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New York City will slash the number of attendees in Times Square and require masks, AstraZeneca says three doses of its vaccine is effective against Omicron, citing Oxford study

Ecuador has declared Covid vaccination will be mandatory after a marked rise of infections and the arrival of new variants of the disease. The government said Thursday that only Ecuadorians with a medical condition that could be complicated by vaccination will be exempt. Those people must provide documentation.

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