Tebby cat "arrested" in violation of curfew in Thailand

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Images courtesy : nisizawa, Twitter.

Due to the covid pandemic, Thailand imposed a curfew at the beginning of April 2020, requiring all citizens not  to leave their homes after 10 pm. Perhaps the continuous epidemic prevention work made people feel too repressed. Some police officers had sudden whims that they "arrested" a tebby cat for violating the curfew. This cat even consciously cooperated with the police's request for photos and taking an innocent expression of its the face, which attracted all netizens to respond, including a Japanese translation of the Thai characters.

Japanese netizen nisizawa recently shared a photo of the tebby cat caught by a policeman in Thailand during the curfew on Twitter with other netizens. The original footage was shot by Thai media TCNN Networks and initially shared on its Facebook. The fan post jokes that a policeman "arrested" a tebby cat who wandered outside in violation of the curfew at night. When it was taken to the police station, it hung a sign with a crime on its body with a super good attitude to take pictures.

The tebby cat cooperated with the policeman's request, let a sign with the words "I violated the curfew and  I ran out after 10 o'clock at night" hang on its body, with its paws holding the sign honestly.

This photo  has garnered more than 400,000 favourites and more than 140,000 reposts on Facebook and Twitter.

One of the netizens translated the sign into Japanese :

N.Potter posted a photo of the Thai policeman grinning at the innocent tebby cat.

Another netizen posted a snapshot of a cute cat getting its body temperature check in the morning in response.

It is known that cats are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 but cat is not the intermediate host of the virus.

PRC parent : Whoever gets China Communist Party's SARS-CoV-2 vaccination will 'die'

Reporters : Chang Chun, Chen Jie, and Bo Ni
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/30/a102835494.html

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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 Images : He Fangmei called for side-effects treatment and late-stage pension security for children after vaccination in the People's Republic of China but she was repeatedly suppressed. Web Screenshot.

The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine developed in mainland China in March 2020 may begin nationwide clinical  usage in early 2021, but because of the frequent cases of children disabled by various vaccines in mainland China, the public also has no sense of security over the covid virus vaccine. Some parents of child victims of the vaccine said that it is impossible to get the covid virus vaccination, which is too dangerous.

Image : The vaccine for covid developed by Chen Wei's team in Wuhan in March 2020. Web screenshot.

The People's Republic of China Center for Disease Prevention and Control recently said that in September 2020, a covid virus vaccine used in emergency situations can be provided to medical personnel for normal clincial use. It is expected that all people in mainland China will be vaccinated in early 2021. It is also reported that the inactivated vaccine of the Chinese Communist Party, jointly developed by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has entered Phase II clinical trials and is expected to be delivered for nationwide usage early next year.

These news made Yang Wenjuan, the parent of the disabled child of the vaccine, angry. She said that she would never administer the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. She stressed that "the vaccine is not guaranteed, and whoever is vaccinated will die."

Yang Wenjuan, parent of a child disabled by a vaccine developed in mainland China, responded, "How many children in China are sick, dead, and disabled because of the vaccine virus, why these data cannot be made public, and how can these become state secrets? This is their inertia. The new vaccine for covid is impossible for me to accept vaccination. There is no guarantee for the vaccine. Whoever vaccinates is finished. This is a problem with the system. "

Yang Wenjuan's son Li Yunzhi was vaccinated and maimed when he was three months old, but the PRC CDC did not recognize the cause and effect.

Yang Wenjuan said, "The child was vaccinated in 2008. After the immunization, he had a fever. He had a total of 6 days of fever. Later he suffered from allergies and vomiting. Then all his functions were reversed. His language was also lost, and his exercise was gone. All the functions of turning up were lost. Later, we applied for a diagnosis with the PRC CDC. He said that the evidence of the causality of the child's disease root vaccine was insufficient, and gave us this conclusion. "

Image : Parents and their children. Web screenshot.

Later, Yang Wenjuan joined the vaccine rights protection group. The parents of these victims went to the Beijing Health and Discipline Inspection Commission in July 2018 to request vaccine legislation, and the authorities began to respond. But Yang Wenjuan revealed that she has not received compensation so far. The child is 12 years old and has not yet been able to go to school.

Yang Wenjuan said. "If there is compensation for the child ’s vaccine adverse reactions, he will be embezzled by Zhejiang Provincial CDC, and they will not be compensated. In addition, he refused our children to study in Hangzhou, so I really hate the Chinese Communist Party. They bully people. They bully vaccine children. "

He Fangmei is also the parent of the child who was victimized by the vaccine. Her daughter was disabled in March 2018 after she was injected with Wuhan Bio-Baibai vaccine. As a result, she embarked on the road of defending her rights and was repeatedly suppressed.

