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<a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/joe-biden" target="_blank">The Biden administration</a> on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/afghanistan" target="_blank">Afghan</a> citizens from Afghanistan as <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/taliban" target="_blank">Taliban</a> violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month.
The State Department said it is widening the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in United States to include current and former employees of U.S.-based news organizations, U.S.-based aid and development agencies and other relief groups that receive U.S. funding. Current and former employees of the U.S. government and the NATO military operation who don’t meet the criteria for a dedicated program for such workers are also covered.
The State Department said the move will mean that “many thousands” of Afghans and their immediate families will now have the opportunity to be permanently resettled in the U.S. as refugees. It did not offer a more specific number of those who might be eligible for the program.
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“The U.S. objective remains a peaceful, secure Afghanistan,” it said in a statement. “However, in light of increased levels of Taliban violence, the U.S. government is working to provide certain Afghans, including those who worked with the United States, the opportunity for refugee resettlement to the United States.”
The creation of a “Priority 2” category for Afghans within the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program is intended for Afghans and their immediate families who “may be at risk due to their U.S. affiliation” but aren’t able to get a Special Immigrant Visa because they did not work directly for the U.S. government or didn’t hold their government jobs long enough.
To qualify for the Priority 2 category, Afghans must be nominated by a U.S. government agency or by the most senior civilian U.S. citizen employee of a U.S-based media outlet or nongovernmental organization.
		
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				‘Welcome home,’ Biden says as 221 Afghan interpreters land in U.S.			</a>
		
	
The first group of Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicants — most of whom served as translators or did other work for U.S. troops or diplomats — who have cleared security vetting arrived in the U.S. on Friday. That group of 221 people are among 2,500 who will be brought to the U.S. in the coming days.
Another 4,000 SIV applicants, plus their families, who have not yet cleared the security screening are expected to be relocated to third countries ahead of the completion of the U.S. withdrawal. Roughly 20,000 Afghans have expressed interest in the program.

The “Priority 2” category for Afghans within the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program is for Afghans and their immediate families who “may be at risk due to their U.S. affiliation.”

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leaders on Sunday called on the Biden administration to immediately extend the nation&#8217;s eviction moratorium, calling it a &#8220;moral imperative&#8221; to prevent Americans from being put out of their homes during a COVID-19 surge.
An estimated 3.6 million Americans are at risk of eviction, some as soon as Monday.
Congress was unable to pass legislation swiftly to extend the ban, which expired at midnight Saturday, and the Democratic leaders said in a statement that it was now up to President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration to act. They called on the administration to extend the moratorium through Oct. 18.
&#8220;Action is needed, and it must come from the Administration,&#8221; Pelosi said in the statement signed by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Whip James E. Clyburn and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark. &#8220;Science and reason demand that they must also extend the moratorium in light of the delta variant. Doing so is a moral imperative.&#8221;
		
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				As coronavirus eviction bans end, advocates worry homelessness will rise			</a>
		
	
The White House, which has urged localities and states to tap aid already approved by Congress, had no direct response to the Democrats&#8217; call for action.
Some Democratic lawmakers said they were caught by surprise last Thursday when Biden announced that he would not extend the moratorium again in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that suggested congressional action was necessary for another extension. Lawmakers were left with only days to act before the ban expired, creating frustration and anger and exposing a rare rift with the administration.
On Sunday, hours after the expiration, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said that Democrats had to &#8220;call a spade a spade&#8221; and pointed to her own party.
&#8220;We cannot in good faith blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have a majority,&#8221; the progressive congresswoman said on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats joined Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who camped outside the Capitol over the weekend in protest.
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On Saturday, with no legislative action pending, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the chair of the Financial Services Committee, told CNN, &#8220;We thought that the White House was in charge.&#8221;
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the ban in place as part of the COVID-19 response when jobs shifted and many workers lost income. The ban was intended to hold back the spread of the virus among people put out on the streets and into shelters.
Another source of frustration for lawmakers is the slow pace of pandemic relief already approved by Congress _ nearly $47 billion in federal housing aid to the states _ getting to renters and landlords owed payments. Biden has called on local governments to &#8220;take all possible steps&#8221; to disburse the funds immediately.
&#8220;There can be no excuse for any state or locality not accelerating funds to landlords and tenants that have been hurt during this pandemic,&#8221; Biden said in a statement Friday.
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Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to echo that sentiment. &#8220;No landlord should evict without seeking that rental assistance, and states and localities need to get that money out urgently, and they can do that,&#8221; Deese said.
Landlords also have argued for speeding up the distribution of rental assistance and opposed another extension of the moratorium.
As the deadline approached Saturday night, Pelosi urged House Democrats to check into how the money already allocated had been distributed so far in their own states and localities. She said the Treasury Department, which transferred the funds earlier in the year, offered to brief lawmakers during the coming week.
When the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in late June to allow the broad eviction ban to continue through the end of July, one of those in the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, made clear he would block any additional extensions unless there was &#8220;clear and specific congressional authorization.&#8221;
The White House has maintained that Biden wanted to extend the moratorium but that concerns remained over challenging the court. Doing so could lead to a ruling restricting the administration&#8217;s ability to respond to future public health crises.
		
