Even Scandinavia Can t Get Along: On COVID s Cold Diplomacy
Opens at the other end.
As a Swede, I know about a hundred jokes like that, and it wasn t until I moved to Norway in my early twenties I realized Norwegians tell the exact same ones about Swedes.
This fraternal rivalry between Scandinavian neighbors came to mind this morning as I read a headline in Swedish daily
Dagens Nyheterabout corona bullying. But the article wasn t about some schoolyard taunts or national chest-thumping, but rather a burgeoning erosion of longstanding cooperation on crucial matters of state between neighboring countries.
If such free and friendly countries can t make it work, what does it mean for international cooperation at large?
Cuba will implement a nightly curfew in Havana to combat Covid-19 spread
From CNN s Patrick Oppmann
A woman walks near a graffiti with the Cuban flag in Havana, on January 12, 2021. Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
Cuba s capital city Havana will implement a nightly curfew starting Friday, according to the island s state-run media.
People will not be able to leave their homes after 9 p.m. local time without special permission, according to Luis Torres, the president of Havana s defense council, as reported by the government Radio Rebelde station.
Officials did not say how long the curfew would last.
Cuba is experiencing its highest spike in Covid-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with the largest concentration of cases being in Havana. The island has a total of 30,345 confirmed cases and 225 Covid-19 related deaths according to John Hopkins University.
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The data came from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federal program that collects information regarding adverse effects that occur after the administration of vaccines. VAERS is a passive system, which means that the program does not automatically collect reports; instead, affected individuals – patients, family members, physicians and other healthcare workers and providers – must file them.
According to VAERS’ own website, the reports submitted to the system represent only a small fraction of actual adverse events. However, underreporting is believed to be less common for serious events. This means that while only 55 people were reported to have died because of coronavirus vaccines, there are potentially dozens more out there suffering from adverse reactions.
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