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Russia Postpones Cuba Debt Payments Amid Warming Relations

2022-02-23 FreeNews

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

2022-02-23 FreeNews

By Jacob Garcia

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

2022-02-23 FreeNews

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.

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.

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 2022 — Image caption,

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

2022-02-23 FreeNews

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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WORLD COVID STATS

Coronavirus Cases:

428,569,764

view by country

Deaths:

5,927,183

Recovered:

356,676,715

	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	New Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	428,569,764	+600,781	5,927,183	+2,914	356,676,715	+748,260	65,965,866	80,165	54,982	760.4
1	USA	80,270,563		963,371		52,199,829		27,107,363	10,400	240,195	2,883	942,817,780	2,821,212	334,188,863
2	India	42,867,031		512,652		42,189,887		164,492	8,944	30,570	366	762,414,018	543,699	1,402,272,769
3	Brazil	28,351,876		645,534		25,505,984		2,200,358	8,318	131,845	3,002	63,776,166	296,579	215,039,621
4	France	22,401,406		137,276		19,735,713		2,528,417	3,055	341,951	2,095	243,529,298	3,717,401	65,510,629
5	UK	18,695,449		160,815		16,918,511		1,616,123	324	273,040	2,349	477,969,909	6,980,577	68,471,406
6	Russia	15,795,570	+137,642	347,816	+785	12,836,228	+179,203	2,611,526	2,300	108,161	2,382	273,400,000	1,872,126	146,037,195
7	Germany	13,872,762		122,369		10,234,100	+202,900	3,516,293	2,494	164,713	1,453	104,701,826	1,243,139	84,223,745
8	Turkey	13,675,581		92,990		12,853,899		728,692	1,128	159,336	1,083	141,211,474	1,645,275	85,828,516
9	Italy	12,554,596		153,512		11,109,291		1,291,793	896	208,147	2,545	184,981,913	3,066,887	60,315,864
10	Spain	10,880,194		98,635		8,876,996		1,904,563	1,185	232,560	2,108	471,036,328	10,068,211	46,784,509
11	Argentina	8,855,624		125,618		8,607,471		122,535	1,474	193,032	2,738	33,992,595	740,959	45,876,480
12	Iran	6,983,635		135,499		6,539,753		308,383	3,918	81,435	1,580	46,780,865	545,504	85,757,177
13	Netherlands	6,153,207		21,507		3,922,732		2,208,968	171	357,805	1,251	21,107,399	1,227,380	17,197,114
14	Colombia	6,052,126		138,285		5,874,444		39,397	342	116,897	2,671	33,016,280	637,712	51,772,994
15	Poland	5,582,217		110,157		4,935,340		536,720	947	147,762	2,916	33,181,435	878,314	37,778,558
16	Mexico	5,436,566	+18,309	316,492	+706	4,696,414	+19,915	423,660	4,798	41,451	2,413	14,936,438	113,883	131,156,002
17	Indonesia	5,289,414		146,798		4,593,185		549,431	2,807	19,008	528	82,000,597	294,679	278,270,598
18	Ukraine	4,783,835	+25,062	105,229	+297	4,023,033	+37,432	655,573	177	110,475	2,430	19,430,200	448,710	43,302,395
19	Japan	4,607,029	+66,373	22,272	+272	3,783,417	+84,616	801,340	1,489	36,610	177	38,016,089	302,097	125,840,797
20	South Africa	3,662,032		98,868		3,526,115		37,049	546	60,494	1,633	22,928,257	378,755	60,535,816
21	Philippines	3,655,709	+1,534	55,977	+201	3,544,283	+2,729	55,449	302	32,648	500	27,993,027	249,995	111,974,454
22	Israel	3,576,923		10,038		3,453,676		113,209	695	383,543	1,076	41,373,364	4,436,346	9,326,000
23	Czechia	3,538,222	+14,307	38,403	+28	3,360,230	+8,110	139,589	222	329,394	3,575	52,400,268	4,878,257	10,741,597
24	Belgium	3,520,568	+8,356	30,040	+25	2,719,238	+51,919	771,290	315	301,614	2,574	31,497,990	2,698,496	11,672,424
25	Peru	3,500,880		209,808		N/A	N/A	N/A	1,118	103,805	6,221	27,049,785	802,057	33,725,535
26	Malaysia	3,273,958		32,433		2,974,441		267,084	286	99,071	981	48,228,081	1,459,400	33,046,512
27	Canada	3,252,372		36,116		3,095,130		121,126	790	84,951	943	57,831,597	1,510,543	38,285,308
28	Portugal	3,206,281		20,894		2,717,509		467,878	111	315,955	2,059	37,805,639	3,725,465	10,147,897
29	Australia	3,101,281	+27,167	5,025	+60	2,860,444		235,812	172	119,347	193	63,121,509	2,429,110	25,985,443
30	Chile	2,895,931		41,526		1,923,867		930,538	1,020	149,386	2,142	32,424,200	1,672,597	19,385,538
31	Vietnam	2,890,522		39,682		2,305,081		545,759	3,434	29,263	402	78,586,958	795,607	98,776,092
32	Thailand	2,770,793	+21,232	22,733	+39	2,574,458	+16,662	173,602	687	39,533	324	17,270,775	246,417	70,087,513
33	Switzerland	2,700,057		13,171		1,945,205		741,681	160	308,278	1,504	18,409,729	2,101,924	8,758,513
34	Romania	2,686,089		62,839		2,358,958		264,292	1,063	141,173	3,303	20,763,483	1,091,264	19,026,997
35	Austria	2,550,371	+34,409	14,661	+30	2,257,376	+30,179	278,334	196	280,546	1,613	156,468,799	17,211,860	9,090,755
36	Denmark	2,513,265		4,375		1,989,755		519,135	34	431,411	751	124,694,186	21,404,203	5,825,687
37	Sweden	2,431,365		16,897		1,877,097		537,371	86	238,308	1,656	18,107,257	1,774,762	10,202,637
38	Greece	2,336,615		25,485		2,103,736		207,394	455	225,990	2,465	63,959,112	6,185,920	10,339,467
39	S. Korea	2,329,182	+171,448	7,607	+99	969,524	+32,633	1,352,051	512	45,366	148	15,804,065	307,822	51,341,623
40	Iraq	2,294,929		24,897		2,227,997		42,035	191	55,031	597	17,887,384	428,926	41,702,742
41	Bangladesh	1,936,837		28,990		1,771,615		136,232	1,275	11,571	173	13,260,511	79,223	167,382,322
42	Serbia	1,892,187		14,958		1,730,101		147,128	132	218,004	1,723	8,670,454	998,947	8,679,590
43	Hungary	1,769,164	+6,286	43,562	+132	1,546,872	+11,416	178,730	170	183,903	4,528	10,686,340	1,110,837	9,620,079
44	Jordan	1,591,278		13,731		1,432,148		145,399	978	153,459	1,324	16,062,203	1,549,003	10,369,380
45	Georgia	1,575,999	+10,230	15,981	+48	1,429,763	+7,223	130,255		396,319	4,019	15,733,907	3,956,627	3,976,596
46	Pakistan	1,503,873	+1,232	30,096	+43	1,409,515	+3,154	64,262	1,230	6,598	132	26,216,305	115,020	227,927,988
47	Slovakia	1,393,534	+19,075	18,314	+35	1,148,563	+20,555	226,657	246	255,040	3,352	6,281,976	1,149,706	5,463,984
48	Kazakhstan	1,300,164	+598	13,545		1,259,430	+3,146	27,189	528	67,910	707	11,575,012	604,588	19,145,293
49	Ireland	1,280,058		6,452		1,139,516		134,090	54	254,570	1,283	11,250,554	2,237,443	5,028,308
50	Norway	1,169,037		1,549		88,952		1,078,536	26	212,907	282	9,852,076	1,794,281	5,490,822
51	Morocco	1,159,584		15,922		1,137,129		6,533	293	30,817	423	11,237,010	298,630	37,628,541
52	Bulgaria	1,077,160		35,245		806,848		235,067	544	156,962	5,136	9,085,046	1,323,855	6,862,570
53	Cuba	1,066,414		8,491		1,054,895		3,028	34	94,246	750	12,920,253	1,141,843	11,315,266
54	Lebanon	1,053,252		10,007		682,977		360,268	186	155,456	1,477	4,795,578	707,807	6,775,263
55	Croatia	1,043,334		14,905		1,008,893		19,536	122	256,745	3,668	4,478,083	1,101,971	4,063,703
56	Tunisia	988,329		27,512		930,260		30,557	234	82,213	2,289	4,286,361	356,555	12,021,585
57	Nepal	976,105		11,928		953,430		10,747	100	32,541	398	5,391,603	179,741	29,996,520
