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In a new video released by the White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci and pop singer Olivia Rodrigo teamed up to encourage young people to get their shots. “The sooner all of us get vaccinated, the sooner we can like hang out with our friends and sing songs and all of the fun things,” Rodrigo said in a video filmed at the White House Wednesday. Fauci,80, and Rodrigo,18, read a series of tweets related to vaccinations. In response to one of the tweets about Rodrigo returning to concerts in the future, she said “Get your vaccines! I’m so excited to tour one of these days and I’m just so excited to go to a concert aren’t you?” “I want to go to a concert, for sure, for sure,” Fauci said, before revealing his first show was a Motown concert in New York City in the 1950’s. “I’m a really old guy.” Rodrigo, who said she experienced symptoms after receiving the second dose of her vaccine, also explained the phrase “Man Crush Monday” to Fauci, after one tweet wished the doctor a “Happy man crush Monday.” “If Man Crush Monday makes you get vaccinated, go for it,” Fauci said. A 20-year-old Ugandan athlete, who traveled to Japan for a pre-Olympics training, has gone missing from his hotel on Friday, officials told CNN. City officials learned he was missing at noon local time on Friday after realizing his Covid-19 test sample was not submitted, said Osamu Mizoguchi, a government official with the city of Izumisano, where he has been training. The athlete was Julius Sekitoleko, who is a weightlifter, according to a statement from the Uganda Olympic Committee on Friday. He was initially expected to qualify for the games, but ultimately did not make the quota. He was expected to return to Uganda on Tuesday, the statement added. Local police have been looking for him without success, Mizoguchi added. The Ugandan delegation was among the first teams to arrive in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics. The team started training in the western Japanese city on July 7 after they completed a mandatory quarantine. Tokyo reported 1,271 new coronavirus cases on Friday, one week out from the Olympics, according to the country’s public broadcaster NHK. This is the third straight day of cases above 1,000, which, NHK reports, did not happen in the last wave in April and May. Carnival Cruise Line will require unvaccinated guests „to purchase travel insurance for cruises leaving from Florida homeports, effective with sailings departing July 31,2021,“ according to Covid-19 guest protocols listed on the company’s website. The cruise line waived this requirement for children under the age of 12 who are ineligible for vaccines, according to the website. Royal Caribbean will also require „a valid travel insurance policy“ for unvaccinated guests 12 years of age and older, „for cruises departing from Florida homeports from August 1 through December 31,2021,“ the company’s website says.
