In a sign of confidence and more evidence that the US job market is bouncing back strongly from last year’s coronavirus recession, a record 4.5 million people have uit their jobs in America in the month of November’21. US Employers also increase hiring in November. The number of people hired was 6.7 million in November as compared to 6.5 million in October.
The figures indicate that the job market has bounced back from last year’s brief but intense coronavirus recession. When covid hits, government orders lockdown, consumers stayed home and any businesses closed or cut hours. Employers slashed more than 22 million jobs in March and April 2020 and the unemployment rate rocketed to 14.8%. The unemployment rate has now fallen to 4.2% close to what economists consider full employment.
US man kills daughter by mistaken shooting
Ohio man shot dead his own 16-year-old daughter, Janae Hairston, after mistaking her for an intruder breaking into the family home. The girl's mother called emergency services at 4:30 am, when both parents could be heard frantically begging their daughter to wake up, to report that her daughter was lying on the floor of their garage, after being shot by her father who mistook her for an intruder.Emergency responders arrived a few minutes later and transported Hairston to the local hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:42 am. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, gun violence has risen sharply in the US. According to the site Gun Violence Archive, more than 44,000 people have been killed by guns in the United States this year, including suicides, of which 1,517 were minors.
Sweden’s King and Queen infected with Covid
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia who are fully vaccinated with three injections, have mild symptoms and are feeling well, given the circumstances after testing positive for COVID-19.
The news came as Sweden set a new daily record for COVID-19 cases amid a surge caused by the highly-infectious Omicron variant. The palace issued a statement that the King, 75, and the Queen, 78, were self-isolating and that work to trace those that they had been in contact with was underway. The country’s healthcare is under renewed pressure as a fourth wave of the virus piles up daily cases in Sweden.
3000 liters alcohol poured in canal in Afghanistan
Selling and consuming alcohol was banned even under the previous Western-backed regime, but the Taliban, known for their austere brand of Islam, are stricter in their opposition to it and the frequency of raids, including on drug addicts, has increased across the country since the Islamists seized power on August 15. Video footage released by the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) shows a team of Afghan intelligence agents pouring around 3,000 liters of liquor into a canal in Kabul. A statement issued by the agency said three dealers were arrested during the operation. "Muslims have to seriously abstain from making and delivering alcohol," an intelligence official said in the video footage. The Taliban's Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has also issued several guidelines restricting women's rights.