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The loss of frontline healthcare workers dying from Covid around the world is exacerbated in hospitals in developing countries by trained medical staff leaving to assist in the pandemic effort abroad, according to The experts.With the new waves of Covid in Africa, and with Latin America and Asia facing relentless health emergencies, the number of health worker deaths from Covid-19 in May was at least 115,000, according to the World Health Organization. Its CEO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, acknowledged that the data is "scarce" and that the true figure is likely to be much higher.In the richest countries, the proportion of foreign-trained or foreign-born doctors and nurses has increased for two decades. But the pandemic's double death and migration blows are leaving behind knowledge ga...

Dozens of charities have called on UK government ministers to make sweeping changes to support young asylum seekers and refugees after as many as a dozen were identified as having taken their own lives.Forty-six different charities dealing with asylum, children and mental health issues have written to Health Minister Nadine Dorries, who has a responsibility to prevent suicide. They highlight the alarming number of suicides they have discovered among teenage asylum seekers after fleeing persecution in their home countries, leaving their families behind and making difficult journeys to reach safety in the UK.The letter from the 46 charities, including the Refugee Council, the Children's Society and Mind, calls for an urgent and independent investigation into the deaths in the asylum syst...

The Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV) has published this Monday the call with the bases of the Moves III program, which subsidizes the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles, with aid that can reach 7,000 euros. Although it is a state plan, it is managed by the autonomies and, in this particular case, Ivace Energia, which depends on the Department of Sustainable Economy. Ivace E...

In chapter nine of his magnificent book Plant literacy, Deborah Madison describes how, in Arizona, an elderly cowboy named Ernie cooked her a steak with a mess of margarine-stewed zucchini for half an hour; a cinematic treatment in a sentence He goes on to describe his skepticism and how it dissolved because they turned out to be the best zucchini he had ever eaten. And not because of the margarine or zucchini, but because Ernie had cooked them long enough for the defiant, defined pumpkin flavor to emerge.I think Ernie the cowboy would get along with my friend Ezio, the civil engineer, who taught me how to cook zucchini long enough for them to stop keeping up appearances and fall apart in a pasta sauce. And I think both Ernie and Ezio would get along well with the Roman cook, garden...

When Michael traveled from the United States to Egypt in the summer of 2015 to study Arabic, he did not expect to find love. Then, at an Arabic language institute in Cairo, he met Somaia, who taught specialized programs. "He was a VIP student, so he knew he had to be careful with his program," he says. "It seemed nice and calm."Although Michael found Somaia cold at first, he soon relaxed. "I realized that his bosses had asked him to give me special treatment, so he was being formal," he says. "We started talking about our lives and developed a strong friendship." During Ramadan, Somaia invited Michael to an iftar dinner. These are held at night during the holy month to break the fasting period. "He stayed until midnight and we talked all night, but I thought we were just friends...

Sonnet Six of Sonnets from the PortugueseGet out of me Yet I feel like I'll be standingFrom now on in your shadow. Never moreAlone on my doorstepOf individual life, I will orderThe uses of my soul, nor raise my handSerenely in the sun as beforeWithout the sense of what I held back -Your touch on the palm. The widest landDoom separates us, leave your heart in mineWith pulses that beat twice. What I doAnd what I dream I include you, like wineYou must taste your own grapes. And when I demandGod by myself, hear that name of yours,And see in my eyes the tears of two.Elizabeth Barrett Browning was already an accomplished poet when she dedicated the Portuguese Sonnets, written between 1845 and 1846, to her future husband, Robert Browning. His answer was perhaps not entirely impartial: he...

There is a whole world in potato salads, beyond the famous country salad. Although it is the most famous and well-known and we all love it, the country salad will always give way to other equally rich and perfect for the hottest temperatures. In addition, potato salads travel very well, they are perfect to go in a lunch box to the pool, the field or the beach and combine with anything. An example of this is the octopus and potato salad, the escarole, potato and bonito salad or the one that concerns us today, with baby potato, arugula pesto and potato black pudding. As always in this type of dish, the important thing is always to prepare good dressings -which will be the ones that give flavor and grace to the whole- and look for combinations of suggestive ingredients. I always like ...

Laura PlittBBC News World24 minutesCaption, Smith lost more than 60 kilos to the disease.In March 2020, Dave Smith, a 72-year-old British driving instructor, caught COVID-19. The UK was at the time going through the first wave of the pandemic and Smith had a number of pre-existing health conditions - he had been diagnosed with leukemia and successfully treated with chemotherapy in 2019 - that made him particularly vulnerable to the virus.Most people infected with SARS-CoV-2, even those suffering from the so-called long-lasting covid-19, clear the virus from their body in an average of 10 days. In Smith's case, on the other hand, he stayed in an active state inside his body for more than 290 days. "I counted them. 43 times"Smith tells the BBC, recalling the number of PCR tests that came ...

USA: We do not know who made sonic attacks in Cuba 1:29 Vienna, Austria (CNN) - Austrian authorities said they are investigating reports that American diplomats in Vienna have experienced symptoms of a mysterious illness known as Havana syndrome. "We take these reports very seriously and, in keeping with our role as host state, we are working with the US authorities on a joint solution," the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs said on Sunday. "The safety of diplomats sent to Austria and their families is a top priority for us," the ministry added. A spokesman for the US State Department said on Saturday that: "In coordination with our partners throughout the US government, we are vigorously...