COVID cases dropping in North, South America, health agency says

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People wait to receive an AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during a vaccination campaign for homeless people, in Rio de Janeiro’s downtown, Brazil, May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

BRASILIA, Oct 13 (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases are dropping overall in North America but remain high in the American Midwest, Alaska, and Canada’s Northwest Territories, where infection rates are 10 times the national average.

Infections are also dropping across South America, though cases are up in the greater Caracas area of Venezuela, and in parts of Chile’s southernmost regions.

In the Caribbean, Barbados is reporting the highest number of COVID cases and deaths since the pandemic started, with a five-fold increase in COVID infections over the last month, PAHO said.

The regional branch of the World Health Organization called for concerted action in the Americas to help every country reach the WHO’s vaccination coverage target of 40% of their population by the end of this year.

So far, only nine countries in the region have vaccinated 50% of their people, while six – Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Haiti, Guatemala and Nicaragua – have yet to reach 20% vaccination coverage, according to PAHO.

Without concerted action to increase the vaccination rate and public health measures, it is possible that COVID-19 could become endemic in the region, PAHO Director Carissa Etienne warned in a weekly briefing.

Third dose booster vaccination is recommended, especially for people who have received the Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm vaccines developed in China that studies have shown to provide less protection for young adults, PAHO assistant director Jarbas Barbosa said.

Booster vaccination should begin with those over the age of 80, followed by those over 60 years with prior medical conditions, and then young adults, he said. Using other vaccines is possible when the original doses are not available, he said.

Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Jan Harvey

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attends a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico October 7, 2021. Mexico’s Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

MEXICO CITY, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said the World Health Organization (WHO) should certify COVID-19 vaccines in public use, amid fears some vaccinated Mexicans will not be able to enter the United States.

“The WHO must act correctly, without political or ideological tendencies, sticking to the science,” Lopez Obrador said at a regular news conference.

Lopez Obrador’s comments come after the United States said it would only allow people inoculated by WHO-approved vaccines to enter its borders.

Millions of people in Mexico have been vaccinated with Russian and Chinese shots that do not fulfill that criteria. The U.S. on Tuesday said it was reopening its land borders to fully vaccinated travelers.

Russia’s Sputnik V as well as China’s CanSino vaccines are yet to receive approval by the WHO.

Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Raul Cortes; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel

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What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

Staff members in protective suits check proof of negative test results for travellers at an entrance to the Harbin West Railway Station following new local cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China September 22, 2021. cnsphoto via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

Oct 14 (Reuters) – Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:

Melbourne set for COVID lockdown exit despite record cases

Melbourne will exit months of COVID-19 lockdown next week, helped by a faster-than-expected vaccine uptake, Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday, ahead of schedule even though daily infections hit a record the same day.

On the worst day of a Delta variant outbreak that began in early August, Victoria logged 2,297 new cases, up from 1,571 the day before and the highest for any Australian state or territory since the pandemic began. Eleven people died, bringing the total toll in the latest outbreak to 125. read more

Indonesia’s Bali reopens to international tourists, but with no flights

Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali reopened to foreign tourists after 18 months of pandemic hiatus on Thursday, but the island is lacking one crucial ingredient: international flights. Though the island’s Ngurah Rai International Airport has carried out simulations preparing for tourists to return, it is not expecting much to happen soon.

Details about the reopening, such as visa requirements and which countries they apply to, have so far been patchy. Indonesia late on Wednesday had confirmed the 19 eligible countries, which include China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, and several countries from Western Europe and the Arabian Gulf. read more

J&J shot gets better boost from Moderna or Pfizer in NIH study

People who got Johnson & Johnson Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine as a first shot had a stronger immune response when boosted with vaccines from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE or Moderna Inc, a study run by the National Institutes of Health showed on Wednesday. The preliminary study hasn’t been peer-reviewed and is the latest challenge to J&J’s efforts to use its vaccine as a booster in the United States. read more

More than 450 adults who received initial shots from Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson were part of the study that showed “mixing and matching” booster shots of different types is safe in adults. Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines are based on messenger RNA, while J&J’s uses viral vector technology. Separately, officials on Wednesday said J&J’s regulatory submission for its planned booster raised red flags, including small sample sizes and data based on tests not yet validated. read more

English school return spurred COVID in children

COVID-19 infections in children in England rose in September after schools returned from summer holidays, helping to keep cases high even as there was a fall among adults, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday.