Image : PRC parents defending their rights for their children. Web screenshot.

He Fangmei, the parent of the child victim of the vaccine, remarked, "So many parents have been arrested, suppressed, jailed, and put under house arrest. This is also due to the incompetence of the PRC CDC and their malfeasance."

In an interview with The Epoch Times on 16 April 2020, the former senior official of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Chen Bingzhong, pointed out that the CCP is not qualified to produce vaccines for all hospitals to use until the problem of poisonous vaccines in mainland China is resolved.

U.S. intelligence community : SARS-CoV-2 not artificial, concern about animal infection or laboratory leak

Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/30/a102835835.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image: Bat is the chief host of coronaviruses but the intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2 has not been disclosed by the P4 laboratories in China (Wuhan and Harbin) and Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention and Control. By Syaibatul Hamdi, Pixabay.

The Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Agency (ODNI) issued a statement on Thursday (30 April 2020), saying that there is consensus agreement that SARS-CoV-2 is not artificial and  focuses on the investigations on whether the virus is due to the infection of animals or a Wuhan laboratory accident.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today issued the following Intelligence Community (IC) statement:

“The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.

“As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security. The IC 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.” 

( https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2112-intelligence-community-statement-on-origins-of-covid-19 )

A few days ago, the US media quoted an official US report that a number of public evidences had caused the US government to direct the source of the pandemic to the P4 laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Viology and the Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention and Control. US President Trump said that the United States has launched serious investigations into the origin of the virus and the CCP’s concealment of the epidemic in Wuhan. Secretary of State Pompeo has asked the CCP to open its doors for several days, and let foreign medical experts go to Wuhan to investigate the origin of the virus.

In the US political circles, some officials pointed directly at the CCP’s virus development from the CCP’s biological weapons, and some official agencies denied that the virus was artificial. The latter's position is accused of being somewhat related to the public opinion dumping campaign launched by the CCP.

After the CCP’s initial “theory of seafood market origins” went bankrupt, public opinion began to focus on the WIV. In order to shirk responsibility, the Chinese Communist Party began to manipulate public opinion at home and abroad, creating rumours that "viruses are US biological weapons against China." In the process of countering the CCP's online rumours, some US personnel stated that SARS-CoV-2 is not artificial, but stressed that this does not mean that the virus was not leaked from the laboratory.

Investigating the source of SARS-CoV-2 targets two experts of WIV

Editor : Yuan Mingqing
Publisher : Sound of Hope
Ref : https://www.soundofhope.org/post/372790
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Image (Web screenshots) : 1. Shi Zhengli the "bat woman" of China was worried about virus leakage from her Wuhan P4 laboratory. 2. Zhou Peng carried out bat coronavirus research in Australia and in Duke-NUS Medical School of Singapore before joining Wuhan Institute of Viology(Image 3). His bat coronavirus research in Wuhan is deemed dangerous as it aims to study the infectivity of the coronavirus to humans and humans' immunity to the coronavirus.

 A few days ago, the Australian government called on the international community to investigate the source of SARS-CoV-2 the virus responsible for the disease COVID-19 (covid, in short). It has won the support of many European and American countries. Although the CCP tried its best to block it, there is news that the Five Eyes Alliance is investigating and has targeted the  virus infection and immunity team leader of the Wuhan Institute of Viology (WIV), Zhou Peng, and Shi Zhengli, Director of the Wuhan Center for Viral Infectious Disease Research of WIV.

A few days ago, the Australian government publicly stated that in view of the severe disasters caused by SARS-CoV-2 in various parts of the world, all countries should support and be obliged to investigate the source and spread of the virus.

At the regular press conference on 27 April, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang called the proposal "political manipulation." At the same time, the Chinese ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye threatened to boycott Australian products and Australian universities.

Despite all the obstructions from the CCP, it seems to be ineffective. Australia said it would not succumb to the CCP’s “economic blackmail” and insisted on an investigation. The British Daily Telegraph revealed that the intelligence agency "Five Eyes" composed of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States is investigating the source of the virus and has targeted WIV team leader of bat coronavirus infection and immunity, Zhou Peng, and Shi Zhengli, Director of the Research Center for New Infectious Diseases of WIV.

Apple Daily reported today (29th) that the Daily Telegraph reported that Zhou Peng and Shi Zhengli had participated in research projects jointly funded by the Australian and Chinese Communist governments in the past. Zhou Peng was sent to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory at public expense from 2011 to 2014 to study, and then carried out research work in Australia and the Duke-NUS Medical College in Singapore.

