UK And U.S. travellers Must Be Vaccinated To Enter France

People travelling to France from countries where the COVID-19 risk is rated "orange", such as Britain and the United States, will have to be vaccinated and show a recent negative test result, European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Friday.

Under new rules set to take effect from June 9, people coming from orange countries who have not been vaccinated will need to prove they have an imperative reason to travel to France - such a a legal case or child care - and will also have to show a recent negative COVID-19 test, Beaune said.

Countries classified as orange in terms of COVID-19 risk are countries where the rate of virus circulation remains high or which have a high level of new virus variants, such as the UK. Any country not classified as green or red is classified orange, Beaune said on RTL radio.

Entry requirements are lower for countries which France classifies as "green", which includes all European Union member states plus a number of countries where the virus is considered to be under control, notably Australia, South Korea, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand and Singapore.

"If you come from a green country and you are vaccinated, you are welcome to come and enjoy France. If you are not vaccinated, you will need a recent negative test to enter French territory, he said.

People from countries classified as red, including South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, India and Turkey, can only come to France with an imperative reason, whether they are vaccinated or not.

Beaune said that French residents would only have to take a test to enter the country, even if they were arriving from counties classified as red or orange.

Source: Reuters

Royal Caribbean Sets 2021 Cruises In Florida, Texas, Alaska

MIAMI (AP) — Royal Caribbean International said Friday that eight of its ships will resume U.S. voyages in July and August with trips leaving ports in Florida, Texas and Washington state.

The cruise line said all crew members will be vaccinated against COVID-19. Passengers 16 and older on cruises to Alaska will also be required to be vaccinated. The requirement will be expanded to cover Alaska-bound passengers 12 and over starting Aug. 1.

For other trips passing through U.S. water, Royal Caribbean said that passengers are “strongly recommended” to get vaccinated. Unvaccinated passengers must be tested for the virus and follow other measures that will be announced later, the company said.

Royal Caribbean said that its first U.S. sailing since March 2020 will leave Miami on July 2 on the Freedom of the Seas.

The company said that over the following six weeks, five other ships will sail the Caribbean after leaving from Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Port Canaveral, Florida, and Galveston, Texas. Two ships will sail from Seattle to Alaska.

Royal Caribbean, which is headquartered in Miami but registers its ships in other countries, plans to have 12 ships operating worldwide by the end of August. Those include ships sailing from the United Kingdom, Europe and the Bahamas.

In the U.S., cruise companies are still talking with federal, state and local officials about health measures and trial sailings. Royal Caribbean plans trial voyages starting later this month. Those pilot trips are required before cruise lines can operate regular sailings with less than 95% of passengers being vaccinated.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials this week said that a Florida lawsuit against the federal government over conditions for cruise lines to resume sailing could threaten plans to restart cruising in Alaska.

United Airlines Sees A Supersonic Future

United Airlines aims to bring back supersonic travel before the decade is over with a plane that is currently just an artist’s drawing — even the prototype hasn’t flown yet.

The airline said Thursday that it plans to buy 15 jets from Boom Supersonic with an option for 35 more once the start-up company designs a plane that flies faster than the speed of sound while meeting safety and environmental standards.

United hopes to carry passengers on the plane in 2029. The airline said the plane will reduce flights between London and the New York area to just 3 1/2 hours and make Tokyo only six hours from San Francisco.

United declined to discuss financial terms, but Boom CEO Blake Scholl said the deal was worth $3 billion, or $200 million per plane with none of the discounting that is typical in the aircraft business.

It has been nearly two decades since the last flight of the supersonic Concorde, which British Airways and Air France began using in 1976 to zip passengers in luxury across the Atlantic. The last one was retired in 2003, three years after an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing everyone on board and four people on the ground.

Several companies are working to come up with new supersonic jets that would be more economical on fuel — and create fewer climate-changing emissions — than the Concorde.

Boom is working to develop an 88-seat plane it calls Overture, which it says will be the first supersonic airliner to fly on so-called sustainable fuel. Scholl said that a one-third sized prototype will make its first test flight later this year or early in 2022.

