US hits vaccine milestone as NZealand, Australia open travel bubble
The hard-hit United States has passed a hopeful milestone as half its adults have had at least one COVID vaccine dose and from Monday all its over 18s will be eligible to get their shot.
The positive news from America the world s hardest-hit country comes amid easing restrictions for several European nations and the launch of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.
But in India authorities were scrambling to free up hospital beds and secure additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs as the vast nation reported a record daily caseload.
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Germany paid tribute on Sunday to the almost 80,000 people it has lost to the coronavirus, as the country decides how to arrest another rise in infections.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier led a memorial event at Berlin’s Konzerthaus hall with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other top officials.
They were joined by five relatives of people who died over the past year in placing a circle of candles in the mostly empty hall.
Mr Steinmeier said that months of focusing on infection rates and other statistics were “understandable . But my impression is that we as a society don’t appreciate often enough that people stand behind all the figures,” he said. “Their suffering and their death has often remained invisible.
published : 19 Apr 2021 at 10:45 Australia and New Zealand got a glimpse of normal life as a long-awaited quarantine-free travel bubble opened across the Tasman Sea.
WASHINGTON: The hard-hit United States has passed a hopeful milestone as half its adults have had at least one Covid vaccine dose and from Monday all its over 18s will be eligible to get their shot.
The positive news from America the world s hardest-hit country comes amid easing restrictions for several European nations and the launch of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.
But in India authorities were scrambling to free up hospital beds and secure additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs as the vast nation reported a record daily caseload.
US hits vaccine milestone as NZealand, Australia open travel bubble
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19/04/2021 - 04:58 Australia and New Zealand got a glimpse of normal life as a long-awaited quarantine-free travel bubble opened across the Tasman Sea SAEED KHAN AFP 4 min
Washington (AFP)
The hard-hit United States has passed a hopeful milestone as half its adults have had at least one Covid vaccine dose and from Monday all its over 18s will be eligible to get their shot.
The positive news from America the world s hardest-hit country comes amid easing restrictions for several European nations and the launch of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.
published : 19 Apr 2021 at 10:45
2 Australia and New Zealand got a glimpse of normal life as a long-awaited quarantine-free travel bubble opened across the Tasman Sea.
WASHINGTON: The hard-hit United States has passed a hopeful milestone as half its adults have had at least one Covid vaccine dose and from Monday all its over 18s will be eligible to get their shot.
The positive news from America the world s hardest-hit country comes amid easing restrictions for several European nations and the launch of a quarantine-free travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand.
But in India authorities were scrambling to free up hospital beds and secure additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs as the vast nation reported a record daily caseload.