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21.03.2021 / 12:22

Thousands protest against fresh Covid restrictions in Europe even as cases surge

Covid-19 restrictions rallied in cities across Europe on Saturday as several nations reimposed partial lockdowns to fight new surges in infections.The coronavirus, which has killed more than 2.7 million people, has been spreading faster recently, with the number of new infections up globally by 14 percent in the last week, according to AFP data.That has forced governments to impose social distancing and movement restrictions again, even as vaccines are rolled out, with residents in Poland, parts of France, and Ukraine's capital the latest to face fresh curbs.But populations have grown increasingly weary of the economically painful restrictions, and frustrations spilled over in cities across Europe with thousands marching in Germany, Britain

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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations resume in Europe after blood-clot scare

WARSAW, Poland - Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to ending the coronavirus pandemic.The British and French prime ministers rolled up their sleeves, as did a handful of other senior politicians across the continent where inoculation drives have repeatedly stumbled and several countries are now re-imposing lockdowns as infections rise in many places.Britain is a notable exception: The outbreak there has receded, and the country has been widely praised for its vaccination campaign, though this week it announced that it, too, would be hit by supply shortages.

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Travelling to Germany from this country? A negative Covid test report is now must

negative coronavirus test.From Sunday people entering Germany from Poland will have to show a negative PCR or antigen test, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which has also placed Cyprus and Bulgaria in the same high risk category.The three countries represent a "very high risk of infection" particularly because of the rate at which the virus is spreading there, namely beyond 200 new cases per 100,000 of the population in a week, the institute said.Germany has also placed Austria's Tyrol state and the Czech Republic in the same category, as well as the French Moselle region, but without imposing permanent checks on the border with France.At the same time, the institute removed the Portuguese Algarve region from its red list as

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Coronavirus variant originating in Britain makes up for over 60% of Polish cases

coronavirus variant originating in Britain, known to be highly contagious, makes up more than 60% of cases in Poland and will soon reach 80%, a Polish health ministry spokesman said on Friday.Poland is grappling with the third wave of the pandemic and has seen a sharp recent spike in cases driven by the variant originating in Britain."Today, the British mutation, makes up for about 60% (of cases) ... we are moving towards 80%," spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz told a news conference.This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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Much of Europe tightens anti-pandemic rules as virus surges

ROME – Tighter restrictions aimed at reining in surging coronavirus infections took hold in much of Italy and parts of Poland on Monday, while in France, Paris risks being slapped with a weekend lockdown as ICUs near saturation with COVID-19 patients.

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Ola Jordan’s heartache as baby Ella, 1, has never met her parents or another child amid Covid crisis

OLA Jordan has revealed her heartache that baby Ella, 1, has never met her parents or another child amid the Covid crisis. The first-time mum gave birth to her daughter just as the country went into national lockdown last year.

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Teen magician polishes performance during pandemic: ‘It just brings happiness’

Taking up a new pursuit during the COVID-19 pandemic is something Canadians have been doing with varying degrees of success. As Gil Tucker shows us, some hard work is really paying off for one young Calgarian, who’s now finding a lot of joy in sharing the magic.

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Myanmar junta keeps pressure on protesters, journalists

MANDALAY – Police in Myanmar fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters in the country's two largest cities and elsewhere on Friday, as authorities continued their harsh crackdown on opponents of last month's military coup.

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COVID-19 patients moved abroad as Czech hospitals struggle

PRAGUE – With record numbers of COVID-19 patients filling up intensive care units in the Czech Republic, the first patient to be moved outside of the country was transported to southern Poland on Tuesday.

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Shiffrin leads Vlhova after 1st run of World Cup GS

JASNA – Mikaela Shiffrin posted the fastest time in the opening run of a women’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday, a day after winning a slalom on the same hill.

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Holly Bradshaw eyes Euro gold to justify living 'like a hermit' through pandemic

Holly Bradshaw has revealed the “nightmare” logistical challenge of getting to Poland in shape to lead Britain’s medal charge at the European Indoor Athletics Championships.

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Instagram hides likes from posts for some users during test

POLAND - 2021/02/09: In this photo illustration, an Instagram logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a pen, key, book and headsets in the background. (Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - People on social media are expressing their concern after it appears Instagram removed likes from posts for some users Tuesday night.So what exactly happened? Turns out, it’s a bug they encountered during a test, and are working on fixing the issue."We've been testing a new experience to hide likes on Feed posts.

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Pandemic helped Swiatek deal with French Open success

(Reuters) - French Open champion Iga Swiatek says the COVID-19 pandemic has been beneficial for her as the restrictions allowed the 19-year-old from Poland to settle into her life as a first-time Grand Slam winner. Swiatek went from being a largely unknown teenager to acquiring celebrity status when she became the youngest woman to win the French Open since Monica Seles in 1992 and the first to do so without dropping a set since Justine Henin in 2007.

