Coronavirus latest: US extends travel limits at borders with Canada and Mexico

Missouri’s governor has announced a vaccine lottery in an effort to boost vaccination rates in the state, which is the hotspot for the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the US.

Mike Parson revealed on Wednesday that all Missourians aged 12 and over were eligible to enter, and that over the next three months, 900 residents of the state who have been vaccinated, or choose to be, have a chance to win cash or education savings accounts.

Some residents are “hesitant towards getting the vaccine, but we must all take personal responsibility and do right by our own health and that of our friends and family by getting vaccinated,” Parson said in a statement.

The governor’s warning that the Delta variant “transmits faster than what we have previously seen and is more likely to impact children and the unvaccinated” came mere hours after updated figures from the Centers for Disease Control…