28 Dec 2020
Representatives from the 27 remaining European member states “provisionally” approved the Brexit deal agreed between London and Brussels negotiators on Monday, while Tory Eurosceptics may vote in favour of the deal this week, despite concerns about scrutiny.
Ambassadors form EU member states met in Brussels Monday, and unanimously approved the Brexit deal. The move opens the way for the document to active an January 1st, but the decision is only provisional the Euroepan Parliament will scrutinise the agreement and vote on it in January or perhaps later in 2021, reports the BBC.
The working group of European states is known as the European Council, distinct from the European Parliament, European Commission, and a myriad of other bodies that make up the institutions of the European Union and its associated parts. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote Monday that he had spoken to European Council boss Charles Michel at the time of the agreement, remarking that: “I
KINGSTON, N.Y. â Ulster County had its worst single-day COVID-19 positivity rate in the second wave of this virus pandemic Tuesday.
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The county s new infection rate was 9.2% as 110 individuals tested positive over the last 24 hours from 1,190 tests conducted. It surpasses the 8.4% rate recorded just last Wednesday, Dec. 16.
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Ulster reported 106 recoveries on its COVID online dashboard. Thus the active caseload rose only rose from 2,052 to 2,056.Â
Since testing began in March, the county has 5,404 confirmed cases and 3,217 recoveries. There were no deaths reported Tuesday. Overall fatalities stand at 131.Â