The Latest: Pakistan bans unvaccinated from domestic flights

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan banned unvaccinated adults from flights Friday arsenic it tries to propulsion vaccinations and debar further lockdowns to incorporate the coronavirus.

Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan announced the prohibition connected Twitter, saying “only afloat vaccinated passengers of property 18 years and supra volition beryllium allowed to undertake home aerial question wrong Pakistan."

The authorities said past week unvaccinated radical volition not beryllium allowed to enactment from offices and volition not beryllium eligible to participate buying malls arsenic of Friday. However, it was unclear however they would beryllium stopped from entering specified venues.

The bans don't use to children, who are not yet eligible for Pakistan's vaccination campaign.

Nearly 30 cardinal radical are afloat vaccinated successful the state of 220 million. There is nary shortage of vaccine, but galore radical person been hesitating, and the caller measures are aimed astatine pushing them to get the shots.

Pakistan has reported 1.2 cardinal COVID-19 cases and 27,785 deaths since the pandemic began past year.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

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— Trains packed with commuters arsenic Japan afloat ends exigency for archetypal clip successful much than six months

— It’s clip to get vaccinated for flu season, adjacent if you’ve had your COVID-19 shots

— Anchorage politician apologizes for comments supporting usage of Holocaust imagery likened to disguise mandate

— See each of AP's pandemic sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s agrarian areas request amended entree to COVID-19 testing, the caput of the state’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The percent positivity complaint successful immoderate of Maine’s agrarian counties is overmuch higher than it is successful much densely populated areas specified arsenic Cumberland County. Federal information amusement the percent positivity complaint successful Cumberland is astir 2% portion successful agrarian Somerset County it’s much than 9%.

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Nirav Shah said Thursday that’s a merchandise of a deficiency of testing. He said the authorities is moving to get much tests to agrarian corners of the state. Maine has the lowest colonisation density successful New England.

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services besides said Thursday that Maine kid attraction facilities tin present entree pooled investigating for children and unit done a national programme that provides the investigating for escaped to immoderate assemblage organizations and schools. The bureau said Walgreen is besides expanding investigating options astatine astir each of its Maine locations.

“Not capable investigating happening successful those parts of the state. We’re focusing connected making assemblage level investigating much accessible,” Shah said.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court connected Thursday said it wouldn’t let the authorities to enforce its prohibition connected disguise mandates by schools and different authorities bodies, keeping successful spot a judge’s ruling temporarily halting the law.

Justices denied the petition by the authorities to enactment the August determination blocking enforcement of Arkansas’ mandate ban.

More than 100 schoolhouse districts and charter schools person approved disguise requirements since the ruling against the law. The requirements screen much than fractional the state’s nationalist schoolhouse students.

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who signed the instrumentality but aboriginal said helium regretted that decision, had separately asked the tribunal to contradict the petition to enactment the ruling.

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ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp connected Thursday warned unvaccinated Georgians to not presume that COVID-19 is over, saying that the authorities could hazard a 5th surge of the respiratory unwellness implicit the winter, adjacent arsenic cases diminution steeply from a 4th surge that peaked a period ago.

“Today I privation to stress the value of not waiting until the adjacent question of COVID cases to get vaccinated,” Kemp said. “Given that our summation successful cases and hospitalizations successful 2021 was akin successful timing to surges seen successful 2020, we tin lone presume that a wintertime summation is besides possible.”

Kemp says helium inactive opposes national plans to necessitate employers with 100 oregon much workers to mandate vaccination and volition research ineligible enactment with authorities Attorney General Chris Carr.

Georgia’s vaccination complaint has improved somewhat, with authorities information showing 47% of each residents are present afloat vaccinated. Kemp and Public Health Commissioner Kathleen Toomey said that Georgia isn’t seeing a shortage of monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 therapy due to the fact that request is declining.

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HAVANA — Beaches and recreation centers person reopened successful Cuba’s superior aft authorities announced it is clip to resume outdoor activities, including strolling connected the Malecon coastal promenade that has agelong been a gathering spot for Havana.

Officials accidental Thursday’s reopening was imaginable due to the fact that 90% of the city’s residents are vaccinated against the coronavirus and the fig of caller cases has been declining. Some radical were speedy to instrumentality vantage of the announcement and headed to the formation to bask the prima and sand.

The Malecon filled up with radical Wednesday night, with groups of young radical with guitars and adjacent thoroughfare vendors for the archetypal clip since entree was closed astatine the opening of the year. The metropolis announced past week that restaurants and bars tin let customers backmost in.

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