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New York ‘at the desperation stage’ due to migrant crisis as shelters hit capacity: Report

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Migrants fill sidewalk outside of the Roosevelt Hotel

Migrants await registration outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. The asylum seekers are forced to wait on the streets, since the hotel is currently at capacity. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital) 

Manhattan’s borough president Mark Levine told the New York Times in a piece published Thursday that the city has entered a “desperation stage” when it came to homelessness and migrants as shelters are overburdened.

The

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Germany’s Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival opens at reduced capacity due to persistent rain

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  • Northern Germany’s Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, in a rural area northwest of Hamburg, opened today.
  • Rainy weather turned the festival’s grounds muddy, and organizers were forced to tell fans that no more cars and trucks could be admitted.
  • Admissions were halted by the time around 50,000 concert goers arrived at the event. Organizers initially estimated 85,000 people would be in attendance.

The Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced

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Skipper of Philippine ferry that capsized and left 27 dead allegedly knew boat was filled beyond capacity

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  • A ferry capsized in a lake in the Philippines, leaving 27 passengers dead. At least 43 others were rescued.
  • The country’s coast guard chief is claiming the skipper of the ferry knew his boat was filled beyond capacity.
  • A manifest listed that the boat only had 22 passengers in addition to the boat’s three crew members ahead of the trip.

The skipper of a Philippine ferry which flipped over in a lake in an accident that killed 27 passengers decided

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How a THIRD of NHS capacity is taken up by bed-blockers at busiest trusts

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Up to a third of beds at England’s busiest NHS trusts are occupied by patients who shouldn’t be there, according to a startling MailOnline analysis that lays bare the scale of the country’s ‘devastating’ bed-blocking jam.

More than 13,000 hospital beds across the country, or one in seven, are currently filled with patients declared fit for discharge by doctors.

But rates soar to as high as one in three at the worst-hit hospitals, found in Bristol and Coventry as well

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Government to DOUBLE capacity for number of Covid tests to 900,0000

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Public health chiefs and Royal Mail bosses have today announced plans to double the amount of lateral flow and PCR test deliveries in a bid to tackle the Covid test supply crisis.

Just hours after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps blamed ‘distribution issues’ for millions of Britons being unable to order testing kits, the UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had struck a deal with the postal service to ramp up testing kit deliveries.

The agency says it plans to

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GPs complain they have no ‘capacity’ to play major role in accelerating Covid booster vaccine drive

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Top GPs today complained they were too overworked to help accelerate Britain’s sluggish Covid booster programme that has seen just a quarter of care home residents revaccinated. 

The slow vaccination drive has led to finger pointing among officials, with the NHS blaming a lack of urgency among the public and insisting there are more than enough doctors, nurses and jabs available. 

But the chair of the Royal College of GPs Professor Martin Marshall hinted GPs were struggling to get involved

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