Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 project, plans to resume laying the pipeline in Danish waters on January 15
The Danish Energy Agency reported in early January that it had received from Nord Stream 2 AG a timetable for Nord Stream 2, according to which the laying in Danish waters will start on 15 January. The Fortuna pipe-laying vessel, which is planned to be used for this section, left the German port of Wismar on 14 January and is heading east towards the unfinished section of the pipeline.
The US Senate of Congress will begin considering the charges against 45th US President Donald Trump as part of his impeachment proceedings, expected just an hour after the inauguration of the next president, Joseph Biden, due on 20 January. This was reported in its electronic version by Politico newspaper. According to the information it laid out, the House of Representatives’ examination of the allegations against Trump will begin in the Senate on January 20 at 1pm local time (9pm Moscow time), unless all 100 members of the upper house of the legislature decide otherwise.
Kharkiv-based Biolik has not submitted any documents for the registration of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V other than an application, Ukrainian Health Minister Maxim Stepanov has said. Earlier, Biolik confirmed that it had applied for the registration of Sputnik V. The Ukrainian Health Minister confirmed that Biolik had applied for registration of the Russian vaccine, adding that there was a lot of politics surrounding the vaccine. He expressed confidence that the Ministry of Health is capable of providing the country with vaccines from “the world’s leading manufacturers”. “On January 6, Biolik submitted an application to the State Centre of Expertise regarding registration of this vaccine. Apart from this application, no registration documents, no dossier – nothing else,” the minister said on the Ukraine 24 TV channel.
The Ukrainian Health Ministry does not intend to insist that the strict quarantine in force in the country be extended beyond 25 January. This statement was made in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency by Deputy Health Minister and Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko. At the same time, he noted that the agency’s position may change as there are always “certain variables” which cannot be taken into account in forecasts. As an example, the head of the Ukrainian sanitary service cited the United Kingdom, which went into quarantine even before “weekend quarantine” was introduced in Ukraine.
Influenza and SARS incidence in Russia in the first week of 2021 was exceeded in eight constituent entities and seven central cities. This was reported by the Rospotrebnadzor press service on Friday, January 15. “In the first week of 2021, weekly influenza and ARVI morbidity thresholds for the aggregate population were exceeded in eight subjects of the Russian Federation and in seven central cities without exceeding the figures for the subjects of the Russian Federation,” the report said.
Germany’s Paul Erich Institute is verifying data on the deaths of ten people after being vaccinated with a Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus drug, said Brigitte Keller-Stanislavsky, head of its Drugs and Drug Safety Department. She said experts are assuming that there is no link between the incidents and the vaccination.