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Bars at full capacity. No masks for vaccinated Disneyland goers. Fans sitting side-by-side at Giants and Dodgers games.
California rolled back its major public health restrictions on Tuesday, 15 months after it became the first state in the US to shut down to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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At the stroke of midnight, the state lifted most of its restrictions on social distancing and capacity limits. Vaccinated residents can now go without masks in most settings, with some exceptions – including on public transit, in healthcare facilities, homeless shelters and prisons, and indoors in K-12 schools and childcare facilities, since young children still have not been vaccinated.
Brazil has had its highest daily death toll since 9 June, after registering 2,468 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The country also recorded 80,609 new cases, Reuters reports.
More than 490,696 people have now died in Brazil, with 17,533,211 people having contracted Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to health ministry data.
Alcohol sales are being limited and a curfew is being extended in South Africa, as its government tightens restrictions.
The country, the hardest hit by the pandemic on the continent, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, according to AFP. Hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60% in the last fortnight.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “A third wave of infections is upon us. We have to contain this new wave of infections.”
The curfew has been extended by an hour and will run from 10pm to 4am, while bars and restaurants will have to shut an hour beforehand.
Alcohol will only be able to be bought in shops during daytime between Monday and Thursday. Limits have also been put in place on public gatherings.
The country has recorded more than 1.76 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with 58,087 deaths.
A nurse in PPE stares through the doors of a Covid ward in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Almost a third of patients admitted to hospital with suspected Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in the UK had a “do not resuscitate” decision recorded before or on their day of admission, research suggests.
This is higher than the rates reported in previous studies of conditions similar to Covid-19 before the pandemic, according to a study from the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), one of the first to quantify the use of such orders in the pandemic.
The research, published in the journal Resuscitation, found that 59% of patients with a do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decision survived their acute illness and 12% received intensive treatment aimed at saving their life.
The study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, found 31% of patients admitted to UK hospitals with suspected Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic had a DNACPR decision recorded before or on their day of admission to hospital.
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Covid vaccinations are to become mandatory for care home staff under plans to be announced by ministers, as they consider extending the move to all NHS staff.
The controversial measure sets up a likely battle with staff in both services and could see the government sued under European human rights law or equalities legislation for breaching the freedom of people who work in caring roles to decide what they put into their bodies.
The Guardian understands that ministers will confirm they are pushing ahead with compulsory vaccination for most of the 1.5 million people working in social care in England, despite employer and staff organisations in the sector warning that it could backfire and see workers quit rather than get immunised. Under the plans those working with adults will have 16 weeks to get vaccinated or face losing their jobs.
Protest leaders in Colombia will halt marches in the country’s biggest cities, partially in response to rising Covid rates in the country.
Associated Press reports that at least 50 people have died in the last seven weeks of antigovernment demonstrations.
Members of the national strike committee, a group of unions and student organisations behind the protests, said they will suspend the marches to stop the deaths and in the wake of an all-time high level of Covid deaths.
The death toll in the South American country stands at 96,366 and 588 deaths were recorded on Monday.
Johnson & Johnson will send 2 million vaccine doses to South Africa by the end of June, Reuters reports.
It’s the same amount that had to be destroyed by the firm’s producer in the country due to a contamination in a US-based ingredient supplier.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nation in a televised address that South Africa will move from an adjusted lockdown level 2 to a stricter level 3 amid a surge in infections.
The US has now given out nearly 311.9m doses of Covid-19 vaccines, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figures are up from 310.6m compared to Monday, with 145,786,367 people now fully vaccinated.
According to Reuters, the count includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNtech, as well as the one-shot Johnson & Johnson jab.
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Reuters has this from the Puskas Arena in Budapest, where a full house of 67,000 football fans watched Hungary fall 3-0 to Portugal in their European Championship opener.
The deafening roar will have been music to the ears of football fans around the world. Empty or only partly full stadiums have become the norm during the pandemic, often creating a sterile atmosphere for players and viewers alike.
But the Hungarian government has bucked the trend, allowing a full-capacity crowd at the newly built arena, at the behest of football-mad prime minister Viktor Orban.
The populist Orban, in power since 2010 but facing a unified opposition in tough elections next April, has relaxed social distancing regulations to allow fans to sit side-by-side.
Whatever the reasons, though, it made for a raucous atmosphere and gave a definite lift to the home side against their more fancied opponents, the reigning European champions.
Fans were able to gain entry to the stadium if they showed certification that they had been vaccinated against the virus, while entry times at the gates were staggered to try to keep large groups apart outside the venue.
Charlotte Duncker(@CharDuncker)
All over in Budapest where #POR run out 3-0 winners. Their first was lucky, their second a pen but the third was sublime from Ronaldo. He needs just four more goals to smash the all-time international goal record. #EURO2020pic.twitter.com/EHd7NhikvQ
Exhausted nurses in Australia are opting to take shifts in vaccination hubs instead of emergency departments and GP surgeries because they are paid more to deliver vaccinations and can also obtain much-needed respite from overcrowded public hospitals and clinics.
Meanwhile, Australians under the age of 40 without underlying health conditions and who don’t work in high-risk professions are being vaccinated against Covid-19, and are being encouraged to do so by some nurses who say they want to see vaccines in the arms of people willing to receive them as soon as possible.
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