Day: 24 February 2022

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of February 24, 2022, at 4:20 pm EST.

On Thursday, health officials in Germany logged 82,285 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 14.1 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 88.7% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 111 Covid-related deaths for a total of 122,733 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

Gloomy Flames (Cupe Vampe)

TORONTO – “Suddenly it gets night, the cold wedges raw, the city trembles, bruises trembles. The fires rise to the sky, the fires rise in gloomy flames.” Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, with these words contained in the 1996 song Cupe Vampe (Gloomy Flames), had described the agony and suffering of Sarajevo during the long and brutal siege, one of the most tragic episodes of the Balkan War of the nineties. 

Sudden revocation of Emergencies Act, Trudeau under fire

 

OTTAWA – Touch and run. Less than 24 hours after defending the need to maintain the state of emergency that gives the government ‘extraordinary’ or ‘special’ powers, Trudeau revoked the measure leaving everyone speechless. A reversal, his, unexpected and stunning. Only two days earlier the prime minister had justified the need to maintain the measures in force even after the eviction of Ottawa and the border crossings, because he had said, there is a possibility that the protesters will return. It goes without saying that after the first moment of amazement the controversy broke out. With this about-face, in essence, Trudeau, became an easy target, lent his side to his political opponents. 

কানাডায় জরুরি বিধি প্রত্যাহার করলেন ট্রুডো

OTTAWA – গতকাল (২৩ ফেব্রুয়াারি) প্রধানমন্ত্রী জাস্টিন ট্রুডো বলেছেন এক সপ্তাহ আগে বিক্ষোভরত ট্রাকবহর প্রতিরোধে আরোপিত জরুরি বিধি, যার মেয়াদ ৩০ দিন বলবৎ থাকার কথা ছিল, সেটি প্রত্যাহারে সরকারি পদক্ষেপ গ্রহণ করা হয়েছে।