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Spain to put entire capital under partial lockdown

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Spain’s capital Madrid is to be put under partial lockdown, the government said Wednesday as it stepped up measures to fight a second wave of the coronavirus.

The greater Madrid region has 6.6 million residents. Authorities have earlier imposed a partial lockdown on a million of them.

Health minister Salvador Illa said that the situation in Madrid is “complex and worrying”, as the country registered 11,016 new infections over the past 24 hours, nearly 44% of which were in the Madrid region.

However, regional health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero said that Madrid’s authorities did not agree with the government’s plans to lock down the capital in the coming days.

Spain has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Europe, and Madrid is the worst-hit region. The infection rate in the country stands at around 300 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the Madrid region, the rate currently stands at more than 780 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The coronavirus has so far killed more than 31,000 people in Spain and infected close to 760,000.

Democrats To Unveil Bill Addressing Government’s Cultural Genocide Of Native Americans | HuffPost

Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will introduce legislation Tuesday to make the federal government address the “intergenerational trauma” it has caused for Native Americans with its former Indian boarding school policy, a nearly century-long policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from tribal lands and putting them into boarding schools to be assimilated into white culture. Source: Democrats To Unveil Bill Addressing Government’s Cultural Genocide Of Native Americans | HuffPost

thanks for raising the alarm, L.Guy: The dark side of capitalism (aka greed): Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances — Later On — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings

Peter Elkind with Doris Burke report in ProPublica: In the decade since Leonard Green & Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles, bought control of a hospital company named Prospect Medical Holdings for $205 million, the owners have done handsomely. Leonard Green extracted $400 million in dividends and fees for itself and investors […] […]

thanks for raising the alarm, L.Guy: The dark side of capitalism (aka greed): Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances — Later On — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings

Police in L.A. and across California disproportionately cite Black people for minor infractions, study finds

Been that way forever – first First Nation, Mexican-Americans, Chinese, and Japanese, then Black-Americans, Filipinos, Indians, Hmong, Vietnamese, Koreans, Central Americans, West Africans…

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Police in Los Angeles and other major cities across California issue citations to Black residents for minor infractions at far higher rates than white residents, according to a new study.