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25 July 2021 In the night the

French Senate

 voted on the bill that extends the green pass and makes vaccination mandatory for carers, with a series of changes to the text passed by the National Assembly such as the exemption of minors from the pass and on the terraces . The upper house voted the text with 199 votes against 123. Senators and deputies will try today to agree on a compromise text, after new demonstrations against the "health dictatorship", which has mobilized more than 160,000 people throughout the country.



According to data released by

the Tunisian Ministry of Health

, 213 deaths were reported on 23 July, a number that includes deaths not previously accounted for, of which 53 in the last 24 hours and 5359 new cases registered out of 17,694 tests performed, with a positivity rate of 30.29%. So far, Tunisia has recorded a total of 569,289 infections and 18,600 deaths from Covid. 460,361 the healed.



The

Australian government

announced it has booked 85 million covid-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical company Pfizer for delivery in 2022 and 2023, which will serve as booster doses against the pandemic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, criticized for delays in the vaccination campaign, said in a statement that this acquisition serves to "continue to protect" citizens against the "evolving threat of covid-19". 



A student was killed in

Kinshasa

by a policeman who accused him of not wearing a mask while recording a video, witnesses and local media report. "Our comrade Honoré Shama, from the University of Kinshasa's faculty of literature, was shooting a video as part of the practical work in the play. A policeman asked him to put on his mask during the shooting," said Patient Odia, a companion present at the accident. "Despite his explanations and after showing the mask, the policeman, angry that he was waiting to receive money, accused him of resisting and shot him at close range," he added.