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StockholmBefore the end of the year, Sweden issued about 85 000 new citizenships, and “the new Swedes” come mainly from the Arab world, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Eritrea.

ZurichThe Swiss heart surgeon Paul R. Vogt from the University Hospital Zurich has called for large studies on drug therapies for the early treatment of Covid-19. He explained that such interventions from general practitioners could prevent hospitalization and enable healing.

The deaths of a Croatian soccer player (23 years old), an Omani (29), an Egyptian (23) and an Algerian (30) happened in the wake of the sudden retirement of Argentinian player Sergio Agüero . Agüero suffered chest pains and dizziness during a match in October and the star striker had been benched for three months.

DüsseldorfA 53-year-old police officer died on New Year's Eve in Düsseldorf. He belonged to a unit of riot police from the Ruhr area. There has been no news on and no interest in his vaccination status.

RomeThe website of Italy's national rail operator posted warnings of severely disrupted services: "For the activities related to the organization of the services, changes in the timetable of the regional trains can be expected after controls provided by anti-Covid regulations," noted Trenitalia and listed at least 16 regions affected by the serious problem.

BernThe Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) found that from January to March 2020, cardiovascular diseases and cancer were by far the most common causes of death. A total of 18 501 people died in Switzerland during this period.

On Wednesday Twitter banned the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, Dr Robert W Malone, the most influential American voice against forced vaccination, with AP citing "missing context".

Robert F. Kennedy recently revealed why Big Pharma and Dr. Anthony Fauci are going after children and babies to have them vaccinated even though the Covid-19 virus presents no danger to them. 

MadridSpain will follow the path of Chile and will regulate by law neurotechnologies that seek to cognitively extend the human being, such as those proposed by Elon Musk.

QuitoOnly children under the age of five and people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons are exempt from the obligation to be injected with an experimental jab. The measure was allegedly necessary because of the increase in infections and the spread of variants such as Omicron.