Abstentions expected as Catalonia goes to polls despite pandemic February 14, 2021
Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that Madrid hopes will unseat the region s ruling separatists.
MADRID Catalonia goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that Madrid hopes will unseat the region s ruling separatists. More than three years ago they failed to break away from Spain by holding an illegal referendum.
This vote could see a high level of abstentions as the country battles a third wave of the pandemic. Regional authorities have ramped up restrictions to slow soaring case numbers after the Christmas holidays.
Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa will resign next week to campaign in regional elections in Catalonia, an official from his party said on Thursday, while national authorities reported a record 44,357 new daily coronavirus cases.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/494426.html (Natural News) Amtrak is offering bonuses to its employees willing to get vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus. The public transport operator has set aside $3 million for this purpose, in order to expedite the protection of both Amtrak employees and the riding public. With its announcement, Amtrak joins several major U.S. companies rewarding essential workers who undergo immunization against COVID-19.
The quasi-public corporation told
Fox Business how it will reward workers who willingly take a COVID-19 jab. Amtrak employees will be granted excused absences to get the vaccine and be paid an allowance worth two hours of their daily rate. But workers need to present documentation that they indeed received the vaccine before they can avail of these perks.
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January 18, 2021
PRAGUE (AP) PRAGUE The fast-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in the U.K. has been found in the Czech Republic, a health official said Monday.
The National Institute of Public Health confirmed its findings after it announced over the weekend it was testing suspected samples.
Health Minister Jan Blatny says the variant accounts for about 10% of all sequenced samples in in the country. No further details were provided.
The country of 10.7 million has reported 891,852 confirmed coronavirus cases and 14,449 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The daily infection rate has been in decline since Jan 6., prompting the government to allow stores selling stationary and children’s clothes and shoes to reopen. The country still remains under a tough lockdown with a nighttime curfew.
The blame for the explosion of cases and deaths in Spain lies squarely on the shoulders of the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, which has refused point-blank to take any serious measures to control the pandemic.