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- Myanmar coup: army blocks Facebook access as civil disobedience grows
- Biden to set out his foreign policy in state dept speech – live updates
- Covid: Oxford trial to test efficacy of mix of vaccines for individuals
- Tokyo 2020 chief pressed to resign after saying women talked too much at meetings
- Dublin and EU reject call to scrap Northern Ireland Brexit protocol
- US 'deeply disturbed' by reports of systematic rape in China's Xinjiang camps
- Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate crisis have – predictably – provoked GOP backlash
- Rich countries must update financial vows to tackle climate crisis, says UN
- Student protests grow as Turkey's young people turn against Erdoğan
- Sia apologises over autism depiction in her movie Music
- Coronavirus live news: international travel 'biggest factor in death rate'; German doctors help hardhit Portugal
- 'Lost generation of unemployed': Covid hits careers of over-50s
- ‘Please send more vaccines’: California county is overwhelmed as cases rise
- Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty
- Toyah Willcox: 'My mother always wanted me altered in some way. I was never right'
- 'When I tell people, they might laugh' – George Clooney and the men who sew
- 'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups
- Yak politics: Tibetans’ vegetarian dilemma amid China meat boom
- Are we all living in the Matrix? Behind a documentary on simulation theory
- ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos
- Man charged over 'vicious threat' sent to SNP MP Joanna Cherry
- 'Back empty-handed': Bangladeshis cut off from jobs abroad face rising poverty
- The Recce review – crossing enemy lines in South African action-drama
- Lost Girls and Love Hotels review – submission and secrets in erotic Tokyo drama
- Woman rescued from car boot after waving for help had been detained for 13 hours, NSW court told
- Canada takes Covid vaccines from Covax scheme despite side deals
- #Demlootchallenge: Zimbabwean activists sing to protest corruption
- Donald Trump takes up a post-presidency hobby: revenge
- Nanaia Mahuta: New Zealand's Māori foreign minister is the perfect diplomat | Morgan Godfery
- UK minister announces launch of mix-and-match Covid jab trial – video
- 'People are dying at hospital doors': the Brazilian volunteer delivering oxygen to Manaus – video
- Crash survivor speaks after world-first face and double hand transplant – video
- Myanmar rings with pots and pans against military coup – video
- Hancock: Oxford vaccine may reduce transmission of Covid by two-thirds – video
| Myanmar coup: army blocks Facebook access as civil disobedience grows Posted: 03 Feb 2021 09:56 PM PST Instagram and WhatsApp – owned by Facebook and used to organise protests – also restricted, as UN secretary general condemns coup Myanmar's army has begun disrupting access to Facebook as it attempts to stamp out signs of dissent, days after it ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Facebook, one of the most popular means of communication in Myanmar, has been used to coordinate a civil disobedience campaign that saw health workers at dozens of hospitals walk out of their jobs on Wednesday to protest against the army's actions. It has also been used to share plans for evening protests, where residents have taken to their balconies to bang pots and pans, a symbolic act to drive away evil. Continue reading... |
| Biden to set out his foreign policy in state dept speech – live updates Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:17 AM PST President has promised US will re-engage globally after isolationist Trump era
Jon Schuppe at NBC News has this today on the fall-out from attending Donald Trump's 6 January Washington DC rally for one sheriff deputy in Kentucky: The detective, a Franklin County sheriff's deputy named Jeff Farmer, did not join those who attacked the Capitol and has not been charged with a crime. But his participation in Trump's rally put fresh focus on his work in Franklin County, where Goodrich and his co-workers say Farmer was known for his zealous pursuit of drug offenders. Farmer, who is white, was popular among law enforcement and residents who'd sought his help with drug activity in their neighborhoods. But Goodrich and a local civil rights group knew his name because some of those Farmer arrested in recent years, including about half a dozen clients of the public defender's office, claimed in court filings that he had improperly searched them, used excessive force or targeted them because they were Black.
