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The "omicron avalanche" punishes Italy and they fear a collapse of the health system
Italy surpassed the level of two million infected active on Monday due to the spread of the omicron variant in the fourth wave of coronavirus. The new scourge struck from last Christmas, when the infected were 600 thousand.
The omicron avalanche has been impressive. Last Thursday, 220 thousand infected per day were reached and the data lost consistency as always at the weekend, when the number of tests dropped by half or less.
This Monday there were 101,752 infected and 227 dead.
In the last week there was also a 34.4% increase in the number of deaths, reaching 1,397. In total, deaths reached 139,265 this Monday since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy, the first country in Europe to be hit by the plague that came from China, in February 2020.
The rapid expansion of the pandemic due to the contagiousness of omicron especially punishes the minority of unvaccinated, who resist the exhortations to appear in the vaccination centers, which on Sunday registered a record of 46.6 million people over 12 years inoculated, equivalent to 86.34% of the total.
In addition, 23.2 million received the third doses, which greatly increases protection against severe disease.
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The Higher Institute of Health, which advises the government, affirmed that "significant mitigation measures" are necessary or "it will be highly probable" a rapid increase in hospitalizations in the coming weeks in eight of the twenty Italian regions that go towards the "zones red ", which imply the closure of many activities of social life to stop the spread of the virus and reduce infections.
Quarantines abound in the red zone, which yielded very good results in the larger "close everything" between March and May 2020, and at Christmas and the end of the year 2020.
The president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Busaferro, summarized the current situation as a "Drastic deterioration" of the pandemic.
A coronavirus vaccination center in a theater in Genoa, Italy. Photo: EFE
Busaferro said that it is necessary "to quickly reverse the trend to avoid overload conditions of the health services, already very committed.
The scientist said that "the epidemic is in a delicate phase and in the absence of significant measures in the coming weeks it is highly probable that there will be a further rapid increase in cases and hospitalizations."
Virologist Ilaria Capua, popular for her interventions on television, said that "omicron is a different virus compared to Alpha or Delta, two variants that preceded it."
"That is why it escapes part of the immune response. I think we will have to live with Omicron for many years ", said the scientist. "It is becoming a new serotype of Sars-Cov-2, which makes it an alternative to the original stock in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the pandemic was born."
In the first, very harsh phases of the pandemic, more than four thousand patients were admitted to intensive care beds in 2020. Now, the barrier that vaccines form have reduced the number of seriously ill to 1,595, the majority not vaccinated who lack the defenses that the injections provide.
But it is feared that the onslaught of the pandemic, which in Italy registers a shared participation of the Delta variant with omicron, Raise infections to even greater numbers in the next two to three weeks, seriously affecting the health system.
A woman shows the health pass before boarding a train at Termini station, in Rome, this Monday. Photo: REUTERS
Open schools
The day was especially agitated by the schools reopening amid heated discussions about the timing of the measure.
The authorities of two regions, Campania (Naples) and Sicily (Palermo), decided to extend the winter holidays in their jurisdictions until the end of the month, citing the large number of students absent due to being infected or in quarantine.
Two thousand principals of primary schools and secondary schools across the country signed a message calling on the government to keep schools closed until the end of the month.
The president of the association that groups them said that due to the increase in infections and quarantines of students, teachers and professors, "in a week there will be 200 thousand classes that must pass to the Distance Didactics system and it is better to reopen within two or three weeks".
In Milan, the Manzoni secondary school was occupied by students in protest at the situation that schoolchildren are experiencing, a teacher leader said that "in a week there will be 17,500 infected students" and said in the Lazio region (capital Rome), schools reopened with an average of 15 teachers absent due to Covid in the 700 secondary schools in the region.
Mandatory injection
The government last week made it compulsory to vaccinate those over 50 years of age and gave them until February 15.
As of that date, those who are not vaccinated will pay fines of up to a thousand euros for each violation and practically all social activities will be closed, even for work.
