Six In The Morning Sunday 11 April 2021

 

For many sufferers of long Covid, proving they are sick is a big part of the battle

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN

Updated 1044 GMT (1844 HKT) April 11, 2021

Lyth Hishmeh kept feeling ill months after contracting coronavirus a year ago in March. He had chest pain and couldn't concentrate. At 26 years old, the former regular runner was fatigued and breathless, struggling to function properly. Yet medical professionals kept telling him he simply could not still be ill.

"They were telling me it's all in my head," he said. For Hishmeh who lives in London and many sufferers of long Covid, proving they are sick has become a big part of trying to get better.

Another Londoner, Monique Jackson, has lost count of the number of times her pain was described as 'just anxiety.' The 32-year old illustrator was repeatedly told by medical professionals to go to the accidents and emergency, only to be discharged soon after. "I felt like I was wasting people's time, that people either didn't believe me ... or the ones who were sympathetic and supportive said 'we don't know, it's a new disease and we just don't know,'" she said.

Canada ski resort linked to largest outbreak of P1 Covid variant outside Brazil

Whistler, in British Columbia, has nearly 200 of 877 confirmed cases in the province but officials have only a murky idea of how widely variant has spread

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Sun 11 Apr 2021 12.00 BST

For ski resorts, spring normally marks a final chance for visitors to carve sun-drenched runs before the season ends.

But at Canada’s most famous ski resort, the gondolas have stopped, and the slopes are eerily quiet.

The village of Whistler was shut down by provincial authorities at the end of March after they realised that P1, the highly infectious coronavirus variant traced back to Brazil, was spreading rapidly throughout the community.

Korea resumes AstraZeneca vaccinations for people 30 and up

Those in their 20s to be offered alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine

By Kim Arin

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine will not be given to anyone under the age of 30 in South Korea, as growing evidence points to possible associations with a rare but serious blood-clotting disorder.

The government’s advisory committee on immunization practices said in a news briefing Sunday that AstraZeneca vaccinations will resume Monday after a partial suspension for the last four days.

In an emergency announcement Wednesday evening, the immunization advisory committee said it would be temporarily limiting the AstraZeneca vaccine’s use to people older than 60 years following reports of a second recipient in their 20s having developed blood clots.

Two Billion Vaccine Doses for 190 CountriesInside COVAX’s Mission to Save the World

The World Health Organization has launched the biggest vaccination campaign in human history, with the aim of distributing doses to 190 countries and limiting the risk of dangerous mutations. But the project is a race against time.

By Laura Höflinger, Katrin Kuntz, Marc Pitzke und Fritz Schaap

The man who is trying to save the world is standing in a nursery in a Connecticut home. He's got his laptop in front of him and the sun is shining through the window onto a crib. A mobile is turning in the wind.

Benjamin Schreiber is barefoot, his hair tousled. The 46-year-old looks like he’s just gotten up, but as is the case almost every day, he’s been up since sunrise. Schreiber’s job is among the most important and difficult in the world. As the deputy head of immunization for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), he is in charge of ensuring that 2 billion doses of vaccine against COVID-19 reach people in the poorest and most remote countries in the world.

Police rescue 15 kidnapped persons in Kaduna

By NAN

11 April 2021   |   10:19 am

The police command in Kaduna State has rescued 15 kidnapped persons and recovered 32 cows.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, said this in a statement on Sunday in Kaduna.

Jalige said that on April 9 at about 1525hours, gunmen suspected to be bandits blocked Buruku Birnin Gwari Road around Unguwan Yako forest in an attempt to kidnap occupants of two Volkswagen salon cars.

Ukraine turns to Turkey as Russia threatens full-scale war

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy meets Turkey’s Erdogan at a time of heightened Russia-Ukraine tensions.

By 

Sean Mathews

11 Apr 2021

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Istanbul over the weekend to mark the 10th anniversary of his country’s strategic partnership with Turkey and shore up support from his Black Sea neighbour as tensions escalate with Russia over Ukraine’s simmering war in Donbas.

“Turkey’s support for the restoration of our sovereignty and territorial integrity is extremely important,” Zelenskyy stated in a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Following a meeting with the Turkish leader, Zelenskyy tweeted, “We share common values with #Turkey, including human life and support.”