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By Theodore Shoebat In society, there is a tendency to react with excessive justice to a wrong, and this at times entails mass murder. Thi...

Spreads Quickly In Air: Vietnam On Hybrid Of Variants Found In India, UK

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More than 6,800 COVID-19 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam. (File)
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Hanoi:
Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the strains first found in India and Britain, health officials confirmed Saturday.
The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
More than 6,800 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, with the lion's share occurring since April.
"We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the strains first found in  Indian and the UK," Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told a national meeting on the pandemic Saturday, according to state media.
"The characteristic of this strain is that it spreads quickly in the air. The concentration of virus in the throat fluid increases rapidly and spreads very strongly to the surrounding environment."
He did not specify the number of cases recorded with this new variant but said Vietnam will soon announce the discovery in the world's map of genetic strains.
Vietnam's Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology said in a statement Saturday that its scientists had detected gene mutations in four out of 32 patient samples through gene sequencing.
There were seven known coronavirus variants in Vietnam before Long's announcement, according to the Ministry of Health.
The country has previously received widespread applause for its aggressive pandemic response, with mass quarantines and strict contact tracing helping keep infection rates relatively low.
The new round of infections has made the public and government fearful and authorities have quickly moved to place strict limits on movement and business activity.
Cafes, restaurants, hair salons and massage parlours as well as tourism and religious spots have been ordered to close in various areas of the country.
Vietnam -- a country of 97 million people -- has vaccinated a little over a million citizens.
It is now ramping up its jab rollout and hopes to achieve herd immunity by the end of the year, according to the health minister.
Authorities have called on people and businesses to donate money to help procure vaccines, while embassies and international organisations have been contacted for assistance, state media reported.
The country presently has close to two million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine remaining, but said it is buying more than 30 million doses of the Pfizer shot.
It is also in talks with Russia to produce Sputnik V, according to state media, and is working on a home-grown vaccine.
In nearby Thailand, the government on Saturday took exception to media reports in Britain that labelled a new strain causing concern there as the "Thai variant".
The strain was first detected in Thailand in a 33-year-old Egyptian traveller, UK health authorities said, but 109 cases have since been found in Britain.
"Principally speaking, it should not be called the Thai variant because the infected person is from overseas," said Opas Kankawinpong, head of Thailand's disease control department.
 
 
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Video: Crew And Passengers Jump Into Sea As Indonesian Ferry Catches Fire

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Smoke billowing from the KM Karya Indah ferry sailing in the Molucca sea heading for Sanana
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Jakarta:
Search and rescue teams are looking for a person still missing after hundreds were rescued from a passenger ferry that caught fire in Indonesia's Molucca Sea, local officials said on Sunday.
Passenger ferry KM Karya Indah was travelling in a remote part of the Indonesian archipelago, from Ternate in the province of North Maluku towards Sanana on the island of Sulabes, when the fire broke out early on Saturday morning.
Dramatic footage from Indonesia's search and rescue agency showed the vessel engulfed in smoke and part of the ship ablaze as passengers in life vests jumped from the deck to lifeboats.
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Cruise with a 🔥🔥: off the coast of Indonesia, the KM Karya Indah ferry with tourists caught fire, the fire started just 15 minutes after leaving the port. There were 181 passengers and 14 crew members on board.... everyone was saved 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/NXkpoKyjq2">pic.twitter.com/NXkpoKyjq2</a>
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Search and rescue officials said 274 people had been rescued from the vessel without injury and taken to a nearby village, while one person was still missing.
"The search is still continuing. Today's search and rescue plan (will be conducted) by a joint search and rescue team," head of the Ternate search and rescue team, Muhamad Arafah, said in a statement on Sunday.
Initial reports suggest the fire may have started in the engine room. Indonesian officials said they are investigating the cause of the incident.
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1 Dead, 4 Taken To Hospital After Shooting Near Toronto

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Police said in a statement on Twitter they had no information on suspects in the shooting.
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Ottawa [Canada]:
Police in the Peel region near Toronto said on Saturday one person was killed and four were transported to hospitals in the Toronto area "in various conditions" after a shooting.
Police said in a statement on Twitter they had no information on suspects in the shooting, adding that the homicide bureau would take over the investigation. There were no further details.
Local reports said the shooting took place inside Chicken Land, a family-run take-out restaurant in a small strip mall.
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Thousands Protest In Brazil Against President Bolsonaro's Covid Response

