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Share: The new Viking Venus (shown above) is one of two Viking oceangoing ships now sailing from Valletta, Malta.
Viking celebrated its return to the
Mediterranean Sea as two Viking ships,
Viking Sea and the new
Viking Venus, have begun cruises roundtrip from
Valletta, Malta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Offered as part of Viking’s "
Welcome Back" collection, these voyages are available only to vaccinated guests. Both ships are now home ported in Valletta and operating three new itineraries:
Malta & Adriatic Jewels: 11 days roundtrip from Valletta to Croatia, Montenegro & Malta on multiple dates through October 2021
Malta & Greek Isles Discovery: 11 days roundtrip from Valletta to Greece and Malta on multiple sailing dates through September 2021
April 14, 2021
Preface
It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds.
Today, the United States is quickly approaching a moment of genuine promise, when exceptionally effective vaccines, accelerated distribution at home, and an enlarged American vaccine industrial base open the door for the Biden administration to bring American leadership to urgent global vaccine challenges. The United States’ health, economic, and national security interests argue for seizing this moment, beginning with presidential leadership to explain the stakes to Americans still legitimately worried about the epidemic at home. The United States ignores at its own peril the acute threat posed by viral variants, geopolitical rivals who take advantage of the moment, and deep vaccine inequity around the world. By sharing American vaccine resources starting at the soonest possible moment, the United States can claim ascendancy against these risks. That essential step should be part of a four-part U.S. diplomatic strategy that will:
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