«Lockdown and all-related measures – the latter if adopted for prolonged and indefinite periods of time, well beyond the health emergency phase, so as to risk distorting the very essence of societies, and this is the case – are a crime against humanity as they constitute the crimes of imprisonment, torture and are acts causing great suffering to mental and physical health (section 7 of the Rome Statute)».
This is one of the most disruptive sentences of the explosive complaint signed by the Italian magistrate Angelo Giorgianni and sent yesterday, Wednesday 24 March, to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Ms Fatou Bensouda.
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2021-02-03 07:06:12 GMT2021-02-03 15:06:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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BERLIN, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that every COVID-19 vaccine is welcome in the European Union (EU) as the bloc is facing vaccine delivery difficulties.
Merkel made the remarks in a televised interview with the German public broadcast ARD program Farbe bekennen. Serbia is vaccinating faster. Serbia is vaccinating with the Chinese vaccine. We have always said that every vaccine trying to obtain approval from the European Medicines Agency is very welcome, said Merkel. I have spoken to the Russian president about this. Today we read good data from the Russian vaccine, said Merkel, referring to the Russian Sputnik V corona vaccine with an efficacy rate of 91.6 percent, according to the data published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet.
2021-02-02 09:06 By: Xinhua
A medical worker receives an injection with a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Spallanzani Hospital in Rome, Italy, Dec. 27, 2020. (Photo by Andrea Sabbadini/Xinhua)
The vaccines approved so far by the EU are from U.S.-German joint venture Pfizer and BioNTech, British-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca, and Moderna from the United States.
A senior European Commission official told Xinhua that the slowdown showed the need to have access to vaccines beyond the three already in the pipeline.
ROME, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) The European Union s (EU) vaccine rollout plan has been thrown into disarray after the manufacturers of all three vaccines approved for use in Europe warned countries of delivery delays over the coming weeks and months.
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