The Virus Update 6/15/21

 

The Virus

A demonstration in London on Monday to protest lockdown restrictions.Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

England will delay its full reopening by a month, to late July, because of a surge in cases. Vermont lifted its remaining pandemic restrictions after becoming the first U.S. state to have given a shot to 80 percent of eligible residents. Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese virologist, insists that the coronavirus did not leak from her Wuhan lab. China’s secrecy has made her claims unverifiable.