Sellin believes that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioweapon agent released by the CCP military to test the infectivity of the virus on animals and during the course of the pathogenicity and transmissibility studies, SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted to the workers in the animal laboratory.
In July 2020, Shi Zhengli revealed to the Science magazine that it was impossible for anyone to enter and leave the P3 and P4 laboratories of WIV without adhering to the biosafety requirements of the laboratories.
The StayGate reporter suggests the WHO team of investigators to request for comprehensive access to the laboratories in Wuhan including WIV's P2, P3 laboratories and Wuhan University ABSL-3 laboratory at the Institute of Model Animal (IMA), and not only the P4 laboratory to clarify anyone's doubts on the origin of SARS-CoV-2.
Ref: https://staygate.blogspot.com/2021/05/sellin-how-covid-outbreak-broke-out-in.html
A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the first people suspected of being infected with Covid-19 in Wuhan, three weeks before Beijing authorities claim they detected the initial case.
The astonishing error, revealed in a screen-grab sent to a Chinese medical journal, shows that the 61-year-old woman, known as ‘Patient Su’, lived about a mile from one of the city’s main coronavirus research labs.
She was also close to a stop for the high-speed rail line that is believed to have played a key role in spreading the virus around the city of 11 million people.
Tom Tugendhat MP, chairman of the Common’s foreign affairs committee, said: ‘The time has come for China to open up all its files so the world can find the truth about the origins of this pandemic.
‘We cannot protect against future risks if there is not recognition that we all need to share knowledge and learn from any mistakes.’
This latest development emerged as the result of an interview given to a Chinese medical journal by the scientist tasked with compiling the country’s official data on cases.
Professor Yu Chuanhua, professor of biostatistics at Wuhan University, told Health Times that he had 47,000 cases on his national database of confirmed and suspected cases by late February 2020.
These included one suspected fatality of a patient who fell ill in late September 2019.
‘There is data on a patient who became ill on September 29,’ he said. ‘The data shows the patient has not undergone nucleic testing and the clinical diagnosis is a suspected case. The patient has died. The data has not been confirmed.’
The academic then detailed two more suspected cases reported to Wuhan doctors on November 14 and 21, along with several others before December 8 – the date that China gave to the World Health Organisation for the ‘earliest onset case’.
The Health Times article included a screenshot of the two November cases on the professor’s database. Although personal details were blurred out, some were visible, including the hospital name and home district.
They show Patient Su was treated at Rongjun Hospital in Wuhan and, given the building and street numbers, almost certainly lived in the Kaile Guiyan community on Zhuodaoquan Street, about 600 metres from the medical centre.
Both the hospital and the residence are in the Hongshan district near where much of the bat-related coronavirus research was taking place in several laboratories.
These include a laboratory run by China’s Centre for Disease Control with the second-highest global levels of biosecurity little more than one mile away, while downtown sites run by Wuhan Institute of Virology are less than three miles away.
David Asher, former lead investigator for the US State Department, told The Mail on Sunday in March that three researchers at the institute had become ill with a mysterious respiratory condition in November 2019, with the wife of one scientist dying.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported these researchers ended up in hospital although China has furiously denied the claims. On Thursday, President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence services to carry out a fresh probe into the pandemic’s origins.
One Washington source told The Mail on Sunday that US intelligence on the Wuhan researchers was collected in late 2019 in data-scraping from routine surveillance. It is thought to include tapped phone conversations, texts and emails.
He said it was not discovered until efforts were intensified last year to investigate the pandemic’s origins and any possible links with Wuhan laboratories – and that it is backed by testimony from a source with access to one of the units.
It is also understood that Washington has been surprised by the lack of input from British intelligence into China’s cover-up, given their liaison over other global concerns. ‘The UK seemed surprisingly reticent,’ he said.
The area where Patient Su lived and was treated is more than 13 miles from the Huanan market originally blamed by Beijing as the source of Covid-19 and which was rapidly cleaned up after Taiwan notified the WHO about the emerging crisis. The second patient in November was listed as a 62-year-old man called Wang, who was treated at Hanyang hospital.
Professor’s Yu’s interview with Health Times took place on the day China’s health authorities issued a silencing gag on the novel coronavirus as President Xi Jinping tried to regain control of the situation.
Yu rang the journalist within two days to retract this information, claiming the dates had been entered incorrectly and all the other suspected cases before December 8 needed verification.
The details were discovered by Gilles Demaneuf, a member of the ‘Drastic’ group of online digital activists who have uncovered many of the facts seen as contradicting the official Chinese narrative that Covid-19 was a disease that crossed over naturally from animals.
