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29.06.2021 / 18:59

Centre extends Covid guidelines till 31 July, asks states to focus on 5-fold strategy. Details here

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Bindi Irwin Announces Social Media Break To Focus On Mental Health

Bindi Irwin is signing off social media for a while.

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Philadelphia's 2022 budget puts focus on violence prevention, police reform and poverty reduction

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia City Council gave its preliminary approval to a fiscal 2022 city budget that invests over $155 million in violence prevention programs.The budget also funds a $400 million program to create affordable housing, preserve neighborhoods and spur job growth, supports efforts to lift Philadelphians out of poverty, continues reforms in policing, and commits additional funds to revitalize the arts.Final passage of the budget is scheduled for June 24."The quality of life in a lot of these neighborhoods is just not at the level it should be and it’s just unfair," Philadelphia City Council Darrell Clarke said.In an ongoing battle against surging gun violence, council members say the city's new budget directly addresses

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Biden attends 2021 NATO summit with focus on Russia, China

BRUSSELS - President Joe Biden arrived at the 2021 North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit on Monday looking to renew U.S. allies abroad for better coordination against China and Russia, while underscoring the country’s commitment to the alliance that was frequently maligned by his predecessor.Early Monday, Biden sat down with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels and highlighted the U.S.

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China-like discipline not possible in India, focus on upgrading health infra: Gujarat High Court

AHMEDABAD : The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday said the state government should ramp up health infrastructure keeping in mind that there could be a third or even a fourth wave of coronavirus because people are not going to follow the rules regarding face mask, social distancing and sanitisation. Observing that discipline enforced in China cannot be implemented in India, a division bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Bhargav D Karia asked the Gujarat government to ramp up infrastructure for medical facilities to deal with any fresh wave of the pandemic.

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21.05.2021 / 16:53

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Focus shifts to Bolton town centre with new Covid door-to-door testing and vaccinations

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Covid puts focus on supply chains, global governance, ethics: Jaishankar

S Jaishankar said Thursday.Addressing the “Future of Asia" conference organised by Nikkei, Jaishankar said India was working to “strengthen and de-risk the global economy" through partnerships such as the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative with Japan and Australia.“We in India are going through a particularly difficult situation right now.

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World Health Assembly to focus on ending COVID-19 pandemic and preparing for next one

In a year when COVID-19 threatens the health and well-being of everyone on the planet, the seventy-fourthsession of the World Health Assembly (WHA) will stress the urgency of ending the current pandemic and preventing the next one by building a healthier, safer and fairer world.

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Focus on local: London pub emerges from lockdown with gusto

LONDON – “You come here often?”

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Reopening Ontario outdoor recreational sites should focus on equity, access: advocates

Ontario golfers have been pushing the province to reopen courses ordered closed while the province is under stay-at-home orders, but some observers say access to outdoor recreational facilities serving a wider population should be be just as high on the agenda.Doctors and recreational facility administrators say Canadians need access to affordable, inclusive and local ways to get outside and exercise, so long as health care professionals deem it safe.“Many of the people I care for live in dense apartment buildings, have small indoor spaces and don’t have the luxury of a backyard,” said Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician and health justice activist in Toronto.

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Fighting pandemic priority of new Bengal govt, focus also on job creation: Firhad Hakim

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Nicola Sturgeon should avoid 'quagmire' of referendum and focus on covid recovery say Labour

Murray said: “The First Minister promised that this election would be about covid recovery, and we will be holding her to that. If she brings a bill to Parliament about a referendum which she promised would be about covid recovery will certainly not support that.” He added: “What our MSPs will be doing when they go back to parliament on Thursday, our sole focus will be on what everyone promised in this election, which is covid recovery.”“That is the priority that has the support the Scottish people, that’s the priority of our MSPs when they go back into that chamber and that should be the priority for everyone.”Both governments, the UK and the Scottish Government have to work together to make this work.

