Honduras to reopen domestic and international flights
Honduras announced Tuesday it will reopen its airports to domestic and international flights in mid-August, after a nearly five-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, news agency Reuters reports. Domestic flights will resume 10 Aug. and international flights will start 17 Aug. Cayman Airways operated several repatriation flights to Honduras in May in
Nepal reopens to tourists coming by air, land borders still closed.
Nepal has thrown open the doors to foreign tourists after keeping them out for nine months as the country battled the Covid-19 pandemic. All tourist visas have been restored, and foreign visitors are now free to fly into the country, the Department of Immigration said, but the land borders are still closed. “Issuance of tourists entry visa from Nepali diplomatic missions abroad has resumed,” the
First Britons receive Covid-19 vaccine, a landmark moment in the pandemic
The United Kingdom has become the world's first nation to begin vaccinating its citizens with a fully vetted and authorized Covid-19 shot, a landmark moment in the coronavirus pandemic. The first Briton to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine -- 90-year-old Margaret Keenan -- received the first of two doses at 6:31 a.m. local time on Tuesday at University Hospital in Coventry, less than a week after the UK became the first country to approve it.