‘We were able to pinpoint the exact name, age and address of a very early suspected case nearly one month before the official first case,’ said Demaneuf, a French data scientist who works for a New Zealand bank. ‘That address is right next to the subway line No 2 and also not far from a People’s Liberation Army hospital that treated some of the other earliest cases.’
This rail system carries a million people a day and connects the wet market, Wuhan Institute of Virology and an international airport.
Demaneuf argues these new findings show many more clues might be accessible if there are continued and determined efforts to evaluate the lab leak theory – rather than ‘wishful acceptance at face value of statements from China’. The WHO was widely condemned for its ‘whitewash’ investigation earlier this year when it allowed Beijing to vet its team of experts.
It adopted China’s narrative that a lab leak was ‘extremely unlikely’ while pushing discredited theories that Covid might have been imported on frozen food. The organisation’s joint report even backtracked on an influential Lancet study by Chinese scientists which examined the first 41 patients admitted to hospital and gave the date of the first case as December 1, 2019.
This man, whose wife and son also fell ill as the first confirmed family cluster of Covid, was excluded because his respiratory condition allegedly responded to antibiotics.
Meanwhile, a well-sourced report in the South China Morning Post in March claimed there were nine cases by the end of November, involving four men and five women aged between 39 and 79, with the first diagnosis on 17 November.
Southampton University modelling experts suggested China could have cut global cases by 95 per cent if it had taken action to contain the disease three weeks earlier – instead of covering up the outbreak and pressing ahead with New Year festivities that involved millions of people moving around the country.
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Reporter : Jackie Salo / Source : The New York Post
A full investigation into the origin of COVID-19 in China is “absolutely critical” in order to prevent future pandemics — and avoid “COVID-32,” an expert warned Sunday.
“There’s going to be COVID-26 and COVID-32 unless we fully understand the origins of COVID-19. This is absolutely critical,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Hotez said that he believes the US needs to do more than launch an intelligence investigation into theories that the virus emerged naturally from animals or escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“I’m personally of the opinion that we’ve pushed intelligence as far as we can,” Hotez said, saying that the US needs to send experts to the original epicenter of the pandemic in Wuhan.
“We need a team of scientists, genealogists, biologists, bat ecologists in the Hubei province for six months to a year-long period and fully unravel the origins of COVID-19.”
Hotez, however, acknowledged that China may be resistant to a full investigation. A World Health Organization team probing the site earlier this year was stymied from independent digging due to interference from Beijing.
“I think we have to really put a lot of pressure on China, including possible sanctions to allow a team of outstanding epidemiologists and virologists in China with unfettered access to the animals, the people, to samples [and] the lab,” Hotez said.
He warned that without “full access,” the origins may never be uncovered.
“I think you really need to have detailed analysis about the bat populations — all of the possible reservoir animals and people — and without that, it’s going to be really hard to work this out,” he said.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced two measures that seek to equip the United States with the ability to investigate the origins of the CCP virus and allow Americans to sue Beijing for suppressing information about the pandemic.
The proposals follow calls for a new probe into the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus amid widespread concerns that the pandemic may have been sparked by a laboratory accident.
The first bill, known as the Made in America Emergency Preparedness Act, authorizes the creation of a 9/11-style commission that would assess the national emergency response to the pandemic by the federal government and private sector, and determine precautionary steps to be taken in the event of a future national emergency. One of the commission’s purposes would be to investigate the origins of the virus.
The commission will be required to report its findings to Congress and the White House. Some of the recommendations would include steps the federal government could take to become more self-sufficient in terms of sourcing medication and personal protective equipment from domestic sources in a national emergency.
“We simply cannot outsource our public safety and national security to foreign nations. We must reconstitute our health care and public safety supply chain back to the United States,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, said in a statement. “Medical products, protective equipment, pharmaceuticals, emergency response equipment, and all other critical items and materials needed to respond to a national emergency must be produced domestically for domestic consumption, especially during a critical, time-sensitive crisis.”
The bill is co-sponsored by five Democrats and four additional Republicans.
The second measure, known as the Never Again International Outbreak Prevention Act and introduced by Fitzpatrick and Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), seeks to strip sovereign immunity, a legal rule that insulates countries from being sued in other countries’ courts, from foreign nations who have intentionally misled the international community about a health concern that could lead to a pandemic.
“As we have seen from COVID-19, the Chinese Communist Party has been intentionally and maliciously misleading the rest of the world about the scope and spread of the novel coronavirus. We must hold other nations accountable for their actions that threaten and harm the livelihoods of Americans and people across the world,” Fitzpatrick said.
Lamb said, “Congress needs to act now to ensure that there are consequences for international players who behave like China did during the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.”
