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Vermont plans 1st jury trials since pandemic hit
May 17, 2021 GMT
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) Vermont is preparing to hold its first jury trials since the coronavirus pandemic hit last year.
Jury draws are planned Monday for a number of cases in Windham County criminal court, the Brattleboro Reformer reported. Among them are cases involving drug crimes.
According to court documents, social distancing and masking will be part of the proceedings.
The judiciary picked cases that were not very complicated, meaning they did not involve a large amount of witnesses and could be tried within a couple of days “because this is all new,” said Vermont Chief Superior Judge Brian Grearson of the trial preparations.
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WARSAW, Poland Poland-based molecular diagnostics firm Genomtec says it has registered for use in European Union a pioneer, high-reliability COVID-19 test from saliva.
The test, Genomtec SARS-CoV-2 EvaGreen Direct-RT-LAMP CE-IVD Kit spares those tested the discomfort of having swabs pushed up their noses and down their throats. Instead, they only need to produce a sample of saliva in a small test tube, Genomtec, a Polish-British firm, said Monday.
The result is obtained within one hour, because the technology does not require special preparatory procedures on the sample. Its reliability is pegged at over 92%, according to the Genomtec. The test detects various mutations of the coronavirus, said the company that is listed on the Warsaw’s Stock Exchange NewConnect market.,
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BERLIN â Germanyâs health minister says the country will open up coronavirus vaccinations to everyone starting on June 7. Health Minister Jens Spahn told reporters on Monday that the current system of prioritization in which the most vulnerable groups are to be vaccinated first will no longer be valid then.
The minister said, âthis does not mean that everyone will get an appointment within days, but . everyone who wants to get vaccinated will get an offer.â
Spahn said that the vaccination campaign has picked up speed in recent weeks and that by the end of May about 40 percent of all people in Germany will have received at least one shot. He said 70 percent of those above the age of 60 have received one shot, about one-quarter of them are fully vaccinated. All in all, 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been given and around nine million people are fully vaccinated, in this country of 83 million.
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