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The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it has discharged 45 service members who refused to accept inoculation with the coronavirus vaccine.

Thousands of people marched through central London to protest against the impending vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in England.

Get the jab or pay a tax. That is the simple message the premier of the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec delivered Tuesday when he warned adults who don’t get the coronavirus vaccination they will be hit with a financial penalty.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic sparked a major controversy in Australia when he tried to enter the country to play in the upcoming Australian Open using a medical exemption for coronavirus vaccination. His request was initially granted, but his visa was revoked when he arrived at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Wednesday.

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.

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

The Austrian government has announced it will be extending the general lockdown for all unvaccinated residents as the Omicron variant of the Wuhan virus spreads across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now advising Americans not to travel by cruise ship — even if they are vaccinated against COVID-19 — as the number of Omicron cases soars. 

SIBIU, Romania (AP) – As the fast-spreading coronavirus variant omicron rages through Western Europe, officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe anticipate a post-holiday explosion of COVID-19 cases in much of the region.

PARIS (AP) – France’s government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on unvaccinated people to get coronavirus jabs, as the omicron variant fuels a record surge in infections.

Government ministers are to meet as early as Monday in order to discuss implementing new lockdown in England in response to omicron.

The media blitz to make sure everyone knows the government wants them to take a booster continues unabated.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that “Getting jabbed… not just for ourselves” but for others as well is “the teaching of Jesus Christ” in a Covid-heavy Christmas message. 

Anti-Covid passport protestors broke through a police line to protest in front of the Romanian parliament, entering the building’s courtyard before being stopped by police.

If arguably the most loathsome and pointless creature on the planet thinks they’re idiots then they must be doing something right.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has pushed Christian theology to the very limit by claiming that Jesus would have wanted everyone to get vaccinated. Justin Welby, an Eton-educated former oil executive, now unaccountably Britain’s most senior churchman, was speaking in response

Israel will become the first country to administer a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot for over 60s, healthcare workers and certain at-risk groups, in accordance with a recommendation by a government panel of experts on Tuesday.

The EU has announced that vaccinated individuals who fail to get their booster are to have their Coronavirus passes disabled, in a move that has been called ‘tyrannical’. The European Union has agreed that those who are considered fully vaccinated

The British government purchased wraparound cover advertisements in the nation’s top newspapers to promote the vaccine booster campaign.

The American public can trust the White House when it comes to coronavirus advice just as much as they can trust the vaccines now being pushed across the country, according to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday agreed with President Biden’s prediction that it will be a winter of “severe illness and death” for unvaccinated Americans, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that “the president is correct.”

The implementation of vaccine passports in France is a “disguised” mandate, the country’s Minister of Health admitted on Sunday.

Britain’s health secretary, Sajid Javid, has railed against the unvaccinated for the “impact” he says they are having on fellow citizens, guilt-tripping them to “really think about the damage they are doing to society”. 

Piers Corbyn has been arrested over footage in which he apparently called for people to “burn down” the homes of pro-lockdown politicians.

Leading political figures in Germany have signalled that they would support a vaccine registry to collect a list of those vaccinated.

Central London descended into chaotic scenes on Saturday after police squared off with demonstrators in a large-scale protest against the latest coronavirus restrictions.

Vaccinated French over-65s who have not yet received a booster vaccine will begin having their Covid passes disabled.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Wednesday said it was donating 1 million coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX program.

President Joe Biden falsely claimed in an interview on Tuesday that people who were vaccinated for the coronavirus could not spread the disease.

The UK suffered yet another direct address from the PM Wednesday evening, with Johnson asking the public to get jabbed a third time.

Britain’s increasingly ugly, bought and paid for tabloid media is ramping up its war against so-called ‘vaccine refuseniks’ and it is starting to get really vicious and unpleasant.

Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed that the double-vaccinated will no longer be entitled to Covid passes “once all adults have had a reasonable chance to get their booster jab”. 

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus will start vaccinating kids between the ages of 5 to 11, the government said Monday in fresh bid to head off another COVID-19 surge following the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.