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				Thousands of Ontario renters brace for evictions as Landlord and Tenant Board reopens Tuesday			</a>
		
	
While racing to respond to Biden&#8217;s announcement Thursday that congressional action was needed, Democrats strained to draft a bill and rally the votes. Waters produced a draft of a bill that would require the CDC to continue the ban through Dec. 31. At a hastily arranged hearing Friday morning to consider the bill, she urged her colleagues to act.
In the end, Democratic lawmakers had questions and concerns and could not muster support to extend the ban.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the top Republican on another panel handling the issue, said the Democrats&#8217; bill was rushed and that &#8220;this is not the way to legislate.&#8221;
Associated Press writer Alexandra Jaffe contributed to this report.

An estimated 3.6 million Americans are at risk of eviction, some as soon as Monday.

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As public health officials warn of an incoming Delta variant-driven fourth wave of <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/COVID-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">COVID-19</a>, experts are saying that its spread will likely be &#8220;very, very different&#8221; than Canada&#8217;s previous waves.
The warning came from chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam on Friday, who pointed at the upward trend in cases across Canada. The public health agency of Canada&#8217;s long-range epidemic forecasts &#8220;suggests we are the start of a Delta-driven fourth wave,&#8221; Tam told reporters at a press conference.
Tam warned that if vaccine uptake doesn&#8217;t increase in the country&#8217;s younger populations, cases could eventually exceed some communities&#8217; health-care system capacities.
		
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				Delta COVID-19 variant as contagious as chickenpox, internal CDC report says			</a>
		
	
The news also comes on the heels of a new CDC report and study, the former of which warned that the Delta COVID-19 variant could be as contagious as chickenpox and the latter pointing to a string of outbreaks even among those who have been vaccinated.
However, according to Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Queen&#8217;s University, Canada&#8217;s fourth wave of COVID-19 will differ greatly from its previous ones despite the CDC reports and warning from PHAC officials.
&#8220;If we have a fourth wave, it&#8217;s going to look very, very different than the previous waves,&#8221; said Evans.
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He said that there&#8217;s &#8220;no way&#8221; that such a wave would be as big as the previous ones simply because of Canada&#8217;s vaccinations rates, which remain among the highest in the world.
Even with Canada&#8217;s rise in cases, Evans said that they would primarily be in unvaccinated communities, pointing to the fact that over 97 per cent of all new cases were among those who did not get a shot.
Canada added at least another 218 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing its total infections to 1,431,219. Another two deaths were reported as well, with the country&#8217;s death toll now standing at 26,600. Over 1.39 million people have recovered and more than 49.5 million vaccinations have been doled out.
		
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				Canada&#8217;s 4th COVID-19 wave will be among unvaccinated, with fewer restrictions: experts			</a>
		
	
Active cases now look to be on the rise across the country, though. Thursday saw another 903 new cases, Friday 897 more and Saturday another 531. In comparison, Canada recorded 391 recoveries on Thursday, 412 on Friday and 190 on Saturday.
This weekend&#8217;s COVID-19 data is limited, however, with only Ontario and Quebec reporting new cases as of today.
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According to Evans, the CDC&#8217;s study on vaccinated people contracting COVID-19 after large events actually presents stronger evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines.
The main problem in the study he said was that the disease control agency was not reporting denominators &#8212; the amount of people that had visited or travelled around the state during the period which the study was conducted.
		