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Nicola Sturgeon invited to 'summit meeting' by Boris Johnson with focus on covid recovery

Sturgeon and Labour’s Drakeford for wholesale constitutional change in light of SNP and Labour successes in Scottish and Welsh parliament elections. The Prime Minister hailed the success of the UK in the covid vaccine roll-out and emphasised the economic challenges will be a “serious shared responsibility”.

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Alberta school boards advised to focus on fundamentals for grades K to 6

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange announces that school boards in the province have been advised to focus on the fundamentals for students in kindergarten to Grade 6 after COVID-19 forced them to learn from home.

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Post assembly election results, markets to shift focus to Covid and earnings

assembly election result of four states and one union territory. Trends in the election results so far indicate Trinamool Congress (TMC) taking the lead while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have crossed the majority mark in Assam and Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala.While current assembly election account for 21% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) with similar share in the number of seats in Parliament, it indicates electoral significance but analysts do not yet expect it to bring any major economic policy disruption.

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Focus Saskatchewan – May 1, 2021

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Corporates should focus on well being of employees during pandemic, not just financials: Management guru Ram Charan

New Delhi: Corporates should focus on the well being of their employees instead of just looking at ways to shore up finances during the ongoing pandemic, which has disrupted the economy and healthcare system of the country, management guru and business advisor Ram Charan, who advises several top companies said on Friday.Speaking at Mint India Investment Summit 2021, in a fireside chat with Sumant Sinha, CMD of ReNew Power, Ram Charan said that the ongoing pandemic has taught companies important lessons, which include caring for the physical and mental well being of employees, and that cycle time (of a product) can be cut, which has been well established with vaccine manufacturers coming out with jabs for coronavirus in less than a year,

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Pointless to argue over Covid death figures, focus on helping those who are suffering: Haryana CM

ROHTAK : Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said it was pointless to argue over COVID-19 fatality figures as the dead won’t came back to life, and the focus should be on providing relief to those suffering now.Khattar was replying to questions on the alleged under-reporting of deaths due to coronavirus -- at many places the scenes at crematoriums and burial grounds do not reflect the official numbers.“The kind of difficult situation we are going through, we don't have to play with data.

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Investors rush to ESG funds as Covid drives focus on sustainability

₹103.78 crore in March following an outflow of ₹102.78 crore combined in January and February Investors rushed to park money into environmental, social and governance (ESG) focussed funds as the disruption caused by covid-19 pandemic drove focus to the importance of building sustainable and resilient business models.Data provided by Morningstar showed that India ESG funds received a net inflow of ₹103.78 crore in March following an outflow of ₹102.78 crore combined in January and February. In the previous quarter ending December, these funds received net inflow of ₹3748.96 crore.Kaustubh Belapurkar, Director – Manager Research, Morningstar India said, “The covid led crisis has only accelerated the demand for sustainable investing.

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Focus Saskatchewan – April 17, 2021

Host Allison Bamford shares Saskatchewan’s most interesting stories.

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Teen's death puts focus on split-second police decisions

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Ontario police forces to focus on education rather than enforcement of new powers

Ontario government alters new, temporary COVID-19 police powers after widespread backlash The government reversed course a day later, and the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said Monday people should not be afraid to go outside.The association’s spokesman, Joe Couto, says police forces had to come out quickly on Friday to assure the public that they would not be randomly stopping people.Many Ontario police forces won’t use new COVID-19 powers to conduct random stopsCouto says arbitrarily stopping people would be unethical, unenforceable and police forces do not have the resources to do it.He says police will instead focus their enforcement efforts on large gatherings of more than five people.

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Markets seen rangebound amid rising covid cases; Wipro, Bajaj Auto in focus

Also Read | India needs to learn from the Suez crisisOvernight, US stocks jumped to record highs with retail sales and weekly jobless claims data signalling an accelerating recovery in the world’s biggest economy. Yields on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes dropped the most since February.Back home, investors will watch out the covid situation as daily virus infections crossed the 200,000 mark on Thursday.Within 48 hours of re-opening bookings for its electric scooter Chetak, Bajaj Auto on Thursday put the brakes as it stopped taking bookings due to supply chain uncertainties.