58	Bolivia	891,112	+692	21,400	+14	781,689	+1,731	88,023	220	74,668	1,793	2,669,468	223,680	11,934,309
59	Belarus	890,089		6,392		875,660		8,037		94,247	677	12,317,444	1,304,231	9,444,220
60	Slovenia	882,364		6,236		805,332		70,796	111	424,334	2,999	2,561,069	1,231,634	2,079,407
61	Lithuania	879,371	+7,613	8,316	+16	781,585	+7,198	89,470	108	330,599	3,126	7,691,025	2,891,439	2,659,930
62	UAE	875,884		2,297		823,015		50,572		86,837	228	135,081,553	13,392,299	10,086,510
63	Uruguay	823,784		6,905		782,213		34,666	141	235,805	1,977	5,641,299	1,614,802	3,493,493
64	Ecuador	820,541		35,172		N/A	N/A	N/A	759	45,377	1,945	2,470,170	136,605	18,082,637
65	Costa Rica	793,835		7,954		644,514		141,367	134	153,533	1,538	3,635,922	703,209	5,170,468
66	Azerbaijan	777,804		9,280		742,326		26,198		75,594	902	6,501,358	631,864	10,289,178
67	Guatemala	762,096		16,833		699,023		46,240	5	41,285	912	3,850,595	208,600	18,459,222
68	Panama	752,173		8,036		734,985		9,152	83	169,936	1,816	5,476,124	1,237,204	4,426,210
69	Saudi Arabia	741,237		8,987		715,514		16,736	764	20,761	252	40,321,585	1,129,347	35,703,451
70	Sri Lanka	639,297		16,055		607,326		15,916		29,651	745	6,282,076	291,368	21,560,639
71	Paraguay	637,225		18,259		599,783		19,183	158	87,575	2,509	2,512,861	345,348	7,276,318
72	Finland	625,463		2,329		46,000		577,134	35	112,598	419	9,848,299	1,772,919	5,554,851
73	Singapore	622,293		956		557,450		63,887	19	105,013	161	23,014,851	3,883,796	5,925,865
74	Kuwait	615,397		2,531		597,655		15,211	79	140,688	579	7,505,795	1,715,923	4,374,202
75	Latvia	612,920	+11,320	5,145	+15	459,926	+11,135	147,849	82	330,957	2,778	6,622,431	3,575,900	1,851,962
76	Dominican Republic	572,596		4,360		566,088		2,148	51	51,929	395	3,084,256	279,714	11,026,453
77	Myanmar	572,127		19,344		526,338		26,445		10,401	352	6,969,070	126,691	55,008,542
78	Palestine	571,662		5,162		537,503		28,997	108	107,944	975	3,078,533	581,306	5,295,889
79	Venezuela	512,169		5,621		497,278		9,270	230	18,096	199	3,359,014	118,678	28,303,662
80	Bahrain	498,637		1,442		465,393		31,802	24	277,253	802	9,326,413	5,185,679	1,798,494
81	Moldova	496,976		11,136		467,312		18,528	101	123,670	2,771	2,975,762	740,503	4,018,571
82	Libya	489,940	+1,373	6,222	+12	450,874	+3,108	32,844	128	69,746	886	2,404,786	342,337	7,024,618
83	Estonia	474,550	+6,564	2,188	+7	344,798	+6,858	127,564	23	357,342	1,648	3,065,876	2,308,642	1,328,000
84	Egypt	473,449		23,857		403,967		45,625	122	4,488	226	3,693,367	35,008	105,500,583
85	Ethiopia	468,426		7,441		409,907		51,078	118	3,916	62	4,475,039	37,406	119,632,988
86	Mongolia	462,321	+525	2,161	+2	313,256		146,904	192	137,395	642	4,030,048	1,197,670	3,364,908
87	Armenia	417,456	+946	8,378	+24	395,700	+1,545	13,378		140,447	2,819	2,875,218	967,326	2,972,336
88	Honduras	408,456		10,671		127,289		270,496	105	40,190	1,050	1,263,329	124,306	10,163,069
89	Oman	378,922	+974	4,238		360,795	+1,350	13,889	67	71,232	797	25,000,000	4,699,623	5,319,576
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	369,230		15,362		192,218		161,650		113,703	4,731	1,689,874	520,391	3,247,315
91	Qatar	355,032		662		349,042		5,328	39	126,445	236	3,361,418	1,197,169	2,807,805
92	Kenya	322,736		5,638		303,107		13,991	3	5,793	101	3,341,048	59,968	55,713,818
93	Zambia	311,888	+296	3,947	+1	305,673	+67	2,268	4	16,221	205	3,256,694	169,373	19,227,996
94	Cyprus	311,239		830		124,370		186,039	60	254,741	679	9,477,138	7,756,790	1,221,786
95	North Macedonia	294,407		8,937		279,695		5,775		141,322	4,290	1,874,917	900,003	2,083,234
96	Réunion	292,126		640		274,185		17,301	40	322,506	707	1,424,291	1,572,412	905,800
97	Albania	270,455		3,451		263,035		3,969	14	94,149	1,201	1,730,246	602,320	2,872,638
98	Algeria	264,365		6,812		176,966		80,587	18	5,855	151	230,861	5,113	45,150,046
99	Botswana	262,652		2,614		256,886		3,152	1	108,109	1,076	2,026,898	834,283	2,429,509
100	Nigeria	254,352		3,142		230,846		20,364	11	1,186	15	4,317,621	20,127	214,517,283
101	Uzbekistan	235,740	+138	1,624	+1	230,286	+1,267	3,830	23	6,880	47	1,377,915	40,213	34,265,123
102	Zimbabwe	233,980		5,388		225,143		3,449	12	15,375	354	2,058,584	135,273	15,217,945
103	Montenegro	229,222		2,669		224,167		2,386	60	364,889	4,249	1,160,124	1,846,755	628,196
104	Mozambique	224,937		2,190		219,163		3,584	13	6,881	67	1,261,444	38,587	32,690,980
105	Kyrgyzstan	200,388	+20	2,948	+1	194,527	+150	2,913	131	29,905	440	1,907,195	284,622	6,700,794
106	Luxembourg	179,305		986		167,853		10,466	9	278,993	1,534	4,055,214	6,309,781	642,687
107	Afghanistan	172,901	+185	7,574	+5	153,427	+533	11,900	1,124	4,283	188	886,235	21,955	40,366,137
108	Maldives	166,525		292		151,009		15,224	25	299,418	525	2,166,990	3,896,329	556,162
109	Uganda	163,071		3,580		99,892		59,599	56	3,390	74	2,440,282	50,724	48,108,585
110	Ghana	158,894		1,441		156,941		512	1	4,944	45	2,299,550	71,555	32,136,782
111	Namibia	157,034		4,002		152,480		552	5	60,019	1,530	947,400	362,102	2,616,393
112	El Salvador	147,786		4,048		123,870		19,868	153	22,597	619	1,693,464	258,942	6,539,930
113	Laos	141,694	+253	616	+3	7,660		133,418		19,022	83	997,658	133,935	7,448,795
114	Rwanda	129,419		1,457		45,522		82,440		9,602	108	4,756,978	352,926	13,478,685
115	Cambodia	128,133	+558	3,023	+1	121,553	+428	3,557		7,494	177	2,849,683	166,661	17,098,648
116	Jamaica	127,706		2,795		75,445		49,466	25	42,820	937	839,014	281,323	2,982,384
117	Trinidad and Tobago	124,488		3,582		100,076		20,830	18	88,482	2,546	616,543	438,219	1,406,928
118	Guadeloupe	123,622		828		2,250		120,544	21	308,873	2,069	878,298	2,194,450	400,236
119	Cameroon	119,107		1,920		106,050		11,137	13	4,311	69	1,751,774	63,403	27,629,367
120	Iceland	112,094		61		75,685		36,348	2	325,025	177	1,719,721	4,986,462	344,878
121	Martinique	108,349		861		104		107,384	16	289,095	2,297	645,857	1,723,264	374,787
122	China	108,194	+205	4,636		101,598	+54	1,960	14	75	3	160,000,000	111,163	1,439,323,776
123	Angola	98,671		1,899		96,601		171		2,857	55	1,416,784	41,016	34,541,953
124	DRC	85,876		1,335		50,930		33,611		913	14	846,704	9,005	94,024,425
125	Senegal	85,600		1,959		83,533		108	3	4,901	112	1,008,552	57,739	17,467,362
126	Malawi	85,238		2,609		74,982		7,647	67	4,275	131	543,557	27,259	19,940,451
127	Ivory Coast	81,397		791		79,469		1,137		2,965	29	1,403,648	51,136	27,449,350
128	Suriname	77,880	+70	1,314		49,352		27,214	4	130,834	2,207	227,048	381,427	595,259
129	French Guiana	77,575		389		11,254		65,932	8	249,137	1,249	589,588	1,893,498	311,375
130	Malta	70,829		599		69,055		1,175	3	159,714	1,351	1,211,456	2,731,747	443,473
131	Eswatini	69,021		1,390		67,502		129	11	58,498	1,178	473,191	401,050	1,179,879
132	Hong Kong	66,574		336		13,232		53,006	16	8,763	44	36,260,319	4,773,094	7,596,816
133	Fiji	63,650		826		61,865		959		70,168	911	495,733	546,498	907,108
134	Madagascar	63,433		1,350		57,862		4,221	61	2,198	47	393,562	13,638	28,858,230
