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Coronavirus digest: Fourth German city exceeds COVID-19 threshold

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Stuttgart has become the latest German city to be marked as a coronavirus hotspot, as infections continue to rise across Germany. Authorities are preparing to impose fresh restrictions. Here is all the latest from DW.

US Covid cases climb as midwestern states report steep increases

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  • Infections also ticking up in north-east
  • More than 57,000 tested positive for coronavirus on Friday

Covid-19 cases are again climbing in the United States, with the highest daily rates of new infections since August, when major states such as Florida became hotspots, new data from Johns Hopkins University’s Covid-19 tracker shows.

Now, several midwestern states are posting steep increases in Covid-19 cases, with at least one setting up a field hospital to cope with the flood of patients. Cases are also ticking up in the north-east, where tight restrictions had the virus under control for most of the summer.

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More Religious Leaders Seek Restraining Orders Against Cuomo’s Limits On Gatherings

Your faith and religious freedom does not give the church a right to endanger the health of its members, clergy, staff and the community – PERIOD! A picture of Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Flatbush, which is in an orange zone and faces limits on number of attendees.

A picture of Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Flatbush, which is in an orange zone and faces limits on number of attendees.

“It is a blatant violation of our clients’ right to the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment,” said a lawyer from the Thomas More Society. [ more › ]

Why the hidden world of fungi is essential to life on Earth | Merlin Sheldrake

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Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants

As you read these words, fungi are changing the way that life happens, as they have done for more than a billion years. They are eating rock, making soil, digesting pollutants, nourishing and killing plants, surviving in space, inducing visions, producing food, making medicines, manipulating animal behaviour, and influencing the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere.

Fungi make up one of life’s kingdoms – as broad and busy a category as “animals” or “plants” – and provide a key to understanding our planet. Yet fungi have received only a small fraction of the attention they deserve. The best estimate suggests that there are between 2.2m and 3.8m species of fungi on the Earth – as many as 10 times the estimated number of plant species – meaning that, at most, a mere 8% of all fungal species have been described. Of these, only 358 have had their conservation priority assessed on the IUCN red list of threatened species, compared with 76,000 species of animal and 44,000 species of plant. Fungi, in other words, represent a meagre 0.2% of our global conservation priorities.

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