Day: 11 February 2022

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of February 11, 2022, at 5:00 pm EST.

On Friday, health officials in Germany logged 229,989 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 12.1 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 70.9% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 215 Covid-related deaths for a total of 120,411 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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Why is there a crisis in education leadership at the TCDSB?

TORONTO – Where to start? Usually at the top. Neither the Director’s office nor the Office of the Chair return Media (ours) email requests or phone calls. That is usually a sign of indifference or disrespect. We are ratepayers and our writers are Catholic electors.

Letters or posts “from the above” sent to parents and teachers (and obtained by us) are signed “Board of the TCDSB”, suggesting that no one wants to take ownership of the contents.

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Il lungo braccio della legge: troppo corto per Trump?

“Credo che Merrick Garland sia stato estremamente debole… e molti altri organizzatori del 6 gennaio dovrebbero essere stati già arrestati”. Così Ruben Gallego (nella foto, dal suo profilo Twitter – https://twitter.com/RepRubenGallego), parlamentare democratico dell’Arizona, in un’intervista alla Cnn mentre descriveva l’operato dell’attuale ministro di Giustizia americano. Gallego ha continuato spiegando che Garland è stato “inetto” e non è stato capace di “proteggere la democrazia”.  (more…)