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Festivals, holidays, Euro 2020… will summer s big events still go ahead?
Tom Wall, Vanessa Thorpe and Harriet Sherwood
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As Covid-19 cases rise across the world, hopes that life could get back to some semblance of normality by summer are fading. What chance do we have of going to a festival, flying off for a holiday or attending a major sporting event?
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The crowd for Kylie Minogue at the Glastonbury festival in 2019.
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Doubts are growing about the wisdom of going ahead with major international sporting events, including the postponed Tokyo Olympics and Euro 2020 football tournament, this summer as large parts of the world’s population are likely to remain unvaccinated and highly infectious Covid variants will still be circulating. ....

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