PGIMER PG Result 2020: Results declared for July session, candidates can check their scores on official website — pgimer.edu.in – Firstpost

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PGIMER PG Result 2020: Results declared for July session, candidates can check their scores on official website — pgimer.edu.in – Firstpost

The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, or PGIMER, Chandigarh has declared the PGIMER 2020 result for the July session.

Candidates who have given the PGIMER 2020 examination can check their result at the official website — cdn.digialm.

Candidates can view their results online using login credentials.

As per a report by NDTV, along with the PGI 2020 result, candidates can also see the merit list for Masters of Surgery (MS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) programmes.

As per the report, 483 candidates had qualified for admission to MD and MS programmes in PGIMER, Chandigarh for the January Session.

As per a report by Careers 360, qualified candidates will be asked to come in the counseling rounds to grant final admission to the Master of Surgery (MS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) seats in its three-year-residency-cum-training programme.

PGIMER conducted the exams for MD/MS, MD (Hospital Administration) on 14 June, 2020 for the July session.

How to check PGIMER PG Result 2020:

Candidates have to first go to the official link pgimer.edu.in. Once there, they need to click on the link that reads, “Result of MD (Hospital Administration) entrance examination” or “Result of MD/MS entrance test held on 14.06.2020”.

This will direct candidates to the result page of the PGIMER website. Candidates need to enter login credentials, including username, password and captcha code. Once submitted, the result will appear on the screen.

According to the NDTV report, PGIMER entrance is conducted twice each year for admission to MS and MD courses in the institute.



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Ireland set to launch virus app despite UK delay

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Ireland set to launch virus app despite UK delay

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Police officers in Ireland trialled the app ahead of its planned national rollout

Ireland’s health authority plans to press ahead with the launch of a coronavirus contact-tracing app based on Apple and Google’s technology.

The Health Service Executive told the BBC that it would submit a memo to government this week, and “subject to approval” would launch its Covid Tracker app shortly after.

The move comes despite concerns raised about the tech’s accuracy in its current state.

The UK is worried about false alerts.

And researchers advising the Irish effort have also questioned whether the software should be rolled out in its current state.

Ireland would follow Germany in deploying such an app nationwide.

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Two tests were carried out in Ireland ahead of the launch of its app.

Members of the An Garda Siochana police force volunteered to take part in field trials at the start of the month to see how it would perform in everyday situations.

“The Gardai are one of the few groups of people that are moving around and interacting with each other as they carry out their duties,” explained a spokeswoman for the country’s government.

The results have given health chiefs confidence to roll it out to the public.

And they note that because it has been designed to support UK mobile numbers, visitors crossing the border from Northern Ireland or travelling across from Great Britain can also make use if it.

The second experiment involved a team at Trinity College, Dublin testing an app based on the Google-Apple API [application programming interface] on a commuter bus.

It found that metal in the vehicle’s structure and fittings caused problems.

The Google-API allows the threshold for what triggers a contact match to be adjusted based on the strength of the Bluetooth signal and duration of the exposure.

When using the settings already in use by Switzerland’s contact-tracing app, the researchers found that no contact logs were logged despite 60 pairs of handsets being placed within 2m of each other.

And they only managed to raise this to an 8% detection rate when they shortened the exposure time and adjusted the Bluetooth strength to a level that they said would be likely to cause false alerts in other environments.

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In addition, the researchers said signal strength was sometimes higher for phones that were far apart than those close together, which they said made reliable proximity-detection “hard or perhaps even impossible” to achieve.

“As to whether it is sensible to deploy these apps, I’d say the jury is still out on that,” Prof Doug Leith told the BBC.

“But the likely effectiveness of apps based on the Apple-Google API in real-world situations -ie outside the lab – is certainly far from clear.”

‘Good enough’

Last week, the UK ditched its own contact-tracing technology to switch to the Apple-Google model.

But while the government now intends to launch a Covid-19 app of some sort in England by the Autumn, it has said it may still not include contact-tracing functionality.

“I was only prepared to recommend to people that they download an app when I’m really confident in it,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.

Apple and Google are under pressure to become less restrictive about the data they share to let apps become more accurate.

