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WHO: C.37, more infectious and more resistant to drugs, has spread to 29 countries
Reporter : Zhu Ying / Editor : Mei Lan / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Image : The CCP virus that causes covid is constantly mutating into new variant strains. (Schematic) (Image source: Pixabay)
The covid pandemic has lasted for nearly one and a half years. Although many countries are now vaccinating their citizens on a large scale, the continuous emergence of new variant strains makes the epidemic prevention situation still pessimistic. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced that the Peruvian variant Lambda virus (C.37, Covi37) has stronger infectious power and ability to resist human antibodies, and has spread to 29 countries or regions.
Peru is one of the most severely affected countries in South America. So far, the country’s cumulative confirmed cases have reached 2,019,716, the death toll is 189,757, and the per capita mortality rate is as high as 9.40%. It is the country with the highest per capita mortality rate of covid in the world. According to the announcement issued by the WHO, the serious domestic epidemic situation in Peru is related to the widespread spread of the new variant virus C.37 discovered in the country.
According to the WHO report, the Lambda variant virus was first discovered in Peru in August last year, and has since spread to more countries. So far, there have been cases in at least 29 countries or regions, most of which are in Latin America. They are mainly concentrated in countries such as Peru, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador.
The WHO also specifically pointed out that about 81% of the confirmed covid cases in Peru are caused by C.37. According to the observation report of scientists, C.37 has relatively strong transmission and drug resistance. Once it spreads widely, it may bring more serious consequences. The WHO has included this strain in the global "Variants to Watch" (VOI) list.
According to public information, Peru’s Minister of Health Ugarte admitted in a press conference on 24 May 2021 when he notified the country of the epidemic that currently about 80.5% of the country’s confirmed cases were infected with the covi variant C.37 (known in Greek as Lambda), which has been endemic in the country since April.
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Senior official fled at sensitive moments, Xi Jinping took the lead in swearing to "keep secrets"
The rumour that Dong Jingwei, deputy minister of the Ministry of National Security of the Communist Party of China, defected to the United States shocked international public opinion. At this sensitive moment, Xi Jinping led a group of senior CCP officials, including Politburo Standing Committee members, to the CCP History Exhibition Hall to "revisit the Party Oath". Xi took the lead in swearing: "The secret of the Conservative Party" and "Never betray the Party." arousing ridicule from netizens.
According to the Chinese Communist Party media, Xi Jinping visited the newly completed CCP History Exhibition Hall on 18 June and led a group of senior officials to "revisit the party oath", declaring that "conserving the party's secrets, being loyal to the party, never betraying the party, etc.".
Participants in the oath include Wang Qishan, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and other high-level CCP leaders. There are also members of the Political Bureau of the CPC, Secretary of the Secretariat, Vice-Chairman of the CPC National People's Congress, State Councilor, President of the Supreme Court, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Procuratorate, as well as Vice-Chairmen of the CPPCC and members of the Central Military Commission.
The above video has aroused heated discussion among netizens on the Internet:
"The CCP's oath word is a lie. This group of people openly lie to the whole world, their faces are not red and their hearts are not beating!"
"The secret of the Conservative Party is to never rebel against the party. This is to remind party members that if you die, everyone will die together and no one will flee."
Ironically, the time when Xi Jinping led the high-level CCP to take the oath came at a sensitive moment when the media was hyping Dong Jingwei, the vice minister of the State Security Department of the CCP, who fled to the United States. The Chinese Communist Party has not only failed to confirm this matter to the outside world, but has disguised the rumors through the media.
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CCP media "refutes rumors" for Dong Jingwei
The CCP media reported on 18 June that Dong Jingwei hosted a counterintelligence symposium that morning, declaring that “The Ministry of National Security pointed out that it is necessary to catch spies as well as 'traitors' and 'those behind the scenes.' "Refuting rumours" for Dong Jingwei's escape to the United States.
However, the report did not have photos of Dong Jingwei's meeting, nor did it specify the location of the meeting. The outside world believes that the CCP’s time point and method of "refuting rumors" are still insufficient, and it is difficult to win trust.
[Yokogawa View] The host Yokogawa said that at the earliest he thought that the high-ranking CCP official who fled may be a bureau-level military or party official with a bias in biology, because in the early days everyone focused on the details of the CCP virus. Now that the party media has refuted the rumors, it has increased the possibility that it is Dong Jingwei.
Yokogawa said that if it is to refute rumors, it is easiest to put a picture of the meeting, and it is best to make a live video. The lie is self-defeating. Why can't I get it out? It should be my absence.
Aren't you afraid of being exposed afterwards? Yokogawa said, this is the most subtle part. For high-level fugitives, US intelligence agencies will not let him appear in public. The Chinese side is not even more problematic. The Ministry of National Security is inherently mysterious. It does not publish its website, and its internal institutions and personnel are also kept secret. Occasionally, people who do not have photos like this send a few messages, and then they will retire.
Image : Rumour has it that Dong Jingwei, Vice Minister of National Security of the Communist Party of China, has fled the United States. (Taken from Gao Yu's Twitter)
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US media: Dong Jingwei has fled the US
In early June, the American conservative media "Red State" (Red State) stated that, after receiving news from American intelligence professionals, a Chinese escapee of the highest level in history had arrived in the United States. And has cooperated with the National Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for three months, and disclosed to the US news about the CCP virus and the CCP’s biological weapons program.
In the past few days, it has been widely reported overseas that it was Dong Jingwei who fled the United States. Public reports show that the last time Dong Jingwei attended a public event was in December last year when he participated in a video conference in Beijing with Guo Shengkun, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
On 17 June, US time, the "RedState" broke the news again that some government sources confirmed that the fugitive was indeed Dong Jingwei, who was in charge of the CCP’s counterintelligence work. He flew to the United States in mid-February this year, allegedly to California University to visit his daughter.
When Dong landed in California, he contacted DIA officials and told them his escape plan and the information he brought. Dong then hid "under all eyes" for about two weeks, and then disappeared according to DIA's plan.
Until the last three to four weeks, no one outside of DIA knew about the escaped. Previously, DIA was reviewing the information provided and, without disclosing the source of the information, presented the information they had learned to mainstream government officials.
RedState reported, "As we initially reported, the U.S. Department of Defense has high confidence in the truthfulness of Dong Jingwei's statement." "This fugitive shocked other members of the intelligence community and LEO (law enforcement)."
The report quoted a source as saying that during the China-US summit in Alaska in March, CCP officials demanded that the United States return Dong Jingwei. At that time, Blinken did not know that Dong Jingwei was in the United States. He told China that there was no Dong Jingwei in the United States.
According to the intelligence community, the DIA did not report the fugitive, but kept it inside the DIA for secret protection. The DIA leadership believes that the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other related agencies all have CCP spies, so they are trying every means to prevent the CIA and the State Council from contacting this person.
The US Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) also confirmed to the US Defense Intelligence Agency that the information provided by the Chinese fugitives is "very technical" information.
Some analysts believe that recently the Biden administration, the left-wing media, several scientists, and the chief epidemiologist Fauci of the United States suddenly changed their words on the origin of the virus, which is closely related to this matter.
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A Taiwanese man who arrived in Macau tested for Covi72, may be infected in Vietnam
According to a report by the Macau health authorities on 19 June 2021, a man who traveled from Taiwan to Macau on 17 June had preliminary test results showing that he was infected with Covi72 (B.1.617.2, Delta). However, the report believes that the man has a higher chance of being infected in Vietnam.
According to the Macau Government Website, the Macau Novel Coronavirus Infection Response Coordination Center announced that the 53rd confirmed case in Macau (a Taiwanese resident who came to Macau from Taiwan on 17 June) showed that the virus strain is Covi72. According to the centre, the patient worked in Vietnam from October 2020 to January 2021.
According to data, Covi72 already exists in Vietnam. Due to the low amount of virus in the patient’s nucleic acid test, the serum IgG was weakly positive, and IgM was negative. The fuyang performance is preliminary judged that this case has a higher chance of infection in Vietnam.
According to a report by the Macau authorities yesterday, the 59-year-old Taiwanese man had tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Macau on Starlux Airlines flight JX203 on 17 June. The man said that he had not been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past, he had not been in contact with people with illnesses or stayed in crowded places in Taiwan, and no one in his family had been diagnosed. His nucleic acid test in Taiwan on the 15th came back negative. (Central News Agency)
Ref: news.tvbs.com.tw/world/1530833?from=Copy_content
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Fauci denies scientists "deliberately suppress" covid lab theory
Reporter : Theodore Bunker / Publisher : Newsmax
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, denied accusations that health officials had ''deliberately suppressed'' theories about COVID-19 originating in a laboratory.
''If you go back then, even though you lean towards feeling this is more likely a natural occurrence, we always felt that you gotta keep an open mind — all of us,'' Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, told ''CBS This Morning'' on Wednesday.
