German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen discussed with Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko the provision of further financial assistance to Ukraine.
“I discussed with Finance Minister Serhiy Merchenko the current state of the financial sector and the provision of grant (1 billion euros) assistance to Ukraine from Germany. I am glad for close cooperation between the ministries of finance of our countries,” Feldhusen wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Sleep is physiologically necessary for a person and is an important condition for his health. National health organizations around the world recommend at least 6-7 hours of sleep a night and warn that lack of sleep can lead to a number of diseases, as well as its excess.
The largest study to date has shown that the global increase in temperature caused by the climate crisis is leading to a reduction in the duration of sleep in people around the world.
For health and well-being, a person needs a night’s sleep of at least 7 hours. However, global warming increases the air temperature at night even faster than during the day. The study showed that on average a person loses 44 hours of sleep per year, which is equal to 11 nights.
As the temperature of the earth rises, the duration of sleep decreases. This change has a particularly strong impact on certain groups of the population. When the temperature rises by one degree, lack of sleep is observed in women, people over 65 years of age and residents of poor countries. Scientists studied the data of 47,000 people who wore tracker bracelets.
Previous studies have shown that an increase in air temperature is harmful to human health. The risks of a heart attack, a tendency to depression, which can eventually lead to suicide, increase in injuries, accidents, and reduced performance. Lack of sleep is also associated with such disorders. Scientists have suggested that the disturbed mode can serve as a starting point, which leads to such unfortunate consequences. Unfortunately, the human body cannot adapt to hotter nights.
“For most of us, sleep is a familiar part of our daily lives. We spend nearly a third of our lives sleeping,” said study leader Kelton Minor from the University of Copenhagen. “More and more people around the world are sleep deprived,” he added.
“In this study, we provide indisputable evidence that an increase in average temperature disrupts human sleep patterns. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, as the estimates are based on careful, conservative calculations,” Professor Minor said.
Reduced sleep duration due to warmer nights affects a huge number of people. If you take a city with a population of one million people, then at temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius, about 46,000 people will suffer from inadequate sleep. “If we look at India and Pakistan, which are in a heatwave and heatwave zone, we already see billions of people suffering from insufficient sleep,” Minor said.
In a study published in the journal One Earth, scientists analyzed outdoor sleep data. Higher temperatures have been found to shorten sleep duration by taking longer to fall asleep. The human body needs to cool down before deep sleep, but this is more difficult when the ambient temperature is elevated.
The researchers found that the effect of warm nights on the human body is noticeable in all countries, regardless of climate. A negative effect is already observed at temperatures above 10 degrees.
“Unfortunately, we have not found evidence that people who live in warm countries are less susceptible to the effects of higher temperatures on sleep. We expected that their body would adapt better, but this is not so, ”said Professor Minor.
Professor Minor believes that the path that the world has chosen, upsetting the balance in the environment, will have consequences for every person.
“Our joint decisions as representatives of society can cost us dearly,” he added.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko congratulated the people of Kyiv on the City Day, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
“Kyiv… Ancient and modern. Cozy and energetic. Our city has been standing on the hills of the Dnieper for 1540 years already! Proud, rebellious, beautiful. And together we make it even better! For the soul of the city is its people! Happy Kyiv Day, dear people of Kiev! Happy birthday, our beloved city! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Kyiv!”, the press service quotes Klitschko’s words.
It is noted that on Sunday Kyiv is 1540 years old from the date of its foundation.
Japan has taken first place in the world ranking of tourist destinations of the World Economic Forum in 2021, despite the closed borders due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Demand in the tourism sector has been one of the hardest hit by the COVID 19 pandemic, leaving not only businesses but also the tourism-focused national economy hard hit by travel restrictions and international travel suspensions. Fortunately, there are now positive trends – The recovery of the tourism industry has begun, although not at the same pace around the world or in the same market segments. New factors, such as the war in Ukraine, are also complicating this uneven recovery.
According to the organization’s report, the list includes 117 tourist destinations. Japan topped the rankings for the first time, overtaking the US. Spain and France came in third and fourth respectively. The top 10 includes Germany, Switzerland, Australia, the UK, Singapore and Italy.
According to analysts, Japan ranked fourth in the biennial report on air transport infrastructure and cultural resources, sixth in land and port infrastructure, and 12th in natural resources. In terms of resilience to environmental change, the country took only 107th place.
The Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) is based on 18 criteria, including travel and tourism development, business environment, safety, health and hygiene, human resource utilization and labor market, international openness, pricing policy and competitiveness, air transport infrastructure , socio-economic sustainability and others.
On the Zhytomyr highway on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway, traffic was partially opened for trucks on Saturday, the right passage of the destroyed bridge will be restored at the next stage, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.
“The movement of trucks on the Zhytomyr highway is open. Today we opened the left lane on the international road M-06 Kyiv – Chop near Parking and resumed traffic on the highway for trucks,” Kubrakov wrote on Facebook.
He noted that with the opening of the bridge on the M-06 highway, traffic will be resumed in almost all the main strategic directions of Ukraine and promised that the next step would be the restoration of the right passage of the destroyed bridge.
“We plan to complete the work in the fall,” the minister stressed.
According to him, it took less than two months to build a temporary passage for transport on the site of those destroyed as a result of hostilities.
“It took less than two months to build a temporary span structure on the remains of old structures, arrange a monolithic slab of the span structure and lay a layer of asphalt concrete. The road markings have been updated and appropriate road signs have been installed,” he said.
He stressed that thanks to the blown up bridge on the road to Irpin in the first days of the Russian invasion, the occupiers could not move further and surround the capital.
Kubrakov also reports that immediately after the liberation of the capital region, the construction of temporary crossings and detours began.
“A temporary bridge near Stoyanka was erected in mid-April, but only light vehicles could move through it – trucks were forced to take a detour, wasting extra time and fuel,” he added.
The German Ministry of Health has decided to cancel anti-COVID restrictions for travelers to the country from June 1, the order will be valid until the end of August, the Tagesschau portal reports.
“Due to the decrease in the number of people infected with coronavirus, Germany from June 1 suspends the requirement from travelers for a digital covid certificate upon entry until the end of August,” the newspaper writes.
According to the portal, tourists during this period will not need any documents confirming vaccination, a negative test result or a coronavirus.
At the same time, travelers arriving in Germany from countries with common new strains of COVID 19 will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine even if they are vaccinated or have a certificate of illness.
Meanwhile, the head of the German Ministry of Health, Karl Lauterbach, stressed that so far no country has been identified as a zone with virus variants.
