Optimism around restrictions as over 11k cases reported

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 27: Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner attend the Travis Scott: "Look Mom I Can Fly" Los Angeles Premiere at The Barker Hanger on August 27, 2019 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netfl NEW YORK - Kylie Jenner announced the birth of her second child with rapper Travis Scott in a post Sunday on social media — with a blue heart indicating it's a boy.The 24-year-old reality star and makeup mogul didn't disclose the new baby's name.The child was born Wednesday, as the Instagram post was captioned with the date "2/2/22." The black-and-white photo shows the newborn's hand apparently being held by his big sister, Stormi, who turned 4 on Feb.

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Max Parrot captured Canada’s first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics in men’s snowboard slopestyle on Monday.Parrot dominated the slope alongside teammate Mark McMorris, who won bronze. It’s the second straight Olympics that Parrot and McMorris have shared the podium in the event.A native of Bromont, Que., Parrot’s gold-medal win is an upgrade from his silver at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games.

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Scottish Labour’s health ­spokeswoman Jackie Baillie last night called for an urgent inquiry as it emerged four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses more than twice the approved amount.

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The number of cars on Irish roads has hit pre-pandemic levels, but there are fewer people travelling on public transport.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); Health workers across Sri Lanka including nurses, and Public Health Inspectors are on strike citing multiple demands.They resorted to the indefinite trade union action from Monday (7) against the government’s failure to remove salary anomalies and address their grievances, despite recent token strikes.The unions demand that the authorities eliminate existing salary disparities in the sector just as they eliminated the teacher and principal salary anomaliesAs a result of the strike, Clinics, Dispensaries, Blood Tests, as well as COVID-19 testing, did not function across many government hospitals in Sri Lanka.This in turn caused serious inconveniences to the general public, according to reports.

Assam government had tightened Covid curbs to contain the transmission of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The state prohibited the entry of non-vaccinated people to public places, except hospitals. It said that all people are required to carry proof of being fully vaccinated while visiting public places/spaces.

Canada Post may be on the verge of an overhaul that could include ways to make it more profitable and more manageable. As David Akin tells us, some possible changes include removing rural post offices.

Australia will reopen its borders to tourists from 21 February, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced, ending some of the world's strictest and longest-running pandemic travel restrictions.

As the trucker convoy demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions in Canada’s capital continues into a second weekend, Ottawa’s mayor has now declared a state of emergency. Mike Drolet explains what this means.

During a COVID-19 update Friday, Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said fully vaccinated Canadians who experienced a COVID-19 infection should wait at least three months to get a booster shot after symptoms start or testing positive, according to Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).

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Photo: Chick-fil-A If the way to your partner’s heart is through their stomach, then Chick-fil-A has just the right way to express your love this Valentine's Day.The popular fast-food chain is once again offering heart-shaped containers for some of its most popular options ahead of February 14.Customers can choose to go the sweet or savory route. The different Valentine’s Day trays come with 30 nuggets, 10 Chick-n-Minis, six chocolate chip cookies or 12 brownie halves."Nothing says, "I love you" like Chick-fil-A Nuggets," the restaurant said. Photo: Chick-fil-A RELATED: The top-selling Valentine’s Day candy by state revealedThe special trays are available now while supplies last at participating restaurants.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre’s announcement Saturday to run for the party’s leadership and become Canada’s next prime minister is being widely endorsed by fellow Tory members of Parliament.Poilievre, the Tories’ finance critic, is the first candidate to launch his bid for the Conservative Party of Canada’s top spot after MPs forced Erin O’Toole out of the position this past week. The Conservative leadership race has already started Among those who pledged their support to the Ottawa-area MP is John Baird, a former federal Conservative cabinet minister.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson Sunday, Baird said Poilievre has the qualities to be a “very strong leader,” but unifying a fractured Conservative Party will be a challenge.“He’s someone who I think will galvanize Conservatives, not just in the parliamentary caucus, but across the country and galvanize Canadians,” said Baird, who served as the minister of foreign affairs from 2011 to 2015 in then-prime minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet.In a three-minute video released on social media Saturday evening, Poilievre didn’t mention the Conservative Party by name or the leadership contest, saying only that he wants the job as prime minister.The race to replace O’Toole, who was ousted by Conservative MPs in a vote on Wednesday, is well underway with thousands of new memberships sold, a source told Global News on Friday.

