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Australia to further ease border measures and Covid-restriction rage in Europe

Government
James Chapple
22 November 2021

Australia will reopen to foreign visa holders next month in the latest effort to ease its 18-month Covid border closure.

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Elsewhere, there were clashes between police and demonstrators in several European countries over the weekend following the reintroduction of Covid restrictions.

A new wave of Covid infection has swept the continent in recent weeks, forcing some countries back into a state of lockdown. Austria, on Monday, became the first to reimpose a full national lockdown.

Elsewhere, health secretary Sajid Javid has said booster jabs are the best way to keep the UK out of lockdown this Christmas, and there are reports boosters could soon be rolled out to the entire UK adult population.

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