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In Ethiopia, Reuters reports the worst locust invasion in 25 years, damaging 200,000 hectares of land there since January, threatening food supplies. One square kilometer can feed as many as 35,000 people a day – and the livelihoods of millions.
The swarm is part of a once-in-a-lifetime series that has plagued East Africa and the Red Sea since late 2019, extinguishing the corona virus epidemic this year by disrupting the supply chain of FAO pesticides and other equipment.
“They haven’t been out in a week,” 10’s mother Marima Wadisha told the company. “We have an empty harvest, we are weeping day and night. (How can I) feed my children like this?”
The World Bank says the pests will cost $ 8.5 billion to East Africa and Yemen this year, and the FAO’s Ethiopian representative Fatuma Seat fears a repeat of the catastrophic pattern next year.
“The epidemic will continue until 2021. We are being invaded again and then the swarm will move to Kenya,” he said.
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The number of corona virus cases could rise to 8,000-10,000 a day in the coming weeks, Ukrainian Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said on Tuesday.
Ukraine reported 6,410 new Covid 19 cases on Saturday, up from 5,992 previously recorded on Friday.
The daily number rose to more than 5,000 in October, prompting the government to extend locking operations until the end of 2020.
Stepanov said Ukraine would introduce stricter locking restrictions if cases rose to 11,000-15,000 daily. He warned that if the number of daily cases exceeded 20,000, the resources of the medical system would be depleted, Reuters reported.
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In Spain, The government of Navarre’s northern region has announced that the two-week lockout will take effect from Thursday.
Spain registered nearly 38,000 new cases on Monday, bringing the total to 975,000.
While the number of cases per 100,000 people in Spain is 312.2, this number rises to 945.4 in Navarre.
Under the lockdown, people will only be allowed in and out of Navarre for work, university study, caring for relatives or emergencies. Bars, cafes and restaurants will be closed. Stores are open, but must operate at 40% capacity and close by 9 p.m.
Although much less severe than the spring and early summer, Navarre’s imprisonment was more severe than that imposed by the federal government in the Madrid region.
The lockout in and around the capital, which has been the source of heated arguments between the central and regional governments, expires this Saturday. The regional government is considering implementing a curfew order.
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Germany imposes local locking on alpine hotspot
As the beautiful alpine region becomes the country’s main corona virus hotspot, Germany keeps the Bavarian municipality of Berchetkadner Land locked up from 2pm today.
Schools, nurseries and restaurants will be closed from today and residents will not be allowed to leave their homes after 2pm, there is no compelling reason to do so, i.e. work commitment, grocery store or outdoor exercise. Local locking This is the first time since April in Bavaria.
The Watzman mass and 100,000 inhabitants of the 320-square-mile region of Perchdeskadener Land currently see the seven-day maximum occurrence of Govit-19 in Germany, with 272.8 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants a week in space.
While insisting that the German government try to avoid a second country-wide lockout at all costs, some officials have recently proposed rounding up regions to curb the spread of the virus. Lothar Weiler, head of the German Disease Control Agency, said last week that the encirclement of entire districts seemed “unimaginable” to him nine months ago, but that federal states could now see such action.
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