The national daily death figure from Covid nearly hit 4,000 again yesterday. The Johns Hopkins University reported that there were 121,469 new cases, and 3,912 Covid deaths. That takes the total caseload for the US to 26,534,366, and deaths have now exceeded 450,000. Continue reading... |
| Covid: Oxford trial to test efficacy of mix of vaccines for individuals Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:11 PM PST Scientists aim to establish level of immunity in trial of 820 people, giving some a substitute vaccine at second appointment Volunteers are being sought for a world-first trial to establish the efficacy of giving people a first dose of one vaccine and a second dose of a different vaccine. The trial, which is being run by Oxford University and is funded by the government's vaccine taskforce, has been described by ministers as "hugely important". Continue reading... |
| Tokyo 2020 chief pressed to resign after saying women talked too much at meetings Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:43 PM PST Yoshiro Mori said he would not stand down after saying female participants meant meetings tended to 'drag on' Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, has apologised for making sexist remarks about "talkative" women in sports organisations, but said he would not resign. Mori, a former Japanese prime minister with a history of demeaning remarks, told a meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) this week that meetings attended by too many women tended to "drag on" because they talked too much. Continue reading... |
| Dublin and EU reject call to scrap Northern Ireland Brexit protocol Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:59 AM PST Ireland's foreign minister dismisses request by DUP in escalating row over trade barriers in Irish Sea The Brexit agreement's Northern Ireland protocol will not be scrapped, the Irish government and the EU have said in an escalating row over the new trade barriers down the Irish Sea. The Democratic Unionist party leader, Arlene Foster, has called for the measure designed to keep the Irish land border open to be replaced, but Dublin is focused on easing problems with the post-Brexit trade deal that have caused disruption at Irish ports. Continue reading... |
| US 'deeply disturbed' by reports of systematic rape in China's Xinjiang camps Posted: 03 Feb 2021 04:27 PM PST State department says 'atrocities' against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be 'met with serious consequences' The United States government is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual torture of women detained in China's Xinjiang camps for ethnic Uighur and other Muslims, and demanded serious consequences. The US state department was responding to a BBC report, published on Wednesday, detailing horrific allegations rape, sexual abuse and torture, based on interviews with several former detainees and a guard. The interviewees told the BBC "they experienced or saw evidence of an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture". Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate crisis have – predictably – provoked GOP backlash Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Republican attacks, amplified by Fox News, have been met with a planned response from climate envoy John Kerry The Democrat in the White House may be different, but the attacks are very familiar. Joe Biden's early blitz to confront the climate crisis has provoked a hostile Republican backlash eerily similar to the opposition that stymied Barack Obama 12 years ago. Once again, efforts to reduce planet-heating emissions are being assailed as radical, job killing and elitist. Republican lawmakers in Congress have denounced Biden's flurry of executive orders on climate and have even introduced legislation to bypass the president and approve the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline. Republican-led states are also joining the fray with Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, who is vowing to use the courts to block Biden's move to halt oil and gas drilling on public lands. "Texas is going to protect the oil and gas industry from any type of hostile attack launched from Washington DC," Abbott said. Continue reading... |
| Rich countries must update financial vows to tackle climate crisis, says UN Posted: 04 Feb 2021 01:40 AM PST Patricia Espinosa says fulfilling $100bn-a-year promise must be top priority to support developing world Rich countries must step up with fresh financial commitments to help the developing world tackle the climate crisis, the UN's climate chief has said. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, said fulfilling pledges of financial assistance made a decade ago must be the top priority before vital climate talks – Cop26 – later this year. Continue reading... |
| Student protests grow as Turkey's young people turn against Erdoğan Posted: 03 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST President's appointment of political ally as university rector becomes catalyst for disillusioned youth to vent frustrations Escalating protests over the appointment of a state-approved rector at a prestigious Istanbul university have become an unexpected catalyst for Turkey's disillusioned and underemployed youth to vent their frustrations at President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government. Demonstrations by both staff and students erupted last month over the installation of Melih Bulu, a business figure who stood as a ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) parliamentary candidate in 2015, as rector of Boğaziçi University, arguably the most acclaimed higher education institution in the country. Continue reading... |
| Sia apologises over autism depiction in her movie Music Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:52 AM PST Musician's Golden Globe-nominated directorial debut, which stars Kate Hudson as guardian to an autistic sister, angered autism rights activists with scenes of restraint Sia, the musician whose debut film earned two Golden Globe nominations on Wednesday, has addressed concerns about the movie's depiction of autism. Writing on her Twitter account, which she shortly afterwards deleted, the artist said that she has "been listening" to the criticism surrounding the film's portrayal of a nonverbal autistic person, played by Maddie Ziegler, who does not have autism. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:22 AM PST Study finds a million international arrivals associated with 3.4% increase in Covid deaths; Portugal stricken by surge in infection rates
North Korea has requested Covid-19 vaccines and is expected to receive nearly two million doses, according to the Gavi vaccine alliance, part of the WHO-backed Covax programme, although the isolated country has insisted it is virus-free, AFP reports. It is the first official confirmation that the North has asked for international help, with the country's medical infrastructure is seen as woefully inadequate for dealing with any large-scale outbreak. The Covax scheme, co-led by the Gavi alliance, will distribute 1.99 million doses to the North, according to Covax's interim distribution report released this week. All countries receiving interim allocations of vaccines "have submitted requests for vaccines", a Gavi spokesman said.
