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Latest on the global Covid crisis: 🇦🇷 Covid hits Argentina's research base in Antartica 🇫🇷 France to lift face-mask requirement 🇦🇺 Western Australia state to stay shut down over Omicron fears For more:

Twenty-four of the 43 scientists and military personnel resident at Argentina's La Esperanza base were infected. officials say. For the first time since the start of the pandemic the coronavirus has reached an Argentine research base in Antarctica, causing the evacuation of nine unvaccinated staff who tested positive for Covid-19, an official said.

Nine of the 24, who have no symptoms, were evacuated to capital Buenos Aires by helicopter as a precaution.France will lift its requirement for wearing masks outdoors and enforce the use of vaccine passes for accessing public places to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced in a televised address.

The bill, approved by parliament, is currently being examined by the judicial council for final validation.The state of Western Australia has cancelled plans to reopen its borders on February 5 citing health risks from a surge in Omicron cases elsewhere in the country, as the tally of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began topped 2 million.

Instead, re-opening would be delayed indefinitely or at least until the percentage of triple dose vaccinations reached 80 percent, which is currently around 26 percent.Mexico has reported 278 more deaths from Covid-19, bringing the official death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began to 302,390.

 

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