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Italy's daily Covid-19 death toll hits seven-week low ahead of lockdown easing - FRANCE 24 English

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:52 PM PDT

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Deaths from the Covid-19 virus in Italy climbed by 174 on Sunday, the Civil Protection Agency said, posting the smallest daily toll of fatalities since March 10.

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The daily number of new cases declined sharply to 1,389 from 1,900 on Saturday.

In recent weeks of the epidemic that emerged in Italy on Feb 21, the daily death count has tended to fall on Sundays only to rise again the following day.

Nonetheless the latest data still offers encouragement to the country as it prepares to gradually ease its eight-week-old lockdown — the longest in Europe — from Monday.

Saturday's daily death tally of 474, which bucked a gradual declining trend, was due to the addition of hundreds of deaths in the northern Lombardy region in April, which had not previously been recorded.

>> Spectre of second wave haunts Italy as government mulls path out of lockdown

Italy's total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 now stands at 28,884, the Civil Protection Agency said, the second highest in the world after that of the United States.

The number of confirmed cases amounts to 210,717, the third highest global tally behind those of the United States and Spain.

People registered as currently carrying the illness fell to 100,179 from 100,704 on Saturday.

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There were 1,501 people in intensive care on Sunday, down from 1,539 the day before, maintaining a long-running decline. Of those originally infected, 81,654 were declared recovered against 79,914 on Saturday.

The agency said 1.457 million people had been tested for the virus against 1.430 million the day before, out of a population of around 60 million.

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Coronavirus: The seven types of people who start and spread viral misinformation - NewsClicks

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:46 PM PDT

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Media captionWho begins viral misinformation… and who spreads it?

Conspiracy theories, misinformation and hypothesis about coronavirus have flooded social media. But who begins these rumours? And who spreads them?

We've investigated lots of of deceptive tales through the pandemic. It's given us an an concept about who's behind misinformation – and what motivates them. Here are seven varieties of people that begin and unfold falsehoods:

You'd hope no-one was fooled by a WhatsApp voice notice claiming the federal government was cooking an enormous lasagne in Wembley stadium to feed Londoners. But some individuals did not get the joke.

To take a barely extra critical instance, a prankster created a screenshot of a faux authorities textual content that claimed the recipient had been fined for leaving the home too many instances. He thought it will be humorous to scare individuals breaking lockdown guidelines.

After encouraging his followers to share it on Instagram, it discovered its option to native Facebook teams, the place it was posted by apprehensive residents, a few of whom took it significantly.

"I don't really want to cause panic," says the prankster, who would not give us his actual title. "But if they believe a screenshot on social media, they really need to sort of re-evaluate the way they consume information on the internet."

Other faux texts claiming to be from the federal government or native councils have been generated by scammers trying to generate income from the pandemic.

One such rip-off investigated by fact-checking charity Full Fact in March claimed that the federal government was providing individuals aid funds and requested for financial institution particulars.

Photos of the rip-off textual content have been shared on Facebook. Since it circulated by textual content message, it is tough to unravel who was behind them.

Scammers began utilizing faux information in regards to the virus to generate income as early as February, with emails suggesting people could "click for a coronavirus cure review" or suggesting they were entitled to a tax refund because of the outbreak.

Misinformation does not simply come from darkish corners of the web.

Last week President Donald Trump questioned whether or not exposing sufferers' our bodies to UV gentle or injecting bleach might assist deal with the coronavirus. He was speculating and took information out of context.

He later claimed the feedback have been sarcastic. But that did not cease individuals from phoning hotlines to ask about treating themselves with disinfectant.

It's not simply the US President. A Chinese overseas ministry spokesman promoted the idea that Covid-19 might have been brought to Wuhan by the US Army. Conspiracy theories in regards to the outbreak have been mentioned in prime time on Russian state TV, and by pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts.

All the uncertainty in regards to the virus has created an ideal breeding floor for conspiracy theories.

A false story of murky origins claiming the primary volunteer to participate in a UK vaccine trial had died circulated in huge anti-vaccination and conspiracy Facebook teams. It was fiction.

Interviews with David Icke on YouTube, which have since been eliminated, additionally peddled false claims that 5G is linked to coronavirus. Mr Icke additionally appeared on a London TV station, which was discovered to have breached the UK's broadcasting requirements. His Facebook web page was later taken down, the corporate stated, for publishing "health misinformation that could cause physical harm".

Conspiracy theories have led to scores of attacks on 5G masts.

Sometimes misinformation appears to come back from a reliable supply – a physician, professor or hospital employee.

But typically the "insider" is nothing of the type.

A lady from Crawley in West Sussex was the originator of a panicky voice notice predicting dire – and fully unsubstantiated – dying tolls for younger and wholesome coronavirus victims. She claimed to have inside data via her work at an ambulance service.

She didn't reply to requests for remark or present proof of her job, so we do not know whether or not she truly is a well being employee. But we do know that the claims in her voice notice have been unfounded.

That alarming voice notice and plenty of others went viral as a result of they apprehensive individuals, who then shared the messages with family and friends.

That consists of Danielle Baker, a mum of 4 from Essex, who forwarded a notice on Facebook messenger "just in case it was true".

"At first I was a bit weary because it was sent from a lady that I didn't know," she says. "I forwarded it on because myself and my sister have babies the same age and also have older children, and we all have high risk in our households."

They're making an attempt to be useful and so they assume they're doing one thing constructive. But, in fact, that does not make the messages they move alongside true.

It's not simply your mum or uncle. Celebrities have helped amplified deceptive claims go mainstream.

The singer M.I.A. and actor Woody Harrelson are amongst those that have been selling the 5G coronavirus idea to their lots of of 1000's of followers on social media.

A recent report by the Reuters Institute discovered that celebrities play a key function in spreading misinformation on-line.

Some have enormous platforms on conventional media as properly. Eamonn Holmes was criticised for showing to offer some credence to the 5G conspiracy theorists on ITV This Morning.

"What I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true," he stated.

Mr Holmes later apologised and Ofcom "issued guidance" to ITV, deeming the feedback "ill-judged".

Illustrations by Simon Martin. Additional reporting by Olga Robinson.

