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The whole world is waiting for the Coronavirus vaccine but there are many barriers before global immunization is feasible. Actually the only containment strategies are the total blockage of all social contact. The World Heatlh Organization has declared the state of pandemic and the world is waiting for the vaccine to counteract the serious respiratory effects caused by Covid-19. 35 companies and academic institutions are racing to create a vaccine. The first of these who will be able to create it will enter human trials immediately. This result is close thanks to Chinese genetic studies that in the past had already been effected by another Coronavirus, that of  SARS-CoV-2.

Lot of doctors and nurses are fighting the new Coronavirus, standing in the hospitals all day, sometimes without food. In all states and cities, like London, some people want to help them. They make meals with vegetables, meat, pasta and also pizza completely free. Thanks to social network, doctors can send a message to these people to have their meal without moving from the hospital. The very generous people show like humans can be better.

Despite the exceptional conditions due to the new Coronavirus pandemic, the 18th edition of Geneva International Film on Human Rights has revealed its winners. This year the festival took place online, the public could follow debates on Livestream on the festival website or on social networks, while the jury watched the films from a distance and announced the prize winners online. The winner was the film Colectiv by Alexander Nanau, from Bucharest. The film uncover high-level government corruption within the Ministry of Health.

In Guinea in a few days will have a referendum. In that situation there are lots of protests and violences by the opposition supporters, that think that this referendum will be used by the actual president, Alpha Conde for extend his office. Now more than 30 people have been killed in this protests.

On the BBC radio, Laura Foster explain how understand if you have coronavirus or if are just sick. If you are sneezing a lot, got a runny nose or you have a  headache, you can be quiet; you are probably ill. Instead if you have a simple cough and there isn’t mucus, you temperature is more than 37/38 you may have Coronavirus. BBC suggest to the people that live in the UK and that have these symptoms, to contact the online NHS 111 Coronavirus service.

In these last days, the Coronavirus (Covid-19) was proclaimed a “pandemic”, but what does that mean? When the spread of a virus hits lots of country in the world, it is called “pandemic”. This word derives from the Greek and it means literally  “All the people”. Today 91 states are hit by this virus: China, Iran, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, France, for example, with more 4500 deaths. In Italy there are new dispositions about the emergency.

Many people in EU have changed their normal life, but not all countries have ordered the quarantine.  In France, for example, there some abashment also in the Government because there's the President said that it is safe to go to vote on Saturday, but the Prime Minister said that it isn't safe. Naturally the cafes and shops have been closed. In Spain the market and pharmacies are open and there's the police control city round, but the people continue to go to work or to walk their dog. For me not all the people have understood the situation and how COVID-19 is dangerous.

The World’s Health Organisation Director has declared the COVID-19 virus a pandemic and urged countries all around the world to find, isolate, test and treat every case. During the last days everyone has searched what “pandemic” means. A pandemic starts like an epidemic from a first urban centre (in this case Whuan) and, from there, it hits the provinces all around; after this, it occurres worldwide, crossing international boundaries and affecting a large number of people.

In 1950 was discovered a vaccine against the Polio.It’s a disease which comes through mouth , when the virus grows it goes to the intestinal tract to the blood and so to the brain. It kills the nerve cells of the muscles causing paralysis. In 1952 there were about 58000 cases of Polio and it was discovered first in animals and finally on all the children who then were made immune.

Now there are 1,016 deaths in Italy for coronavirus, and 188 of them only in the last 24 hours. In the original red zone it hasn't been new infection, but in the rest of the country the situation is not good. But now the Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said that Italy have been the first European country to have an emergency, but it will be the first to leave the emergency behind.

Avocado farming uses so much water, it could be causing earthquakes in Mexico. Vast areas of forest have been burned and cleared to make away for them deforestation has led to de loss of wildlife habitants and is fueling climate change. Avocado arrest is lucrative for Mexico. The fruits popularity has been busted by grouwth veganism. Mexico does nothing to stop this unconditional exploitation.

Today I found out about the situation of the coronavirus in Italy. I saw a video by Salvini where he talked about the problems that the virus is causing .In addition to the 1000 victims of this terrible virus, the latter is also blocking the economy and work.There are families who do not live without work ... Europe is not helpful because it uses this period to dominate the economy in Italy .

