By Press Association 2021
Police officers
A third of police officers have been threatened with infection by members of the public claiming to have Covid-19, research suggests.
A survey of around one in 10 rank-and-file officers by the Police Federation of England and Wales found that 30% said at least once during the last six months a member of the public thought to have the virus had threatened to spit at them.
And 32% said someone who they believed to have Covid-19 had threatened to breathe or cough on them.
Police Federation chairman John Apter said the weaponising of Covid-19 was ‘a sad indictment’ of society (Steve Parsons/PA)
Happiness gap in the Land of Smiles
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published : 13 Jan 2021 at 04:00
35 In this 2010 file photo, visitors view an exhibition, Siam, Land of Smiles presenting various expressions of smiles at a Bangkok department store.
How happy are people in the Land of Smiles? Not too happy. In fact, the Thai people s spirit was at its lowest last year, and things don t look much brighter in 2021.
According to the World Happiness Report which ranks countries around the world by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be, Thailand s level of happiness has been steadily declining since 2012 with 2020 being the worst year in the past decade.