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According to the CDC, 469 cases were found among Massachusetts residents from July 3 to 26, and of those, 74 per cent were among those fully vaccinated.
Evans estimated at least 100,000 people travelling and moving around the state&#8217;s events during that time period, and that the only 469 cases reported among such high volume events were a better indicator of vaccine&#8217;s effectiveness.
Secondly, Evans pointed to the high vaccination rates in the state &#8212; Massachusetts has at least 72 per cent of its population having received at least one dose and over 63 per cent of its population fully vaccinated, compared to the national average of 57.7 per cent and 49.6 per cent, respectively.
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Speaking on the Roy Green Show, Dr. Ronald St John, the former WHO director for the Americas and national manager for Canada&#8217;s response to SARS, expressed caution when interpreting the findings of the internal CDC report that pointed at the ability of the Delta variant to spread like chickenpox.
He pointed out as well that the data in the report was not peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.
&#8220;I assume they mean [Delta is spreading among] unvaccinated people, but it&#8217;s not specified,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;How often they spread it, the frequency of spread &#8212; that&#8217;s what&#8217;s not clear to me in the data that&#8217;s been presented so far and so far, I think it&#8217;s just been an internal document that&#8217;s been spread around. So I&#8217;m waiting to see a little more data.&#8221;
		
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				Canada facing the start of a Delta-driven 4th wave, top doctors warn			</a>
		
	
According to University of Toronto epidemiologist Dr. Colin Furness, the next wave would be &#8220;primarily experienced by unvaccinated people.&#8221;
He pointed out in a previous interview with Global News that the vaccines were a &#8220;firebreak&#8221; that acted to prevent mass spread of the virus, as well as hospitalizations and severe outcomes.
Instead of the previous mass outbreaks of COVID-19 in Canada, Furness said that they were now more likely to occur in non-vaccinated people, who &#8220;occur in clumps.&#8221;
“They’re not randomly, evenly distributed among the population. It’s a church group. It’s an ethnic group. It’s people in an apartment building,&#8221; he said.
&#8212; With files from The Canadian Press, Reuters, Eric Stober and Rachel Gilmore.

Officials from the Public Health Agency of Canada warned that the country was already on the onset of an impending fourth wave of COVID-19.

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A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/florida" target="_blank">Florida</a> on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalizations, as the number of patients in hospitals because of <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/tag/covid" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> once again broke through the 1,000-person threshold.
The Sunshine State had 10,207 people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to data reported to the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Services.
		
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The previous record was from more than a year ago, July 23, 2020, more than a half-year before vaccinations started becoming widespread, when Florida had 10,170 hospitalizations, according to the Florida Hospital Association.
Florida is now leading the nation in per capita hospitalizations for COVID-19, as hospitals around the state report having to put emergency room visitors in beds in hallways and others document a noticeable drop in the age of patients.
In the past week, Florida has averaged 1,525 adult hospitalizations a day, and 35 daily pediatric hospitalizations. Both are the highest per capita rate in the nation, according to Jason Salemi, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida.
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The hospitalizations and increasing cases have come as the new, more transmittable delta variant has spread throughout Florida, and residents have returned to pre-pandemic activities.
&#8220;The recent rise is both striking and not-at-all surprising,&#8221; Salemi said in an email late Saturday.
Federal health data released Saturday showed that Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state&#8217;s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic. The latest numbers were recorded on Friday and released on Saturday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s website. The figures show how quickly the number of cases is rising in the Sunshine State: only a day earlier, Florida reported 17,093 new daily cases.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted mandatory mask mandates and vaccine requirements, and along with the state Legislature, has limited local officials&#8217; ability to impose restrictions meant to stop the spread of COVID-19. DeSantis on Friday barred school districts from requiring students to wear masks when classes resume next month.
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Throughout Florida, from Jacksonville to Miami to Tampa, hospitals have become overwhelmed.
Barry Burton, the Pinellas County administrator, told the Tampa Bay Times that some local hospitals are already having to divert ambulances to different locations because of capacity concerns.
		
