 | | | | New York City's 36,000 police officers now have a simple choice: either get vaccinated against coronavirus or wear masks at all times while on duty. | | | | | | The United States has administered 359,623,380 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 422,175,735 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. | | | | | | Three U.S. senators - Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado and independent Angus King of Maine - disclosed on Thursday they had tested positive for COVID-19. | | | | | | Israelis over 40 and teachers are now eligible for a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine, the health minister said on Thursday, hoping an expansion of the booster campaign will fend off the coronavirus Delta variant. | | | | | | The German government plans to designate parts of Greece and some areas of Ireland as high-risk areas, meaning unvaccinated travellers from those regions would need to go into quarantine for five days, the Funke media group reported on Thursday. | | | | | | Turkey will begin requiring negative COVID-19 test results and proofs of vaccination for some sectors, including from teachers as schools reopen next month and for domestic travel, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. | | | | | | Tunisia will from Aug. 25 require 10 days of quarantine for visitors who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a move to help keep the pandemic under control as cases have begun to fall, the health ministry said on Thursday. | | | | | | Italy reported 55 coronavirus-related deaths on Thursday against 69 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections increased to 7,260 from 7,162. | | | | | | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday approved the easing of coronavirus curbs in the capital region from Aug. 21 to 31, his spokesperson said, even as the country reported its second-highest daily number of COVID-19 infections. | | | | | | German contract drug manufacturer Rentschler Biopharma is in final preparations to start commercial production of CureVac's (5CV.DE) COVID-19 vaccine, its chief executive said, despite uncertainty over whether the shot will gain European Union approval. | | | | | |
