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Some foreign visitors are returning to Bangkok's tourist destination Grand Palace as Thailand reopen to vaccinated tourists from "low-risk" countries. IMAGES
The first batch of travellers arrive at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport as Thailand reboots its tourism industry after 18 months of Covid curbs. The coronavirus pandemic hammered the kingdom's tourism-reliant economy, which last year saw its worst performance since the 1997 Asian financial crisis with arrivals down more than 80 percent. Thai authorities have given the green light to vaccinated tourists from more than 60 "low-risk" countries to skip hotel quarantine -- providing the sector a much-needed lifeline. IMAGES
The first "Covid-tested" and "quarantine-free" flight from New York to northern Italy lands at the Milano-Malpensa international airport. Passengers are tested by healthcare workers for Covid-19 upon disembarking. IMAGES
A shipment of nearly four million coronavirus jabs arrives in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the world's third country to receive vaccines under Covax, a global scheme to provide free inoculations. The shipment aboard an Emirates flight arrived shortly before noon at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in the capital Abuja, with 3.94 million Oxford/AstraZeneca doses on board. IMAGES
A few masked tourists brave Rome's transport system after the country began to shut all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in a desperate bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus that has killed 827 in the country in just over two weeks. IMAGES of transport in Rome
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