The Chinese regime has been accused of engaging in a cover-up of the CCP virus’s origins by silencing doctors, officials, and scientists who tried to warn others.
Experts have previously told The Epoch Times that the Chinese regime’s actions in downplaying the severity of the virus and its mismanagement could have violated its duty under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations to expeditiously share information on a broad category of diseases such as new influenza-like illnesses such as the coronavirus.
The purpose of the International Health Regulations (pdf) is “to prevent, protect against, control, and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade,” according to its foreword.
The revised 2005 version is an agreement between 196 countries requiring parties to notify the WHO “of all events which may constitute a public health emergency of international concern within its territory.”
It also requires parties to continue to inform the WHO of “timely, accurate, and sufficiently detailed public health information available to it on the notified event,” including laboratory results, source and type of risk, number of cases and deaths, and conditions affecting the spread of the disease and the health measures employed.
The lawmakers’ proposed bill would require foreign nations to put in place a system to report outbreaks of new diseases so the international community can get ahead of future pandemics.
The bill seeks to create a global “sentinel surveillance” system to collect data, identify trends, identify outbreaks, and provide monitoring on disease.
“Countries would be required to report all new cases within three days. This legislation would also give the federal government the tools necessary to encourage foreign nations to comply with these goals and to punish bad actors,” the lawmakers said.
President Joe Biden said last week that the U.S. intelligence community (IC) believes there are “two likely scenarios” that may have caused the CCP virus outbreak in China.
“After I became president, in March, I had my National Security Advisor task the Intelligence Community to prepare a report on their most up-to-date analysis of the origins of COVID-19, including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident,” Biden said in a White House statement, adding that he wanted intelligence agents to “redouble” their efforts in finding the origin of the virus.
“As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has ‘coalesced around two likely scenarios’ but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question,” the president stated. “Here is their current position: ‘while two elements in the IC leans toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter—each with low or moderate confidence—the majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other.’”
The president has directed the IC to produce a report in 90 days regarding the virus’s origins.
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Covid lab leak argument grows, animal source theory likely "shrunken", says ex-FDA head
Reporter : Sam Raskin / Source : The New York Post
The former head of the Food and Drug Administration said Sunday that the argument for COVID-19 originating in a lab has grown — while the animal source origin theory has “contracted.”
“The side of the ledger that suggests that this could have come out of a lab has continued to expand, and the side of the ledger that suggests this has come from of a zoonotic source, come out of nature, really hasn’t budged, and if anything you can argue that that side of the ledger has contracted,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“We’ve done an exhaustive search for this so-called intermediate host, the animal that could have been a host to this virus before it spread to human, [and] we have not found such an animal,” Gottlieb, the FDA commissioner from 2017 to April 2019, explained.
“We’ve also fully disproven the market, the food market that was originally implicated in the outbreak as the source of the outbreak, so that side of the ledger probably has shrunken.”
The Chinese government could provide “exculpatory” evidence showing the virus that caused the pandemic didn’t leak from a lab in Wuhan, but they’ve yet to do so, Gottlieb said.
“China could provide evidence that would be exculpatory here,” he said.
“They could provide the blood samples from those who worked in the lab in Wuhan, they’ve refused to do that, they could provide the source strains, some of the original strains, they’ve refused to do that, they could provide access to some of the early samples that we can sequences, they can provide an inventory of what was in the lab [at] The Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that has been implicated in a potential lab leak, they have refused to do that.”
Gottlieb, who sits on Pfizer’s board, said that since the lab was “poorly controlled” and performed “high-risk research” on SARS-like viruses, news that its workers became infected with novel coronavirus-like symptoms in fall 2019 adds credence to the once-maligned theory that COVID-19 leaked from the facility
“That side of the ledger has expanded and I think that’s why there’s renewed focus on this,” he said of the lab leak theory.
If the theory was determined by experts to be probable, the development could lead to heightened safety measures in labs where people conduct research on viruses, he said.
“It’s important to understand what the possibility is that this came out of a lab, so we can focus more international attention on trying to get better inventories about these labs, better security, make sure they’re properly built,” said Gottlieb.
But when it comes to knowing how to handle the spread of the virus, Gottlieb said knowing whether it started in a lab or in from animals wouldn’t change much.
“I think what we know about the virus we already know about the virus,” he said.
“There’s nothing that we’re going to learn about the characteristics of the current virus by knowing its origin, quite frankly. We’ve had enough experience with this virus to fully understand it.”
Gottlieb’s comments come as Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives are pushing bills to investigate the virus’ origin.
