The first positive Covid-19 cases in the care home in the town of Belm, near Osnabrueck, were discovered on February 2 following routine daily rapid testing, the local authorities said in a statement. The care home administration then tested all the facility residents and employees to discover that a total …
Read More »Ritchie rich: Report on wealthy celebs using government Covid-19 bailouts sparks debate over fate of taxpayers’ funds
Ritchie, a renowned filmmaker, whose reported net worth amounts to more than £100 million ($137.3 million), has used the state-run Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to pay 19 workers of his Fatboy Pub Company, the Sun on Sunday reported, citing government documents it obtained. The filmmaker’s firm which was on the …
Read More »‘It would be discriminatory’: UK vaccine minister says government is NOT planning Covid vaccine passport
Asked during an interview with Sky News on Sunday whether the government is looking at the possibility of creating a vaccine passport, as has been speculated, Zahawi said, “No we are not.” The minister explained that those who receive their first dose of the vaccine get “a card from the …
Read More »No mercy to pandemic-hit states as ECB chief says canceling Covid debts ‘unthinkable’
“Canceling that debt is unthinkable. It would be a violation of the European treaty which strictly forbids monetary financing of states,” the ECB chief said in an interview with France’s Le Journal du Dimanche weekly. The claim comes shortly after the pool of more than 100 economists for the regulator …
Read More »Hundreds march through Copenhagen to protest Covid-19 lockdown & plans for vaccination passports (VIDEO)
The protest was organized by the ‘Men in Black’ group, who are unhappy with Denmark’s partial lockdown and the looming rollout of a digital system which will track vaccinations and issue certificates confirming people’s inoculation status. The passports are to be used for international travel and potentially to give access …
Read More »More than 3,000 patients a week, like poor old Captain Tom, are being infected with Covid while in hospital for other ailments
During January, it has been reported, more than 450 people were catching Covid-19 every day while in hospital in England for other medical reasons. Which means that, over the course of the month, nearly one in 10 people in hospital were infected. One in 10… 10 percent. In case you …
Read More »Myanmar approves Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine despite post-coup crisis
The nation has become the 20th foreign state to greenlight the Russian jab, and the first in South East Asia, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement. Myanmar has approved the emergency use of the vaccine, requesting additional clinical trials on the ground. The development came despite …
Read More »‘People don’t go to the pub for lemonade’: Angry Brits protest over alleged Covid plan to ban ALCOHOL from pubs
On Friday, the Daily Telegraph reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering a policy which would only allow pubs to reopen if they don’t sell alcohol – an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus due to drunk people being less likely to follow social distancing rules. The …
Read More »Canceling their own? NYT’s lead Covid-19 reporter resigns after reprimand for use of ‘N-word’ fails to appease co-workers
The episode began when a student on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru in 2019 asked McNeil whether he thought her classmate should be suspended for using a racial slur on a video made years earlier. The reporter, who was on the trip as an expert to inform the students, repeated …
Read More »The More You (Think You) Know? Maddening Covid-19 flip-flops keep population scared, obedient, & ignorant
It took just a few days for US coronavirus czar Dr. Anthony Fauci to change his tune regarding multi-masking, the trendy if bizarre practice of wearing more than one face covering at the same time in an effort to avoid infection with coronavirus. Fauci initially came out in support of …
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