We have more information on the fire at a Ukrainian hospital which tore through the intensive care unit of an infectious diseases hospital that was treating coronavirus patients, with four people now confirmed to have died in the blaze, police have said. Three of the victims had been diagnosed with coronavirus and were on ventilators, according to the regional governor quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. "The fire killed four people, including a medical worker," regional police said in a statement. Saddened to hear of the tragic fire at the infectious diseases hospital in Zaporozhye, caring for #COVID19 patients. My deepest condolences to those who have lost loved ones. We stand in solidarity with & @MoH_Ukraine, and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. Continue reading... |
| 'Lost generation of unemployed': Covid hits careers of over-50s Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST People over 50 who lose their jobs more likely to suffer long-term joblessness than other age groups
Lisa Griffiths, a 61-year-old special needs nanny, has spent her career easily moving from one contract to the next. So when her last, five-year contract ended recently, she was shocked to find new employment opportunities far more limited than she had expected. Then, while she was considering her options, the pandemic hit and work dried up altogether. Continue reading... |
| ‘Please send more vaccines’: California county is overwhelmed as cases rise Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:00 AM PST Fresno county, a region in the state's central valley made up of 999,000 people, is recording 450 new coronavirus cases per day California officials have signaled optimism that the latest, most deadly wave of the pandemic is starting to abate as the most populous US state doles out vaccinations. But healthcare workers in Fresno county said their emergency rooms and intensive care departments are still inundated with patients. "Sure, if your hospital goes from 200% capacity to 150%, of course they'll say it's looking better," said Amy Arlund, an ICU nurse at the Kaiser Fresno hospital. "But in my entire 20-year career, I've not seen this many people, this sick." Continue reading... |
| Class cancelled: how Covid school closures blocked routes out of poverty Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:30 AM PST Oxford University project reveals devastating impact on prospects for world's poorest students, especially girls In the coffee-farming communities of the Peruvian Amazon, the classroom is a route out of poverty. Gabriela was studying civil engineering in a city an hour and a half from home when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The 18-year-old, who is one of thousands of young people tracked since 2002 as part of the Young Lives project led by the University of Oxford, has been forced to postpone her education, in a country where 16% of 19-year-olds have dropped out of education because of the crisis. Continue reading... |
| Toyah Willcox: 'My mother always wanted me altered in some way. I was never right' Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST The singer and actor has had a productive pandemic – and gone viral from her kitchen. She talks about escaping her childhood, sexual harassment and persuading her rock star husband to dress in a tutu Of all the celebrity offerings that have come out of the pandemic, the gloriously weird videos made by Toyah Willcox and her husband, Robert Fripp, are surely the most compelling. It is possible, within each short clip, to cycle through every feeling from wanting to cover your eyes while being unable to look away, to the dawning realisation you may be watching a profound piece of performance art. Mostly, it is impossible not to laugh. There they are in their cosy Worcestershire kitchen, perhaps with the dishwasher open in the background, with Willcox, accessorised with mouse ears, tap-dancing, bouncing off the Aga. Both dressed in black tutus at the end of their garden, the pair dance across the screen to music from Swan Lake. Fripp lies on the floor of the hallway, while Willcox – dressed in red PVC and devil horns – performs the Kinks' You Really Got Me on the stairs. It's joyous. Willcox has been uploading their Sunday Lockdown Lunch videos since April last year; they also do a weekly agony aunt session, and Willcox does her own Q&A, talking about her life and long career as an actor, pop star and general cultural fixture for the past 40 years. It started, she says, as a way to occupy Fripp, the musician and founder of the prog rock band King Crimson. "Here I am in this house with this 74-year-old husband who I really don't want to live without," she says. "He was withdrawing, so I thought: 'I'm going to teach him to dance.' And it became a challenge." They posted a video, and it took off. "It was: 'Wow, I've never experienced the power of that connection.'" Continue reading... |