This Monday a new reinforced Health Pass came into force that excludes the unvaccinated from numerous social activities and from using public transport, especially urban, which prevents them from going to work. In addition, they will not be able to carry out their work tasks without the Pass.
Until now they could use a base document that allowed them to work if they presented a 48-hour antigen control.
Suspended surgeries
The continuing worsening of the pandemic produces backlash in the rest of the hospital medical activity. Already in the first phase, starting in February 2020, the need to care for Covid patients led to a serious displacement of other diseases in the health system.
The president of the Italian Society of Surgery, Francesco Basile, estimated that around 400 thousand surgeries were postponed.
A woman receives the Covid vaccine at a center inside the Termini train station in Rome. Photo: REUTERS
Thus there was an aggravation of tumor pathologies that "frequently arrived in the following months to hospitals impossible to operate."
Now the phenomenon is being reiterated, delaying the diagnosis of tumors and hospitalization.
"The need for hospitals to expand spaces in favor of the fight against Covid is making it impossible to operate on patients with tumors because there is no availability of places in intensive care rooms for the postoperative period," said Basile.
There are already tumor pathologies that arrive late to the hospital because they are inoperable. The Italian Society of Surgery raised "the alarm at the dramatic reduction in ordinary surgeries in hospitals."
Basile pointed out that in several regions the number of surgical interventions has decreased by between 50% and 80%.
The president of the Italian society of surgery prepares a request to the Ministry of Health to establish a differentiated system in hospitals that do not paralyze the activity of sectors dedicated to other diseases.
The surgeon Basile indicated the demand to recover the staff of nurses and anesthesiologists who have gone to the wards dedicated to the pandemic, where the number of infected is growing conspicuously.
It also calls for the performance of diagnostic controls of cancer patients and the reservation of intensive bed therapy for cancer patients.
"This is an urgent matter because we must now correct this distortion that can lead to excessively aggravate the health of surgical patients in Italy," warned Basile.
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Clermont commissioners appoint interim after former engineer resigns, pleads guilty
A traffic engineer for Clermont County is now the county's acting engineer. Elected engineer resigns, found guilty of misdemeanor crime in office.
Clermont commissioners appoint interim after former engineer resigns, pleads guilty A traffic engineer for Clermont County is now the county's acting engineer. Elected engineer resigns, found guilty of misdemeanor crime in office. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/07/01/clermont-cty-hires-acting-engineer-elected-engineer-resigns-found-guilty/1621397001/
Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 3:56 p.m. ET July 1, 2019 | Updated 4:06 p.m. ET July 1, 2019
Clermont County Engineer Pat Manger in a Clermont County Court of Common Pleas courtroom. (Photo: Sheila Vilvens/The Cincinnati Enquirer)
A traffic engineer for Clermont County is now the county's acting engineer.
Jeremy P. Evans was named acting engineer during a special July 1 session of the Clermont County Commissioners. He replaces former county engineer Pat Manger who last week pleaded guilty to soliciting or accepting improper compensation for using the county engineer's office resources for political and personal purposes.
More: Clermont County Engineer pleads guilty to soliciting or accepting improper compensation
Prior to his June 28 court appearance, Manger resigned his elected office effective June 30.
Evans will serve as the acting engineer until an appointment is made by the county's Republican Central Committee.
Evans, a Union Township resident, has served as a traffic engineer in the county engineer's office since 2005. He has Ohio Professional Engineer and Ohio Professional Surveyor registrations, a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Land Surveying Certificate from Cincinnati State College.
During the special session, the commissioners also accepted Manger's resignation.
Manger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense and faces up 180 days in jail, and up to $1,000 fine. As part of the conviction, he is prohibited from holding any public office or public employment for seven years and is required to reimburse Clermont County taxpayers $3,000 in restitution.
He will be sentenced July 16 in Clermont County Common Pleas Court.
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Khaled Khalifa o Khalid Khalifa () (Alep, 1964) és un novel·lista, guionista i poeta sirià. Algunes de les seves obres crítiques amb el règim baasista han estat prohibides pel govern sirià.

