Meanwhile, investors will give their verdict. A key question is whether Italy can still rely on the ECB’s support its promise to buy potentially unlimited quantities of sovereign bonds. While this a very powerful drug, it contains important fine print: the ECB will only engage in so called “outright monetary transactions” if the country concerned agrees to a reform programme with its euro zone partners..

Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party politician Albert Ho Chun yan, chairman of the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, said even if there were mainland lawyers willing to take on sensitive cases, they would be “very limited” in what they could do and would have to remain low key. He saw a clear message in the move to strip Lu and Ren of their practising licences. “The revocations are a retaliation against lawyers who exposed the deficiencies of the judicial system to the international community and discredited it in effect,” he said.

The mixed results of this study imply that the relationship between education and health status varies across health measures, and probably over time. Hence caution should be exercised before broad conclusions are drawn and policies made regarding these two vital socioeconomic indicators (education and health).The last theme analyses fertility in both structural and reduced form functions. The structural function involves a two stage process.

First reports are that the speed board is helping, but enforcement will continue. Traffic Engineering is considering additional signage and traffic calming efforts such as additional stop signs, speed humps, turn arrows, etc., but the process for installing calming features is rather slow by design and does need to be deliberate rather than piecemeal. Meeting notes, developer materisals, and meeting notices will be posted there, sent to the TLNA listserv, etc.

On Thursday, the Public Market Development Committee is finally meeting after many months on hiatus due to our inability to hold face to face meetings. Recently the Mayor announced that funding may be delayed or in jeopardy due to the impacts of COVID on our city budget. Thanks for the many emails in support of the Public Market sent to all alders and the Mayor.

But the pandemic has seen a gradual shift in thinking; last summer, 239 scientists in 32 countries wrote an open letter to the WHO, urging the body to take airborne transmission more seriously. Now, scientists in the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control, the influential American equivalent of Public Health England, say aerosol transmission is possible but much less likely. In study on Covid published in May in the journal Nature Research, researchers set up ‘aerosol traps’ around two hospitals in Wuhan, and found bits of the virus’s genetic material floating around indoor toilets, as well as a room in the hospital where medical staff removed their masks, gowns, and gloves.