Coronavirus live news: Kenya bans gatherings as cases rise; Delta variant nearly 95% of cases in Italy
Kenya suspends all in-person meetings and gatherings; variant now dominant in Italy, authorities say
- Locked down with cases rising, Sydney wonders how Delta will end
- Thailand bans sharing of news that ‘causes public fear’
- Israel first country to offer Pfizer booster shots to people over 60
- Greece sends police to Covid hotspot islands to step up controls
- UK coronavirus updates – live
Here’s our good news story of the week in case you missed it, courtesy of our environment editor Damian Carrington, on where to flee in case of total societal breakdown.
New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study. The researchers said human civilisation was “in a perilous state” due to the highly interconnected and energy-intensive society that had developed and the environmental damage this had caused.
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A British cabinet minister has sought to dampen down a growing diplomatic row with France over the imposition of tougher international restrictions on millions of travellers owing to the threat of the Beta variant of coronavirus.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, defended the decision to put France on the “amber-plus” list, after the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, on Thursday suggested the variant’s prevalence on Réunion, a French overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, was partly to blame.
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Read the original article at The Guardian