PASSADO 1 ANO O CAOS E DESORGANIZAÇÃO CONTINUAM NO AEROPORTO DE PDL

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Cheguei hoje à Ponta Delgada, proveniente do Funchal (voo de duas horas). À chegada ao aeroporto João Paulo II, e após a recolha de bagagens, sou confrontado com uma fila de passageiros, organizada à pressa e sem qualquer tipo de organização pelos próprios, ainda dentro da sala de recolha de bagagens. A fila tem forma de “serpente” para no menor espaço, ser possível colocar o maior número de passageiros (lá se foi à distância de segurança !). Não se vê nenhum funcionário responsável por orientar os passageiros e impor alguma organização na fila. Não existem fitas que imponham corredores, para organizar os passageiros, para as três opções possíveis sinalizadas apenas por autocolantes minúsculos na saída da zona de recolha de bagagens (interlihas/com teste ou certificado/sem teste).
Após ter ultrapassado, este pequeno obstáculo de desorganização, chego à opcão que se enquadrava com a minha situação (existência de menores sem teste feito). Mais uma vez um caos completo: um funcionário para introduzir os dados dos formulários em suporte papel de quinze passageiros nesta fila. Resultado: mais de uma hora de espera. Referir ainda que os passageiros com QR Code e com o preenchimento atempado do SafeAzores, demoravam também tempo desnecessário, porque simplesmente não existe leitor de QR Code disponível. A confirmação é feita por número de processo e respetiva identificação.
Resultado: voo de 2 horas, espera em Ponta Delgada de 1 hora e vinte minutos.
Se quiserem ver como se faz, podem ir à Madeira, que eles explicam (vinte minutos de tempo de espera).
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A DE O SALES E A HERANÇA OLÍMPICA DE HONG KONG

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The incredible role of Arnaldo Augusto de Oliveira Sales.
Why does Hong Kong have its own team at the Olympics?
After two years of anguish and upheaval, Hong Kong’s spirits couldn’t have been lower – but its Olympic athletes have managed to give the city a boost.
From the giant video billboards in Causeway Bay to the TV screens on every MTR station platform, it has been impossible to escape the news of Hong Kong’s best-ever medal haul.
Hong Kong’s 46 Summer Olympians have brought home six medals from Tokyo.
Edgar Cheung Ka-long won a gold medal in fencing, Siobhan Haughey earned two silvers in swimming, Grace Lau won a bronze in kata, Lee Wai-sze a bronze in cycling, and table tennis players Doo Hoi-kem, Lee Ho-cing and Minnie Soo Wai-yam collectively earned a bronze as well.
All told, that’s twice as many medals as Hong Kong has ever won before, from windsurfer Lee Lai-shan’s groundbreaking gold win in the 1996 games to table tennis champions Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching’s silver in 2004 to Lee Wai-sze’s previous bronze win in 2012.
It has been an extraordinary two weeks for sport in Hong Kong.
And while the Tokyo games have wrapped up, the Paralympics are still to come – and just six months from now, Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics, putting Hong Kong’s (decidedly smaller) cold-weather team to the test.
As Hongkongers revel in this rare glimmer of good news, some might be asking themselves a question: just how did Hong Kong end up with its own Olympics team, anyway?
To answer that question, you need to go back to 1936, when a young Tai Hang-born swimmer named Yvonne Yeung became the first athlete from Hong Kong to compete in the Olympics, which that year were infamously hosted by the Nazi regime in Berlin.
But she didn’t swim under the Hong Kong flag, or the Union Jack – she swam for the blue sky, white sun and red earth banner flown by the Republic of China.
It was her only choice, because while Hong Kong was a British colony, its residents were not granted the privilege of British nationality, even if they were considered subjects of the British crown.
In a sense, Yeung’s participation in the 1936 Olympics was just a prologue to the real story.
Because it wasn’t until 1951 that Hong Kong was officially granted its own National Olympics Committee, giving it the same status as any other country participating in the games.
Credit for that achievement goes to a man named Arnaldo Augusto de Oliveira Sales, better known to the public as A de O Sales, or by his friends as Sonny.
Born in 1920 into a Portuguese family that had lived in Guangzhou for five generations, Sales was sent to be educated in Hong Kong at the age of eight.
After being forced to shelter in Macau during World War II, along with other Portuguese citizens, he returned to Hong Kong to join his family’s business.
In his spare time, he rowed with the Victoria Recreation Club (VRC), for which he served as honorary secretary.
That led him to push for more support for amateur sports in Hong Kong, setting up the Hong Kong Olympic Committee in 1949.
When the Commonwealth Games approached the VRC about sending a rowing team to the 1950 games in Auckland, it motivated Sales to apply to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to grant Hong Kong formal recognition.
Hong Kong’s amateur athletes finally had a team to represent them – especially important given that the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War excluded them from participating in the Chinese team, which was now split between rival People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC) sides.
The colony sent its first-ever Olympics team to the 1952 games in Helsinki.
(The PRC also participated, but not the ROC, which withdrew in protest.)
“We only sent four swimmers because other sports were not as developed as swimming and not up to regional standards,” explained Sales in a 2004 interview with the South China Morning Post.
Those four swimmers were Cynthia Eager, Irene Kwok Kam-ngor, FX “Sonny” Monteiro and Cheung Kin-man.
Their journey to Finland was funded by money raised during a gala held by the Hong Kong Amateur Swimming Association.
In the end, only Cheung had a shot at winning a medal, advancing to the semi-finals before he was eliminated.
But it was a remarkable accomplishment nonetheless, and it seems everyone noticed.
As the games wrapped up, the South China Morning Post reported that “the Hong Kong Olympic team has set one record at Helsinki – the reputation of having made the greatest number of friends from among the 4,000 athletes of 62 nations.”
Hong Kong has sent athletes to every Summer Olympics since then, with the exception of the 1980 Moscow games, which were boycotted by many countries in protest of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Sales was officially named president of the Hong Kong Sports Federation and Olympic Committee in 1967, and he oversaw its participation in every Olympics between then and 1996.
Despite the team’s best efforts, however, athletic activities in Hong Kong were perennially underfunded and underdeveloped, as academics Wen Wu, Patrick Lau Wing-chung and Zheng Jinming explain in “A Historical Review of Elite Sport Development in Hong Kong,” published earlier this year in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
The success of Hong Kong athletes depended mainly on the modest funding offered by the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee, as well as a variety of amateur sports clubs such as the VRC and the South China Athletic Association.
But Sales was nothing if not dedicated.
When a Palestinian militant group named the Black September Organization stormed the athletes’ village at the 1972 Munich games, Sales manages to slip past police and negotiate directly with a Black September leader, convincing them to release two officials from the Hong Kong team who were being kept hostage.
“It never occurred to me that I might be in danger.
My mind was focused on getting the Hong Kong athletes out,” Sales told the Post.
The hostage situation ended with a failed police ambush and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September.
Sales’ last Olympics was Hong Kong’s most successful, thanks to Lee Lai-shan’s gold medal at the Atlanta games.
But his biggest achievement before retiring in 1998 was negotiating the survival of Hong Kong’s Olympics team after the colony’s 1997 handover from Britain to China.
Some international critics have suggested that this gives China extra representation at the Olympics.
Last month, an article published by the Associated Press asked, “Is it fair that China—with one team labelled China and the other Hong Kong, China—is getting multiple pathways to Olympic podiums?”
But while Hong Kong’s team is unusual, it is hardly unique.
Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands are all American territories that have their own Olympics teams.
Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands are British dependencies, similar in status to Hong Kong before the handover, and they too have their own teams.
Hong Kong’s Olympics team remains independently managed and distinct from that of mainland China, and its athletes have always reflected that.
Many have deep local roots, like Lee Lai-shan, who was born on Cheung Chau and learned to sail in the waters off Kwun Yam Beach.
Others are Eurasian, like swimming champion Siobhan Haughey, who was born here to an Irish father and Hong Kong Chinese mother.
According to the Post, she was once offered the chance to represent Ireland at the Olympics, but she turned it down – because Hong Kong is home.
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CLIMA EXTREMO

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Cientistas explicam o que os fenômenos extremos das últimas semanas têm em comum e por que podem se tornar cada vez mais frequentes.
Neve no Brasil e onda de calor na Sibéria: cientistas explicam fenômenos extremos
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Cientistas explicam o que os fenômenos extremos das últimas semanas têm em comum e por que podem se tornar cada vez mais frequentes
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HONG KONG NOVO ÊXODO SEM RETORNO

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The current exodus from Hong Kong isn’t like pre-1997 – these people won’t be returning. And that changes the city.
Those who could see the future and leave easily had begun departing Hong Kong long before the 2019 protests and subsequent national security law.
Now others are leaving at the rate of 1,000 a day, mostly young couples with children. Good riddance, some may say, but their leaving changes Hong Kong.