“The API does not expose Bluetooth received signal strength (RSS) measurements directly, rather it abstracts this,” explained Dr Brendan Jennings, who is also involved in developing Ireland’s app.

“There certainly are some changes in the API that we believe would be helpful – and we do believe that Google/Apple will be willing to take on board suggested changes in future revisions.”

But in the meantime, others have already decided to launch apps based on the two US tech firms’ software tool, including:

  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Gibraltar
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Latvia
  • Poland
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Switzerland
  • Uruguay

One of the developers of Germany’s app said it was currently 80% accurate at logging matches across a range of scenarios, and it had been felt that this was good enough to go with.

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Bayern Munich football players promoted the German app during a Bundesliga match at the weekend

“There can be false alerts,” added SAP’s Thomas Leonhardi.

“But that can also happen via manual contact tracing. It’s the best we have and of course we’re still working on it.”

The Robert Koch Institute, which published the Corona-Warn App on behalf of the German government, said on Friday morning that it had already been downloaded 9.6 million times. The country’s population is about 83 million.

Once Ireland has got an app based on the Apple/Google toolkit up and running then Northern Ireland and indeed the rest of the UK should be able to use it – job done, right?

Well, no, say insiders on the NHS team. First, an app is more than just the code – you would need to integrate it with the public health advice, the testing infrastructure and the manual contact-tracing systems for each of the four home nations.

But the key issue is the question of whether the Apple/Google system is actually working well at measuring the distance between two phones using Bluetooth – last Thursday Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Test and Trace supremo Baroness Dido Harding made it clear they thought it wasn’t.

Incidentally, Baroness Harding may have overstated the failings of the centralised app in the Isle of Wight during Thursday’s briefings when she said it could only detect 4% of iPhone contacts.

Someone on the island who was briefed about what went wrong tells me that this disastrous 4% only referred to cases where the app was asleep in the background after a long period when two iPhones had not been in use for a while – which apparently accounts for just a small percentage of overall iPhone contacts.

What’s frustrated both the app team and Apple is that in the days before the U-turn, the two sides had apparently begun working closely on ways to make Bluetooth work better with the app in the background.

Thursday’s announcement came as a surprise to the developers and to the tech giant – which was then dismayed to hear Mr Hancock accusing it of a failure to co-operate.



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Onscreen, the Trump Campaign Ramps Up, and Down

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Onscreen, the Trump Campaign Ramps Up, and Down

When he took the stage Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., it had been more than three months since President Trump had held one of his treasured campaign rallies. But they say giving a rally speech is like walking down a gently inclined ramp: It’s incredibly treacherous and harrowing, but after what seems like an endless amount of time, you eventually reach bottom.

The rally capped a week that began with a shaky appearance at West Point and also included a Father’s Day-themed interview with the president’s oldest son, intended to tell the trouble-beset president’s base that daddy was coming home.

But the welcome wagon was underpopulated. The sea of red hats in the lower reaches of the arena was crested by a blue wave of empty seats in the upper deck. Outside, workers dutifully cleared an empty stage for an “overflow rally” that had no overflow to rally.

The president aimed to fill the empty space, and spur a sometimes listless crowd, with provocations and racist imagery. He pushed blame for the coronavirus’s ravages on China, using the nickname “Kung Flu.” He called police-brutality protesters “thugs” and painted a picture of a “tough hombre” climbing through a young woman’s window. He said that he told his staff, “Slow the testing down, please!” in response to the number of Covid-19 cases reported. (A White House official contended that the president was joking, about a pandemic that had killed almost 120,000 Americans.)

The bizarre crescendo of the speech was a nearly 15-minute stand-up monologue, complete with re-enactments, of the much-dissected incident at a West Point commencement ceremony when the president had difficulty walking down a modest ramp and needed two hands to drink a glass of water.

In Mr. Trump’s epic retelling, walking at a slight downward angle became an ordeal to rival the D-Day invasion scene in “Saving Private Ryan.” The ramp was like a medieval death trap — solid steel, without a handrail, “like an ice-skating rink!” The sun (remember, it is a molten ball of flame ignited by nuclear fusion!) beat down on him mercilessly. The commencement dragged on for hours. He saluted hundreds of cadets, in defiance of the natural limitations on the human arm.

