Research : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
News on disease control, Mongolia, U.S., Myanmar
News (1)
The fastest ART self-testing uses SD Biosensor
From 27 September 2021, work-from-home
will be the default at workplaces. Those who need to return to the workplace
for ad-hoc reasons are strongly encouraged to do so only after testing negative
via Antigen Rapid Test (“ART”) before retuning onsite. Nobody is allowed to
attend at the office without the approval of their team leader or respective department’s in-charge.
MOM has confirmed that for each time a person attends at the office on an ad hoc basis that person will be required to carry out an ART test and obtain a negative result before returning onsite. This new rule means that, for example, if you need to return to the workplace on Wednesday and Friday in particular week, you are required to perform a separate ART self-test for each ad-hoc day of work.
In short, there are two ART self-test cycle scenarios:
【Scenario 1】 If your job functions cannot be performed from home, with the result that you attend at the office for the whole week
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You can return to the workplace but must perform ART self-test once a
week before returning onsite
【Scenario 2】
If your job functions can be performed from home but need to return to the
workplace for ad-hoc reasons
↓
You must perform one round of ART self-test for
each ad-hoc day of work before returning onsite
Whichever the scenario applicable to you, please perform ART self-test at home and DO NOT do so at the workplace.
If you continue to work-from-home, ART self-testing is
not required.
If your test result is NEGATIVE, you are allowed to return to the workplace.
If your test result is POSITIVE, do not return to the workplace. Instead, follow the steps in accordance with attached simple guide by MOH.
If your test result is INVALID, do not return to the workplace.
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Precautions on ART self-testing
Please note that this ART self-testing should not be
performed if you have had the following status:-
· If you are invited to go for any COVID-19 tests by MOH;
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If you have any acute
respiratory infection symptoms such as fever, cough, flu, or runny nose;
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Nosebleed in the past
24 hours; or
·
Nasal surgery in the
last 4 weeks or facial surgery in the last 8 weeks.
If you fall under this category, please seek assistance and advice from the relevant medical professionals. Please do not return to the workplace if you are unable to perform ART self-test due to some reasons.
News (4)
Confirmed cases found, Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre closes for three days from 27 September 2021
The Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre is closed for three days from 3 pm on 27 September 202,1 due to staff and visitors confirmed to be infected with covid, for thorough cleaning and disinfection.
The Singapore Food Authority (SFA) issued a statement stating that the wholesale centre reopens at 3 pm on 30 September. During the closure of the centre, the local supply of fruits and vegetables will be affected very briefly. The SFA is working closely with relevant parties to reduce the impact. Major supermarkets are also stepping up to increase their inventory of fruits and vegetables.
The authorities urge the public not to rush to buy fruits and vegetables during this period, and only buy the required amount.
In addition, the SFA will strengthen the safety management measures of the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Center before it reopens. The authorities will also increase the staff’s regular coronary disease testing from once every two weeks to once a week. Visitors must continue to pass inspections before they can enter. All tenants and employees must be tested before returning to the wholesale centre.
Ref: https://www.8world.com/singapore/covid-19-pasir-panjang-wholesale-centre-1599521
Video (1)
Shi Zhengli's secret experiment was exposed. Chen Wei cooperated with Qiu Xiangguo, and the Canadian laboratory became the CCP military base. Sun Lijun leaked secrets and was arrested?
News (5) to (6) / Reporter : Lkhagvadulam.I, lkhagvadulam@montsame.gov.mn / https://www.montsame.mn/cn/read/276031, https://www.montsame.mn/cn/read/275927
News (5)
7,200 Mongolian goods will enter the UK market with duty-free and preferential tariffs
Reporter : Lkhagvadulam.I, lkhagvadulam@montsame.gov.mn / https://www.montsame.mn/cn/read/276031
According to the Information Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on 13 September 2021, Mongolia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ba Menghejin, who was on a working visit to the United Kingdom, met at the Palace of Westminster with members of the House of Commons of the British Parliament and the British Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Mongolia’s Trade Daniel Kavczynski.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on the current level of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, how to further develop bilateral relations, and some regional and international issues of concern.
Ba Menghejin stated that Mongolia hopes to expand friendly and cooperative relations with the United Kingdom in various fields, and especially hopes to increase economic, trade and investment cooperation. He emphasized that Mongolia's accession to the "Improved Conditions" of the British trade is an important support for increasing the bilateral trade volume, diversifying Mongolia's exports and developing the production of value-added products. In addition, Ba Menghejin also invited Daniel Kavczynski to visit Mongolia in the near future to create opportunities for him to understand Mongolia’s economic and trade environment and exchange views with representatives of Mongolia’s large enterprises.
In February 2021, Ba Menghejin and British Ambassador to Mongolia Philip Malone exchanged notes on Mongolia’s entry into the British trade facilitation system "Improved Conditions", which makes 7,200 Mongolian-made goods expected to be tax-free and preferential Tariffs enter the British market.