According to official information from the Communist Party of China, Zhou Peng “has long been engaged in the research of epidemiology of emerging viruses and antiviral immunity of bats, revealing the immune mechanism of long-term bats carrying SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola virus, but their own disease does not occur”, "He is at the forefront of the world in the field of bat and virus research."

The report revealed that Zhou Peng had arranged to transport live bats caught in the wild from Queensland to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria, while studying abroad in Australia, euthanized the bats to study the deadly coronavirus they carry.

Allegedly, this study aims to prevent the next outbreak by understanding how the virus spreads from bats to humans but the work itself has high risk, and the outside world has been worried about the accidental leakage of the virus from the laboratory for many years, causing a global pandemic.

Shi Zhengli, Director of the New Infectious Disease Research Center of the WIV, has also lived in Australia as a visiting scholar for 3 months from 22 February 2006 to 21 May 2006. The Animal Health Laboratory of the Australian Science and Industry Organization is engaged in research, using horseshoe bat stool samples to identify whether they are the natural host of SARS coronavirus.

It was reported that when the epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Shi Zhengli once said that she could not sleep at night because she was worried that the virus was leaking from the laboratory, but then she changed her tone later and strongly denied that the virus leaked from the laboratory. 

On the 28th, Renaud Girard, a columnist for the French newspaper "Le Figaro", published a brief review of relevant experts' current understanding of the source of the virus. They said that people still do not know when and how bats have transmitted coronavirus  to pangolins, do not know how pangolins infected humans. So, should all countries in the world investigate how the epidemic started in China?

The article pointed out that at the end of 2019, there are hundreds of wild animal markets across China, but the virus only appears in Wuhan. Is it a bit strange? Only Wuhan in China has a research institute to study the coronaviruses carried by bats and the infectivity of these coronaviruses. Therefore, the suspicion of whether there is a laboratory virus leak is not nonsense.

The article questioned why China (the China Communist Party) refused to be transparent. Why is it so resolutely rejecting international investigations? Are there any untold secrets? After the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, the Japanese government immediately asked the experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency to conduct an investigation in order to deal with nuclear pollution. Why can't China (the China Communist Party) do the same?

Two inmates in Peru prison died of covid and incurred unrest

Editor : Lu Yongxin
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/29/a102834320.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Image : Unrest in Castro prison, Peru, due to deaths of two inmates from covid. Video Screenshot. 

After a prison in the capital of Lima, Peru, reported that two inmates died of covid, other inmates worried about infection and launched a riot and hanged slogans to demand release. The incident killed 9 prisoners and injured dozens of prison guards.

More than 600 inmates in Peru’s crowded prison system have contracted covid, 15 of whom died.

The incident occurred on 27 April 2020, located in Castro, Lima. Castro prison has an official capacity of 1,140, ​​but actually holds 5,500.

Prison riots were triggered by the prisoners' fear of the spread of the pandemic. The authorities controlled the situation after nightfall. The number of deaths initially announced was 3 deaths, and later gradually improved to 9 deaths. Many of the dead were obviously shot by police.

The National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) stated that in addition to the 9 deaths, another 60 prison guards, 5 police officers and 2 prisoners were injured.

In addition, the largest prison in Peru, Lirigancho (Lurigancho) in northern Lima, also erupted on 28 April 2020, and the prisoners demanded that the prison provide preventive measures against covid to prevent them from being infected.

Some prisoners held up a banner saying, "We are dying, don't let us die from infection, we need medicine." Two hours after the protest lasted, the prison and the prisoners reached an agreement to protest the end of the declaration.

Earlier, Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra announced that he would pardon 3,000 inmates who were least resistant to covid including those in Castro prison. The demonstrators in the Kaschu prison demanded to be included in the amnesty plan.

The Peruvian Ministry of Health confirmed on 28 April that more than 30,000 people were diagnosed with covid and 854 died. The number of diagnoses is the second highest in Latin America, after Brazil.

Stacks of corpse bags in Ecuador hospital toilet due to covid

Reporter : Jose Sanchez
Editor : Lu Yongxin
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : On 15 April 2020, the body of a patient who died of covid was transported to the morgue of Guayaquil Hospital. (JOSE SANCHEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

The medical system of Ecuador nearly collapsed due to the covid pandemic. The first-line medical staff in Ecuador in Latin America revealed that dead bodies have filled a local hospital's mortuary such that there are stacks of corpse bags as high as the total height of 6 to 7 people in the hospital toilet.

