Month: December 2022

After almost three years, the UK Health Security Agency will stop publishing COVID modelling data next month. The increasingly sporadic updates on the virus’s R number will cease from 6 January, with it deemed “no longer necessary” thanks to vaccines and therapeutics. COVID’s reproductive rate, which referred to the number of people an infected person
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of those who died after a bus fell from a bridge and crashed into a river on Christmas Eve, according to Spanish authorities. They said six passengers died and the driver and another passenger were injured in the accident in Galicia in northwestern Spain. The blue roof of the half-submerged
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Ukraine has said Vladimir Putin “needs to come back to reality” in response to the Russian president’s claim that he is ready to negotiate. On a day which saw Russia launch rocket attacks on dozens of frontline towns, Mr Putin had told state broadcaster Rossiya 1 that the Kremlin was “ready to negotiate with everyone
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Rescue workers are searching for two people feared buried by an enormous avalanche in western Austria. Initially, up to 10 people were feared missing, based on video from a witness. But eight of those individuals have since been identified and are alive. They are from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the US, Croatia and Bosnia, tourism
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Careering, squealing and with arms windmilling, a little girl in Minnie Mouse pyjamas flew past the lobby elevator on bright white roller skates with pink glittery wheels. “Merry Christmas,” her mum called out, smiling through slightly gritted teeth. This is Watertown, New York. The town Christmas (almost) forgot. We found ourselves here after a seven-hour
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