In 2020, the trade volume between Mongolia and Britain reached 117 million U.S. dollars, of which the export value was 84 million U.S. Dollars and the import value was 33 million U.S. Dollars.
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The Gashunsuhaitu Port Container Freight Station was put into use
The Gashunsuhaitu border port and container freight station located in Khanbogde County, South Gobi Province is put into use on 21 September 2021.
The construction of the Gashunsuhaitu container freight station started on 6 July. According to the plan, the container freight station will operate 24 hours a day, passing 8,100 containers every day and exporting 8 million tons of coal every year.
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Rudy Giuliani: Fox ban came as Washington Post article was shown accurate
Reporter : Sandy Fitzgerald, Newsmax
Rudy Giuliani, who has been banned from appearances on Fox News, tells Newsmax he hasn't been given a reason for being blocked but noted that the decision came after the network has extensively reported information corroborating "what I gave to The New York Post" concerning Hunter Biden.
"They just said I'm banned," the former New York City mayor and one-time attorney for former President Donald Trump told Newsmax's Greg Kelly Friday night.
"The last two weeks, they basically every night have had a report corroborating what I gave to The New York Post. Every time they tell you, The New York Post was accurate, I was accurate because I gave the New York post all their information."
The mainstream media has started to acknowledge the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop are legitimate, after months of denying The Post's reporting on the issue. Giuliani said he "would think" that validation, including an article in Politico, would help to elevate his claims.
The Politico Playbook article includes information from a new book by Ben Schreckinger, "The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power," that reportedly shows evidence that some material published by the Post on Hunter Biden is genuine, including two controversial emails published last October.
"There's nothing Russian about it. It comes from Delaware. It's his hard drive...the FBI actually confirmed that four months ago. So Politico's story is really just news to the people who refuse to accept it. But I mean, also, they never denied it his computer ever. All you have to do is take a look at the pictures and you can tell it's his computer."
Meanwhile, Giuliani claimed that he could "put Joe [Biden] put in jail" with some of the text messages and emails in his son's computer that describe different financial transactions, and as a prosecutor, he could have gotten the records.
Ref: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-fox-ban-hunter-biden/2021/09/25/id/1037898/
News (8)
Trump: Only "bad call from a doctor" would prevent 2024 Run
Reporter : Charles Kim, Newsmax
Former President Donald Trump said Friday that “a bad call from a doctor” would be one of the only reasons he would not seek the Oval Office in 2024.
When asked what would prevent him from running again during an interview Friday on America’s Voice News program “The Water Cooler,” Trump said he could think of only one thing.
“I guess a bad call from a doctor or something,” Trump told host David Brody. “Things happen through God, they happen. But I feel so good, and I hate what’s happening to our country.”
Trump then criticized President Joe Biden for ruining the country in 10 short months.
“Our country was in such a good position 10 months ago, and we are so bad now,” he said. “Our borders, you look at the drugs that are pouring in. I had that down to the lowest level in many, many decades, and now the drugs are pouring in, fentanyl, in particular pouring in through our southern border.”
A poll in May by Quinnipiac University found that 66 percent of Republicans want Trump to run again in 2024, and a like number believe the 2020 election was “stolen” by Biden and the Democrats.
"The numbers fly in the face of any predictions that Donald Trump's political future is in decline," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyist Tim Malloy said at the time. "By a substantial majority, Republicans: (1) believe the election was stolen from him, (2) want Trump to run again, and (3), if they can't vote for Trump, prefer someone who agrees with him."
Since leaving office, Trump has started a Political Action Committee, Save America, and is conducting his signature rallies as he did during the 2016 and 2020 races.
According to the FiveThirtyEight political website, Biden is now underwater with 49% disapproving his job as president, and 45% approving, down from a high of 55.1% on March 22, and just 39.1% disapproving.
According to that rolling survey, Biden’s numbers tanked during the Afghanistan withdrawal in August, which saw the Taliban take over the country in about 10 days, and a chaotic scene at the Kabul airport as desperate Americans, third country nationals, and Afghan refugees attempted to flee the war-torn nation.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants have rushed the southern border in record numbers over the spring and summer, with a mass of 15,000 illegal migrants, mostly from Haiti, camped out for more than a week underneath the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas.
Ref: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-rally-politics-president/2021/09/25/id/1037899/
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Trump's Georgia speech sounded the clarion call for action! Vow to send Pelosi back to San Francisco. Give an example that Milley is an idiot. 13 empty seats slipped in the front row. Georgia will become the central battlefield to save the United States. Disclosure of Hillary and Clinton's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evufdXN_Vug
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Yan Limeng calls for complete transparency from vaccine makers and the Biden-Harris administration on the need for covid booster shot
Report by : Bob Floyd for Li-Meng Yan / http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/3635385587.html
As the Delta variant rages, the Biden Administration wants Americans to get a booster shot beginning September 20th. However, there is lingering doubt as CDC advisors called for more data to support the boosters. Compounding the uncertainty, two top FDA vaccine officials—Dr. Marion Gruber, Director, and Dr. Phil Krause, Deputy Director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review—suddenly resigned.
