"Brazilian senators have recommended President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with 10 crimes, including crimes against humanity, alleging his "reckless" mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
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"Lawmakers investigating the President officially presented their report on Wednesday, condemning the populist leader's handling of the crisis and pushing for him to face a swathe of charges.
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"They accused Bolsonaro of an epidemic resulting in death, charlatanism, incitement to crime, falsification of documents, irregular use of public funds, prevarication, crimes against humanity, social rights violations, incompatibility with dignity,..
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"..honor and decorum of the position, and preventive sanitary measure violations.
"This is the first time in Brazil's history that a parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPI) has drawn up such an extensive list of alleged crimes accusing a President of the Republic.
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"A primary school in Co Wexford has blamed “serious flaws” with revised close contact rules for an outbreak of more than 30 cases of Covid-19, which has forced it to shut until next month.
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"It follows an emergency meeting of CBS primary school’s board of management on Sunday evening. The board said it was closing the 270-pupil school as a “vital health and safety precaution for all”.
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Black dashed line in the figure shows the direct correlation of chronological age (horizontal axis) with genetic age markers (vertical axis) for uninfected individuals (blue), and significant departure for infected individuals (red) especially for younger individuals.
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This figure shows the same results but after subtracting the chronological age. The age difference that results across the population is
10.45 ± 7.29 years (+5.25 years above the range of normality) compared with 3.68 ± 8.17 years for COVID-19-free population (p < 0.0001)
Paraphrasing: Previous prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, who ignored his chief health adviser in pushing ahead with the Games, was forced to step down amid stubbornly low approval ratings. He was criticised for emphasising the economy over the virus response.
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Recent polls show public expects new prime minister Fumio Kishida to prioritise public health
“The end of emergency doesn’t mean we are 100% free. The government should send a clear message to the people that we can only relax gradually”chief medical adviser Shigeru Omi cautioned
Bihar population 100 M, Uttar Pradesh population about 220 M.
Also under 20 cases per day in 5 Union territories:
Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Chandigarh; Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu; Ladakh; Lakshadweep.
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Delhi recently, population 31 million, has about 1 case per million
Maharashtra, population 110 million, after opening too early, recently adopted best practices from other states and is now declining down to 2,600 per day, under 25 per million.
Health and Social Care, and Science and Technology Committees
Coronavirus: lessons learned to date
Report released today.
Report quotes:
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“Covid-19 has been the biggest crisis our country has faced in generations, and the greatest peacetime challenge in a century. It has disrupted our lives to an extent few predicted; separated friends and families; closed businesses and damaged livelihoods; ..
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“…and, most tragically of all, it has been associated with the deaths of over 150,000 people in the UK and nearly 5 million people worldwide to date.
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In addition, there are state wide restrictions including suspension of all inter-district travel services, a mask mandate, limited gathering sizes, even outside of total containment zones.
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