Author: Cole Hanson

China says the first detected case of the Omicron variant in Beijing, the country’s capital, originated in a letter sent from Canada in early January. • Read also: Omicron’s case was discovered in Beijing three weeks before the Olympics This is what was presented in a daily article Global Times, a spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party, citing health authorities in Beijing. “The patient who tested positive for the Omicron variant on Saturday received an international courier on January 11 that was sent from Canada on January 7, and that was flown to Beijing via the US and Hong Kong…

The 27 cleared the way on Monday due to the re-imposition of travel restrictions targeting tourists from Canada, Australia and Argentina, although member states have the option to exempt discouraged travelers. • Read also: Dominican Republic: Covid-19 zones in hotels so tourism does not stop • Read also: After it was announced that they had contracted the COVID-19 virus, two lovers regretted going on a trip to Cuba Due to the CovID-19 pandemic, the European Union closed its external borders in March 2020 for non-essential travel and has since drawn up a short list, regularly updated, of third countries whose…

After the referee was announced and Novak Djokovic was sent off, many players did not hesitate to express their displeasure. Among them is the Canadian Vasek Pospisil. • Read also: Djokovic leaves Australia after defeat in court • Read also: Serbia angry at Djokovic’s “scandalous” expulsion from Australia Novak would never have gone to Australia if he hadn’t received a government exemption [il en avait reçu une par le juge Kelly] To enter the country, Pospisil mentioned on Twitter. He would have lost the Australian Open and would have stayed home with his family. “And nobody would talk about this…

Police in Palermo, Italy, have announced that they have arrested a nurse who allegedly gave people the wrong anti-vaccines from the COVID-19 vaccine. This scheme was put in place so that these people could obtain a health passport and thus access to restaurants, bars and public transportation. Authorities used a hidden camera to corner the nurse. In videos posted on Saturday, the woman who works at the Palermo vaccination center can be seen filling the syringe with the vaccine before emptying its contents into a tissue and then pretending to inject it into the patient’s arm. # degos Palermo has…

Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party chief said on Sunday the scandal rocking the British prime minister, who is accused by the opposition of “breaking the law”. • Read also: Covid-19: ‘Encouraging signs’ in the UK to lift restrictions • Read also: Parties the day before the royal funeral: Downing Street apologizes to the Queen • Read also: Stuck at the ‘party gate’, Boris Johnson fights for his political survival According to the Sunday Times, Johnson is about to announce measures including a ban on alcohol in Downing Street offices. He also plans to lay off many of his employees. A senior…

(Hong Kong) Beijing reported its first local infection of the Omicron variant, according to state media, weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics. Posted at 12:03 AM The infected person lives and works in Haidian District, northwest of the city, and has never traveled outside Beijing in the past two weeks. The person developed symptoms on Thursday and was tested for COVID-19 on Friday, authorities said in a press conference on Saturday. This Omicron case comes less than three weeks before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 4 and about two weeks before the start of the Lunar…

The eruption of an undersea volcano off an island in the South Pacific caused a tsunami on Saturday in the Tonga Islands that reached Japan with waves of 1:20, and Chile and the west coast of the United States were also put on alert. • Read also: Arctic cold this weekend and winter storm starting the week Stunning views from space showed the timing of the eruption on Friday of the Hong Tonga Hong Hapai volcano, on one of the uninhabited Tonga islands: a huge mushroom of smoke and ash, and a wave immediately erupted. The explosion lasted eight minutes,…

(Nuku’alofa) Tonga islanders were fleeing to the heights Saturday in the face of a tsunami caused by a new massive eruption – heard even hundreds of kilometers away – of the Hangunga Tonga Hapai volcano, which also sparked tsunami warnings in the United States and Chile. Posted at 9:37 am Updated at 11:11 am The Australian Bureau of Meteorology announced that “a 1.20m tsunami was seen in Nuku’alofa,” the country’s capital. The previous tsunami did not exceed 30 centimeters. The warning had just been raised when the volcano erupted again. “It was a huge blast,” local resident Meri Tova, who…

On Saturday, state media said that North Korea fired two short-range missiles from a train on Friday, in its third weapons test since the beginning of the year, despite new US sanctions. • Read also: North Korea said it tested a hypersonic missile in the presence of Kim Jong Un • Read also: North Korea launches its second missile in less than a week Pyongyang’s official Central News Agency said the trials were held to “verify and judge the mastery of the railway regiment’s working procedures.” Friday’s missile launch followed Washington’s decision on Wednesday to impose new financial sanctions on…

Some major cities in the Northeast US, including New York, which was first hit by a wave of COVID-19 linked to the Omicron variant, are beginning to see the rate of pollution decrease, although the trend remains bullish nationally. • Read also: Saskatchewan president diagnosed with COVID-19 • Read also: Hospitalizations peak in Quebec and Ontario These early signs seem to indicate that a peak has been reached in some places, following a pattern of rapid meteoric rise followed by a depression, already observed in South Africa or the United Kingdom. Thus, New York recorded an average of 28,500 cases…