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After union fight, Jeff Bezos to focus on Amazon workers

NEW YORK – After a union battle at an Alabama warehouse, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that as executive chairman he will focus on making the company a better place to work.

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Maruti's decision to focus on CNG pays off despite Covid-19 pandemic

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Labour's Paul O'Kane insists party is moving forward with "relentless" focus on Covid-19 recovery

Renfrewshire residents will hit the polls on May 6 to elect the region's new MSPs for the next five years. Today, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) speaks to Paul O'Kane of the Scottish Labour Party, who is seeking election in Renfrewshire South.Scottish Labour's Paul O'Kane insists he remains determined to serve the community he was born and bred in despite losing out on the Renfrewshire South seat five years ago.The East Renfrewshire councillor said he was "disappointed" not to hold onto the constituency for his party in 2016, as the SNP's Tom Arthur pipped him to the post.But he has dusted himself off and is ready to go again in the battle to get voters back onside.Mr O'Kane has vowed to be a "dogged fighter" for everyone and

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PM Modi urges people to focus on fighting Covid-19 by taking all precautions

Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged people to focus on fighting coronavirus by taking all precautions, including wearing a mask, regularly washing hands and following other protocols.PM Modi's appeal comes amid a recent spurt in Covid-19 cases with over 1 lakh daily new infections reported twice for the first time this year.Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, "#WorldHealthDay is a day to reaffirm our gratitude and appreciation to all those who work day and night to keep our planet healthy.""It's also a day to reiterate our commitment to supporting research and innovation in healthcare," the PM added.#WorldHealthDay is a day to reaffirm our gratitude and appreciation to all those who work day and night to keep our planet healthy.

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Phase 2 of Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins with a focus on hot spots

In an effort to combat the increasing number of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province’s geographic hot spots, the Ontario government is putting a sharp focus on priority areas as it begins the next stage of its vaccination rollout. Miranda Anthistle has the details.

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China says Covid-19 origin probe should shift focus to other countries

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Florida professor’s murder puts focus on grandparents’ rights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was killed outside his Tallahassee home in a murder-for-hire plot in 2014, amid a bitter child-custody dispute with his ex-wife Wendi Adelson.

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Biden economic plan to focus 1st on infrastructure this week

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will lay out the first part of his multitrillion-dollar economic recovery package this week, focusing on rebuilding roads, bridges and other infrastructure, followed by a separate plan later in April addressing child and health care.

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Freeland says upcoming budget will focus on ‘jobs and growth’

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday that the upcoming budget would be focused on jobs and growth, adding that it is targeted at helping the country “heal the economic wounds of COVID-19.”

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Recent crises may pull focus during Biden's first news conference as president

WASHINGTON - After 61 days in the White House, President Joe Biden will hold his first news conference on Thursday — taking questions from the East Room in a nationally televised event. It shouldn’t come as a surprise if the president uses that national audience to tout his administration’s accomplishments over the previous two months.RELATED: Biden set to give 1st White House news conference Thursday The Democrats delivered a massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which included the third round of $1,400 stimulus payments to most Americans.On Thursday, the Department of Labor released the latest jobless numbers.