According to Reuters data, a total of 24,258 people have been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ecuador, and 871 people have not been cured, but the true number may be much higher than this. Guayaquil is by far the most severely affected city in Latin America.

A 35-year-old anonymous nurse at a hospital in Guayaquil, the capital of Guayas province, said that when the outbreak suddenly occurred in March, within 24 hours, each nursing staff in the hospital had to take care of 15 patients. As the pandemic rages, they have to take care of  30 patients. He said: "There are so many people going to the hospital ... in fact, they passed away in our hands."

He told AFP that the hospital had to allow some patients to be discharged or referred in order to vacate the beds to accommodate the patients.

The same is true for the mortuary. He said, "The mortuary staff cannot handle the corpses. Many times, we have to wrap the bodies and put them in the toilet. When the body bags have reached the height of 6, 7 people, no one comes to handle them collectively."

Another 26-year-old nurse also confirmed the chaotic situation in the hospital, "the deceased are on the toilet, floor and armchair."

A national public security official said that he had visited the emergency unit in Guayaquil and also saw stacked bodies. He said: "How to deal with 150 bodies in the mortuary where only 8 bodies can be placed? I had to put the dead in any space nearby."

Guayaquil Mayor Cynthia Viteri said the outbreak hit Guayaquil "like a bomb". He said, "Whether the living or the dead have nowhere to settle, this is how serious the Guayaquil epidemic is." Mortuaries, funeral homes and hospitals are all overwhelmed.

Earlier, the death toll from the pandemic surged. Guayaquil’s morgue and hospital space was inadequate, and the funeral system was paralyzed. Hundreds of bodies rotted at home for several days or lay on the side of the street, covered with black plastic bags. Vehicles outside the cemetery are in long queues, and the cars are loaded with cardboard coffins.

In order to prevent the pandemic, the government imposed a 15-hour curfew every day, resulting in a slow pace of death identification and funeral home processing. To solve the dilemma, the government combined with the military and police to form a special task force to assist in the disposal of the remains.

The Ecuadorian authorities predict that as many as 3,500 people will die from the pandemic in the coming months.

Long queue of ambulances in Harbin, Wuhan covid frontline experts rush to the Northeast

Reporter : Qin Chuan
Editor : Yun Tao
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/28/a102834073.html
Extract translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Images : The Harbin epidemic broke out again, and online video shows a long queue of ambulances admitting and treating patients. (Video screenshots)

Harbin's covid epidemic has intensified for days. Citizens say there has been a second outbreak. Web-based video shows that there is a long queue of ambulances for covid patients. Three Wuhan covid frontline experts have rushed to the Northeast.

Image : Web Screenshot.

The two largest local top three hospitals in Harbin have recently experienced cluster infections, which have continued to expand. The Epoch Times quoted local citizens as reporting that the number of confirmed cases in the city is increasing. A large number of unconfirmed, non-suspected cases, and non-close contacts are also isolated at home, and the doors of many families are directly blocked.

According to media reports, Tong Zhaohui, Qiu Haibo, and Du Bin, intensive care medical experts in Wuhan due to the covid epidemic, rushed to Heilongjiang Province on 26 April 2020. Another expert Zhong Nanshan also came to two hospitals in Mudanjiang that day.

According to reports, due to the severe epidemic, critical care medical experts have transferred from Wuhan to Heilongjiang. The people in the epidemic area questioned the CCP’s concealment of the epidemic.

In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the Harbin authorities had to control it again, requiring villages and communities to prohibit the entry of non-local personnel and vehicles, and there was a long queue of emergency vehicles.

A Harbin citizen, Mr. Li, told NTD that the outbreak in Harbin has already occurred for the second time.

According to reports, covid has spread to Inner Mongolia and Liaoning across the province in addition to spreading within Heilongjiang Province.

Shi Zhengli worried about laboratory virus leakage

Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/28/a102834069.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : The picture shows Shi Zhengli's speech at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. (Web image)

International media focused on the origin of the virus SARS-CoV-2 responsible for the disease COVID-19, and the P4 laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Viology has attracted much attention. A few days ago, French media again questioned that the virus may have leaked from the laboratory, and mentioned that when the epidemic broke out in Wuhan last year, Shi Zhengli of Wuhan P4 Laboratory was once in anxiety and fear, claiming to have not closed her eyes for several nights.

The French newspaper Le Monde reported on 25 April 2020 that Shi Zhengli, the Head of the virus infection center of the P4 laboratory, had repeatedly recalled each of her research, every action, and kept asking herself if the virus leaked out from the laboratory. Shi Zhengli once told a reporter from the the American monthly Science, "This really messed my mind and I could not close my eyes."

