Nations across the globe reimpose restrictions as highly contagious Delta variant puts the brakes on a return to post-Covid normality
Health workers clad in protective gear move a Covid-19 patient into a hospital in Bekasi on June 28, 2021, as new infections soar to record levels in Indonesia.
The European Union, lambasted early on in the pandemic response for a botched vaccine acquisition programme, said on Saturday it has delivered enough shots to cover 70 percent of the bloc's population."By tomorrow, some 500 million doses will have been distributed to all regions of Europe," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
In Pakistan, where less than eight percent of the population has been vaccinated, the government said only those who had received jabs would be allowed to fly. In Indonesia, which is fighting a ferocious wave of infections, more than a dozen fully inoculated frontline health workers have died, according to the country's medical association.
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