Vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for the immunised.
🇳🇿New Zealand’s Covid policy has hit the headlines - with PM Ardern admitting that new covid restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society
Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not.
🇦🇹Austria have one of the most eye-opening vaccine mandates under consideration.
Those who are unjabbed risk being confined to their homes.
Chancellor Schallenberg warned that if the number of Covid patients in ICU exceeds 600 the unvaccinated will be forced into lockdown
⚠️This is one of the more extreme options under consideration, but other countries are also becoming less afraid of interfering in their citizens' lives in a bid to ensure high vaccine rates telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🇺🇸President Biden announced a “jab for jobs” policy for federal government workers.
He also called on private sector employers to do more to encourage vaccination - many obliged.
Such policies have stoked controversy - thousands are reported to have left jobs or been fired
🇫🇷President Macron announced anyone entering cinemas, museums, restaurants and bars would have to present proof of vaccination or a negative test.
France is one of the most vaccine sceptical nations but the “pass sanitaire” has turbocharged the country’s vaccination rate
❌The policy has also sparked a new wave of "gilets jaunes" style protests, with demonstrators incensed at such restrictions in a country where "liberté" is enshrined as a universal right telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🇩🇪Germany has a similar "3G" rule.
Anyone wanting to enter a public building such as a cafe, cinema or nursing home must prove that they have been either vaccinated, recovered from Covid or tested (geimpft, genesen, getestet) telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
🏴In the UK, only Scotland has introduced anything similar.
It became a legal requirement on October 17 for anyone going to a nightclub or large event such as a football match to show proof of double vaccination or a negative test telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Read more on the Covid policies across the globe - and how it could be creating a global underclass⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
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🔴A long-brewing crisis caused by drought, war and poverty has now been accelerated by the Taliban's shock takeover in August.
The militants' resumption of their Islamic emirate has been accompanied by a suspension of aid and now economic collapse telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
The World Food Programme estimates nearly 23 million of the country's 39m population are now unable to get regular access to enough food.
❌The rare tuskless genetic condition in Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique has become far more common after years of ivory hunters devastating the species
Around 90% of the country’s elephant population were slaughtered between 1977 to 1992 by Kalashnikov-wielding armed groups for ivory to fund a bloody Cold War-era conflict.
🐘The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless
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The attraction, dubbed The Rig, will also include:
Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected
📸Lisi Niesner/Reuters
They are also trying to understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted