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Con covid này chắc là theo phe ủng hộ Brexit.

'Europe shuts door on Britain': what the papers say about the travel bans
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...he-travel-bans

The Mirror headline writers draw on their GCSE history lessons and a 19th century epithet for the Ottoman empire for the paper’s headline on Britain’s plight: “Sick man of Europe”. Its story highlights calls by Labour leader Keir Starmer for Boris Johnson to apologise to the country for reversing the government’s advice about Christmas gatherings.

Anh về Anh tắm ao Anh
Dù đông dù chật cũng đành chịu thôi

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"Sick man of Europe"

happy holidays united kinh đờm.

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Cứu vật, vật trả ơn,
Cứu người, người cho quốc tịch

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France fast-tracks citizenship for frontline workers

The French government has said it will reward those who "gave their time and swung into action" for the country during the pandemic. France initiated the measure in September, when it was preparing for a second wave.


France has invited to fast-track the naturalization process for people who have "actively contributed" in its fight against COVID

France said it has fast-tracked hundreds of citizenship applications from foreign frontline workers whose jobs expose them to high COVID-19 risks.

The interior ministry on Tuesday announced it will take steps to hasten the naturalization process which normally can take years to complete.

"Foreign workers gave their time and swung into action for all of us during the COVID crisis," said Marlene Schiappa, France’s deputy minister for citizenship. "It is now up to the Republic to take a step toward them."

'Great services rendered'

In September , the ministry had invited people who "actively contributed" to the fight against the pandemic to apply for fast-track naturalization.

The beneficiaries include not only health care workers but also cashiers, garbage collectors and housekeepers.

"Health professionals, cleaning ladies, childcare workers, checkout staff: They all proved their commitment to the nation," Schiappa's office said in a statement.

Of the nearly 3,000 people who responded, 74 had already obtained citizenship and 693 more were in the final stage of the process, according to the statement.

Additionally, immigration authorities have been ordered to reduce the residency period needed for citizenship to two years from the usual five in the case of "great services rendered."

Last year, around 112,000 foreigners acquired French nationality, including more than 48,000 by naturalization, 10% fewer than in 2018.

France on Wednesday reported 2,547,577 coronavirus cases with 61,339 deaths — the country with the fifth highest caseload after Russia.

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Phóoc mi đáp. Nhưng mà chắc cũng nhiều người đã chết vì nghề nghiệp.

Sinh nghề tử nghiệp.

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Sinh nghề tử nghiệp.

sa tử lộ để mưu cầu sự sống cũng là một chiến thuật mà.

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New COVID variant reaches Germany from UK

A woman who flew from London to Frankfurt this weekend was carrying the new, more infectious coronavirus variant, German officials have said. Meanwhile, Denmark has found 33 cases of the new variant.


It is the first known case of the new coronavirus variant in Germany

German authorities on Thursday confirmed the presence of the new coronavirus variant on German soil, adding to fears that the variant could start spreading beyond the UK and South Africa.

A woman who flew in from London Heathrow this Sunday tested positive at the Frankfurt airport. Further genetic analysis of the sample at a lab in Berlin identified a case of B.1.1.7, as the variant is known, said authorities in the German state of Baden-Württenberg in a statement.

"It is the first known case in Germany," they said.

The woman, who flew to Germany to visit relatives, was picked up from the airport by relatives and has isolated at the family's home in Baden-Wuerttemberg since then, the state's health ministry said.

She has since developed mild symptoms. Three individuals who have been in close contact with the woman have also quarantined, the statement added.

Germany limited air travel from the UK just hours after the patient's flight. Many other countries worldwide also imposed similar restrictions in a bid to stop the spread.

Variant gains foothold in Denmark

The Danish health institute SSI said it has detected 33 cases of the coronavirus variant. The infections were found between November 14 and December 14 in the Copenhagen region as well as in North Jutland, Southern Denmark and Zealand.

The institute said the spread reveals that the new, more infectious variant has gained a foothold in the Nordic country, albeit a very minor one.

Singapore on Thursday also confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus variant.

dj/mvb (AFP, dpa, Reuters)

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Europe rolls out vaccines in bid to leave pandemic behind


(Reuters) - Europe launches a cross-border vaccination programme of unprecedented scale on Sunday as part of efforts to end a COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives around the world.

The region of 450 million people has secured contracts with a range of suppliers for over two billion vaccine doses and has set a goal for all adults to be inoculated during 2021.

While Europe has some of the best-resourced healthcare systems in the world, the sheer scale of the effort means that some countries are calling on retired medics to help out while others have loosened rules for who is allowed to give the injections.

With surveys pointing to high levels of hesitancy towards the vaccine in countries from France to Poland, leaders of the 27-country European Union are promoting it as the best chance of getting back to something like normal life next year.