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Govt not to expand covid vaccine export for few months, to focus on domestic demand

NEW DELHI : India will focus on meeting the domestic demand for coronavirus vaccines in view of a spike in COVID-19 infections in several states and it will not expand export of vaccines for next few months, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday.They, however, said all commercial contracts and export commitments will be honoured and that India will continue to help countries around the world to deal with the pandemic.So far, India has supplied 60.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to around 80 countries.The total supplies include vaccine doses sent as grant assistance, under commercial contract and through COVAX, which is a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.The people said India will

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Indian-American Vivek Murthy confirmed by Senate as Joe Biden's surgeon general, will focus on Covid, opioids

Vivek Murthy to be US President Joe Biden's surgeon general, handing the administration one of its top public health officials amid the Covid-19 pandemic.US Senators voted 57-43 to confirm the Indian American as Biden's surgeon general. Murthy served as surgeon general under the Obama administration but was fired by former President Donald Trump in 2017.Taking to Twitter, Vivek Murthy said, "I am deeply grateful to be confirmed by the Senate to serve once again as your Surgeon General.

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Newly confirmed surgeon general to focus on COVID, opioids

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed a soft-spoken physician as President Joe Biden's surgeon general Tuesday. While Dr. Vivek Murthy says ending the coronavirus pandemic is his top priority, he's also raised concerns over a relapsing opioid overdose crisis.

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Biden and Harris to focus on shootings during Georgia trip

ATLANTA – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris plan to meet with Asian American community leaders in Georgia in the wake of the deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, the White House announced Thursday.

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HBO Max documentary to focus on U.S. Women’s soccer team, equal pay lawsuits

In case you were living under a rock during the summer of 2019, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team took the world by storm when the squad won the Women’s World Cup for the second consecutive time, and fourth time overall.

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Myanmar factory attacks put focus on Chinese influence

BANGKOK – Confusion over what exactly happened during recent attacks on factories in Myanmar has highlighted the complex and troubled nature of the country's relations with China amid a broad public backlash against a Feb. 1 coup.

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PM Modi asks Karnataka to focus on controlling Covid surge in Bengaluru

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Covid spreading exponentially, focus on micro-containment zones: PM Modi tells CMs

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Mint Lite | WHO & Covid vaccination, UK's India focus, lethal pollution & more

WHO urges not to halt vaccinationThe World Health Organization (WHO) appealed to countries on Monday not to pause vaccination campaigns after two more European nations and one in Asia joined a handful that have suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine over safety fears. Indonesia said it would wait after Ireland and the Netherlands announced suspensions on Sunday.

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Connecticut's zoning laws a focus in racial equity debate

After the police killing of George Floyd, a Connecticut law professor invited architects, planners and land use attorneys to a discussion of how local zoning worsens the state's racial inequities. Over 200 people logged onto her impromptu Zoom meeting.

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Markets likely to stay volatile on covid concerns; telecom, auto stocks in focus

ended at 50,395.08, down 397 points or 0.78%. The Nifty closed at 14,929.50 down 101.45 points or 0.67%.Asian stocks edged higher on Tuesday after Wall Street’s main indices closed at record highs and investors awaited comments from the US central bank’s meeting later this week.The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both surged on gains in travel stocks as mass vaccinations in the United States and congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion aid bill fueled investor optimism.Investors are focused on the US Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, which will conclude on Wednesday, as rising bond yields fuel concerns for a pickup in inflation.

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5 ways covid-19 has shifted our focus to health and wellness

Staying healthyThe primary focus has been towards health in order to avoid the risk of catching coronavirus infection. People are exercising regularly, eating nutritious diets, preferably plant-based foods and maintaining hygiene to keep germs and viruses at bay.

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1st US ministers' Japan visit under Biden to focus on China

TOKYO – Concerns about China's growing influence in the region is expected to be a main focus when two ministers of President Joe Biden's administration visits Japan for their first in-person talks with their Japanese counterparts.

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Vaccine events focus on school employees as Florida reports 5,244 new COVID-19 cases

ORLANDO, Fla. – Teachers, school staff and child care workers are getting prioritized when in comes to vaccinations.

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Focus BC – Friday March 12

Registration for B.C.’s mass immunization program kicked off this week with a few hiccups. Richard Zussman is with health minister Adrian Dix, and they discuss the issues and successes of the roll-out.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0