Quick Glance: Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, tests positive for COVID.
- Ardern will be compelled to isolate herself until the morning of May 21, performing whatever duties she can remotely.
- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern debates National Party leader Judith Collins on TVNZ in Auckland, New Zealand, on September 22, 2020.
- On Saturday, Ardern also revealed that her daughter Neve had tested positive on Wednesday.
- "Despite best efforts, unfortunately I've joined the rest of my family and have tested positive for COVID 19," Ardern said on her official Instagram page.
Quick Glance: The covid-19 epidemic has been ongoing for two years.
- The coronavirus problem is far from ended two years after a pandemic was declared.
- He examines China's zero-covid policy and speculates about the pandemic's future.
- Natasha Loder, The Economist's health policy editor, also looks into the current vaccine campaign.
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Quick Glance: Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, a woman's sutures were removed at her home's gates.
- The woman, who resides in Shanghai, had double-eyelid surgery and was at risk of scarring if the stitches were kept in any longer.
- According to accounts, a woman in Shanghai had the cosmetic-surgery stitches in her eyelids removed at the gate of her housing complex after the region she lives in was placed under a COVID-19 lockdown.
- According to The Paper, Zhou initially advised mailing the woman a box of medical instruments so she could have a neighbor remove the stitches for her.
- According to Reuters, the city had 4,381 asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and 96 symptomatic cases on Monday.
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- England wins the women's Six Nations for the fifth time in a row.
- The Dalai Lama apologizes for encouraging a boy to "suck my tongue" in a video.
- The Spanish landscape has been scorched by unseasonal heat.
In pictures: Empty streets in Shanghai as residents undergo the second stage of a staggered COVID-19 lockdown.
(Photos: AFP)
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