A passerby wearing a mask walks past a Stay Home Save Lives advert on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. New measures have been brought into place today in a bid to halt the spread of the new COVID variant. Photograph by Colin Mearns
16th January 2021 I LIVE in Old Pollok, Glasgow, where 10 households I know of have been breaking lockdown rules since March and continue to do so, including overnight stays. How can we beat this virus when people are behaving like this? Do we deserve to beat it? Name address supplied WE asked on our Facebook page for readers’ views on the return of P1-P3 pupils to school this week. Here’s a selection of reponses.
Saturday Links: Friday Night Embarcadero Shooting Leaves Two Injured
There was a double shooting Friday night near Drumm Street at the Hyatt Regency Hotel that left two men injured. One man is said to have sustained life-threatening injuries, while the other one is recovering from less severe wounds; both men were taken to a nearby hospital and police are still looking for the gunman. [ABC7]
SF police have set up additional patrols around Chinatown over the Lunar New Year weekend after a wake of violent attacks on older Asians. [KRON4]
The navigation center in District 3 which is designated to help mostly homeless youth between 18 to 24 opened this week at Post and Hyde streets. [Hoodline]