Day: 27 April 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 April 27, 2022, at 9:00pm EST.

On Wednesday, health officials in Greece logged 11,487 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 3.3 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 96.8% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 46 Covid-related deaths for a total of 29,002 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.

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The noose around the neck: why Europe depends on Russian gas

TORONTO – Europe cannot do without Russian energy products, gas first and foremost. If we do not start from this assumption, then we cannot fully understand the development of the conflict in Ukraine and the sometimes ambivalent attitude of some European states towards the Russian invasion. Just go through the official data provided by the Agency for the Cooperation of National Energy Regulators (ACER) to realize how Moscow in all these years has in fact put a noose around the neck of the EU, ready for convenience to tighten it, as is happening in the last 24 hours with the stop to gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. 

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