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All students at a middle school in Gwangju are taking tests.
A woman walks through a closed Covid-19 testing drive-thru clinic. Jenny Evans is pictured.
A mask lies on the sand as tourists enjoy a beach in Mexico.
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13 million people in the capital of Shaanxi province entered a sixth day of strict lockdown and mandatory testing, as local authorities cracked down on food and price gouging.
The new rules strengthened the monitoring of shops and markets. The hotline has received over 300 complaints in the last two days, most of them over an increase in the prices of daily necessities.
A medical worker is about to give a nucleic acid test to a client. Kevin Frayer is a photographer.
They have closed five illegal cases by Tuesday.
Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympic games in less than a month and China is battling its worst community outbreak of the Delta variant since 2020.
At 10.55pm, we updated.
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France is speeding up the booster scheme.
The waiting time for a third booster shot has been reduced by France in response to the rapid spread of Omicron.
All public gatherings will be limited to 2,000 people for indoor events and 5,000 people for outdoor events from Monday, according to Jean Castex, the French prime minister.
There is a queue for Covid in Paris. Lionel Urman/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock
Castex said that masks will be mandatory in city centres and that people must work from home three days a week if possible, as the country's infection rate hit a record level.
There will be no curfew on New Year's Eve and schools will reopen after the festival season ends on 4 January.
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China cases are rising again.
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Fauci says the government should consider a vaccine mandate.
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The travel saga of two brothers from the US Pacific North-west is an example of the airline problem.
Harley and his brother, who lives in Seattle, were staying with their parents in Pahrump, Nevada, over the holidays and had planned to fly home on Sunday evening.
The flights from Las Vegas to Portland and Seattle were both canceled on Sunday. Both were able to book seats on later flights.
They decided to start driving at 3am on Monday after their second flight was canceled. They were going to drive up to Portland and Seattle in 17 hours, after taking a car rental in Bakersfield, California.
The most frustrating part of the travel nightmare was the last-minute notification of canceled flights, which Alaska Airlines said was weather-related, although Portland was not experiencing severe weather on Monday.
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More flights were scrapped.
More than 3,500 flights have been canceled on Monday and Tuesday as airlines crews succumb to the Omicron Covid strain.
On Monday and Tuesday there were over 3000 flights canceled.
A woman and her child are waiting for a flight. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
The impact on crews has caused 11,000 flights to be canceled since Friday in the US.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that it was investigating 68 cruise ships after reports of Covid-19 cases.
At 9.41pm, we updated.
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