WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland s main opposition party called on Thursday for changes in the law to allow pregnancies to be terminated on demand, in a substantial policy shift amid growing strife over abortion in the predominantly Catholic nation. However while the centrist Civic Platform (PO) announced a change in its platform, legislative changes are unlikely in the current parliamentary term, which is due to continue until 2023. A Constitutional Court ruling mandating a near total ban on abortion from last October has upturned nearly three decades of broad consensus in Poland that abortion should be allowed only in the case of rape, incest, a threat to the mother s health and foetal abnormality. The ruling also exposed growing support among young voters in particular for a liberalisation of abortion rules in line with the European mainstream, despite the nationalist government s backing of the court verdict. The PO said on Thursday it wanted women to have access to abortions at up to 12
Covid 19 coronavirus: The Baker twins - disease expert s TV interviews confuse patients at Sydney clinic
18 Feb, 2021 07:24 AM
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David and Michael Baker. Photo / Supplied
He s known as one of the public faces of the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand, but Michael Baker s regular appearances on TV are causing confusion across the ditch.
People in Sydney are confusing the University of Otago epidemiologist with his identical twin brother, David, a GP in central Sydney.
Dr David Baker s patients keep asking him why he s always appearing on New Zealand television to talk about Covid-19, not realising the brothers are twins.
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23% are still not willing to take either of the vaccines and the remaining 16% are unaware of these vaccines GOQii, a smart-tech-enabled, preventive healthcare platform, launched its India Fit Report 2021 to share insights into the impact of Covid-19 on people’s health and lifestyles. The report deals especially with citizens’ perception of the vaccine roll-out.
The survey revealed that 79 per cent of the respondents felt that India was effective in curbing Covid-19. Almost 89 per cent of surveyed respondents feel that the Centre was effective in curbing the Covid-19 pandemic. As for the state governments, only 25 per cent of the respondents think that they were effective in curbing the spread of Covid-19.