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French transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari visits a Covid-19 screening centre at Orly airport while antigen tests are to be launched for some departing passengers. These tests, which are less efficient than the current PCR tests, do not require laboratory analysis, and the result can be known in 10 to 30 minutes. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives to give evidence at Britain's Covid-19 inquiry. During the pandemic he was Britain's Finance Minister, and has faced criticism for his implementation of a scheme called 'Eat Out To Help Out'. Designed to revive demand for restaurants after they were closed in Covid lockdowns, the scheme has been criticised for potentially helping spread the disease, with senior scientists saying they weren't consulted. IMAGES
People queue in their cars to get vaccinated against Covid-19 at a drive-thu vaccination centre in Cape Town. Dozens of nations from Europe to Asia have imposed travel restrictions on South Africa and its neighbours since its scientists flagged Omicron last week. IMAGES
Panama City, Jul 15 (EFE).- The COVID-19 death toll in Panama decreased in recent weeks thanks to the advance in COVID-19 vaccination drive, the Health Minister Luis Francisco Sucre told EFE on Thursday."The first objective" of the national immunization plan that began on Jan. 20 "was to avoid deaths, and that is what we are accomplishing," Sucre said.Panama has recorded a total of 6,661 deaths since the beginning of pandemic. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS).SHOT LIST: HEALTH AUTHORITIES GIVE A DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE TO CITIZENS IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
"Shops, certain cultural and sporting activities, and (cafe) terraces" could reopen "around mid-May" in France depending on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, Prime Minister Jean Castex says. SOUNDBITE