© Olivier Matthys/AP German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned Europe against loosening travel restrictions too quickly. Sydney will go into a partial lockdown on Friday as officials in Australia’s most populous city try to stamp out a growing delta variant outbreak. Japan is donating another 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Taiwan. countries, including the United Kingdom, where the delta variant now makes up a majority of new cases. While the number of new infections in Europe has fallen sharply since the vaccine rollout started, the drop in cases is starting to plateau.