135	Guyana	62,746		1,215		60,706		825	10	79,147	1,533	534,986	674,820	792,783
136	French Polynesia	62,571		637		N/A	N/A	N/A	7	220,651	2,246			283,574
137	Sudan	61,251		3,894		40,329		17,028		1,345	86	562,941	12,365	45,528,197
138	Mauritania	58,618		977		57,556		85	30	12,086	201	735,046	151,555	4,850,040
139	Belize	56,374		647		53,850		1,877	6	137,676	1,580	496,035	1,211,407	409,470
140	Cabo Verde	55,864		401		55,396		67	23	98,717	709	400,982	708,576	565,898
141	Barbados	54,106		311		50,580		3,215		187,899	1,080	578,917	2,010,457	287,953
142	Syria	53,912		3,056		45,868		4,988		2,963	168	146,269	8,038	18,197,783
143	New Caledonia	51,410	+2,425	299	+12	39,478	+5,341	11,633	37	177,274	1,031	98,964	341,252	290,003
144	Channel Islands	49,736		141		46,843		2,752		281,802	799	1,205,516	6,830,390	176,493
145	Gabon	47,506		303		45,387		1,816	1	20,549	131	1,564,505	676,731	2,311,857
146	Brunei	41,049		112		21,555		19,382	8	92,379	252	712,994	1,604,563	444,354
147	Papua New Guinea	40,296		636		37,959		1,701	7	4,368	69	249,149	27,008	9,225,040
148	New Zealand	39,345	+3,183	56		17,267	+187	22,022		7,866	11	6,565,561	1,312,561	5,002,100
149	Seychelles	39,181		160		38,481		540		394,389	1,611			99,346
150	Curaçao	38,778		261		38,093		424	3	234,741	1,580	486,812	2,946,893	165,195
151	Burundi	38,018	+7	38		773		37,207		3,048	3	345,742	27,723	12,471,283
152	Andorra	37,820		151		36,993		676	14	488,202	1,949	249,838	3,225,048	77,468
153	Togo	36,755		272		36,399		84		4,275	32	684,010	79,565	8,596,910
154	Mayotte	36,631		187		2,964		33,480		129,160	659	176,919	623,813	283,609
155	Guinea	36,393		440		32,939		3,014	49	2,653	32	587,607	42,838	13,716,808
156	Aruba	33,631		211		33,360		60	7	312,817	1,963	177,885	1,654,590	107,510
157	Tanzania	33,620		798		N/A	N/A	N/A	7	538	13			62,523,405
158	Bahamas	33,081		770		26,116		6,195	9	82,824	1,928	218,223	546,362	399,411
159	Lesotho	32,599		696		23,330		8,573		15,022	321	396,454	182,687	2,170,124
160	Faeroe Islands	32,044		24		7,693		24,327	5	651,725	488	774,000	15,741,946	49,168
161	Mali	30,352		722		28,630		1,000		1,431	34	616,351	29,064	21,206,999
162	Haiti	30,287		819		25,180		4,288		2,604	70	132,422	11,386	11,630,644
163	Mauritius	30,116		786		26,379		2,951		23,616	616	358,675	281,262	1,275,233
164	Benin	26,567		163		25,506		898	5	2,101	13	604,310	47,795	12,643,828
165	Somalia	26,313		1,348		13,182		11,783		1,583	81	400,466	24,095	16,620,136
166	Congo	23,925		377		20,178		3,370		4,168	66	347,815	60,586	5,740,801
167	Saint Lucia	22,568		357		21,365		846	2	121,986	1,930	133,501	721,608	185,005
168	Timor-Leste	22,485		125		21,423		937	20	16,538	92	246,794	181,515	1,359,637
169	Isle of Man	22,471		79		22,098		294		261,985	921	150,753	1,757,602	85,772
170	Burkina Faso	20,751		375		20,309		67		950	17	248,995	11,399	21,842,972
171	Taiwan	20,156	+56	852		18,106	+56	1,198		844	36	11,419,890	478,069	23,887,544
172	Cayman Islands	18,728		17		8,553		10,158	2	279,568	254	222,773	3,325,516	66,989
173	Nicaragua	18,004		220		4,225		13,559		2,666	33			6,753,900
174	Tajikistan	17,388		124		17,252		12		1,758	13			9,888,968
175	South Sudan	16,940		137		13,250		3,553	1	1,485	12	336,010	29,451	11,409,101
176	Equatorial Guinea	15,874		182		15,625		67	5	10,736	123	273,437	184,939	1,478,524
177	Djibouti	15,542		189		15,345		8		15,364	187	282,301	279,071	1,011,575
178	Gibraltar	15,091		101		14,368		622	10	448,150	2,999	510,161	15,149,997	33,674
179	San Marino	14,207		112		13,703		392	4	417,264	3,289	134,668	3,955,240	34,048
180	CAR	14,187		113		6,859		7,215	2	2,856	23	81,294	16,365	4,967,531
181	Grenada	13,565		214		13,184		167	5	119,643	1,887	135,013	1,190,811	113,379
182	Gambia	11,924		365		11,461		98	4	4,717	144	135,608	53,643	2,527,969
183	Yemen	11,746		2,124		8,580		1,042	23	380	69	265,253	8,583	30,903,300
184	Greenland	11,581		13		2,761		8,807	9	203,418	228	164,926	2,896,895	56,932
185	Bermuda	11,423		123		11,096		204		184,540	1,987	787,731	12,725,864	61,900
186	Liechtenstein	11,410	+108	76		11,017	+88	317	7	297,849	1,984	80,413	2,099,118	38,308
187	Dominica	10,953		57		10,470		426		151,538	789	164,891	2,281,313	72,279
188	Bhutan	10,196		6		6,644		3,546		12,979	8	1,920,885	2,445,268	785,552
189	Saint Martin	9,827		63		1,399		8,365	7	247,233	1,585	78,366	1,971,571	39,748
190	Eritrea	9,689		103		9,572		14		2,671	28	23,693	6,532	3,626,963
191	Sint Maarten	9,535		85		9,402		48	10	218,317	1,946	62,056	1,420,859	43,675
192	Monaco	9,267		51		9,011		205	4	233,432	1,285	54,960	1,384,418	39,699
193	Niger	8,745		306		8,415		24	1	341	12	226,119	8,818	25,642,365
194	Comoros	8,024		160		7,825		39		8,916	178			899,983
195	Guinea-Bissau	7,953		166		6,961		826	6	3,890	81	122,770	60,055	2,044,277
196	Sierra Leone	7,663		125		N/A	N/A	N/A		930	15	259,958	31,537	8,243,060
197	Caribbean Netherlands	7,542		31		7,409		102		283,289	1,164	30,126	1,131,578	26,623
198	Antigua and Barbuda	7,408		135		7,189		84	1	74,632	1,360	18,901	190,419	99,260
199	Liberia	7,360		290		5,747		1,323	2	1,401	55	139,824	26,620	5,252,620
200	Chad	7,246		190		4,874		2,182		421	11	191,341	11,125	17,198,525
201	St. Vincent Grenadines	6,737		106		6,570		61	4	60,412	951	97,955	878,378	111,518
202	British Virgin Islands	6,050		62		N/A	N/A	N/A	6	197,965	2,029	99,936	3,270,050	30,561
203	Solomon Islands	5,968		85		1,549		4,334	8	8,353	119	5,117	7,162	714,505
204	Sao Tome and Principe	5,930		72		5,848		10		26,258	319	29,036	128,572	225,835
205	Turks and Caicos	5,848	+2	36		5,773	+10	39	4	147,766	910	419,792	10,607,237	39,576
206	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5,523		42		5,461		20	1	102,626	780	65,141	1,210,417	53,817
207	St. Barth	3,735		6		N/A	N/A	N/A		376,285	604	56,491	5,691,215	9,926
208	Palau	3,627		6		2,791		830	15	198,892	329	35,487	1,945,986	18,236
209	Kiribati	2,867	+6	11		1,660	+72	1,196	4	23,412	90			122,456
210	Anguilla	2,506		9		2,476		21	4	164,619	591	51,382	3,375,287	15,223
211	Saint Pierre Miquelon	1,063		1		1,035		27	1	184,934	174	17,358	3,019,833	5,748
212	Diamond Princess	712		13		699		0
213	Wallis and Futuna	454		7		438		9		41,590	641	20,508	1,878,710	10,916
214	Tonga	234				38		196		2,173				107,661
215	Montserrat	163		2		161		0		32,620	400	7,796	1,560,136	4,997
216	Falkland Islands	89				N/A	N/A	N/A		24,410		8,632	2,367,526	3,646
217	Macao	80				79		1		121		5,310	7,999	663,860
218	Samoa	33				3		30		165				200,578
219	Vatican City	29				28		1		36,070				804
220	Vanuatu	15		1		6		8		47	3	23,000	72,120	318,915
221	Western Sahara	10		1		8		1		16	2			621,421
222	MS Zaandam	9		2		7		0
223	Marshall Islands	7				7		0		117				59,846
224	Cook Islands	6	+2					6		341		1,115	63,388	17,590
225	Saint Helena	2				2		0		327				6,107
226	Micronesia	1				1		0		9				117,002
	Total:	428,569,764	+600,781	5,927,183	+2,914	356,676,715	+748,260	65,965,866	80,165	54,981.5	760.4

