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WORLD VIEW: Biden-Putin-Ukraine, Iran Nuke Deal, S. Korea Election, More

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February 23, 2022

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MOSCOW (AP) — The East-West faceoff over Ukraine escalated dramatically Tuesday, with Russian lawmakers authorizing President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside his…Read More

JERUSALEM (AP) — While the world’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, the Biden administration…Read More

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of…Read More

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FORT ORD NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. (AP) — For nearly 80 years, recruits reporting to central…Read More

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized troops to cross Ukraine’s border…Read More

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual…Read More

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NEW YORK (AP) — To combat slumping ratings, the Academy Awards are undergoing a radical slimming…Read More

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BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists on Wednesday blocked roads leading to Germany’s three biggest…Read More

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T&T: One Dead in Gunfight with Police Over San Juan Business Invasion

Otto Carrington

T&T Observer

It was described as an invasion after bandits stormed four businesses at Boundary Road, San Juan, on Tuesday.  However, the robbery was thwarted by officers of the North Eastern Division after one of the bandits was shot dead.

The dead man has been identified as 25-year-old Denille Robinson, of D’Abadie.

Guardian Media was told that officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force were called to the Reliable Appliances Parts and Services store on Boundary Road at around 12.55 pm.

When the officers arrived they saw several workers tied up on the floor of the warehouse.

One of the workers signalled to the officers that the bandits were still upstairs. On reaching upstairs, police saw the bandits and called on them to surrender.

However, police reported that Robinson pointed a gun at them and they shot him.

He was later taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope where he died.

The other suspects were at large up to late yesterday.

The police believe there were between eight to 10 robbers at the scene with three vehicles

Employees of Reliable Parts and Services, Samaroo’s Material General Limited, Carpet World and Scaffolding Supply were robbed of personal items during the incident.

One traumatised employee spoke with Guardian Media about the ordeal.

Clarence Fitzroy Phillip, who is employed with Reliable Parts and Services, was beaten with cutlasses and a gun about his body. He was treated for his injuries.

Phillip said, “We collected some goods from a company and while checking it, I walked outside because I heard a vehicle coming in and when the truck came in he was blocking the driveway and I told him to pull at the side and he started to move the truck and it still remained in the centre of the driveway.

“So I walked back into the warehouse and when I turned back I saw two men coming in my direction from another vehicle and before I could get back into the warehouse, I saw another four men all armed with guns. They started to run directly to me and then they told me to lie down.”

He added: “Then I started to see other bandits with cutlasses coming towards me while on the ground, they started to kick me up and said not to watch them, so I turned my face and another bandit used tie straps to bound my hands.”

At this time, the bandits had made their way into the offices where they relieved staff of valuables including cellphones, money and jewellery.

Phillip also said, “The bandits started to load the goods we just received, some stoves, small refrigerators and ring stove burners, they tried to take a big refrigerator but it was too heavy for them to lift onto their truck.”

“This is a traumatic situation and life has to go on, the best thing is that nobody’s life was taken,” he added.

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EU Advises Relaxing Travel Rules for Foreigners.

CNW- While the coronavirus infection numbers continue their rapid decline, travel restrictions continue to ease across several nations and regions, signaling a revitalizing of tourism. Just as several countries in the Caribbean region have started to pull back regulations, the European Union (EU) is now formally announcing ease to boost tourism.

The European Council is recommending that EU nations next month lift all testing and quarantine requirements for people who received vaccines authorized in the EU or approved by the World Health Organization.

The announcement came just one day after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he would end all COVID-19 restrictions in England.

The European Council member countries also agreed Tuesday that they should further facilitate tourist travel into the 27-nation bloc for vaccinated people against the coronavirus or who have recovered from COVID-19.

Individuals who received the last dose of their primary vaccination series at least 14 days and no more than 270 days before arrival, or who received a booster dose, would be eligible, and those who recovered from COVID-19 within 180 days travel.

The EU’s executive commission welcomed the non-binding guidance, which clarifies that no test or additional requirements should be applied to children under six who are traveling with an adult.

“The updates will further facilitate travel from outside the EU into the EU, and take into account the evolution of the pandemic, the increasing vaccination uptake worldwide, and the administration of booster doses,” the European Commission said.

Travelers who received vaccines that were approved but WHO but are not authorized for use in the EU may still be asked to present a negative PCR test or to quarantine, the European Council said.

So far, the EU has authorized the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax.

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A Chilean Indigenous Language Vanishes as Last Native Speaker Dies

(Reuters)  An indigenous language from South America‘s extreme south has all but vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture.

