Brazil Reports 2nd Straight Day Of Record Covid Deaths By Valeria PACHECO
on March 04 2021 9:53 AM
Brazil registered a record of Covid-19 deaths for the second straight day Wednesday, with 1,910 lives lost to the pandemic.
With a surge in cases currently pushing health systems to the limit in many areas, Brazil has recorded a total of 259,271 deaths, according to the health ministry the second-highest death toll worldwide, after the United States. For the first time since the pandemic began, we are seeing a deterioration across the entire country, public health institute Fiocruz said before the latest figures were published. The situation is alarming.
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Round-the-clock acoustic recordings have been used to monitor the effects of logging and fires on biodiversity in tropical forests.
Danielle Rappaport at the University of Maryland and her colleagues used historical satellite data to select sites in the southern Brazilian Amazon that had experienced logging or forest fires over the past few decades. They placed sound recorders at the sites in September and October 2016 to try to capture the acoustic markers of ecosystem degradation.
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Prakash Javadekar holds talks with OTT representatives.
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I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar has said OTT platforms were expected to develop an effective grievance redressal mechanism to tackle complaints raised about content. File
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Prakash Javadekar holds talks with OTT representatives.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has clarified that none of the OTT (over-the-top) platforms will have to register with the govt and no government nominee will be present in the self-regulatory body.
The Ministry statement followed I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar’s interaction with representatives of OTT platforms.
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The statement stated that during the interaction, Mr. Javadekar said the Ministry was open to any clarification or queries from the industry.
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