Emigration from or through Hong Kong has been a constant fact of local life since the colony’s mid-19th century urban beginnings.
Is the current wave of departures, therefore, any different from those in the past?
Solid reasoning would suggest that it is.
In the lead-up to the 1997 transfer of sovereignty, emigrants were motivated – mostly – by a jittery sense of “what’s going to happen when …”, often informed by direct personal or family experience of Communist rule in mainland China.
After acquiring an overseas “insurance policy” through foreign residency or citizenship, many returned home.
And up until the past few years, life here remained more or less the same.
But now – as emigration from Hong Kong steadily gathers pace – a different picture emerges.
This time, they won’t come back.
Anecdotes are not data.
Nevertheless, accumulated similar anecdotes eventually provide enough granularity to give essential context to more solid empirical data.
The emerging picture of Hong Kong’s accelerated emigration makes this clear.
Near-deserted since the Covid-19 pandemic began, London-bound airport check-in queues are thronged with mostly young couples with children, several suitcases each, weeping older relatives and one-way tickets.
A conservative triangulation of government data suggests that about 1,000 people a day are currently leaving Hong Kong permanently.
A telling anecdote among far too many; one young friend, a maths teacher in a local primary school in the New Territories, recently related that 60 per cent of his colleagues had either given notice over the past semester due to imminent emigration plans, or signalled their intention to do so within the next academic year.
Over the same period, some 15 per cent of the student body of around 800 pupils had been withdrawn for the same reasons.
Other friends relate similar stories.
Eventually, these trends become so obvious that repeated denial of their existence is both pointless and counterproductive.
By adamantly refusing to acknowledge the mounting evidence before their own eyes, officials further compromise what little remains of their already shattered credibility.
Just as the 150-a-day one-way permit holders who arrived from China in recent decades was ultimately about gradual population dilution and replacement – whatever official lines about family reunions wearily maintained – the current outflow will be seen by some as a welcome purge of potentially troublesome, disaffected elements.
And if this latest migration movement translates into an embittered, vocal Hong Kong émigré diaspora scattered from Manchester to Melbourne, then – so what? Problems exported, the sour logic runs, are problems removed.
Over four years ago, in this column, I wrote about transnationals – Hong Kong people with the right to live elsewhere.
Even in 2017 – long before 2019’s “disturbances” and the national security law changed the place almost beyond recognition – it seemed obvious that these people were beginning to vote with their feet, as the tectonic plates upon which Hong Kong precariously balanced shifted beneath them.
Powerless to effect any positive change in their own hometown, and perhaps more prescient than others, their exit strategies began to be activated.
And the process accelerates.
Wei Zhuang, the Tang dynasty poet, disconsolate at the dispersal of the world he once knew, penned the sad lines:
Spring is bright
in the city of Loyang,
But the flower of its youth
Grows old, under other skies.
As anyone farewelling friends at the airport will attest, it is the flower of local youth – not Hong Kong’s malcontents and opportunists – who are heading off to other skies permanently this time.
Wherever they settle they will be that society’s gain – and our loss.
Whatever the future here may hold – bright or otherwise – Hong Kong will be very different in the coming years for their absence.
There is no point pretending otherwise.
Opinion by Jason Wordie.
South China Morning Post, July, 22, 2021.
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    Mesmo assim, por diversos motivos políticos, preferia ter uma casa em Hong Kong a três em Lisboa …
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cercas sanitárias em timor

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Covid-19: Governo timorense renova cercas sanitárias e confinamento em zonas de Ermera
Díli, 11 ago 2021 (Lusa) – O Governo timorense deliberou hoje renovar as cercas sanitárias em vigor nos municípios de Ermera devido à pandemia de covid-19, mantendo o confinamento obrigatório para dois postos administrativos desta região do país, informou em comunicado.
Depois de ouvir uma apresentação do Centro Integrado de Gestão de Crise (CIGC) sobre a situação epidemiológica do país, o Conselho de Ministros deliberou renovar a cerca sanitária em Díli e em Ermera, devido à covid-19, até ao final do dia 26 de agosto.
Por outro lado, renovou o confinamento domiciliário geral da população dos postos administrativos de Ermera e Railaco, do município de Ermera, até ao final do 25 de agosto.
“Mantém-se a proibição de circulação de pessoas entre os municípios de Díli e de Ermera e as demais circunscrições administrativas, salvo em casos devidamente fundamentados por razões de segurança pública, saúde pública, assistência humanitária, manutenção dos sistemas de abastecimento público ou de realização do interesse público”, explicou o Governo.
