#DailyUpdate #Apr3 #COVID19
COVID-19 Updates (3/4)
At the time of writing, 1,043,762 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed in 204 countries and territories. The US, Spain, Italy, and Germany are the worst affected countries by this pandemic.
Germany now has more cases of the virus infection than China.
Germany's largest football stadium will become a coronavirus treatment center.
N95 manufacturer says they're making as many masks as possible for the US.
Fauci says it's too soon to call malaria medicine the "knockout drug" against Covid-19.
The US economy lost 701,000 jobs in March ā the worst report since 2009.
Queen Elizabeth has recorded a televised statement on coronavirus.
UK PM Boris Johnson still shows coronavirus symptoms and will stay longer in self-isolation.
Coronavirus patients who've recovered must keep social distancing, UK health minister says.
Almost 8% of UK National Health Service staff are off work sick.
Prince Charles opens massive new field hospital in London, calling it a "shining light" in dark times.
The Father of Scottish Radio, Lord Gordon of Strathblane. Jimmy has died aged 83 on Tuesday because of coronavirus.
China advises foreign embassies to suspend diplomatic rotation in and out of Beijing.
Austria will randomly test people for coronavirus to get a better idea of its spread.
Angela Merkel returns to work after self-quarantining.
A mob in India pelted doctors with stones while they were treating a suspected coronavirus patient.
It's "impossible" that North Korea has no coronavirus cases, top US general says.
Sailors from USS Roosevelt being moved to Guam hotels, US Navy commander says.
Americans abroad must return to US āimmediatelyā, Pompeo says
Worldwide coronavirus cases could be 5 to 10 times higher than reported, says top Australian health official.
Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of lying about traveling to northern Italy.
Japan extends travel ban to include US, UK and China.
Tokyo's governor asks residents to stay indoors amid warnings of a potentially massive outbreak.
Sony launches $100 million global coronavirus fund.
Textile and chemical product-maker Kurabo Industries Ltd. said that from next week in Japan it will begin selling test kits developed by a Chinese firm that can detect the new coronavirus from a blood sample in 15 minutes.
Full virus vaccine at least a year away, said the EU agency
In Australia, the Federal Government will move to ban and heavily penalise Australians from exporting face masks and hand sanitiser to China, with those caught facing up to five years in prison.
Source: CNN, Worldmeters.org, NewsComAu
COVID-19 Updates (3/4)
At the time of writing, 1,043,762 cases of the coronavirus had been confirmed in 204 countries and territories. The US, Spain, Italy, and Germany are the worst affected countries by this pandemic.
Germany now has more cases of the virus infection than China.
Germany's largest football stadium will become a coronavirus treatment center.
N95 manufacturer says they're making as many masks as possible for the US.
Fauci says it's too soon to call malaria medicine the "knockout drug" against Covid-19.
The US economy lost 701,000 jobs in March ā the worst report since 2009.
Queen Elizabeth has recorded a televised statement on coronavirus.
UK PM Boris Johnson still shows coronavirus symptoms and will stay longer in self-isolation.
Coronavirus patients who've recovered must keep social distancing, UK health minister says.
Almost 8% of UK National Health Service staff are off work sick.
Prince Charles opens massive new field hospital in London, calling it a "shining light" in dark times.
The Father of Scottish Radio, Lord Gordon of Strathblane. Jimmy has died aged 83 on Tuesday because of coronavirus.
China advises foreign embassies to suspend diplomatic rotation in and out of Beijing.
Austria will randomly test people for coronavirus to get a better idea of its spread.
Angela Merkel returns to work after self-quarantining.
A mob in India pelted doctors with stones while they were treating a suspected coronavirus patient.
It's "impossible" that North Korea has no coronavirus cases, top US general says.
Sailors from USS Roosevelt being moved to Guam hotels, US Navy commander says.
Americans abroad must return to US āimmediatelyā, Pompeo says
Worldwide coronavirus cases could be 5 to 10 times higher than reported, says top Australian health official.
Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of lying about traveling to northern Italy.
Japan extends travel ban to include US, UK and China.
Tokyo's governor asks residents to stay indoors amid warnings of a potentially massive outbreak.
