Back in Europe, the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization will investigate Belarus over its forced grounding of a Ryanair passenger plane in order to arrest a dissident journalist, a move that triggered global outrage.
Meanwhile, Russia has blocked airspace to Air France and Austrian Airlines after the two carriers altered their flight plans to avoid its ally Belarus in protest at the government s actions.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that the full lifting of England s coronavirus restrictions on June 21 may be delayed as cases in the country of the Covid variant first detected in India doubled over the past week.