Worried about a potential Covid outbreak, two schools in England have stopped in-person teaching for at least a week by imposing their own 'circuit-breaker' lockdown.
Google has announced a company-wide vaccination mandate for all its U.S. employees, with 600 members of staff signing a manifesto calling on the company to rescind the policy.
The German football club Bayern Munich has docked the wages of five unvaccinated players after they were forced into quarantine.
Michael Gunner, the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in Australia, has labelled those opposed to vaccine mandates as "anti-vaxxers", even if they themselves are vaccinated.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has received a record high number of calls to its helpline over the course of the pandemic.
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A YouGov poll has found that 62% of the British public support making the booster jab mandatory, with only 25% being opposed to the idea.
The Kenyan Government aims to inoculate 20% of the population by late December, even though this is when it plans to prohibit the unvaccinated from entering many indoor spaces.
Germany's Tourism Commissioner has said that it was the wrong decision not to implement mandatory vaccination much earlier, and now believes that the policy will soon be introduced by the German Government.
Despite a previous Commons Select Committee report concluding that the scheme was a colossal waste of money, Test and Trace is continuing to spend over £1 million a day in taxpayer money on consultants.
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