Three researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in November 2019 came down with “symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,” The Wall Street Journal reported on May 23.
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According to Mongolia's Ministry of Health, reported that 769 new covid cases were detected after a total of 8,600 PCR tests were performed nationwide in the past 24 hours before 29 May 2021.
In specific, 681 new cases were confirmed in Ulaanbaatar city and 87 cases were detected in rural regions, including Orkhon, Bulgan, Khuvsgul, Khovd, Tuv, Arkhangai, Tuv, Khentii, Dornod, Dornogobi, Uvurkhangai and Gobi-Altai aimags. As a result, the nationwide infection tally is now 56,621, with the cases registered in the capital city grown to 50,139.
As of 29 May 2021 local time, 571 coronavirus patients had recovered, making the number of covid patient recoveries 49,320. A total of 4,345 coronavirus patients are being treated at hospitals in Ulaanbaatar city and the rural aimags. Among them, 467 patients’ health are in serious conditions, reports the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD), the primary healthcare organization in the country responding to the pandemic. Another 2,665 patients who are experiencing mild symptoms are being treated at home under surveillance of family health clinic while taking home isolation precautions.
NCCD also reported five new COVID-19 related deaths, raising the country's death toll to 268, on 29 May. The casualties are covid patients aged between 47 and 90 years old, who were being treated at NCCD in Ulaanbaatar.
Laos has reported just a single case of Covid-19 on 31 May 2021, imported to Champasack across the border with Thailand.
Dr. Sisavath Soutthanalaxay confirmed the news at the daily briefing by the National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
He said that following 2,002 tests in the past 24 hours, only a single imported case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Champasack province.
Vientiane Capital and other provinces that have previously recorded community spread of the virus have not reported any new cases.
Dr. Sisavath said that although the number of cases is seeing a downward trend, residents must remain vigilant and not let their guard down against the virus.
He said everyone must continue to comply with prevention measures stipulated by the Prime Minister and provincial or local authorities.
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Two Myanmar towns on Indian border locked down amid COVID-19 spike
Source : The Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s military regime has imposed stay-at-home orders upon two towns on the Indian border in the country’s northwest, Chin State’s Tunzan (Tonzang) Township and Sagaing Region’s Tamu town, after a spike in COVID-19 cases there.
The orders were issued Friday after Myanmar reported 96 new cases of COVID-19 a day earlier, the country’s highest daily rise in coronavirus cases since Feb. 6.
More than a dozen people tested positive for COVID-19 at Tonzang Public Hospital and Cikha town’s hospital in Tonzang on Thursday, according to sources in the township’s public health sector.
In Cikha, which is close to the Indian border, there were 11 COVID-19-positive cases reported on Thursday; seven of these patients are in serious condition.
The hospital source said the 11 patients had no history of travel outside of their town or across the border.
Tonzang and Tamu are adjacent townships and are both on the Indian border.
On Friday, the junta’s Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) reported 72 new cases of COVID-19 after testing 1,230 people across the country. It didn’t reveal the number of cases in Tonzang and Tamu. Health authorities in Tamu were not available for immediate comment on Saturday.
On Friday, some domestic flights in the country were suspended until next month as a measure to curb the spread of infections.
Friday’s stay-at-home orders are the first since the military seized power by overthrowing the country’s democratically elected government on Feb. 1.
The number of daily swab tests being administered has declined dramatically since the coup, with thousands of healthcare workers refusing to work for the military regime.
Under the ousted civilian government, around 16,000 to 18,000 swab tests a day were carried out in January. But since the coup, only around 1,500 to 2,000 tests per day have been administered.
Myanmar reported a total of 143,486 COVID-19 cases as of Friday, from a total of 2,617,696 tests. The death toll stands at 3,216, according to the MOHS. Myanmar reported between 11 and 35 positive cases daily from Feb. 8 to May 26.
Myanmar’s COVID-19 vaccine program—initiated by the NLD government on Jan. 27, with healthcare staff and volunteers first in line to receive vaccine shots—has struggled under the military regime, with millions of civilians refusing the jab and thousands of health workers choosing to go on strike and join the civil disobedience movement rather than work for the junta.
Coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said early this month that more than 1.9 million people in Myanmar had been inoculated.
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Japanese media: One of the most important events in the Xi era sets off stormy waves in China
Image : On 2 July 2019, during the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, the European Union flag flies beside the European Parliament. (Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, the European Parliament passed the freezing "China-EU Investment Agreement" with an overwhelming number of votes. For this agreement, the CCP has made nearly 7 years of negotiation efforts. According to Japanese media, the European Parliament’s move has set off stormy waves throughout China, and the incident is regarded as the most important event in the Xi Jinping era.
In late May, the European Parliament adopted a resolution of 599 votes in favor, 30 votes against and 58 abstentions to freeze the discussion and approval of the China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement (The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, CAI).
The EU-China investment agreement has been negotiated for 7 years and has been deadlocked for many years. At the end of last year, negotiations were finally completed under German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the rotating EU presidency.
At that time, Xi Jinping directly intervened and made major concessions in a number of key areas such as market access and fair competition. The two sides announced the completion of negotiations. Beijing had touted this agreement as a huge victory on the international political stage.
According to the analysis of the Nikkei Asian Review, the European Parliament’s freezing of the China-EU Investment Agreement was regarded as a setback by Xi Jinping, which set off stormy waves throughout China, and this happened more than a month before the founding of the Communist Party of China. It is the most important event in the Xi Jinping era.
The report said that some party members worry that the centennial atmosphere will be weakened by the cruel diplomatic reality. The CCP not only has a bad relationship with the United States, it also has a difficult relationship with the European Union. Xi Jinping does not seem to have many cards to play to save this situation.
On the day before the vote in the European Parliament, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zhao Lijian was still urging the European Parliament to "approve it as soon as possible" and declared that it was in the interests of both China and Europe. On May 17, Premier Li Keqiang of the Chinese Communist Party also held a telephone meeting with the Prime Minister of Italy, saying that the two sides should work together to ensure the early signing and entry into force of the China-EU Investment Agreement.
But the urging of Li Keqiang and others did not yield any results. The European Parliament still voted to freeze this agreement as scheduled.
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Deputies: The CCP made a wrong calculation
International public opinion believes that the CCP wants to use this agreement to win over European countries and isolate the United States. At the same time, the agreement has also been criticized for lack of human rights norms.
Some analysts said that at this critical moment, as China-EU relations deteriorate, the prospects of the China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement cast a shadow over.
Reinhard Buetikofer, a member of the European Parliament of the German Green Party, said that China hopes to reach an investment agreement between Europe and China, but they miscalculated and underestimated the determination of the European Parliament to defend European interests and values.
Lotte Leicht, director of the European Union Division of Human Rights Watch, also stated that Beijing will retaliate and sanction EU members and organizations. But today the European Parliament said that it has had enough of the Chinese Communist Party's bullying and has frozen the EU-China Investment Agreement.
The European Union announced on March 22 that it would impose sanctions on four CCP officials and one entity that violated human rights in Xinjiang. After that, the CCP announced sanctions on European parliamentarians, scholars and think tanks. This move caused strong dissatisfaction with the European Union. At that time, some lawmakers said that the China-EU investment agreement should be blocked.
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Lithuania's withdrawal from "17+1" may trigger a domino effect
In addition to the freezing of the China-EU Investment Agreement, on May 22, EU member Lithuania announced its withdrawal from the “17+1” cooperation framework, and the Chinese Communist Party’s diplomatic efforts in Europe suffered another blow.
According to the analysis of Nikkei, the consideration for Lithuania's withdrawal from the "17+1" cooperation framework is that as a member of the European Union, it can deal with the CCP more effectively, instead of trapping itself in the pro-communist "17+1" meeting. So I chose to get rid of the influence of the CCP.
This move by Lithuania may affect Estonia, Latvia and other "17+1" member states. The Lithuanian Parliament also passed a resolution on May 20th by a majority of votes, accusing the CCP of committing "genocide" against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Another Nikkei report stated that the CCP’s lack of progress in the investment promised by many countries has exacerbated the frustration of Central and Eastern European countries. The Chinese Communist Party China General Nuclear Power Group has agreed to invest and expand a nuclear power plant in Romania, but the plan was shelved for several years. Romania cancelled the deal in 2020 and signed an agreement with the United States.
The report said that at present, enthusiasm for the CCP has cooled in most parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Due to human rights issues and the stagnation of the China-Europe investment agreement, some countries have begun to turn to the United States, which shocked Beijing.
The report also found that a new disagreement between the CCP and many countries is emerging, which the outside world has not seen before.
The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and other members of the Group of Seven countries, as well as the European Union, India, Australia and other countries are all paying attention to the CCP and keeping a certain distance to observe. Although all eyes are on China, meaningful direct dialogue with China has stagnated in many respects.
According to the report, the CCP’s only response seems to be to double its "wolf war diplomacy." As Xi Jinping seeks a successful re-election, he will not admit diplomatic failure. Therefore, no major reversal of the relationship between the CCP and Western countries is coming. The current stalemate may become the "new normal" of the West's diplomacy with Beijing. Xi Jinping's plight is still great.
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