News 1:
Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world’s strictest border rules because of the corona virus pandemic. Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrisson, has announced that Australia will reopen its international borders from November for its own people who has fully vaccinated. The government also said it was working towards welcoming tourists back to their shores. People would be eligible to travel when their state's vaccination rate hit 80%. New South Wales, which includes Sydney, is on track to be the first state to cross that 80% threshold in a few weeks time. Mr. Morrison said Australia's mandatory 14 day hotel quarantine, which costs each traveller over 2.000 USD, would be replaced by seven days of home quarantine for vaccinated Australians or permanent residents.
News 2:
Lava from an erupting volcano on the Spanish Island of La Palma has reached the sea creating vast clouds of steam and it’s feared toxic gases. Many homes and crops have been destroyed and thousands of people have been forced to evacuate since the eruptions first began on 19 September. The wind direction has changed and the sulfur levels are increasing in the air, so the residents had been told to stay indoors and keep their windows closed. Others are adapting to the strange new way of life dominated by rumbling of the volcano and the unpredictable threat of its ever flowing lava. This eruption not only affecting daily life and people’s livelihoods, but also changed the lay of the land.