Then he valorously shuffled down the incline (Mr. Trump mimed the walk for the Tulsa crowd), staying upright and denying a fall, and thus a victory, to the true enemy, the fake news media.

At the end of the bit, Mr. Trump raised a glass of water — a substance so dense and heavy that human bodies can float on it unsupported — and lifted it to his lip using a single hand, as the crowd chanted, “Four more years!”

You take your wins where you can get them. Fox News, which carried the president’s speech in full, offered an assist with chyrons like “Trump Debunks West Point Ramp Fake News.” (The conservative One America News Network, Fox’s rival for the president’s affections, carried the vice president’s speech as well.)

But there were undeniable stretches of, as someone might put it, low energy. Despite Mr. Trump’s prodding, the crowd couldn’t work up the bloodlust for his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., that his throngs reliably did (and still do) for Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump gave his speech a merely “average” grade midway through. And even Fox couldn’t keep the empty seats entirely out of frame, though its host Jesse Watters described the arena as “packed.”

Mr. Trump’s defenders might say that focusing on the empty seats is one more example of the fake news doing anything to tear the president down. But the campaign had touted its attendance expectations, possibly inflated by online protesters flooding the campaign with spoof registrations. And the video junkie and former “Apprentice” star is nothing if not a televisual thinker. (At one point in the speech he marveled at the number of TVs on Air Force One.)

Those rafters were supposed to be jammed, and it was supposed to be on TV, and that was supposed to say something. It would say his people were back; that he was back. That neither a protest movement nor a virus could stop the MAGA. That Mr. Trump had said that it was safe to get together again amid the pandemic (despite the liability waiver his campaign had attendees sign), and Team Trump listened.

Instead the conspicuous absences sent the visual message that some portion of his base, when it came time to actually trust-walk across the hot coals, was not entirely buying the panacea he was selling.

For a president who has rarely tried to expand beyond that aggrieved fan base — the “our” in his line “they’re trying to take down our statues” — the sale must go on. Mr. Trump extended his video outreach Thursday by pivoting toward his original base — his family — and appearing on his son Donald Trump Jr.’s YouTube show, “Triggered.”

The Trump child who has most vigorously embraced partisan politics, Donald Trump Jr. has carved out a niche as a less-subtle version, if that were possible, of his culture-warring father. His media persona — baiting, trolling, meme-sharing — could roughly be described as a human “laughing while crying” emoji.

That extends especially to “Triggered,” right down to its title, shared with a book by the younger Mr. Trump: a catchphrase of the extremely-online right, celebrating the idea that honesty and righteousness can be measured by how much you make people unhappy.

“Triggered,” whose credits normally include images of a melting snowflake and cheering MAGA fans, shifted to black-and-white stills, a “West Wing”-like musical theme and the show title blazing across the image of president and son, along with what I suppose qualifies, by “Triggered” standards, as a tasteful fireball.

It was the Trump aesthetic in perfect miniature: part luxury-hotel ad, part ’80s action-movie explosion.

The interview was light on policy, fitting Trump Jr.’s interest in cultural proxy wars. He asked the president about the New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees’ “cowering to the mob” by apologizing for calling police-brutality protests before N.F.L. games “disrespectful.” (“I think he hurt himself very badly,” said the president, who inflamed the argument when he cursed out kneeling football players at a rally in 2017.)

There’s a theme, in Trump-campaign content, of presenting the presidency to superfans as a kind of reality-TV family business — a White House “Duck Dynasty,” with favorite supporting characters to choose from. (The president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, also hosts a show on the campaign’s online platform; his son Eric appeared at the Tulsa rally, where he referred to protesters as “animals literally taking over our cities.”)

So the “Triggered” episode was billed as “a Father’s Day special.” But the attempts to keep the interview light and fun created some of the most awkward filial moments since Kendall Roy rapped “L to the OG” to his father, Logan, on HBO’s “Succession.” The younger Mr. Trump introduced the first question — “Which is your favorite Trump child, and why is it Ivanka?”—with an apologetic preamble: “We want to show a little bit of humor.”

