Reaffirming its redline over taiwan. Coronavirus claims more deaths as cages cases approach ive million. U. S. Closing travel from brazil. Protesters to announce chinas security law in hong kong. Washington says it could be the death knell for asias leading financial center. How is that playing out across these markets . Declines from last week, there is a little bit of trepidation and caution across futures now. Your getting brent crude, pleasant surprise from the upside, nothing screaming higher. 29. 65. 2965. 34. 72 brent crude. Coming off weeks of sharp gains. Looking ahead you have more data that perhaps would give us more visibility on the path. We could get consolidation as we were talking about earlier in the program. Lets talkoned, about the renewed tensions between the chinese and the americans here with the foreign minister of China Morning the u. S. To give up warning the u. S. To give up Wishful Thinking about changing china. Saying some in america are pushing relations to
FOCUS: Australia s slow vaccine rollout threatens early pandemic successes
Australia has been regarded as one of the world s success stories in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, but mixed messaging and a sluggish vaccine rollout has caused widespread frustration and confusion.
With only 11 percent of the population fully vaccinated despite a recent ramp-up, Australia sits at the bottom among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, falling behind countries such as Japan, the United States and Britain.
Photo taken July 10, 2021, shows the Opera House in Sydney, closed under coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (Kyodo)
As countries around the world begin to open up and ease restrictions thanks to high rates of vaccination, Australians continue to face indefinite strict lockdowns, as authorities struggle with an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant that began in the country s largest city of Sydney.