Sony launches $100 million global coronavirus fund.
Textile and chemical product-maker Kurabo Industries Ltd. said that from next week in Japan it will begin selling test kits developed by a Chinese firm that can detect the new coronavirus from a blood sample in 15 minutes.
Full virus vaccine at least a year away, said the EU agency
In Australia, the Federal Government will move to ban and heavily penalise Australians from exporting face masks and hand sanitiser to China, with those caught facing up to five years in prison.
Source: CNN, Worldmeters.org, NewsComAu
#LackResponsibility #UNInquiry #ChemicalWeapons
Hong Kong Government Refuses to Respond to UN Inquiry on Chemical Weapon
Social Movement Organization: Refusing to Answer Damages Hong Kongās International Image
Two UN Special Rapporteurs sent a letter to the Hong Kong government via the UN China ambassador, stating that they have reasons to believe that Hong Kong police had āindiscriminately and disproportionatelyā used chemical weapons such as tear gas and pepper spray, and that tear gas "has been used in an uncontrolled and allegedly malicious manner". They demanded a response within 60 days, but the Hong Kong government had failed to respond by the deadline.
In a speech given at UN in early March, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Management) Oscar Kwok Yam-shu stated that the accusation was "part of a comprehensive effort to vilify the Hong Kong Police". Regarding the speech, Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor spokesman Claudia Yip criticised it as "shameless lie", and would not consider it as the response of the letter from UN as it had not undergone any formal process.
Spokesman from Civil Rights Observer Icarus Wong believed that Hong Kong government had the responsibility to respond to the inquiry, lest Hong Kong's international image would be damaged. Yip worried that other countries would lose faith in Hong Kong if the government refused to answer just because the inquiry did not favour them.
Source: InMediaHK
#Apr3 #Censorship #UnitedNations #HongKongGovernment
Hong Kong Government Refuses to Respond to UN Inquiry on Chemical Weapon
Social Movement Organization: Refusing to Answer Damages Hong Kongās International Image
Two UN Special Rapporteurs sent a letter to the Hong Kong government via the UN China ambassador, stating that they have reasons to believe that Hong Kong police had āindiscriminately and disproportionatelyā used chemical weapons such as tear gas and pepper spray, and that tear gas "has been used in an uncontrolled and allegedly malicious manner". They demanded a response within 60 days, but the Hong Kong government had failed to respond by the deadline.
In a speech given at UN in early March, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Management) Oscar Kwok Yam-shu stated that the accusation was "part of a comprehensive effort to vilify the Hong Kong Police". Regarding the speech, Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor spokesman Claudia Yip criticised it as "shameless lie", and would not consider it as the response of the letter from UN as it had not undergone any formal process.
Spokesman from Civil Rights Observer Icarus Wong believed that Hong Kong government had the responsibility to respond to the inquiry, lest Hong Kong's international image would be damaged. Yip worried that other countries would lose faith in Hong Kong if the government refused to answer just because the inquiry did not favour them.
Source: InMediaHK
#Apr3 #Censorship #UnitedNations #HongKongGovernment
#PoliceBrutality #WuhanPneumonia
Police Order Arrestee to wear āpaper masksā for 20 hours and Disregard Social Distancing by Crowding Arrestees in Congested Cell
Source: Apple Daily; InMedia #Apr3
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#PoliceBrutality #WuhanPneumonia
Police Order Arrestee to wear āpaper masksā for 20 hours and Disregard Social Distancing by Crowding Arrestees in Congested Cell
Arrestee reveals inside stories in police station: ordered to wear āpaper masksā for 20 hours and be put in the same compartment with several others under prohibition on group gathering
On 31 March, the police arrested a large group of citizens. Voluntary lawyers discovered that the police confiscated the masks already worn by arrestees, and replaced them with ā paper masksā which could not repel droplets. Even just talking would soak the masks. When district councilors offered surgical masks, they were demanded to remove the wire sewed in the masks.
A voluntary lawyer on scene criticised policeās handling of hygienic issue, as having arrestees wear masks would not only protect them but also the policemen from the Wuhan Coronavirus which could be infected through contact with droplets.
