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Russian president Vladimir Putin has issued a chilling warning to Lithuania. The warning came after Lithuania banned the transit of Russian goods to Kaliningrad, sanctioned by the European Union. Russia stated that serious measures will be taken to protect the national interest. This is the first time Russia has issued a direct warning to a NATO member, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In the Global Covid-19 Summit hosted by different health experts of all the nations on May 12, US President Joe Biden and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen agreed to collaborate. Two leaders issued a joint statement and decided to cooperate on pathogen monitoring and vaccine research. US committed extra 200 million USD, European Union committed 450 million USD to the World Bank to prevent pandemic, global health security. 

While several countries have just recently lifted Covid-related mandates, the European Union is not planning to drop the use of digital Covid-19certificates yet. The certificate is granted to the vaccinated, the Covid-19 recovered, and to those who recently tested negative. There have been widespread protests in Europe against the use of Covid-19 passes, with several MEPs also citing its inability to stop Covid-19 spread, and flagging human… read-more

To combat the spread of the new Omicron COVID variant, the European Union stated that it intends to ban air travel from southern Africa. Scientists in South Africa have discovered a Coronavirus strain that is causing alarm due to its high number of mutations and quick transmission. A fourth Coronavirus outbreak is wreaking havoc with Europe's policymakers scrambling to tighten restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread.

People in Netherlands, France, and Belgium continued to protest on the COVID-19 curbs. According to reports, people continued to show up in numbers across the European cities with police deploying water cannons and tear gases to disperse the crowd. In view of increasing Corona Virus cases, the European Union had to issue tighter restrictions to curb the virus, where citizens are demanding to remove the mandate of compulsory vaccination.