OnlyFans reverses its decision to ban
pornographic content, saying in part that the ban is "no longer required due to banking partners’ assurances that OnlyFans can support all genres of creators".
(WABI-TV)
Disasters and accidents
Twenty people are killed and 17 others are reported missing in
landslides in western
Venezuela, amid torrential rains. Most of the deaths occurred in
Tovar,
Mérida, after the local
Mocotíes river overflowed its banks.
(Al Jazeera)
The
Japanese government announces the expansion of the full
state of emergency to eight
prefectures and the quasi-state of emergency to four prefectures beginning on August 27, which brings the number of prefectures under all types of emergency measures to 33. These emergency measures will remain in effect until September 12.
(AP)
Kazakhstan announces that beginning on August 28, in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19, unvaccinated people will be banned from entering shopping malls, restaurants and cafés unless they show proof of
vaccination, a negative
test result, or have recovered from COVID-19 within the past three months and have a "green" status on a
mobile app.
(Reuters)
Laos reports a record 952 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 13,909.
(The Laotian Times)
Taiwan reports zero
community transmitted cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours for the first time since the country's largest outbreak began in May.
(The Guardian)
Vietnam reports a record 12,096 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 377,245.
(VNExpress)
Switzerland signs an agreement with
Pfizer to supply a total of 14 million doses of the
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in 2022 and 2023, which also includes an option to supply an additional 7 million vaccine doses in subsequent years.
(Barron's)