International

World News 21st April
5.2 million new covid cases last week
Covid has been increasing for 8 weeks.  Deaths are increasing.  India catching up to the USA.  India has 15 million cases – USA has 32 million.  India cremates people who die – in open fires.  It is hard to know how many people have died in India.  In Europe, many people refuse the vaccine.  In Nice in France the vaccine centre closed at the weekend.  They had 4,000 doses to give out… only 58 people turned up.
New travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand
No quarantine needed.  People can fly between Australia and New Zealand – no restrictions for Covid.  Even better, New Zealand are so happy – they gave everyone a glass of sparkling wine when they arrived.
Relations between USA and Russia are very bad
It is obvious that they disagree over Ukraine, and Navalny and cyber attacks.  Now the US ambassador will leave Moscow to go back to USA to explain what is really happening.  The Russian ambassador in Washington went home in March because President Biden said that Putin was a killer.  Russia is also arguing with Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria.    All of them need to be careful – they must remain calm.
Think before you link! – spies use Linkedin to get secrets
Linkedin is software and information about individuals and companies.  You can find out about people and can make connections to their work.  For the last 5 years, spies used fake profiles to ask people to connect to them.  The fake profiles tried to catch out people in Government and in big companies.  MI5 warns people to be careful.