Cristina Calderon died on Wednesday, aged 93. She had mastered the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her sister in 2003, was the last person in the world who could speak it. She worked to save her knowledge by creating a dictionary of the language with translations to Spanish.
“With her an important part of the cultural memory of our people is gone,” said Lidia Gonzalez, Calderon’s daughter, on Twitter. Gonzalez is one of the representatives currently drafting a new constitution in Chile.
The dictionary, however, meant there was hope of preserving the language in some form, she said.
“Although with her departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open,” she said.
Although there are still a few dozen Yagans left, over the generations people from the community stopped learning the language, which was considered “isolated” since it was difficult to determine the origin of its words.
Calderon lived in a simple house and made a living selling knitted socks in the Chilean town of Villa Ukika, a town created by the Yagan people on the outskirts of Puerto Williams.
The ancestral ethnic group used to populate the archipelagos of South America’s extreme south, now Chile and Argentina, an area which nudges towards the frozen Antarctic.

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Extreme Wildfires Here to Stay & Multiply

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An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Devastated Amazon Rainforest
  • Two new reports warn of fiery future
  • Extreme wildfires expected to increase 30% by 2050
  • Fires are more frequently burning through the night
  • More money should be spent on prevention, experts say

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s peatlands, California’s forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it.

With climate change triggering droughts and farmers clearing forests, the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 30% within the next 28 years. And they are now scorching environments that were not prone to burning in the past, such as the Arctic’s tundra and the Amazon rainforest.

“We’ve seen a great increase in recent fires in northern Syria, northern Siberia, the eastern side of Australia, and India,” said Australian government bushfire scientist Andrew Sullivan, an editor on the report, released Wednesday, by the UN Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal environmental communications group.

At the same time, the slow disappearance of cool, damp nights that once helped to temper fires also means they are getting harder to extinguish, according to a second study published last week in the journal Nature.

With night time temperatures rising faster than day time ones over the last four decades, researchers found a 36% increase in the number of after-dark hours that were warm and dry enough sustain fire.

“This is a mechanism for fires to get much bigger and more extreme,” said Jennifer Balch, lead author of the Nature study and director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Earth Lab.

“Exhausted firefighters don’t get relief,” which means they can’t regroup and revise strategies to tackle a blaze.

The consequences of extreme fires are wide-ranging, from loss and damage to costly firefighting response. In the United States alone, the UNEP report said the economic burden of wildfire totals as much as $347 billion annually.

With California’s forests ablaze, the state government spent an estimated $3.1 billion on fire suppression in the 2020-21 fiscal year.

The fires raging since December in Argentina’s Corrientes province have taken an enormous toll, killing Ibera National Park wildlife, charring pasturelands and livestock, and decimating crops including yerba mate, fruit, and rice. Losses already have exceeded 25 billion Argentine pesos ($234 million), The Argentine Rural Society said.

The UNEP report calls on governments to rethink wildfire spending, recommending they put 45% of their budget toward prevention and preparedness, 34% toward firefighting response, and 20% for recovery.

“In many regions of the world, most resources go toward response — they focus on the short-term,” said Paulo Fernandes, a contributing author of the UNEP report and fire scientist at Universidade of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Portugal.

Reporting by Gloria Dickie; Editing by Katy Daigle and Jane Merriman

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Russia Postpones Cuba Debt Payments Amid Warming Relations

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MOSCOW/HAVANA, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to postpone some debt payments owed to it by communist-run Cuba until 2027, its lower house of parliament said on Tuesday, just days after the two countries announced they would deepen ties amid the spiraling Ukraine crisis.

The loans, worth $2.3 billion and provided to Cuba by Russia between 2006 and 2019, helped underwrite investments in power generation, metals and transportation infrastructure, according to a statement from the lower house, or Duma.

On Tuesday, Russian lawmakers ratified an agreement, originally signed with Cuban counterparts in Havana in 2021, that amended the loan terms, the statement said.

Cuba last week expressed support for Russia in its showdown with Western powers over Ukraine following a visit from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, and accused long-time rival the United States and its allies of targeting Moscow with what it called a “propaganda war” and sanctions. read more

Russia’s decision to soften the loan terms comes as Cuba wrestles with a dire social and economic crisis that has led to severe shortages in food and medicine, and it follows protests last year believed to be the largest since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.

Since the revolution, the two countries have had a long history of economic and military collaboration, though in recent decades those ties have faded.

Russia has, however, continued to deliver humanitarian aid and provide loans to the island.

Over the last decade, Cuba has also restructured debt with China, Germany and Mexico, as well as with Japanese commercial debt holders.