Iran it’s the third most infected country by coronavirus. Iran is not taking any containing measures, so coronavirus can freely spread all over the country. Also an Iran’s minister had begun to coughing and sweating, and actually he resulted positive to coronavirus, Meanwhile on internet there are hundreds of video showing dead bodies expecting for coronavirus test

Thanks to a BBC report, an Indonesian migrant worker has been reunited with his old mum fifteen years after they lost contacts. For those long years the boy called Iwan lived illegally in Malaysia with his dad. The mother thought he was dead. He didn’t know where she was and he really wanted to see her and when he spoke about his story to a BBC reporter, Iwan has manager to see his lovely mother.

Migrants from Turkey have been trying all the day to enter over Greece’s border. Greek’s army has tried to be peaceful, but migrants are only looking forward to arriving in Europe, so the army had to use    “alternative means”.Therefore Greece has impeached Turkey because they have used against migrants tear gas and real bullets.

Sundayy was the Woman International Day. In the streets of lot of cities like Rome, people marched to protest about our society where there were cases of discrimination and hatred. Women are tired: they want to fight for their freedom. In some states, they can’t go to school so a girl called Malala Yousafzai is working for this big problem with meetings to raise awareness. However we have reached some important goals, but we must work for women a little more.

A girl that live in the nearby of a company has soot in her house. She’s very angry because the CEOs of the nearby companies don’t do anything for her and not even for the others inhabitants of that area. This could be a very big problem, because the girl could get cancer.

During one of his many electoral meetings around US, Biden was stopped by a mason. He was very angry because Biden wants to reinforce gun control. According to the mason,in the US many people can defend them selves against thieves thanks to weapons. So they are very useful. Biden replyed to the mason that to defend his family he doesn’t need a gun.

Since the last 4th November in Saudi Kingdom the Ritz-Carlton hotel has been transformed into a prison for 200 members of the Saudi Elite among which 11 princes. They were accused of abuse of power. At the midnight of the 4th November they arrested and brought to the hotel. This story is continuing, because non the kingdom is attracting new enemies, because the crown is very coveted.

In Aslam, a town in the north west of Yemen the people need to eat, drink, wear clothes and Dr Mahdi works at the health clinic in this city. In this programme she speak about her experience in Yemen, Dr Mahdi treats families with vulnerable patients like the children. She talks about the hard lifes of these poor kids that are malnourished and ill. They facing the effects of war in their state.

In the Greek Island of Lesbos there are some camps where migrants arrive from Syria, Afghanista, Pakistan and West African countries looking for a new life in Europe. They are 1.700 and lots of them are children, often unaccompanied or very sick. After the tension between Greece and Turkey, the UE decided to host the migrants shared in five European countries: Luxembourg, Finland, France, Germany and Portugal.

Germany is shutting down its entire coal industry by the next 18 years. The country, in fact, is reliant on coal (29% power) and it’s the world’s largest producer of ‘brown coal’, the most polluting one. Germany also want to be carbon neutral by the 2050 and it’s shutting down its nuclear power by 2022, too. The country’s goal is reaching 65% of renewable electricity generation by 2030. By 2050 the budget needs work of support and infrastructure projects for former coal workers amounts to 45$ billion.

Australia had an increase of coronavirus cases in the last weeks, so the government has given advices to the citizens about the hygiene to not spread the virus, but not everybody respect those advices; yesterday a woman coughed in a train without covering her mouth capturing the attention of a passenger who was sitting next to her and they had an argument. The man told her politely to respect the rules but she got mad and she coughed at him loudly. The scene was recorded by another passenger and the video is now viral in Australia.

The video I’ve watched on BBC shows    that all the schools and the colleges    in China have been closed for more than two weeks in the fight against CoronaVirus.  In the video you can see a Karate’s school, completely empty, and the teacher that has lesson with his pupils through videochat. He’s not the only one, in fact all the teachers in China use this method to have lessons.  Even in Italy we are doing the same.

On the web a video has become viral where a woman coughs on another person without putting her head to cover the mouth, they began to row because the woman continued to say that it was not a problem and also continued to cough voluntarily. This is only an example, but many people neglect the COVID-19 and many of them  get infected.

The trial has opened in the Netherlands of three Russians and a Ukrainian for the murder of 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014. The Boeing 777 went down amid a conflict in eastern Ukraine, after Russian-backed rebels seized the area. Investigators say they have proof the Buk missile system that shot it down came from a military base in Russia. A judge called it an "atrocious disaster", as proceedings began. Head judge Hendrik Steenhuis said there had been a "tragic loss of human lives from all around the world". Citizens of 10 different countries died on the airliner.