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Tokyo Olympics Fans To Need Vaccination Or Virus Test: Report

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Being vaccinated or testing negative for coronavirus is now mandatory for Tokyo Olympics Fans.
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Tokyo:
Tokyo Olympics fans may have to be vaccinated or test negative for the coronavirus before being allowed into venues, a Japanese newspaper report said Monday.
Cheering, eating, high-fives and drinking alcohol would also be banned under controls now being considered, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said, citing unnamed government officials.
Organisers are set to decide in June how many spectators -- if any -- will be allowed to attend the pandemic-postponed Games.
Overseas fans are already barred, and the report warned domestic spectators may be denied entrance or kicked out for breaking the rules.
"The plan is to stop the spread of infections during Games time with strict countermeasures," the paper said.
Under the plan, spectators must be able to show a vaccination certificate or a negative test taken at their own expense less than a week before entering the venue.
They must wear masks and fill in health-check sheets, and once inside must not cheer loudly or high-five each other.
Security guards would be stationed around venues monitoring behaviour, the report said, with public viewing venues cancelled or scaled down.
Japan's vaccine rollout has been moving slowly, with less than 2.5 percent of the population fully vaccinated so far.
Tokyo and other parts of the country are under a virus state of emergency which was extended on Friday until June 20, just over a month before the opening ceremony on July 23.
The Yomiuri also published a new poll on Monday that shows 49 percent of people living in Tokyo want the Games to go ahead, while 48 percent want them cancelled.
A total of 25 percent said they wanted the Games go ahead with a limited number of spectators, while 24 percent said they wanted them to be held with no fans.
A new country-wide poll by the Nikkei newspaper found that 62 percent of respondents wanted the Games to be cancelled or postponed again, while 34 percent were in favour of them being held this summer.
Organisers have repeatedly ruled out the Games being postponed again.
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New Zealand, Australia Play Down Differences On China

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Jacinda Ardern's government has taken flak over its meek criticisms of China's rights record.
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China:
New Zealand and Australia downplayed policy differences on China Monday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern denying Wellington was taking a soft stance on human rights to avoid offending its largest trading partner.
Ardern's government has taken flak over its meek criticisms of China's rights record, while Australia's more outspoken position has drawn punitive trade measures from Beijing.
The centre-left New Zealand leader insisted the trans-Tasman allies were lock-step on attitudes towards China after holding talks with her Australian counterpart Scott Morrison in the South Island mountain retreat of Queenstown.
The pair issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern" at the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong and the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China's Xinjiang province.
"You'll see that Australia and New Zealand have broadly been positioned in exactly the same place on these issues consistently," Ardern told reporters.
"So I really push back on any suggestion that we are not taking a strong stance on these incredibly important issues."
Ardern and Morrison also backed a push to further investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, which remains a sensitive topic for China.
The New Zealand government declined to sign a statement from the Five Eyes intelligence network last year condemning developments in Hong Kong, and this month insisted on removing the word "genocide" from a parliamentary motion about the plight of the Uyghurs.
Australia has fully backed the Five Eyes statements, sparking fiery rhetoric from Beijing along with import levies on a range of Australian products.
Morrison said he did not believe New Zealand was a weak link in the spy network, which also includes the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
"Neither of us will ever trade our sovereignty or our values, we have stood side by side to defend those values," he said.
Morrison said both Australia and New Zealand wanted a free and peaceful Indo-Pacific region and would work to ensure that goal was not threatened by rising China-US tensions.
"The world is being characterised by increased strategic competition between the United States and China, that is a self-evident fact," he said.
"I would say our shared view is that such strategic competition does not need to lead to increased likelihood of conflict."
Ardern also glossed over other irritants in the trans-Tasman relationship, including Canberra's policy of deporting New Zealand-born criminals even if they have been in Australia for most of their lives.
"As with any family, we will have our disagreements from time to time but... we are much bigger than our differences," she said.
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Ryanair Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Berlin

