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France’s Minister of Health has said that the nation’s regime of vaccine passes is likely to be scrapped well before its scheduled end in July.

Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is up for reelection this year, held a string of California fundraisers while her state was leading the country in new coronavirus cases, according to a report.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday that her country would begin reopening its borders at the end of February, capping an embarrassing week in which a pregnant Kiwi journalist stranded outside the country turned to the Taliban for assistance.

The South Pacific island nation of Tonga entered a Chinese coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday expected to last at least 48 hours after health officials in the remote kingdom detected Tonga’s first-ever community transmission of the disease on Tuesday in two port workers, Reuters reported.

Most Democrats believe public schools should make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for students, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found.

Nearly one-third of Americans say they have not received a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, a survey from The Economist/YouGov released this week found.

Sweden’s Prime Minister has announced that the Nordic will be scrapping the internal use of vaccine passes, becoming the latest European nation to escape lockdown.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is mystified that the booster shot rate in the U.S. is lagging, telling reporters Wednesday, “I don’t have an easy explanation for that.”

Ottawa’s police chief said the capital may request aid from the armed forces to stop the ongoing anti-mandate Freedom Convoy trucker protest. 

Massive amounts of medical waste produced by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic have accumulated worldwide and pose an increasing “threat” to global public health, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned in a report published on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti claims that he held his breath when snapping that viral photo of him maskless alongside Magic Johnson. 

New Zealand – which has had some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in the world – announced Thursday it will begin to relax its border controls by the end of this month.

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic has ruled that vaccine passports are tantamount to vaccination coercion and not legal.

Premier Scott Moe of the Canadian province Saskatchewan conceded Wednesday the time may have come to “look at ending all” coronavirus measures.

China recorded 32 more coronavirus cases linked to the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, including 17 inside the “closed loop” or “bubble” meant to separate Olympic venues from the rest of the city. 11 Beijing Games personnel are now hospitalized with Chinese coronavirus.

Local Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Hangzhou city confirmed 24 new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus within the community on Monday, China’s official state-run press agency Xinhua reported.

Ben Tribbett, a political consultant who helped Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) get to Congress, took to Twitter on Monday, calling students who do not wish to wear masks to school “dickheads” and for teachers to reflect as much in their grading.

Regional governments throughout Canada have begun announcing plans to drop onerous civil rights restrictions on their citizens meant to contain the Chinese coronavirus this week following mounting pressure from national protests, most prominently the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.

A full seventy percent of Americans say COVID is here to stay and it’s time to return to living a normal life.

Marvel actors Simu Liu and David Dastmalchian both quickly jumped in to condemn vax ideas expressed by ‘Ant-Man’ star Evangeline Lilly.

Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) is introducing legislation designed to block states and localities from using federal coronavirus relief funds for basic income programs, which disincentives work, he announced on Wednesday. 

A report into alleged lockdown breaking within the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has found that officials partook in a ‘serious breach’ of lockdown rules.

Just 17 percent of voters strongly approve of President Biden, a Wednesday Morning Consult/Politico poll revealed.

There’s an arms race to capture the “metaverse,” the posited futuristic world of interconnected virtual realities. Microsoft and Facebook are locked in an increasingly expensive battle for control of what they believe to be the future. But where did this hype come from?

The Canadian Quebec govt has abandoned its proposal for a ‘Health Contribution’ tax on unvaccinated residents.

Austria’s mandatory vax regime, which would have been the first of its kind in Europe has been delayed due to administrative issues.

The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) warned Tuesday the very personal protection equipment it pushed people to wear during the coronavirus pandemic, such as surgical masks and gowns, is having an unexpected impact on the environment.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) showed some solidarity with the Washington, D.C, bar that had its liquor license pulled over vaccine mandates. 

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said requiring children to wear masks in school while people like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom

A Johns Hopkins University literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on mortality stemming from the Chinese coronavirus found that “lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” and have “imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) stated that “we have to start getting ready to learn how to live with COVID.” And need to “make this transition to learning how to live

Conservative Party deputy leader and lawmaker Candice Bergen condemned leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for calling those protesting vaccine mandates “racist” and “misogynist” after he “wore blackface on more times than he can remember.”

Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.

The 2022 Winter Olympics — set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 — will “relieve anxieties felt about the pandemic,” China’s state-run Global Times claimed in an op-ed published Sunday, referring to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in central China’s Wuhan city sometime in 2019.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) expressed support for the Canadian freedom truckers on Tuesday, posting an image to his Facebook page with the words, “Truck Yeah.”

A senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) official told the Chinese propaganda newspaper Global Times in an interview on Tuesday that the Communist Party leadership had prepared for the Winter Olympics, beginning this week, “extraordinarily” and that the event would be an “extraordinary party.”