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The British government is reportedly planning to make vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus mandatory for healthcare workers, in a move described by unions as “sinister”.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), who lifted most COVID-19 restrictions put in place on businesses in his state last week, has reaffirmed that he is committed to ending a statewide mask mandate should hospitalizations and the number of reported cases continue to fall.

Florida health officias formally shot down claims by the left that Super Bowl 55 would be a coronavirus super spreading event.

TOKYO (AP) — The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee stopped short of saying there would be no foreign fans at this year’s games, but she certainly hinted at it Wednesday after online talks with IOC President Thomas Bach and others.

Alabama will become one of the next states to eliminate a government-imposed mandate that requires people wear masks in public, sources close to the matter told Breitbart News.

Mental health problems are a greater threat than COVID-19, said Sen. Roger Marshall, referring to psychological damage driven by lockdowns.

Former sportscaster Keith Olbermann says that Texas’ decision to lift their mask mandate should cause them to lose access to Covid vaccines.

But the IEA is spinning it as a bad thing: a sign that we are not doing enough to cut our ‘carbon’ emissions.

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich rcalled Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s lifting of the state’s mask mandate, “ignorant.”

Conservative MP Desmond Swayne has said he has found it “unnerving” how Britons have embraced their civil liberties being taken away during lockdowns, expressing hope that public opinion will shift once citizens realise the costs to health, education, and society.

A seasoned German journalist has said that his home country is currently experiencing “unfamiliar feelings of post-Brexit envy” as “Brexit Britain races ahead” in its vaccine programme.

Border crossers released into the interior of the United States by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus just as President Joe Biden has denied that there is “a crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has lifted the mask mandate and will allow businesses to operate at full capacity following a nearly year-long set of rules put in place by the state to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Susan Hopkins, a specialist in infectious diseases at Public Health England, said that Britons should wear masks made with at least two, or even three, layers, and left open the possibility that the UK might follow the U.S.’s lead and recommend double masking.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) isn’t currently requiring athletes to take the Covid vaccine. However, if they try, Gold Medalist Yohan Blake will be having none of it.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has donated more than $1 million over the last month to small businesses impacted by COVID-19 in and around his hometown of Chico, Calif.

There has been a wave in oral cancers being caught at later stages because dentists did not pick up early signs due to Chinese coronavirus lockdown closures.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” former Biden transition team COVID adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel stated that “by the end of September or October,” we can “have a real return to normalcy.” Emanuel said that “we should not let up.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Monday on CNN’s “The Lead” that if the allegations of sexual harassment from two former aides were proven or his administration is found to have intentionally withheld data on COVID-19 nursing home deaths, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) should resign.

The EU will introduce legislation to introduce a vaccine passport this month, EU President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday.

As the NBA announces it’s plans to investigate allegations made Thursday by G-league player and NBA veteran Jeremy Lin that he was called an anti-Asian slur “on the court,” Lin has not publicly named the player or the alleged game where the incident happened.

A member of the British government’s scientific advisory panel has implied that the prime minister’s timetable for lifting lockdown could be set back if Britons take advantage of any rare warm Spring weather and undertake allegedly risky business such as going to the beach or meeting up with friends.

Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, was caught on video dropping his daughter off for in-person private preschool — though he has led union opposition to the opening of public schools in the area.

For at least the second time in the last two months, dozens of anti-vaccine protesters demonstrated near the entrance to Dodger Stadium.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) traveled to Orlando, Florida, on Saturday and delivered a moving speech about the conservative movement in America at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The House of Representatives passed a coronavirus package in the dead of night Friday by a vote of 219 to 212 with no Republican support and two Democrats voting against it.

Over 220,000 Britons have signed a petition against the introduction of vaccine passports, forcing parliament to publicly debate the idea.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the “constant gloom and gloom” about coronavirus is “counterproductive,” because people think “what’s the point of even trying, if we’re always going to be living with it?” Maher

During a virtual town hall on MSNBC on Friday, White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that “by the time we get to the fall and the winter we may not be back 100% to where we were

Rep. Kat Cammack told Breitbart News on Friday that Democrats’ proposed $1.9 trillion spending legislation primarily sends taxpayer funding to Democrat-run states with higher rates of unemployment.

NBA veteran Jeremy Lin says that he has been called “coronavirus” on the court during games.

Angela Merkel claimed that there is a unanimous agreement within the European Union on implementing a coronavirus vaccine passport system.

Two U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East have been ordered into port as they combat outbreaks of COVID-19, the U.S. Navy said early Friday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters he is considering lifting the statewide coronavirus mask mandate. The governor said he is also considering other statewide COVID-19 related orders.

House Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to end migration controls at the United States-Mexico border to help slow the Chinese coronavirus in foreign countries.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents continue to find stash houses near the border where smugglers warehouse their human cargo. Most recently, agents in Pharr, Texas, found 71 migrants packed into a single house.