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EUROPE
* The United Kingdom will begin offering COVID-19 antibody testing
to the general public in the coming week for the first time, British
media reported.
* Thousands demonstrated across France for a sixth consecutive
weekend against a COVID-19 health pass required for daily
activities, highlighting a simmering political risk for President
Emmanuel Macron.
* The Euro 2020 soccer final between England and Italy in July was a
"superspreader" event due to the level of COVID-19 infection found
in or around London's Wembley Stadium on the day, according to
official data.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* New Zealand is set to stay in COVID-19 lockdown until at least
midnight Friday, New Zealand Herald reported without giving the
source of the information.
* China's health authority reported there were no new locally
transmitted cases of COVID-19 for the first time since July,
offering more signs that the current outbreak which began late last
month may be tapering off soon.
* Vietnamese soldiers were deployed on the streets of Ho Chi Minh
City to help enforce a lockdown in the country's business hub, which
has become the epicentre of its worst coronavirus outbreak so far
during the pandemic.
* North Korea has developed its own polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
equipment to conduct coronavirus tests, state media said, as the
country steps up efforts to head off more contagious new strains of
the virus.
* South Korea's health ministry said Moderna will supply the country
with 7.01 million doses of coronavirus vaccines by the first week of
September, following a government request to speed up delivery.
* Filipino workers who have been vaccinated in the Philippines will
be allowed to enter Hong Kong from Aug. 30, Manila's labour minister
said.
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 * Sri Lanka announced a 10-day
lockdown starting on Friday night in an effort
to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as
surging infections and deaths overwhelm the
island's health system.
AMERICAS
* A healthcare network that operates several
hospitals in Toronto said it would sack any
staff members who are not fully vaccinated by
the end of October. * Cuba's
drug regulator granted emergency approval for its homegrown Soberana
2 vaccine, allowing the drug's full inclusion in the country's
inoculation program as it races to curb a Delta variant-fuelled
coronavirus outbreak.
* The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people at
an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 should avoid
travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, irrespective of
their vaccination status.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* A third dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has significantly
improved protection from infection and serious illness among people
aged 60 and older in Israel compared with those who received two
shots, findings published by the Health Ministry showed.
MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
* The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is aiming to give full
approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
* Asian shares bounced on Monday as a wave of bargain hunting swept
beaten-down markets and China reported no new locally acquired
COVID-19 cases for the first time since July, though the mood
remained brittle overall. [MKTS/GLOB]
(Compiled by Krishna Chandra Eluri, Devika Syamnath and Federico
Maccioni; Edited by Arun Koyyur and Shounak Dasgupta)
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