Perhaps he didn’t want his guest to be triggered. The president endured the attempts at playfulness like the guest at a surprise party he did not want. Mr. Trump’s lip-sync impersonator, Sarah Cooper, captured the pathos of the sit-down on Twitter:

Whereas in Tulsa, for all the disjointedness and disappointments, Mr. Trump seemed more comfortable with his surrogate MAGA family — even in an arena half-filled with strangers, where he briefly entertained the possibility of losing the November election — than with his actual eldest son. Be it ever more humble than in 2016, there’s no place like home.

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Trump Baselessly Claims 2020 Election Is ‘RIGGED’ Months Before Any Votes Are Cast

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President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly claimed that the general election in November will be “RIGGED” because of mail-in ballots, a method for voting that the president himself has used multiple times.

“This will be the Election disaster of our time,” Trump tweeted, citing an article from right-wing website Breitbart that featured comments Attorney General William Barr made Sunday during an interview with Fox News.

Barr told Fox News that voting by mail “opens the floodgates to fraud.” He warned a foreign country could “print up tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots” and that it would be hard time to figure out which ballots were valid. 

Barr has not publicly provided any evidence to support his claim. And election administrators in multiple states have disputed this theory, stating it would be virtually impossible for a foreign country to peddle phony ballots undetected.

Nonetheless, Trump declared the process compromised, months before any votes have been cast in the general election.

“RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS,” he tweeted without evidence. “IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!”  

In a subsequent tweet, Trump called for an end to the “stupidity” of mail-in ballots and appeared to accuse Democrats of “using Covid in order to cheat.” 

Dozens of states have expanded mail-in voting practices in response to the public health threat that the coronavirus poses. The practice could help curb contagion by reducing the number of voters at polling locations, particularly in some poorer communities where voters have traditionally waited in line for hours to cast their ballots.

Plus, much of the country already votes by mail. More than 23% of voters cast their ballot by mail in the 2016 general election. 

Though Trump has questioned the legitimacy of mail-in voting, he has voted by mail multiple times. Barr, first lady Melania Trump, the president’s adviser and eldest daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband and presidential adviser Jared Kushner, and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany have also voted using absentee ballots.

Trump’s tweets Monday are the latest examples of him sowing doubt about the integrity of the upcoming presidential election. He has peddled unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in battleground states and had threatened to withhold federal funding to states that expand mail voting. He later backed off that that threat.

Earlier this month, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden warned that Trump is “going to try and steal this election.” The New York Times reported that several Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans share the former vice president’s concerns.

“Since 2016, Donald Trump has shown that he is always ready to sacrifice our basic democratic norms for his personal and political interests,” Bob Bauer, a Biden senior adviser and a lawyer for the campaign, told the Times. “We assume he may well resort to any kind of trick, ploy or scheme he can in order to hold onto his presidency.”



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Pyledriver poised for Investec Derby bid

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Pyledriver remains on course for the Investec Derby as long as he continues to please trainer William Muir ahead of the premier Classic on July 4.

The Harbour Watch colt put himself in the picture for the Epsom showpiece with a convincing victory in the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Muir reports his stable star to have taken those exertions in his stride, so far.

“He’s been fine since the race, he’s absolutely wonderful,” said the Lambourn handler.

“As I’ve said to everyone from day one about the Derby, he will go to the Derby if he tells me all is well and at the moment all is well.

“Sometimes horses come out of a race and they are bouncing for a week and then they hit a bit of a lull the following week. As long as he keeps going the way he is and all is well, we will give it a go.

“He’s just moseying around doing a bit of lobbing canters and enjoying life. He’s eating really well, he looks well.

“We weigh them once a week so he’ll be weighed again on Wednesday and as long as he’s put his weight back on we’ll be ready to go.”

Pyledriver is a 16-1 shot generally with bookmakers for the Derby.