The study found that the epidemic was growing among those under 17, with an estimated reproduction “R” number of 1.18. An R number above 1 implies exponential growth, while a number below 1 implies the epidemic is shrinking. The epidemic was estimated to be shrinking in 18- to 54-year-olds, while it was broadly steady among those over 55. read more

India resumes vaccine exports as domestic stocks build up – officials

India has resumed a small number of COVID-19 vaccine exports and will increase exports significantly in the next few months as domestic stocks build up and most of its large population is inoculated, officials said on Wednesday.

So far about 4 million shots have been exported, the source said, a small amount in proportion to the expansive vaccine diplomacy Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government launched this year before a second wave of infections forced a halt. read more

Compiled by Karishma Singh; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 13, 2021 (RSCNPF): The Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident that occurred along Wellington Road on October 12, 2021.

The accident involved motor pick-up G344 which is owned by the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, but is attached to the Public Works Department. It was being driven, at the time, by Davin Charles of Main Street, Christ Church. The accident also involved a motorcycle that was being ridden by Juaan Fyfield of Liver Pool Row.

Investigations so far have revealed that just after 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, both vehicles were travelling from the airport direction towards the city of Basseterre. In the vicinity of the Public Works Gas Station, Charles indicated to take a right turn and, in the process, Fyfield collided on the rear, left side of the pickup and fell. Fyfield was transported to the JNF General Hospital via the Emergency Medical Service where he was later pronounced dead.

An autopsy will be performed on the body of 35-year-old Juaan Fyfield to determine the exact cause of death.

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BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, October 13, 2021 (MMS-SKN) — Unstoppable Domino Club, which had not won a single game in their first four outings in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, won their first game on Tuesday evening October 12 in the fifth segment of play – and did it in grand style.

Having fallen to lesser mortals in their earlier four outings, domino enthusiasts looked forward to Unstoppable Domino Club players to being stopped in their tracks by defending team champion Tabernacle Domino Club players in their meeting at the old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project.

That was however not to be, as Unstoppable captained by Samuel ‘Nokie’ Wilson turned the tables on the defending champion team Tabernacle whom they soundly beat 13-6, a feat that earned them a bonus point. The win earned them six points instead of the standard five points.

Former champion team Unity Domino Club signalled its intention to reclaim the coveted title when they narrowly beat Christ Church Domino Club 13-12 in a game held at the Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux. While the feat earned Unity five points, the gallant showing by the losing team Christ Church earned them one point.

Two former champion teams had it rough on Tuesday evening. Guinness Domino Club, a team that had lost three games out of four turned the tables on Parsons Domino Club whom they also narrowly beat 13-12, in a game played at the Tabernacle Community Centre. Ottley’s Domino Club beat another former champion team, Lodge Domino Club 13-12, at the old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project.

In other games, Sylvers Domino Club beat Small Corner Bar Domino Club 14-7 when the two met at the old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project, while Mansion Domino Club beat Saddlers Domino Club 13-10 in a game held at the Tabernacle Community Centre.

In the meantime, the game between Phillips Domino Club and Molineux Domino Club that was supposed to have been held at the Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux did not take place after Molineux threw in the towel saying they could not raise enough players. This gave Phillips an effortless five points.

At the end of the fifth segment of play in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, former champion team Unity has a clear lead with 23 points. It is followed by Christ Church 19 points, Sylvers 18 points, Phillips 18 points, and defending champion team Tabernacle 17 points.

Others, in order, are Saddlers 15 points, former champion team Lodge 14 points, Mansion 13 points, former champion team Parsons 13 points, Guinness 11 points, Small Corner Bar 10 points, Molineux 10 points, Ottley’s 10 points, and Unstoppable 6 points.

Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League is sponsored by Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Area Parliamentary Representative for St. Christopher Seven, Dr the Hon Timothy Harris.

Sixth segment of play in this only round of play in the 26th edition of Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League will be on Thursday October 14 at the same four venues with all games starting at 7:00 p.m.

Tabernacle Community Centre will host the games between defending champions team Tabernacle and Molineux, and Christ Church and Saddlers. The Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux will host games between Parsons and Mansion, and Phillips and Lodge.

The old Lodge Community Centre in Lodge Project will be the venue for the Unity vs. Guinness, and Sylvers vs. Ottley’s games, while the final game between Small Corner Bar and Unstoppable will be held at Cuban Bar in Lodge Project.

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CNW- A 25-year-old mechanical engineering graduate Khalia Hall stunned the judges and walked away with the 2021 Miss Jamaica World crown.

Hall — who wore the sash Miss General Food Supermarket, beat 14 other finalists at the pageant’s grand coronation at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston. Dominique Shorter and Melessa Vassell were first runner-up and second runner-up, respectively.

The new queen, who was also the Fast Track Top Model competition winner, was crowned by Miss World 1976 Cindy Breakspeare. Hall will replace Miss World 2019 Toni-Ann Singh, the fourth Jamaican to win the Miss World title. Singh is also the longest-reigning Miss World owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 competition.

Hall graduated with a master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. She has also worked as an engineer in Italy and Singapore.

She describes herself as a health and nutrition enthusiast and mechanical engineer-turned-foodie. She launched her plant-based Shibumi Jamaican food delivery service in Jamaica in 2020 upon discovering that 74 percent of Jamaicans do not eat the recommended daily portions of fruits and vegetables. Shibumi, which is Japanese for “simple, effortless beauty”. Hall is also a food blogger at Mix Up and Blenda, where she promotes her philosophy of living: finding a balance, choosing simplicity, and eating “real food.”

Hall will now go on to represent Jamaica in the Miss World grand coronation at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan on December 16. There, she will compete against beauties from 122 other countries for the coveted Miss World 2021 title. She said she has already achieved one of her major goals, given that entering the pageant was something “in the back of my mind from I was a little girl”.

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People over the age of 60 should no longer consider taking a daily low-dose or baby aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, according to a draft recommendation issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Tuesday.

The announcement marks a change in the 2016 Task Force guidance that recommended aspirin therapy in certain men and women to lower cardiovascular risk. But more recent evidence suggests it also could cause harm, including bleeding in the stomach, intestines, and brain – a risk that increases with age and can be life-threatening.

The task force said people ages 40 to 59 who are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease should decide with their clinician whether to start taking aspirin. Once they turn 60, they should not start taking it because the risk of bleeding cancels the benefits of preventing heart disease.

The new recommendation only applies to people who are not already taking a daily aspirin. Doctors have long recommended daily low-dose aspirin for many patients who have had a heart attack or stroke. The task force guidance does not change that advice.

“Daily aspirin use may help prevent heart attacks and strokes in some people, but it can also cause potentially serious harms, such as internal bleeding,” said task force member Dr. John Wong, a primary-care expert at Tufts Medical Center. “It’s important that people who are 40 to 59 years old and don’t have a history of heart disease have a conversation with their clinician to decide together if starting to take aspirin is right for them.”

The task force previously said a daily aspirin also might protect against colorectal cancer for some adults in their 50s and 60s, but the updated guidance says more evidence of such a benefit is needed.

The guidance was posted online to allow for public comment until Nov. 8. The group will evaluate that input and then make a final recommendation.

The new recommendations not only stemmed from emerging research suggesting aspirin’s potential harm, but also from advances in cardiovascular treatment, said Dr. Guy L. Mintz, Northwell Health’s director of cardiovascular health and lipidology at Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital.

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The Government is being pushed to consider adopting a citizenship-by-investment programme with the funds gained through the process used for various development projects.