In October, Cuba reached a deal with the Paris Club of creditor nations to postpone an annual debt payment due in November until later this year. read more

Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin is expected to visit Cuba and Nicaragua on Feb. 23 and 24.

Reporting by Polina Devitt in Moscow and Dave Sherwood in Havana; Editing by Tim Ahmann

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Migrants Clash With Police in Southern Mexico

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Migrants throw a fence toward police officers in riot gear during a protest to demand speedy processing of humanitarian visas to continue on their way to the United States, outside the office of the National Migration Institute (INM) in Tapachula, Mexico February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jacob Garcia

TAPACHULA, MEXICO, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants clashed with police in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on Tuesday, as frustration boiled over due to authorities keeping them waiting for months to be granted approval for free passage across Mexico to the U.S. border.

Migrants, mostly from Haiti and Africa, have been demonstrating in Tapachula, near Mexico’s border with Guatemala, for almost a month, and on Tuesday the protests turned violent as they threw stones and traded punches with members of the militarized National Guard and police.

“It got completely out of control because people are very desperate,” said Irineo Mujica, a human rights activist who has supported migrant mobilizations for years. “Many have been waiting for months” for permission to leave the city, he added.

The National Migration Institute issued a statement condemning “the violent demonstrations” outside its facilities in Tapachula. The agency said that some 100 migrants from Cuba, Haiti and Africa were protesting in efforts to secure earlier appointments for their immigration processing.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans, flee violence and poverty at home and cross Mexico in efforts to reach the United States.

Those arriving at Mexico’s southern border cities must wait for permits to cross Mexico or responses to their asylum requests to stay in Mexico.

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has urged Mexican authorities to look for more options to avoid the bottlenecks in cities like Tapachula. read more

Reporting by Jacob Garcia in Tapachula and Lizbeth Diaz in Mexico City; Writing by Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Diego Ore & Simon Cameron-Moore

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Colombia Decriminalises Abortion In First 24 Weeks

BBC- Colombia’s constitutional court has decriminalised abortions within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Under the new rules, no one will be prosecuted for having an abortion within that time frame.

Since 2006, abortions have been allowed in Colombia in cases of rape, when the woman’s life is at risk, or if the pregnancy is not viable.

The ruling was welcomed by pro-choice groups, who called it “a historic achievement”.

But Archbishop José Luis Rueda said the Catholic Church would “continue to proclaim, defend and promote human life from gestation until natural death”.

Pro-choice activists say it is the latest in a series of victories in recent years, including a similar ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court in September and the legalisation of abortion up to the 14th week in Argentina.

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Analysis box by Katy Watson, South America correspondent

This is a massive step for Latin America, a Catholic region and one with deeply conservative values.

But the fact that Mexico, Argentina and now Colombia have decriminalised abortion feels like there is momentum growing.

The activist movement in the region has been huge these past few years and that has definitely influenced change.

But the fight is not over yet. Many Latin American countries still severely limit abortion rights, namely Brazil, the region’s biggest nation by far.

And in several Central American states abortion is banned outright, even in the case of rape and incest.

There are women in prison serving long sentences, many of whom say that they suffered miscarriages. But with so few reproductive rights in some countries, women who need medical help are instead abandoned by the state.

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The ruling came about as a result of a lawsuit filed by the umbrella group Causa Justa (Just Cause) whose aim is to have abortion removed from the penal code.

Causa Justa argued that because abortions were defined as a crime outside of the three cases allowed under the 2006 ruling, doctors who performed abortions and their patients were often stigmatised.

Women against abortion pray in a protest against decriminalization, in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Court, in Bogota, Colombia, 21 February 2022Image source, EPA
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Women opposed to abortion were anxiously awaiting the ruling

The group estimates that 90% of abortions in Colombia are carried out clandestinely, putting the health and life of women at risk.

While Monday’s decision has not removed abortion from Colombia’s penal code entirely, it is seen as a victory in the battle to widen access to the procedure.

Following its 5-4 ruling, the court urged the Congress and the government to come up with legislation which will protect the rights of pregnant women, including providing family planning services, eliminating obstacles to abortion care and helping with adoptions.

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Covid Cases & Deaths Drop Worldwide, DC Prepares for Vax Protests, Pandemic Teen Mental Health, World Covid Stats

WHO: New COVID cases fall for the 3rd week, Deaths also drop

GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21% in the last week, marking the third consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

In the U.N. health agency’s weekly pandemic report, WHO said there were more than 12 million new coronavirus infections last week. The number of new COVID-19 deaths fell 8% to about 67,000 worldwide, the first time that weekly deaths have fallen since early January.

