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Dec 31, 2021

Cathay Pacific suspends cargo flights due to virus controls

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airlines is suspending cargo flights for a week due to stricter quarantine requirements for air crews, potentially adding to strain on global supply chains

Dec 20, 2021

Austria hits two-month low in virus cases as country reopens

Austria has reported fewer than 2,000 new coronavirus cases as the last few regions in the country reopened restaurants and hotels

Dec 19, 2021

Restaurants anxious as omicron, high food costs take toll

While restaurants in the U.S. and United Kingdom are open without restrictions and often bustling, they are entering their second winter of the coronavirus pandemic anxious about what’s ahead

Dec 17, 2021

Denmark to shut down public venues as virus infections rise

Denmark’s prime minister says theaters, cinemas, concert halls, amusement parks, museums and art galleries across the country must close under new restrictions to contain a faster than expected resurgence of the coronavirus

Denmark seeks to close public venues to curb coronavirus

Dec 17, 2021

Denmark’s prime minister says his government is moving to close theaters, cinemas, concert halls, amusement parks, museums and art galleries as part of new restrictions to contain a faster than expected resurgence of the coronavirus

Dec 16, 2021

Back in charge, Smith wins toss and bats against England

More than three years after he was fired as Australia captain and three hours after new skipper Pat Cummins was ruled out because he was exposed to a person with COVID-19, Steve Smith has won the toss and elected to bat against England in the second test of the Ashes cricket series

Austria ends lockdown restrictions for vaccinated people

Dec 12, 2021

Austria ended lockdown restrictions for vaccinated people across most of the country on Sunday, three weeks after reimposing strict rules to combat a rising wave of coronavirus infections

Dec 12, 2021

Bosnian ski resorts benefit from lax anti-virus measures

As most European nations impose new restrictions to curb the omicron variant, Bosnia is taking a relatively laissez-faire approach to soaring COVID-19 infections in the region

Nov 30, 2021

LA begins enforcing strict mandate requiring proof of vax

Enforcement began in Los Angeles for one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the country

Nov 29, 2021

New variant not stopping New Zealand's reopening plans

The emergence of the omicron variant isn’t changing New Zealand’s plans to ease restrictions in Auckland and move the nation into a new, more open phase of its pandemic response