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296 new cases and 1 new death in Zambia [source]

6,564 new cases and 7 new deaths in Estonia [source]

11,320 new cases and 15 new deaths in Latvia [source]

137,642 new cases and 785 new deaths in Russia [source]

974 new cases in Oman [source]

1,373 new cases and 12 new deaths in Libya [source]

253 new cases and 3 new deaths in Laos [source]

19,075 new cases and 35 new deaths in Slovakia [source]

34,409 new cases and 30 new deaths in Austria [source]

185 new cases and 5 new deaths in Afghanistan [source]

946 new cases and 24 new deaths in Armenia [source]

108 new cases in Liechtenstein [source]

2 new cases in the Turks and Caicos Islands [source]

6 new cases in Kiribati [source]

25,062 new cases and 297 new deaths in Ukraine [source]

7,613 new cases and 16 new deaths in Lithuania [source]

1,534 new cases and 201 new deaths in the Philippines [source]

7 new cases in Burundi [source]

6,286 new cases and 132 new deaths in Hungary [source]

56 new cases in Taiwan [source]

10,230 new cases and 48 new deaths in Georgia [source]

14,307 new cases and 28 new deaths in Czechia [source]

2,425 new cases and 12 new deaths in New Caledonia [source]

138 new cases and 1 new death in Uzbekistan [source]

2 new cases in the Cook Islands [source]

558 new cases and 1 new death in Cambodia [source]

27,167 new cases and 60 new deaths in Australia [source] [source] [source] [source] [source]

