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"Recent data makes clear that protection against mild and moderate disease has decreased over time," US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says of vaccines against Covid-19 at a White House Covid-19 Response Team briefing, as the US authorizes booster shots for all Americans from September 20 starting eight months after an individual has been fully vaccinated. SOUNDBITE
The New York Stock Exchange opening bell rings as US stocks surge higher, with all three major indices breaking records after Pfizer announced that its vaccine was 90 percent effective in protecting against Covid-19 infections. IMAGES
The premier of Ontario announces that he will lift vaccine passport requirements in the Canadian province, the epicenter of protests against Covid-19 health measures for more than two weeks now. SOUNDBITE
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
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