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Irrfan Khan’s wife, Sutapa Sikdar apologises to Sushant Singh Rajput’s doctor : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

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Irrfan Khan’s wife, Sutapa Sikdar apologises to Sushant Singh Rajput’s doctor : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death has created a havoc in the industry and the police are currently investigating the case of his suicide. However, according to the law, the police is allowed to reveal certain parts of the statement to public as they have been taking statements of everyone close to Sushant including his doctor. According to the reports retrieved from his apartment, Sushant was battling depression for the last 6 months and the statement of his doctor went viral for revealing intricate details of his case.

However, it was soon understood that it wasn’t the doctor’s fault and that it was required of him to provide all the information he had on Sushant to the police. Late actor Irrfan Khan’s wife, Sutapa Sikdar took to her Facebook to apologise to the doctor and wrote, “I posted the below  update and many of my friends have mentioned that the therapist didn’t divulge the details hence I am deleting the link. And my apologies to the doctor. But he should definitely sue the journalist then. I wonder why is netizens not reacting to this? It’s not only about Sushant Singh Rajput it’s also about how callous we can be to get that bit of news.

My heart goes for the girls mentioned in the article. Imagine how many would have trolled Rhea by now. We cannot know ever what happens between two individuals it’s sickening to the core to pass moral judgement on social media.

Just any one gets up today and becomes judge therapist relationship counselor blah blah blah.”

Take a look at her entire post.

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Rs50 million allocated for renovation of railway stations

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Rs50 million allocated for renovation of railway stations

ISLAMABAD           -          The government has allocated Rs 50 million in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), 2020-21 for the up-gradation and renovation of railway stations across the country.

The renovation of the railway stations had been approved by the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) in 2018 and the department had already upgraded six railway stations in different parts of the country, said an official document.

The names of the upgraded railway stations were Bahawalpur, Raiwind, Narowal, Okara, Sahiwal and Gujranwala. The upgradation works of the five railway stations including Hassan Abdal, Nakana Sahib, Peshawar Cantonment, Karachi Cantonment and Lahore were in progress and would completed soon. The basic aim of the upgradation was to facilitate the passengers and improve the outlook and modernize the railway stations. Pakistan Railways had upgraded the passenger waiting halls, prayer area, operation offices, water filtration plant, toilets, passenger shelter, platforms, ticket counters, parking area and external development work.

About the two major railway stations of Rawalpindi and Rohri, the tenders had been floated and under process of final approval. The present government was encouraging the private partners and builders for renovation and up-gradation of the railway stations. Pakistan Railways was also planning to reconstruct 11 bridges and repair another 55 across the country to ensure smooth operation of trains and safety of the passengers.

The department would reconstruct three bridges in Sukkur Division, six in Multan and two in Lahore. About the repair of bridges in different divisions, Pakistan Railways had planned to repair 34 bridges in Karachi, 11 in Sukkur, two in Multan, five in Rawalpindi, two in Peshawar and one in Quetta.

Around 86 percent of bridges were more than 100 years old but all of them were safe for train operation due to regular maintenance, rehabilitation and strengthening of the bridges. Pakistan Railways has 13,959 major and minor bridges over the system and their design life varies for different years. The standard operating procedure calls for inspection of bridges in accordance with the different schedules like monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually.

 



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This year, we need Pride’s spirit of solidarity and inclusion more than ever | Elton John, David Furnish, Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Ian McKellen, Skin, Edward Enninful, Frank Ocean and Helena Dalli

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This year, we need Pride’s spirit of solidarity and inclusion more than ever | Elton John, David Furnish, Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Ian McKellen, Skin, Edward Enninful, Frank Ocean and Helena Dalli

June and the summer months have become synonymous with a rich global calendar of Pride marches and events, during which we address prejudice and issues that are topical to the LGBTQ+ community. These public gatherings challenge discrimination and inequality everywhere and bring communities together to embrace and reflect.

This year, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed all that. Pride events are either happening online or not at all, but we need their spirit of solidarity, inclusion and acceptance all the same. This is exactly the time to up the ante. The pandemic has intensified previous systemic vulnerabilities, with dire, possibly long-term social and economic consequences for minorities. And beyond the pandemic, during this moment when the world is demanding change, we must fight for a future where people of all racial and ethnic origins, sexual orientations and gender identities have the opportunity to live free from discrimination, injustice and mistreatment of all forms.

