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The United States’ director of public health said Sunday that he is concerned about what lies ahead, as COVID-19 cases are on the rise in every state, millions of people remain unvaccinated, and a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads. quickly.

Noting that nearly all COVID-19 deaths are currently occurring among the tens of millions of people who have not been inoculated, despite the wide availability of vaccines, Dr. Vivek Murthy painted a disturbing picture of what could bring the future.

“I am concerned about what is to come because we are seeing an increase in cases among unvaccinated people in particular. And although, if you are vaccinated, you are very well protected against hospitalization and death, unfortunately that is not the case if you are not vaccinated, “Murthy told CNN’s” State of the Union “program.

COVID-19 cases in the United States increased last week by 17,000 nationwide in a 14-day period for the first time since late fall, and historically a spike in deaths followed a spike in illnesses. Much of the problem is being driven by the delta variant, which was first detected in India, and has since affected Britain and other countries, Murthy said.

Although the numbers of cases and hospitalizations in the United States remain well below the levels recorded at the worst point of the pandemic at the beginning of the year, Murthy pointed out that the deterioration of the situation shows the need to convince people to get vaccinated. .

“It is the fastest and most effective way we have to get out of this pandemic,” he commented.

About 186 million Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine, but another 90 million who can do so have not yet been inoculated. Authorities are trying to overcome rejection among some to get vaccinated, especially conservative white people living in rural areas, but how to do this is unclear. So in the meantime, in some places public health measures that had been neglected have been re-implemented.

In Las Vegas, some resorts and casinos again required their employees to wear masks in response to a recommendation issued by health authorities amid a spike in COVID-19 in Nevada, which ranks fifth among the nation’s states. with the highest number of new cases per capita in the last two weeks.

On Saturday night, Los Angeles County reestablished regulations requiring everyone to wear masks inside public buildings. In the San Francisco Bay area, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in California, health authorities have recommended that everyone wear masks inside buildings again, regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not.

But in Alabama, a conservative state where COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in a month and only about a third of the population is fully vaccinated, authorities have refused to reinstate restrictive health standards in the entire state and to use incentives such as lotteries to promote inoculations.

“I think the best we can do is simply encourage everyone to use their common sense and practice personal responsibility and keep themselves and their families safe,” Governor Kay Ivey told reporters last week.

The Dominican airline Helidosa confirmed this Sunday that it transported Christian Emmanuel Sanon, the main detainee for the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, on a flight between Florida (USA) and Haiti on May 21.

The company detailed in a statement that the corporate flight was requested on May 19 by a US company and was booked for two days later, to cover the Fort Lauderdale, Florida route to Port-au-Prince.

Sanon was traveling on the flight with two other US citizens, who were not identified by the company and who passed all the immigration checks and controls at the airports through which they left and entered.

Sanon, a Haitian doctor with US nationality and resident of Florida, has been arrested by the Haitian authorities accused of being the mastermind of the assassination of President Moise, perpetrated on July 7.

Helidosa, a company founded by Gonzalo Castillo, the second most voted candidate in the 2020 presidential elections in the Dominican Republic, pointed out that it transports 10,000 passengers a year in its fleet of 15 planes and 24 helicopters.

He was recently in charge of making the trips of the Haitian president’s widow, Martine Moise, to the United States and also the transfer of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Cuba, where the former president was treated for covid-19.

Helidosa Aviation Group reported this Sunday that it transferred Martine Moise, the first lady widow of Jovenel Moise, who was injured during the assassination of July 7.

This was reported by the company through a statement, where it also stated that in the past the couple had used the company’s services on several occasions.

In the press release, Alex Castillo, executive president of the company, stated that former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide also traveled to Cuba and returned to Haiti in an ambulance plane also owned by Helidosa, “as do dozens of personalities of the world who decide to travel with a company like this one that adds more than 10,000 passengers a year ”.

Regarding the trip made by 3 North American citizens from Florida to Haiti, Alex Castillo stated: “On May 19, 2021 we were contacted by a US company to request a corporate flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a flight that it was awarded and reserved for May 21 ”.

He pointed out that the flight was carried out in the aircraft registration HI949, transporting the one today designated by the Haitian justice, American citizen, Christian Emmanuel Sanon along with 2 other North American citizens.

He emphasized that these three citizen passengers of the United States of North America, like the dozens of thousands of passengers who travel with Helidosa, passed all the immigration checks and controls at the airports through which they left and entered.