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Pfizer's COVID-19 shot is 92% effective at reducing severe illness, 'real world' mass vaccination study finds

FILE - An Israeli health worker of the Maccabi Healthcare Services prepares to administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine on Feb. 24, 2021 in Tel Aviv.

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India’s contribution in global scientific research on coronavirus less than 7%: Study

NEW DELHI : Despite harbouring the second maximum burden of coronavirus infections in the world, India contributed an average of less than 7% of total scientific research done during the covid-19 pandemic globally, showed an analysis published in the Scientometrics journal.The authors said that scientists across the world came out with an “astonishing" number of over 87,000 scientific papers.

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Polish historian with far-right past resigns from state job

WARSAW – A Polish historian resigned Monday from the government's historical institute after controversy erupted over his past ties with a far-right organization and photos of him making the stiff-armed fascist salute.

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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's art book hits bookstores

WARSAW – The latest book by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk to be translated into English is a departure for the celebrated Polish author.

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Poland won't require travellers to quarantine if they've had Covid jab or negative test

Poland has lifted quarantine requirements for travellers who have received the Covid-19 vaccine.

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Central European leaders mark Visegrad Group's 30 years

WARSAW – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the role of Central European nations is to help protect the European Union against “outside attacks” but also against “internal tendencies to build an empire” while guarding their own independence.

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Job postings continue to grow, still down 24% - Indeed Ireland

Job postings on Indeed Ireland were down 24% in early February compared with the same time last year, according to new research from the job site.

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Harden scores 38, Nets rally from 24 down, stun Suns 128-124

PHOENIX – James Harden scored 38 points, Joe Harris added 22 and the Brooklyn Nets overcame a 24-point deficit to stun the Phoenix Suns 128-124 on Tuesday night.

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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a Warsaw, Poland, hospital had a significantly lower mortality rate when treated with convalescent plasma, especially early, according to a study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.The researchers used propensity score matching to pair a co

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Women's rights activist charged for role in Polish protests

WARSAW – A leader of the Polish Women’s Strike, the movement that has led mass nationwide protests against a near total abortion ban in Poland, has been charged with criminal felonies.

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Polish pride, free speech at stake in Holocaust libel case

WARSAW – A Warsaw court is due to deliver a verdict Tuesday in a closely watched libel case in which one side sees Polish national pride at stake and the other the future independence of Holocaust research.

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Poland protesters take weekend off for fundraiser

WARSAW – From soccer star Robert Lewandowski to opposition politicians, Polish citizens on Sunday donated at least 71 million zlotys ($19 million) to a charity's fundraiser for health causes that has been criticized by the conservative government for its liberal agenda.

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Pandemic ends 30-year growth streak for Polish economy

WARSAW – Poland's economy shrank 2.8% during 2020 due to the pandemic, ending three decades of constant growth, according to preliminary figures released by the national statistical office.

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Polish ombudsman: Abortion ruling condemns women to torture

WARSAW – Poland's top human rights official on Thursday denounced a top court ruling that amounts to a near total ban on abortion, saying it imposes a severe limitation of women's rights and “condemns them to torture.”

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Kate, Prince Charles pay tribute to Holocaust survivors

LONDON – Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has praised Holocaust survivors for their inspirational work educating the next generation about the Nazi regime, as Prince Charles and other British public figures paid tributes to mark Holocaust Memorial Day Wednesday.

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Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic

WARSAW – Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp's final days.

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Poland's population rapidly shrinking under pandemic

WARSAW, Poland: Statistics for 2020 show deaths spiked in Poland to a level unseen since World War II and births sharply declined, trends attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and described by some as a demographic crisis.The data reported Tuesday by the daily newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna came from a state register that includes weekly births and deaths.Poland, a nation with a population of more than 38 million, registered 357,400 births last year, the lowest number since 2005, and some 486,200 deaths from various causes, the highest number registered since the war.

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Airbnb to block, cancel DC bookings ahead of inauguration

POLAND - 2020/12/30: In this photo illustration an Airbnb logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Filip Radwanski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO - Airbnb said it will be blocking and cancelling all reservations in the Washington, D.C.

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Endangered Indian rhinoceros baby is born in zoo in Poland

WARSAW – An endangered Indian rhinoceros was born last week in Poland's Wroclaw Zoo, a hopeful development in efforts to preserve the rare animals. Born Jan.

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Prelate blocked for months by Belarus resigns Minsk post

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday accepted the resignation of Minsk’ archbishop who had been blocked for months by Belarusian authorities from returning to his homeland after criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protesters there.Monsignor Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, in charge of the Minsk-Mohilev diocese, had only returned to Belarus on Dec. 24, just in time to celebrate Christmas Mass.

