WASHINGTON — Países como Seychelles, Mongolia y Bahrein enfrentan un incremento de casos de COVID-19 tras haber confiado en las vacunas chinas contra el coronavirus, que son de fácil acceso. Las vacunas chinas pueden no ser muy efectivas para prevenir la propagación del virus, particularmente las nuevas variantes, afirmaron varios países. En Seychelles, Chile, Bahrein y Mongolia, entre el 50 y el 68 por ciento de la población ha sido completamente inoculada con vacunas chinas, superando incluso los índices de vacunación de Estados Unidos, según Our World in Data, un proyecto de seguimiento de datos. Sin embargo, estos países se encuentran…
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CHENNAI, India — As India slowly begins to unlock from the pandemic-induced restrictions caused by a deadly second wave of Covid-19, one of the country’s largest employers is looking to stage a recovery. India’s retail sector accounts for 10 percent of the country’s national Gross Domestic Product but was severely hit by lockdowns. The industry, valued at $883 billion last year, was projected to grow to $1.3 trillion by 2024. Instead, retailers face losses worth almost $30 billion, according to Kumar Rajagopalan, the chief executive of the sector’s apex body, Retailers Association of India. “It has been one and a half months since our electronics store is shut,…
After launching his administration by enacting one of the top wish list items for U.S. environmentalists, Republican critics argued President Joe Biden’s executive order, putting a pause on petroleum exploration on public lands, was bad policy. They also claimed it violated the law and would hurt local communities. A federal court recently put an early roadblock in front of Biden’s efforts to limit oil drilling on public lands. The push is having unintended consequences in New Mexico, where Democrats are working to limit the damage it would have on the budget, while supporting Biden’s message. Last week, a U.S. federal judge…
Italian police used their car to climb up and rescue a 2-year-old girl who was sitting on a window sill after her mother fell asleep. Local residents noticed the toddler was sitting on the window sill with her legs dangling in the air on the first floor of a building in the Primavalle area, in the outskirts of Rome, Italy, on June 22. The concerned residents immediately notified the police who arrived on the scene. According to reports, upon arrival, the police rang the intercom of the apartment several times trying to find out whether there was someone else in…
Vitya the raccoon has become a social-media sensation, thanks to video exploits showing him swimming and traveling thousands of miles across Russia with his owners, who treat him “like a son.” Olesya Shilyaeva and Evgeny Shilyaev said they thought of getting a dog when they came across a raccoon on Instagram and fell in love with the idea of owning one. The couple then adopted little Vitya when he was only 2 months old, noting it is legal to keep a raccoon at home where they live and that “special nurseries breed them” in Russia. “Vitya draws pictures, travels by…
Israeli company Inovytec won a Smart Cities Connect Smart 50 Award for its implementation of the SALI first-aid system in Marburg, Germany. The automated emergency care device has also been deployed in Romania and in Israel. The Smart 50 Awards, in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation and US Ignite, annually recognize the most innovative and influential global smart city projects. When someone experiences a cardiac or medical emergency in a public area where SALI is available, any bystander can open the case and place the patient’s head on an integrated headrest. A video screen inside guides…
West Virginia wants a 28-mile long tourist railroad to prime fishing territory. Ohio needs to do something about a Cincinnati interstate bridge which drops concrete on commuters. In Pennsylvania, hundreds of bridges are life expired, and six miles northeast of Detroit, two billion gallons of raw sewage are dumped into Lake St. Clair each year. This is just a taste of the reality of the battle over President Joseph R. Biden Jr’s infrastructure deal: in state houses, town halls and county seats across the country, officials are waiting to find out if their hopes to upgrade roads, railroads, bridges, water systems, ports and broadband…
In the bigger/stronger/faster era in professional sports, selecting the right trainer is a must. That’s where James Banks earns his keep. An elite performance coach who specializes in position-specific training with a focus on speed and agility, Banks works with one of the top young safeties in the NFL: the New Orleans Saints’ Ceedy Duce. Banks’ Forward Performance Athletes works with a lot of the top-tier talent coming out of Louisiana, and the results speak for themselves. Zenger News recently spoke with Banks about his relationship with Duce, how he started Forward Performance Athletes, how he preps players for today’s…
A wingsuit jumper, known as the Turkish Batman, who learned his skills with the British Army, flies from work to home every day — from a height of nearly 6,500 feet. Cengiz Kocak learned his flying skills by parachuting and doing other air sports during his 20-year military service. After graduating from military school in 1992, he served in Turkey for a while and then went to the British Army Infantry Training Center in England in 2000. When he retired from the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps in 2012, he made more than 5,000 jumps and received various medals by representing…
An award-winning photographer credits living in Spain, which has so many places to take great pictures, for his success. Fabio Galvez, who is from Zaragoza, started photography in 2012. He said that he was initially self-taught, learning via online videos, books and magazine articles, before attending a course at a technical school in Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain. (@fabio_galvez/Zenger News)Campillo de Duenas, Spain. (@fabio_galvez/Zenger News)After completing the course, Galvez attended some technical workshops to strengthen his skill set and develop his technique and methodology. He covered all styles of photography, but focused on landscape images, both natural and urban. He found it…