Congressional Democrats in the US plan to move forward with a historic second round of impeachment proceedings if Vice President Mike Pence does not take steps to remove President Donald Trump from office.
The unprecedented announcement by the US House of Representatives came after the President’s false claims of election fraud encouraged a mob to storm the US Capitol last week, resulting in the deaths of three civilians and two police officers.
Officials have moved forward with at least two dozen domestic terrorism investigations related to the incident, with several prominent figures already arrested under charges including trespassing, theft, and weapons possession.
Major social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, have permanently suspended Trump’s accounts „due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Source: Radio Poland, Reuters
Poland is set to begin mass testing teachers for COVID-19 today ahead of a possible return to on-site learning for grades 1-3 of elementary school.
Around 165,000 teachers and school staff have expressed an interest in being tested as part of the weeklong assessment campaign, according to Poland’s education minister, Przemysław Czarnek.
Czarnek told broadcaster TVP Info on Sunday that there is a good chance that young children will return to in-person classes after the academic break ends January 17. A final decision is set to be announced later this week.
Source: Radio Poland
Government officials report that a new shipment of 360,000 doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Poland by air this morning.
According to Michał Kuczmierowski, the head of Poland’s Material Reserves Agency (ARM), the shipment will first be transferred to a warehouse and then later distributed to pharmaceutical wholesalers and on to hospitals and vaccination sites across the country.
Last week, the European Medicines Agency approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by US drug maker Moderna, with 27,000 doses of the additional vaccine scheduled to arrive in Poland on Tuesday. Government officials have said they expect nearly 1.5 million coronavirus vaccine doses to reach Poland by the end of January.
Over 200,000 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 across Poland, according to official data released by officials yesterday. A total of 2.94 million people are expected to be vaccinated for COVID-19 throughout the country by the first quarter of 2021.
Source: Radio Poland
Top Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch is celebrating again after winning the ski-jumping World Cup competition in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany, over the weekend.
The three-time Olympic champion was joined on the podium by Norway’s Halvor Egner Granerud in 2nd and fellow Pole Piotr Żyła in 3rd.
Stoch’s triumph, hot on the heels of his victory in the Four Hills tournament earlier this week, saw him equalling legendary Polish jumper Adam Małysz’s record of 39 wins in World Cup competitions.
Stoch and the rest of the team will be on home turf next weekend, as the competition moves to Zakopane beginning January 15.
Source: Radio Gdańsk, Radio Poland, fis-ski.com
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