Travelers wearing masks on a subway train in front of a poster advertising free COVID-19 vaccination in New York City. /Daniel Slim/AFP
TOP HEADLINES
• UK and (most) EU citizens will be able to enter the U.S. after an 18-month travel ban will finally be lifted in November. But only those travelers who are fully vaccinated will be granted entry, and they will be required to show a negative coronavirus test within three days of arriving.
• It's not yet clear whether the U.S. will accept travelers who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci told BBC Radio he thought it should be recognized, but said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still to make a final decision on the subject. The U.S. has not approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for use.
• Greek health authorities on Monday recommended booster jabs for those aged 60 and over and the residents and staff of care homes in order to avoid an outbreak in the coming months. Appointments for a third vaccine dose for these categories will open on September 30.
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he cannot guarantee there will not need to be COVID-19 restrictions during the Christmas season keeping families apart this year, but he said that is "very much not the plan."
• A "vaccine pass" will be needed to use indoor restaurant toilets in the Netherlands, as announced by the government on Monday. The pass is not required for eating and drinking outdoors.
• The death toll in the U.S. has passed 675,000 – meaning as many Americans have now died as during the 1918-19 flu pandemic.
• World leaders are meeting at the first in-person United Nations meeting on Tuesday after two years of pandemic forced discussions to be held virtually online. The summit is expected to focus on the climate crisis and Afghanistan.
• COVID-19 has reached even the most remote areas in the world – including the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic. Vaccination teams have now set up their tents in this wild landscape to reach the nomadic reindeer herders exposed to the virus.
A nurse walks past booths at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Derby, central England. Front-line health and social care workers, older people and the clinically vulnerable in Britain on Monday started to receive booster jabs. /Paul Ellis/AFP
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