It is weird hating the politicians so far away much more than our own but yeah. This lot in power there now and for last few years are stinkers of the first degree, and full of malice.I lost faith in the Indian government when I listened to an interview where they said there was no shortage of oxygen. He explained it was in the air all around them and they just needed to put it into cylinders
A video promoting tourism in Turkey amid the pandemic has caused an uproar on social media for showing tourism employees wearing masks that read “Enjoy, I’m vaccinated.”
The video, in English, was published Thursday on the social media accounts of official travel guide Go Turkiye linked to the country’s tourism ministry and was taken down later that day without explanation.
It aimed to promote travel to Turkey as a “safe haven” for foreigners and showed unmasked tourists being served in hotels on the Turkish coast.
It's so weird that the UK and EU are now "Us" and "Them"
People in Ireland are the most willing among European Union member states to take the Covid-19 vaccine, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Asked about their intentions to take the vaccine 86.5 per cent of those surveyed in Ireland said they were “very likely” (76.6 per cent) or “rather likely” (9.9 per cent) to take the vaccine.
According to an online survey from Eurofound (138,629 respondents) taken across the EU in February and March, willingness to take the vaccine was also high in Denmark, Malta and Portugal.
The stated intention to get vaccinated varies considerably across the 27 EU member states, with “an important east-west divide discernible across the union”, the report notes.
With the exception of Austria and France, the intention to get vaccinated is over 60 per cent for all western member states – with Nordic and Mediterranean countries, Denmark and Ireland having even higher rates – while among eastern member states the rate is dramatically lower, ranging from 59 per cent in Romania to 33 per cent in Bulgaria.
Yeah, I am not that keen on it, but when figures are quoted separately for the UK & the EU it's not unreasonable to make comparisons.
Of course, the EU didn't help themselves with throwing their toys out of their pram in their dispute with AZ, making various threats & even imposing a border in Ireland without consulting the British & Irish governments, before doing a massive U-turn the next day.
The other big gap between the UK & EU is going to be vaccine uptake, with vaccine hesitancy running high in much on the EU, thankfully the Irish seem to be the most sensible on this.
There's been other surveys reporting similar numbers too.
People in Ireland most willing in EU to take Covid-19 vaccine, survey
Report finds strong association between vaccine hesitancy and social media usewww.irishtimes.com
Be cautious with polled vaccine hesitancy. Asking somebody what they would theoretically do in a hypothetical situation is not the same thing as actually inviting them to be vaccinated, as was proved by the difference between UK polled hesitancy at the end of 2020 and the reality at the start of 2021.
The way that tourists have been exempt from curfews and stay at home orders while locals are still stuck at home is utterly disgusting.Turkish tourism video taken down after online outcry
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Meanwhile, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, the Divya Bhaskar newspaper found that 123,000 death certificates were issued between March 1 and May 10 -- about 65,000 more than the same period last year though the state reported 4,218 Covid deaths.
The missing persons complaint was filed at Parliament Street police station in Delhi as a matter of some urgency: it concerned the “disappearance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” and 10 of his cabinet ministers during the pandemic.
Nagesh Kariyappa, the general secretary of the Indian national students’ union who filed the report to police on Friday, said he wanted the absence of political leadership when India had been brought to its knees by Covid-19 to be a matter of official record. “Where are the so-called leaders who had promised to make India a global leader but have instead made people suffer like this?” said Kariyappa.
I wonder if Modi has got the virus? Stranger things have happened.
Likewise the president of Burundi last summer:
Burundi president dies of illness suspected to be coronavirus
Government describes Pierre Nkurunziza’s ‘unexpected’ death as a heart attackwww.theguardian.com
this is happening.In normal times, poor families sometimes have to take out loans at terrible rates of interest, to afford a funeral, not just the ritual but the actual wood for the pyre is really expensive, even in normal times. Can you imagine how that is now, the cost of wood must be through the roof. Very minor sounding but will be long term significantly crippling for poorest families.
I've read so many harrowing stories from India recently. It strikes me that the stories that actually reach us are what is happening to the middle classes, no one really ever gave a shit about the poor and I can't imagine what is happening to them now.
States across India have begun declaring a “black fungus” epidemic as cases of the fatal rare infection shoot up in patients recovering from Covid-19.
The fungal disease, called mucormycosis, has a 50% mortality rate. It affects patients initially in the nose but the fungus can then spread into the brain, and can often only be treated by major surgery removing the eye or part of skull and jaw.
The disease is caused by fungal spores found in soil and organic matter, usually inhaled by humans from the air. The mould enters the body and then manifests around the nose and eye sockets, causing the nose to blacken, and if not stopped will move fatally into the brain. Healthy individuals will usually fight off the fungus but it can spread fast in those with compromised immunity.
After a spike in cases of deadly black fungus among Covid-19 patients in India, concerns are now growing for the potentially more lethal white fungus infection.
Four cases of “white fungus”, also called “candidiasis”, were detected on Wednesday at a government-run medical college in Patna, the capital city of the eastern state of Bihar, which is seeing a particular spike in Covid cases.
If anyone was of the view that it was appropriate to exclude the possibility that the pandemic origins involved a lab accident, it might be time to reevaluate your stance:
Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed - WSJ
Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report. The Journal said current and former officials...news.yahoo.com
Three people were ill with something that could have been covid or “another common seasonal illness” isn’t exactly rock solid evidence of lab escape.