| 'When I tell people, they might laugh' – George Clooney and the men who sew Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:59 AM PST More 'sew bros' have taken up the fine art of stitching in the pandemic. What's so appealing about this crafty pursuit? Good things are rarely described using the suffix 'bro' but the rise of the 'sew bros' could be an exception. That's the name that's been given to the growing number of men who are taking up the fine art of sewing, who can now add George Clooney to their numbers. The father of three-year-old twins, who came out as a self-haircutter in December, told AARP magazine: "I do a lot of sewing the kids' clothes … and my wife's dress that tore a couple of times. I was a bachelor for a long time and didn't have any money, and you have to learn how to repair things." Continue reading... |
| 'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups Posted: 04 Feb 2021 03:00 AM PST Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn't enough Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users in an attempt to "turn down the temperature" on online divisiveness. Continue reading... |
| Yak politics: Tibetans’ vegetarian dilemma amid China meat boom Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST While China pushes for more industrialised farms, Buddhist monks urge now-sedentary nomads to embrace vegetarianism Former free-roaming nomads now mostly resettled in rows of sun-baked block houses in Tibet are facing a struggle for their identity, their spiritual and cultural practices – and even their stomachs. But a movement spurred by Tibetan Buddhist monks in the region over the past two decades has increasingly urged now sedentary nomads to practise vegetarianism, to pay a "life ransom" for the release of animals destined for the slaughterhouse, and to abandon the slaughter of their own animals because they have settled down. Continue reading... |
| Are we all living in the Matrix? Behind a documentary on simulation theory Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:01 PM PST In A Glitch in the Matrix, film-maker Rodney Ascher speaks to people who are convinced that the world we're living in isn't real Rodney Ascher's new documentary A Glitch in the Matrix opens, as so many nonfiction films do, with an interview subject getting settled in their camera set-up. In this instance, a guy named Paul Gude is Skyping in from a setting familiar to anyone who's spent the last year trapped in video-chats. He's sitting in what appears to be a bedroom made to double as an office, the fisheyed webcam lens catching some dirty laundry, a shelf full of books and decorative toys, some homemade-looking art on the walls. But the eye is instantly drawn to Gude himself, a hyperreal computer-generated creature with shiny copper skin, warrior armor, a scar stretching from his forehead to his cheek, and a mane of shifting polygons in jewel-tone ruby red making his head look like a 20-sided die. He could be a distant cousin of Lion-O from the Thundercats, and he's here to tell us that everything we know may be a lie. Related: A Glitch in the Matrix review – deep-dive into simulation theory Continue reading... |
| ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:01 AM PST The Amazon founder's relentless quest for 'customer ecstasy' made him one of the world's richest people – now he's looking to the unlimited resources of space. Is he the genius our age of consumerism deserves? The first thing I ever bought on Amazon was an edutainment DVD for babies. I don't recall making the purchase, but the data is unequivocal on this point: on 14 November 2004, I bought Baby Einstein: Baby Noah – Animal Expedition for the sum of £7.85. My nearest guess is that I got it as a Christmas present for my nephew, who would at that point have been one year old, and at the very peak of his interest in finger-puppet animals who cavort to xylophone arrangements of Beethoven. This was swiftly followed by three more DVD purchases I have no memory of making. Strangely, I bought nothing at all from Amazon the following year, and then, in 2006, I embarked on a PhD and started ramping up my acquisition of the sort of books that were not easily to be found in brick-and-mortar establishments. Dry treatises on psychoanalysis. Obscure narrative theory texts. The occasional poetry collection. Everything ever published by the American novelist Nicholson Baker. I know these things because I recently spent a desultory morning clicking through all 16 years of my Amazon purchase history. Seeing all those hundreds of items bought and delivered, many of them long since forgotten, was a vaguely melancholy experience. I experienced an estranged recognition, as if reading an avant-garde biography of myself, ghost-written by an algorithm. From the bare facts of the things I once bought, I began to reconstruct where I was in life, and what I was doing at the time, and what I was (or wanted to be) interested in. And yet an essential mystery endured. What kind of person purchases within the space of a few days, as I did in August of 2012, a Le Creuset non-stick crepe pan, three blue and white herringbone tea-towels, and a 700-odd page biography of the Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno? (The tea-towels are still in use, and so is the crepe pan, while the 700-plus page Adorno biography remains, inevitably, unread.) Perhaps the answer is as simple as: a person with an Amazon account. Continue reading... |
