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Spirit AeroSystems and Textron could be “the most hit” among the United States aerospace and defense companies and “face the loss of several employees” if President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate goes into effect, according to a Wednesday Reuters report.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has refused to rule out a winter lockdown leaving Briton’s facing the prospect of a lonely Christmas yet again. 

The Austrian government has imposed a nationwide stay-at-home lockdown exclusively on the unvaccinated, in what opposition politicians have denounced as a “corona apartheid system”.

In 2020, the first year of the Wuhan virus pandemic, Spain recorded nearly 4,000 people taking their own lives — the highest number recorded since records began in 1906.

Tesco has released a Christmas ad in which Santa avoids being quarantined for the Chinese coronavirus by presenting a vaccine passport.

European Union member-state Latvia has banned unvaccinated MPs from voting in its parliament, as well as docking their pay.

VIENNA (AP) – Austria is implementing a lockdown for unvaccinated people in two hard-hit regions next week and looks poised to move forward with similar measures nationwide, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Friday.

An NHS chief has been accused of spreading fake news after she claimed that 14 times more people are hospitalised with COVID than last year.

Despite being “disturbed” by United Airlines’ “seemingly calloused approach to its employees’ deeply personal concerns” in implementing its coronavirus vaccine mandate, District Judge Mark Pittman ruled in favor of the airline on Monday, ultimately allowing the mandate to move forward.

Van Morrison is being sued for libel by Northern Ireland’s Health Minister after the singer called him “dangerous” for his lockdown policies.

The UK will look to become the first country to make the coronavirus an endemic disease with annual vaccine booster shots, said Nadhim Zawahi.

The UK is set to change the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ to mean three jabs and will impose travel restrictions on people with only two.

The United States is finally reopening to British travellers after almost two years of heavy restrictions — but for the most part they must be double-vaccinated.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latvian parliament has given employers the go-ahead to dismiss employees who are required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but refuse to do so.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – While people are now able to travel freely in Australia’s more populated east, COVID-19-free Western Australia will maintain its tight restrictions into next year, state leaders said Friday.

U.S. companies face a “worker rebellion” and a potential workforce shortage, as President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate deadline grows closer.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s outgoing health minister is calling on state governments to reactivate some specialized COVID-19 vaccination centres that were closed in the late summer to help administer booster shots as new coronavirus infections increase rapidly.

Security breaches in the EU’s vaccine passport system has resulted in health passes being granted to Spongebob, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

The NYPD is preparing for a “potential mass exodus” over far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association called President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate “demoralizing and demeaning” to essential workers during a virtual press conference on Thursday about the Keeping Our COVID-19 Heroes Employed Act, which Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced this week.

If President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is successful, the southern border of the United States could be in even  greater peril than it has already been since he took office, according to National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd.

The West faces descending into a two-tiered society of the “jabbed” and “jabbed-nots” in which the unvaccinated will become “modern-day social lepers”, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned.

A British government medical advisor has admitted that a so-called ‘Plan C’ for dealing with Covid-19 over the Winter has “been mentioned”, despite a minister denying last week that such plans, which could include a ban on households mixing, had been discussed.

Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s government said Tuesday it will expand a vaccine mandate to include thousands of workers who have close contact with their customers — including employees at restaurants, bars, gyms and hair salons.

An impact assessment conducted by the British government has reportedly found that rather than slowing the spread of the Wuhan virus, vaccine passports may serve to increase its transmission.

Florida is hoping to hire more truck drivers, with some companies offering high salaries and signing bonuses.

The first official weekend of enforcement of Scotland’s vaccine passport system has been described as an “unmitigated disaster” with foot traffic falling by as much as 40 per cent at some venues.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted she wants to create two classes of citizens based on vaccination status. 

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “mandate vaccines” and to force companies to fire employees who do not take the jab.

People in Austria who have not been vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus could face lockdown restrictions if hospitals are overrun, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said.

The French government is considering requiring a third jab of a coronavirus vaccine in order for people to continue to qualify for the country’s vaccine passport, which is required to access many public spaces including cafes, bars, and restaurants.

Kelsey Dunlap and Jacob Young fell in love during the pandemic and recently became engaged at the place where they met.

Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that it is Britons’ “civic duty” to be vaccinated and that the country should be administering 500,000 booster shots every day.

Britons are more frightened of being in enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces with people not wearing masks as they were in July before coronavirus restrictions were lifted, according to a poll.

A plurality of Britons would have preferred former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to have handled the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.