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Fiji now has 4,496 active COVID-19 cases in isolation and 27 deaths from the deadly virus We are also sadly seeing people with severe disease die at home or on the way to hospital - Dr Fong Fiji now has 4,496 active COVID-19 cases in isolation and 27 deaths from the deadly virus We are also sadly seeing people with severe disease die at home or on the way to hospital - Dr Fong [Image: Ministry of Health and Medical Services COVID-19 Dashboard] Fiji now has 4,496 active COVID-19 cases in isolation and 27 deaths from the deadly virus. Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms there are 386 new cases of COVID-19 and 2 COVID-19 deaths to report for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am today. ....
Seven British Army veterans at the centre of historic Northern Ireland allegations from the Troubles could have cases against them dropped - after a separate murder trial of two soldiers collapsed for relying on old statements. The Public Prosecution Service, based in Belfast, is re-examining files on the former soldiers, who were either being considered for charge or already proceeding through the courts. They are specifically checking whether any of the cases rely on statements from the Historic Enquiries Team, a now disbanded police group which had looked at British services roles in deaths during the Northern Ireland conflict. It comes after the murder trial of two veterans over the shooting of IRA commander Joe McCann collapsed last week, with them being formerly acquitted yesterday. ....
The BBC was criticised today for allowing the daughter of an Official IRA leader to refute claims that he murdered 15 soldiers during an interview on Radio 4. Aíne McCann, 52, was three when her father Joe McCann was shot dead aged 24 in Belfast in 1972 in disputed circumstances, allegedly by a group of three soldiers. At the time a police investigation failed to result in a prosecution, and nearly 50 years on the witch-hunt trial of two former soldiers collapsed yesterday. But Ms McCann told BBC Radio 4 s Today programme this morning that her father had been defamed during the court case and faced ridiculous accusations . ....
Almost half a century ago, Northern Ireland’s home affairs minister John Taylor was ambushed leaving the family engineering business in his home town of Armagh. Two men raked the 34-year-old’s car with machine-gun fire. He was hit five times in the face and neck and left for dead, slumped over the steering wheel. Somehow, the politician, just about to become a father, survived. But his wounds were so severe he spent a year in hospital, requiring reconstructive surgery to the jaw. The Official IRA claimed responsibility for what was the first assassination attempt on a member of the Northern Ireland government. ....