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There has been a startling rise in the number of children with the virus at hospitals in Miami, many of them requiring intensive care.
Memorial Health&#8217;s Joe DiMaggio Children&#8217;s Hospital in Hollywood had seven patients with COVID-19. At Nicklaus Children&#8217;s Hospital in Miami, there were 17 patients with COVID-19 on Friday, including six in the ICU and one who needed a ventilator, Dr. Marcos Mestre, vice president and chief medical officer, told the Miami Herald.
About half of the patients were under 12, Mestre said, and the rest were older and eligible for the vaccine. But none of the patients with COVID-19 at Nicklaus Children&#8217;s on Friday were vaccinated. Most children who get COVID-19 do not need hospitalization, Mestre said.
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At the UF Health North hospital emergency room in Jacksonville, COVID-19 patients once again were being put in beds in hallways due to a surge in visits.
For many hospital workers, up until a month ago, it looked like there was light at the end of the tunnel, as people got vaccinated and hospitalizations decreased. But then the summer surge, powered by the new delta variant, hit Florida in July.
&#8220;That light did turn out to be a train in this case,&#8221; Marsha Tittle, a nursing manager at UF Health North, told The Florida Times Union. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking more patients than we normally would take. &#8230; My staff is wonderful. You walk out there, they&#8217;re going to have smiles on their faces and they&#8217;re doing a great job. But there&#8217;s a sense of defeat, like they&#8217;re just defeated.&#8221;

Florida’s previous record was over a year ago, July 23, 2020, more than a half-year before COVID-19 vaccinations started becoming widespread.

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<a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/wildfires" target="_blank">Wildfires</a> raged Sunday near Turkey’s holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla as the discovery of more bodies caused the death toll to rise to eight. Residents and tourists fled the danger in small boats while the coast guard and two navy ships waited out at sea in case a bigger evacuation was needed.
Authorities warned tourists and residents to keep evacuating Turunc, a town in the seaside resort of Marmaris in Mugla province. Fires enveloped the area and strong winds made firefighting efforts more difficult. A helicopter attempted to extinguish the blazes, which were unreachable by land.
		
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As residents of villages around Marmaris pleaded for more help on social media, people boarded small boats carrying suitcases. Others waited anxiously to see if the fire would come down to the shore.
Turkish news agency DHA said the bodies of a Turkish-German couple were found in their burned home in Manavgat, Antalya, bringing the overall death toll to eight in the fires that began on Wednesday. Fires were also encroaching on a village near the town and villagers were evacuating in trucks.
Earlier Sunday, police water cannons, usually used to control riots, helped helicopters and fire trucks in Mugla’s popular district of Bodrum to fight fires. Turkish television showed fires had reignited after being extinguished earlier, with blazes and smoke approaching a village.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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Civilians were trying to protect homes and olive groves but some houses were already damaged. Social media videos showed tourists in Bodrum scampering down streets rolling their luggage to escape the nearby flames.
The health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said at least 27 people affected by the fires were still receiving treatment in hospitals while hundreds of others had been released.
The minister of forestry and agriculture, Bekir Pakdemirli, tweeted that 111 wildfires were “under control” across Turkey. His tweets showed that, since Wednesday, wildfires had ignited in 33 provinces.
Panic-stricken tourists were evacuated Saturday from hotels in Bodrum as a fire rolled down the hill toward the seashore, including some 100 Russian tourists.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan toured some of the affected areas on Saturday and promised to help residents rebuild their homes. But social media users criticized him for arriving in Marmaris in a massive convoy that caused more traffic and for having bags of tea thrown from his bus to people gathered to hear him speak.
While Turkish authorities say they are investigating whether the fires may have started as “sabotage” by outlawed Kurdish militants, experts mostly point to the climate crisis, as seen by the drastic increases in temperatures, along with accidents caused by people. Erdogan said Saturday that one of the fires was started by children.
		