Le Monde said that Shi Zhengli is not well-known abroad, but she is well-known in China because she is good at researching bats. She is called "bat woman" by mainland Chinese media.

The report also mentioned that there are multiple virus laboratories in Wuhan, and Shi Zhengli's research requires laboratories with P3 and P4 security levels. Among them, the P4 laboratory is located about 30 kilometres southwest of Wuhan. It is a light gray bunker, with towers and office buildings on the sides and woods behind. The address is difficult to find. Both the official website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Google Maps incorrectly locate it in the old virus research institute near East Lake.

The report said that in addition to Shi Zhengli, US diplomatic officials visited the Wuhan P4 laboratory in 2018 and were worried about the safety of the laboratory. The US believes that there is a lack of properly trained researchers and investigators there.

However, it was first suspected that the Chinese leaked the CCP virus in the laboratory. Starting from the low in January this year, Chinese netizens began to suspect the P4 laboratory and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control Center near the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan. The latter's security level is low, and its researcher Tian Junhua's video of capturing bats in caves was once circulating on the Internet. The China media also publicly admitted that people are easily infected by bat viruses when catching bats.

Cui Yongyuan, a former CCTV host in China, launched a 10-day poll on Twitter. Of the 10,000 people who answered, 51% believed that the CCP virus was accidentally leaked from the laboratory, and 24% thought it was intentionally spread. 12% of people think it is natural. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party also made major decisions, including sending military biological and chemical weapons major general Chen Wei to Wuhan at the end of January to take over the P4 laboratory.

The report said that about six people in Wuhan’s P4 laboratory had gone to the Laboratoire Jean-Mérieux laboratory in Lyon, France, for a three-week training, including thousands of exercises in diving suits to breathe, calculate movements, cut or link the gas supply valve. Before starting the experiment every time, be careful to avoid forgetting safety procedures. The Wuhan P4 laboratory, which is a Sino-French cooperation, also has multiple decompression air locks, which must be opened by a card reading system. There is also an anti-fouling shower at the exit.

The report also mentioned that there are a large number of students in and out of the Wuhan P4 laboratory, where researchers sometimes bring 20 students at the same time, while a French researcher can bring up to 3 students.

French neuroscientist Gernan Alexis Génin said that China’s scientific research projects are not transparent and sometimes do not comply with scientific medical ethics, which may lead to deviations. Moreover, in the pursuit of high productivity, many young researchers take turns to do experiments, which will increase the risk of operation errors and infection.

The report also mentioned that because of concerns about the risk of biological pollution, the French medical community often has reservations. However, the CCP is very fanatical. Its primary task of scientific research is to serve as a so-called "nationally powerful" tool. Therefore, laboratories in all research fields in China are competing.

In China, there are many people who study bat coronaviruses. One of the research priorities of Shi Zhengli and her team is to reinvent the virus and make them more contagious. CCP experts claim that the purpose of this is the so-called "test treatment".

Ref:
Shi Zhengli : Unexpact SARS-like coronavirus cross-species infection will occur in Wuhan, https://staygate.blogspot.com/2020/03/shi-zhengli-unexpect-that-sars-like.html

Cambodia reports 122 covid cases and exports cases to China

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : Cambodians wearing face masks in Phnom Penh. Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP via Getty Images

According to The Phnom Penh Post on 28 April 2020, Cambodia has a cumulative number of 122 covid cases. 119 Cambodians have recovered while three patients are hospitalized.

Although the number of covid cases is lower than cases in neighbouring countries, the disease risk level for virus transmission between individuals is at an "alarming rate", Cambodia Healthy Ministry spokesperson Or Vandine warned.

“Cambodia’s coronavirus scenario is classified as being at an early stage of the pandemic because of ongoing transmissions worldwide. A second wave can occur at any instance,” she responded to The Phnom Penh Post.

Meanwhile, there are reports of Cambodia exporting undetected covid cases to China by Cambodian airlines. On average there are up to five cases weekly to China since the beginning of  April.

Cambodia Angkor Air, JC Airlines, Sky Angkor Airlines and Lanmei Airlines operate scheduled flights to China. 

According to news reports quoting the Guangdong Province Health Commission, a 37-year-old Chinese national showed covid symptoms after arriving in Guangzhou from Cambodia on 10 April 2020.

On 22 April 2020, another Chinese national, 41, was diagnosed positive with covid after leaving Phnom Penh for Guangzhou.

The two cases are allegedly related to a 45-year-old businessman who was diagnosed with covid in China on 3 April 2020.

