Writes Dionysus, Content writer, Headline Diplomat eMagazine
Despite 3 billion vaccines already given out according to data from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), more than a year after the first confinement, resuscitation services are again overwhelmed, businesses deemed non-essential closed, and movement restricted. Germany, despite having fully vaccinated over 35% of its total population, has this weekend, announced that Portugal and Russia are now a “virus-variant zone”. The country has now banned most arrivals by foreigners from the country.

Moscow, the capital of Russia, over the weekend had announced new 144 COVID-19 related deaths, a day after new cases exploded nationwide. The Guardian reports that just 11 percent of 146 million Russians are vaccinated, because of vaccine skepticism.

Meanwhile, in the North American country of Canada, restaurants are yet to be reopened since the first lockdown in 2020, making it one of the longest COVID-19 lockdowns around the world, according to the BBC.

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