It's Tuesday, June 29th. I'm Achille Hughes and I'm Les Plank in Forgetting Residic.

And this is what a day the podcast teens are not allowed to listen to if they're on summer vacation.

Yeah, we really appreciate you spending your break with us, but with all due respect, you should be hanging out somewhere or like swimming.

Yeah, like just go stand in a fast-food parking lot for three hours, all right? Go loiter. We'll see you in August.

Yep.

On today's show, a new study hints at promising results if some of the two-dose vaccines are mixed and matched, plus some headlines.

But first, the latest. And we're going to start today with the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

By now, we've all heard about it, but Achille across the globe, countries are responding to the latest variant.

What's going on?

So yes, the Delta variant is continuing to spread and the World Health Organization said last week that it's been detected in 92 countries already.

And now, even more countries are imposing lockdowns and limiting border crossing as a result.

Sydney, Australia last Friday started a partial lockdown after a cluster of 65 cases arose suddenly.

Throughout the pandemic, Australia had been a bubble and proof of what happens when mitigation efforts are taken seriously.

So it does seem like they know what they're doing here.

And other cities across that country have started locking down as well.

Let's hope they don't last too long.

So where else in the world have lockdown efforts restarted?

Okay. So South Africa, they've instituted a nightly curfew,

re-up bands on gatherings, and halted domestic travel for the next two weeks.

And in Bangladesh, all public transportation is on hold to stop the spread.

And in Israel, they reinstated their indoor mask mandate after news of this more contagious variant.

Oh my gosh, that stinks. And then there's this more troubling development.

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