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Trump Trails Biden In Battleground States In Latest Polls | Meet The Press | NBC News - NBC News

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:22 PM PDT

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Watch Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie duke it out in viral fight video - CNA

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:07 PM PDT

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握手会の再現動画 48Gが配信へ - auone.jp

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:02 PM PDT

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柏木由紀(C)AKB48

 AKB48グループは4日、誰でも自宅から参加できる「おうちで握手会」を同日から10日にかけて開催することを発表した。

"会いに行けるアイドル"をテーマに活動する同グループだが、新型コロナウイルスの影響で、握手会やイベントなどが軒並み延期または中止になっている。

 ファンからは連日「メンバーに会えなくて寂しい」という声が届いている。そこで、少しでもメンバーを身近に感じ、握手会の雰囲気を味わってもらおうという思いから"エア握手会"の開催が決定。メンバーが握手会の様子を自宅で再現した動画を配信するという。

 配信は各グループの公式ツイッターで行われ、AKB48は4~5日、SKE48は7~8日、NMB48は5~6日、HKT48は9~10日、NGT48は10日、STU48は4~5日となっている。

 48グループ総監督の向井地美音(22)は「私たちもカメラの前に本当にファンの方がいると思って撮影したので、皆さんも本当に握手会に来ていると思ってぜひ楽しんでください。今は寂しさに負けず、この状況を乗り越えて、また笑顔で会える日が来ることを願っています」とコメント。

 また柏木由紀(28)は「"おうちで握手会"の動画を見て、ファンの皆さんはもちろん、まだ握手会に来たことがないという方にも、雰囲気を味わって楽しんでいただけたらと思います」と話すと「AKB48グループメンバー全員分の握手動画を見ることができるので、推し変(応援するメンバーを変えること)されてしまわないか心配です(笑い)」と付け加えた。

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This viral video of an elephant family bathing in a river will make you smile. Watch - India Today

Posted: 03 May 2020 10:46 PM PDT

If you are here for your daily dose of wildlife videos, trust us, you are in for a treat. A super cute video of an elephant family bathing together in a river is doing the rounds of the internet and you will love it for sure.

Parveen Kaswan of the Indian Forest Service shared the 16-second clip on Twitter and it has already garnered over 13,000 views within a few hours of being made available online.

"The family which bathes together stays together. Can you count the elephants?" Kaswan said in the caption of his post. In the clip, several elephants including calves were seen enjoying a good bath in the river.

Watch the video here:

Netizens, meanwhile, kept themselves busy by guessing the number of elephants in the comments section. Some said 14. Others guessed 17. Several others also said that the video was a "wonder to watch".

"Oh wow! So lovely. Reminds me of hippos wading inside the Nile River at Murchison falls in Uganda...hundreds of hippos lazing around...an incredible sight indeed," a user said.

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Spotlight: Indonesia Mobile Sector - Fitch Ratings

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Trump says he will kill phase one trade deal if China purchases fall short - Better Life

Posted: 03 May 2020 10:22 PM PDT

In exchange, China pledged to buy, over two years, at least US$200 billion more in American goods and services than it did in 2017, including about US$40 billion in agricultural goods.

At Sunday evening's town hall, Trump also addressed the question about the origin of the coronavirus, which has so far infected more than 3.5 million people and killed more than 245,000 around the world.

He stayed away from the allegation – which scientists have described as highly unlikely – that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab but suggested China had intentionally let the virus spread beyond its borders.

"Personally I think [China] made a horrible mistake. They tried to cover it up. It's really like [they were] trying to put out a fire. They couldn't put out the fire," Trump said.

"What China really treated the world badly on was, they stopped people going into China, but they didn't stop people going into the USA and all over the world," he said. "You couldn't fly out of Wuhan to go to Beijing and or to any place in China... you could fly out of Wuhan, where the primary problem was, to different parts of the world. What's that all about?"

Trump said a "case could be made, that China said, 'hey, look, this is going to have a huge impact on China, we might as well let the rest of the world [have the problem too]'." He also said "a very strong report" would be delivered soon "as to exactly what we think happened. And I think it'll be very conclusive".

The administration is now pursuing investigations about the origins of the coronavirus, making the Wuhan Institute of Virology the centre of a number of conspiracy theories. Analysts have recently said Trump could wield it as a weapon to deflect attention from his China-friendly comments earlier in the outbreak if evidence surfaced proving such a theory.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that there was "enormous evidence" that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan. "I think the whole world can see now, remember, China has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories," he said on ABC's This Week.

Meanwhile, the US is formulating a raft of measures to hold China responsible for the pandemic's damage that includes sanctions, cancelling US debt obligations and drawing up new trade policies.

As the presidential election draws near, the pandemic – which brought the US economy to a near standstill, has also made , leading the two to fire shots at each other.

Trump's super PAC released a TV ad campaign in April painting Joe Biden as soft on China. The Biden campaign rebutted in videos, hitting Trump for eliminating US pandemic preparedness resources and for praising China's "efforts and transparency" in its virus response.

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Fact check: Trump peppers Fox News town hall with false claims on coronavirus and other topics - CNN

Posted: 03 May 2020 09:52 PM PDT

Trump was dishonest both about matters pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic and about his usual array of other topics, from trade with China to his rally crowds. Here is a preliminary list -- which doesn't even include all of the inaccuracies:

Previous administrations and HIV/AIDS

The President kicked off a slew of false claims Sunday night with one he's made several times before, aimed at a familiar target: the Obama administration. Trump accused the previous administration of doing "nothing" to address AIDS.
He said, "We will be AIDS-free within 8 years. We started, 10 years. Should've started in the previous administration. They did nothing. It started at my administration."
Facts First: It's not even close to true that previous administrations did nothing to address HIV/AIDS in the US, experts say and budget data proves.
Republican President George W. Bush is known for the initiatives his administration spearheaded to combat AIDS, especially in Africa. And the Obama administration spent more than $5.5 billion per year on the three primary domestic programs to combat HIV/AIDS, according to figures provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which closely tracks health care spending. (That's in addition to billions in spending on international anti-HIV/AIDS initiatives.)
Obama also introduced a comprehensive national strategy on combating HIV/AIDS. And experts note that the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, helped people with HIV gain health insurance coverage.
In 2019, Trump issued a plan called "Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America," which aimed to reduce the number of new HIV infections in the US by 75% within five years and by at least 90% within 10 years. Experts said that Trump's plan builds on Obama's 2010 National HIV/AIDS Strategy and a 2015 update to that strategy.
In fact, before issuing its own plan, the Trump administration said, that it was being guided by the Obama-era strategy: "The domestic policies and programs of the Federal government continue to be guided by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and we are focused on working toward achieving the Strategy goals for 2020."
You can read a longer fact check here.

Travel restrictions

Asked about what his administration did early on to respond to coronavirus, Trump praised his decision to impose restrictions on travel from China.
"I closed down the country to China," Trump said, adding later, "I did the China ban."
Facts First: It's not true that Trump "closed down" the country entirely, or that he banned travel from China outright. Only foreign nationals who had been in China within the past 14 days were outright banned from entering the US.
When asked by Fox News's Martha MacCallum about the approximately 40,000 people who entered the country from China after Trump announced these travel restrictions, Trump said "they were American citizens by the way." However, citizens were not the only exempted group able to enter the country under the Trump administration's travel restrictions. The restrictions also exempted permanent residents, some of the close family members of citizens and permanent residents, and some others.
You can read more about the Trump administration's travel restrictions in response to coronavirus here.

Fauci on coronavirus threat

Trump announced his travel restrictions against China at the end of January. At Sunday's town hall, Trump claimed that a month later even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said the coronavirus was "going to pass, not going to be a big deal."
Facts First: Trump is wrong that Fauci publicly said the virus was "not going to be a big deal" and would "pass." While it is true that Fauci said in late February that Americans did not need to change their behavior patterns at that time, he also clarified that these conditions could change and coronavirus could develop into a major outbreak.
You can read more about what Fauci actually said here.

An apology from Joe Biden?

Touting the restrictions on China, Trump claimed that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president Joe Biden had issued an apology for past criticism on the subject.
"Biden has now written a letter of apology because I did the right thing," Trump said.
Facts First: Biden's campaign announced in early April that he supports Trump's travel restrictions on China. But neither Biden nor his campaign apologized for any previous criticism of Trump. The campaign says that Biden's comments Trump has described as criticism of the China restrictions -- in which Biden said Trump has a record of "hysterical xenophobia" and "fear mongering" -- were not about the travel restrictions.
Biden's campaign says he did not know about the China restrictions at the time of the January 31 speech in which he made these remarks, since Biden's campaign event in Iowa started shortly after the briefing during which the China restrictions were revealed by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Given the timing of the Biden remarks, it's not unreasonable for the Trump campaign to infer that Biden was talking about the travel restrictions. But Biden never took an explicit position on the restrictions until his April declaration of support -- and whether or not you accept his campaign's argument that the "xenophobia" claim was not about the restrictions, he certainly hasn't apologized.

The timing of the Biden campaign's statement

Trump continued to suggest that the Biden campaign tried to bury its statement of support for the travel restrictions on China, claiming the campaign released the supposed letter "on a Friday night."
Facts First: The Biden campaign revealed during the day on Friday, April 3, not at night, that Biden supports the restrictions. Deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield made a daytime statement to CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, who filed his article to CNN editors at 1:28 p.m. (Tapper's article was last updated at 4:42 p.m. that day, the CNN website shows.)

False and misleading claims about hydroxychloroquine

The Fox News anchors asked Trump about hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that Trump spent much of March and April promoting as a potential "game-changer" for Covid-19.
Trump's comments about the drug typically haven't been rooted in science. His response during Sunday's townhall was full of false information.
Facts First: Trump made at least five false or misleading claims about hydroxychloroquine in about two minutes. He exaggerated the good results and understated the bad results from early medical research. He implied the drug was safe, even though the Food and Drug Administration now says there are deadly side effects. And he falsely suggested it was harmless to tout the drug so aggressively, even though his past promotion led to shortages for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
First: Asked about studies that found cardiac side effects in Covid-19 patients, Trump said it was only "one study." There have been a handful of studies with similarly problematic or unhelpful results, including a trial from Brazil, a trial in France, a study of veterans' hospitals in the US and a large study of coronavirus patients in New York, the epicenter of the outbreak.
Second: When Trump said, "There were studies that came out that say it's very good," he isn't telling the full story. Some small, early trials found positive results for hydroxychloroquine. But the most influential of those early studies, run by a controversial doctor in France, wasn't a randomized trial, and the publisher of the study now says the trial didn't meet its standards.
Third: Trump said he recently got "three calls" from "people that took (hydroxychloroquine) and they're giving it credit for saving their lives." He has cited stories like these in the past. It's a good thing when anyone gets better, but these are just anecdotes from some of the 1.1 million Americans known to have the coronavirus. They don't carry the same weight as actual scientific evidence.
Fourth: By saying, "we don't lose anything with hydroxy," Trump is whitewashing the fallout from his dogged promotion of the drugs back in March and early April. CNN previously reported that his comments led to shortages for many chronically ill Americans who have relied on this particular drug for years. The FDA website says hydroxychloroquine is "currently in shortage."
Fifth: By saying "people aren't dying" by trying hydroxychloroquine, Trump is falsely implying that we know the drugs are safe to treat the virus. He has said this before, and it isn't accurate. The FDA gave hospitals emergency authority to use the drug, but issued warnings about deadly side effects. Also, a hydroxychloroquine trial in Brazil was halted after some patients died.

Trade with China

Trump repeated three false claims regarding trade with China. He claimed "we were losing $500 billion a year to China, for years," and that "China never gave 10 cents to our country" before he took office. Regarding his tariffs on China, Trump said the Chinese "paid for that tax, it wasn't our people. They paid for that tax, they devalued their currency."
Facts First: Not only are Americans bearing most of the cost of Trump's tariffs but the US has also had tariffs on China for more than two centuries, generating an average of $12 billion a year from 2007 to 2016, FactCheck.org reported. There has also never been a $500 billion trade deficit with China. (Trump describes trade deficits as "losing," though many economists dispute that characterization.)
You can read a longer fact check on Trump's China tariffs here.

Hunter Biden and China

In criticizing the previous administration's dealings with China, Trump took a shot at Hunter Biden, the son of the former vice president.
"President Obama and Joe Biden didn't do anything. China just had a field day with our country. And then you look at his son, walking out with $1.5 billion -- give me a break on that."
Facts First: While Hunter Biden has previously had a board seat and a financial stake in a private-equity fund that the Chinese government-owned Bank of China has invested in, there is no evidence he walked out of the country with $1.5 billion. Hunter Biden's lawyer, George Mesires, said in an October 2019 statement that the firm, BHR Partners, was "capitalized with 30 million renminbi (RMB), or approximately $4.2 million USD at today's currency exchange rates."
As of October 2019, Hunter Biden had a 10% interest in BHR. In December 2013, the same month the fund was officially established, Hunter joined his father on a trip to China. There, Hunter met up with Jonathan Li, the fund's China-based partner. The New Yorker reported that Li met Hunter at his hotel and shook hands with Joe Biden. However, according to The New Yorker, Hunter maintains that visit with Li was social, not business-related.
In July 2019, more than two years after his father left office, Hunter purchased an equity stake in the BHR fund, valued around $430,000, according to Mesires.
"To date, Hunter has not received any compensation for being on BHR's board of directors. He has not received any return on his investment; there have been no distributions to BHR shareholders since Hunter obtained his equity interest," Mesires said in the October 2019 statement.

The US contribution to NATO

Trump claimed that, until he got NATO members to significantly increase their spending, "They weren't paying. We were paying for 100% of NATO."
Facts First: The US was not "paying for 100% of NATO" before Trump's presidency, though its defense spending did represent the majority of total NATO defense spending.
NATO countries other than the US spent a total of $262 billion on defense in 2016, according to official NATO figures released in November 2019 (which used 2015 prices and exchange rates). The US spent $651 billion itself that year, about 71% of the total. That's a large percentage, but "100%" is a significant exaggeration.
NATO also has its own direct budget to fund its operations. While the US was also the biggest contributor to this budget in 2016, covering about 22%, it was, clearly, not alone; Germany covered about 15%, France about 11%, the United Kingdom about 10%, and so on. Countries' contributions were set based on their national income.

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Lloris: It would be cruel to deny Liverpool the title - Goal

Posted: 03 May 2020 09:09 PM PDT

Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris says it would be "cruel" for Liverpool to be denied the Premier League title because of the coronavirus pandemic, stressing that players and clubs want the 2019-20 season to be concluded.