Canada Post, Filomena Tassi polled Canadians to see how they felt about making some radical changes at the Crown corporation.Those changes include shutting down rural post offices, ending all home delivery in favour of community mailboxes, and cutting back mail delivery to three times a week.The poll was put in the field in mid-December, six weeks after Tassi was named minister for Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and three weeks after the Crown corporation said it lost $264 million on revenue of $5.4 billion in its third quarter, the most recent quarter for which financial results are available. Canada Post reconsidering policy forbidding workers to use their own N95 masks It was clear from the content of the poll questions that Tassi’s office was keen to explore ways to cut costs and reduce losses.But the very fact that Tassi was even asking those questions has angered the union representing 61,000 postal workers.“We’re really concerned and disappointed the government is actually taking a poll right now about reducing postal services when the public is actually asking them to have more services, not less,” said Jan Simpson, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).“Postal workers have been working throughout the entire pandemic and for them to have this poll currently is very insulting to us.”Simpson said CUPW was not informed or consulted about the poll and, coincidentally, it was doing its own poll in December asking Canadians about Canada Post.“They want us to expand services,” Simpson said.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal on Monday (7) ordered to grant bail to Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah who was arrested and remanded under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).In addition, the bail order was directed to the Chilaw High Court as well.The order for bail was made when the revision application for bail on behalf of Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was taken up at the Court of Appeal in the presence of Justices Menaka Wijesundara and Neil Iddawela.Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was arrested on the 14th of April 2020 with regard to a sermon that was delivered for students at a Madrasa School in Puttlam.After 18 months in detention, Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah was prosecuted under the PTA by the Attorney General at the Puttlam High Court.However, two requests for bail from the High Court were rejected previously.Thereafter, an application for bail was filed with the Court of Appeal.

COLOMBO (News 1st); LIOC has increased its Retail Selling prices for Diesel (Lanka Auto Diesel ) by Rs 3/- per litre and Petrol (LP 92 ) by Rs 7/- per litre with effect from Sunday (6) due to huge price increase in international fuel prices on both the product.92 Octane New Price: Rs. 184/-Auto Diesel New Price: Rs.

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Global’s Keith Baldrey has more on Kevin Falcon’s uphill battle to form a B.C. Liberal government and a look at some of the big names he could bring on board to help revive the party.

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PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a suspect is in custody after a number of robberies that occurred at multiple SEPTA train stations Saturday. The robberies happened in the areas of 15th Street/City Hall Station and 30th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line.Sunday night, SEPTA officials confirmed to FOX 29 that a suspect had been identified and taken into custody. Earlier Sunday, police released photos of a male who was wanted for questioning in connection to the incidents.Authorities had been investigating three similar incidents that occurred Saturday. The first took place around 2 p.m.

City and government officials are applauding the combined efforts to control the crowds. This comes after a massive protest took over the streets near Queens Park in Toronto.

There were 24,935 booster doses administered on Waitangi Day yesterday, taking the total to date to 1,586,950. Also, 1,706 paediatric doses were given yesterday, bringing the total to 199,174.

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STRICTLY Come Dancing's John Whaite has been forced to pull out of the tour after being left bedbound with coronavirus. The 32-year-old Bake Off star took to Instagram to share the devastating news.

Chelsea Handler recently had to call off a number of stand-up comedy shows amid a health scare. The comedian revealed to fans that she was in the hospital, and would have to cancel her performances in Oregon over the weekend.Handler took to her Instagram story on Saturday to explain that she had suffered a «scare» and was forced to postpone Friday's show in Eugene and her Saturday shows in Portland, which were stops on her Vaccinated & Horny comedy tour.«I am so sorry I had to cancel my shows tonight in Portland and my show in Eugene,» Handler shared in a video filmed from her hospital bed.