“Não estão abrangidos por esta interdição de circulação os indivíduos que comprovem a vacinação completa (duas doses) contra a covid-19, bem como os menores de seis anos que os acompanhem”, sublinhou.
O confinamento domiciliário em Ermera e Railaco abrange “todas as pessoas que residam ou se encontrem presentemente nestes dois postos administrativos do município de Ermera, as quais devem permanecer nas suas residências ou nos seus locais de alojamento temporário, incluindo centros de acolhimento, exceto nas situações já previstas anteriormente, nomeadamente, por razões de saúde, de trabalho, para acesso a bens e serviços de primeira necessidade”.
“Não estão abrangidos pela imposição de confinamento domiciliário os indivíduos que comprovem a vacinação completa”, refere-se ainda.
Entretanto, chegaram hoje a Díli mais 300 mil vacinas oferecidas pelo Governo australiano, no âmbito do programa de apoio à vacinação contra a covid-19 em Timor-Leste.
São ainda esperadas cerca de 170 mil doses oferecidas pelo Governo do Japão.
Ainda este mês poderão chegar da Austrália até 200 mil vacinas adicionais.
As chegadas previstas somam-se às quase 515 mil que o país recebeu até ao momento através do mecanismo Covax, de Portugal, da Austrália, Nova Zelândia e China, permitindo avançar significativamente na cobertura da inoculação no país.
Até agora e com o carregamento de hoje, a Austrália já forneceu 577.850 doses da AstraZeneca fabricadas naquele país.
Globalmente, a Austrália comprometeu-se a disponibilizar 20 milhões de doses de vacinas contra a covid-19 para o Pacífico e Timor-Leste.
Apesar do relativo êxito da campanha de vacinação contra a covid-19 em Timor-Leste, as autoridades admitem que há problemas pontuais em alguns locais, tanto por falta de socialização e informação adequada como por tentativas de ‘amedrontar’ a população.
Uma das situações é o município de Ermera, a sul de Díli, onde se vive o segundo maior surto de transmissão de sempre da doença no país, depois da capital, com a região a ter já casos confirmados da variante delta.
A região de Ermera tem atualmente o maior número de casos ativos (715), ou 52% do total ativo no país.
Dados do Centro Integrado de Gestão de Crise (CIGC) e da Comissão Interministerial para a Vacinação mostram, porém, que a vacinação em Ermera é a mais baixa de todo o país com 14,1% com a primeira dose e 1,6% com a vacinação completa.
A nível nacional, 315.746 pessoas já receberem a primeira dose (41,8% da população com mais de 18 anos) e 110.056 pessoas a completarem as duas doses de vacinação (14,5% da população).
Em Díli já receberam a primeira dose 68% dos habitantes com mais de 18 anos, e estão vacinados 44,5%, com mais de metade das populações de Viqueque e Covalima já com a primeira dose.
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austrália partilha vacinas com timor

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Australia is sharing 500,000 more COVID-19 vaccines with Timor-Leste over the coming month to accelerate the national rollout. 300,000 AstraZeneca arrived in Dili today.
This is our largest delivery to date and takes to 577,850 the number of COVID-19 vaccines we have so far shared with Timor-Leste.
With the Delta variant recently identified in the community in Timor-Leste it is more important than ever that we protect ourselves, and each other, by getting vaccinated.
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Austrália fahe tan vasina COVID-19 hamutuk 500,000 ho Timor-Leste durante fulan hirak mai hodi aselera implementasaun kampaña nasionál ba vasina. Vasina AstraZeneca hamutuk 300,000 too ona iha Dili ohin loron.
Ida ne’e hanesan ami nia distribuisaun ho númeru barak liu too ohin loron no atinji ona ba númeru vasina COVID-19 hamutuk 577,850 ne’ebé mak ami fahe too oras ne’e ho Timor-Leste.
Ho variante Delta ne’ebé mak daudaun ne’e identifika iha komunidade nia leet iha Timor-Leste, importante tebes ba ita proteje ita-nia aan, no ema seluk, liuhusi hetan vasina.
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Australia is sharing 500,000 more COVID-19 vaccines with Timor-Leste over the coming month to accelerate the national rollout. 300,000 AstraZeneca arrived in Dili today.
This is our largest delivery to date and takes to 577,850 the number of COVID-19 vaccines we have so far shared with Timor-Leste.
With the Delta variant recently identified in the community in Timor-Leste it is more important than ever that we protect ourselves, and each other, by getting vaccinated.
Visit the COVID-19 Information Centre for vaccine resources.
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