The Western Pacific was the only region that saw an increase in COVID-19 cases, with a 29% jump, while the number of infections elsewhere dropped significantly. The number of new deaths also rose in the Western Pacific and Africa while falling everywhere else. The highest number of new COVID-19 cases were seen in Russia, Germany, Brazil, the U.S. and South Korea.

WHO said omicron remains the overwhelmingly dominant variant worldwide, accounting for more than 99% of sequences shared with the world’s biggest virus database. It said delta was the only other variant of significance, which comprised fewer than 1% of shared sequences.

WHO also reported that available vaccine evidence shows that “booster vaccination substantially improves (vaccine effectiveness),” against the omicron variant, but said more details are still needed on how long such protection lasts.

The agency had previously said there was no proof that boosters were necessary for healthy people and pleaded with rich countries not to offer third doses to their people before sharing them with poorer countries.

Health officials have noted that omicron causes milder disease than previous COVID-19 variants and in countries with high vaccination rates, omicron has spread widely but COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates have not increased substantially.

Scientists, however, warn that it’s still possible that more transmissible and deadly variants of COVID-19 could still emerge if the virus is allowed to spread uncontrolled.

WHO’s Europe chief Dr. Hans Kluge says the region is now entering a “plausible endgame” for the virus and said there is now a “singular opportunity” for authorities to end the acute phase of the pandemic.

This week, Britain announced it would scrap all remaining COVID-19 restrictions, including the requirement for people with the illness to self-isolate, even as Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged there could be future deadly variants of the virus. Earlier this month, Sweden abandoned wide-scale testing for COVID-19 even in people with symptoms, saying that testing costs and the expense of its pandemic restrictions were “no longer justifiable.”

Hong Kong’s leader, meanwhile, announced Tuesday that the city will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 three times in March as it grapples with its worst outbreak yet, driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.

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Capitol Police ask DC Guard for assistance 

 

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It could be D.C.’s turn to deal with trucker protests against COVID-19 measures soon.

Washington, D.C., law enforcement agencies have asked the Pentagon for assistance ahead of President Biden’s first State of the Union address next week, an event expected to coincide with truck convoy protests.

The U.S. Capitol Police and the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency asked for D.C. National Guard personnel “to provide support at traffic control points in and around the District to help … address potential challenges stemming from possible disruptions at key traffic arteries,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement Tuesday.

Kirby said the Defense Department is “analyzing” the requests but “no decisions have been made yet” on whether to approve them.

Military Times was the first to report on the requests, with National Guard troops notified of a potential activation between Feb. 22 and March 7 or later, according to internal directives obtained by the outlet.

The guardsmen, if activated, would provide vehicles and personnel at “43 critical blocking positions 24/7,” Military Times reported.

D.C. law enforcement agencies have said since last week that they have received reports of truck drivers potentially planning to block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among other things, vaccine mandates. These plans follow similar protests and blockades formed by Canadian truck drivers in the past month.

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CDC: More teen girls in ER for mental health 

The roughly two years since the beginning of the pandemic have seen a significant increase in teenage girls visiting emergency rooms due to mental health conditions, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week.

The study found that the proportion of emergency room visits made by girls aged 12 to 17 doubled for eating disorders and approximately tripled for tic disorders during the pandemic when compared with 2019.

It also reported that adolescent girls’ emergency room visits rose for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in 2021 and for anxiety, trauma and stressor-related disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in January 2022 in comparison with 2019.

The study claimed that risk factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as “lack of structure in daily routine, emotional distress and changes in food availability,” could have been a trigger for eating disorders in particular.

The increase in visits for tic disorders was “atypical,” according to the study, as such disorders usually have an onset at a younger age and are more commonly present in boys than in girls.

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IRAN RETURNS DONATED COVID-19 VACCINES MANUFACTURED IN US

Iran has returned 820,000 donated COVID-19 doses because they were manufactured in the United States.

The doses were among roughly a million of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine donated to the country by Poland, according to The Associated Press, which cited state media.

“But when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found out that 820,000 doses of them which were imported from Poland were from the United States,” Mohammad Hashemi, an official in Iran’s Health Ministry, said, the AP reported.

Hashemi added that “after coordination with the Polish ambassador to Iran, it was decided that the vaccines would be returned.”

Iran has relied on Sinopharm, China’s state-supported vaccine, to vaccinate its population, according to the AP, but it also offers citizens vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca, Russia’s Sputnik V and Indian company Bharat’s Covaxin, as well as the COVIran Barekat shot developed in the country.

In 2020, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that American and British vaccines were “forbidden” in the country, the AP noted. The country now exclusively imports Western vaccines that were not manufactured in either the U.S. or the United Kingdom.