Liverpool were just two wins away from their first title in 30 years when the Premier League, like all major leagues across Europe, shutdown in March because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

France's Ligue 1 and Netherlands' Eredivisie have already declared their seasons over in response to the pandemic, but the Premier League, Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A remain determined to resume when safe to do so.

Clubs have discussed the possibility of resumption in June, though games would almost certainly be behind closed doors and possibly at neutral venues in an effort to comply with government restrictions on large gatherings.

Even that prospect relies on government approval and meeting strict safety guidelines, meaning the prospect of having to end the season in some other fashion remains real.

Lloris hopes it does not come for that, particularly for Liverpool, who are 25 points clear of nearest rivals Manchester City at the top of the table.

"We are in a situation where everyone wants to finish and have the verdict of the field," the France international told L'Equipe.

"It would be terrible if everything ended like that nine days before the end of the Premier League. It would also be cruel for Liverpool with the lead they have. They are almost champions.

"As with everyone, there would be a taste of unfinished business. In addition, we are entering the most exciting period, the most beautiful moment of the season. Nobody wants it to end like this."

Though he remains in favour of finishing the season, Lloris admits playing behind closed doors would not be ideal and take away much of what makes the game so special, even if it is the only safe way for the game to restart.

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"It will be weird wherever it happens. Football is not a sport behind closed doors. Without spectators, it is not the same discipline," he added.

"This is not how I see football. We are here to gather, share our emotions. We all want full stadiums, with atmosphere, fans, colour and songs. But here, we must take the context into consideration.

"There are major and economic issues that need to be understood at the level of clubs and federations. Everyone has to find the right compromise between health above all else and the need to finish this season."

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Trump Foresees Virus Death Toll as High as 100,000 in the United States - The New York Times

Posted: 03 May 2020 08:52 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — President Trump predicted on Sunday night that the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country may reach as high as 100,000 in the United States, far worse than he had forecast just weeks ago, even as he pressed states to reopen the shuttered economy.

Mr. Trump, who last month forecast that fatalities from the outbreak could be kept "substantially below the 100,000" mark and probably around 60,000, acknowledged that the virus has proved more devastating than expected. But nonetheless, he said that parks, beaches and some businesses should begin reopening now and that schools should resume classes in person by this fall.

"We're going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people," the president said in a virtual "town hall" meeting at the Lincoln Memorial hosted by Fox News. "That's a horrible thing. We shouldn't lose one person over this." But he credited himself with preventing the toll from being worse. "If we didn't do it, the minimum we would have lost was a million two, a million four, a million five, that's the minimum. We would have lost probably higher, it's possible higher than 2.2" million.

The death toll passed 67,000 on Sunday, more than the total American deaths in the Vietnam War and already higher than the president's earlier prediction. More than 1,000 additional deaths have been announced every day since April 2 and while the rate appears to have peaked, it has not begun to fall in a significant, sustained way. The model embraced by the White House a month ago had assumed the death rate would begin to fall substantially by mid-April.

Despite that, Mr. Trump indicated again that he favored lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions that have cratered the economy and put more than 30 million people out of work, arguing that the government had armed itself enough against the virus to be prepared to curb any additional outbreak even after people begin emerging from their homes to re-enter workplaces and other public spaces.

"At some point we have to open our country," the president said. "And people are going to be safe. We've learned a lot. We've learned about the tremendous contagion. But we have no choice. We can't stay closed as a country. We're not going to have a country left."

Mr. Trump asserted again that the virus would eventually fade. "This virus will pass," he said. "It will go. Will it come back? It might. It could. Some people say yes. But it will pass." While he has previously expressed doubt about a second wave in the fall anticipated by public health experts, he conceded that it could happen. "We may have to put out a fire," he said.

The president's appearance on Fox, in which he sat at a distance from the hosts at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue and took questions sent by video from around the country, came in the middle of a furious debate in the United States about how and when the states should begin restoring a semblance of everyday life. The program was titled "America Together: Returning to Work."

As of Friday, more than a dozen states had begun to reopen their economies and public life while many others had set plans to do so under certain conditions and with certain precautions, in some cases over the warnings of public health specialists who feared that moving too quickly would reignite a wave of infections.

Mr. Trump predicted that a vaccine would be developed by the end of 2020, which would be sooner than some public health experts anticipate and much faster than any other vaccine for such a major virus. "We are very confident that we're going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end of the year," he said. Even if it is developed that soon, though, he did not say whether it could be approved and produced in sufficient quantities for widespread use by then.

The president confirmed that he was warned about the virus, which originated in China, in an intelligence briefing in January, but asserted that it was characterized as if "it was not a big deal." He said intelligence agencies would release information about his briefings as early as Monday.

"On Jan. 23, I was told that there could be a virus coming in but it was of no real import," Mr. Trump said. "In other words, it wasn't, 'Oh, we've got to do something, we've got to do something.' It was a brief conversation and it was only on Jan. 23. Shortly thereafter, I closed the country to China. We had 23 people in the room and I was the only one in the room who wanted to close it down."

Mr. Trump was referring to his decision on Jan. 30 to block entry by most foreign nationals coming from China, a move that in fact was supported by a number of his advisers and came only after major American airlines had already canceled flights. Some public health advisers have said that the travel limits helped slow the spread to the United States but that the Trump administration did not use the extra time to adequately prepare by ramping up testing and producing medical equipment.

Mr. Trump said his travel limit, which did not apply to Americans or legal residents, was not driven by the Jan. 23 warning. "I didn't do it because of what they said," he said. "They said it very matter of factly. It was not a big deal."

In forecasting the toll of the virus, the White House had relied on models by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, which last month had predicted 60,415 deaths by the first week of August. Last week, the institute increased its estimate to 72,433 by early August. But now the toll looks likely to pass that number within a week.

"It looks like we're headed to a number substantially below the 100,000," Mr. Trump had said on April 10. "That would be the low mark. And I hope that bears out." He said a lower number would amount to a victory for him. "Hard to believe that if you had 60,000 — you could never be happy, but that's a lot fewer than we were originally told and thinking."

Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared with Mr. Trump on Sunday's broadcast. Mr. Pence acknowledged making a mistake by not wearing a mask during a visit to the Mayo Clinic last week despite the medical center's policy.

Because masks are meant to protect other people and he has been tested regularly, Mr. Pence said, he was in keeping with federal guidelines. "I didn't think it was necessary," he said. "But I should have wore the mask at the Mayo Clinic."

The Fox town hall came on a day when Mr. Trump lashed out at former President George W. Bush, who called for national unity in a three-minute video message posted on Saturday.

"Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat," Mr. Bush said in the video, which was set against music and photographs of medical workers helping victims of the virus and of ordinary Americans wearing masks. "In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise."

