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The Bolshoi Ballet held its first online classes just this week, more than a month after the closing began, AFP reports.
In the middle of their room, Bolshoi ballet dancers Margarita Shrainer and Igor Tsvirko have placed a linoleum mat and a bar. Since the start of the running of the bulls, the couple, both soloists from the legendary company, have largely used their own initiative to maintain their dance skills at home.
However, Tsvirko and Shrainer still look toned and Tsvirko tugs on her waist. “I don’t think I have put on weight, that’s the main thing,” says the 30-year-old dancer, a prominent Bolshoi soloist who has played leading roles in “Ivan the Terrible” and “Nureyev.”
Shrainer, a first soloist who has played leading roles in “Coppelia” and “Carmen Suite”, massages his leg with a tennis ball and slips into the divisions.
Together for over a year, they live in a studio owned by the theater. The same block is home to several other dancers and it was outside this building that the notorious acid attack on then-artistic director Sergei Filin occurred in 2013.
Her Zoom class is led by a teacher taking steps in her room to accompany a piano.
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China reported two new coronavirus cases for May 2, compared to the previous day, data from the country’s national health authority showed.
One case was imported and the other was local, the National Health Commission (NHC) said. This compares to an imported case with no national broadcasts on May 1.
The NHC also reported 12 asymptomatic cases for May 2, compared to 20 the previous day.
The number of confirmed cases in China has reached 82,877. With no new deaths reported, the number of deaths remained at 4,633.
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AFP has this equine report from Germany:
Every morning, the white mare Jenny comes out of her stable to stroll through her Frankfurt neighborhood. By stopping the trams and smiling at people’s faces, the freely roaming horse is encouraging coronavirus blockade for many.
“Everyone else has to live with coronavirus restrictions, but Jenny is as free as ever,” her owner, Anna Weischedel, 65, told AFP.
For more than a decade, Jenny has wandered alone in her local area of Fechenheim, a green part of Frankfurt on the banks of the Main River. Explore the main street, jog along the streetcar line to a nearby field, and spend hours nibbling on patches of grass. The beloved Arabian mare, now a venerable 25-year-old, has always been a hit with residents. But never more than in the past few weeks.
Like many countries, Germany has closed schools, playgrounds, and many companies to stem the outbreak. Although it has slowly begun to ease some blocking measures, people are encouraged to limit their social interactions and keep their distance.
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Why is Australia’s Covid Commission endorsing a fertilizer plant as its main recovery project?
When the Daily Telegraph reported last week that a fertilizer plant in Narrabri that was being promoted by a Western Australian businessman had topped the list of projects promoted by the Covid National Coordinating Commission, there was some surprise.
Vikas Rambal and Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilizers aren’t exactly known names, and the controversial Narrabri coal seam gas project, which would provide the cheap gas on which the fertilizer project depends, has yet to be approved by the New Wales government from the south.
Fertilizers are considered by the commission to be one of the biggest opportunities, along with petrochemicals and methanol, Covid commission chief Nev Power, the former chief executive of Fortescue Metals, told the Telegraph.
“A sensational idea,” energy minister Angus Taylor told the Telegraph in response to Power’s promotion of the Perdaman project.
“I like to think that the other side of Covid-19 is a gas recovery,” said Taylor.
It is unclear why Power has chosen to promote this project in its quest to rebuild the nation.
As warmer weather tempted New Yorkers to get out of quarantine, police dispatched 1,000 officers this weekend to enforce social distancing and a ban on congregating in public spaces, AP reports.
Officers went out on foot, by bicycle, and in cars to divide the crowds and remind those who enjoy the weather of public health restrictions that require them to stay 6 feet away from others.
“I think in the hot weather people will go outside,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. “You can’t stay inside all the time. People will go out and that’s great, go for a walk. But respect social distancing and wear a mask. “
The New York City Police Department has made 60 arrests and has issued 343 citations related to social alienation since March 16.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea issued a severe warning after a series of clashes this week between police officers and members of Orthodox Jewish communities about social distancing.
A clear example of noncompliance occurred Thursday when officers disrupted a busy funeral procession in the Brooklyns Borough Park neighborhood. The video posted on social media showed officers wearing protective masks chasing a minivan and yelling at dozens of people marching behind the truck to get off the street and onto the sidewalk.