Julian Dixon, CEO and broker at Jamaica Sotheby’s International Realty, made the call on Friday during the launch of the luxury real estate dealer’s operation in Jamaica. “Of Course, I would expect that like many other countries in the world, including some of our own brothers and sisters in the Caribbean, that there would be a developed criterion which would determine eligibility.

This would include but not be limited to individuals of sound character and one’s ability to meet a minimum foreign investment value,” Dixon told the audience in attendance at the AC Marriot Hotel in St Andrew. She said funds gained from the project should be used to invest in the country’s infrastructure, real estate, job creation and business development.

Dixon pointed out to Sunday Finance that St Kitts and Nevis, which pioneered the citizenship-by-investment programme in 1984, has invested upwards of US$300 million from the programme in modernising its infrastructure and said Jamaica could do the same.

At least five countries in the Caribbean — St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and St Lucia — have citizenship-by-investment programmes. Under the programme sometimes referred to as “economic citizenship”, people wishing to acquire citizenship of a country with which they have no previous ties, can obtain citizenship after meeting certain criteria and making a significant investment in that country’s economy.

Investments in the five Caribbean countries listed above start at US$100,000 and run into millions in some cases. Some programmes such as the one in St Kitts and Nevis require a donation in a State fund. Most seek to acquire citizenship because of ease of travel. It is not clear if Jamaica holds such advantage as other islands.

Citizenship-by-investment programmes have helped to attract high net worth individuals to the islands. Dixon is after the same cohort locally and internationally with Jamaica Sotheby’s International Realty — a company she owns and operates with Alexander Melville. Both bring 27 years of combined experience in real estate.

With Sotheby’s, they are targeting the upper end of the market with luxury real estate. The brand was founded in 1976 in the United States and now operates in 78 countries, with Jamaica being the latest addition.

“Sotheby’s International Realty is the number one network for luxury properties in the world. The shared professional knowledge of its members enables us to create new opportunities for local sellers of real estate as well as those from around the globe who are looking to buy exclusive properties in our beautiful island located in the heart of the Caribbean Sea,” Dixon said in prepared remarks.

“Jamaica offers a diverse luxury lifestyle which appeals to a wide variety of buyers,” said Philip White, president and CEO, Sotheby’s International Realty.

“In recent years, closed transactions have seen steady growth and new construction is booming on the island.

The Jamaican market has historically appreciated year-after-year with interest from domestic and international interest in North America, Europe, Canada, and most recently the Middle East, motivated by the island’s many opportunities and its tourism sector. I want to welcome Julian and her team to the network and look forward to working together to support the island.”

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When Reynold Joseph was deported from the US back to Haiti after five years in South America, he was unprepared for just how bad things had become in his homeland.

Outside a ramshackle guesthouse near downtown Port-au-Prince, where he and a dozen other deportees are staying, some goats were grazing on burning piles of rubbish, while drivers honked and cursed in a queue for petrol that snaked round the block. Each night, Joseph’s three-year-old son stirs in the sweltering heat, and bursts of gunfire ring out in the distance.

‘They treated us like animals’: Haitians angry and in despair at being deported from US.

“It’s no secret that Haiti is poor and unsafe,” said Joseph, who along with thousands of his countrymen was detained in southern Texas last month before being shackled and flown to Port-au-Prince. “But I didn’t know it had gotten this bad.”

It was his first time back to the country after five years in Chile with his wife. For their son, a Chilean citizen who was born in Santiago, it was his first ever visit to the country.

There is a Haitian proverb, beyond mountains there are mountains, loosely meaning that after one problem comes another, and in Port-au-Prince, that saying is a harrowing reality.