While Mr. Bush never mentioned Mr. Trump's name, the sitting president clearly took the message as an implicit rebuke. In a Twitter message, Mr. Trump paraphrased a Fox News personality saying, "Oh bye the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside."

Mr. Trump then added in his own voice: "He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!"

Hours later, Mr. Trump went after another predecessor, reposting a tweet from a pro-Trump website accusing former President Barack Obama of plotting against him. "Evidence has surfaced that indicates Barack Obama was the one running the Russian hoax," said the original message retweeted by the president.

Mr. Bush's video message was part of a series of videos aired online as part of a 24-hour live-streamed project, "The Call to Unite," that also featured Oprah Winfrey, Tim Shriver, Julia Roberts, Martin Luther King III, Sean Combs, Quincy Jones, Naomi Judd, Andrew Yang and others.

Mr. Bush's office said he had no response to Mr. Trump's message. "The video was a part of an event called 'A Call to Unite,'" said Freddy Ford, the former president's chief of staff. "I hope those covering it will resist the temptation to use it as a call to divide." Mr. Obama's office had no comment.

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ポン・ジュノが選ぶ2010年代の映画5本 : 映画ニュース - 映画.com

Posted: 03 May 2020 08:32 PM PDT

ポン・ジュノが選ぶ2010年代の映画5本 : 映画ニュース - 映画.com

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[映画.com ニュース]フランスの映画情報誌Premiereが、2019年末に「2010年代の映画」を特集。その後行われた第92回アカデミー賞で、最多4冠を獲得した「パラサイト 半地下の家族」のポン・ジュノが、5つの作品を挙げている。Premiereの記事からコメントと共に紹介する。

幸福なラザロ」(アリーチェ・ロルバケル監督/2019)
 印象的で美しかった。

湖の見知らぬ男」(アラン・ギロディ監督/2013)
 「垂直のまま」(16・日本未公開)も好きですが、こちらの方が感動しました。性的な生命力をこのように演出できる人をほとんど知りません。本質を捉えていて、余計なものがない彼の作品が本当に好きです。

散歩する侵略者」(黒沢清監督/2017)
 驚かされた。黒沢監督のホラー作品の抽象的で天才的な才能と、癖のある造形が好きです。

哭声 コクソン」(ナ・ホンジン監督/2017)
 傑作です。

ファンタスティック Mr. Fox」(ウェス・アンダーソン監督/2011)
 時々見返す作品です。黄色い色調に癒されます。映画そのものに集中するのではなく、DVDを再生しているだけで、良い世界に浸れます。

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今田耕司「岡村隆史は猛省」生放送で謝罪 - auone.jp

Posted: 03 May 2020 08:02 PM PDT

今田耕司「岡村隆史は猛省」生放送で謝罪 - auone.jp

【モデルプレス=2020/05/04】お笑いタレントの今田耕司が、3日に生放送されたABEMA GOLDチャンネル「家-1グランプリ2020~お笑い自宅芸No.1決定戦~」に出演。ラジオでの不適切発言を謝罪したお笑いコンビ・ナインティナインの岡村隆史について言及した。

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今田耕司、「岡村隆史は猛省」

各お笑いタレントが家からネタを披露し、在宅の芸で一番面白い芸人を決定する同番組。司会を務めた今田は、冒頭「アローン芸人も頑張ってくれよ」と呼びかけると共に、「アローン芸人で思い出しました。岡村隆史は猛省しております。猛反省しております。申し訳ございません!猛反省しております!」と頭を下げた。

◆岡村隆史、不適切発言で話題

岡村は先月23日に放送されたラジオ「ナインティナイン岡村隆史オールナイトニッポン」(ニッポン放送)で、新型コロナウイルスによって経済が悪化し、収入が減少した女性が一時的に性風俗店で働く可能性があるといった趣旨の発言。批判が寄せられ、29日に所属事務所を通して謝罪のコメントを発表した。

30日の同ラジオでは改めて自身の発言を謝罪すると共に、相方・矢部浩之が出演。岡村を公開説教し、甘えを厳しく指摘していた。(modelpress編集部)

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Singapore Was A Shining Star In COVID Control – Until It Wasn't - KUER 90.1

Posted: 03 May 2020 07:52 PM PDT

Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore was praised as a shining example of how to handle the new virus. The World Health Organization pointed out that Singapore's aggressive contact tracing allowed the city-state to quickly identify and isolate any new cases. It quickly shut down clusters of cases and kept most of its economy — and its schools — open. Through the beginning of April, Singapore had recorded fewer than 600 cases.

By the end of April, however, the case count exceeded 17,000. And not only is all of Singapore now under a strict lockdown, but it has the most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia.

The vast majority of these cases are in the overcrowded dormitories that house more than 300,000 of Singapore's roughly 1 million foreign workers — and the number of cases is expected to continue to rise in the coming weeks.

"We have started our testing with the dormitories where there were a high number of cases detected," Singapore's health minister, Gan Kim Yong, said in a virtual press briefing this week.

Singapore ordered a lockdown on April 7 in response to an uptick in cases in the general population — and then began to find a significant number of cases in the dorms.

Gan says Singapore is now testing more than 3,000 migrant workers a day but hopes to expand that number. The virus is spreading so rapidly in the dormitories, however, that the Health Ministry hasn't been able to test all of the suspected cases.

"For dormitories where the assessed risk of infection is extremely high, our efforts are focused on isolating those who are symptomatic even without a confirmed COVID-19 test," Gan says. "This allows us to quickly provide medical care to these patients."

Singapore is a small city-state with a population of just under 6 million inhabitants. On a per capita basis, it's the second-richest country in Asia.

But its economy relies heavily on young men from Bangladesh, India and other countries who work jobs in construction and manufacturing. Singapore has no minimum wage for foreign or domestic employees. The foreign workers' salaries can be as low as US$250 per month, but a typical salary is $500 to $600 a month.

Speaking to the media, Gan credited extensive screening in the dorms with finding many workers who are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but who didn't appear sick.

"So far, the majority of the cases here have had relatively mild disease or no symptoms. And they do not require extensive medical intervention," Gan said. "About 30% require closer medical observation due to the underlying health conditions or because of old age."

As of this week, only a handful of the migrant workers — fewer than two dozen — were in intensive care units.

The city-state is setting up thousands of what it calls "community care beds" in convention centers and other public buildings to isolate and treat coronavirus patients. The hope is that most of the cases can be managed by medical staff in these temporary wards, rather than in hospitals. So far the city has 10,000 community care beds and plans to expand to 20,000 by mid-June.

It's no surprise that the migrant workers are now being infected, says Mohan Dutta, a professor at Massey University in New Zealand who has done research on these migrant laborers. He says conditions in the dorms put the workers at significant risk of catching a respiratory disease like COVID-19. There are 12 to 20 bunk beds per room.

And even though some of the workers are deemed "essential," most are no longer allowed to leave the dormitories. "There is little room to move around. They have little room to store their things, which really contributes to this sense of the rooms being unhygienic," says Dutta.

