Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Pacific island in lockdown after first flight in months brings Covid to beach paradise
dailystar.co.uklockdown after welcoming it's first international flight in months which brought Covid to the beach paradise.The remote island managed to stay Covid free until Saturday after two-thirds of flight passengers tested positive for the virus and four cases were found in the community.This is the first lockdown the paradise island have experienced due to remaining Covid free for most of the pandemic.The lockdown has been put in place after a Fiji Airways flight from Fiji to Kiribati's capital of South Tarawa was the first to land in 10 months after the government reopened its borders.Out of 54 people trying to enjoy a getaway, 36 of them have tested positive for Covid-19.Everyone on the flight had been vaccinated prior to landing in Kiribati.The government have quickly reacted and put together a quarantine facility for all of the holidaymakers.Officials confirmed that a guard at the facility tested positive on Tuesday and two people who were in close contact in nearby Bouta village are self-isolating while another two cases were detected in the community.Due to this the government issued an island-wide lockdown from Saturday.Locals of the island will now face a curfew and won't be allowed to leave their homes unless it is for essential work or to gain emergency services help.Schools will also be closed down for the time being.
School teacher and dad-of-three Kareaua Nawaia, 32, told The Guardian : "As parents, we are worried about our children because unlike us, they are unvaccinated and have no access to one [a vaccine] on the island." Last month, the island's government reported that 93.4 per cent of over-18s had had one dose of the Covid vaccine while only 53.1 per cent were double-jabbedThe Kiribati government have been.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk
