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VIDEO: Watch cloistered nuns in Spain dance viral challenge

A group of cloistered nuns in Trujillo in the Spanish region of Extremadura are filling people’s hearts with a routine they posted online showing them dancing around their convent.

VIDEO: Watch cloistered nuns in Spain dance viral challenge
Nuns from the convent of San Miguel in Trujillo. Photo: Cosmefoto.

The nuns from Cacares province took up the#JerusalemaDanceChallenge,  a social media challenge that became popular during the start of pandemic when people across the globe were locked down.

The challenge involves people learning the dance and posting their versions of the routine set to the afro-beat music of Johannesburg-based musician and producer Master KG.

The song Jerusalema contains theisiZulu phrase “Jerusalema, ikhaya lami” (Jerusalem is my home) and carries a message of hope set to an irresistible beat.

“This has become a cry of hope from the five continents against the pandemic, it has a name and it is called Jerusalem. The Dominican order of nuns of Trujillo have not wanted to be oblivious to this cry and this is their effort”, can be read in the description of the video, published on the YouTube channel of Cosmefoto.

The video gives a rare glimpse into the daily life of this order of Dominican nuns, who are physically cloistered from the outside world but have access to the internet and social media.

The nuns can be seen dancing in the hallways of the stone building dating from the 16th century, sashaying through its courtyard garden and picking fruit in its orchard.

They are even shown dancing while preparing meals, watering plants, using an exercise bike, mopping the floor and trimming hedgerows, always moving to the beat of the music and with big smiles on their faces.

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Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.

Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly

In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses. 

“Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people,” the agency said. “That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups.” 

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People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.

The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency’s vaccination programme unit, explained. 

She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.

“This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now,” she told the TT newswire. 

It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.

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