![]() The date was based on information from one of the original members of the Society for the Preservation of Akita. As the most famous dog in Japan, the facts that were once trivial became important, with people eager to learn and understand the history behind “Hachikō loyalty.”Īt the Odate Township office, a member of the Research Committee for Historical and Natural Monuments of the Akita Prefecture registered Hachikō's birth as November 20. Some literature lists it as the 10th of November, while others say it was the 20th of November. Hachikō's birth has been a topic of great debate. Furthermore, the recreation of the statue is often noted as a pivotal point in saving the Akita breed from extinction, which had been in steady decline post-war. In 1948, his son, Takeshi Ando, replicated the bronze statue on behalf of his father and Hachikō. Sadly, the sculptor was killed during an air raid. In 1944, during World War II, Hachikō's statue was melted down to support the war efforts. Locals recall seeing Hachikō gazing at the statue. All of this, however, did not stop Hachikō from continuing to wait for Ueno’s return, although now he waited by his new post – beside the bronze sculpture. Hachikō, who was also in attendance, wore red and white scarves for the event, seeming to understand the impact he had made. In 1934, a bronze statue was erected in front of the ticket gate of Shibuya Station with a poem engraved on a placard with the title “Lines to a Loyal Dog.”Ī throng of people arrived for the festive unveiling, including the grandchildren of Professor Ueno. Impressed by Hachikō's proud appearance and composure, Ando saw the opportunity to create a new kind of art, one which would serve as a tribute to the gentle dog-hero whose story was so compelling.Īndo sculpted a plaster statue of Hachikō for the Imperial Fine Arts Academy Exhibition. In 1933, the sculptor, Teru Ando, saw Hachikō for the first time at the station. In those days, such affection for animals was outside the norm. He spoiled Hachikō the way modern dog lovers spoil their pups. He brushed his thick coat daily and fed him rich meals of rice with broth, milk and liver treats. Nonetheless, Ueno took special care of Hachikō, catering to his every need. John and Hachikō got along well however, Esu was aggressive toward him, perhaps sensing the unique friendship his owner shared with Hachikō. Ueno took Hachikō for walks with his other dogs, two English Pointers named John and Esu. Within the next six months, Hachikō's health improved. They kept his head cool with ice bags and packed hot water bags beside his feeble little body. (In those days it was rare to find dogs indoors.) Hachikō became weaker and developed a fever, causing Ueno and his wife to bolster their efforts to nurse him back to health. A fragile pup in poor health, Hachikō slept under Ueno’s western-style bed, wrapped in fabric. In the winter of 1924 Hachikō arrived in Tokyo to meet Ueno. The two would endure a bitter beginning, but it only served to strengthen their affections. And while he was a dog lover (he owned 16 dogs in his lifetime), he’d never had a pup like Hachikō. ![]() A respected scholar and authority on agricultural civil engineering in Japan, Ueno was recognized for extraordinary contributions in his field. Not in the market for a pup, Ueno unexpectedly accepted Hachikō as a gift from his former student, Mase Chiyomatsu, the head of the Arable Land Cultivation Section of the Akita prefecture. Ueno Hidesaburo was a professor in the Department of Agriculture at the Imperial University of Tokyo (now The University of Tokyo).
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The superiority of soft computing techniques is demonstrated through the experimental results. The feature based classification is performed through important soft computing techniques viz fuzzy multilayer perceptron (FMLP), rough fuzzy multilayer perceptron (RFMLP), fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) and fuzzy rough support vector machine (FRSVM). The feature extraction is performed through discrete cosine transformation. The pre-processing activities such as binarization, noise removal, skew detection and correction, character segmentation and thinning are performed on the datasets considered. The different challenges involved in the OCR systems for English language is investigated in this chapter. The English language OCR systems have been used successfully in a wide array of commercial applications. The optical character recognition (OCR) systems for English language were the most primitive ones and occupy a significant place in pattern recognition. ရှေ့, a fore part အိမ်ရှေ့မှာ, before the house.Book series (STUDFUZZ, volume 352) Abstract A key to the whole is furnished in the following table:. There are also many words of Pali origin, in which consonants, final in a syllable, are subject to permutations somewhat similar to the above, and others of a peculiar character. before တ် or ပ်, are commonly pronounced kooat, tsooat and before န်, မ်, or (ံ), kooan, tsooan, &c. without any change in their pronunciation, except in two cases, viz: ဝ before တ် or ပ်, is commonly pronounce wŏ t not wat, and before န်, မ်, or (ံ), wŏn or woon not wan and consonants compounded with ဝ, as ကွ, စွ, &c. The final syllables, as here exhibited, are combined with any consonant simple or compound, as ကက် ket, ကျင် kyeen, &c. iD Creative Solutions, one of Myanmar’s leading creative agencies, has joined forces with Misfit Technologies, a design, innovation & technology company in a strategic move. ![]() Using insight form these methods, our implemented Myanmar OCR system is. Innovation key companies join hands to benefit Myanmar’s market and tackle COVID challenges. These permutations, as they occur in words of pure Burmese origin, are exhibited in the following table:- However, same cannot be said of less poplar languages like Myanmar language. Final consonants generally assume a new and peculiar power, and also modify the preceding vowel. ဋ with ဌ subjoined is sometimes written ဌ, but frequently and more properly ဋ္ဌ. ![]() In elementary works, therefore, the double form may be well distinguished by subjoining a double tail, thus. ည has two forms, ဉ (single), and ည (double). One consonant however is sometimes placed under another as a mere abbreviation, and does not therefore deprive the preceding consonant of its inherent vowel thus သ္မား is equivalent to သမား, and is to be read, not thma, but tha- ma. The absence of the inherent vowel အ, is denoted by the mark (်) called that, signifying killed, placed above the consonant thus, က်, or by another consonant subjoined, thus က္ခ in which case the subjoined consonant becomes the initial of the next syllable, thus ကတ္တ, kat- ta. When a consonant is deprived of its inherent vowel အ, and not furnished with the symbol of another, it becomes final in the syllable. ![]() The cerebrals and the letter ဠ are found in words only of Pali origin. Of the seven remaining consonants, five, viz ယ, ရ, လ, ဝ, and ဠ are liquids သ is properly a sibilant, but pronounced th, and ဟ is an aspirate. The pronunciation of the cerebrals and the dentals, though different in the Nagari, is the same in the Burmese. An initial study is d e-scribed to create compa rable data for Tesseract training and evaluation based on two approaches to character segme n-tation of Indic scripts logical vs. The first letter of each class is a simple articulation, smooth and soft the third is the same, rough and hard the second is the aspirate of the first the fourth, according to the Nagari system, is the aspirate of the third, but according to the Burmese pronunciation, is the same and the fifth is the corresponding nasal. Language data for the Tesseract OCR system currently supports recognition of a number of languages written in Indic writing scripts. The letters of the first or က class are gutturals ( ကဏ္ဍဇာ ) those of the second or စ class are palatals ( တာလုဇာ) those of the third or ဋ class are cerebrals ( မုဒ္ဓဇာ) those of the fourth or တ class are dentals ( ဒန္တဇာ) and those of the fifth or ပ class are labials ( ဩဋ္ဌဇာ). According to the foregoing arrangement, the first twenty-five consonants are distributed into five classes. The Burmese alphabet consists of ten vowels ( သရ), and thirty-two consonants ( ဗျည်း). ![]() to restore two monuments in urgent need of rescue: the 2,500-year-old Nabu-Sha-Khare temple and the remains of the monumental Ishtar Gate, once the main entrance to Nebuchadnezzar’s city. Given the state of the remains, the World Monument Fund is expanding its project, seeking up to $1 million from the U.S. He also exiled the Jewish people from Israel, gaining Babylon a bad rap in the Judeo-Christian tradition the city’s name has since become synonymous with sin. Nebuchadnezzar built the famed hanging gardens, one of the seven wonders of the world, for his homesick wife. ![]() In subsequent centuries the city was conquered, razed and rebuilt several times, becoming the largest city in the world with 250,000 inhabitants under King Nebuchadnezzar II in 600 B.C. “I’m optimistic, because what is happening in Babylon is the proper and scientific step and, God willing, the work in Babylon will open up new horizons,” said Qais Hussein Rashid, head of Iraq’s impoverished antiquities department.įounded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Babylon rose to prominence nearly 4,000 years ago under King Hammurabi, whose famous law tablet resides in Paris’ Louvre Museum. State Department and carried out by the New York-based World Monument Fund, began last year and if it succeeds, the Babylon project could be a model for saving other ancient sites in this country that witnessed the birth of urban civilization. The site is filled with overgrown hillocks hiding the estimated 95 percent of the city that remains unexcavated and which archaeologists hope could eventually be uncovered.īut for that to happen, they argue, they need to train Iraqis in conservation methods and draw up a preservation plan that can be used to drum up international funds and get the site UNESCO World Heritage status.Ī $700,000, two-year project to do that, funded by the U.S. military base on the site did further damage. Deep in Iraq’s verdant south, the cluster of excavated temples and palaces were mostly rebuilt by former ruler Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, using modern yellow brick to erect towering structures that marred the fragile remains of the original mud brick ruins. The ruins of the millennia-old city, famed for its Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, have suffered heavily over the past decades. Iraqi officials are at odds over keeping the site authentic or making money off it. ![]() Jeffrey Allen, right, co-coordinator of a U.S.-funded project to restore the ancient city of Babylon, talks to guide Mohammed Taher outside a reproduction of the Ishtar gate at the site. ![]() Achetez votre Mini Cooper S d'occasion en toute sécurité avec Reezocar et trouvez le meilleur prix grâce à toutes les annonces Mini Cooper S à vendre en Europe. ![]() The Mini Cooper S is a rather quick vehicle, but there is always room for improvement. The convertible is called a R52, the Clubman is a R55, and the first-generation S-Models are R53s.
![]() I tease my brother Armaan, telling him that he was smart to have chosen the guitar, because girls like boys who play the guitar. He recounts, “At the age of eight, I was gifted a small Casio, and thereafter the piano became my whole life. “I really loved Manoj Muntashir’s lyrics, and singing with Shreya Ghoshal was another big plus,” says Amaal.Īmaal’s association with good music runs deep. In my songs, you won’t get that halki poetry that seniors complain about.” Pyar Ek Tarfaa speaks of an emotion nobody has ever managed to capture in a song earlier: the feeling that both individuals, who form one couple, feel that they love the other person more. But if you ask me to choose my style, it would be Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon or Pyar Ek Tarfaa-beautiful lyrics and a good melody. I managed to do a Kar Gayi Chull and a Bol Do Nazara. I have been very lucky to get different opportunities. I understand that music is a business for producers and music labels, but I strive to strike a balance between making a hit song and retaining my musical integrity. He insists, “I am very pure and artistic about my music. This is why Amaal attests that his focus has never swayed from creating good music. ![]() (Amaal and his brother, Armaan Malik, were featured on the cover of HT Brunch in September 2020) It’s a ruthless world on social media.” © Provided by Hindustan Times Otherwise, it will be shut in 20 seconds. ![]() The musician cautions, however, that ultimately “it depends on your content. I do make Reels sometimes, but I make sure they are a little more artistic compared to everyone else’s Reels.” For the younger generation, it’s Instagram. I also put links to my songs on my Facebook page because they have a lot of reach. I did an exclusive broadcast for their listeners and my fans were very excited to hear about stories and moments from my life. “For Pyar Ek Tarfaa, I have collaborated with Gaana, one of the most important streaming apps in the country. Strategising among different platforms is an acquired skill. When I go live on my own Instagram handle and talk to my fans, I am always ready to answer all questions,” he says. When I feel I need to speak out, I always do. He holds ‘ask me anything’ sessions on social media and rarely resorts to a ‘no comment’ statement. People should know them for themselves not an image they have created.”Īmaal has invested time and effort in staying connected with his audience. I would tell every young artiste to build such a relationship with their audience. That obsession and love comes only by being yourself with your followers. They are obsessed with the music, but they love the artiste for who he is. and that is a very important relationship. “More than my music, they love me for me. The numbers may be on a different scale abroad, but the faith Amaal reposes in his fans brings to mind international pop superstar Taylor Swift’s devoted fandom, labelled ‘The Swifties’ who have been indulged by Taylor, and now collectively form an extremely influential interest group.Īmaal has some sagacious advice for young artistes looking to amass a fan base of their own. I think it’s beautiful the way they celebrate my videos.” My fans literally play my music to people and say, ‘Hey, check this song out, it’s by our idol.’ I decided to feature in the Pyar Ek Tarfaa video because of the love of my fans on Twitter and Instagram. But my 1.6 million fans are as strong as 160 million. There are artistes with 10 times the numbers I have. You stand out when you have true followers. Every day there is a new song, a new video, a new podcast. I would not have had that support if I did not have my fans. He has over 5 lakh followers on Twitter and 16 lakh followers on Instagram his YouTube channel has around 1.5 lakh subscribers.Īcknowledging the role that social media has played in shaping his career, Amaal points out, “Even if you do a song with the biggest stars of the country, you need to support it. The 30-year-old composer of songs such as Sooraj Dooba Hai and Kaun Tujhe is barely seven years into the profession, but is already a heavy hitter across multiple social media platforms. So, how exactly do outliers make their presence felt in an entertainment space supersaturated with new content? Musicians like Amaal Mallik have nailed it-they have astutely turned to various social network platforms, and independently built up a loyal audience, and a strong brand centred around their own personas. “Today, just placing a song in the musical marketplace does not work that thinking belongs to a very different time,” says composer-singer Amaal Mallik whose latest song Pyar Ek Tarfaa, a duet with Shreya Ghoshal, garnered 21 million views on YouTube within a week of its release. In the interim, Circe cuts separated Ryan's batsuit, drawing a scratch across the Bat image. Tavaroff and Sionis investigate the Batman prizes, and Sionis contends that he will succeed where different scalawags fizzled. The Bat Team escapes and takes steps to shoot Kate with the crossbow, yet she leaves with the Batsuit and the entirety of the prizes from Bruce's scalawags. Circe takes steps to shoot every one of the Bat Team with a crossbow, before Ryan mediates, and both of them battle. Ryan gets back to the Batcave and attempts to free the group, however is pursued by Kate/Circe. Two GCPD officials attempt to assault Ryan and the probation officer, however Ryan retaliates, which demonstrates to the probation officer that she's Batwoman. Ryan's probation officer will not really accept that that she's been set up by Sionis and the GCPD, until Ryan discloses to her that she's Batwoman. She discovers a case loaded up with Batman's prizes - including Mad Hatter's cap, Poison Ivy's plant, Clayface's mud, Killer Croc's tooth, Penguin's umbrella, Joker's satisfaction bell, and Bane's toxin. Kate clears her path through the Batcave, tracking down a neglected gathering room and other gear utilized by Bruce as Batman. Kate and Sophie go to help Ryan, and Kate consents to get ready as Batwoman - prior to hitting Sophie, Luke, and Mary with sedative darts and securing them in the Batcave lift. ![]() Kate, in the interim, is meeting with Sophie, who is attempting to assist with refreshing her memory about their heartfelt affections for one another. Luke and Mary find that Ryan was set up, and go to Kate for help. The two of them uncover that they know one another's mysterious character, and Ryan feels for Sionis about what befell the genuine Circe. Unexpectedly, Ryan is captured and outlined for managing in Snakebite - and brought straightforwardly to Sionis. In the interim, Ryan gets back to living in her van, and chooses to invest the remainder of her energy as Batwoman to bring down Sionis. At the point when Ryan gets back to the Batcave, she discovers Luke and Mary overlooking her and investing energy with Kate. Sophie informs Ryan concerning the bad Crows being enlisted into False Face, and she takes proof of it. Tavaroff stresses that he's simply important for another framework, yet Sionis offers him the chance to "be the machine." Sionis initiates Tavaroff and his kindred degenerate Crows to work for False Face, with the assistance of a gigantic arms stockpile of weapons. Sophie and Ryan talk about Kate's status, and Ryan chooses to move out of Mary and Kate's space, and contends that she most likely will surrender the Batwoman mantle too. Kate uncovers that she's in reality still the Circe persona, and deceived the Bat Team to get intel on the Batcave. Kate drives her cruiser to a neglected TV studio, where she meets Sionis and Safiyah. Ryan contends that Kate has an injury that hasn't been managed, yet Luke contends that she'll have the option to endure it, and offers Kate her old journals and her old cruiser to assist with refreshing her memory. Seeing Alice's sorrow, Mary lies and says Kate is okay. Mary discovers Alice over Ocean's body, declining to accept that he's dead. The Bat Team choose to give Kate time to recuperate, and to attempt to find Alice for help. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ryan and Mary return Kate to their condo, where Kate perceives Mary interestingly. The three attempt to find Kate, and Ryan eventually discovers her drinking at The Hold Up. īatwoman examines one of Sionis' safety officers, who asserts that he's gone underground, yet Luke and Mary don't trust it. Alice and Safiyah cross paths once again. Synopsis Batwoman struggles as Black Mask continues to raise the stakes with Circe as his henchwoman. There’s no variances, no other targets to seek out, just destroying the same generators time after time. Once all the generators are destroyed, the level is complete. A kaiju will show up about halfway through each level that must be dealt with before continuing to destroy the G-Energy Generators. The goal of each of these levels is to locate and destroy several G-Energy Generators whilst fending off G-Force (the military protecting the city) units. That’s about all the variety that exists and each setting is blandly generated. Each level features a generic coordinated off city, military base, body of water or forest area. God of Destruction presents players with around thirty different levels that are progressed through branching paths. While it seems like the action takes place in large open cities in screenshots and videos, in reality everything takes place in miniscule cordoned off areas. Both attacks are far and away the most effective, which will result in most battles devolving into waiting around for the gauge to refill. Breathing fire or blasting energy uses up the Breath Gauge which takes about ten seconds to refill. There’s no real combos and it’s rudimentary even by hack ‘n’ slash standards. There’s a button for normal attacks, a button for strong attacks, a button to breath fire, a button for a defensive energy blast, a way to grab (which is difficult to pull off) and a way to charge. Gameplay is incredibly basic, even by Godzilla game standards. The main mode of Godzilla is known as God of Destruction, which allows players to rampage through cities as Godzilla. Of course, that would be assuming that there’s a deep gameplay behind the story which there isn’t. While it’s not like anybody follows the franchise for its gripping story, it would have been nice to build more of a plot around the events. Now mankind must once again defend against this menacing beast - but is it man who’s the true beast? It’s clearly the flimsiest set up imaginable for explaining why there are giant monsters rampaging around and the basic plot of at least seventy Godzilla films. While that alone is devastating, the plot literally doesn’t amount to more than Godzilla first appearing sixty years ago and laying waste to a city before going into seclusion and appearing again. So let’s get this out of the way first much like the 2014 film, Godzilla sadly does not include Bryan Cranston. Yeah, this is going to end about as well as Tokyo after a thorough Godzilla stomping. Instead of going back to the drawing board for the current-gen debut of the king, they’re drawing off the putrid Godzilla Generations for some reason. Yet since Godzilla first debuted in game format in 1983 on Commodore 64, only one halfway decent game has come along - Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee - and it has aged quickly and poorly. This is a franchise centered around a gigantic lizard monster destroying towns and fighting other gigantic monsters it’s the epitome of what a video game should be. It’s not for lack of trying - there’s been nearly fifty games that include the officially licensed Toho beast. ![]() Why can’t Godzilla get a good game? The giant lizard has been around for over fifty years and throughout the entire existence of video games, yet not a single worthy game has been released. Since 2009 I started to demolish the houses that does not group and I built new houses elsewhere. ![]() Since 2008 I use a complex road network, curved, S-shaped roads and loops to cover more land without having intersections. ![]() I played until reached Data Limit of 2000 buildings, resulting at most 20000 people, then quit city and start a new one. I always let the houses as they appeared, merged or non-merged. Residential and community zones were well defined (same layout used on Northern provinces, without realizing that if population is happy to not riot, prefectures are not necessary as there is NO fire risk). Not only roads were grid but also I placed fountains every 4 houses, each fountain had a prefecture and a engineers post on each side, making the city to look beautiful, but reducing the chances for houses to merge. You can notice that in my early cities I misunderstood the principle of the game “ make as few intersection is possible” and I made all cities in grid network (I am sure that most beginner players did this mistake), I made straight roads as long is possible, but the worse part were the short roads near sea or mountains, to improve land usage and use every tile of land, rather than improve road network efficiency. I connected to internet in 2005, which helped me to download the full game, playing a lot in 2005-2006, then in 2008, and a little since October 2011, when I also published this page, originally strictly to show cities built by me. In 2012 the business forced me to stop playing games, but I kept expanding page adding info about game itself. Demo version does not offer ability to save games, so I been starting game in the morning and build as much I can by end of day, reaching population of about 5000. I got Caesar III demo game in 2000 from a magazine CD, the Demo game include only first 2 missions but 2nd mission in demo is bigger than same mission in full game. I tried to build biggest possible cities on each map, under my own rules: whole city a single road network, no gatehouses or road breaks. Sierra provide 12 maps, with additional maps made by players being available for download on various fan sites. RankĬity Construction Kit allow you to build cities as big you want without any objective. If you need help how to win a mission, watch GamerZakh video playthrough. ![]() The hardest part was reaching prosperity rating, this happened due to unstable housing and lots of tents. Many people consider it the BEST city-building game.Ĭaesar 3 comes with 20 missions, first 2 are tutorials, with limited building types available, then for next 9 ranks you have to choose between a peaceful and a military missions, each requiring you to reach a specific population and specific rating of culture, prosperity, peace and imperial favor.įirst time I played career mode was in 2005 as soon I got full game, I do not remember if I finished it, but I played again around 2008 this time finished, it was very hard and took me days even with money cheat (set negative price of a building in c3_model.txt). I heard about Pharaoh and Zeus in 2007, too late to start them because I was already familiarized with Caesar 3. ![]() Despite of not playing game anymore for few years, in September 2021 I replaced 1024×768 screenshots with 3840×2160 screenshots and added download links.