| Man charged over 'vicious threat' sent to SNP MP Joanna Cherry Posted: 04 Feb 2021 02:11 AM PST Police confirm 30-year-old charged with communications offence in connection with incident A man has been charged after a threat was allegedly sent to an SNP MP on the same day she was axed from the party's Westminster frontbench. Joanna Cherry contacted police on Monday over a "vicious threat" to her personal safety after saying she had been sacked in a recent reshuffle. Continue reading... |
| 'Back empty-handed': Bangladeshis cut off from jobs abroad face rising poverty Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:20 PM PST Whole communities supported by overseas work are at risk of extreme poverty after the pandemic forced thousands home When the pandemic forced Firoza Begum back to Bangladesh after six months trapped in her employer's house without pay, her husband was so angry she had returned empty-handed that he would not let her move back in to the family home. All her savings after 14 years working in the Middle East had been spent escaping her abusive employer. Continue reading... |
| The Recce review – crossing enemy lines in South African action-drama Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:00 AM PST An elite soldier is sent on a perilous solo mission in this underwhelming drama set during the Namibian war of independence This South African-made action-drama unfolds against the background of a conflict little known about above the equator, much less used as a setting for film – the Namibian war of independence from 1966-90, AKA the South African border war. Often considered South Africa's version of Vietnam, it was, among other things, a proxy fight between South Africa, then still under apartheid, and its allies at the time, and the People's Liberation Army of Namibia, who were backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba. Although there's a fair amount of on-screen contextualising in the opening minutes to explain key terms and ideas, The Recce feels made for a local audience that has a grasp of the cultural and historical background. That means it's not easy for outsiders to read the ideology of this stylised, fictional account of an elite Afrikaner soldier, Henk Viljoen (Greg Kriek), the "recce", who is ordered to go across enemy lines alone one last time to kill a Russian officer. Henk leaves behind his pregnant wife Nicola (Christia Visser), with whom we spend a lot of screen time as she looks anxious, remembers happier moments in her marriage and visits Henk's parents, who are sick with worry about their son. In the narrative mix is Captain Le Roux (Grant Swanby), an English-speaking South African officer who is also worried about Henk and the general madness of the war. Continue reading... |
| Lost Girls and Love Hotels review – submission and secrets in erotic Tokyo drama Posted: 04 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST Alexandra Daddario's American English teacher drinks, parties and explores BDSM in this cool movie that only occasionally veers into orientalism Author and artist Catherine Hanrahan has adapted her novel of the same name for the screen and William Olsson directs. It is the story of Margaret, a young American woman in Tokyo, who has snagged a job teaching trainee flight attendants how to enunciate their English properly. Margaret drinks a lot, parties a lot, shows up hungover and late to work; she is also into BDSM, and is a sub, but can't find any satisfactory partner, until she chances across Kazu (Takehiro Hira), a yakuza mobster whose naked body naturally turns out to be almost completely covered in scary tattoos. He has exactly the right fiercely negligent ruthlessness when he takes her to love hotels, but through an ironic quirk of fate turns out to have a softer side – something that this liaison with Margaret has unlocked, and in bed confesses to her mournfully that he is about to get married, and this lends something weirdly poignant and melancholy to their eroticism. Continue reading... |
| Woman rescued from car boot after waving for help had been detained for 13 hours, NSW court told Posted: 04 Feb 2021 01:58 AM PST Kayley Ketley and Latia Henderson allegedly detained the 24-year-old victim in Sydney before driving south on the Hume Highway An alleged kidnapping victim who was rescued after waving through a hole in her own car's boot had been detained for 13 hours, a NSW court has been told. The 24-year-old woman was found with multiple stab wounds in the boot of her Holden sedan after it was pulled over on the Hume Highway at Berrima, south of Sydney, on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Canada takes Covid vaccines from Covax scheme despite side deals Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:55 AM PST Country has already set up direct deals but is entitled to receive jabs from programme for poorer countries Canada is set to receive a significant haul of vaccines over the next months through a platform designed to maximise supply to poor countries, according to a new forecast, despite reserving the most doses-per-person in the world through direct