In recent decades, various countries have registered some progress in this area of policy.

Following the decriminalisation of homosexuality, a growing number of countries introduced anti-discrimination and anti-hate laws and now recognise rainbow families and gender diversity. Despite this progress, no society has yet achieved LGBTQ+ equality. Additionally, discrepancies remain between legislative standards and the everyday realities of LGBTQ+ people. The prejudice, the stereotyping, the attitudes take much longer to address and change. Also, the risk of that progress becoming undone remains. Indeed, a backlash is underway, led by the “anti-gender” and “traditional family” movements.

For some of us, home is not a safe place. Whether they are women and children in domestic violence situations or young people who must live in hostile, homo/transphobic, unaccepting and abusive families.

For instance, from our outreach to individuals and NGOs who work in the LGBTQ+ field, we learn that during lockdowns, young LGBTQ+ people in unsupportive households have been subjected to violence, and even ended up homeless. Older LGBTQ+ people in care homes who are not “out” have suffered loneliness and exclusion.

When confinement is experienced in these hostile environments, LGBTQ+ people may be forced to hide their true selves as a means of self-protection. This extra pressure has always exposed them to an increased risk of mental health problems.

In some countries this is compounded, as access to crucial healthcare, such as HIV treatment and gender-affirming care, has been restricted or deemed “non-essential”, to the detriment of the wellbeing of those concerned.

Black and ethnic minority people have always been a vibrant part of the LGBTQ+ community, with a pivotal role in the Stonewall riots. Yet, the LGBTQ+ community itself can and must do more to be fully inclusive. Pride is a great moment for reflection on how the community can address inequality gaps within, and to celebrate all colours of the rainbow in all of its shades.

Community support networks active around Pride, provide a lifeline to those who experience daily isolation. When other services fail, the LGBTQ+ community steps in. Today, community centres are closed, events cancelled and organisations face existential risks as they struggle to access funding, support their communities and continue to administer their services.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency has released its second LGBTQ+ survey for EU member states; 140,000 LGBTQ+ people participated. The responses reveal the heightened isolation, vulnerability and risks associated with being LGBTQ+ pre-Covid-19. The survey highlighted that, despite the wide diversity of people within LGBTQ+ communities, the experience of discrimination remains prevalent.

The combination of individual circumstances and identities will also shape the many layers of exclusion that they are exposed to. For instance, women, young people, persons with disabilities and elderly people are at a greater risk. Also, trans, non-binary and intersex people experience significantly higher levels of exclusion, harassment and violence. Our response must therefore be inclusive and intersectional.

Breaking the secrecy and isolation is crucial in fostering positive affirmation of LGBTQ+ lives. Governments need to support LGBTQ+ individuals by breaking the social stigma that still surrounds them. The adoption of equality and anti-discrimination laws, national action strategies for diversity and inclusion, and the creation of safe spaces are critical and cannot be delayed. Support programmes for parents of LGBTQ+ youth should also be introduced.

Coronavirus recovery plans should therefore recognise and address the systematic prejudices and inequalities exposed by this crisis.

Prompt action matters. Our collective mission should be set out to address discrimination and long-term effects in our societies with the same determination we are bringing to battle this pandemic. Breaking the secrecy and isolation surrounding LGBTQ+ communities is the key to inclusion of LGBTQ+ people who during this crisis are being pushed to the margins of society.

To all those commemorating Global Pride this 27 June, we stand with you. To everyone else, we say: we can all do our part simply by keeping in mind that we are who we are.

Nobody chooses how and where they are born, and nobody has the right to prejudge and to discriminate.

Diversity is a strength, let’s celebrate it.

• Elton John is a singer-songwriter, David Furnish is a Canadian film-maker, Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player, Ilana Kloss is a former professional tennis player, Ian McKellen is an English actor, Skin is a singer and songwriter, Edward Enninful is editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Frank Ocean is a singer-songwriter and Helena Dalli is European commissioner for equality

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Highest HIV notifications recorded last year

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New provisional 2019 data show HIV diagnoses highest on record

There were 536 new HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) notifications in Ireland in 2019, the highest on record, according to the latest provisional data just published by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).

