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Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from CORONAVIRUS in Europe, according to a new study. The team at Imperial College London said the “death toll would have been huge” without lockdown. But they warned that only a small proportion of people had been infected and we were still only “at the beginning of the pandemic”. They found restrictions had a “substantial effect” in reducing transmission levels of the virus in a modelling study involving data from 11 countries from the continent up to early May. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.…

Indian officials have sentenced a tiger to a life in captivity after killing three people, stating it was “too dangerous” to be allowed to roam free. Moreover, It is blamed for attacking cattle. The five-year-old male predator had embarked on a trek more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) long from western Maharashtra state to central India’s Betul district in Madhya Pradesh state in 2018. “We gave it several chances to re-wild but it habitually went into human habitations,” Madhya Pradesh’s chief wildlife warden, S.K. Mandal, told local news agency. Tiger captivity procedures “The only option left was to put it…

New Zealand health authorities announced that the country had no active cases of  COVID-19 cases after the country´s final patient was given the all-clear and released from isolation. A lone woman in her 50s, who lived in Auckland, was the last person in New Zealand known to be suffering from Covid-19. On Monday, health officials said, she had reported 48 hours symptom-free and was now considered recovered. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1269910347110060032 The milestone was “really good news” health department director-general Ashley Bloomfield said. “and an achievement the whole of New Zealand could take heart from,” he added Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern “did a…

The death of George Floyd has sparked protests in all 50 states in the US and caused international outrage. His death has led to a majority of Minneapolis City Council vowing to dismantle the local police department.  Nine of the 13 councillors said a “new model of public safety” would be created in a city where law enforcement has been accused of racism. It is unclear what form the new structural reform will take but is a major turning point for activists of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.  The video of Floyd’s death shows officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on…

Monday, June 8 coronavirus updates BRIEF – ME! – DAILY NEWS BRIEFINGMonday 8 June 2020 News Briefing – Today’s headlines are dominated by the global Coronavirus Pandemic. As of 6:30 am (GMT), these are the global active numbers.Global COVID-19 UPDATECoronavirus Cases: 7,092,919Deaths: 406,207Recovered: 3,462,185 UK travel quarantine rule comes into effect Headlines: What the papers say? NYC to reopen next week.Covid-19 crisis halts cancer screenings in Japan.UK travel quarantine rule to come into effect.UK lockdown: charities raise alarm as thousands face poverty.NZ to lift all lockdown measures as country clears its last case.Saudi Arabia’s cases exceed 100,000 as a further 36 people…

Places of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week. The UK government said Sunday it will reopen places of worship for individual prayer on June 15 as it reportedly looks to speed up easing measures in order to save jobs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said services and worship groups will still be banned for the time being due to concern that the new coronavirus spreads more quickly in enclosed spaces. These are not expected to include weddings of any size, or full services – which will come at…

A 10-foot (3m) great white shark has attacked and killed a 60-year-old surfer off of Australia, police have said. Several surfers tried to help the man after he was attacked in the waters off Salt Beach in South Kingscliff, New South Wales, just after 10 am on Sunday. Two men fought off the shark before taking him onto the beach where he was given first aid. The shark bit the leg of the surfer,  off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney. Despite their efforts, the man, from Tugun, Queensland, died on the beach, police said. He died later at…

Brazil has removed months of data on COVID-19  from a government website amid criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the outbreak. The health ministry said it would now only be reporting cases and deaths in the past 24 hours. It will no longer give a total figure as most countries do. https://twitter.com/axios/status/1269529623705948160 Mr Bolsonaro said the cumulative data did not reflect the current picture. Brazil’s new CORONAVIRUS records Brazil has the world’s second-highest number of cases and has recently had more new deaths than any other nation. The Latin American country has more than 640,000 confirmed infections. The number is…

All four officers involved in the arrest that ended in George Floyd’s death have now been charged and held on a $1 million bail each.  Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, had his charges expanded this week. His charges now include second-degree murder. This more serious charge was added to charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.  The three other officers — Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng, who helped to restrain Floyd and Tou Thao, who stood nearby — are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and…

Friday June 5 coronavirus updates BRIEF – ME! – DAILY NEWS BRIEFINGFriday 5 June 2020 News Briefing – Today’s headlines are dominated by the global Coronavirus Pandemic. As of 6:30 am (GMT), these are the global active numbers.Global COVID-19 UPDATECoronavirus Cases: 6,714,335Deaths: 393, 408Recovered: 3,261,276 Thousands of homeless back on the streets by July Headlines: What the papers say? More than 1,000 US deaths reported in 24 hours.UK: Thousands of homeless back on the streets by July.Doctor quits NHS over Dominic Cummings’ row.Lebanon extends its lockdown until July 5.Pandemic is now ‘under control’ in France.  More than 1,000 coronavirus deaths reported in…