In a media conference on 13 April 2020, Vandine pointed out that the man who lives in Phnom Penh threw a dinner party just before he left the city, and that six close contacts, including two Vietnamese, a Cambodian couple, and a Chinese national were infected with covid.

Cambodia had five covid infection clusters- Muslim event participants, Viking boaters, French tourists in Sihanoukville, Thai migrant workers and the Chinese partygoers.

The authorities have investigated the clusters although they have yet to pinpoint the original source of Covid-19 for the Chinese cluster. They continue to follow-up on three remaining contacts.

To date, 11,576 samples have been tested at the National Institute of Public Health and Institut Pasteur Du Cambodge. The figure grew by some 1,500 from last week, with 723 samples per one million population being tested.

“Between 100 and 300 samples are taken daily by our 3,000 rapid response teams throughout the Kingdom. All of them are medically trained to take samples from suspected carriers,” Or Vandine said.

Or Vandine urged people in Cambodia to continue practising safe distancing and good hygiene practices.

Rabbi : Another virus will appear, deadlier than SARS-CoV-2

Publisher : Vision Times / Secret China
Ref : https://www.secretchina.com/news/gb/2020/04/28/931277.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : The world masked in the pandemic. Pixabay.

SARS-CoV-2 is ravaging the world. All countries in the world are studying corresponding solutions. In a group of seminal works of Jewish mysticism, about the Jewish mystic thoughts-Kabbalah's series "Zohar" (Zohar) not only predicted the covid pandemic, but also predicted that after the virus, there will be another  more terrible virus that will be rampant around the world.

A young rabbi in Judaism, Rav Yaakov Yagen, revealed a part of "Zohar" in a speech in March 2020. "Rabbi" is an expert, scholar, and wise man of Jewish law, and has a high status in Jewish society.

Image : Rav Yaakov Yagen. Video screenshot.

This part of the predictions mentioned by Yagen is: In the last stage of the last period, the world will be hit by a pandemic. "Zohar" predicts that after the initial disease, another disease will follow. Although it is similar to the first disease, it is more lethal.

Yagen said: "This may be a very dangerous thing, it should spread, this may be the end. But God guards us, we must work harder by respecting God more, and the rest Everything is left to God, and God protects us. "

Yagen pointed out that prayer is one way to protect the public from plague and disease. He said, "Israeli sages talked about public prayers, salutes to synagogues and other similar important things that saved us from the (plague) epidemic. Therefore, the more we work in these areas, the less we have to panic , We can remain calm and believe that God will be with us. "

Later, Yagen quoted "Zohar" (page 172 b) to explain, "Ultimately, in the Messianic era, first of all, a virus will spread around the world and people will exercise some control over it. After that, there will be another virus, which is similar to the first virus, but more deadly than the first virus. This will be God's way of purifying the world so that the Messiah can come. "

According to "Zohar", mankind has come to an end, but instead of waiting for the end, it greets the arrival of the Messiah at the end. He hopes that people can sincerely confess and pray, over the end, toward a pure and bright future.

Image : Rabbi Pinto. Video screenshot.

In February 2020, Breaking Israel News reported that a Jewish rabbi named Yosef Pinto had spoken about the severity of covid earlier.

The report said that in early January of this year, when Wuhan pneumonia was not widely known, the internationally renowned Rabbi Pinto, who lives in Morocco, announced that he saw a terrible sight on Sabbath.

Pinto told his followers in a recorded speech that shocking events will occur in this world, no less than the assassination of world leaders or the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He said, "This world will experience a shocking event, it will be loaded into the annals of history and become one of the worst events in history."

Pinto confirmed in a statement issued in February that what he saw was indeed related to covid. He said that this wave of epidemic originating from China will develop into a catastrophe all over the world and will impact every corner of the world.

Pinto said, "Since the outbreak, tens of thousands of people have died in China, millions of people have been quarantined for several weeks, and those who have not died of disease are starving to death."

Pinto noted in Chapter 30 of the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament of the Bible, God promised, "I will vent my anger on Sin." In modern Hebrew, "Sin" means China.

Pinto said he knew that what he said would make people feel scared, but everyone must pray for the world, light candlelight, and seek God's forgiveness.

Different US airlines' policies on wearing face masks

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : Web Screenshot

According to a CNBC news report, all passengers and flight attendants on JetBlue must wear face masks from 4 May 2020. This is the most stringent regulation among US airlines on containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2. 

American Airlines and Delta Airlines said earlier on Monday that they would require thousands of employees to wear face masks and provide masks for passengers but American Airlines and Delta do not force passengers to wear masks.

