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In today’s featured cartoon, Osval illustrates the high risk of Coronavirus resurgence, with Tokyo seeing a record spike in Covid-19 infections just before the Summer Olympics began this week.
Morten Morland draws on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to reopen nightclubs as he removed most Covid curbs amid a surge in the Delta variant. Johnson, however, has said he will make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues with large crowds from autumn.
Kevin Siers offers a take on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two Republican members, namely Jim Banks of Indiana, and Jim Jordan from Ohio, from a select committee that was formed to investigate the 6 January riots at the Capitol Hill.
Peter Brookes draws on shoppers’ panic as they emptied supermarkets after over 600,000 users of the UK National Health Service’s Covid test and trace app were “pinged” alerts recommending self-isolation earlier this month.