“We are starting to turn the page on a difficult year,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the Brussels-based European Commission coordinating the programme, said in a tweet.

“Vaccination is the lasting way out of the pandemic.”

After European governments were criticised for failing to work together to counter the spread of the virus in early 2020, the goal this time is to ensure that there is equal access to the vaccines across the entire region.

But even then, Hungary on Saturday jumped the gun on the official roll-out by starting to administer shots of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech to frontline workers at hospitals in the capital Budapest.

Countries including France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Portugal and Spain are planning to begin mass vaccinations, starting with health workers on Sunday. Outside the EU, Britain, Switzerland and Serbia have already started in recent weeks.

The distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot presents tough challenges. The vaccine uses new mRNA technology and must be stored at ultra-low temperatures of around -80 degrees Celsius (-112°F).

France, which received its first shipment of the two-dose vaccine on Saturday, will start administering it in the greater Paris area and in the Burgundy-Franche-Comte region.

Germany, meanwhile, said trucks were on their way to deliver the vaccine to care homes for the elderly, which are first in line to receive the vaccine on Sunday.

Beyond hospitals and care homes, sports halls and convention centres emptied by lockdown measures will become venues for mass inoculations.

In Italy, temporary solar-powered healthcare pavilions will spring up in town squares around the country, designed to look like five-petalled primrose flowers, a symbol of spring.

In Spain, doses are being delivered by air to its island territories and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Portugal is establishing separate cold storage units for its Atlantic archipelagos of Azores and Madeira.

“A window of hope has now opened, without forgetting that there is a very difficult fight ahead,” Portuguese Health Minister Marta Temido told reporters.

Writing by Mark John; Editing by Christina Fincher

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Ngư phủ chửi Bovid "bán độ"

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PM sold out fish in Brexit trade deal, fishermen say

LONDON (Reuters) - British fishermen said on Saturday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had sold out fish stocks to the European Union with a Brexit trade deal that gives EU boats significant access to the United Kingdom’s rich fishing waters.

Some British politicians also said the deal added up to a sell-out.

The United Kingdom will leave the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy on Dec. 31, but under the trade deal agreed on Christmas Eve the current rules will remain largely in place during a 5-1/2-year transition period. After that period, there will be annual consultations to establish the level and conditions for EU access to British waters.

The National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations said the fishing industry had been sacrificed by Johnson. For example, it said, the UK’s share of Celtic Sea haddock will increase to 20% from 10%, leaving 80% in the hands of EU fleets for a further five years.

“In the end-game, the prime minister made the call and caved in on fish, despite the rhetoric and assurances,” the group said. “There will of course be an extensive public relations exercise to portray the deal as a fabulous victory, but it will inevitably be seen by the fishing industry as a defeat.”

The British government said the trade deal reflected the United Kingdom’s new position as a sovereign independent coastal state and provided for a significant uplift in quota for UK fishers, equal to 25% of the value of the EU catch in UK waters.

“This is worth 146 million pounds for the UK fleet phased in over five years,” the British government said. “It ends the dependence of the UK fleet on the unfair ‘relative stability’ mechanism enshrined in the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, and increases the share of the total catch taken in UK waters taken by UK vessels to circa two thirds.”

But Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, said Johnson had “sold out Scottish fishing all over again.”

“Promises they knew couldn’t be delivered, duly broken,” Sturgeon said.

“This is a massive sell-out,” said Ian Blackford, the SNP party leader in the British Parliament. “Boris Johnson’s UK government have signed a deal that guarantees long-term access for EU boats.”

Fishing contributed just 0.03% of British economic output in 2019, but many Brexit supporters see it as a symbol of the regained sovereignty they say leaving the EU brings.

Combined with fish and shellfish processing, the sector makes up 0.1% of the United Kingdom’s GDP.

Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Leslie Adler

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Dad's joke:

Stanley Johnson confirms application for French passport on eve of Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-eve-of-brexit

Johnson, 80, served as an MEP 40 years ago, and was one of the first UK civil servants to work in Brussels after Britain joined the European Union, then the European Economic Community, in 1973. He went on to work for the European commission.

He campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU in 2016, while his son led the leave movement.

Thousands of Britons have acquired EU citizenship since the Brexit vote. More than 350,000 had applied for nationality of another EU state as of January this year. Close historical ties between Ireland and the UK put the country at the top of the league of EU passports held by dual-national Britons.

His plans to seek a French passport had already been revealed by his daughter Rachel in a book published in March.

She wrote that her grandmother had been born in Versailles and that if her father received French citizenship she too would like to become French.

Thà làm dân nước Pháp còn hơn làm bố thủ tướng nước Anh.

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