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WORLD COVID STATS

Coronavirus Cases:

428,569,764

Deaths:

5,927,183

Recovered:

356,676,715

IRAN RETURNS DONATED COVID-19 VACCINES MANUFACTURED IN US

Iran has returned 820,000 donated COVID-19 doses because they were manufactured in the United States.

The doses were among roughly a million of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine donated to the country by Poland, according to The Associated Press, which cited state media.

“But when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found out that 820,000 doses of them which were imported from Poland were from the United States,” Mohammad Hashemi, an official in Iran’s Health Ministry, said, the AP reported.

Hashemi added that “after coordination with the Polish ambassador to Iran, it was decided that the vaccines would be returned.”

Iran has relied on Sinopharm, China’s state-supported vaccine, to vaccinate its population, according to the AP, but it also offers citizens vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca, Russia’s Sputnik V and Indian company Bharat’s Covaxin, as well as the COVIran Barekat shot developed in the country.

In 2020, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that American and British vaccines were “forbidden” in the country, the AP noted. The country now exclusively imports Western vaccines that were not manufactured in either the U.S. or the United Kingdom.

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WORLD COVID STATS

Coronavirus Cases:

428,569,764

Deaths:

5,927,183

Recovered:

356,676,715

 

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February 23 (GMT)

Updates

  • 11,320 new cases and 15 new deaths in Latvia [source]
  • 137,642 new cases and 785 new deaths in Russia [source]
  • 1,373 new cases and 12 new deaths in Libya [source]
  • 253 new cases and 3 new deaths in Laos [source]

ACTIVE CASES

CLOSED CASES
Daily New CasesCases per DayData as of 0:00 GMT+0Jan 22, …Feb 27, 2020Apr 03, 2020May 09, 2020Jun 14, 2020Jul 20, 2020Aug 25, 2020Sep 30, 2020Nov 05, 2020Dec 11, 2020Jan 16, 2021Feb 21, 2021Mar 29, 2021May 04, 2021Jun 09, 2021Jul 15, 2021Aug 20, 2021Sep 25, 2021Oct 31, 2021Dec 06, 2021Jan 11, 2022Feb 16, 202201M2M3M4M7-day moving average
Daily DeathsDeaths per DayData as of 0:00 GMT+0Jan 22, 2…Feb 27, 2020Apr 03, 2020May 09, 2020Jun 14, 2020Jul 20, 2020Aug 25, 2020Sep 30, 2020Nov 05, 2020Dec 11, 2020Jan 16, 2021Feb 21, 2021Mar 29, 2021May 04, 2021Jun 09, 2021Jul 15, 2021Aug 20, 2021Sep 25, 2021Oct 31, 2021Dec 06, 2021Jan 11, 2022Feb 16, 202205k10k15k20k7-day moving average
The charts above are updated after the close of the day in GMT+0. See more graphported Cases and Deaths by Country or Territory

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 224 countries and territories. The day is reset after midnight GMT+0. The list of countries and their regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme. Sources are provided under “Latest News.” Learn more about Worldometer’s COVID-19 data

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Latest News

February 23 (GMT)

Updates

  • 11,320 new cases and 15 new deaths in Latvia [source]
  • 137,642 new cases and 785 new deaths in Russia [source]
  • 1,373 new cases and 12 new deaths in Libya [source]
  • 253 new cases and 3 new deaths in Laos [source]

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Application Forms Available for Culturama 48 Competitions

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS  — The following is a press release from the Nevis Culturama Festival regarding Culturama 48 celebrations.

The countdown to the 48th anniversary of Nevis’ Culturama Festival (Culturama 48) continues with the roll out of application forms for the following competitions to be staged as part of this year’s festival.

 Senior Pageants – Ms. Culture Queen, Ms. Culture Swimwear and the Mr. Kool

  1. Mr. and Ms. Talented Youth Pageant
  2. Junior and Senior Kaiso Contests
  3. Soca Monarch Contest
  4. Junior and Senior Cultural Street Parades
  5. Emancipation Jouvert Troupe

 Registration forms are available at the Culturama Secretariat located in the Cotton Ginnery Mall, Charlestown or online at www.culturamanevis.com.

Completed application forms should be returned to the Culturama Secretariat no later than 4:00 p.m. of the closing date stipulated on each application form.

Culturama 48 would be celebrated this year from July 21st to August 2nd.

For further information:

Go to: www.facebook.com/nevisculturamafestival or www.culturamanevis.com

Or visit or contact:

Culturama Secretariat

Cotton Ginnery Mall

Charlestown

Nevis

(T) (869 469 1992 / (869) 469-5521 ext. 6661/6662/6663

Email: th************@************is.com

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