【福奇：美国仍有7000万人适合接种新冠疫苗但未接种 新增病例或仍将激增】当地时间10月1日，美国死于新冠肺炎的人数超过70万。3日，美国国家过敏症和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇在接受美国广播公司采访时谈到，虽然新冠疫情不可避免会造成死亡，但美国本可以做得更好。如果让更多国民接种疫苗，死亡人数可以大幅减少。福奇强调，美国仍有7000万适合接种疫苗的人尚未接种，这个数字很危险，可能使原本已在下降的新冠肺炎新增病例数量回升。"There are certain elements about this that were just unavoidable, in the sense that there were going to be deaths, there were going to be a lot of infections globally, no matter what anyone did. But there were situations where we could have done better, and we can do better, and I think we're living through that right now," the medical advisor to the White House Anthony Fauci told ABC on Sunday, two days after the national death toll of the coronavirus surpassed the grim milestone of 700,000. "When you have 70 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated, who are not yet vaccinated, that's the danger zone right there," Fauci warned during the interview with ABC's "This Week."

【英国环保组织阻止私人飞机进入机场，鲍里斯：“抗议可以，没权利骚扰他人”】据《每日邮报》和天空新闻消息，环保组织“灭绝叛乱（Extinction Rebellion）为抗议私人飞机的碳排放量而占据了法恩伯勒机场的所有主要入口。周六（10月2日），抗议者将一辆加长的豪华轿车停在机场的大门外，一名抗议者站在车顶上，其他抗议者坐在一个三米高的钢制三脚架上挥舞旗帜。

来自伯克郡雷丁市的 32岁前飞行员托德·史密斯批评法恩伯勒机场提供可持续航空燃料作为替代燃料的举措；“‘可持续航空燃料’这个词是由航空和化石燃料行业创造的，目的是欺骗公众，抹黑生物燃料的完全破坏性；生物燃料导致土地掠夺、森林砍伐、生物多样性丧失、水资源短缺、食品价格上涨和土地使用排放，这可能比它们正在取代的化石燃料更糟。”。

机场发言人表示，机场仍在全面运作，“机场已经知道许多未经授权的人聚集在机场入口处，当局正在持续监测情况”。“灭绝叛乱”组织的一位发言人表示，他们正在呼吁世界超级富豪名人、寡头和商界领袖在第 26 次缔约方会议之前放弃私人航班；“这些仅占世界人口 1% 的私人飞行者造成了全球航空排放量的一半”。灭绝叛乱组织还要求政府停止私人飞行行程，“每年往返范堡罗机场的 30000 趟私人航班平均仅搭载2.3名乘客，每位乘客所排放的碳是飞往美国的经济航班的 9 倍，是飞往西班牙的经济航班的 20 倍”。

“灭绝叛乱”旗下分支组织“隔绝英国（Insulate Britain）本周因为在英国高速公路上抗议示威，有30多人被警方逮捕。据《每日邮报》消息称，英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊对“鲁莽和自私”的抗议者表示谴责，他们干扰了许多民众的正常生活。鲍里斯表示英国政府始终站在遵纪守法的民众一边，将确保对故意扰乱道路交通的犯罪分子采取最严厉的处罚。“我们将赋予警方必要的权力，以制止他们鲁莽和自私的行为；抗议的权利神圣不可侵犯，但是他们没权利给他人生活带来混乱和痛苦（We will give the police the powers they need to stop their reckless and selfish behaviour. The right to protest is sacrosanct, but there is no right to inflict chaos and misery on people trying to go about their lives）”。#英国# #英国疫情#

Save the date: Oct 12, 2021 (7pm-9pm, China CST/ 8am-10am, Brazil BRT). Discussion on "Data challenges on space exploration - perspectives from Brazil and China."

We invite you to attend a debate about novel technologies in Astronomical research and their connections with the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

You will have the opportunity to hear about developments in both countries:
- Dr. Shiyin Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China),
- Dr. Laerte Sodre Jr (Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo - Brazil). Followed by ample time for Q&A.

To participate in this free online event, sponsored by the Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) and the Consulate General of Brazil in Shanghai, you can register under the link "Read more" below.

We look forward to seeing you there.