The provisional data for HIV in Ireland 2019 shows the number of new notifications was 536 last year.

This reflects a national HIV notification rate of 11.3 per 100,000 population for 2019.

There were 523 diagnoses of HIV notified in 2018, a rate of 11 per 100,000 population. This was a 7 per cent increase compared to 2017 when 489 cases were diagnosed and follows a relatively steady notification rate between 2015 and 2017 (10.1-10.5 per 100,000 population).

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Protest updates: Minnesota jail officers allege discrimination; Junipero Serra statues toppled in California; 2 shootings in Seattle

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Protesters toppled the statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Friday, June 19. Historical figures tainted by racism continues.

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Eight correctional officers in Minneapolis have filed racial discrimination charges with the state’s Department of Human Rights alleging that they weren’t allowed to be in close contact with Derek Chauvin, the white officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.

Meanwhile, in Thousand Oaks, California, three men were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign. Two of the men worked for local law enforcement agencies.

And, in Seattle, a second shooting occurred inside the city’s autonomous zone, also known as the CHOP for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.” A 19-year-old was killed and another person injured in a shooting Saturday, and on Sunday, police said a second shooting had occurred, injuring one person. No arrests have been made.

On Monday, a public viewing will be held in Atlanta for Rayshard Brooks, a Black man fatally shot by a white police officer as he tried to flee.

A closer look at some recent developments:

  • The statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York will be removed. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the statue shows Black and Indigenous people as “subjugated and racially inferior.”
  • Statues of Catholic priest Junipero Serra were toppled in San Francisco and Los Angeles over the weekend. Serra founded nine of California’s 21 Spanish missions.
  • Three men, two who worked for local law enforcement agencies in California, were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign in the city of Westlake Village.

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NYPD officer suspended for ‘apparent chokehold’

New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Sunday that an officer has been suspended without pay after video surfaced of him putting a Black man in an “apparent chokehold.”

The suspension came just hours after the incident on a beach boardwalk in Queens. Video shot by a man involved in the incident shows a group of officers tackling a Black man as one officer puts his arm around the man’s neck as he is lying face down. The group around the officers shouts for the officer to release his arm from the man’s neck, and another officer restraining the man on the ground taps the officer on his back and pulls his shirt before the officer releases the chokehold.

“The officer who intervened to stop his colleague did exactly the right thing,” Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Sunday night. “I commend him. That is what we need to see from all our officers.”

Shea said a full investigation was underway. The NYPD has long banned chokeholds, and their use has come under increased scrutiny since the death of Eric Garner in 2014 after an officer used a chokehold on him. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed a package of law enforcement accountability laws, which includes a ban on chokeholds.

2 shootings in Seattle’s protest zone over the weekend

Police in Seattle say two shootings occurred over the weekend in the city’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.

A shooting late Sunday left at least one person injured with a gunshot wound. The person arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle and was in serious condition, Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg said in a statement.

On Saturday, a 19-year-old man died at a hospital after being treated for wounds from a shooting, and another sustained “life-threatening injuries,” police said in a statement.

Police said they responded to a call about shots fired at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning inside the protest zone. No arrests have been made.

Formerly known as CHAZ, or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, the area stretches several city blocks and has been cordoned off by protesters where artists paint murals, speakers discuss topics of racial equity and snacks are handed out for free.

Lawmakers, protesters want answers in shooting death of Andres Guardado by LA deputy

Two Democratic lawmakers in California have called on their state’s attorney general to investigate the death of Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy last week.

Reps. Maxine Waters and Nanette Diaz Barragán called for an independent investigation as hundreds of people gathered Sunday near the site where Guardado was fatally shot.

“Another day, and another Black or Brown kid has been shot in the back by police,” said the representatives for Southern California districts. “These killings must stop.”

Authorities say the sheriff’s deputy who shot Guardado spotted him with a gun in front of a business near Gardena but do not believe Guardado fired the weapon. Capt. Kent Wegener said the gun had no serial number and was pieced together with various firearm parts. Wegener also said investigators are reviewing footage from multiple cameras near the scene. 

