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Indonesia reports 54,517 new cases; Vietnam has 2,934 new cases; EU not adding UK to safe travel list
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According to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) preliminary evidence suggests both doses of Covid-19 vaccines are required to provide adequate protection against the Delta variant.
They say it is currently too early to confirm if and when a booster dose for Covid vaccines will be needed but that they have begun collaborating with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and national technical advisory groups in any case.
Reuters: Spain’s Constitutional Court, the Tribunal Constitucional, has ruled that a national state of emergency, which included a strict home confinement to curb the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year, was unconstitutional.
Introduced last March, the state of emergency allowed the government to temporarily suspend civil liberties, confining almost all Spaniards to their homes and shutting down all but essential industries.
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