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A heat wave across southern Europe, fed by hot air from North Africa, has led to wildfires across the Mediterranean, including on the Italian island of Sicily and in western Greece, where some residents had to be evacuated by boat to escape the flames.
On Sunday afternoon, bathers on an Italian beach south of the Adriatic city of Pescara fled when they spotted towering clouds of smoke and flames from a fire in a nearby pine forest, the Italian news agency LaPresse said. Several people were reportedly injured when they tried to put out wind-whipped flames that had reached their homes, it said. Local officials told state TV that a elderly home in Pescara had to be evacuated.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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Temperatures in Turkey and nearby countries in southeast Europe are expected to climb to 42 degrees Celsius (more than 107 Fahrenheit) Monday in many cities and towns. Antalya was already registering 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in Turkey’s eastern Van province, floods over the weekend destroyed at least six houses after a small river overflowed amid heavy rains. Villagers were told to quickly leave their homes and climb to higher locations.
Floods in northern Turkey last month killed at least six people.

Wildfires raged near Turkey’s holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla causing residents and tourists to evacuate in small boats.

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A <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/tag/belarus" target="_blank">Belarusian</a> sprinter said she was taken to the airport against her wishes on Sunday to board a flight back home after she complained about national coaches at the <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/olympics" target="_blank">Tokyo Olympics</a>, but planned to avoid getting on the plane.
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who was due to compete in the women&#8217;s 200 meters on Monday, told Reuters she had sought the protection of Japanese police at Tokyo&#8217;s Haneda airport so she would not have to board the flight.
&#8220;I will not return to Belarus,&#8221; she told Reuters in a message over Telegram.
		
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The Belarusian Olympic Committee said in a statement that coaches had decided to withdraw Tsimanouskaya from the Games on doctors&#8217; advice about her &#8220;emotional, psychological state.&#8221;
The Belarusian Olympic Committee did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
A Reuters photographer witnessed the athlete standing next to Japanese police.
&#8220;I think I am safe,&#8221; Tsimanouskaya said. &#8220;I am with the police.&#8221;
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A police officer at Haneda airport said they were with a female Olympic athlete from Belarus at Terminal 3.
A source at the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, which supports athletes jailed or sidelined for their political views, said Tsimanouskaya planned to request asylum in Germany or Austria on Monday.
		
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In a video published on Telegram by the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, Tsimanouskaya asked the International Olympic Committee to get involved in her case.
An IOC spokesperson said the governing body had seen media reports and was looking into it. The spokesperson said it had asked Belarus&#8217; Olympic committee for clarification.
	
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Tsimanouskaya, 24, said coaching staff had come to her room on Sunday and told her to pack. She was taken to the airport before she could run in the 200 meters and 4&#215;400 meters relay on Thursday.
She said she had been removed from the team due &#8220;to the fact that I spoke on my Instagram about the negligence of our coaches.&#8221;
		
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Tsimanouskaya had complained on Instagram that she was entered in the 4&#215;400 m relay after some members of the team were found to be ineligible to compete at the Olympics because they had not undergone a sufficient amount of doping tests.
&#8220;Some of our girls did not fly here to compete in the 4&#215;400 m relay because they didn&#8217;t have enough doping tests,&#8221; Tsimanouskaya told Reuters from the airport.
&#8220;And the coach added me to the relay without my knowledge. I spoke about this publicly. The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me.&#8221;
Tsimanouskaya added that she had reached out to members of the Belarusian diaspora in Japan to retrieve her at the airport.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged the IOC to take up the athlete&#8217;s case.
&#8220;Grateful to #IOC for the quick reaction to the situation with the Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsymanouskaya. She has a right to international protection &amp; to continue participation in the @Olympics,&#8221; Tsikhanouskaya tweeted.
&#8220;It is also crucial to investigate Belarus&#8217; NOC violations of athletes&#8217; rights.&#8221;
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Grateful to <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/ioc target="_blank">#IOC</a> for the quick reaction to the situation with the Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsymanouskaya. She has a right to international protection &amp; to continue participation in the <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/olympics target="_blank">@Olympics</a>. It is also crucial to investigate Belarus&#39; NOC violations of athletes&#39; rights. <a href="https://t.co/QQHuhgcYqs" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/QQHuhgcYqs</a>
&mdash; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tsihanouskaya/status/1421824702759280641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">August 1, 2021</a></blockquote>