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Protests in Brazil: Demonstrators protesting against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of Covid.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Tens of thousands of people in Brazil staged another day of protest against President Jair Bolsonaro, in particular for his chaotic handling of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 461,000 lives here.
In downtown Rio de Janeiro, some 10,000 people wearing masks marched through the streets, with some chanting "Bolsonaro genocide" or "Go away Bolsovirus."
Similar rallies were held in other major cities, the latest in a wave of anger against Bolsonaro that began months ago. After the United States, Brazil has the world's second highest coronavirus death toll.
At the outset of the pandemic, the far right Bolsonaro dismissed Covid-19 as "a little flu" and as the death toll has risen steadily he has gone on to infuriate people in other ways, opposing stay-at-home measures and masks, touting ineffective medications, refusing offers of vaccines, and failing to anticipate oxygen shortages that left patients to suffocate.
One of the themes of the rally Saturday was how many lives might have been saved if the Bolsonaro government had started Brazil's vaccination drive earlier. The drive is going slowly and has sputtered frequently for lack of supplies.
"We must stop this government. We must say 'enough is enough,'" businessman Omar Silveira told AFP at the Rio rally.
Of Bolsonaro, he said: "He is a murderer, a psychopath. He has no feelings. He does not feel, as we do. He cannot perceive the disaster that he is causing."
Demonstrators also assailed Bolsonaro for allowing deforestation of the Amazon and land seizures from indigenous people, and said he encourages violence and racism.
Rallies were held Saturday in other major cities such as the capital Brasilia, Salvador in the northeast and Belo Horizonte in the southeast.  
In the northeastern city of Recife, police firing tear gas and rubber bullets dispersed a street rally, said the news website G1.
Brasilia saw its largest rally since the start of the pandemic as people marched on Congress, where a senate commission is investigating Bolsonaro's handling of the health crisis.
The past two weekends supporters of Bolsonaro held demonstrations in support of him -- and at his request -- as his approval rating plummeted to a record low of 24 percent, according to a poll by Datafolha.
Around 49 percent of those questioned favor Bolsonaro being removed from office while 46 percent are opposed, this pollster said.
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"Help Us Free...": Parents Of Belarus Critic Arrested From Diverted Plane

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Roman Protasevich's parents said their son looked like he had been beaten in video released by officials
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Warsaw, Poland:
Hundreds of people in Warsaw on Saturday rallied in support of the Belarusian opposition, days after the regime in Minsk diverted a European passenger plane and arrested a dissident journalist onboard.
Among those present were the Poland-based parents of the detained journalist, 26-year-old Roman Protasevich.
"I'm calling on all EU countries and the US to please help us free Roman and (his girlfriend) Sofia, as well as everyone else imprisoned," his mother Natalia Protasevich said.
"We want to live in a free country, in a country where everyone has the right to express his beliefs," his father Dmitry added.
The crowd chanted "Long Live Belarus" and held up the opposition's red and white flag as well as signs with slogans such as "Help Belarus," "Freedom for Belarus" and "North Korea in the Middle of Europe".
Protasevich and Sofia Sapega, 23, were arrested last Sunday after Belarus scrambled a military jet to divert the Ryanair plane they were travelling on.
Protasevich's parents said their son looked like he had been beaten in a video later released by Belarusian authorities.
The forced landing triggered a global outcry, but a defiant Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, said he had "acted lawfully to protect our people" from an alleged bomb threat on the plane.
The EU has banned Belarusian airlines, urged EU airlines not to cross Belarusian airspace and threatened tough economic sanctions on Lukashenko's Kremlin-backed regime.
"Things look really bad now. That's why we need to do something, show those fighting back home that they're not alone," said Natallia Burak, a 35-year-old Belarusian living in Warsaw.
"I have a lot of hope now that Europe will help us, because it's hard to fight against a regime that has everything, that has power, whereas here we are just armed with flags," the saleswoman told AFP.
"As a Belarusian, we see a lot of wild and outrageous things. You know, that same week there was a person killed in prison," said another rally attendee, 38-year-old software engineer Alexey.
Elsewhere in Warsaw, Polish-Belarusian activist Jana Shostak screamed for one minute in front of the European Commission representation office to protest the situation in Belarus.
Often dubbed "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko has retained his nearly three-decade-long grip on power by hounding opponents, jailing and allegedly torturing dissidents, and muzzling independent media.
Lukashenko and his allies are already under a series of Western sanctions over a crackdown on protests after his disputed re-election last August.
His opponents say the polls were rigged and that political novice Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who ran in place of her jailed husband, was the true winner.
Tikhanovskaya, who has been living in exile in Lithuania, tweeted Saturday that "my husband... was imprisoned by the regime exactly one year ago."
The opposition leader and several hundred others marched to the Belarusian embassy in Lithuania on Saturday to protest Lukashenko's rule, while passing cars honked in support.
"We will win. We will come back home and bring back our loved ones," Tikhanovskaya told the crowd in the capital Vilnius.
"It is our duty to build a new Belarus."
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