Author: Eva Schmidt

  Farmer’s are rescheduling planting trees due to the uncertainty of the government’s plans regarding protecting nature and postponing cutting off the greenhouse gasoline emission. New farm funds are anticipated from 2024, which is beneath the post-Brexit subsidy system. It is a new fund that the government has promised to all the farmers. But the farmers are now in a big dilemma, that if they plant trees now they might not get the money of the new scheme. Besides, they will face their existing subsidies they plant more trees now.…

  At Fraser Health hospitals, the patients who tested positive for Covid-19 now won’t have to stay separately from other fully-vaccinated patients as per the new guidance by the province’s largest health authority. The new revised infection prevention and control recommendations have been introduced on January 4th. The Covid-19 cohorts are now only for the patients who require treatment for severe respiratory symptoms because of the virus. About the new Omicron variant, the document said that it usually causes mild symptoms in fully-vaccinated people. The Covid positive patients with mild…

  The first foreign aid plane landed on Tonga. Bearing essential supplies, this place was completely devastated by a volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami last Saturday. New Zealand sends a military plane to land the Tonga airport after the worker has cleared the ashes from the runway. Australia has confirmed that their plane has reached, containing relief supplies. The delay was caused by the huge amount of ashes. Tonga has been able to re-establish the connection with the rest of the world after five days of complete cut-off. On Thursday,…

  American basketball player Sonny Weems had to endure racial abuse from fans in China. A video has been circulated on social media where the fans can be heard shouting the ‘N’ word and ‘get out of China’ continuously at Weems. The 35-year-old basketball player is a part of the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association. The incident occurred last Thursday in the match between the Southern Tigers and the Liaoning Flying Leopards. Weems was caught in a fight with the Chinese player Han Dejun during the match…