Coronavirus live news: UK PM to end curbs as cases reach January highs; Indonesia says no vaccine, no entry

Starting on 6 July foreigners and nationals entering Indonesia must be vaccinated; Fauci says 99.2% of recent US deaths were unvaccinated; Boris Johnson set to press ahead with final lifting of restrictions

America’s top infectious disease expert says about 99.2% of recent Covid deaths in the United States involved unvaccinated people. And Dr. Anthony Fauci says “it’s really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable.”

He told NBC’s “Meet the Press” it’s frustrating “where you have a formidable enemy” in the coronavirus and “yet we do have a countermeasure that’s highly, highly effective. And that’s the reason why it’s all the more sad and all the more tragic why it isn’t being completely implemented in this country.”

Fauci cited the reasons for opposition to the vaccine by some Americans, whether it’s “ideological” or whether some “are just fundamentally anti-vax or anti-science.”

Indonesia is requiring foreign visitors to be fully vaccinated as one of the entry requirements as the country tries to curb the spread of coronavirus, AP reports.

Ganip Warsito, National Task Force for Covid-19 Mitigation Chief, said Sunday that starting on July 6, both foreigners and Indonesian nationals entering the country have to show digital or physical proof that they have been fully vaccinated.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jul/05/coronavirus-live-news-uk-pm-to-end-curbs-as-cases-reach-january-highs-indonesia-says-no-vaccine-no-entry

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