Hello. We cover the reopening of a mass isolation center in Beijing, the evacuation of Ukrainian civilians from Mariupol and the forced...
Hello. We cover the reopening of a mass isolation center in Beijing, the evacuation of Ukrainian civilians from Mariupol and the forced closure of Rohingya schools in Bangladesh.
Mass isolation center reopens
beijing reopened Xiaotangshan Hospital, which has more than 1,000 beds, after registering a few hundred cases in recent weeks. On Monday, authorities announced 50 new cases in the city of 22 million people, up from 59 reported on Sunday.
The move appears to be aimed at avoiding the fate of Shanghai, where weeks of lockdown have fueled anger and anxiety on the cost of China’s “zero-Covid” strategy. Residents who have spent time in mass isolation or quarantine centers have described piles of trash, non-stop floodlights and a severe lack of showers there.
Answer: Beijing officials, who are under immense pressure to eradicate epidemicstemporarily banned eating in restaurants, schools closed indefinitely and ordered residents to present proof of a negative test within the past week to enter public spaces, including public transport.
Evacuees arrive from Mariupol
The first one large-scale evacuation of civilians in Mariupol, Ukraine chased as buses of shocked residents arrived in Zaporizhzhiaa town 140 miles northwest.
Ukrainian officials have vowed to keep the effort going despite early morning shelling in Mariupol. An evacuee said the townspeople “start to talk about suicide because they are stuck in this situation”.
On Monday, Western leaders were also scrambling to follow through on their pledges of aid to Ukraine. In Brussels, EU ministers were discussing an urgent transition away from Russian energy sources. In Washington, senators prepared to accept President Biden’s $33 billion aid package. Here is the latest.
Loss: Russian forces killed the husband of Iryna Abramova on the street in Bucha. “Russians were sitting on the sidewalk, drinking water from plastic bottles, looking at me,” she said. “They didn’t say anything, they didn’t show any emotion. They were like an audience at the theatre.
Escape: Ukrainians are forced to go to “filtration” centers in the territory under Russian control, as part of a system of forced evictions. Two sisters recount the journey and their escape.
Food supply: Ukraine has limited its exports of sunflower oil, leading to shortages. Dozens of other countries have also trade barriers erected to secure basic commodities for their citizens, which experts say could worsen a global food crisis.
Other developments:
Bangladesh closes Rohingya schools
More than 30 community-run schools, which served tens of thousands of Rohingya children, have been forced to close in recent months.
In December, Bangladeshi authorities launched a crackdown on these schools. They said the schools were illegal, but did not try to offer alternatives – and did not remove a ban on Rohingyas attending local schools outside the country’s refugee camps.
The closures came amid efforts by the government to tighten control over the camps. Last month, authorities destroyed thousands of shops there, Human Rights Watch said. Many believe that the Bangladeshi authorities feared that the schools would encourage refugees to stay permanently.
Many parents say instead they want to return to Myanmar and believe that Rohingya-run schools will prepare their children for the transition. “I’m afraid he’ll forget what he learned,” said the mother of a sixth-grade student. “If he doesn’t go to school, he can never change his destiny.”
Background: More … than 700,000 Rohingya crossed in Bangladesh from Myanmar since 2017 to escape the state-led persecution the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
Details: About half of the population in overcrowded refugee camps is under 18; According to UNICEF, around 400,000 school-age children live there.
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They are everything good dogs
The researchers surveyed the owners of 18,385 dogs and sequenced the genomes of 2,155 dogs. They found that race is essentially useless to predict dog behavior.
One of the clearest findings is that breed has no discernible effect on a dog’s reactions to something new or strange. This behavior is what a non-scientist might consider innate aggression and would seem to cast doubt on breed stereotypes of aggressive dogs.
Thus, Labrador retrievers are not necessarily in love; pit bulls are not predisposed to fights, although they score high in human sociability.
That’s not to say that there aren’t differences between races or that race can’t predict certain things; on average, breed accounts for about 9% of behavioral variation in any given puppy. But the genes that shape dog behavior predate modern breeding, which focuses primarily on appearance. Appearance seems to matter less than you think.
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