The shooting took place in the back of the building, Wegener said. Guardado was shot in the torso, he said, adding that the medical examiner will perform an autopsy. 

Roosevelt statue to be removed from Natural History museum

The American Museum of Natural History in New York will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

The statue that has stood at the museum’s entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and a Black man standing next to the horse.

“The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” de Blasio said in a written statement. 

President Donald Trump objected to the statue’s removal, calling it “ridiculous” on Twitter. The museum’s president, Ellen Futter, told the New York Times that the museum’s “community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd.”

3 men arrested for allegedly vandalizing BLM sign in California

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign in the city of Westlake Village, authorities said.

One of the men is a civilian employee of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, and another is a non-sworn investigative assistant at the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.

The misdemeanor arrests were announced Saturday night by Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub’s office. The announcement covered multiple incidents over the last three weeks.

“I’m deeply disappointed that one of our employees involved himself in this type of illegal activity, especially when this is an infringement on someone’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech,” Ayub said in a statement. “We will not tolerate unlawful or unethical behavior by anyone employed by our agency. We hold our employees to the highest standards, and there will be consequences for this.”

The sign, described as a tarp with the letters BLM painted on it, has been displayed on a fence for the past three weeks, officials said, and has been damaged or removed on several occasions.

– Gretchen Wenner, Ventura (Calif.) County Star

Minnesota officers of color allege discrimination at jail that housed Derek Chauvin

Eight Minnesota correctional officers at the facility where fired police officer Derek Chauvin was held following his arrest for the murder of George Floyd say they were forbidden from coming into contact with him and have reportedly filed a complaint with the state’s Department of Human Rights.

The officers – all people of color – say they were told they would be a “liability” around Chauvin because of their race, The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported. According to a copy of charges obtained by the newspaper, once Chauvin arrived at the Ramsey County Jail, officers of color were ordered to a separate floor. The only officers left to guard Chauvin were white, and minority employees were prohibited from having contact with Chauvin, the Star Tribune reported. 

– Jordan Culver

Statues of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra toppled in Los Angeles, San Francisco

Demonstrators in California toppled statues of a Spanish Catholic missionary over the weekend amid ongoing protests against racism sparked by the death of George Floyd on May 25.

Statues of Father Junipero Serra, who founded the state’s 21 Spanish missions, were brought down in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Demonstrators in Ventura County called for the removal of the statue outside of the city hall building on Saturday.

In downtown Los Angeles, Indigenous activists shouted and drummed as the statue was toppled Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported. No police were present at the demonstration.

In San Francisco, the Serra statue at Golden Gate Park was yanked with ropes on Friday. San Francisco Archbishop Salvadore Cordileone criticized protesters in a statement: “A renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism.”

San Francisco Mayor London Breed asked for public art to be reviewed after protesters vandalized and tore down statues.

Breed decried the vandalism, saying “the damage done … went far beyond” the removal of the statues.

Other statues targeted included those of Ulysses Grant, the 18th U.S. president, and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the U.S. national anthem “Star Spangled Banner.”

Breed said she will ask the Arts Commission, the Human Rights Commission and the Recreation and Parks Department and its Commission “to evaluate our public art and its intersection with our country’s racist history” to determine the status of other murals and monuments across the city.

– Lorenzo Reyes

More on protests

K-pop fans, TikTok teens may have contributed to Donald Trump rally turnout

President Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, featured smaller-than-expected crowds, with rows of empty seats at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center despite an expected turnout of nearly a million supporters.

A call to action coordinated by teens and young adults on TikTok and K-pop users on Twitter could explain what happened.

After the Trump reelection campaign opened registration for free tickets to the rally, K-pop fans on Twitter shared information on how to sign up – with directives to obtain tickets, but not attend. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised the collective involved in the action, telling Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale “you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok.”

“Shout out to Zoomers,” she said, referring to the largely Gen Z makeup of these groups. “Y’all make me so proud.”

– Joshua Bote

Contributing: The Associated Press

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