#Safety

Eurostat: 2.4% of EU workers suffered at least one work accident in 2020. Italy below EU average for reported accidents

EU Commission: “strategic framework” on “health and safety at work 2021-27” presented. “Modernisation, prevention, preparedness” with a “zero” deaths approach

EU: Security Union, EU rules on removal of terrorist content online enter into force today

Should schools be closed or not? Gandini (Uni. Milan): “Research in 28 countries. The benefits of keeping them open outweigh the risks”

Closing schools is supposed to curb the spread of the virus. However, the scientific community does not back the correlation…

EU Commission: World Day to make Internet safe tomorrow. Ensure protection of children and against disinformation

New infections in China: diocese of Beijing closes parish churches  

New coronavirus outbreak in China, Beijing raises emergency level. Authorities closed schools and universities forthwith and suspended indoor sports activities…

Japan, the bishops’ document on the Coronavirus. Msgr. Takami: “To renew the fundamental trust in God”

Japan’s Catholic community is looking forward to the government’s decision after 6 May. The bishops, for their part, will evaluate…

EU: Message for European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism. “Building a Europe that protects”

USA: bishops worried by rumours about cancellation of refugee resettlement programme, “against the principles we have as a nation and as a people”

EU Commission: anti-Semitism on the rise. Timmermans, if Jewish community “does not feel safe, Europe ceases to be Europe”

EU-NATO: joint declaration on cooperation, security and fight against terrorism. Commitment to saving lives in the Mediterranean