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Europe, Latin America start Covid vaccination, UK to roll out Oxford jab in Jan

vaccination programme of unprecedented scale on Sunday as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives around the world.The region of 450 million people has secured contracts with a range of suppliers for over two billion vaccine doses and has set a goal for all adults to be inoculated during 2021.With surveys pointing to high levels of hesitancy towards the vaccine in countries from France to Poland, leaders of the 27-country European Union are promoting it as the best chance of getting back to something like normal life next year."We are starting to turn the page on a difficult year," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the Brussels-based European Commission coordinating the

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COVID-19 vaccinations begin in Hungary

Adrienne Kertesz, doctor at the South Pest Central Hospital, receives the first vaccination against the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) by Pfizer and BioNTech.

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Belarus allows Roman Catholic archbishop to return

MOSCOW – Belarusian authorities have allowed a Roman Catholic priest to return to the country after denying him entry for months.Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk and Mohilev arrived in Belarus on Thursday. Kondrusiewicz was barred from entering the ex-Soviet nation for nearly four months after his criticism of the Belarusian authorities' crackdown on protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian leader.Kondrusiewicz was denied entry on Aug.

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Happy Festivus: Air your grievances from 2020 at Havertown home

HAVERTOWN, Pa. - Just about every home in Havertown is decked out with decorations, but one home on Brookline Boulevard it's so 2020. You can stop by to air your grievances."It’s a holiday for everyone else.

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Police hunting Vietnamese mum 'Precious' over deaths of 39 migrants in Essex

A Vietnamese mum nicknamed “Precious” is being hunted in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants in Essex.

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This is when the Christmas Specials for your favourite shows are on the telly

Watching telly at Christmas is always a major part of the festive season but never more so than this year.

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Air pollution in eastern Europe adds to pandemic health woes

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-With the arrival of cold and foggy winter weather amid the pandemic, eastern Europe is facing an extra respiratory health hazard — air pollution. Countries such as Bosnia and Serbia in the Balkans, and even European Union nations Poland and Croatia, traditionally report high levels of dangerous pollution from heating in winter months.

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European regulators to review Pfizer Covid vaccine next week

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine next week, earlier than initially planned, amid growing pressure across the continent to speed up approval of the shot.A European Medicines Agency committee will meet Monday to consider the vaccine after receiving more data from the developers, the drugs watchdog said in a statement Tuesday.

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Italian PM warns more restrictions needed at Christmas

Italy's government will need to impose new restrictions during the holiday season to rein in contagion and avoid a third, devastating wave of the coronavirus, the prime minister has said in an interview.

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Gmail, YouTube and other Google services reportedly hit by service outage

Gmail icon is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on December 1, 2020. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Google services, including YouTube and Gmail, experienced widespread outages Monday in countries around the world.The website DownDetector, which shares user-reported issues on websites and other platforms, showed thousands of complaints regarding the search engine’s products around 7 a.m.

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14-year-old boy killed by family dog in northwestern Minnesota

BATTLE LAKE, Minn, (FOX 9) - A 14-year-old boy was attacked and killed by his family’s dog in rural northwestern Minnesota Thursday, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. Shortly after 3 p.m., deputies responded to a welfare check in rural Battle Lake.

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EU inches toward landmark budget, virus recovery fund deal

BRUSSELS – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Thursday that the European Union is on the brink of sealing an agreement on a massive budget and a coronavirus recovery package, signaling that it has almost overcome objections from his country and Poland about tying EU funds to upholding the rule of law.“We are just one inch from reaching a consensus,” Orban told reporters as he arrived at EU headquarters in Brussels for a two-day summit, adding that all sides are fighting for ”a victory for common sense.”“It is obvious that when our nations and so many millions of people are in real need because of (the) pandemic and the economic consequences of that, we have to behave reasonably,” said Orban, whose nationalist governments has been

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Poles voice fears of 'Polexit' as govt defies EU over budget

WARSAW – As the Polish government plays a game of chicken with the European Union over its next long-term budget, some Poles are voicing fears that a drawn-out conflict could put their country on a path toward an eventual departure from the bloc, or “Polexit.”Poland's conservative government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party, denies that it has ever wanted to leave the 27-member bloc and popular support for EU membership runs extremely high.But critics fear the combative tone of Polish leaders — who have recently compared the EU to the Soviet Union and used terms like "political enslavement" to describe Poland's predicament in the standoff — could create momentum, which if unstopped, could accidently bring the nation to the

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Explosion damages Polish store near Amsterdam, 3rd in 2 days

THE HAGUE – An explosion damaged a Polish supermarket in a Dutch town near Amsterdam early Wednesday morning, the third such blast in two days.Police said the explosion happened at a store in the town of Beverwijk, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of Amsterdam. Nobody was injured, but the store was badly damaged in the explosion at 5:15 a.m.

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Blasts badly damage 2 Polish supermarkets in the Netherlands

AALSMEER – Two Polish supermarkets in the Netherlands were badly damaged by explosions early Tuesday, police said. Nobody was injured in the blasts in Aalsmeer, near Amsterdam, and in a small town in the North Brabant province.It was not immediately clear if the explosions were linked.

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