Brazilian senators voted on Tuesday to recommend that the country’s Prosecutor-General Augusto Aras charge President Jair Bolsonaro over the government’s ‘errors’ during the Covid pandemic, which led to more than 600,000 deaths. The vote, which marked the culmination of a six-month inquiry into the Brazilian government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, saw the Senate back […]
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Brazilian Senate committee drops homicide accusation against Bolsonaro, recommends indicting president for 10 crimes over pandemic
Brazilian senators have presented their “final” report on the alleged crimes of President Jair Bolsonaro over his government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The list of recommended charges includes “crimes against humanity.” The Senate’s Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) presented an almost 1,200-page document late on Tuesday. The report, which follows the committee’s six-month-long investigation, concludes […]
Cseke Attila: Nu am ajuns în vârful valului pandemic, nici măcar pe platou. Presiunea e uriaşă pe sistemul sanitar
„Din păcate, ceea ce trebuie să conştientizăm cu toţii este că la un asemenea nivel de vaccinare pe care îl avem – şi analiza va trebui făcută la un moment dat într-o situaţie în care (…) putem să fim mult mai lucizi – cu asemenea grad de vaccinare noi chiar dacă la un moment dat […]
Noul val pandemic afectează piața imobiliară din România
Valul 4 a stagnat prețul imobiliarelor pe piața închirierilor din România. Prima creștere în rândul chiriilor rezidențiale s-a înregistrat în septembrie, pe când planul de învățământ prevedea reluarea școlilor în format fizic. Cele mai căutate tipuri de locuințe rămân, în continuare, apartamentele, urmate de garsoniere și vile. Noul val al pandemiei de COVID-19 a determinat […]
Over 50 million people suffered from major depressive disorder in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic, new global study estimates
The coronavirus pandemic has added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid-19 has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third. While “mental disorders were leading causes of the global health-related burden” even before the pandemic, the […]
Analişti: Şansele ca BNR să crească azi dobânda, între 25% şi 40%. Riscul politic şi cel pandemic ar contribui la decizie
„Ne așteptăm ca Banca Națională a României să își mențină rata politicii neschimbată la 1,25% la ședința din 5 octombrie. În opinia noastră, aceasta va fi ultima ședință înainte de începerea ciclului de drumeții, prin urmare, ne așteptăm la o declarație destul de șubredă în urma ședinței Consiliului. De fapt, datorită inflației semnificativ mai mari […]
Canadian military saw Covid-19 pandemic as ‘unique opportunity’ to deploy propaganda on own population – report
The Canadian military has acknowledged unleashing a propaganda op against its own citizens without government approval, insisting the Covid-19 pandemic presented both an unprecedented opportunity and a crisis to be averted. The Canadian Joint Operations Command saw the Covid-19 pandemic as a “unique opportunity” to deploy tactics previously only used in foreign wars domestically, according […]
Minus 2 years of life: Study compares mortality impact of Covid pandemic to WWII aftermath, shows life expectancy drop globally
The coronavirus pandemic “triggered significant mortality increases” last year across Europe, in the US and Latin America, a study from Oxford scientists shows. The virus has cut life expectancy by as much as 2.2 years. Life expectancy, or the average age to which a newborn would live if current death rates continued throughout its lifespan, […]
Covid-19 pandemic will be over in a year, Moderna chief executive says
The CEO of US pharma giant Moderna, Stephane Bancel, has come up with a reassuring forecast, suggesting that increasing vaccine production could see the coronavirus pandemic finally coming to an end in mid-2022. “If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the […]
Canada’s Trudeau says he has clear mandate to get country through pandemic after opposition concedes election defeat
Incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has celebrated victory in Monday’s federal election, despite his Liberal Party falling short of his desired goal of clinching a majority in the parliament. “Thank you, Canada,” Trudeau, who won his third term as PM, wrote on Twitter. The Leftist leader said he was grateful to the Canadians “for putting […]
Resistance to vaccines, lack of collective response to pandemic shows liberalism ‘going totally wrong’ – Slavoj Zizek to RT
The growing inability to take collective action on pressing issues such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic is a sign that the ideology of liberalism has gone “totally wrong,” cultural philosopher Slavoj Zizek told RT. “We simply cannot – especially in the so-called developed West – unite even on basic values that would allow […]
UNICEF urges schools to completely reopen, as millions of kids’ educations still disrupted by Covid after 18 months of pandemic
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic 18 months ago, the schools of millions of children worldwide remain almost totally closed, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said, urging institutions to reopen. In an urgent warning released on Thursday, the organization said schools for almost 77 million students in six nations are still nearly […]
Gates Foundation warns about future pandemic threats as Covid-19 response continues to snarl world economy
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose advice guided much of the global response to the Covid pandemic, has seemingly washed its hands of one virus while warning the world isn’t prepared to deal with the next big pandemic. The foundation’s annual report, released on Tuesday, bemoaned the poverty increases wrought “by Covid-19” – omitting […]
New Zealand PM says hospital visitors should not have sex with patients during pandemic – or any other time
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made it clear that hospital visitors should not be having sex with patients after the country’s director-general of health called such activity “high-risk” due to Covid-19. During a coronavirus press conference on Thursday, Ardern was asked by a reporter about an “allegation of sexual relations between a patient […]