20 new cases and 1 new death in Kyrgyzstan [so

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#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	New Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	428,569,764	+600,781	5,927,183	+2,914	356,676,715	+748,260	65,965,866	80,165	54,982	760.4
1	USA	80,270,563		963,371		52,199,829		27,107,363	10,400	240,195	2,883	942,817,780	2,821,212	334,188,863
2	India	42,867,031		512,652		42,189,887		164,492	8,944	30,570	366	762,414,018	543,699	1,402,272,769
3	Brazil	28,351,876		645,534		25,505,984		2,200,358	8,318	131,845	3,002	63,776,166	296,579	215,039,621
4	France	22,401,406		137,276		19,735,713		2,528,417	3,055	341,951	2,095	243,529,298	3,717,401	65,510,629
5	UK	18,695,449		160,815		16,918,511		1,616,123	324	273,040	2,349	477,969,909	6,980,577	68,471,406
6	Russia	15,795,570	+137,642	347,816	+785	12,836,228	+179,203	2,611,526	2,300	108,161	2,382	273,400,000	1,872,126	146,037,195
7	Germany	13,872,762		122,369		10,234,100	+202,900	3,516,293	2,494	164,713	1,453	104,701,826	1,243,139	84,223,745
8	Turkey	13,675,581		92,990		12,853,899		728,692	1,128	159,336	1,083	141,211,474	1,645,275	85,828,516
9	Italy	12,554,596		153,512		11,109,291		1,291,793	896	208,147	2,545	184,981,913	3,066,887	60,315,864
10	Spain	10,880,194		98,635		8,876,996		1,904,563	1,185	232,560	2,108	471,036,328	10,068,211	46,784,509
11	Argentina	8,855,624		125,618		8,607,471		122,535	1,474	193,032	2,738	33,992,595	740,959	45,876,480
12	Iran	6,983,635		135,499		6,539,753		308,383	3,918	81,435	1,580	46,780,865	545,504	85,757,177
13	Netherlands	6,153,207		21,507		3,922,732		2,208,968	171	357,805	1,251	21,107,399	1,227,380	17,197,114
14	Colombia	6,052,126		138,285		5,874,444		39,397	342	116,897	2,671	33,016,280	637,712	51,772,994
15	Poland	5,582,217		110,157		4,935,340		536,720	947	147,762	2,916	33,181,435	878,314	37,778,558
16	Mexico	5,436,566	+18,309	316,492	+706	4,696,414	+19,915	423,660	4,798	41,451	2,413	14,936,438	113,883	131,156,002
17	Indonesia	5,289,414		146,798		4,593,185		549,431	2,807	19,008	528	82,000,597	294,679	278,270,598
18	Ukraine	4,783,835	+25,062	105,229	+297	4,023,033	+37,432	655,573	177	110,475	2,430	19,430,200	448,710	43,302,395
19	Japan	4,607,029	+66,373	22,272	+272	3,783,417	+84,616	801,340	1,489	36,610	177	38,016,089	302,097	125,840,797
20	South Africa	3,662,032		98,868		3,526,115		37,049	546	60,494	1,633	22,928,257	378,755	60,535,816
21	Philippines	3,655,709	+1,534	55,977	+201	3,544,283	+2,729	55,449	302	32,648	500	27,993,027	249,995	111,974,454
22	Israel	3,576,923		10,038		3,453,676		113,209	695	383,543	1,076	41,373,364	4,436,346	9,326,000
23	Czechia	3,538,222	+14,307	38,403	+28	3,360,230	+8,110	139,589	222	329,394	3,575	52,400,268	4,878,257	10,741,597
24	Belgium	3,520,568	+8,356	30,040	+25	2,719,238	+51,919	771,290	315	301,614	2,574	31,497,990	2,698,496	11,672,424
25	Peru	3,500,880		209,808		N/A	N/A	N/A	1,118	103,805	6,221	27,049,785	802,057	33,725,535
26	Malaysia	3,273,958		32,433		2,974,441		267,084	286	99,071	981	48,228,081	1,459,400	33,046,512
27	Canada	3,252,372		36,116		3,095,130		121,126	790	84,951	943	57,831,597	1,510,543	38,285,308
28	Portugal	3,206,281		20,894		2,717,509		467,878	111	315,955	2,059	37,805,639	3,725,465	10,147,897
29	Australia	3,101,281	+27,167	5,025	+60	2,860,444		235,812	172	119,347	193	63,121,509	2,429,110	25,985,443
30	Chile	2,895,931		41,526		1,923,867		930,538	1,020	149,386	2,142	32,424,200	1,672,597	19,385,538
31	Vietnam	2,890,522		39,682		2,305,081		545,759	3,434	29,263	402	78,586,958	795,607	98,776,092
32	Thailand	2,770,793	+21,232	22,733	+39	2,574,458	+16,662	173,602	687	39,533	324	17,270,775	246,417	70,087,513
33	Switzerland	2,700,057		13,171		1,945,205		741,681	160	308,278	1,504	18,409,729	2,101,924	8,758,513
34	Romania	2,686,089		62,839		2,358,958		264,292	1,063	141,173	3,303	20,763,483	1,091,264	19,026,997
35	Austria	2,550,371	+34,409	14,661	+30	2,257,376	+30,179	278,334	196	280,546	1,613	156,468,799	17,211,860	9,090,755
36	Denmark	2,513,265		4,375		1,989,755		519,135	34	431,411	751	124,694,186	21,404,203	5,825,687
37	Sweden	2,431,365		16,897		1,877,097		537,371	86	238,308	1,656	18,107,257	1,774,762	10,202,637
38	Greece	2,336,615		25,485		2,103,736		207,394	455	225,990	2,465	63,959,112	6,185,920	10,339,467
39	S. Korea	2,329,182	+171,448	7,607	+99	969,524	+32,633	1,352,051	512	45,366	148	15,804,065	307,822	51,341,623
40	Iraq	2,294,929		24,897		2,227,997		42,035	191	55,031	597	17,887,384	428,926	41,702,742
41	Bangladesh	1,936,837		28,990		1,771,615		136,232	1,275	11,571	173	13,260,511	79,223	167,382,322
42	Serbia	1,892,187		14,958		1,730,101		147,128	132	218,004	1,723	8,670,454	998,947	8,679,590
43	Hungary	1,769,164	+6,286	43,562	+132	1,546,872	+11,416	178,730	170	183,903	4,528	10,686,340	1,110,837	9,620,079
44	Jordan	1,591,278		13,731		1,432,148		145,399	978	153,459	1,324	16,062,203	1,549,003	10,369,380
45	Georgia	1,575,999	+10,230	15,981	+48	1,429,763	+7,223	130,255		396,319	4,019	15,733,907	3,956,627	3,976,596
46	Pakistan	1,503,873	+1,232	30,096	+43	1,409,515	+3,154	64,262	1,230	6,598	132	26,216,305	115,020	227,927,988
47	Slovakia	1,393,534	+19,075	18,314	+35	1,148,563	+20,555	226,657	246	255,040	3,352	6,281,976	1,149,706	5,463,984
48	Kazakhstan	1,300,164	+598	13,545		1,259,430	+3,146	27,189	528	67,910	707	11,575,012	604,588	19,145,293
49	Ireland	1,280,058		6,452		1,139,516		134,090	54	254,570	1,283	11,250,554	2,237,443	5,028,308
50	Norway	1,169,037		1,549		88,952		1,078,536	26	212,907	282	9,852,076	1,794,281	5,490,822
51	Morocco	1,159,584		15,922		1,137,129		6,533	293	30,817	423	11,237,010	298,630	37,628,541
52	Bulgaria	1,077,160		35,245		806,848		235,067	544	156,962	5,136	9,085,046	1,323,855	6,862,570
53	Cuba	1,066,414		8,491		1,054,895		3,028	34	94,246	750	12,920,253	1,141,843	11,315,266
54	Lebanon	1,053,252		10,007		682,977		360,268	186	155,456	1,477	4,795,578	707,807	6,775,263
55	Croatia	1,043,334		14,905		1,008,893		19,536	122	256,745	3,668	4,478,083	1,101,971	4,063,703
56	Tunisia	988,329		27,512		930,260		30,557	234	82,213	2,289	4,286,361	356,555	12,021,585
57	Nepal	976,105		11,928		953,430		10,747	100	32,541	398	5,391,603	179,741	29,996,520
58	Bolivia	891,112	+692	21,400	+14	781,689	+1,731	88,023	220	74,668	1,793	2,669,468	223,680	11,934,309
59	Belarus	890,089		6,392		875,660		8,037		94,247	677	12,317,444	1,304,231	9,444,220
60	Slovenia	882,364		6,236		805,332		70,796	111	424,334	2,999	2,561,069	1,231,634	2,079,407
61	Lithuania	879,371	+7,613	8,316	+16	781,585	+7,198	89,470	108	330,599	3,126	7,691,025	2,891,439	2,659,930
62	UAE	875,884		2,297		823,015		50,572		86,837	228	135,081,553	13,392,299	10,086,510
63	Uruguay	823,784		6,905		782,213		34,666	141	235,805	1,977	5,641,299	1,614,802	3,493,493
64	Ecuador	820,541		35,172		N/A	N/A	N/A	759	45,377	1,945	2,470,170	136,605	18,082,637
65	Costa Rica	793,835		7,954		644,514		141,367	134	153,533	1,538	3,635,922	703,209	5,170,468
66	Azerbaijan	777,804		9,280		742,326		26,198		75,594	902	6,501,358	631,864	10,289,178
67	Guatemala	762,096		16,833		699,023		46,240	5	41,285	912	3,850,595	208,600	18,459,222
68	Panama	752,173		8,036		734,985		9,152	83	169,936	1,816	5,476,124	1,237,204	4,426,210
69	Saudi Arabia	741,237		8,987		715,514		16,736	764	20,761	252	40,321,585	1,129,347	35,703,451
70	Sri Lanka	639,297		16,055		607,326		15,916		29,651	745	6,282,076	291,368	21,560,639
71	Paraguay	637,225		18,259		599,783		19,183	158	87,575	2,509	2,512,861	345,348	7,276,318
72	Finland	625,463		2,329		46,000		577,134	35	112,598	419	9,848,299	1,772,919	5,554,851
73	Singapore	622,293		956		557,450		63,887	19	105,013	161	23,014,851	3,883,796	5,925,865
74	Kuwait	615,397		2,531		597,655		15,211	79	140,688	579	7,505,795	1,715,923	4,374,202
75	Latvia	612,920	+11,320	5,145	+15	459,926	+11,135	147,849	82	330,957	2,778	6,622,431	3,575,900	1,851,962
76	Dominican Republic	572,596		4,360		566,088		2,148	51	51,929	395	3,084,256	279,714	11,026,453
77	Myanmar	572,127		19,344		526,338		26,445		10,401	352	6,969,070	126,691	55,008,542
78	Palestine	571,662		5,162		537,503		28,997	108	107,944	975	3,078,533	581,306	5,295,889
79	Venezuela	512,169		5,621		497,278		9,270	230	18,096	199	3,359,014	118,678	28,303,662
80	Bahrain	498,637		1,442		465,393		31,802	24	277,253	802	9,326,413	5,185,679	1,798,494
81	Moldova	496,976		11,136		467,312		18,528	101	123,670	2,771	2,975,762	740,503	4,018,571
82	Libya	489,940	+1,373	6,222	+12	450,874	+3,108	32,844	128	69,746	886	2,404,786	342,337	7,024,618
83	Estonia	474,550	+6,564	2,188	+7	344,798	+6,858	127,564	23	357,342	1,648	3,065,876	2,308,642	1,328,000
84	Egypt	473,449		23,857		403,967		45,625	122	4,488	226	3,693,367	35,008	105,500,583
85	Ethiopia	468,426		7,441		409,907		51,078	118	3,916	62	4,475,039	37,406	119,632,988
86	Mongolia	462,321	+525	2,161	+2	313,256		146,904	192	137,395	642	4,030,048	1,197,670	3,364,908
87	Armenia	417,456	+946	8,378	+24	395,700	+1,545	13,378		140,447	2,819	2,875,218	967,326	2,972,336
88	Honduras	408,456		10,671		127,289		270,496	105	40,190	1,050	1,263,329	124,306	10,163,069
89	Oman	378,922	+974	4,238		360,795	+1,350	13,889	67	71,232	797	25,000,000	4,699,623	5,319,576
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	369,230		15,362		192,218		161,650		113,703	4,731	1,689,874	520,391	3,247,315
91	Qatar	355,032		662		349,042		5,328	39	126,445	236	3,361,418	1,197,169	2,807,805
92	Kenya	322,736		5,638		303,107		13,991	3	5,793	101	3,341,048	59,968	55,713,818
93	Zambia	311,888	+296	3,947	+1	305,673	+67	2,268	4	16,221	205	3,256,694	169,373	19,227,996
94	Cyprus	311,239		830		124,370		186,039	60	254,741	679	9,477,138	7,756,790	1,221,786
95	North Macedonia	294,407		8,937		279,695		5,775		141,322	4,290	1,874,917	900,003	2,083,234
96	Réunion	292,126		640		274,185		17,301	40	322,506	707	1,424,291	1,572,412	905,800
97	Albania	270,455		3,451		263,035		3,969	14	94,149	1,201	1,730,246	602,320	2,872,638
98	Algeria	264,365		6,812		176,966		80,587	18	5,855	151	230,861	5,113	45,150,046