''We didn't get up and start announcing it, but what we said, 'Keep an open mind and continue to look.' So I think it's a bit of a distortion to say that we deliberately suppressed that,'' he said.
Fauci said earlier this month that he is ''not convinced'' that COVID-19 developed naturally while speaking to PolitiFact's Katie Sanders during an event for Poynter.
''I am not convinced about that. I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened," he said.
"Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that's the reason why I said I'm perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus," the NIAID head added.
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DeSantis and Abbott join forces to tackle border crisis
Reporter : Grace Saldana, Freedom Wire
Former President Donald Trump said his successor is "indoctrinating America's schoolchildren with some of the most toxic and anti-American theories ever conceived," in a Friday opinion piece.
Trump explained what President Joe Biden wants to accomplish with the country’s schools, and how the progressive plan can be stopped, in commentary for Real Clear Politics.
The former president wrote that the left has changed its narrative from saying American history is evil to "telling Americans that they are evil."
"In classrooms across the nation, students are being subjected to a new curriculum designed to brainwash them with the ridiculous left-wing dogma known as 'critical race theory,'" Trump said. "The key fact about this twisted doctrine is that it is completely antithetical to everything that normal Americans of any color would wish to teach their children.
"Instead of helping young people discover that America is the greatest, most tolerant, and most generous nation in history, it teaches them that America is systemically evil and that the hearts of our people are full of hatred and malice."
Critical race theory is defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the concept in which race is a socially constructed category ingrained in American law intended to maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites. It holds that the U.S. society is inherently or systemically racist.
Trump said progressives have moved away from "the beautiful dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — that our children should 'not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.'"
Instead, the left is preaching that "judging people by the color of their skin is actually a good idea," the former president said.
Trump pointed out that the Biden administration recently endorsed a rule, published in the Federal Register, aimed at inflicting a critical race theory-inspired curriculum on schoolchildren. The rule explicitly cites the New York Times' "1619 Project" — which claims U.S. democracy began when slaves arrived in the country — as a motivation.
"Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse," Trump said. "Indoctrinating generations of children with these extreme ideas is not just immoral — it is a program for national suicide."
The former president said parents "thankfully" are beginning to understand what the left is doing and are starting to protest it — but they need a plan to stop it.
Trump proceeded to list a 7-step plan to stop Biden’s woke actions. They include:
- Every state legislature banning taxpayer dollars from going to any school district or workplace that teaches critical race theory.
- Each state should create its own 1776 Commission to examine the public school curriculum and ensure that students "are receiving a patriotic, pro-American education."
- States need to pass laws requiring that all lesson plans have to be made available to parents, and allow classes to be recorded by students and parents.
- Parents in every school district in America need to organize to eliminate "Action Civics" and other versions of the effort to contort traditional civics education into a vehicle for political indoctrination.
- Any parent who objects to the material being taught to their child in public school should get an automatic voucher, empowering them to pick another school of their choice.
- States must "take back control of their schools of education and credentialing bodies" to ensure they are not producing radicalized teachers. They need to set up alternative credentialing bodies that can certify great teachers who "know how to instill a sense of love for America."
- States must end the K-12 tenure monopoly, which protects incompetent teachers.
Trump said "this left-wing lunacy" needs to be stopped now
"To succeed with their extreme agenda, radicals know they must abolish our attachment to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and most of all, Americans’ very identity as a free, proud, and self-governing people," Trump wrote. "The left knows that if they can dissolve our national memory and identity, they can gain the total political control they crave.
"A nation is only as strong as its spirit. For our children, we must act before it is too late."
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The first flight of 737 MAX 10
Reporter : Matt Falcus, Aircraft Spotting
The flight of this, the largest in the 737 MAX family, took place on 18 June at Renton Field near Seattle.
“The airplane performed beautifully,” said 737 Chief Pilot Capt. Jennifer Henderson. “The profile we flew allowed us to test the airplane’s systems, flight controls and handling qualities, all of which checked out exactly as we expected.”
Airlines expected to take delivery of the 737 MAX 10 include Copa Airlines, flydubai, Gol Transportes Aereos, Lion Air, Malaysia Airlines, SkyUp, TUI Group, VietJet Air, WestJet.
United Airlines also has 100 of the type on order.
The first flight was the start of a comprehensive test program for the 737-10. Boeing will work closely with regulators to certify the airplane prior to its scheduled entry into service in 2023.
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