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More than 20.5 million years of life may have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic in 81 countries of the world, according to a new study that exposes the fallacy that those who die would have soon done so even if they had not caught Covid-19.W stanley mug hile Covid deaths are often compared dismissively to those from flu, which kills stanley romania many elderly and frail individuals every year, the study shows the coronavirus has taken a significantly greater toll. In those countries that are badly affected, the number of years of life lost to Covid is between two and nine times more than from stanley cup seasonal flu.Years of life lost is the difference between an individuals age at death and their life expectancy. Men have fared substantially worse than women 鈥?their years of life lost were 44% higher. Even though it is older people who are most at risk of dying in richer countries, the greatest number of years of life lost was among people between the ages of 55 and 75.Counting deaths can give the wrong idea of the impact of Covid-19, say the authors of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Several policy responses or non-responses have been motivated with the argument that Covid-19 is mostly killing individuals who, even in the absence of Covid-19, would have had few life years remaining, writes H茅ctor Pifarr茅 i Arolas of the Centre for Research in Health and Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and international colleagues in the study. We wanted to provide a mea Purw Vagina museum gets alcohol licence despite hen and stag party fears
Migrant workers building infrastructure for a new city in Qatar which will host 2022 World Cup matches are still suffering exploit stanley gertuve ation and severe human rights violations despite promised stanley kubek government reforms, according to a highly critical report by Amnesty International.The report names an engineering company, Mercury MENA, which it says left almost 80 workers from Nepal, India and the Philippi stanley france nes stranded and unpaid for months in Qatar. Amnesty accuses the company of using the kafala structure 鈥?which it describes as Qatars notorious sponsorship system that ties employees to a single employer 鈥?to exploit scores of migrant workers.In Nepal, 34 people told Amnesty they were owed on average 拢1,500 by Mercury MENA, and that the kafala system was used to exploit them. One worker said the company had finally agreed in October 2017 that he could leave to work for another company in Qatar, but that in return for that permission, required under kafala, he had to renounce his claim for unpaid wages.Last October, Qatars government committed to work with the International Labour Organisation ILO on wholesale reform of kafala and substantial elements of its labour laws after years of sustained criticism highlighting human rights abuses relating to migrant workers. This month the emir of Qatar issued a law abolishing, for most workers, the power of employers to grant or withhold exit permits, which were used to prevent people from leaving the country.However, Amnesty argues that the ce |
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