99	Botswana	262,652		2,614		256,886		3,152	1	108,109	1,076	2,026,898	834,283	2,429,509
100	Nigeria	254,352		3,142		230,846		20,364	11	1,186	15	4,317,621	20,127	214,517,283
101	Uzbekistan	235,740	+138	1,624	+1	230,286	+1,267	3,830	23	6,880	47	1,377,915	40,213	34,265,123
102	Zimbabwe	233,980		5,388		225,143		3,449	12	15,375	354	2,058,584	135,273	15,217,945
103	Montenegro	229,222		2,669		224,167		2,386	60	364,889	4,249	1,160,124	1,846,755	628,196
104	Mozambique	224,937		2,190		219,163		3,584	13	6,881	67	1,261,444	38,587	32,690,980
105	Kyrgyzstan	200,388	+20	2,948	+1	194,527	+150	2,913	131	29,905	440	1,907,195	284,622	6,700,794
106	Luxembourg	179,305		986		167,853		10,466	9	278,993	1,534	4,055,214	6,309,781	642,687
107	Afghanistan	172,901	+185	7,574	+5	153,427	+533	11,900	1,124	4,283	188	886,235	21,955	40,366,137
108	Maldives	166,525		292		151,009		15,224	25	299,418	525	2,166,990	3,896,329	556,162
109	Uganda	163,071		3,580		99,892		59,599	56	3,390	74	2,440,282	50,724	48,108,585
110	Ghana	158,894		1,441		156,941		512	1	4,944	45	2,299,550	71,555	32,136,782
111	Namibia	157,034		4,002		152,480		552	5	60,019	1,530	947,400	362,102	2,616,393
112	El Salvador	147,786		4,048		123,870		19,868	153	22,597	619	1,693,464	258,942	6,539,930
113	Laos	141,694	+253	616	+3	7,660		133,418		19,022	83	997,658	133,935	7,448,795
114	Rwanda	129,419		1,457		45,522		82,440		9,602	108	4,756,978	352,926	13,478,685
115	Cambodia	128,133	+558	3,023	+1	121,553	+428	3,557		7,494	177	2,849,683	166,661	17,098,648
116	Jamaica	127,706		2,795		75,445		49,466	25	42,820	937	839,014	281,323	2,982,384
117	Trinidad and Tobago	124,488		3,582		100,076		20,830	18	88,482	2,546	616,543	438,219	1,406,928
118	Guadeloupe	123,622		828		2,250		120,544	21	308,873	2,069	878,298	2,194,450	400,236
119	Cameroon	119,107		1,920		106,050		11,137	13	4,311	69	1,751,774	63,403	27,629,367
120	Iceland	112,094		61		75,685		36,348	2	325,025	177	1,719,721	4,986,462	344,878
121	Martinique	108,349		861		104		107,384	16	289,095	2,297	645,857	1,723,264	374,787
122	China	108,194	+205	4,636		101,598	+54	1,960	14	75	3	160,000,000	111,163	1,439,323,776
123	Angola	98,671		1,899		96,601		171		2,857	55	1,416,784	41,016	34,541,953
124	DRC	85,876		1,335		50,930		33,611		913	14	846,704	9,005	94,024,425
125	Senegal	85,600		1,959		83,533		108	3	4,901	112	1,008,552	57,739	17,467,362
126	Malawi	85,238		2,609		74,982		7,647	67	4,275	131	543,557	27,259	19,940,451
127	Ivory Coast	81,397		791		79,469		1,137		2,965	29	1,403,648	51,136	27,449,350
128	Suriname	77,880	+70	1,314		49,352		27,214	4	130,834	2,207	227,048	381,427	595,259
129	French Guiana	77,575		389		11,254		65,932	8	249,137	1,249	589,588	1,893,498	311,375
130	Malta	70,829		599		69,055		1,175	3	159,714	1,351	1,211,456	2,731,747	443,473
131	Eswatini	69,021		1,390		67,502		129	11	58,498	1,178	473,191	401,050	1,179,879
132	Hong Kong	66,574		336		13,232		53,006	16	8,763	44	36,260,319	4,773,094	7,596,816
133	Fiji	63,650		826		61,865		959		70,168	911	495,733	546,498	907,108
134	Madagascar	63,433		1,350		57,862		4,221	61	2,198	47	393,562	13,638	28,858,230
135	Guyana	62,746		1,215		60,706		825	10	79,147	1,533	534,986	674,820	792,783
136	French Polynesia	62,571		637		N/A	N/A	N/A	7	220,651	2,246			283,574
137	Sudan	61,251		3,894		40,329		17,028		1,345	86	562,941	12,365	45,528,197
138	Mauritania	58,618		977		57,556		85	30	12,086	201	735,046	151,555	4,850,040
139	Belize	56,374		647		53,850		1,877	6	137,676	1,580	496,035	1,211,407	409,470
140	Cabo Verde	55,864		401		55,396		67	23	98,717	709	400,982	708,576	565,898
141	Barbados	54,106		311		50,580		3,215		187,899	1,080	578,917	2,010,457	287,953
142	Syria	53,912		3,056		45,868		4,988		2,963	168	146,269	8,038	18,197,783
143	New Caledonia	51,410	+2,425	299	+12	39,478	+5,341	11,633	37	177,274	1,031	98,964	341,252	290,003
144	Channel Islands	49,736		141		46,843		2,752		281,802	799	1,205,516	6,830,390	176,493
145	Gabon	47,506		303		45,387		1,816	1	20,549	131	1,564,505	676,731	2,311,857
146	Brunei	41,049		112		21,555		19,382	8	92,379	252	712,994	1,604,563	444,354
147	Papua New Guinea	40,296		636		37,959		1,701	7	4,368	69	249,149	27,008	9,225,040
148	New Zealand	39,345	+3,183	56		17,267	+187	22,022		7,866	11	6,565,561	1,312,561	5,002,100
149	Seychelles	39,181		160		38,481		540		394,389	1,611			99,346
150	Curaçao	38,778		261		38,093		424	3	234,741	1,580	486,812	2,946,893	165,195
151	Burundi	38,018	+7	38		773		37,207		3,048	3	345,742	27,723	12,471,283
152	Andorra	37,820		151		36,993		676	14	488,202	1,949	249,838	3,225,048	77,468
153	Togo	36,755		272		36,399		84		4,275	32	684,010	79,565	8,596,910
154	Mayotte	36,631		187		2,964		33,480		129,160	659	176,919	623,813	283,609
155	Guinea	36,393		440		32,939		3,014	49	2,653	32	587,607	42,838	13,716,808
156	Aruba	33,631		211		33,360		60	7	312,817	1,963	177,885	1,654,590	107,510
157	Tanzania	33,620		798		N/A	N/A	N/A	7	538	13			62,523,405
158	Bahamas	33,081		770		26,116		6,195	9	82,824	1,928	218,223	546,362	399,411
159	Lesotho	32,599		696		23,330		8,573		15,022	321	396,454	182,687	2,170,124
160	Faeroe Islands	32,044		24		7,693		24,327	5	651,725	488	774,000	15,741,946	49,168
161	Mali	30,352		722		28,630		1,000		1,431	34	616,351	29,064	21,206,999
162	Haiti	30,287		819		25,180		4,288		2,604	70	132,422	11,386	11,630,644
163	Mauritius	30,116		786		26,379		2,951		23,616	616	358,675	281,262	1,275,233
164	Benin	26,567		163		25,506		898	5	2,101	13	604,310	47,795	12,643,828
165	Somalia	26,313		1,348		13,182		11,783		1,583	81	400,466	24,095	16,620,136
166	Congo	23,925		377		20,178		3,370		4,168	66	347,815	60,586	5,740,801
167	Saint Lucia	22,568		357		21,365		846	2	121,986	1,930	133,501	721,608	185,005
168	Timor-Leste	22,485		125		21,423		937	20	16,538	92	246,794	181,515	1,359,637
169	Isle of Man	22,471		79		22,098		294		261,985	921	150,753	1,757,602	85,772
170	Burkina Faso	20,751		375		20,309		67		950	17	248,995	11,399	21,842,972
171	Taiwan	20,156	+56	852		18,106	+56	1,198		844	36	11,419,890	478,069	23,887,544
172	Cayman Islands	18,728		17		8,553		10,158	2	279,568	254	222,773	3,325,516	66,989
173	Nicaragua	18,004		220		4,225		13,559		2,666	33			6,753,900
174	Tajikistan	17,388		124		17,252		12		1,758	13			9,888,968
175	South Sudan	16,940		137		13,250		3,553	1	1,485	12	336,010	29,451	11,409,101
176	Equatorial Guinea	15,874		182		15,625		67	5	10,736	123	273,437	184,939	1,478,524
177	Djibouti	15,542		189		15,345		8		15,364	187	282,301	279,071	1,011,575
178	Gibraltar	15,091		101		14,368		622	10	448,150	2,999	510,161	15,149,997	33,674
179	San Marino	14,207		112		13,703		392	4	417,264	3,289	134,668	3,955,240	34,048
180	CAR	14,187		113		6,859		7,215	2	2,856	23	81,294	16,365	4,967,531
181	Grenada	13,565		214		13,184		167	5	119,643	1,887	135,013	1,190,811	113,379
182	Gambia	11,924		365		11,461		98	4	4,717	144	135,608	53,643	2,527,969
183	Yemen	11,746		2,124		8,580		1,042	23	380	69	265,253	8,583	30,903,300
184	Greenland	11,581		13		2,761		8,807	9	203,418	228	164,926	2,896,895	56,932
185	Bermuda	11,423		123		11,096		204		184,540	1,987	787,731	12,725,864	61,900
186	Liechtenstein	11,410	+108	76		11,017	+88	317	7	297,849	1,984	80,413	2,099,118	38,308
187	Dominica	10,953		57		10,470		426		151,538	789	164,891	2,281,313	72,279
188	Bhutan	10,196		6		6,644		3,546		12,979	8	1,920,885	2,445,268	785,552
189	Saint Martin	9,827		63		1,399		8,365	7	247,233	1,585	78,366	1,971,571	39,748
190	Eritrea	9,689		103		9,572		14		2,671	28	23,693	6,532	3,626,963
191	Sint Maarten	9,535		85		9,402		48	10	218,317	1,946	62,056	1,420,859	43,675
192	Monaco	9,267		51		9,011		205	4	233,432	1,285	54,960	1,384,418	39,699
193	Niger	8,745		306		8,415		24	1	341	12	226,119	8,818	25,642,365
194	Comoros	8,024		160		7,825		39		8,916	178			899,983
195	Guinea-Bissau	7,953		166		6,961		826	6	3,890	81	122,770	60,055	2,044,277
196	Sierra Leone	7,663		125		N/A	N/A	N/A		930	15	259,958	31,537	8,243,060
197	Caribbean Netherlands	7,542		31		7,409		102		283,289	1,164	30,126	1,131,578	26,623
198	Antigua and Barbuda	7,408		135		7,189		84	1	74,632	1,360	18,901	190,419	99,260
199	Liberia	7,360		290		5,747		1,323	2	1,401	55	139,824	26,620	5,252,620
200	Chad	7,246		190		4,874		2,182		421	11	191,341	11,125	17,198,525
201	St. Vincent Grenadines	6,737		106		6,570		61	4	60,412	951	97,955	878,378	111,518
202	British Virgin Islands	6,050		62		N/A	N/A	N/A	6	197,965	2,029	99,936	3,270,050	30,561
203	Solomon Islands	5,968		85		1,549		4,334	8	8,353	119	5,117	7,162	714,505
204	Sao Tome and Principe	5,930		72		5,848		10		26,258	319	29,036	128,572	225,835
205	Turks and Caicos	5,848	+2	36		5,773	+10	39	4	147,766	910	419,792	10,607,237	39,576
206	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5,523		42		5,461		20	1	102,626	780	65,141	1,210,417	53,817
207	St. Barth	3,735		6		N/A	N/A	N/A		376,285	604	56,491	5,691,215	9,926
208	Palau	3,627		6		2,791		830	15	198,892	329	35,487	1,945,986	18,236
209	Kiribati	2,867	+6	11		1,660	+72	1,196	4	23,412	90			122,456
210	Anguilla	2,506		9		2,476		21	4	164,619	591	51,382	3,375,287	15,223
211	Saint Pierre Miquelon	1,063		1		1,035		27	1	184,934	174	17,358	3,019,833	5,748
212	Diamond Princess	712		13		699		0
213	Wallis and Futuna	454		7		438		9		41,590	641	20,508	1,878,710	10,916
214	Tonga	234				38		196		2,173				107,661
215	Montserrat	163		2		161		0		32,620	400	7,796	1,560,136	4,997
216	Falkland Islands	89				N/A	N/A	N/A		24,410		8,632	2,367,526	3,646
217	Macao	80				79		1		121		5,310	7,999	663,860
218	Samoa	33				3		30		165				200,578
219	Vatican City	29				28		1		36,070				804
220	Vanuatu	15		1		6		8		47	3	23,000	72,120	318,915
221	Western Sahara	10		1		8		1		16	2			621,421
222	MS Zaandam	9		2		7		0
223	Marshall Islands	7				7		0		117				59,846
224	Cook Islands	6	+2					6		341		1,115	63,388	17,590
225	Saint Helena	2				2		0		327				6,107
226	Micronesia	1				1		0		9				117,002
	Total:	428,569,764	+600,781	5,927,183	+2,914	356,676,715	+748,260	65,965,866	80,165	54,981.5	760.4