The arrestees and their family revealed that, the police not only confiscated their masks for āexhibitsā, but also distributed paper masks to them and banned voluntary lawyers from offering masks.
An arrestee berated the police for making an action āendangering peopleās lifeā, and lamented the contradiction as the government practised the āprohibition on group gatheringā on the one hand, and allowed the police to defy it on the other:ā They put 7-8 people in 1 compartment, and some of them did not even have a mask to wear.ā
Source: Apple Daily; InMedia #Apr3
Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19293
Police Order Arrestee to wear āpaper masksā for 20 hours and Disregard Social Distancing by Crowding Arrestees in Congested Cell
Arrestee reveals inside stories in police station: ordered to wear āpaper masksā for 20 hours and be put in the same compartment with several others under prohibition on group gathering
On 31 March, the police arrested a large group of citizens. Voluntary lawyers discovered that the police confiscated the masks already worn by arrestees, and replaced them with ā paper masksā which could not repel droplets. Even just talking would soak the masks. When district councilors offered surgical masks, they were demanded to remove the wire sewed in the masks.
A voluntary lawyer on scene criticised policeās handling of hygienic issue, as having arrestees wear masks would not only protect them but also the policemen from the Wuhan Coronavirus which could be infected through contact with droplets.
The arrestees and their family revealed that, the police not only confiscated their masks for āexhibitsā, but also distributed paper masks to them and banned voluntary lawyers from offering masks.
An arrestee berated the police for making an action āendangering peopleās lifeā, and lamented the contradiction as the government practised the āprohibition on group gatheringā on the one hand, and allowed the police to defy it on the other:ā They put 7-8 people in 1 compartment, and some of them did not even have a mask to wear.ā
Source: Apple Daily; InMedia #Apr3
Image: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19293
Street Art Inspired by Coronavirus Pandemic: Xi Jinping, Coronavirus, the Simpsons...
Street artists around the world created new artworks on the Coronavirus pandemic.
In Italy, Nello Perrucci put masks on the Simpsons calling on citizens to stay home. In America, Pnywave Home painted a couple kissing through their masks on a white wall on the beach, and he wrote, "It's time to look at ourselves, see what we have done to the earth, and see our whole life."
In particular, Lush Sux combined Xi Jinping's head witg the coronavirus and tweeted "add me on tiktok before it gets put in the re education camp".
Source : Stand News
#Apr3 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak #ProtestArt #StreetArt #Xinjinping
Street artists around the world created new artworks on the Coronavirus pandemic.
In Italy, Nello Perrucci put masks on the Simpsons calling on citizens to stay home. In America, Pnywave Home painted a couple kissing through their masks on a white wall on the beach, and he wrote, "It's time to look at ourselves, see what we have done to the earth, and see our whole life."
In particular, Lush Sux combined Xi Jinping's head witg the coronavirus and tweeted "add me on tiktok before it gets put in the re education camp".
Source : Stand News
#Apr3 #ChinesePneumonia #GlobalOutbreak #ProtestArt #StreetArt #Xinjinping
#Academia #University
Academic freedom in Hong Kong plunges in past 5 years
Since the anti-extradition law movement, Hong Kong has been facing human rights crisis. The city has also become āinternationally renownedā for losing its academic freedom.
In a recent survey, academic freedom in Hong Kong has deteriorated severely in past 5 years, alongside Libya, Turkey and some other places. According to the Global Public Policy Institute, Hong Kong was rated a low C level with a academuc freedom index number of 0.442. As a comparison, Ethiopia scored 0.440.
Source: Apple Daily
#Apr3 #WhiteTerror #AcademicFreedom #FailedState
Academic freedom in Hong Kong plunges in past 5 years
Since the anti-extradition law movement, Hong Kong has been facing human rights crisis. The city has also become āinternationally renownedā for losing its academic freedom.
In a recent survey, academic freedom in Hong Kong has deteriorated severely in past 5 years, alongside Libya, Turkey and some other places. According to the Global Public Policy Institute, Hong Kong was rated a low C level with a academuc freedom index number of 0.442. As a comparison, Ethiopia scored 0.440.
Source: Apple Daily
#Apr3 #WhiteTerror #AcademicFreedom #FailedState