this year.
He said South Sudan has vaccinated 56,989 people since the country launched its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in the capital Juba on April 6.Australia has cancelled far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins's visa after she boasted about flouting the country's strict hotel quarantine rules, a senior official said.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said Australia's border agency "acted quickly to make sure that the visa on which she entered was cancelled" after the footage appeared.Two South African footballers and a video analyst have tested positive for the coronavirus in the Tokyo Olympic Village, officials said, raising fears of a cluster just days before the opening ceremony.
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