Ĭhapters: career missions – city construction kit – biggest cities built by me – optimal cities built by me – housing types – strategy tips & tricksĬaesar III table made by me in Excel, containing house evolution, empire locations, best city layout plans and more. In 2012 the business forced me to stop gaming, but I kept expanding page adding info about game itself. Been playing the Demo version since 2000 and full game in 2005-2006, 2008, and again in 2011 when I published this page, originally strictly to show cities built by me. A 100mg dose of the booster saw an 83-fold increase in antibodies. ![]() Moderna booster jab leads to 37-fold increase in levels of antibodies against the omicron variantĪ booster dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine appears to increase neutralising antibodies against the coronavirus, the company announced on Monday.Ī 50mg dose of the booster – the dose authorised for use in the UK and US – was found to stimulate a 37-fold increase in antibodies against omicron. Previous updatesĪ Swiss soldier closes the curtain of a booth prior to the administration of a Moderna covid-19 booster jab in Switzerland.įABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images 20 December The author, Adam Kucharski, is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and in the book he examines how diseases spread and why they stop. The Rules of Contagion is about the new science of contagion and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour. Humans of COVID-19 is a project highlighting the experiences of key workers on the frontline in the fight against coronavirus in the UK, through social media.īelly Mujinga: Searching for the Truth is a BBC Panorama investigation of the death of transport worker Belly Mujinga from covid-19, following reports she had been coughed and spat on by a customer at London’s Victoria Station.Ĭoronavirus, Explained on Netflix is a short documentary series examining the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts to fight it and ways to manage its mental health toll.ĬOVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One by Debora Mackenzie is about how the pandemic happened and why it will happen again if we don’t do things differently in future. The New York Times is assessing the progress in development of potential drug treatments for covid-19, and ranking them for effectiveness and safety. Race Against the Virus: Hunt for a Vaccine is a Channel 4 documentary which tells the story of the coronavirus pandemic through the eyes of the scientists on the frontline. Panorama: The Race for a Vaccine is a BBC documentary about the inside story of the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against covid-19. ![]() Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour? is a BBC documentary, which investigates what the high covid-19 death rates in ethnic minority patients reveal about health inequality in the UK. The first episode examines the origins of the covid-19 pandemic. The Jump is a BBC Radio 4 series exploring how viruses can cross from animals into humans to cause pandemics. Our podcast sees expert journalists from the magazine discuss the biggest science stories to hit the headlines each week – from technology and space, to health and the environment. New Scientist Weekly features updates and analysis on the latest developments in the covid-19 pandemic. What to read, watch and listen to about coronavirus What’s the fairest way to share covid-19 vaccines around the world? Long covid: Do I have it, how long will it last and can we treat it? Where did coronavirus come from? And other covid-19 questions answeredĬovid-19 vaccines: Everything you need to know about the leading shots The EU has ordered 200 million doses of the vaccine. The European Union’s medicines regulator has approved a coronavirus vaccine made by Novavax for people aged 18 and over, the fifth covid-19 jab to be authorised in the bloc. New Zealand has postponed a plan to relax border restrictions from mid-January to the end of February. Meanwhile, the Welsh government has announced that spectators will not be allowed at sporting events from 26 December and the mayor of London has cancelled the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Trafalgar Square. ![]() The UK prime minister Boris Johnson said yesterday the government is “looking at all kinds ot things to keep omicron under control”, but did not announce any new measures, despite calls from scientists to impose tougher curbs before Christmas. “If you’re going to interact with society, if you’re going to have any type of life, omicron will be something you encounter, and the best way you can encounter this is to be fully vaccinated.” ![]() “All of us have a date with omicron,” Admesh Adalja of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security told The Guardian. Omicron is now the dominant coronavirus variant in the US, and accounted for 73 per cent of new infections last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. |
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