This week the elected representatives will troop into Parliament to represent the electors. Ostensibly! Frequently, time set aside to ponder over public cause is hijacked by puerile puffery. If the past is to be treated as the prologue, the four-week Monsoon Session will witness high political drama and the amplification of allegations and counter-allegations ricocheting off the walls of the 1927 edifice.
The pall of grief and gloom unleashed by the pandemic, with millions pushed over the edge of penury, signals the need to put public purpose above partisan politics. The expectation though wholly legitimate may be a tall ask given the reign of rhetoric. Hopefully, the elected will find the occasion, between bouts of hyperbole and halla bol, to seek answers to questions of those struggling to preserve lives and livelihoods.
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and i said, look, we can do this. - [narrator] take advantage of some of the lowest online tuition rates in the nation. find your degree at snhu.edu. at this hour, england s long-awaited reopening plans may be on hold amid a wave of new coronavirus infections. the spike in cases is linked to the highly contagious delta variant that is now the dominant strain in the uk. cnn s scott mclean has been following this for us. how bad is it there? reporter: hey, kate. well, the numbers are pretty small still. less than ten deaths in the last 24 hours, less than 8,000 cases.
profess professor adam fin says we still have a lot of people that neither had this infection or been immunized and that s why we re in a vulnerable position right now. in a dramatic development, the uk reported no virus related deaths on tuesday for the first time since the pandemic began. but experts and officials say a rise in variant infections cannot be ignored and reopening plans should be reconsidered. so let s turn to cnn s reporter who joins us live from london. good to see you bianca. how likely is it that british government will reconsider the reopening plans at this point? the prime minister said throughout he would follow the data. and there are also several tests that he put in place to judge whether or not it s appropriate to continue with unlocking down the country. and one of those tests which is key for this discussion is that there can t be an emergence of a new variant which might throw
facing severe shortages. an dpint panel of experts has recommended sinovac for anyone over 18. peru s government revealed what many already expected. covid-19 has been far deadlier there than the official numbers have shown. here s a look at the death toll before monday s announcement just over 69,000. now though that number has more than doubled to nearly 181,000. that s the highest per capita death rate in the world. the country was already one of the worst hit in latin america and recently extended a state of emergency and nationwide lockdown until the end of this month. a top uk scientist says if the country wants to avoid a third wave of coronavirus, it needs to delay its reopening plans. it s the latest voice to warn against a speedy reopening.