No Masks for Vaccinated Amazon Staff; Paris Cafes: Virus Update Bloomberg 1 day ago Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- France loosened a months-long lockdown on Wednesday, allowing restaurants to serve customers on terraces and cinemas and museums to reopen to the public. New York state, the original U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, reported its lowest infection rate since September. Popular Searches In India, daily deaths reached a record, even as reported new infections declined from the highs of early May. Taiwan extended a soft lockdown island-wide, while the virus continued to rampage through Thailand’s prisons. New cases in Malaysia rose to the highest since the pandemic began, even after the government imposed nationwide restrictions on movement to curb the spread. Serbia received a delivery of 440,000 vaccine doses from China to immunize its military.