Dutta, who founded CARE, the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, at the National University of Singapore in 2012, with a focus on marginalized communities, has just published a paper on migrant workers in Singapore during this pandemic.

He says many of them told him they are concerned about whether they'll get paid during the lockdown (Singapore's Ministry of Manpower insists they will) and about the overcrowding and lack of sanitation facilities in the dormitories.

Dutta says that in many dormitories, 100 workers share a block of five toilets and five shower stalls.

"There is this sense of panic and fear, and part of that is related to this sense of not being able to move outside of the room," he says. "Everyone is pretty much stuck in the room at such close proximity."

Singapore's Health Ministry has moved aggressively to try to address the coronavirus outbreaks in the housing blocks. The government is trying to find alternative accommodations for people in the hardest-hit dorms, but Dutta says it's impossible to come up with safe, short-term lodging for more than 300,000 workers.

But he does believe there could be long-term changes that would help the workers. And Dutta hopes this outbreak will force Singapore to examine how it treats this often overlooked population, bringing major changes in how foreign workers are housed and treated.

Meanwhile, the explosion of cases in Singapore over the last three weeks has remained primarily among foreign workers. For example, on May 1 there were 11 new cases reported among Singapore's permanent residents and 905 new infections among the workers residing in the dorms.

Michael Merson, the head of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute in Singapore, says it's unlikely the outbreaks in the dormitories will spill over to the rest of the city.

"There's very little mixing between the foreign workers and the rest of the population," Merson says. He's confident that Singapore's health officials will be able to isolate the infected workers and give them, in his words, "the best medical care possible."

Nonetheless, the Singaporean government has extended the lockdown for the entire city-state until at least June 1.

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Coronavirus: The seven types of people who start and spread viral misinformation - BBC News

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Conspiracy theories, misinformation and speculation about coronavirus have flooded social media. But who starts these rumours? And who spreads them?

We've investigated hundreds of misleading stories during the pandemic. It's given us an an idea about who is behind misinformation - and what motivates them. Here are seven types of people who start and spread falsehoods:

You'd hope no-one was fooled by a WhatsApp voice note claiming the government was cooking a giant lasagne in Wembley stadium to feed Londoners. But some people didn't get the joke.

To take a slightly more serious example, a prankster created a screenshot of a fake government text that claimed the recipient had been fined for leaving the house too many times. He thought it would be funny to scare people breaking lockdown rules.

After encouraging his followers to share it on Instagram, it found its way to local Facebook groups, where it was posted by worried residents, some of whom took it seriously.

"I don't really want to cause panic," says the prankster, who wouldn't give us his real name. "But if they believe a screenshot on social media, they really need to sort of re-evaluate the way they consume information on the internet."

Other fake texts claiming to be from the government or local councils have been generated by scammers looking to make money from the pandemic.

One such scam investigated by fact-checking charity Full Fact in March claimed that the government was offering people relief payments and asked for bank details.

Photos of the scam text were shared on Facebook. Since it circulated by text message, it's difficult to get to the bottom of who was behind them.

Scammers started using fake news about the virus to make money as early as February, with emails suggesting people could "click for a coronavirus cure review" or suggesting they were entitled to a tax refund because of the outbreak.

Misinformation doesn't just come from dark corners of the internet.

Last week President Donald Trump questioned whether exposing patients' bodies to UV light or injecting bleach could help treat the coronavirus. He was speculating and took facts out of context.

He later claimed the comments were sarcastic. But that didn't stop people from phoning hotlines to ask about treating themselves with disinfectant.

It's not just the US President. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman promoted the idea that Covid-19 might have been brought to Wuhan by the US Army. Conspiracy theories about the outbreak have been discussed in prime time on Russian state TV, and by pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts.

All the uncertainty about the virus has created a perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories.

A false story of murky origins claiming the first volunteer to take part in a UK vaccine trial had died circulated in big anti-vaccination and conspiracy Facebook groups. It was fiction.

Interviews with David Icke on YouTube, which have since been removed, also peddled false claims that 5G is linked to coronavirus. Mr Icke also appeared on a London TV station, which was found to have breached the UK's broadcasting standards. His Facebook page was later taken down, the company said, for publishing "health misinformation that could cause physical harm".

Conspiracy theories have led to scores of attacks on 5G masts.

Sometimes misinformation seems to come from a trustworthy source - a doctor, professor or hospital worker.

But often the "insider" is nothing of the sort.

A woman from Crawley in West Sussex was the originator of a panicky voice note predicting dire - and completely unsubstantiated - death tolls for young and healthy coronavirus sufferers. She claimed to have inside information through her work at an ambulance service.

She did not respond to requests for comment or provide proof of her job, so we don't know whether she actually is a health worker. But we do know that the claims in her voice note were unfounded.

That alarming voice note and many others went viral because they worried people, who then shared the messages with friends and family.

That includes Danielle Baker, a mum of four from Essex, who forwarded a note on Facebook messenger "just in case it was true".

"At first I was a bit weary because it was sent from a lady that I didn't know," she says. "I forwarded it on because myself and my sister have babies the same age and also have older children, and we all have high risk in our households."

They're trying to be helpful and they think they're doing something positive. But, of course, that doesn't make the messages they pass along true.

It's not just your mum or uncle. Celebrities have helped amplified misleading claims go mainstream.

The singer M.I.A. and actor Woody Harrelson are among those who have been promoting the 5G coronavirus theory to their hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.

A recent report by the Reuters Institute found that celebrities play a key role in spreading misinformation online.

Some have huge platforms on traditional media as well. Eamonn Holmes was criticised for appearing to give some credence to the 5G conspiracy theorists on ITV This Morning.

"What I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don't know it's not true," he said.

Mr Holmes later apologised and Ofcom "issued guidance" to ITV, deeming the comments "ill-judged".

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新型コロナウイルス ジャニーズ事務所が医療用資材を支援 - NHK NEWS WEB

Posted: 03 May 2020 07:31 PM PDT

新型コロナウイルス ジャニーズ事務所が医療用資材を支援 - NHK NEWS WEB

新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大で、医師などが使う医療用の資材が不足していることを受けて、ジャニーズ事務所は医療機関に防護服やマスクなどを届ける支援に乗り出しました。

新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大によって、医療現場で医師や看護師などが使う防護服やマスクなどの資材の不足が続いていることから、ジャニーズ事務所は、これまで中国で培ってきたつながりを生かして、中国の生産工場で製造された防護服1万枚を買い付け、日本の医療機関に寄付することになりました。

買い付けた防護服は航空機で成田空港に届けられ、事務所を代表して人気アイドルグループ「嵐」の相葉雅紀さんが受け取りました。

相葉さんは「現在、医療の最前線で危険を顧みず従事されている皆さまの責任感が今を支えていることと思います。防護服を皆さまの元へお届けいたします」とメッセージを送りました。

今後、ジャニーズ事務所では、防護服3万3000枚、マスク50万枚、医療用ガウン5万枚などを買い付けて、国内の医療機関に届けることにしています。

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Posted: 03 May 2020 07:31 PM PDT

「アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ」10年ぶり復活、コンビで本当の最終回 - ナタリー

アンタッチャブルが出演する「JUNK アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ 最終回スペシャル」(TBSラジオ)が今月5月24日(日)深夜に生放送される。

2005年4月から5年間にわたって木曜深夜の「JUNK」枠でレギュラー放送されてきた「アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ」。2010年の番組終了当時、コンビが揃わない状況だったことからアンタッチャブル山崎は「(いつか)本当の最終回を行いたい」と話していた。それから10年が経ち、コンビ復活を遂げた2人が本当の最終回に臨む。

最終回スペシャルでは人気コーナー「ツッコミ先行宣言」と「モテない才能」が実施される予定。オンエア当日にもメール募集用の「シカマンテーマ」が発表される。

JUNK アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ 最終回スペシャル

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「アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ」10年ぶり復活、コンビで本当の最終回 - ナタリー

Posted: 03 May 2020 07:01 PM PDT

「アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ」10年ぶり復活、コンビで本当の最終回 - ナタリー

アンタッチャブルが出演する「JUNK アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ 最終回スペシャル」(TBSラジオ)が今月5月24日(日)深夜に生放送される。

2005年4月から5年間にわたって木曜深夜の「JUNK」枠でレギュラー放送されてきた「アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ」。2010年の番組終了当時、コンビが揃わない状況だったことからアンタッチャブル山崎は「(いつか)本当の最終回を行いたい」と話していた。それから10年が経ち、コンビ復活を遂げた2人が本当の最終回に臨む。

最終回スペシャルでは人気コーナー「ツッコミ先行宣言」と「モテない才能」が実施される予定。オンエア当日にもメール募集用の「シカマンテーマ」が発表される。

JUNK アンタッチャブルのシカゴマンゴ 最終回スペシャル

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Trump says China made a 'mistake' and tried to cover up coronavirus outbreak - CNBC

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:52 PM PDT

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a live Fox News Channel virtual town hall called "America Together: Returning to Work" with hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum about the response to the coronaviru pandemic being broadcast from inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. May 3, 2020.

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he believed that a "mistake" in China was the cause of the spreading coronavirus pandemic, though he did not present any evidence for the claim. 

"I think they made a horrible mistake and didn't want to admit it," Trump said. 

The comments, which came during a Fox News town hall at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, came hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that "a significant amount of evidence" suggested that the virus emerged from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. 

"My opinion is they made a mistake. They tried to cover it, they tried to put it out. It's like a fire," Trump said. "You know, it's really like trying to put out a fire. They couldn't put out the fire."

Trump said the government was putting together a report that will be "very conclusive."

The nation's top spy agency said Thursday that it had determined that the virus was not man made but was still investigating whether it was caused by "an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan."

A Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated Friday, however, found that officials in China "intentionally concealed the severity" of the contagion, according to the Associated Press, which reported on the document Sunday. The report found that the country hid details about coronavirus in order to horde medical supplies. 

China has rejected claims that the virus escaped a research center in Wuhan.

Attention has been focused on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research center located near where the coronavirus outbreak is thought to have emerged, though scientists have said for weeks that it is extremely unlikely that the virus was created in a lab setting.

Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, said last week that the U.S. had been funding the center's research on coronaviruses, the Associated Press reported. 

"So if it did escape, we're all in this together," Morell said. 

The U.S. and China, the world's two largest economies, have been waging competing propaganda battles amid the public health crisis, with leaders in each country seeking to pin the blame elsewhere and claim the mantle of global leadership.

Trump has had a complicated relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whom he has long referred to as a friend, even as trade tensions have flared. 

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'Enormous evidence' coronavirus originated in Chinese lab - Ipswich Advertiser

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:52 PM PDT

 

 

The United States has escalated its campaign to hold China accountable for the spread of the coronavirus, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claiming there is "enormous evidence" the virus originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan.

The bio-containment facility in question, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has called that theory "impossible". No proof has emerged publicly to back it up. But in recent days, Mr Pompeo and President Donald Trump have both indicated the evidence is strong.

At a media conference last Thursday, Mr Trump was asked whether he had seen "anything" that gave him a "high degree of confidence" that the virus came from the lab.

"Yes, I have," Mr Trump replied.

Pressed to elaborate on what exactly he had seen, the President stonewalled.

"I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that," he said.

Mr Pompeo was interviewed on US ABC's This Week overnight. Host Martha Raddatz posed the same question Mr Trump had faced - had Mr Pompeo seen anything to give him a "high degree of confidence" in the lab theory?

"There's enormous evidence that this is where this began," Mr Pompeo said.

"China has a history of infecting the world. And they have a history of running substandard laboratories. These are not the first times that we've had a world exposed to viruses as the result of failures in a Chinese lab.

"So while the intelligence committee continues to do its work - they should continue to do that and verify so that we are certain - I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan."

Just as Mr Trump had done days earlier, Mr Pompeo declined to describe the evidence in any more detail.

Raddatz went on to ask whether Mr Pompeo believed the virus was "man-made or genetically modified".

"Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point," Mr Pompeo replied.

His answer was an explosive one. It contradicted the prevailing opinion among scientists that the virus is most likely of natural origin, and spread from an animal to a human.

However under further questioning, Mr Pompeo seemed to indicate he had misspoken.

"Your office of the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) says the scientific consensus was not man-made or genetically modified," Raddatz pointed out.

"That's right, I agree with that," he said.

"Yeah, I've seen their analysis, I've seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly. I have no reason to doubt that that is accurate," he clarified.

Finally, Raddatz asked about the theory - also unsubstantiated so far - that China released the virus on purpose. Mr Trump flirted with that provocative idea on Thursday, though he appeared to be speculating, rather than basing his comments on any evidence.

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"Whether they made a mistake, or whether it started off as a mistake and then they made another one, or did somebody do something on purpose?" the President mused.

"Certainly it could have been stopped. They either couldn't do it from a competence standpoint, or they let it spread."

Mr Pompeo said nothing to confirm the theory, but he didn't shoot it down either, blaming China's refusal to allow international experts into its labs for a lack of information.

"I don't have anything to say about that. I think there's a lot to know. But I can say this - we've done our best to try and answer all of those questions," he said.

"I can't answer your question on that because the Chinese Communist Party has refused to co-operate with world health experts."

 

That tied into Mr Pompeo's broader critique of China's opaque response to the pandemic, which he characterised as a cover-up.

"The Chinese Communist Party did all that it could to make sure that the world didn't learn in a timely fashion about what was taking place," the Secretary of State said.

"There's lots of evidence of that.

"We've seen the fact that they kicked journalists out; we saw the fact that those who were trying to report on this, medical professionals inside of China, were silenced. All the kinds of things that authoritarian regimes do.

"This is classic communist disinformation. That created enormous risk, and now you can see hundreds of thousands of people in the world, tens of thousands in the United States have been harmed.

