ICYMI: Monkeypox, Ukraine and partygate – this week’s five stories, explained... it's been a big week in news 👇
It’s been more than two years since Covid-19 turned us all into stockpiling, agoraphobic hermits, tunelessly whistling happy birthday while we scrubbed the recently healed layer of skin off our knuckles.It’s endemic in parts of Africa but severalhave put global health authorities on red alert.
Gay and bi males in the UK are being asked to be on the lookout for symptoms, with evidence pointing to transmission taking place through sex and a disproportionate number of cases showing up among men who have sex with other men. Ukraine’s Eurovision winners returned to Kyiv this week after providing a new ‘should I cut this person out of my life?’ test – if they think Ukraine’s win ‘damaged the integrity of the competition’ after three months of resistance which came down to a brutal siege of the Azovstal steel plant.Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot an unarmed civilian riding a bike while other soldiers fled a Kyiv suburb in a stolen car.