American Airlines said it will begin issuing face masks and disinfectant wipes to passengers in May 2020, and requires about 30,000 flight attendants to wear masks while working.

Delta Airlines said that from 28 April to 30 June 2020, if the distance cannot be maintained within six feet, employees must wear face masks. "Therefore it strongly encourages passengers to wear masks. Delta will provide masks at ticket offices, gates and inflight.

Earlier, United Airlines and Frontier Airlines also required flight attendants to wear masks. United is the first major airline to require flight attendants to wear masks.

New vaccine allows plasmodium parasites to destroy themselves

Reporter : Tang Yichen
Publisher : China Science Daily
Ref :http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2020/4/438787.shtm
Translation using Google

Image : New research has discovered an antibody, usually found in children with natural immunity to severe malaria, which attacks a special malaria protein called PfGARP. Image source: Kurtis Lab / Big Ocean

On 22 April 2020, a study published by Nature showed that researchers screened blood samples of children with innate immune resistance to severe malaria and found an antibody against the special malaria protein PfGARP protects children from severe malaria.

Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes that kills nearly 500,000 people every year. Previous efforts to develop anti-malarial vaccines have had only limited success.

The study lasted nearly 20 years and began with an epidemiological study led by Michal Fried and Patrick Duffy of the National Institute of Health. Since 2001, they have begun to recruit a group of children in Tanzania. These children were included in the study as soon as they were born, and the researchers followed them for many years to see who among them had a naturally acquired immune response to malaria.

Finally, the Kurtis team selected 12 drug-resistant and 14 susceptible children from the Tanzania cohort. The researchers observed blood samples collected from children around the age of two, and children of this age appeared to have naturally acquired immunity. The researchers used a complicated method to introduce malaria proteins into each blood sample one by one in order to find any antibodies for specific proteins present in the immune sample rather than the susceptible sample, and found that PfGARP is a potential for resistance factor.

Laboratory tests have shown that PfGARP antibodies seem to activate the self-destructive mechanism of malaria, causing parasites parasitic in human red blood cells to undergo a programmed cell death. The researchers then tested whether the antibody response to PfGARP was related to immunity in a large sample of 246 children. They found that children without anti-PfGARP antibodies were 2.5 times more likely to have severe malaria than children with antibodies.

Researchers say that human vaccine trials may be years away, and it is impossible to determine whether it will be effective. However, the research team said that there is reason to believe that this new strategy may succeed where others fail. This is because it attacks the parasite at different times than other vaccines during the infection cycle.

An existing vaccine aimed at the first stage, aimed at preventing liver infections, has limited effectiveness. Kurtis said that part of the reason is that the time window for intervention is too small. "The parasite takes only 5 minutes from the mosquito to the liver," he said. "Because it is very fast, it needs a lot of antibodies to stop it. If only one spore enters, you have malaria."

This new vaccine is aimed at the trophozoite stage, which can last up to one day. The researchers hope that the longer the intervention, the less antibody will be needed to kill the parasites, and a more effective vaccine will be developed.

Related paper information: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2220-1

Severe covid patients under 'nucleic acid test turned negative' claim discharged and transferred to another

Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/27/a102833060.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : Severe covid cases discharged and transferred to another hospital face exorbitant treatment charges. The Epoch Times.

On 26 April 2020, the China Communist Party announced that Wuhan had no hospitalized patients with covid, and was questioned again for "political zeroing." On the same day, serious family members reported to The Epoch Times that their father discharged was transferred to another hospital a few days ago and could no longer be contacted directly. Although his father continued to receive rescue, the doctor told the test to be "negative" and the father no longer a confirmed patient.

At the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council of the CPC on the 26th, Mi Feng, a spokesman for the National Health and Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, declared that the number of covid patients hospitalized in Wuhan has reduced to "zero".  Like the previous "zeroing" of Wuhan square cabin hospitals and the "zeroing" of newly confirmed cases, this "zeroing" was again questioned by the outside world.

On the same day, The Epoch Times published an interview with Ms. He, the daughter of a severe covid patient in Wuhan, unveiling some of the truth about the “zeroing” of Wuhan ’s inpatients. Recently, Ms. He asked for help online to expose her family's tragic experience. In an interview with The Epoch Times, she recounted the details of her father's forced transfer to hospital and losing contact.

Ms. He said that after her diagnosis in January this year, her father was transferred to Jinyintan Hospital, which specializes in treating infected patients, during which time her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Because of the isolation treatment, the family could not see the father, and they used to contact each other via mobile phone. But more than a month ago, his father suddenly stopped answering the phone. The nurse answered the phone and said that my father had lost consciousness in shock and was being rescued. After that, the family lost contact with their father.