Violent gangs rule the streets, kidnapping residents rich and poor alike for ransom every day, while shortages of fuel and basic goods are common, and public services from traffic lights to sewer systems are practically nonexistent. When President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home on 7 July in circumstances that remain murky, the situation only worsened. An earthquake the following month added to Haiti’s misery, killing at least 2,200 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Overlapping calamities led the US to advise its embassy staff to stay in the compound, and its citizens to avoid all travel to the country. After the earthquake, the Biden administration extended “temporary protected status” for thousands of Haitian migrants and refugees already in the US to live and work legally. Just a few weeks later, thousands of desperate Haitians who had been detained on the Texas border were deported.

Many of them were returning to a country they had not seen for years, and many of those deportees are already plotting another escape. Some, who had already spent years in Brazil or Chile, plan to try their luck in South America again.

But for many the immediate challenge is survival.

“Of course we want to go back but we spent all our savings trying to get into the US,” Joseph said, speaking in Spanish, which he learned while working as a builder in Chile’s capital, Santiago. “So this is our life now, while we save to try and get out.”

Many recent deportees fled Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake that leveled much of Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 and setting the country on a downward spiral of instability from which it has still not recovered.

Since then, gang violence in Haiti has left the country on the brink of civil war. At least 165 gangs – many with tacit political backing and support – operate in the country, running extortion rackets, kidnapping for ransom, and overseeing the local drug and arms trade. Many gang leaders have links with the country’s fragile and corrupt police force; the leader of the most powerful is a former police officer.

“There are areas where the police will not go, where it’s a war zone like Vietnam or Afghanistan,” said Luis Henry Mars, who works on peace building projects in areas controlled by gangs. “The gangs are the state in these neighbourhoods.”

In few places is the brutal rule of the gangs felt more than in Martissant, one of Port-au-Prince’s most notorious districts, which looks everything like an urban war zone.

The buildings that are still standing are pockmarked with bullet holes – including a police station and a hospital once run by Medecins Sans Frontiers, which in June shut its doors after stray bullets hit its walls. Shops and shacks have been looted and razed. Just a few blocks over, the markets teem with commerce, but here, the few locals who remain dare not leave their homes and the streets are a barren wasteland.

The main road, which connects the capital with the country’s southern peninsula, is barely paved and strewn with rubbish, some of it burning in smoldering, rank embers. When it rains, latrines flood, filling potholes with sewage. Up the hills that lead towards hundreds of homes, tyres and the burnt-out chassis of cars block roads, ensuring anyone who attempts to pass can be vetted or kidnapped for ransom.

Motorists immediately hit the accelerator as they enter Martissant. Trucks carrying food and supplies to survivors of the recent earthquake in the south are routinely turned back at roadblocks hastily thrown up by masked gunmen.

On Monday, the road was blocked, gang members exchanged gunfire and a commuter bus was shot at, injuring at least four.

“They only way you can get through is if you have local connections and are able to negotiate passage,” said one Haitian aid worker who grew up in Martissant.

Thousands of residents from Martissant evacuated the neighbourhood in June due to the violence, and are now living as refugees in a sports centre that has been converted into a shelter just one mile from their homes.

Coriolande Auguste fled her home after it was was burgled and torched by gangs, and she sent her toddler daughter to live with her mother in the southern city of Les Cayes. The earthquake in August damaged their home there, leaving Auguste’s elderly mother and young daughter homeless too. The 2010 earthquake killed two uncles and her older sister, while paralyzing her father and leaving Auguste as the sole breadwinner in the family.

Now, Auguste relies on handouts to survive, often going days without eating, and sleeping on a thin roll mat on the hard floor of the overcrowded gymnasium. More than a dozen women in the shelter are pregnant, and there are nearly 350 toddlers.

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NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (October 12, 2021) — As part of its Public Awareness Campaign, the Department of Physical Planning and Environment announces a General Contractors’ Service Providers Orientation Session on Thursday October 21, 2021, at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church Hall at 4:30 p.m.

During this session, information relating to the Department’s requirements during the construction period of a development as well as the application of the St. Kitts-Nevis Building Code will be discussed.

The responsibility and liability of the contractor, as outlined in the Nevis Physical Planning and Development Control Ordinance, as amended, will be also be shared.

The target audience is persons providing services as general contractor on the island of Nevis.

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