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Application Forms Available for Culturama 48 Competitions

2022-02-23 FreeNews

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

The countdown to the 48^th 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

Mr. and Ms. Talented Youth Pageant
Junior and Senior Kaiso Contests
Soca Monarch Contest
Junior and Senior Cultural Street Parades
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 21^st to August 2^nd.

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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WORLD VIEW: Russia Moves Into Ukraine, Arbery Hate Crime Trial, UN Condemns Russia, New Zealand Protest, More

2022-02-22 FreeNews

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Nevis Agriculture Chief Deems 2022 Outlook Positive

2022-02-22 FreeNews

NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (February 21, 2022) — Mr. Huey Sargeant, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, is describing his expectations of the performance of agriculture in 2022 as positive.

The agriculture official was at the time responding to an invited comment during a recent interview with the Department of Information.

“I am very positive about the outlook for agriculture. We have recently completed our Agenda 2022; a lot of things came into sharp focus and perspective and we literally have to take an intelligence approach to agriculture,” he said.

Mr. Sargeant noted that through the Department of Agriculture they are seeking to coordinate more with the farmers on Nevis.

“There is little or no coordination in terms of other farmers on the island so we are seeking to do a lot more in terms of coordinating what we do and what farmers do because if you have many persons doing many things in many different ways you cause confusion,” he said.

The agriculture official explained that they have been inspired from the knowledge of some of the presented at Agenda 2022, an annual forum hosted by the ministry to outline the plans and programmes for the year.

Mr. Sargeant pointed to the presentation made by Mr. Colin Dore who addressed the economic side of agriculture and its impact on the island’s economy.

According to Mr. Sargeant, Mr. Dore brought some things into sharp focus in the area of imports and the level of production, citing the example he used of small ruminant production.

“We would be importing lamb from Australia, yet we have farmers and we see goats and sheep running up and down. That lamb from Australia is five months, four months old but we have our farmers who have animals running up and down four and five years old, and you are telling me that lamb cannot be produced on Nevis? High quality? …

“Every day on Nevis you walk you see; you drive you see these animals and the abattoir manager would have said the more the animal walks the tougher the meat gets. Why are you raising animals if all you are doing is feeding them? So we have to do a lot more,” he said.

In relation to their approach to “targeting production,” Mr. Sargeant pointed to the presentation outlining marketing techniques made by Mr. Daniel Arthurton.

“From the Department of Agriculture, from the Larinson Parry Agricultural Depot we need to know what the customers want. A lot of the time we have the knowledge of what they want because they buy from us day in and day out.

“Once you collate that information, you are supposed to be able to transfer it to the farmers, to the estates that they want a specific type of tomato not just because we have the seeds, we plant it. So a lot more targeting is going to go in place so that we can improve the production of agriculture,” he said.

Mr. Sargeant also mentioned the presentation made by Mr. Keithley Amory who spoke on the production process.

Outside of the beneficial indicators from Agenda 2022 which they plan to utilise, the agriculture official also spoke on keeping the interest in agriculture through backyard gardening growing.

“Agriculture, because of the pandemic has had a lot of interest even at the back yard level. Everybody is interested in planting even if it is one ginger tree, and I don’t think we’re supposed to lose that interest and not take advantage of it, and once we coordinate properly, which we have started, I think we can really see agriculture take its rightful place in the Nevis economy.

