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Plain clothes Police are being deployed in Austria to assist in the intensification of COVID restrictions in the country.

Thousands again took the streets in Austria, marking the second day of large protests against the nation’s COVID restrictions.

Pope Francis said Monday that people who opt not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus are acting on “baseless information or poorly documented facts.”

The March for Life annual rally and march on the National Mall in Washington, DC, is expected to proceed as planned on Friday, January 21, despite the capital city’s vaccine and coronavirus testing requirements.

Hospitals in California are allowing employees with coronavirus to continue working as long as they do not have symptoms, because they are short of staff, after the state’s vaccine mandates resulted in hundreds of health care workers being suspended or fired.

Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of “Corona Apartheid” continues to operate in the EU country.

Over 100,000 took to the streets on Saturday to protest France’s impending vaccine pass regime days after President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unjabbed.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has backed tennis ace Novak Djokovic against “big, bullying, nasty government” in Australia, where the Serbian athlete is currently being detained in a hotel. 

LONDON (AP) – UK government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital.

A Spanish court has ruled that a mother who attempted to flee to Portugal to prevent her two children from being vaccinated cannot have any contact with them or approach them.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s leaders agreed Friday to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars, and decided to shorten quarantine and self-isolation periods as the omicron variant spreads fast through the country.

Americans who have gotten vaccinated and boosted against coronavirus are the most “personally concerned about the coronavirus threat.”

Justice Gorsuch asked Biden’s Solicitor General, “Why isn’t this a major question that belongs in the states and in the halls of Congress?” 

While the omicron variant of coronavirus is highly infectious, Sotomayor was wrong: deaths and hospitalizations have been less frequent than for delta.

“I personally think we will get there at some point,” Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said of “mandatory vaccination.”

Poland’s government has taken Meta to task for banning a eurosceptic party with representation in the Polish parliament from Facebook.

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron maintained on Friday his rude remarks about the country’s minority of vaccine refusers, saying he cannot accept them infringing on others’ freedom.

“We could lose this country” if corporate and government vaccine mandates are not legally defeated, Sherry Walker, pilot and co-founder of Airline Employees for Health Freedom (AE4HF), said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Coronavirus tests are “nearly impossible” to find in the San Francisco Bay Area, thanks to a surge in demand, a labor shortage, and the failure of the Biden administration to plan ahead for a potential winter surge in COVID-19 cases.

(AP) — Regardless of who made an error on the visa or the vaccination waiver or whatever, the reality Friday for tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic was spending one of his important religious holidays in an Australian detention hotel working on his challenge against deportation.

Austria is to begin deactivating COVID passes after six months from February in an effort to increase the population’s adoption of booster jabs.

A United Nations official has slammed the ‘savagery’ of officers during a lockdown protest in the Netherlands, prompting Dutch police to complain to the UN.

Italy has made vaccination against the Chinese Coronavirus mandatory for over-50s while also cracking down on access to workplaces.

The French National Assembly has voted to adopt a law that would implement a new regime of vaccination passes, despite previously blocking the bill twice.

The state updated its guidance to allow COVID-positive employees to continue working if their facility is “facing a staffing crisis.”

The Grammy Awards 2022 has been postponed due to the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus, making it the second year in a row that the Grammys have been postponed over the pandemic.

A vote on the implementation of a Vaccination Pass regime in France has been delayed AGAIN shortly after comments emerged revealing Macron wished to ‘piss off’ unjabbed individuals.

The German city of Hamburg is to ban unboosted people who do not have a negative COVID test from restaurants

Britain’s vaccine chief has said that the strategy of consistently trying to give booster shots to the entire population is “not sustainable”.

Authorities in Sweden advised restaurants, cultural venues and leisure centers to ask their customers to show proof of vaccination.

France is allowing health workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients.

French President Macron has stirred concern after saying it was his intention to ‘piss off’ the unjabbed, questioning their citizenship.

More than 100,000 took to the streets in Germany to protest the nation’s lockdown rules, as the eastern FDP demand a clampdown.

In a shock move, the French National Assembly rejected a push to transform the nation’s COVID pass into a fully vaccine passport.

From the 4th of January, English school children will be once again required to wear masks in schools by the government.

Pope Francis said Tuesday that spiritual care is just as important as medical care, urging healthcare workers to be attentive to their patients’ psychological and spiritual needs.