deals with pharmaceutical companies. Chile and New Zealand, which have also made controversial side deals to secure their own vaccine supplies, will also receive above-average numbers of doses, according to the interim allocation schedule released by Covax on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| #Demlootchallenge: Zimbabwean activists sing to protest corruption Posted: 03 Feb 2021 04:00 AM PST Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's song denouncing "looting" in Mnangagwa's regime has inspired a host of follow up versions Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has taken his fight against corruption to the ears of thousands around the world via reggae with a new song entitled "Dem Loot". The reporter, who has been arrested three times in six months for his work challenging the current government, released a short video on Twitter singing against what he says is an endemic rot in Zimbabwe – and it has sparked a flurry of follow up versions under the hashtag #demlootchallenge. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump takes up a post-presidency hobby: revenge Posted: 04 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Instead of discreetly returning to private life the ex-president is focused on punishing Republicans he feels betrayed him Every former American president picks up hobbies after leaving office (books, painting, skinny dipping, boxing). For the early days of Donald Trump's post-presidency he has picked something a little different: revenge. It's early and presidents usually intentionally recede from public view dramatically after leaving office. But Trump appears uninterested in following that practice. Continue reading... |
| Nanaia Mahuta: New Zealand's Māori foreign minister is the perfect diplomat | Morgan Godfery Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:00 AM PST She is impossible to miss, understands both sides of the Māori debate and speaks up on foreign policy in a way that works well for Jacinda Ardern In a room of dignitaries, New Zealand's foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta is impossible to miss. She is the first woman to sit in the country's parliament wearing a moko kauae, an ancient Māori tattoo form. Koru patterns wrap around her chin, framing it in rich black inks, a visual statement that "I am Māori". Continue reading... |
| UK minister announces launch of mix-and-match Covid jab trial – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 12:54 AM PST The UK vaccine deployment minister, Nadhim Zahawi, says volunteers are being sought for a world-first trial giving a first dose of one vaccine type and a second dose of another. Run by the University of Oxford, it will recruit 820 people over the age of 50 to receive a first dose of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
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| 'People are dying at hospital doors': the Brazilian volunteer delivering oxygen to Manaus – video Posted: 04 Feb 2021 12:13 AM PST When Thalita Rocha's mother-in-law died due to a lack of available oxygen on a Manaus hospital's Covid ward, she vowed to raise money to deliver oxygen tanks and other lifesaving equipment to the Amazonian city's homes. Jair Bolsonaro's coronavirus policies have led to more than 226,000 deaths in Brazil, and as anger rises on the streets and protesters call for his impeachment, Rocha and other volunteers drive around Manaus offering medical kit and hope |
| Crash survivor speaks after world-first face and double hand transplant – video Posted: 03 Feb 2021 09:39 PM PST Doctors at New York University's Langone Health have successfully completed the world's first face and double hand transplant. Twenty-two-year-old Joe DiMeo underwent the 23-hour procedure two years after he suffered third-degree burns to 80% of his body in a car accident. The procedure has allowed DiMeo to dress and feed himself as well as use weights as part of his recovery Continue reading... |
| Myanmar rings with pots and pans against military coup – video Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:16 AM PST Yangon's streets were filled with the din of clashing metal as scores protested the military coup against the country's elected government. The first public rejection of the coup went on for 10 minutes across the city in a massive show of solidarity. Health workers in 70 hospitals across Myanmar have pledged not to work under the military regime
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| Hancock: Oxford vaccine may reduce transmission of Covid by two-thirds – video Posted: 03 Feb 2021 03:35 AM PST The UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, has welcomed a new study that suggests one dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine may reduce transmission of coronavirus by two-thirds. Hancock said the results of the trial backed up Britain's strategy to delay the administering of the second dose of the vaccine by 12 weeks. Hancock added: 'We may well need boosters that have a slightly adjusted vaccine as well in the same way that we do for flu each year.' Continue reading... |
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