Giving some old people in rich countries a third, booster vaccination shot may be bad for everyone if it slows down the vaccination of everyone else. It could encourage the evolution of another strain that might resist the vaccine.

That danger exists when there are lots of vaccinated people and lots of unvaccinated people. To eliminate it, we need to vaccinate everyone as fast as we can.

That requires doing everything possible to increase production. The first step is to eliminate the patent obstacles.

Mexico is suing US gun manufacturers, claiming that they marketed guns to the market of people who would smuggle them into Mexico.

The OSCE says that Russia won't allow it to properly observe the coming election, so it will not try.

Western news outlets call on governments to give visas to the reporters that are likely to be killed by the Taliban.

It is the least we can do.

Germany will make the unvaccinated pay to get Covid tests so as to enter restaurants and other dangerous sites for transmission.

I think this is justified, provided it does not become a system of tracking the movements of vaccinated people.

Moreover, I agree with Mr Holetschek: the system must not charge for Covid tests for the people who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated. It would be absurd to punish people for doing something that they must not do.