The Denver company said the plane will be capable of speeds up to 1.7 times the speed of sound, or about 1,300 mph. That is slower than the Concorde but more than twice as fast as many current airliners.

The endorsement from United is a huge lift for Boom. Another supersonic contender, Aerion, said last month that it was running short of money to get its plane, the AS2, into production.

Supersonic jets are often banned over populated areas because of the sonic booms they create. That eliminates many potential overland routes because the planes would have to fly at less efficient subsonic speeds.

Chicago-based United believes that its coastal hubs in San Francisco and Newark, New Jersey, and its corporate-traveler clientele make it better suited than its rivals to offer supersonic service.

Mike Leskinen, United’s vice president of corporate development and a former aerospace analyst, said United hopes to offer both premium and economy seating but that no final decisions have been made on cabin layout.

United is sensitive about the high fares that helped doom the Concorde, and is trusting that the cost to operate the Boom plane will come down over time as it has for other jets.

The Concorde was the pride of British and French aircraft companies, and it ushered in a new era of rapid travel over long distances. The plane had a distinctive delta-wing design that made it easily recognizable as it streaked overhead on its way to New York or Dulles Airport outside Washington.

The Barnes Foundation Presents "Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel" Opening Sept. 26

First major US exhibition dedicated to Suzanne Valadon, groundbreaking French model and painter

September 26, 2021–January 9, 2022

Philadelphia, PA. —This fall, the Barnes Foundation will present Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, the first exhibition dedicated to the French artist and model Suzanne Valadon at a major US arts institution. The first self-taught woman to exhibit at the Salon de la Sociéte Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Valadon challenged behavioral codes with her art and lifestyle, breaking new ground with her unapologetic portraits and nudes. On view in the Barnes’s Roberts Gallery from September 26, 2021, through January 9, 2022, this exhibition considers Valadon’s rich contribution to the early 20th-century art world and features representative works from all stages of her career.

Major support for Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support is provided by Comcast NBCUniversal and Denise Littlefield Sobel.

From a childhood marked by poverty and neglect to a career as a popular artist’s model, Suzanne Valadon (born Marie-Clementine Valadon, 1865–1938) defied the odds to become a successful painter. Passionate about art from an early age, she modeled in her teens for artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Edgar Degas encouraged her earliest artistic efforts, praising the use of line in her drawings and introducing her to printmaking techniques. Later, when she turned to painting, she exhibited her work regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne. Valadon made a living from her art at a time when women faced countless obstacles to professional success, but despite these accomplishments, her work has received scant attention outside of France.

“Placing Suzanne Valadon’s work in dialogue with the late 19th- and early 20th-century French paintings in the Barnes collection—created primarily by her male counterparts—raises questions of representation and access throughout art history,” says Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation. “Through this exhibition, we aim to draw attention to the ways in which many artists of merit are unjustly neglected because of biases surrounding gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. We are proud to present the first major US exhibition dedicated to Valadon, a remarkable and underexplored artist, and bring renewed attention to her significant body of work.”

Curated by Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions & Gund Family Chief Curator, the exhibition features approximately 55 works, including paintings, drawings, and prints created between 1890 and 1932. The exhibition is structured around a series of themes, including the artist’s representations of her family and her exploration of the female body. Refusing to follow artistic trends and continuously faithful to figurative representation, Valadon developed a distinctive pictorial language characterized by decisive lines and bold coloration.

Exhibition highlights include:

Adam and Eve, 1909 (Centre Pompidou, Paris, Gift of the State, 1937): In the early stages of her passionate relationship with André Utter—a man more than 20 years her junior—Valadon made this self-portrait in which she depicts herself as Eve to Utter’s Adam. When the work was first exhibited, it did not include the fig leaves, which she added at a later stage. Self-Portrait, 1927 (Private collection, on deposit to the Musée Utrillo-Valadon, Sannois): Valadon painted frequent self-portraits and, as she aged, did not shy away from changes in her appearance. Here, as a middle-aged woman, she addresses the viewer unapologetically.

