Passport

Austria was one of the only countries to introduce compulsory vaccination

Ukraine's digital identification system, known as Diia, is being used by the government to distribute money to Ukrainians displaced and unemployed by the war with Russia.

American journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud was shot and killed in a combat zone near Kyiv, Ukraine, the region’s police chief said on Sunday.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked a uniquely widespread global rejection of all things Russian — going far beyond the aggression shown to other groups whose radicals or leaders have taken innocent lives.

A group of about a dozen demonstrators held a protest in favor of mandatory masking outside the New York Department of Education building on Wednesday. The crowd sang a pro-mask nursery rhyme in hopes that New York Mayor Eric Adams would re-up the city’s school mask mandate.

Vaccine passport and masking requirements in New York City will be lifted on Monday, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday, including the city's school mask mandate and vaccination requirements for restaurants, entertainment venues, and other public indoor spaces. 

France is set to suspend their “vaccine passport” program on March 14 just before citizens head to the polls national elections.

New York City has a plan to phase out COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates in the coming weeks, said Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday.

Around 4 million vaccinated and boosted French residents woke up to a deactivated vaccine passport and notification that they were required to get an additional booster to continue participating in society.

To broaden its market access in China, Pfizer Inc. partnered with a military-linked Chinese pharmaceutical firm, The National Pulse can reveal.