World News. 12th November
Trump has only had one public engagement since the election. He has been described as “absent without leave” as he has not taken any interest in the work of the President. There has been nothing on the virus which is getting worse and worse in the USA. He has been sending out tweets claiming fraud but there is no evidence. He has fired people in the Defence Department but there is not a lot of work in his diary. At the same time, Joe Biden is busy taking calls from World Leaders and setting out plans.
The situation in Hong Kong is getting worse as the Chinese Government clamps down on the province. The Council expelled four members (like MPs) because they were opposed to China interfering – now all the members who are opposed to China have quit. Looks like China does not want democracy there – even though they have a treaty with Britain which says they have to allow it in Hong Kong.
EU is buying 300 million doses of the vaccine from the German company BioNTech and will start to have delivery by the end of 2020.
Virus cases are over 1 million in Italy. In Germany, at least 300 thousand pupils and 40 thousand teachers are in quarantine. The Government is preparing for a difficult winter. In New York they are making new restrictions – closing bars early and asking to wear masks. In the USA there are over 100 thousand new cases every day. The hospitals are struggling. The situation in Russia is getting worse – it is hard to get information. Some reports say the hospitals in the regions away from Moscow are not able to cope with the number of cases
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