	
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has kept a tight grip on Belarus, a former Soviet state, since 1994. Faced with mass street protests last year over what his opponents called rigged elections, he ordered a violent crackdown on protesters. Lukashenko denies the allegations of vote-rigging.
Unusually in a country where elite athletes often rely on government funding, some prominent Belarusian athletes joined the protests. Several were jailed, including Olympic basketball player Yelena Leuchanka and decathlete Andrei Krauchanka <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-olympics-idUSKBN28614P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-olympics-idUSKBN28614P</a>.
Others lost their state employment or were kicked off national teams for supporting the opposition.
During the Cold War, scores of sports people and cultural figures defected from the Soviet Union and its satellite states during overseas competitions or tours. But the freedom of travel that came with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw the need for such dramatic acts dwindle.
Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka Editing by Frances Kerry
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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya told Reuters she had sought the protection of Japanese police at Tokyo’s Haneda airport so she would not have to board the flight.

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said he does not expect the United States will return to lockdowns, despite the growing risks of <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">COVID-19 infections</a> posed by the Delta variant.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to see lockdowns,&#8221; Fauci, who is also director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
		
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&#8220;I think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country &#8211; not enough to crush the outbreak &#8211; but I believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter.&#8221;
Although Fauci does not think the United States will need to shut down again as it did last year, he warned on ABC that &#8220;things are going to get worse&#8221; as the Delta variant continues to spread.
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&#8220;We have 100 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not getting vaccinated,&#8221; he said.
The average number of new cases reported each day has nearly doubled in the past 10 days and the number of hospitalized patients in many states is surging, according to a Reuters analysis.

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Canada has captured its 13th medal at the 2020 <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/tokyo-olympics" target="_blank">Tokyo Olympics</a> after winning bronze at the women&#8217;s 4&#215;100-metre medley relay finals.
Penny Oleksiak, who swam anchor in the swimming relay, won the seventh Olympic medal of her career &#8212; marking the 21-year-old as Canada&#8217;s most decorated Olympian.
Sydney Pickrem also picked up her first medal while Maggie Mac Neil and Kylie Masse won their third. The four finished with a time of 3:52.60, breaking their previous national record set after winning bronze at the 2019 FINA World Championships.
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Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state&#8217;s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors to wear masks indoors.
The state has become the new national epicenter for the virus, accounting for around a fifth of all new cases in the U.S. as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continues to spread.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted mandatory mask mandates and vaccine requirements, and along with the state Legislature, has limited local officials&#8217; ability to impose restrictions meant to stop the spread of COVID-19. DeSantis on Friday barred school districts from requiring students to wear masks when classes resume next month.
The latest numbers were recorded on Friday and released on Saturday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s website. The figures show how quickly the number of cases is rising in the Sunshine State: only a day earlier, Florida reported 17,093 new daily cases. The previous peak in Florida had been 19,334 cases reported on Jan. 7, before the availability of vaccinations became widespread.
		
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The state reported 409 deaths this week, bringing the total to more than 39,000 since its first in March 2020. The state&#8217;s peak happened in mid-August 2020, when 1,266 people died over a seven-day period. Deaths usually follow increases in hospitalizations by a few weeks.
DeSantis has blamed the surge on a seasonal increase &#8212; more Floridians are indoors because of the hot weather with air conditioning circulating the virus. About 60% of Floridians 12 and older are vaccinated, ranking it about midway among the states.
The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year&#8217;s peak, and one of the state&#8217;s largest health care systems, AdventHealth&#8217;s Central Florida Division, this week advised it would no longer be conducting nonemergency surgeries in order to free up resources for COVID-19 patients.
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Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld on Saturday became the latest theme park resorts in Florida to again ask visitors to wear masks indoors, with Universal also ordering its employees to wear face coverings to protect against COVID-19, which has been surging across the state.
All workers at Universal&#8217;s Florida park on Saturday started being required to wear masks while indoors as the employees returned to practicing social distancing. The home to Harry Potter and Despicable Me rides also asked visitors to follow federal and local health guidelines by voluntarily wearing face coverings indoors.
&#8220;The health and safety of our guests and team members is always our top priority,&#8221; Universal said in a statement.
		
