8 lions test positive for COVID-19 in Indian zoo

May 5 2021

Eight Asiatic lions – four males and four females – have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad India. The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) confirmed that the lions have contracted an old variant of the virus and is allegedly the first case of lions testing positive. Following PCR tests, it was confirmed that the lions, which were showing mild symptoms, had contracted the virus and was allegedly passed on from the caregivers at the zoo.

CCMB director Rakesh Mishra stated that medical treatment and instructions to the zoo officials on how to care for the animals and make sure there is no transmission to others. The lions are allegedly responding well to treatment. The whole of India is currently experiencing an immense surge of cases, with 20.2 million cases since the pandemic hit along with 222,000 deaths.

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Photo Source: News18

30 COVID-19 cases registered with 38 recoveries

May 5 2021

Malta has registered 30 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 1,785 swab tests, while 38 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Wednesday 5th May 2021, 352,421 vaccine doses were administered of which 111,318 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 30,411 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 29,715 have recovered, 416 died and 280 are still active.

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Entire Harry Potter film gets wands replaced by guns in fan edit

May 5 2021

Fan edits of trailers are quite a common trend throughout multiple fandoms. But this new edit might have just topped it all off as a fan decided to tweak the entirety of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by replacing wands with guns. Running at 169 minutes, the whole of the film was edited by the dedicated fan to include pistols, machine guns, gun shots in every scene a wand appears in… and then some!

The fan released a trailer to showcase exactly what his masterpiece entails. Described as an ‘unsanctioned, licensed content, feature-film-long JOKE’, it allegedly took the fan up to five years to finalise. Uploaded to a website for fans to watch the hilarious rendition, the fans involved stated that ‘though this project started as a tasteless joke, in the wake of mass shootings and other daily horror, we have to ask ourselves if Hollywood pushes gun too hard.’

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Photo Source: Harry Potter with Guns

Cyprus Airways offering flights to Malta as part of tourism reboot

May 5 2021

Tourism and Consumer Protection Minister Clayton Bartolo announced on Facebook that starting June, Cyprus Airways will be introducing flights between Larnaca and Malta. Larnaca is a port city on the south coast of Cyprus, known for its sandy Finikoudes Beach. This positive news comes as Malta gears up for a reopening of the tourism sector in June.

Malta is also likely to be green lit as one of UK’s destinations for the vaccinated or those who have tested negative for COVID-19. Malta is also making international headlines due to offering a scheme to pay tourists to visit the island, making it an immensely attractive destination for many after over a year of lockdowns and restrictions.

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Photo Source: Clayton Bartolo FB