The Icelandic Government has announced that all restrictions, including all testing and travel restrictions, will be lifted at midnight on Friday, saying it wants to reach herd immunity via infection.
World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic has said he would rather miss out on future tennis competitions than be forced to get a Covid vaccine, adding he was not anti-vaccine but supported a person's right to choose.
After two years of borders shut tight in support of a doomed Zero Covid goal, Australia is to welcome vaccinated tourists again by March, with the Government set to announce a reopening date as early as Monday.
All 54 passengers on the flight were fully vaccinated, masked, tested negative three times, had been in quarantine for two weeks and were put in quarantine with more testing on arrival. Two thirds caught the virus.
A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan for months has found the Taliban more helpful than her own Government, which has failed to let her back in.
Holidaymakers will no longer have to take any Covid tests for travel abroad, Boris Johnson has said – but only if double-vaccinated. Why, when no one now pretends two doses provide any protection against Covid infection?
Top U.K. universities are chartering flights to bring Chinese students into the country next month in an effort to overcome travel restrictions. Britain's Chinese students account for a fifth of all tuition fee income.
