Global News published this video item, entitled “Global National: Oct. 19, 2010 |COVID-19 again infiltrates Canada’s long-term care homes” – below is their description.
On tonight’s episode of Global National: COVID-19 is again infiltrating Canada’s long-term care facilities, where a staffing shortage remains a major problem. Mike Drolet looks at the concerns over Band-Aid solutions, and the questions about the qualifications of Red Cross workers who are being brought in to help.
Plus, provinces are now starting to roll out the flu shot without mass vaccination clinics because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Heather Yourex-West reports on the high demand and the long waitlist to get inoculated against influenza.
With only two weeks to go before the U.S. election, nearly 30 million Americans have already cast their ballot through early voting. Jackson Proskow explains what and who is fuelling the historic turnout.
Back in Canada, federal cabinet ministers are condemning the escalating violence against Indigenous fishers in Nova Scotia. As Abigail Bimman explains, bringing in more police isn’t expected to resolve the deepening conflict over lobster fisheries.
In Belarus, protesters are still demanding long-time President Alexander Lukashenko resign. It’s widely accepted he lost to opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is in exile in Lithuania. Redmond Shannon spoke with Tsikhanouskaya about the challenges she faces, and the important role she says Canada is playing.
And he may have an enthusiastic fan base, but some Republicans are adamantly refusing to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. As Mike Armstrong reports, they have organized campaigns to support Joe Biden and vote out Trump.
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Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko or Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka is a Belarusian politician, who has served as president of Belarus since the establishment of the office 26 years ago, on 20 July 1994.
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus and formerly known as Byelorussia or Belorussia, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
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The symptoms of flu are similar to a very bad cold. They include a high temperature, an aching body, tiredness and a headache.
Flu will usually get better in about a week if you rest, keep warm, drink plenty of fluids and take painkillers. Antibiotics do not help with flu.
You can help avoid flu by getting the flu vaccine every year.
Joe Biden is an American politician serving as the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Lithuania is one of the Baltic states. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2019. The capital and largest city is Vilnius and other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians are Balts. The official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, the other being Latvian.
On 11 March 1990, a year before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lithuania became the first Baltic state to proclaim its independence, resulting in the restoration of the independent State of Lithuania.
Lithuania is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy. Lithuania is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, eurozone, Schengen Agreement, NATO and OECD. It is also a member of the Nordic Investment Bank, part of Nordic-Baltic cooperation of Northern European countries, and is classified as a Northern European country by the United Nations.
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.
The Republican Party, sometimes also referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with its main, historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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