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Hong Kong’s overwhelmed hospitals are keeping the dead in wards with Covid patients.
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It’s an image that shocked many: our bodies of the useless piled up subsequent to Covid sufferers.
On Friday, the authorities in Hong Kong mentioned that town’s hospital mortuaries had stuffed up so rapidly amid a pointy Covid outbreak that physique baggage had been being crammed into wards with sufferers who had been nonetheless being handled for the virus.
“For among the our bodies, we’ve not been in a position to transfer them from the wards to the mortuary,” mentioned Sara Ho, the chief supervisor of affected person security and danger administration at Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority. “It might trigger some issues amongst sufferers.”
Officers are scrambling to beat again town’s worst Covid outbreak, with the federal government reporting greater than 600,000 instances and three,231 deaths since late January. And whereas such figures could not appear all that exceptional for giant international locations like the USA, Hong Kong is likely one of the final locations on Earth that’s nonetheless making an attempt to utterly stamp out the coronavirus.
The town’s fatality price from the virus is among the many world’s highest, largely as a result of so a lot of its older residents are unvaccinated. (Because the pandemic began, although, Covid has killed Individuals at far larger charges than individuals in different rich nations, in addition to in Hong Kong.) It’s a dramatic flip of occasions for a metropolis that had reported single-digit each day instances for a lot of the previous two years.
For a number of weeks, useless our bodies have been piling up at hospitals as a result of town’s public mortuaries, which may take as much as 3,000 our bodies, are full. The surge in instances has swamped ambulance providers, prisons, banks and even the publish workplace, leaving them severely understaffed. The federal government’s pandemic coverage that requires shut contacts of Covid instances to quarantine has made the state of affairs worse.
Well being officers addressed the problem of useless our bodies in hospitals after a number of photographs circulated on Fb and WhatsApp depicting silver physique baggage on gurneys lined up in public hospital wards. In some instances, the useless had been tucked beside beds with recovering sufferers.
Talking to reporters on Friday afternoon, Ms. Ho mentioned officers had examined the pictures and had “handled these instances.” She mentioned that because the photographs had been taken, officers had added momentary amenities to assist retailer our bodies. She additionally requested for endurance and understanding, saying that hospitals had been below “immense stress” and in “unprecedented” circumstances.
“We try our best to offer extra manpower to take care of this case,” she mentioned, “and we ask for understanding from sufferers.”
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Tourist plane crashes onto highway in France, killing three: video
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Horrifying video shows the aftermath of a deadly tourist plane crash on a highway in France on Sunday.
The crash took place on the A4 highway near Collegien, a small commune in the Seine-et-Marne region of the country. Collegien is roughly 18 miles east of Paris.
Three people, a woman and two men, were killed in the crash. According to Storyful, the plane had two other occupants, but their statuses are unknown.
Social media footage shows bumper-to-bumper traffic next to the mangled plane, which appeared to be lying upside down.
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French officials are investigating a plane crash that took place near a highway on Sunday. (Lin via Storyful)
In the video, smoke was billowing from the scene as emergency officials tended to the crash.
Local prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier told the French newspaper Le Parisian that the pilot “very likely” hit a high voltage line shortly after the plane took off. Local reports say that Bladier is investigating the situation as a possible involuntary manslaughter.
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At least three people died in the deadly plane crash. (Lin via Storyful)
Plane crashes next to or on highways are rare. In August 2023, a small aircraft crashed on the side of a Malaysian highway, killing at least nine people.
In February, two people died in a plane crash on Interstate 75 in Naples, Florida.
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The plane crash caused bumper-to-bumper traffic on the French highway. (Lin via Storyful)
French authorities are actively investigating the situation. No other information is known at this time.
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Far-right win in France would not change Labour's EU plans – Starmer
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The UK Labour leader expressed willingness to work with any government in Europe.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has said he will press on with plans to re-negotiate part of the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) with the European Union, even if the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen enters government in France.
Starmer – whose Labour party is topping opinion polls ahead of Thursday’s general election – told reporters on the campaign trail on Monday that he didn’t think a far-right win in France would change his party’s “overall intention” of negotiating “a better deal with the EU.”
The UK general election is sandwiched between the two rounds of snap legislative elections in France, abruptly convened by President Emmanuel Macron in what has been described as a high-stakes political gamble.
The far-right National Rally – which has seen its support bolstered under the leadership of Le Pen’s 28-year old protégé Jordan Bardella – swept to victory with 33.4% of the national vote during the first round on Sunday.
The left-wing New Popular Front coalition came in second at 27.9% the vote, with Macron’s centrist alliance trailing third at 20.7%. It places the far-right RN as firm favourites going into the second round, although other parties may tactically remove their candidates from the race in order to block a far-right victory.
“l work with any government in Europe and across the world if we are elected in to serve the country. For me, that’s what serious government is about,” Starmer said on Monday.
But he also made a pitch for centrist forces such as his own Labour party, which is perceived to have gravitated more towards the centre-ground since he replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s leader in 2020.
“The lesson that I take from nationalism and populism, wherever it is across Europe (…) is that we need to address the everyday concerns of so many people in this country who feel disaffected by politics,” Starmer said.
“We have to take that head on and we have to show on Thursday in the UK and across Europe and the world that only progressives have the answer to the challenges that are facing us in this country and across Europe.”
The Labour leader – who campaigned to remain in the European Union ahead of the 2016 Brexit referendum – has kept details of his plan to re-open the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels vague.
His shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested that chemicals regulation and financial services could be potential areas were a prospective Labour government could seek greater EU alignment.
Starmer has firmly assured he will not seek re-joining the EU’s single market or customs union, or allow the return of freedom of movement. A clause in the post-Brexit TCA foresees a review of the deal in 2026.
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