More than 2.19m people passed through airport security checkpoints on Sunday, a pandemic-era high, as the US travel industry continued to rebound. One year ago on the same day, only 754,545 people were screened, the Transportation Security Administration said.
Thousands of Iranians have rushed to neighbouring Armenia in recent weeks in an attempt to receive free Covid-19 jabs as the Islamic republic grapples with tight vaccine supplies. Officials reported sharp increases in traffic as well as flights into the capital, Yerevan.
Israel will begin offering third doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine this week to adults with serious prior medical conditions, the health ministry said. “Booster” jabs are being debated by US and EU authorities, although Pfizer last week said it would ask regulators to approve them.
Greece will require mandatory vaccinations against Covid-19 for healthcare workers and aged home staff, prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, as infections have increased in recent days. “The country is not going to close due to the behaviour of few,” he said.
