Wednesday, August 25 top stories
Today is Wednesday, August 25th. Here are top stories for today.
A small town of 1,200 people in west Texas- Iraan, has been struck so hard by the coronavirus pandemic that the entire town has essentially closed.
The school district had to shut down after only five days of classes because about 25% of the staff and 16% of the students were either infected with or exposed to the coronavirus.
In a 2 weeks span this August at the Iraan General Hospital, 50 of 119 people tested positive– a 42% positivity rate. The mayor of Iraan informed CNN, “This is serious.”
Delta Airlines increases its efforts to encourage vaccination. Starting Sept. 12, unvaccinated Delta employees in the U.S. will have to do weekly Covid-19 testing if community case rates remain high.
By the end of September, Delta airlines will only provide pay protection for missed time due to Covid-19 to fully vaccinated employees experiencing breakthrough infections.
Beginning in November, unvaccinated employees who are enrolled in Delta’s healthcare plan will have to pay an extra $200 each month. The company said the additional charge will help to cover hospital stays. In recent weeks, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with Covid-19 were unvaccinated.
In nine days since the Taliban swept back into control, their leaders insisted this time will be different. They say women will be allowed to work and attend school. But early signs have not been promising.
On Tuesday, a Taliban spokesman stated that women should stay home for now because some of the militants have not yet been trained not to hurt them. This is a pattern that is similar to before- from 1996 to 2001 the last time the Taliban were in rule, Afghan women were forbidden to work outside the home or even to leave the house without a male guardian. They could not attend school.
The claim that restrictions on women’s lives are a “temporary necessity” is not new to Afghan women. The Taliban made similar claims the last time they controlled Afghanistan.
The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer girl who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the first largely complete and well-preserved skeleton associated with the Toalean culture. The 'Toaleans' is the name archaeologists have given to this culture that lived in the forested plains and mountains of South Sulawesi.
It is a major challenge to get DNA in that area since remains are often strongly degraded by the tropical climate. This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world.
This finding changes the concept that the first time people with Asian genes entered the Indonesia islands group was around 3,500 years ago.
On Wednesday, the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack sent records requests to eight government agencies. The letters are the first investigative steps taken by the panel since its July hearing. They are seeking documented information from the Trump White House and administration related to the Capitol Hill riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
That’s all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/world/wallacea-skeleton-dna-discovery-scn/index.html