People who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are no longer allowed in France’s restaurants, bars, tourist sites, and sports venues unless they recently recovered from the virus.
The newly detected Omicron variant of COVID-19 is said to be more transmissible than the previous Delta variant although it is so far found to be less fatal.
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all.
The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 5,434 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, pushing the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,861,119.