The Blue Room, 1923 (Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Modern/CCI, Paris, on deposit to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Gift of the State, 1924): Seen by many as Valadon’s finest work, The Blue Room reinvented artistic traditions, with its sumptuously decorated interior that envelops a clothed, smoking woman.

Family Portrait, 1912 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris, on display at the Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art modern/CCI, Gift to the Musées Nationaux by M. Cahen-Salvador in memory of Madame Fontenelle-Pomaret, 1976): Head of an unconventional household, Valadon paints herself at the center of her family: her young lover by her side, her elderly mother behind, and her melancholy son in the foreground. Black Venus, 1919 (Centre Pompidou, Paris, – Musée National d’Art Moderne/CCI, Paris, on deposit to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Menton, Gift of M. Charles Wakefield-Mori, 1939): In one of a series of works that feature an unidentified Black model, Valadon seems to challenge classical tradition, a subject that is discussed in detail in the exhibition catalogue.

“Little known in the United States, Suzanne Valadon produced works in the early 20th century that even now challenge viewers with their unapologetic exploration of female desire and the challenges of marriage and motherhood,” says Ireson. “Though Valadon’s portraits and nudes were groundbreaking, their reception was often overshadowed by reactions to her personal life. Her second marriage to a far younger man was met with disapproval, and her fame as an artist was eclipsed by that of her son, Maurice Utrillo. This exhibition and catalogue tell Valadon’s story through her art, shining new light on her important work and career.”

RELATED PROGRAMMING

Public Programs:

Curatorial Talk Saturday, September 25, 2021 A talk by curator Nancy Ireson about the exhibition.

First Friday! October 1, 2021, 6-9pm First Friday! at the Barnes takes place on the first Friday of each month and programming in October will include a performance by a female-identifying performer.

PECO Free First Sunday Family Day October 3, 2021, 10 am–5 pm The Barnes’s monthly PECO Free First Sunday Family Day offers free admission and, in October, programming will explore exhibition themes related to women breaking boundaries through the creative lens.

Lecture Series: The Female Gaze in Contemporary Art and Media October and November (Three evening talks, dates TBA) Everyone is familiar with the “male gaze,” whether or not they know the term. It is ubiquitous in Western art and media, in the way that paintings, movies, films, television, novels, and ads depict the world from a masculine, heterosexual point of view, presenting women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male spectator. But what happens when women interrupt the male gaze and use art—visual or otherwise—as a space for expressing their own perspectives and desires?

Inspired by Valadon’s taboo-breaking paintings, this lecture series features contemporary women artists working in a variety of media who turn the tables on this entrenched power dynamic. In their works, women occupy the position of gazer (rather than gazed-at), expressing a view on the world—and on sexual desire—that is not often seen. Among the questions these talks will address: why does the female gaze provoke societal discomfort? Why is female lust still so bizarrely off-limits in mainstream American culture—think of the reaction to Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B. How do race and class factor into these questions?

For more details, please visit: https://www.barnesfoundation.org/plan-your-visit-new

The Peninsula Hotels Reopen In The U.S. With Tantalizing New Art, Culinary, And Wellness Offers

The Peninsula Hotels is delighted to announce the long-anticipated reopening of its iconic New York City hotel – a heritage property that has hosted discerning world travelers since 1988. In celebration of its guests' return, the hotel is unveiling a series of exquisite new art, culinary, and wellness experiences for visitors to enjoy.

Occupying one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan, just steps from Central Park along the cultural nexus of Fifth Avenue, The Peninsula New York marks its reopening today with a dynamic new art installation, Life en Route. The exhibit, which includes multimedia works from a group of renowned international artists, immerses viewers in the sensory pleasures of travel and cross-cultural experiences. Several of the works on display will be available for sale to benefit The Peninsula New York's cultural partners. The hotel will also host Dutch neo-expressionist painter Peter Riezebos this summer as part of the group's global Art in Resonance program. While he is in residence in one of the hotel's suites, guests can visit with Mr. Riezebos and watch as he creates artwork especially inspired by the city of New York.