“Agriculture actually should be a foundation of any economy, yes because it can stand by itself because it is the food production sector, and it supports every other sector in the economy,” he said.

Since Agenda 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture has begun conducting a land audit and mapping process which identifies government lands allocated to farming, in an effort to ensure that they are being used for the purpose intended.

Also, there is an ongoing baseline assessment study to ensure that production targets are in line with the needs and wants of consumers.

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Caribbean 600 Yacht Race Casts Off from Antigua, to SKN, Anguilla & Back

2022-02-22 FreeNews

The 13th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 started on time from Antigua on Monday 21 February.

Seventy-four teams with over 700 sailors from 32 countries started the race. The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 600-mile race around 11 Caribbean islands, including St.Kitts and Nevis, had a spectacular start with 15 knots of wind from the northeast gusting up to 20 knots.

The IRC Super Zero start was nothing short of hell-raising, with Comanche reaching at full speed towards the Pillars of Hercules, then hardening up to take the inside line perilously close to the cliffs.

Hundreds of spectators, on and off the water watched the IRC Super Zero yachts head off in the 13th RORC Caribbean 600 – photo © Tim Wright / www.photoaction.com

The 13th RORC Caribbean 600 IRC Super Zero start was nothing short of hell-raising, with Comanche reaching at full speed towards the Pillars of Hercules – photo © Tim Wright / www.photoaction.com

Fleet Snapshot: DAY 1 – 1500 AST 21 February

Four hours into the race, Giovanni Soldini’s Multi70 Maserati (ITA) was leading the Multihull Class from Peter Cunningham’s PowerPlay and Jason Carroll’s Argo (USA).

In the race for Monohull Line Honours, the leader by just a mile, was Dmitry Rybolovlev’s ClubSwan 125 Skorpios, skippered by Fernando Echavarri. The VPLP/Verdier 100 Comanche, skippered by Mitch Booth was second on the water. With just over two hours to go until the first sunset of the race, the majority of the fleet were making good progress to Barbuda, the first and only mark of the course.

“The start was just incredible, it’s rare to see so many big boats in a start like that, just taking it on, but it was not just the big boats. This fleet is stacked right through all the classes, with competitive starts the whole way through. Good luck to all the teams,” commented Race Director Chris Stone.

“Making sure the fleet get away to a good start is the first part of this stage of the race management. We continue to focus on the safety aspects out on the race course. There will be different weather conditions and some parts of the course are pretty treacherous. For the RORC Race team it is about keeping the fleet safe, with 24-hour monitoring for every boat.”

A record MOCRA fleet – Gilles Lamire’s Groupe GCA-1001 Sourires and Antoine Rabaste’s Ultim’Emotion 2 start the 13th RORC Caribbean 600 – photo © Tim Wright / www.photoaction.com

IRC ONE and IRC TWO START

Yuri Fadeev’s First 40 Optimus Prime (GBR) nailed the inshore end of the line, closely followed by Ross Applebey’s Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster (GBR). Bernie Evan-Wong’s RP37 Taz (ANT) also had a great start. Stuart Dahlgreen racing J/121 Wings (USA) was OCS by just five seconds, but restarted correctly.

Four hours into the race, Tom Kneen’s JPK 1180 Sunrise (GBR) and Ed Bell’s JPK 1180 Dawn Treader (GBR) were neck-and neck at the front or IRC One. Just a mile behind the leaders, Andrew Hall’s Lombard 46 Pata Negra (GBR) was going well. In IRC Two, two old rivals were battling for the lead on the water: Andy Middleton’s First 47.7 EH01 (GBR) and Scarlet Oyster. Pamala Baldwin’s J/122 Liquid (ANT), skippered by Julian White was just three miles behind the leaders.

Peter Lewis’ J/122 Whistler from Barbados was among the first start with boats racing in IRC 1 and IRC 2 in the 13th RORC Caribbean 600 – photo © Tim Wright / www.photoaction.com

IRC ZERO and Class40 START

Christopher Sheehan’s Pac52 Warrior Won (USA) totally nailed the start, ripping over the line at full pace towards the lifting pressure. David Collins’ Botin IRC 52 Tala (GBR) was second over the line. On her hip with a good controlling position was Jean Pierre Dreau’s Mylius 60 Lady First 3 (FRA). In the Class40 Division, Herve Thomas’ Finnimo (FRA) got the best start, staying out of the melee inshore. Baptiste Hulin & Clement Commagnac’s Rennes – Saint Malo (FRA) and Marc Lepesqueux’s Sensation Class40 Extreme (FRA) tucked right in under the cliffs and crossed the line in good shape.

Four hours into the race, Warrior Won (USA) was leading on the water, two miles astern was their Pac52 sistership Callisto (USA) sailed by Jim Murray and Tala (GBR). In the Class40 Division, Finnimo held a one-mile lead from Charles-Louis Mourruau’s Guidi (FRA). Sensation Class40 Extreme was third on the water.

UP Sailing, Morgan Ursault Poupon’s Class40 was one of nine Class40s at the start of the 13th RORC Caribbean 600 – photo © Arthur Daniel / RORC

Charles-Louis Mourruau’s Class40 Guidi and Adrian Lee’s Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners at the start of the 13th RORC Caribbean 600 – photo © Rick Tomlinson / www.rick-tomlinson.com

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Track the fleet and follow all the updates as the race unfolds. All yachts will be fitted with a race tracker: caribbean600.rorc.org/Tracking/2022-fleet-tracking.html

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Global Survey: 75% of People Want Single-Use Plastics Banned

2022-02-22 FreeNews

LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution.

The percentage of people calling for bans is up from 71% since 2019, while those who said they favoured products with less plastic packaging rose to 82% from 75%, according to the IPSOS poll of more than 20,000 people across 28 countries.

Activists say the results send a clear message to governments meeting in Nairobi this month to press ahead with an ambitious treaty to tackle plastic waste, a deal being touted as the most important environmental pact since the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015.

“People worldwide have made their views clear,” said Marco Lambertini, WWF International’s director general. “The onus and opportunity is now on governments to adopt a global plastics treaty … so we can eliminate plastic pollution.”

Nearly 90% of those surveyed said they supported a treaty, but it remains to be seen whether any such deal will focus on waste collection and recycling or take more radical measures such as curbing production and use of throwaway plastics. read more

Reuters revealed last week that big oil and chemical industry groups were devising strategies to persuade conference participants to reject any deal that would limit production of plastic, which is made from oil and gas and a key source of their revenues. read more

If the United Nations cannot agree on a deal to put the brakes on plastic pollution, there will be widespread ecological damage over the coming decades, putting some marine species at risk of extinction and destroying sensitive ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangroves, according to a WWF study released this month.

It is likely to take at least two years to finalise any treaty. But whatever is agreed at the Nairobi conference from Feb. 28 to March 2 will determine key elements of any deal.

The biggest support for single-use plastic bans in the poll came from the likes of Colombia, Mexico and India, developing countries at the sharp end of a waste crisis.

The IPSOS poll also showed that 85% of respondents globally want manufacturers and retailers to be held responsible for reducing, reusing and recycling plastic packaging, up from 80% previously.

Reporting by John Geddie in London Editing by Mark Potter

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Haiti: Govt. Raises Min. Wage 54% After Garment Workers Strike

2022-02-22 FreeNews

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Haiti’s government on Monday hiked the minimum wage by as much as 54% following weeks of demonstrations by garment workers who say their wages are not enough to keep up with the rising cost of living.

The office of Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Twitter posted a sliding scale of wage hikes that vary by economic activity, with the greatest increase going to workers in areas such as the electricity and telecommunications industries.

Employees in the clothing manufacturing sector, which export finished products to U.S. retailers, received a 37% increase. That takes their wages to just under $7.50 per day, compared with the $15 per day that union leaders had demanded.

For decades, Haiti has promoted itself as a center for clothing manufacturing thanks to low wages and proximity to U.S. markets.

Workers over the years have complained that pay is too low to cover basic goods, which are often more expensive than in other countries due to weak infrastructure and gang violence.

A group of U.S. members of Congress in November said they were asking the heads of 62 American companies that import garments from Haiti for information on “protections in place for workers employed by their companies and suppliers.”

Haitian officials have in the past said that increasing wages by too much would leave the garment industries at risk of losing competitiveness with respect to other countries such as the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Reporting by Gessika Thomas, writing by Brian Ellsworth; editing by Grant McCool

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