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Immigration New Zealand has granted 126 foreign nationals “critical worker” visas and hotly-contested spots in quarantine so as to stage The Lion King musical in Auckland in June.
The New Zealand Herald reports that Live Nation said it was necessary that the original cast travelled with the production.
The World Health Organization has insisted countries should keep using the vaccine, adding that it had scheduled a meeting of its experts on Tuesday to discuss the vaccine’s safety.
“We do not want people to panic and we would, for the time being, recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca,” WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said.
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