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I n the event of another viral recurrence, individuals who have been vaccinated against Covid would not have to go into complete lockdown and will have more freedoms than unvaccinated people, according to Germany's health minister on Friday. "As long as there are no mutations that affect vaccine protection... being completely vaccinated implies that limitations like the ones we saw last winter will not be necessary, essential, or legally suitable," Jens Spahn told reporters in Berlin. Germany now has relatively low infection rates and has loosened most of its virus controls, but fears are mounting about the spread of the more contagious Delta strain and the possibility of cases rising again due to summer travel. Spahn urged Germans to get their hands dirty in order to avoid a fourth pandemic wave this autumn.   -S.R. Franklin

A ccording to the UK government, more than six million EU residents have requested to stay in the UK after Brexit, roughly double the number estimated to be living in the country when the country left the bloc. There was a late rush of applications ahead of the June 30 deadline for the settlement scheme, which is intended to allow EU nationals living in the UK to keep the same rights they had before Brexit. However, following the end of the Brexit transition period on January 1, EU individuals seeking to settle or remain have faced more stringent restrictions for residency and employment. The final number of 6.02 million applications with 5.1 million grants of status is much higher than the 3.7 million EU nationals projected to be in the country when the initiative started in March 2019. More than 400,000 applications were received in the final month before the deadline, according to the Home Office, who added that anyone who missed the deadline on "reasonable ground" could s...