Two exclusive promotions will also be available for guests returning to The Peninsula New York. The Rediscover Manhattan offer (starting at $745 per night) includes daily breakfast, complimentary parking, and tickets to a distinctively New York cultural experience such as Top of the Rock or The Museum of Modern Art. The Suite Escape offer (starting at $1,945) includes daily breakfast, a New York-themed welcome amenity, and complimentary parking or roundtrip airport transfer in the hotel's Mercedes S500 sedan.

Revel in the return of iconic city views and a bubbly party atmosphere by joining Salon de Ning's rooftop to enjoy the tunes of the hotel's DJ series: guests will be able to take in New York City's famed skyline while enjoying tunes curated by top female DJs every Thursday night through July.

The Peninsula Chicago is commemorating its 20th anniversary this June as an acclaimed Windy City landmark. In honor of its vicennial, the hotel is debuting three special offers for guests who appreciate its gracious Far East-meets-Midwest hospitality. First, the hotel's top-rated, refined Cantonese restaurant, Shanghai Terrace, and The Lobby restaurant will debut a special menu of favorites from the last two decades, including Szechwan prawns, Pierrot gourmet chicken salad, rice noodles with shrimp and tenderloin, and a special rainbow patterned veggie dumpling. For every purchase of these Culinary Classics Revived through the end of 2021, The Peninsula Chicago will be donating a meal to The Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Throughout the month, The Spa at The Peninsula Chicago will also extend a 20% discount off all treatments booked on Tuesdays, as well as purchases of Subtle Energies beauty products. Guests arranging a stay during June can additionally enjoy the 20th Anniversary Special package, which includes a 20% discount on rooms and suites, a chocolate amenity, and a Peter Bear with a special anniversary medallion for kids.

Also celebrating its anniversary later this year, The Peninsula Beverly Hills – whose lush gardenlike property sits adjacent to Century City and the legendary Rodeo Drive – will propose a welcoming special offer to guests who visit the sun-washed location. The Beverly Hills Dreaming package (starting at $715 per night) includes daily Continental breakfast, a $100 credit to be used toward pool cabanas or the hotel's award-winning dining, valet parking, and (for guests booking suites) use of one of the BMW vehicles from the Peninsula Beverly Hills's luxury automotive fleet. Other exciting events and offers will be added as the hotel gets closer to its 30th anniversary date.

At all ten of its properties around the world, The Peninsula Hotels is doubling down on its commitment to service and luxury with The Peninsula Promise. This new portfolio-wide initiative provides guests with enhanced flexibility, comfort, and convenience. The many features of The Peninsula Promise include guaranteed connecting rooms, ensuring shared space for guests to safely enjoy with family and friends; fully flexible check-in and check-out times, allowing guests to have their rooms ready as early as 6:00 a.m. on their arrival date and check out as late as 10:00 p.m. on their departure date; PenChat, a private 24-hour e-concierge service, which lets guests text any request or requirement (from dining and transport reservations to in-room delivery of extra pillows) quickly and securely; and custom-fragranced, environmentally friendly in-room amenities like shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, and body milk, made with natural ingredients and packaged in recyclable materials.

To learn more about The Peninsula Hotels in New York, Chicago, and Beverly Hills, please visit peninsula.com.

The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood Florida Reopens With Guaranteed Ocean Views For All

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. The Diplomat Beach Resort is excited to reopen its Hollywood, Florida doors on June 1st, 2021 to provide a comfortable environment under the Hilton Worldwide CleanStay and EventReady protocols. The Diplomat Beach Resort, Florida's most iconic oceanfront destination, is boasting 1,000 reimagined guestrooms and suites, two sun-drenched pools, 26 poolside cabanas, two fitness centers, and 209,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space. Ideally located on the beach between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, The Diplomat Beach Resort, the centerpiece of South Florida, is just minutes from world-class shopping, recreation, arts, culture, and scenery. As part of Curio Collection by Hilton, a global set of remarkable upscale hotels handpicked for their unique character, The Diplomat Beach Resort boasts comfort and style as well as expansive public spaces, offering guests a sun-filled playground for family fun. The property celebrates reopening with a summer-long guarantee that all guests will receive an ocean view, as well as summer "welcome back" packages including:

Limited Time Offer - Travel + Save: Save 15% and enjoy the flexibility of early check-in, late check-out, and free early departure if you need to change your plans. Make your getaway dreams a reality with this offer. *Early Check-in, Late Check-out, and Early Departure are based on availability. 2X Points Package: Your next trip could be twice as rewarding, receive double the Hilton Honors Points each night of your stay. For a limited time, when you enroll in our More Nights, More Points promotion, you can receive up to 4X Hilton Honors Points each night of your stay through September 6, 2021. 4th Night Free Package: We've missed you: Book a 3-night stay, and get your 4th night free *Based on availability; discount applied at the time of booking; must stay 4 nights; early departure subject to rate increases.

Epic Sunrises: All guests booking their stays at The Diplomat Beach Resort will enjoy a guaranteed ocean view room all summer long (June 1 - September 1, 2021). *Based on availability.

Visit www.diplomatresort.com/resort-offers for more information and to book your stay.

The Diplomat Beach Resort's offerings provide travelers and locals with the ease they seek, whether visiting for pleasure or business, by bringing a collection of experiences together in one place, all set around the resort's pristine expansive footprint between the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway. From the inside out, there is enough space to offer all guests a serene, restful, safe, and fun-filled resort experience. With more than 1,000 guest rooms – including two Penthouse suites, 515 king rooms, and 484 double rooms, with 96 being expansive suites – The Diplomat Beach Resort is the largest hotel in Broward County. Designed by the world's leading hospitality interior design firm, Hirsch Bedner Associates, the resort's stylish and thoughtfully designed rooms offer sophisticated spaces, befitting the prime beachfront location in Hollywood. A strong sense of place is woven throughout, reflecting a glamorous oceanfront design that nods to the storied history of the Diplomat Hotel of the 1950s. Carefully selected artwork throughout the property highlights the local-regional lifestyle, with modernized spaces harkening back to the hotel's vibrant past.

All rooms feature unobstructed ocean or Intracoastal vantage points, while most suites boast 180-degree views of the tropical surroundings, including a variety of premier suites, the Penthouse suites, each with an individual identity delivering on guest's needs. Suites exude a mix of midcentury elements with refreshing ocean tones, creating the perfect backdrop to relax and recharge, complete with hand-tufted rugs, natural wood furnishings, crisp white bedding backed by driftwood headboards and nautical touches that speak to the location. Guestrooms at the property depict two separate design schemes: Sunrise and Sunset. Sunrise rooms are modern, vibrant, and refreshing with earthy tones that provide a soothing, calm atmosphere accented with blue ocean colors. Sunset rooms present a more subtle, modern, and organic design scheme with views overlooking the famous South Florida west horizon, giving guests a front seat view to stunning sunsets.

The Diplomat Beach Resort is thrilled to be offering a variety of regionally-inspired casual dining options throughout the property. Whether your palette craves traditional beachside bites, Latin-inspired spirits, and flavors, convenient quick nibbles, or a modern approach to classic hotel cocktails, The Diplomat Beach Resort has an option for you. Visitors may choose from one of the following casual eateries:

Counter Point – A casual café is the place to go for specialty espresso drinks, coffee, tea, and a daily selection of artisan breakfast pastries, salads, and sandwiches. Playa – Beachfront Nuevo-Latina restaurant and bar featuring an extensive rum and tequila selection. The Canteen – Supply & Trading Company offering convenience food and beverage items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Hotel Bar – A modern take on the classic hotel bar with a "twist" to enjoy our indoor and outdoor living room setting, featuring signature-upgraded cocktails from hotels around the world. Available Thursday-Saturday

With expansive grounds providing ample room for guests to spread out and relax, The Diplomat Beach Resort is also perfect for family-focused guests, providing a variety of activities and amenities for all ages, meant to create happy, rejuvenating, and memorable vacation experiences. Guests will find unique offerings throughout the resort, including:

Water Works Abound: With two beachfront pools, jet skiing, ocean kayaking, paddleboard rentals, and the property's newest addition, the Dip + Slide water play area, The Diplomat Beach Resort is the ideal destination to cool down. Designed with an interactive water bucket that playfully tips over when full, the area entertains young travelers and is strategically located to give parents a direct line of sight from the lagoon pool, allowing them to relax poolside. Pool amenities include complimentary towel service, full-service poolside lunch, and spa services.

