California has lifted the mosque wearing mandate for vaccinated people inside. Ireland is planning to drop the requirement for masks and for vacine passport. australia has reopened its international border for the first time in almost two years. Unvaccinated people do still need to quarantine for 14 days, though there is something of the counter current here that we're seeing restrictions actually being tightened in places such as hong kong.
As promised, Ukraine’s forces are fighting back tenaciously against a Russian invasion on multiple fronts—but Kyiv, the capital, is now squarely in the invaders’ sights. In England, the last covid restrictions were lifted entirely this week; we consider the calculations many leaders are making in this phase of the pandemic. And an assessment of romantic comedies as a cultural force.
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