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Andy Cruise ชาวต่างชาติซึ่งอาศัยในประเทศไทยกล่าวว่าคนไทยจะต้องถอดรองเท้าเมื่อเข้าบ้านแม้ว่าพื้นบ้านจะสกปรกกว่ารองเท้าก็ตาม โดยกล่าวว่าเขาที่มาจากวัฒนธรรมที่ต่างกันอาจรู้สึกไม่สุภาพนิดหน่อยที่เจ้าของบ้านบอกให้แขกถอดรองเท้า แต่บ้านของคุณรกมาก
Alan Tam กล่าวว่าคนไทยค่อนข้างมีความเชื่อเรื่องโชคลางหรือเรื่องเหนือธรรมชาติ ความเชื่อที่แปลกอย่างหนึ่งที่เขาเคยได้ยินคือ “ห้ามผิวปากตอนกลางคืน” เพราะถือเป็นการเรียกผีวิญญาณ
กลุ่มสิทธิมนุษยชน Karenni Human Rights Group เผยว่า พบร่างที่ถูกเผาของชาวบ้าน รวมทั้งผู้สูงอายุ ผู้หญิง และเด็กที่ถูกทหารเมียนมาสังหารใกล้กับหมู่บ้านโมโซในเมืองพยูโซของรัฐกะยาเมื่อวันเสาร์
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With more than 580,000 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the United States shattered its own record for new daily coronavirus cases, beating a milestone it already broke just the day before.
The latest surge of coronavirus, with the variants of Omicron and Delta combined, has kept the United States in complicated chaos of understaffed medical services as well as cancelled flights, while the federal government still pins hope on its vaccination policy to turn the table, sooner or later.
With more than 580,000 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the United States shattered its own record for new daily coronavirus cases, beating a milestone it already broke just the day before. Thursday’s count toppled the 488,000 new cases on Wednesday, which was nearly double the highest numbers from last winter.
“The back-to-back record-breaking days are a growing sign of the virus’s fast spread and come as the world enters its third year of the pandemic,” reported The New York Times (NYT), noting that hospitalizations and deaths, however, have not followed the same dramatic increase, further indication that the Omicron variant seems to be milder than Delta and causes fewer cases of severe illness.
In the past two weeks, deaths are down by five percent, with a daily average of 1,221, while hospitalizations increased by just 15 percent to an average of 78,781 per day, it added.
Travelers check in at LaGuardia Airport in New York, the United States, Nov. 24, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
Urgent care centers across the United States are grappling with what to do as the fast-spreading Omicron variant hits employees and the demand for COVID-19 testing surges. “In some instances, they are closing certain locations for a few days,” reported The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
More people are turning to the non-emergency clinics for COVID-19 testing, and at-home test kits are hard to come by. As at airlines, which have canceled thousands of flights this month, workers at urgent care centers are testing positive for coronavirus and are unable to work, said the report.
CityMD, a chain of urgent care clinics in the New York City area, closed 31 of its locations in recent weeks, including 12 on Wednesday. A spokeswoman said more locations could close. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care temporarily closed about 10 of its 55 locations in New York in recent days.
Heading into the New Year’s weekend, when return flights will produce another crest in air travel, airlines have been canceling more than 1,000 flights a day to, from or within the United States. “Carriers and their employees say the latest chapter of the pandemic, the Omicron variant, has cut deeply into the ability to staff flights, even though a vast majority of crew members are vaccinated,” reported NYT on Thursday.
JetBlue has been one of the airlines hardest hit, canceling 17 percent of its flights on Thursday, according to the air travel data site FlightAware. The carrier said on Wednesday that it would cut about 1,280 flights through mid-January, citing the rise in virus cases in the Northeast, where its operations and crews are concentrated.
As many as 10 million people may fly from Thursday through Monday, according to Transportation Security Administration estimates. For months, airlines have been preparing reserves of workers for the holiday crush, but “those measures were inadequate in a fast-changing situation, and many passengers were frustrated,” said the report.