Designer Luxury Pool Cabanas by Trina Turk: Exclusively designed for The Diplomat Beach Resort, specialty cabanas created by fashion designer Trina Turk are available for rent on the second floor of the pool deck, providing a relaxing and stylish oasis for the day.

Diplomat Marina: The Marina at Diplomat Landing provides a perfect and secure place to dock for the day, overnight or longer. The deep-water dockage accommodates yachts and mega-yachts with easy ocean access to the north at port Everglades or the south at Haulover Inlet. Dockage accommodations include water, electrical hook-ups, and services. Complimentary dockage is available when dining within the resort's other eateries.

With 209,000 square feet of flexible private function and meeting space, The Diplomat Beach Resort continues to serve as the premier location for business travel and large-scale conferences, luxury weddings, and milestone celebrations. With recent upgrades in comprehensive technology, transportation services, and unbeatable ocean views, travelers and locals can expect thoughtfully designed and unique spaces meant to create memorable meetings, events, and weddings:

50,000 square foot unobstructed Great Hall Four ballrooms, including 20,000 square foot Grand Ballroom overlooking the Atlantic 39 breakout rooms, ideal for smaller events

Outdoor special event areas including the pool deck and 33rd-floor lounge space offering panoramic views On-site IT and audio-visual support

Specialty packages, rates, and programming

10 minutes from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport 30 minutes from Miami International Airport 10 minutes to walk, bicycle & run along Hollywood's historic Beach Broad walk 10 minutes from dining, casino & nightlife at The Village at Gulfstream Park and Aventura Mall 20 minutes from dining on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale

For more information, please visit www.diplomatresort.com

In Time For Summer, Europe Sees Dramatic Fall In Virus Cases

ROME (AP) — When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the annual kitsch fest confirmed that Europe was returning to a semblance of normalcy that was unthinkable even a few weeks ago.

Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across the continent, after Europe led the world in new cases last fall and winter in waves that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, forced more rolling lockdowns and overwhelmed intensive care units.

Now, vaccination rates are accelerating across Europe, and with them, the promise of summer vacations on Ibiza, Crete or Corsica. There are hopes for a rebirth of a tourism industry that in Spain and Italy alone accounts for 13% of gross domestic product but was wiped out by the pandemic.

“We don’t speak of 2020. We speak of from today onward,” said Guglielmo Miani, president of Milan’s Montenapoleone luxury shopping district, where European and American tourists have started trickling back, wooed in part by in-person meetups with design teams and free breakfasts at iconic cafes. The hope is that Asian tourists will follow next year.

Europe saw the largest decline in new COVID-19 infections and deaths this week compared with any other region, while also reporting about 44% of adults had received at least one dose of vaccine, according to the World Health Organization and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Europe’s seven-day rolling average for new cases per 100,000 people had been higher than any other region from mid-October through the beginning of December, ceding the unwanted top spot to the Americas over the new year before reclaiming it from early February through April, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

Coronavirus infections plummet across Europe

Now, no European country is among the top 10 for new cases per 100,000 people. And only Georgia, Lithuania and Sweden are in the top 20.

But the virus is spiking in Southeast Asia and much of Latin America and hitting the Maldives and Seychelles particularly hard this week. Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s chief of emergencies, warned that with the global situation still “fragile and volatile,” Europe is by no means out of the woods.

“Relaxing measures prematurely has contributed to the surge we have seen throughout 2020 and during the first quarter of 2021,” he warned. “We must stay the course while striving to increase vaccination coverage.”
By NICOLE WINFIELD, FRANK JORDANS and COLLEEN BARRY