“Helidosa is everyone’s airline. And due to the scope and quality of our services, practically everyone travels with us ”, he said.

This trip has become a point of interest, since the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo assured that the plane in question is one of the key tracks of the FBI, since on board were several people linked to the assassination in Haiti, including Christian Emmanuel Sanon, one of the main suspects.

The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported in a report published this Sunday that the jet used by the doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon, accused in the assassination of Haiti, was a key clue for the FBI.

The HI-949 jet belongs to the Helidosa company, owned by former presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo.

Just the itineraries of this jet, described as luxurious by the Colombian newspaper, was one of the FBI’s key clues about the crime.

“A photo, which EL TIEMPO reveals exclusively, shows the Haitian doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon, accused of being one of the masterminds of the assassination, on the steps of the aircraft, valued at 1.2 million dollars, and operated by Helidosa SA, ”the newspaper published.

In this photograph, together with Sanon, the former Colombian military officer Arcángel Pretelt Ortiz, an Ecuadorian identified as Walter Veintemilla, and the Venezuelan Antonio Intriago, president of the CTU Security company, and suspected of having recruited the Colombian mercenaries involved in the assassination appear.

Likewise, El Tiempo indicated that the aforementioned participated in the meeting where the assassination plan was devised, held in Miami, United States, and from there they traveled to La Isabela International Airport, located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with the objective of “fine-tuning the hiring of the command.”

Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7 at his residence. His wife, Martine Moise, was injured, was admitted to a Miami health center and returned to Haiti on Saturday.

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Haitian authorities arrested Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a doctor living in Florida, USA, on Sunday.

“When the advance of the bandits was blocked, the first person they called was Emmanuel Sanon,” said the director general of the Haitian National Police, Léon Charles, in an intervention before the press, in which he considered that the reason of crime is “political.”

The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported in a report published this Sunday that the jet used by the doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon, accused in the assassination of Haiti, was a key clue for the FBI.

The HI-949 jet belongs to the Helidosa company, owned by former presidential candidate Gonzalo Castillo.

Just the itineraries of this jet, described as luxurious by the Colombian newspaper, was one of the FBI’s key clues about the crime.

“A photo, which EL TIEMPO reveals exclusively, shows the Haitian doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon, accused of being one of the masterminds of the assassination, on the steps of the aircraft, valued at 1.2 million dollars, and operated by Helidosa SA, ”the newspaper published.

In this photograph, together with Sanon, the former Colombian military officer Arcángel Pretelt Ortiz, an Ecuadorian identified as Walter Veintemilla, and the Venezuelan Antonio Intriago, president of the CTU Security company, and suspected of having recruited the Colombian mercenaries involved in the assassination appear.

Likewise, El Tiempo indicated that the aforementioned participated in the meeting where the assassination plan was devised, held in Miami, United States, and from there they traveled to La Isabela International Airport, located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with the objective of “fine-tuning the hiring of the command.”

Jovenel Moise was assassinated on July 7 at his residence. His wife, Martine Moise, was injured, was admitted to a Miami health center and returned to Haiti on Saturday.

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Haitian authorities arrested Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a doctor living in Florida, USA, on Sunday.

“When the advance of the bandits was blocked, the first person they called was Emmanuel Sanon,” said the director general of the Haitian National Police, Léon Charles, in an intervention before the press, in which he considered that the reason of crime is “political.”

The Washington Police have announced that they are offering a reward of $ 60,000 (almost 51,000 euros) for the perpetrator of a shooting that has killed a child under the age of six and left five adults injured.

The event took place on Friday, a little after 11 p.m. (local time) in the Congress Heights neighborhood of the US capital, as reported by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, reports the ABC network.

The victims of the incident were on the sidewalk between Martin Luther King Júnior avenues and Malcom X avenues, located in the southeast of the city, when the shooter passed through the area aboard a vehicle, as reported by the chief of Police, Robert Contee.

Three men and two women, all of them adults, were injured and treated in hospitals in the area for injuries of a weak nature, while the minor died of gunshot wounds.

At the moment the causes and circumstances of the shooting are unknown and there are no suspects, although the mayor of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, has asserted that they will find out who killed the minor.

For its part, the city police has released images of the vehicle in which the alleged perpetrator of the event was driving and has called for citizen collaboration to find the person responsible.

“I know there are many good people in this community who will not tolerate senseless violence, and together we will do whatever it takes to close this case in a swift and professional manner,” added Contee.