GOLDEN, Colo - A rare sighting was up near the mountains in Colorado this weekend — hundreds upon hundreds of golden retrievers. The city of Golden hosted its annual Goldens in Golden event on Saturday, inviting golden retrievers and their human parents for a massive celebration. The annual event, which is said to celebrate "these popular pooches with lots of fun, fanfare, fluff and photo ops," took a break during the pandemic and came back in full swing this year. Event organizers told Denver’s CBS4 they estimated more than 2,000 golden retrievers attended, which may even be an unofficial record for the largest gathering. Golden is an old mining town that sits in the foothills of the Rock Mountains about 20 miles west of Denver. It houses the Colorado School of Mines, Coors Brewery and an arching ‘Welcome to Golden’ sign, which is where hundreds of pups gathered and posed Saturday for a photo. Local businesses reportedly got in on the fun, too, and offered "hot dogs" and pupcakes.

In an interview with ‘The West Block’ host Mercedes Stephenson, former Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau weighs in on the police response to the trucker convoy in Canada’s capital.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is declaring a state of emergency to give the city more flexibility to deal with ongoing protests that have overwhelmed local resources.

18 people were rescued after being trapped on an ice sheet in Lake Erie. (Credit: Ninth Coast Guard District) SANDUSKY, Ohio - The U.S.

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NORTH EAST, Md. - A crossing guard, who saved a student from being hit by a car on Friday, is being called a hero by the North East community. The heroic rescue, caught on camera, shows Corporal Annette Goodyear from the North East Police Department risk her life for a student crossing the street. The video shows Goodyear pushing the young girl out of harm's way, and sacrificing her own body as she's struck by a car speeding through the crosswalk. Goodyear has been a crossing guard for 14 years. She told FOX 5's Perris Jones she's never had an incident like this, and that her initial reaction was to move the student out of the way.

PHILADELPHIA - A teenager is making a recovery after he was shot in the North Philadelphia section of the city. The shooting happened just after midnight inside a residence on the 1600 block of West Ontario Street. Police say a 17-year-old male was shot once in the left lower back.

Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP //Universal Images Group via Getty Images) SEATTLE - A new study shows that mosquitoes are attracted to certain colors — including red, orange, black and cyan — while ignoring other colors like green, purple, blue and white.Scientists from the University of Washington published their findings in Nature Communications. They hope their data will explain how mosquitoes find hosts, especially since human skin emits a strong red-orange "signal" to their eyes. They also hope their findings will help design better repellants. RELATED: Schumer calls for federal help to kill mosquitoes in NY amid cases of West Nile VirusResearchers studied the behavior of the female yellow fever mosquitoes, also known as Aedes aegypti.

“The government has had sort of a knee-jerk reaction for venues to be the first businesses shut down and last ones to reopen, and they’ve provided absolutely no data to justify that,” said Weisz, the director of Les Scenes de Musique Alternatives du Quebec.As of Monday, theatres and other venues can reopen at 50 per cent capacity to a maximum of 500 people (1,000 for outdoor events), with vaccine passports required.Five men and women from the Quebec culture scene interviewed by The Canadian Press all said the reopening announcement brings them relief and hope. However, they stressed that the rules in place add extra complications and make it hard for some venues to reopen at all.Sophie Pregent, the president of the Union des Artistes, which represents stage, television, radio, and film performers, says it won’t be financially viable for some venues to mount shows under the current rules.“There are theatres, there are institutions, that will remain closed longer, because they can’t open with 50 per cent capacity,” she said in a recent phone interview.Philippe Lambert, the artistic director of Montreal theatre La Licorne, said there are also logistical hurdles surrounding reopening at half capacity.

PHILADELPHIA - A woman has been critically injured after there was a two-vehicle crash in West Philadelphia. Police say the incident happened at approximately 4:30 a.m. at 41st Street and Girard Avenue. A preliminary investigation shows that a white 2020 Land Rover was traveling at a high rate of speed heading eastbound on Girard Avenue.

The Department of Health has been notified of a further 14,555 new PCR-confirmed cases of Covid-19, as well as 5,406 positive antigen tests logged through the HSE portal.

The Department of Health has confirmed 18,904 new cases of Covid-19.

The Department of Health has been notified of 20,909 new coronavirus cases and 83 Covid-related deaths in the past week.