Marise Payne has told a Senate committee the assessment of visas for Australia's support staff in Afghanistan - whose lives they say are at risk - will continue as normal.
UK decides to speed up relocation of Afghan staff amid safety concerns June 01, 2021
he British government has decided to speed up the process of relocating vulnerable Afghans, who risked their lives supporting British troops, to the United Kingdom under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP). Courtesy file photo
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LONDON The British government has decided to speed up the process of relocating vulnerable Afghans, who risked their lives supporting British troops, to the United Kingdom under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and help them start new lives, according to a government’s press statement.
The move follows the UK’s decision along with the NATO members, to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel denied claims made by PM Boris Johnson s ex-top aide Dominic Cummings.
London:
British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Sunday categorically denied that achieving so-called herd immunity was ever the UK government s official policy at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, after allegations by Prime Minister Boris Johnson s former top aide Dominic Cummings claiming otherwise.
Dominic Cummings, who had an unceremonious exit from 10 Downing Street last year, is due to give evidence before an influential House of Commons committee hearing next week on the government s handling of the pandemic.
Ahead of that appearance before the joint Commons Health and Tech Committee meeting on Wednesday, he issued a series of tweets to allege that the UK s official policy was to let the deadly virus spread through the population and thereby achieve so-called herd immunity , and that it was only later realised by Downing Street that would be a catastrophe
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GENEVA, Switzerland, May 14, 2021 (ENS) – Scanty vaccine supplies in low and lower-middle income countries cannot cover even the innoculation of health care workers, the head of the World Health Organization, WHO, warned today, imploring wealth countries with abundant vaccines to share with less fortunate countries..
As the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, approved COVID vaccines for anyone over the age of 12, and lifted the mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appealed for wealthier countries to delay vaccinating younger people against COVID-19 and instead donate doses to the COVAX global vaccine solidarity initiative.