"We're going to hold those responsible accountable, and we'll do so on a timeline that is our own."

He finished the interview by pivoting back to that message.

"Here's what's important. The Chinese Communist Party had the opportunity to prevent all the calamity that has befallen the world," Mr Pompeo said.

"This is an enormous crisis, created by the fact that the Chinese Communist Party reverted to form, reverted to the kinds of disinformation and concealment that authoritarian regimes do.

"Had those scientists been operating in America, they would have put this out, there would have been an exchange of ideas and we would have quickly identified the kinds of things that needed to be done in response.

"I think the whole world is united in saying that China brought this virus to the world."

Last week the DNI confirmed the lab accident scenario was still being considered as a possibility, but ruled out the idea that the virus was man-made.

"The intelligence community concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified," he said.

"The intelligence community will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan."

China, for its part, has said the lab theory is "purely fabricated out of nothing".

Mr Pompeo's latest comments came after The Saturday Telegraph reported that China had "deliberately suppressed or destroyed" evidence about the outbreak in an "assault on international transparency" that cost tens of thousands of lives.

The report cited a 15-page dossier on the coronavirus, prepared by the so-called Five Eyes intelligence agencies of the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.

According to The Telegraph, the Australian government believes the virus probably originated in a Wuhan wet market, but thinks there is a remote chance - around 5 per cent or so - that it did accidentally leak from the lab.

 

Mr Trump's political opponents say he is trying to shift blame to China in an attempt to avoid responsibility for his own handling of the pandemic, which has resulted in the United States having by far the largest number of coronavirus cases and deaths.

The country's death toll now exceeds 68,000, and it is approaching 1.2 million confirmed cases.

"Not wanting to take responsibility as the deaths continue to mount, he blames others," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, for example.

In addition to focusing on China, Mr Trump has also been sharply critical of the World Health Organisation. He's suspended American financial support for the institution, saying it moved too slowly to alert the world to the gravity of the disease and was insufficiently sceptical of China's involvement.

Mr Trump himself repeatedly praised China during the early weeks of the pandemic, thanking President Xi Jinping for his "transparency" and saying he had handled the crisis "really well".

- with wires

 

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Posted: 03 May 2020 06:39 PM PDT

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DHS report: China hid coronavirus' severity to hoard supplies - WITN

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:22 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it. That's according to U.S. intelligence documents obtained by The Associated Press. They say Chinese leaders "intentionally concealed the severity" of the pandemic from the world in early January. Word of the Department of Homeland Security analysis dated May 1 comes as the Trump administration has intensified its criticism of China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that China was responsible for the spread of disease and must be held accountable.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.

Chinese leaders "intentionally concealed the severity" of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as the Trump administration has intensified its criticism of China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying Sunday that that country was responsible for the spread of disease and must be held accountable.

The sharper rhetoric coincides with administration critics saying the government's response to the virus was slow and inadequate. President Donald Trump's political opponents have accused him of lashing out at China, a geopolitical foe but critical U.S. trade partner, in an attempt to deflect criticism at home.

Not classified but marked "for official use only," the analysis states that, while downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, China increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies. It attempted to cover up doing so by "denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data," the analysis states.

The report also says China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus "was a contagion" for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.

Those conclusions are based on the 95% probability that China's changes in imports and export behavior were not within normal range, according to the report.

Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus due to some kind of horrible "mistake." His intelligence agencies say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.

Speaking Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Pompeo said he had no reason to believe that the virus was deliberately spread. But he added, "Remember, China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories."

"These are not the first times that we've had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab," Pompeo said. "And so, while the intelligence community continues to do its work, they should continue to do that, and verify so that we are certain, I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan."

The secretary of state appeared to be referring to previous outbreaks of respiratory viruses, like SARS, which started in China. His remark may be seen as offensive in China. Still, Pompeo repeated the same assertion virtually word for word hours later, via a tweet Sunday afternoon.

Speaking Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, echoed that sentiment, saying he believes China "is the most significant geopolitical threat to the United States for the next century."

"The communist government in China bears enormous responsibility, enormous direct culpability for this pandemic. We know they covered it up," Cruz said. "Had they behaved responsibly and sent in health professionals and quarantined those infected, there's a real possibility this could have been a regional outbreak, and not a global pandemic. And the hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide are in a very real sense the direct responsibility of the communist Chinese government's lies."

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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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Indonesia among countries struggling with social distancing - Al Jazeera English

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:22 PM PDT

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  1. Indonesia among countries struggling with social distancing  Al Jazeera English
  2. Pandemic Shows Little Sign of Slowing as Indonesians Try to Avoid Restrictions  Jakarta Globe
  3. Indonesia reports 292 new Covid-19 cases, 31 deaths  Malay Mail
  4. Indonesia Records More Recoveries from COVID-19 until May 2  Tempo.co English
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Seattle sports stars rally around Class of 2020 in viral video - NBCSports.com

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:16 PM PDT

What do Walter Jones, D.J. Fluker, Christian Roldan, Stefan Frei, Matt Hasselbeck and Kenny Mayne have in common?

They are all staples in the Seattle sports community. 

But before this star-studded cast including MLS champions and Pro Football Hall of Famers found their way to the Emerald City, they each walked across the stage at their high school graduations.

They realize not many students will get the same opportunity as they did years before. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, graduations across the country have gone virtual, been postponed, or canceled altogether. 

To make sure each high school graduates' hard work doesn't go unnoticed, the Seattle athletes put together a commencement speech of sorts for the Class of 2020. 

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Former Seahawks guard, now Baltimore Raven, D.J. Fluker showed sympathy for the students who were unable to celebrate this important milestone in person. 

"I know that you are hurt, confused and angry, I mean, I would be angry too," Fluker said. "But for me to tell you guys this, to be resolute. I want you guys to take a moment and ask yourselves, 'does this define me?'" 

Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei, who won his second MLS Cup with Seattle in 2019, urged the Class of 2020 to use this time and experience to grow. 

"Please remember this time as not one of loss, but rather opportunity," Frei said. "Opportunity to reset your life, to prepare yourself to prevent moments like what we are living through because you are the future. You hold the keys to the proverbial vehicle that will lead us into the next chapter of our lives." 

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ESPN anchor, former Seahawk and Federal Way native Kenny Mayne reminded the senior class that while commencement looks a lot different this year, at least they have Tik Tok. 

"The graduating class of 1918, they didn't even have TikTok," Mayne said. "They didn't have any of this technology we have now. Their graduation was pretty bad, this is way better. So, you've had some things stolen from you, didn't get to finish the sports season, the prom, all sorts of other things you were all looking forward to and that's a downer. 

"But take this time to shoot for the moon. Remember that person you were interested in like Day 3 of freshman year and you never made the play, pick up the phone. Let's go." 

Check out Talkin' Seahawks every week for Seattle Seahawks news, game breakdowns, and analysis, plus conversations with the most important names in Seattle. 

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