On 11 April, her father was suddenly transferred from Jinyintan Hospital to (Wuhan University) Zhongnan Hospital, and the family was notified afterwards. Ms. He only read the news to know that this time, the official discharged and transferred most of the remaining serious illnesses patients from Jinyintan Hospital to Zhongnan Hospital. She also contacted a critically ill family member afterwards. His father was also transferred from Jinyintan Hospital to Zhongnan Hospital on the same day.

According to the notice from Zhongnan Hospital, Ms. He's father is still receiving treatment in ICU of Zhongnan Hospital but because his father "nucleic acid detection has turned negative," the follow-up huge medical covid treatment requires family members to pay for the treatment at their own expense. The hospital is now urging more than 50,000 yuan in costs, which has left the family in trouble. The hospital told Ms He, "If you do not pay, your father will face the risk of dying after giving up treatment. If you continue to pay, even if you sell the property, he may not last long."

Ms. He questioned that even if her father "test turned negative," the result was detected at Jinyintan Hospital. Why did Jinyintan Hospital not ask them to pay the expenses, but another hospital is charging for treatment?

Regarding the “nucleic acid test turned negative” claimed by the hospital, Ms. He did not mention that her family had seen the test result.

According to a report on the Xinhua News Agency website on 12 April 2020, 14 severely ill and critically ill patients in the ICU ward of Jinyintan Hospital had “nucleic acid detection all turned negative”, of which 11 patients were transferred to hospitals such as Zhongnan Hospital that day, and 3 patients remained in Jinyintan were also removed from the ICU. This means that the ICU ward of Jinyintan Hospital has completed the "zeroing" of patients.

Anti-AIDS and anti-influenza drugs ineffective in treating adult patients with covid symptoms

Reporter : Feng Lifei
Publisher : China Science Daily
Ref : http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2020/4/438992.shtm
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

The anti-AIDS drugs lopinavir / ritonavir (LPV / Kaletra) and the anti-influenza drug arbidol have also recently been used to treat covid caused by SARS-CoV-2 but according to a newly published exploratory randomized controlled study, among adult patients with mild to moderate symptoms of covid, the clinical results were not obvious compared with those receiving supportive therapy. Related research results were published in Med, a journal of Cell Press, on 17 April 2020.

Li Linghua, one of the corresponding authors of this study and the Deputy Director of the Infectious Diseases Center of the Eighth People's Hospital of Guangzhou, said, "We found that neither lopinavir / ritonavir treatment nor abidol treatment improved the patient's clinical outcome. There may also be some side effects. Although the sample size is small, we think this study can still remind everyone that these two drugs should be used more rationally and cautiously in the treatment of covid. "

"The reason why I chose lopinavir / ritonavir and arbidol for research is because these two antiviral drugs are listed as candidates for the treatment of COVID-19 in the "Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Program (Trial Version 6)" on 19 February 2020 and have been supported by clinical data because of the effectiveness of the two drugs in the treatment of SARS and MERS, They have proved effective against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro cell tests.", Li said.

Previous researchers have found that lopinavir / ritonavir failed to improve the prognosis of patients with severe novel coronavirus pneumonia / COVID-19 (covid, in short), and Li Linghua pointed out, "Determine whether lopinavir / ritonavir is effective against covid / COVID -19 in patients with mild to moderate symptoms. If they are effective, it can be used to prevent mild to moderate disease from becoming severe, thereby helping to reduce mortality. "

A total of 86 patients with mild-to-moderate covid participated in this study. Among them, 34 patients were randomly selected to receive lopinavir / ritonavir treatment, 35 were treated with abidol, and the remaining 17 were used as control groups to receive antiviral medication. The clinical results of the three groups of patients were similar on the 7th and 14th days. Among the two groups of antiviral treatment, there was no difference in the fever reduction rate, cough symptom relief rate and chest CT image improvement rate, but these two groups patients had adverse reactions such as diarrhea, nausea, and loss of appetite during the follow-up period, while the control group had no obvious adverse reactions.

Li Linghua said, "This study shows that treatment must be carefully considered before deciding to use these drugs on patients. Researchers should indeed continue to work hard to find a truly effective solution for anti-viral treatment of covid, but before drawing any conclusions, scientific and rigorous clinical trials are required, and due care must be exercised. However, although no special anti-covid drugs have been found, the public / everyone need not panic, as long as strict isolation and good personal hygiene are maintained , we can largely avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, and even if unfortunately infected, the vast majority of patients can return to health under the current comprehensive treatment. "

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.04.001