Biografia
Va estudiar a la Universitat d'Alep, on va obtenir es va graduar en dret. Va escriure poesia i va ser membre del Fòrum Literari. Com a guionista, Khalifa ha escrit diverses sèries de televisió, incloent-hi Kaws Kozah i Serat Al-Jalali, documentals, curtmetratges i el llargmetratge Bab al-Maqam. La seva primera novel·la, Haris al-Khadi'a, es va publicar el 1993. La seva segona novel·la, Dafatir al-Qurbat, va ser suprimida per la Unió d'Escriptors Àrabs durant quatre anys després de la seva publicació el 2000.

Khalifa va passar tretze anys treballant en Madih al-karahiya, la seva tercera novel·la, que tracta de com la vida d'una família es veuen afectada per la batalla entre el govern sirià i els Germans Musulmans. Es va publicar a Damasc el 2006, fins que el govern sirià la va prohibir i llavors es va tornar a publicar a Beirut. Khalifa assegura que aquest tipus de prohibicions de llibres provenen d'una burocràcia que no representa els nivells més alts del govern, i l'escriptor es mostra partidari de la negociació entre els artistes i les autoritats sirianes per facilitar la llibertat d'expressió. La seva obra no pretén advocar qualsevol ideologia política. Quant a Madih al-karahiya, va afirmar: "Per sobre de tot, vaig escriure aquesta novel·la en defensa del poble sirià i amb la finalitat de protestar contra el patiment que han suportat com a resultat dels dogmes religiosos i polítics que han intentat negar la seva civilització de desenes de milers de anys". Madih al-karahiya va ser finalista al Premi Internacional de Ficció Àrab (2008).

La seva quarta novel·la va ser La sakakin fi matabikh hadhihi al-madina, publicat al Caire el 2013. Tracta sobra el "preu que sirians han pagat sota el règim del partit baas", encapçalat per president Baixar al-Àssad. Va guanyar la Medalla Naguib Mahfuz de Literatura i novament va ser finalista del Premi de Ficció Àrab (2014).

Obra publicada
 1993 Haris al-Khadi'a
 2000 Dafatir al-Qurbat
 2006 Madih al-karahiya
 2013 La sakakin fi matabikh hadhihi al-madina

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Persones d'Alep
Escriptors en àrab
Novel·listes asiàtics
Poetes àrabs
Poetes sirians
Guionistes sirians
Guionistes de televisió
Periodistes sirians
Alumnes de la Universitat d'Alep
Cinema de Síria

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Libyan Rebels Fight Gaddafi Loyalists to Control Tripoli
Gaddafi's fall in oil-rich Libya may have a broader impact than anything yet seen in the Arab Spring.
Babak Dehghanpisheh
Sergey Ponomarev / AP Photo
The gun-trucks emblazoned with the rebel's tri-color flag raced down the road, one after another, toward Bab al-Aziziya, Muammar Gaddafi's sprawling complex in southern Tripoli. Heavy machine gun fire thundered out from the site and a thick plume of black smoke streamed into the air. There were fighters from Tripoli along with their comrades from several smaller towns. After six long months of brutal fighting the endgame was in sight and they all wanted a piece of the action.
But the Libyans aren't the only ones with a stake in this fight. The French, Americans, British, and Italians—even tiny Qatar, which sent in military advisers to coordinate NATO airstrikes—all invested heavily with the material and logistical support that led to the fall of the regime. And they will no doubt want their payback once the oil starts pumping again. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of the rebel National Transitional Council, laid it on the table back in May. The rebel's steadfast allies "would have the best opportunity in future contracts," he said.
The uprising in Egypt may have had more symbolic resonance across the Arab world, but it's the fall of the regime in Libya, with its vast oil reserves, that may have the broader global impact. Still, some opposition activists in Syria have started to debate the merits of a limited foreign intervention. And President Bashar al-Assad, no doubt, sees that his coterie of regional despots is thinning out. The uprisings of the Arab Spring started in a similar fashion, but as the summer is now coming to an end, they are all leading toward vastly different outcomes.
