According to a new study from the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank, despite claims to the contrary, minimum wage increases do little to lower poverty rates and can actually hurt low-income workers. “As an anti-poverty tool, minimum wage hikes are largely ineffective and can actually hurtContinue Reading
The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) reported today the first case of the highly contagious coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil, the P.1 variant in the country. Health officials say the individual is a returning overseas Filipino (ROF) from Western Visayas was found positive for the variant after the sequencing ofContinue Reading
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced this weekend it is providing more than $3.5 million in rapid response Ebola assistance to support efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Guinea. The assistance will support disease surveillance, laboratory testing, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, communityContinue Reading
The Dalai Lama received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday at a hospital in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala. The 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Upon receiving his shot, the Dalai Lama said people needed to be vaccinated to “prevent someContinue Reading
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the first lady, Cilia Flores, received this Saturday the first dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. The presidential couple received the dose of Sputnik V, after health personnel, who are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19,Continue Reading
In a joint statement on Friday, the Philippines Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Department of Health (DOH) announced the following guidelines on the wearing of face mask inside vehicles: When traveling alone, the driver may remove his/her face mask; and When the driver is with passenger/s, it is mandatory forContinue Reading
When Alberto Fernández was a presidential candidate during the summer of 2019, one of his main political positions was the decriminalization of abortion in Argentina, a country of 45 million people. “I have made the political decision to decriminalize and legalize abortion because I do not want any more women toContinue Reading
The Government of Canada today announced new rules on international travel, in addition to the multi-layered approach on COVID-19 already in place. The government and Canada’s airlines have agreed to suspend all flights to and from Mexico and Caribbean countries until April 30, 2021. This will be in effect asContinue Reading
The wealthiest countries in Europe have higher death rates from atrial fibrillation than the least wealthy and these death rates are increasing more rapidly than incidence rates, according to the first analysis of its kind published in the European Heart Journal Tuesday. The study also found that women who developed theContinue Reading
The Government of Iceland reports around 4,500 people in the country have received their second vaccination injection against COVID-19 and will thus be considered fully vaccinated. The Directorate of Health is now finalizing a digital solution that enables those individuals to obtain a vaccination certificate online at www.heilsuvera.is. The certificate mustContinue Reading
The Swedish government announced to expand the temporary entry ban that has been in effect for Denmark and the United Kingdom to also include Norway. The entry ban started at midnight on Sunday 24 January and remains in effect until 14 February. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has also decidedContinue Reading
Former Chief Medical Officer of Health in Ontario, Dr. Richard Schabas sent a letter to premier of Ontario, Doug Ford earlier this week backing up a letter earlier from MPP Roman Baber requesting Ford to change course on COVID-19. The five point letter detailed problems with risk, ICU bed capacityContinue Reading
At the end of the autumn term 2020, the Swedish Public Health Agency recommended distance education in the country’s upper secondary schools to further limit the spread of covid-19. Now, the Swedish Public Health Agency recommends that the upper secondary school gradually return to teaching on site in the schools’Continue Reading
Data analysis is revealing a second sharp drop in the number of people admitted to hospital in England with acute heart failure or a heart attack. The decline began in October as the numbers of COVID-19 infections began to surge ahead of the second lockdown, which came into force inContinue Reading
Germany expanding Covid quarantine rules, making global headlines, announcing detain people for breaching quarantine rules under the Disease Protection Act, which passed by the German Bundestag last March and renewed in November. To heighten the tension, a mutant strain of coronavirus. different to those originating in the UK, South Africa andContinue Reading
The website, Big 7 Travel published their list of the 50 Most Instagrammable Places in the World for 2021 last week where those Instagram- worthy shots can be captured. Topping the list is Tokyo, Japan. This is what the website says about this most instagrammable place: Ancient shrines, other-worldly artContinue Reading
The death toll has risen to 77 in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. This is two days after the 6.2 M earthquake hit the areas of Mamuju and Majene districts in West Sulawesi. More than 820 people were injured out of which 190 people areContinue Reading
By Teddy Cambosa The South American nation of Peru has recorded around 56,400 cases as of December last year, to which the United Nations describes as ‘an epidemic within the pandemic’. According to the official press wire from the United Nations, Peru is suffering the worst dengue epidemic since 2017,Continue Reading
HSBC has issued a warning to any of its customers refusing to wear a masks inside its banks risk having their accounts withdrawn. Jackie Uhi, head of branch network, HSBC UK spoke to The Mirror about the authoritarian response to mask mandates. “Our branch colleagues are key workers, continuing toContinue Reading
Australia’s acting Prime Minister has condemned Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend President Donald Trump’s account in the wake of the riots at the Capitol on the sixth. Michael McCormack, who is standing in while Scott Morrison is on leave, described the President’s suspension as “censorship,” and called his refusal toContinue Reading
In response to President Trump’s social media ban, the Polish government wants to protect posts that do not break nation’s laws. Many officials denounced the bans and are working on a draft law officially aimed at combatting online “censorship.” “The censorship of freedom of speech, the domain of totalitarian and authoritarianContinue Reading
