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A COVID-19 high alert warning advertised in the UK. | video snapshot UNITED KINGDOM This time last year, and up to the end of 2020, the threat of coronavirus overtaking the whole island was a constant concern, but never a conceptual reality. Yet, reality came crashing down without warning there were no sirens, or readymade shelters for those sick and injured. The U.K’s official death toll in the coronavirus pandemic passed 100,000, Tuesday, Jan. 26. The government confirmed 100,162 people have died in the pandemic after testing positive for the virus, including 1,631 new deaths reported Tuesday. “I offer my deepest condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one: fathers and mothers; brothers and sisters; sons and daughters and the many grandparents who have been taken,” said a somber, more subdued Prime Minister Boris Johnson. ....
Biden s nominee for Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkin. | Jose Luis Magana/AP UNITED KINGDOM Morning Star, the daily socialist newspaper here, while it welcomes the dumping of Trump by U.S. voters, is critical of Anthony Blinken, the man Biden has nominated for the position of Secretary of State. In a recent article, the expressed disappointment that Blinken could end up being just another supporter of regime change. Nominated for the role of Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, a blast from the Obama administration past, has gone on record supporting Trump’s aggressive stance on China, saying: “ [Trump] was right in taking a tougher approach to China,” even if he didn’t agree with all the methods. ....
#MakeSchoolsSafe (Image via Twitter courtesy of @NEUnion) EAST SUSSEX, U.K. Leave it to educators and support staff to know what’s best for students in and out of the classroom as Covid-19’s global infection rate seeps into the new year. No, it shouldn’t come as a surprise, rather as further proof that frontline workers know best they live within crisis daily. As news broke before and during the holiday season of a new variant strain of the coronavirus, and a steady uptick of cases soon followed, government officials, including U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, insisted schools were safe and should reopen on schedule Monday, January 4. ....