Background
The devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to be felt across the globe. Many countries, including our three main territories, South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia, are experiencing second waves of the pandemic, with governments in these countries being left with no alternative but to impose further lockdown restrictions to protect its citizens and curb the spread of the virus.
In South Africa, the country reverted to adjusted Level 3 restrictions from 29 December 2020. In the UK, following the second national lockdown from 5 November to 2 December 2020, a third national lockdown was announced on 4 January 2021. In Australia, different states and territories have different levels of restrictions based on the specific number of positive cases in each region.
The end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, was characterised by a final cold phase called the Younger Dryas. Scandinavia was still mostly covered in ice, and across Europe the mountains had many more, and larger, glaciers than today. The
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Data confirms both of the plane’s engines operating when the plane hit the water
Reuters
January 15, 2021
Indonesia Navy members carry a part of the retrieved black box of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182, which crashed into the sea at the weekend off the Jakarta coast, in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 12, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
JAKARTA:
Indonesian investigators have successfully downloaded information from the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea last week, its transport safety agency said on Friday.
The recorder “has 330 parameters and all are in good conditions,” the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) said in a statement, referring to the available data.