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News  19 February
Three in 10 care home staff are not yet vaccinated. Care workers in the top four priority groups decided not to have vaccines.  Why? Because of their ethnic or religious backgrounds. There is a big TV campaign to tell people from BAME backgrounds to take the first dose. They hope that this will increase protection of workers and residents in all care homes.
Northern Ireland Government has decided to extend lockdown until April 1st. This means lockdown will be for 14 weeks altogether. But young children four to seven years old will go back to school on March 3rd. The Government is still worried about the fast spreading of Covid variant.  The Government advises people not to book Easter holidays yet until later and people must be patient.
The storm in Texas in USA is very bad and power is out for 100 million Americans. They are freezing and have no light. Gas pipes and wind turbines froze so power is limited.  Help is on the way from Federal Government. The White House says this storm proves that climate change is real.  They want to increase wind and solar power to reduce pollution. 
Facebook blacked out Australian news. A new law from the Australian government says Facebook must pay Australian media money for using their news. Why?  Their newspapers income is getting less and less.  Australian people are furious with Facebook with no access to their daily news.

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