Aaaaaand....
Masks are back.
3rd client request this week:
"As you may have realised, we experience a significant sick-leave impact. In this context we'd like to ask everyone to wear masks at our meetings"...
😷
Austria has scrapped isolation for #COVID19 infected people, yesterday. If they´re tested positive but ´feel well´, they may go out
as long as they wear a mask...
Now people feel a bit wary when a mask wearing person comes along
🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
https://t.co/IKfxvLfZaW
#Germany´s official #COVID19 risk assessment has now been downgraded to ´overall moderate´.
(~a year ago that risk was assessed as ´moderate´ for those who had received a booster shot, ´high´ for those with 2 shots, ´very high´ for unvaccinated persons.)
https://t.co/afg8MCuHpc
"Cracks now also on safety circuit of second reactor" at Penly #nuclear site in #France.
France does have 12 of those reactors...
Different type than last year - same trouble (electricity shortage) ahead?
https://t.co/AK99WzsNku
According to specialists in Denmark,
the #energycrisis causes #fertilizer plants to shut down worldwide.
This could trigger a #food crisis,
at least for those who cannot afford to pay the 4-fold price for fertilizer...
(they expect it to happen in 2022)
https://t.co/pBSMU2PxwU
By chance, I observed the spectacular line works at the south end of Germany's #Ultranet DC transmission link yesterday.
But the North-South corridor is still progressing very slowly, due to many objections (locally or fundamentally)
https://t.co/et7oHtatCm
The infected employee was vaccinated, asymptomatic, but shedding infectious #polio virus.
The person was resettled to an area with better polio vaccination coverage, for the infectious period of ~ 1 month.
https://t.co/2aaZOKdqHs
A wild #polio virus containment breach at a vaccine manufacturer in the Netherlands in November was detected by sewage surveillance.
1 infected person caused the sewage marker's uptick.
https://t.co/Zwu1LyVtFM
WHO continues global polio emergency as breach noted at Dutch vaccine facility
Virus was detected in a sewage sample and was genetically similar to stocks used at the lab, then a lab worker tested pos
https://t.co/LKyvX6jYME
Photo: IAEA Imagebank, Dejan Vidanovic / Flickr cc
13 years ago, one of Berlin´s Civil Protection vehicles had its radiation (ɣ) detector going off, while on a training ride.
They had accidentally found a Cs137 capsule (similar to the one in Australia)
It had been embedded under asphalt for 20+ years
https://t.co/pVhmOs4Che
Here's the #radioactive#capsule in question, which was found 74kms south of Newman at 11am today. The capsule has a serial number, which has been used to verify that this is indeed the object that has been the focus of our search for the past week. https://t.co/fsCW0H88rW #WA