Tag: feb 22 2022

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced last month that the country will be open to fully vaccinated tourists after two years of closed borders due to Canberra’s “Fortress Australia” policy to keep COVID-19 at bay. The Financial Times reported that the country is expecting a “full return” of tourism. Andrew David, the CEO at Qantas, said...

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association announced that it was taking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government to court over their decision to invoke emergency powers to quell the anti-vaccine-mandate protest that broke out in Ottawa that has carried on for about three weeks. The association called Trudeau’s emergency orders “an extreme law that has...

Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general who has been a vocal proponent of COVID-19 booster shots, announced that he and his immediate family came down with the virus and are experiencing minor symptoms. Murthy announced on Twitter Friday that he had muscle aches and a sore throat. He said his wife had a headache...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been one of the world’s last remaining holdouts to enforce a “zero COVID” policy, which means any small outbreak results in an immediate lockdown until any risk of further contamination is snuffed out. Xi, who oversees a massive country with 1.4 billion people, has reported a relatively small number of...

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s chief medical officer, announced Thursday that it is his belief that the highest risk for COVID-19 has passed and the policies that have been put into place to slow infection should wind down. “I do think we should align their removal with the removal at a population level, so on March...