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/ March 2, 2021

Prime Minister praises man for bravely saving toddler from falling death

The Hanoitimes - The man has saved a little girl falling off the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 1 officially granted Nguyen Ngoc Manh, a Hanoi resident, a merit certificate for his heroic deed. Manh saved a little girl, born in 2018, who fell off the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi. Manh saved a little girl falling off the 12th floor of an apartment building in Hanoi. Photo: Tienphong On February 28, the unsupervised toddler named N.P.H climbed over the balcony of her family’s home on the 12th floor of Nguyen Huy Tuong Apartment Complex in Thanh Xuan district. She managed to grab the railings but let go just several seconds after. At the time, Nguyen Ngoc Manh, who was on a courier run in the complex, spotted the girl and quickly climbed onto the first floor’s roof to catch her. The little girl was rushed to hospital where X-ray results showed she had a dislocated hip joint and several broken bones, but no further trauma. "I didn’t think about it much back then, but now I'm happy for doing something meaningful. After saving the girl, I left without leaving a phone number, though the girl’s family managed to contact me anyway to inform me of the girl’s health status," Manh said. The prime minister asked the Hanoi People’s Committee and relevant agencies to promptly honor Manh and spread his good deeds in the community. A letter of honor from Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue also acknowledged Nguyen Ngoc Manh’s courageous act. In his letter, the municipal Party chief hails Manh’s bravery, and hopes that Manh will continue to uphold his sense of courage and social responsibility, and do more good activities for the community, contributing to building a peaceful, friendly, prosperous and civilized life in the capital city. Besides, Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh on March 1 decided to praise and award Manh for his …

/ March 1, 2021

As third wave rages, show goes on at Sofia opera

With an orchestra spread out across the entire parterre, audiences limited to the balconies, and no breaks but plenty of disinfectant, the Sofia Opera is one of the few music venues still hosting live performances in Europe. Across the continent, a third wave of COVID-19 infections is keeping opera houses and other cultural venues closed -- loud singing poses a particular risk as the virus spreads through droplets -- but in Bulgaria, classical music plays on, from "Tosca" to "La Traviata". "I am hungry for music. And the risk, why think about it? It's not riskier here than in the supermarket or the subway," says 81-year-old Petya Petkova, who attended Verdi's "La Traviata" with her daughter last week. Despite the disinfectant, social-distancing and staff taking people's temperature, a festive spirit reigns at the historic opera house in the Bulgarian capital, a stark contrast to its silenced counterparts in Paris, Vienna or Milan. Bulgaria first eased pandemic restrictions in June and allowed operas, concert halls and cinemas to reopen at 30 percent capacity, leading the Sofia Opera to arrange plastic and fabric flower bouquets as placeholders on the majority of the crimson plush seats. "We perform in front of 250 spectators, but it's better than not playing or performing," Sofia Opera director Plamen Kartaloff says. Even as Europe struggles with a third wave of infections, in part due to a number of mutations that spread more easily, Kartaloff expects the opera to remain open. Acoustic challenges Tragedy has touched the operatic community, and not just on stage: In November, Bulgarian tenor Kamen Chanev died of COVID-19, three weeks after he debuted Otello in the central Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora. Remembering him, soprano Stanislava Momekova, 36, becomes serious. "That's the risk of this profession -- it holds us like a drug, it's stronger than fear," Momekova says. For American conductor Evan-Alexis Christ, who saw his performances in …

/ February 26, 2021

US, EU say vaccine programs on track as global deaths hit 2.5 mn

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 25: Lorraine Harvey, an in home care worker, receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse Rudolfo Garcia at a clinic at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles on February 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. African Americans and Latinos comprise a majority of the South LA community and are dying of COVID-19 at a rate significantly higher than whites. Vaccine equity has also lagged in South Los Angeles relative to some more wealthy areas. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP) Brazil hit 250,000 fatalities -- the second-highest national death toll after the US -- while the worldwide vaccine campaign received the royal endorsement of Queen Elizabeth II, 94, who urged people not to be wary of the injection. President Joe Biden declared the US rollout is now "weeks ahead of schedule" as he celebrated 50 million vaccines administered since he took office on January 20, but he warned Americans to keep masking up. "We're moving in the right direction despite the mess we inherited," Biden said, referring to the program under his predecessor Donald Trump. The United States is the world's hardest-hit country, with coronavirus deaths crossing the 500,000 mark earlier this week. Biden said that there would be "enough supply" for all adult Americans by the end of July. The EU announced Thursday it expected to vaccinate 70 percent of adults by the end of the summer, after months of problems and friction. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said fully vaccinating just under three-quarters of adults by late summer was a "goal that we're confident with." But in Brazil, the grim quarter-million deaths milestone came one year after the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in the country, which is struggling with severe vaccine shortages and a devastating second wave. - Mass graves - The coronavirus has hit especially hard in Brazil's impoverished "favelas," among indigenous …