Near one entrance of Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, a group of fighters from Misrata, the port city that endured a devastating siege earlier this year, gathered to regroup. The volunteers from Misrata have earned a reputation as some of the most hard-core fighters among the rebels because of what they endured during the siege. Before the uprising began in February, Mahmoud Derrat, 26, was a civil engineer. Now, covered head to toe in camouflage, he can rattle off the name of dead friends with ease, including one whose name is emblazoned in white paint on the back of his gun truck. "We have around 2,000 martyrs from Misrata," Derrat says with glazed red eyes. He seems to have little doubt that their sacrifice has been worth it. "When I got to Tripoli, I already felt like we achieved victory," he said.
These are heady days in Libya. Just one week before the 42nd anniversary of the 1969 coup, the despot responsible for the torture and deaths of thousands of Libyans was finally kicked out of power. The scaffolding that had been set up for the celebration of the "Great September 1st Revolution" in Tripoli's Green Square, now renamed Martyr's Square, stands half-built. There are no banners paying tribute to the Brother-Leader. His portraits are now scattered torn and burned across the square. And ordinary Libyans have scrawled their real thoughts about the dictator in graffiti on walls across the city: liar, unbeliever, dog. Last Thursday afternoon, hundreds of Libyans, including families with small children, drove around the streets of central Tripoli carrying the rebel flag and blasting their horns. One group of young men hung outside their car window shouting, "We are free! We are free!"
Can the rebels hold on to their hard-fought gains? The intense fighting in and around Tripoli last week suggests that some loyalists aren't going to give up. Many may have already gone to ground to start a bloody insurgency like the one that has plagued Iraq for the past eight years. If there's a prolonged state of insecurity, the country could start to break up along tribal and regional lines. Many of the rebel fighters like Derrat are fiercely loyal to their hometowns: security checkpoints across Tripoli are covered with spray-painted slogans praising small cities or regions. Many of the rebels dismiss any talk of friction within their ranks. But the assassination last month of Abdel Fattah Younes, the military chief of staff in eastern Libya, by his own fighters was a clear sign of the deep divisions among the rebels. If the country starts drifting toward civil war, there's little that the rebel's closest allies can do to stop the bloodshed.
For the moment, the rebels are trying to get their act together. More than two dozen opposition leaders gathered in a conference room at the Radisson Hotel in Tripoli last Thursday to lay out their plans for stabilizing the city, the first gathering of its kind in the capital. The group included activists who have been working inside the country, as well as a number of Libyans who have been supporting the opposition from abroad. Many of them were meeting each other for the first time and wept openly as they embraced each other. "It's a fantastic feeling seeing the group here," said Usama al Abed, the deputy chairman of the Tripoli council. "We've been working underground for the past six months." Abed and the other opposition figures must now shift their priorities from plotting to overthrow a dictator to meeting the urgent needs of the city residents, including emergency medical care and clean water.
But there's little doubt that their biggest challenge will be establishing security. At roughly the same time the opposition leaders gathered for that first meeting, Gaddafi loyalists launched an assault on the Corinthia Hotel a couple of miles away. The hotel now houses dozens of foreign journalists which likely spurred the attack. The pro-Gaddafi fighters blasted away at the hotel and raised the green flag of the regime atop a nearby building. It took the rebel fighters nearly an hour to push them back.
Derrat, the fighter from Misrata, is confident that the pro-government fighters will eventually be defeated. In recent days, the loyalists have started using human shields, Derrat said, a sign of their desperation. The National Transitional Council knows that Gaddafi's capture would deal a significant blow to the loyalists and has offered a $1.3 million reward for his capture. Derrat and his colleagues are on the hunt. "We are sure he's in Tripoli," said Derrat, stroking his bushy black beard. "We will win." Unless he's caught, Gaddafi will no doubt continue to taunt the rebels while in hiding.