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Health officials on Friday announced that coronavirus cases in Florida had jumped 50% over the past week with COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state nearing last year&#8217;s peak.
SeaWorld on Saturday posted on its website that it was recommending that visitors follow recently updated federal recommendations and wear face coverings while indoors.
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The change in policy this week at the theme park resorts came after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that everyone wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.
Crosstown rival Walt Disney World started requiring employees and guests older than 2 to wear masks on Friday, but it also went a step further. The Walt Disney Co. said in a statement that it will be requiring all salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S. who work on site to be fully vaccinated.
Disney employees who aren&#8217;t already vaccinated will have 60 days to do so and those still working from home will need to show proof of vaccination before returning. Disney said it was discussing the vaccine requirements with the union, and added that all new hires will be required to be fully vaccinated before starting work at the company.

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The<a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Olympics host city Tokyo</a>, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">COVID-19 infections</a> on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the disease.
The surge in Delta variant cases is rattling parts of Asia previously relatively successful in containing COVID-19, such as Vietnam, which will from Monday impose strict curbs on movement in several cities and provinces.
Cases also surged in Sydney, where police cordoned off the central business district to prevent a protest against a strict lockdown that will last until the end of August.
Police in Sydney closed train stations, banned taxis from dropping passengers off downtown and deployed 1,000 officers to set up checkpoints and to disperse groups.
		
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The government of New South Wales reported 210 new infections in Sydney and surrounding areas from the Delta variant outbreak.
Tokyo&#8217;s metropolitan government announced a record number of 4,058 infections in the past 24 hours. Olympics organizers reported 21 new COVID-19 cases related to the Games, bringing the total to 241 since July 1.
A day earlier Japan extended its state of emergency for Tokyo to the end of August and expanded it to three prefectures near the capital and to the western prefecture of Osaka.
Olympics organizers said on Saturday they had revoked accreditation of a Games-related person or people for leaving the athletes&#8217; village for sightseeing, a violation of measures imposed to hold the Olympics safely amid the pandemic.
The organizers did not disclose how many people were involved, if the person or people were athletes, or when the violation took place.
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Malaysia, one of the hotspots of the disease, reported 17,786 coronavirus cases on Saturday, a record high.
More than 100 people gathered in the center of Kuala Lumpur expressing dissatisfaction with the government&#8217;s handling of the pandemic and calling on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to quit.
Protesters carried black flags and held up placards that read “Kerajaan Gagal” (failed government) – a hashtag popular on social media for months.
Thailand also reported a daily record high of 18,912 new coronavirus infections, bringing its total cases to 597,287. The country also reported 178 new deaths, also a daily record.
The government said the Delta variant accounted for more than 60% of the cases in the country and 80% of the cases in Bangkok. The variant is not necessarily more lethal than other variants, but much more transmissible, said Supakit Sirilak, the director-general of Thailand&#8217;s Department of Medical Sciences.
At Thammasat University Hospital near the capital Bangkok, a morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers, resorting to a measure it last took in a 2004 tsunami, a hospital director said.
China is battling an outbreak of the Delta variant in the eastern city of Nanjing which has been traced to airport workers who cleaned a plane which had arrived from Russia.
Vietnam, grappling with its worst COVID-19 outbreak, announced that from Monday it will impose strict curbs on movement in its business hub Ho Chi Minh City and another 18 cities and provinces throughout its south for another two weeks.
COVID-19 infections have increased by 80% over the past four weeks in most regions of the world, WHO Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
&#8220;Hard-won gains are in jeopardy or being lost, and health systems in many countries are being overwhelmed,&#8221; Tedros told a news conference.
The Delta variant, first detected in India, is as contagious as chickenpox and far more contagious than the common cold or flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said in an internal document reported this week.
&#8212; Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat, Chayut Setboonsarng and Orathai Sriring in Bangkok, A. Ananthalakshmi in Kuala Lumpur, Lidia Kelly in Sydney, Makiko Yamazaki in Tokyo, Yew Lun Tian in Beijing; Writing by Raju Gopalakrishnan

The Delta variant, first detected in India, is as contagious as chickenpox and far more contagious than the common flu, the U.S. CDC reported in an internal document this week.

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