CLOSURES, CANCELLATIONS Urgent care centers across the United States are grappling with what to do as the fast-spreading Omicron variant hits employees and the demand for COVID-19 testing surges. “In some instances, they are closing certain locations for a few days,” reported The Wall Street Journal on Friday. More people are turning to the non-emergency clinics for COVID-19 testing, and at-home test kits are hard to come by. As at airlines, which have canceled thousands of flights this month, workers at urgent care centers are testing positive for coronavirus and are unable to work, said the report. CityMD, a chain of urgent care clinics in the New York City area, closed 31 of its locations in recent weeks, including 12 on Wednesday. A spokeswoman said more locations could close. Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care temporarily closed about 10 of its 55 locations in New York in recent days. Heading into the New Year
BRIEF SURGE, ENDURING TUSSLE
The rapid surge of Omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief, measured in weeks rather than months, according to infectious-disease experts who have been astonished by the speed of the coronavirus variant’s spread and who are hoping this wave ebbs just as quickly, reported The Washington Post on Thursday.
Some forecasts suggest coronavirus infections could peak by mid-January. “Omicron will likely be quick. It won’t be easy, but it will be quick. Come the early spring, a lot of people will have experienced COVID-19,” William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was quoted as saying.
On Thursday, the Joe Biden administration told the Supreme Court that federal law gives it the authority to impose a nationwide vaccine-or-testing requirement for large employers, and the court should not stand in the way of a program that will save thousands of lives, the report said.
“The nation is facing an unprecedented pandemic that is sickening and killing thousands of workers around the country, and any further delay in the implementation of the (requirement) will result in unnecessary illness, hospitalizations, and deaths because of workplace exposure” to the coronavirus, said a federal filing.
The Supreme Court has announced a special hearing on Jan. 7 to consider challenges to the rules from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It was upheld by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit earlier this month, but is being challenged by a coalition of business groups and Republican-led states.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people in England, where no new social restrictions have been introduced before the end of the year, to exercise caution in their celebrations. He also asked people living in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, where tighter coronavirus restrictions are in place, to follow the COVID-19 guidance.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that Britain is in an “incomparably better” position than last year in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the country’s daily infections repeatedly rising to new highs these days fueled by the Omicron variant.
“Whatever the challenges that fate continues to throw in our way and whatever the anxieties we may have about the weeks and months ahead, particularly about Omicron and the growing numbers in hospitals…we can say one thing with certainty — our position this Dec. 31 is incomparably better than last year,” Johnson said in his New Year’s message posted on social media.
The prime minister hailed the success of his government’s COVID-19 vaccine program and the “heroic” public response to the booster campaign, claiming that the target to offer a third dose to every eligible adult in the country had been met.
A man receives a vaccine jab at NHS (National Health Service) COVID Vaccine Center at Wembley Stadium in London, Britain, on Dec. 19, 2021. (Photo by Ray Tang/Xinhua)
Around 90 percent of people aged 12 and over in Britain have had their first dose of vaccine and more than 82 percent have received both doses, according to the latest figures. More than 58 percent have received booster jabs, or the third dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Meanwhile, Britain reported a new record increase of 189,213 daily coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 12,748,050, according to official figures released Thursday.
People walk past a screen for sales information on Oxford Street on Boxing Day in London, Britain, Dec. 26, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Ying)
Johnson urged people in England, where no new social restrictions have been introduced before the end of the year, to exercise caution in their celebrations. He also asked people living in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, where tighter coronavirus restrictions are in place, to follow the COVID-19 guidance.
The prime minister also hailed Britain’s economic performance in 2021, saying the country has the fastest economic growth in the Group of Seven (G7) countries and it has more people in work now than there were before the pandemic began.
Johnson’s remarks came amid major concerns over surging inflation in the country.
The Bank of England, Britain’s central bank raised the interest rate earlier this month for the first time in more than three years amid surging inflation after cutting rate to record low during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Travelers check in at LaGuardia Airport in New York, the United States, Nov. 24, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
A man receives a vaccine jab at NHS (National Health Service) COVID Vaccine Center at Wembley Stadium in London, Britain, on Dec. 19, 2021. (Photo by Ray Tang/Xinhua)
People walk past a screen for sales information on Oxford Street on Boxing Day in London, Britain, Dec. 26, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Ying)
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