On April 18, officers issued citations and made arrests in a Bronx parking lot and garage where they found an impromptu nightclub with a pool table and bar offering strong spirits and Corona beer, and in a closed Brooklyn barbershop where more than 50 people gathered for a party with loud music and games of chance.
Two days later, officers broke up a 4/20 holiday pot celebration organized on the vacant third floor of a building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Dozens of people, some drawn by social media hype about the party, received citations for trespassing.
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China and Australia: how a war of words on the coronavirus turned into threats of a trade war
Australia’s frenzied relationship with China made its way to a new lowly edifying low this week, with a degenerative dispute seemingly stemming from Australia’s call for an independent international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic so far. It has killed more than 230,000 people.
But China and Australia see this research, although amorphous although the proposal still is, as completely different entities.
China sees Australia as a leader, once again in Beijing’s eyes, on a matter deliberately constructed to isolate, condemn and humiliate China. He maintains that the investigation is a political witch hunt, designed by Washington.
From Australia’s perspective, the Chinese response seems like a dramatic overreaction to a completely legitimate international concern to understand the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak. The answer seems to Canberra as an attempt to deflect responsibility, or worse, to blame it elsewhere.
Relations were already deeply damaged, marked by a succession of antagonisms that the two countries seem to find easy to accumulate, but much more difficult to shake: Australia’s decision to exclude Huawei from the launch of the 5G network; The continued imprisonment of China by Australian pro-democracy writer Yang Hengjun; a dispute over the South China Sea; concerns about China’s influence on Australia’s business, economy, and politics; continuous allegations of espionage.
As countries around the world try to find the best way to limit the spread of the coronavirus, many are considering some form of contact tracking application. But the methods and level of privacy intrusion vary widely.
This is what we know about how applications are implemented in various countries.
“How is this possible?” Researchers grapple with Covid-19’s mysterious mechanism
Respiratory physician Dr. David Darley says something peculiar happens to a small group of Covid-19 patients on day seven of their symptoms.
“Until the end of the first week, they are stable,” says Darley, a physician at St Vincent Hospital in Sydney. “And then suddenly they have this hyperinflammatory response. The proteins involved in that inflammation begin to circulate in the body at high levels. “
In these patients, the lungs begin to fight. Low blood pressure. Other organs, including the kidneys, may begin to shut down. Blood clots form throughout the body. The brain and intestines can also be affected. Some suffer changes in their personality, which suggests brain damage.
Darley is one of the researchers working on a long-term Saint Vincent study of patients admitted to the hospital with Covid-19. Patients will be followed for one year after discharge, they will be tested at regular intervals to see if there are any lasting effects or changes in the body’s immune system and blood. Continuous changes in lung, bowel, and brain functions will also be evaluated. No one knows yet whether the virus causes permanent or long-term damage.
The spread of the coronavirus in India’s notoriously overcrowded prisons has prompted authorities to impose jail closings and release thousands of detainees to pretrial detention, as health experts fear that the small facility is serving as a breeding ground for the disease, AP media reports.
Although there are no official figures on how many inmates have been infected with the virus, the correction facilities in the Indies are slowly registering more infections and have temporarily banned visits.
On Thursday, authorities locked up Nagpur Central Prison on the coast of Maharashtra, one of the Indian states most affected by the pandemic. It was the eighth prison in Maharashtra locked up. The move came after 19 inmates at Indore Central Prison in central Madhya Pradesh state tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. About 250 others who came into contact with them were transferred to a temporary prison.
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Boris Johnson revealed that doctors prepared to announce his death while battling coronavirus at the hospital last month.
The UK Prime Minister spent three nights in intensive care at St Thomas in London with the disease. He told the Sun on Sunday: “They had a strategy to deal with a” Stalin’s death “scenario.
“The doctors had all kinds of arrangements for what to do if things went wrong.”
Johnson, 55, said it was “hard to believe” that his health had deteriorated in just a few days, and said “he couldn’t understand why he wasn’t improving.” The prime minister told the newspaper that “the indicators were still going in the wrong direction” and that he asked himself: “How am I going to get out of this?”
“The bad time came when I was 50-50 if they were going to have to put a tube in my windpipe.
“It was then that he got a little bit … they were starting to think about how to handle it presentationally.”
He said he was initially “in denial” about the severity of his illness and that the doctors were right to “force” him to go to the hospital.
After a fortnight’s convalescence from the virus, and just two days after she returned to work full time, her fiancé Carrie Symonds gave birth to her son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.
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