{"id":34274,"date":"2021-07-22T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jul\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-two-more-athletes-test-positive-in-tokyo-biden-raises-jab-hope-for-under-12s"},"modified":"2021-07-23T01:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:04:16","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-two-more-athletes-test-positive-in-tokyo-biden-raises-jab-hope-for-under-12s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34274","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live: more than half of all European adults fully vaccinated; more Olympic athletes test positive in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> More than 200 million Europeans fully vaccinated but programme still behind summer target; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jul\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-two-more-athletes-test-positive-in-tokyo-biden-raises-jab-hope-for-under-12s?page=with:block-60f937738f08bb57f5f7c4ba#block-60f937738f08bb57f5f7c4ba\">more Olympic athletes<\/a> confirmed to have Covid<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/jul\/22\/stark-silence-on-tokyos-dead-streets-mirror-olympics-only-just-tolerated\">Stark silence in Tokyo speaks volumes about Olympic fears<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/china-refuses-further-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins-in-wuhan-lab\">China refuses further inquiry into Covid-19 origins in Wuhan lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/tax-raids-target-indian-paper-criticised-government-covid-dainik-bhaskar\">Tax raids target Indian paper that criticised government over Covid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jul\/22\/australia-pm-says-sorry-for-vaccine-failures-amid-bleak-outlook-for-sydney-lockdown\">Australia PM says sorry for vaccine failures amid Sydney lockdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/jul\/22\/uk-covid-latest-updates-pingdemic-critical-workers-exempt-self-isolation-rules-boris-johnson\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-07-22T16:04:16.485Z\">5.04pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel\u2019s<\/strong> coronavirus task force on Thursday recommended partially re-instating the green pass programme, restricting access to certain events to vaccinated people, as concern mounts over the fast-spreading Delta variant,<strong> AFP reports<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The plan backed by Israel\u2019s so-called Corona Cabinet is likely to be approved by prime minister Nafatali Bennett\u2019s government on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-07-22T15:51:05.336Z\">4.51pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Malta<\/strong> has begun flying home students who tested positive for Covid-19 while studying English at schools in the small Mediterranean island nation.<\/p>\n<p>AP reports that Malta\u2019s health ministry closed language schools on July 14 amid a spike in new cases, which included several hundred foreign students. Many of them were minors. The first medical charter flight carried 100 students bound for Paris. More flights were planned in coming days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jul\/22\/coronavirus-live-news-two-more-athletes-test-positive-in-tokyo-biden-raises-jab-hope-for-under-12s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> More than 200 million Europeans fully vaccinated but programme still behind summer target; more Olympic athletes confirmed to have CovidStark silence in Tokyo speaks volumes about Olympic fearsChina refuses further inquiry into Covid-19 origins in Wuh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,914,88,299,52,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","category-uk-news","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions\/34300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}