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The 160 passengers will resume their journey to Poland in a "spare aeroplane" (Representational)
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Berlin:
A Ryanair passenger plane made an emergency landing in Berlin before resuming its journey to Poland, German police said late Sunday without releasing further details.
The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.
With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin-Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm (1800 GMT) Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.
A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks "without any danger being detected".
"The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane," she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.
The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched, German media reported.
"The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER," airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.
"The aircraft is currently in a safe position," a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.
The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger -- a dissident journalist -- arrested on arrival.
And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.
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Brazil's Serrana Sees 95% Drop In Covid Cases As All Adults Vaccinated

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The population was vaccinated by the Coronavac vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech
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Sao Paulo, Brazil:
Serrana, a city in southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, has seen a 95% drop in COVID-19 deaths after it concluded vaccination of almost all adults, TV Globo reported on Sunday.
With 45,000 inhabitants Serrana is a healthy oasis in Brazil, which has the world's second deadliest outbreak with more than 461,000 deaths so far and a very slow immunization pace due to the lack of vaccines.
Serrana was the subject of a study by Instituto Butantan, which produces the Coronavac vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech in Brazil.
When vaccination was starting, the city had an increase in COVID cases, but the spread of the virus was contained once 75% of the population was immunized, scientists found.
Scientists divided the city in four areas to try to understand which was the threshold to contain the spread of the virus and found that it was controlled after three areas received the second dose.
The number of symptomatic cases fell 80%, and hospitalizations 86%. COVID deaths fell 95%, according to data given by Butantan to TV Globo.
Serrana is surrounded by cities that are still dealing with a spike in COVID cases. Ribeirao Preto, 15 miles away from Serrana, is going through a lockdown to try to contain the spread of COVID-19.
A similar experiment is underway in another city in Sao Paulo, Brazil's richest state. The city of Botucatu expects to immunize most of its 148,000 inhabitants with the Astra Zeneca vaccine.
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Covid Cases in Australia's Victoria At 51, Situation "Incredibly Serious"

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Premier James Merlino said that the situation is "incredibly serious" in the state(File)
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Sydney:
Australia's second most populous state of Victoria, the epicentre of the country's latest coronavirus hotspot, reported 11 new cases of community transmission on Monday, taking the current cluster to 51.
Victoria went into a strict seven-day lockdown on Friday after new COVID-19 infections in the state capital Melbourne ended its three-month run of zero community cases.
The state reported five new cases in the 24 hours to midnight. At a press conference in Melbourne on Monday, authorities announced a further six cases were recorded after the late night cut-off which will reflect in Tuesday's data.
The swelling numbers have raised questions over whether the lockdown will be extended beyond the seven days announced initially.
"The challenge ahead of us is a very, very significant one," Victorian acting Premier James Merlino told reporters. "We are seeing a small number of cases infecting a large number of contacts."
The situation was "incredibly serious" and the next few days will be critical, Merlino added.
"I want to be really clear with everyone that this outbreak may well get worse before it gets better."
Medical officials have said the latest COVID-19 variant, first detected in India, was likely to be more virulent than the original strains, taking just one day to infect another person compared with earlier strains which can take about five or six.
Authorities are also concerned about the prospect of a larger outbreak in aged care homes after two workers and one resident at the Arcare facility in Melbourne tested positive, the home operator said in a statement.
Hundreds of elderly Victorians in residential aged care facilities died of COVID-19 last year.
Victoria endured one of the world's strictest and longest lockdowns last year to suppress a second wave of COVID-19 that killed more than 800 people in the state, accounting for 90% of Australia's total deaths since the pandemic began.
Swift contact tracing, snap lockdowns and strict social distancing rules have helped Australia keep its COVID-19 numbers relatively low, with 22,275 local cases and 910 deaths. The country has ranked among the top 10 in a COVID-19 performance index for its successful handling of the pandemic.
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Fauci Argued In 2012 Gain of Function Research Worth Risk of Pandemic — Sunday Night Live

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Owen Shroyer explains how Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed in 2012 that gain of function research was worth the dangerous risk of a global pandemic as more evidence emerges indicating COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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