"These sudden resignations and calls for more data are very troubling," says Dr. Li-Meng Yan. "It's very risky to issue a booster without the proper scientific understanding of the virus and its variants."
The vaccines were originally given emergency use authorization (EUA) based on an erroneous assumption—that SARS-CoV-2 came from nature. The larger scientific community, and most of the intelligence community, now acknowledge that the more likely scenario is that the virus was genetically engineered with known and still-unknown functions designed to target humans.
"The lack of data concerning vaccine safety, as well as its efficacy against the ever-emerging variants, could lead to serious consequences with this booster," says Dr. Yan.
Since fleeing to the United States last year, Dr. Yan has written extensively about the origins of the virus, including how it was engineered. This knowledge is foundational for the development of any vaccine. As described in her three reports, the virus is part of a more comprehensive unrestricted bioweapons program developed by the Chinese Communist Party in an effort to gain global dominance.
In light of these circumstances, Dr. Yan calls for:
- Physicians and scientists to collect and share data related to the SARS-COV-2 infection, and any adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
- Companies developing COVID-19 vaccines—including Pfizer, Moderna, and others—to permit outside scientists and physicians to examine their data so they can determine the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines and then recommend improvements.
- The FDA, CDC and NIH to provide complete transparency of their COVID-19 vaccine data from which public-health policy is developed.
Florida acquires monoclonal antibodies from GlaxoSmithKline after Biden-Harris Administration's rationing
Reporter : Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times / Image : Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo
Florida went to GlaxoSmithKline, which produces monoclonals that haven’t yet been bought up by the federal government. They reached an agreement on about 3,000 doses, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on 23 September.
“That’s showing that we’re going to leave no stone unturned. And, if there’s somebody that needs a monoclonal antibody treatment, we’re going to work hard to get it to them,” the Republican told a press conference in Tampa.
The Biden administration seized control of monoclonals this month in response to what some officials have described as a national shortage. The federal government has bought millions of doses from Eli Lilly and Regeneron. The only other monoclonal authorized for use in the United States is produced by GlaxoSmithKline or GSK.
A GSK spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email that Florida obtained doses of its treatment, which is known as sotrovimab.
The doses were through AmerisourceBergen by CDR Health, the company stated. Any health care providers or facilities have an option of directly ordering the treatment.
The wholesale cost per dose is $2,100—roughly the same as its competitors were charging the government. Patients often pay much less, if anything.
Drug regulators in May authorized GSK’s treatment for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in patients 12 and older and weighing at least 88 pounds.
Regulators and state officials say the drug and similar others help keep people out of hospitals.
DeSantis estimated thousands of Floridians have been able to avoid going to the hospital after getting COVID-19 or being exposed to a positive case because of the treatments.
But, like other states across the country, Florida is struggling with a looming shortage because of the Biden administration’s sudden rationing.
Florida announced last week it was in touch with GSK. Health officials in other states told The Epoch Times they’re not exploring buying their own treatments, with some suggesting that cost was a factor.
Earlier this month, sites in Florida were getting more than 30,000 doses. That doesn’t include hospitals. All sites could order directly however much they needed, and the federal government provides the doses for free. In the next weekly shipment, Florida was scheduled to receive less than 18,000, state officials say.
“I would hate to see somebody who really could benefit from this treatment not be able to have access to it. When we know that the track record has been very, very positive,” DeSantis said.
He hosted Floridians who credit monoclonal treatments for their recovery.
Betsy Palmer Bigler, a former teacher in Pascoe County, received Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment, as did her husband and her father after her husband tested positive for COVID-19.
“I certainly feel that it saved probably one or all three of our lives,” she said.
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NLD Representative of Myanmar will not address world leaders at UN General Assembly
Source : Al Jazeera / Image : UN via AFP
No representative from Myanmar is scheduled to address the annual high-level United Nations General Assembly next week, a UN spokesman said, amid rival claims for the country’s UN seat in New York after a military coup deposed the elected government.
“At this point, Myanmar is not speaking,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.
Myanmar’s current UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun – appointed by Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government – had initially been expected to address the 193-member General Assembly on Monday, the final day of the gathering.
But diplomats said China, Russia and the United States had reached an understanding, where Moscow and Beijing will not object to Kyaw Moe Tun remaining in Myanmar’s UN seat for the moment as long as he does not speak during the high-level meeting.
“I withdrew from the speaker list, and will not speak at this general debate,” Kyaw Moe Tun told Reuters the news agency, adding that he was aware of the understanding between some members of the UN credentials committee, which includes Russia, China and the US.
Myanmar’s military government has put forward military veteran Aung Thurein to be its UN envoy, while Kyaw Moe Tun has asked to renew his UN accreditation, despite being the target of a plot to kill or injure him for his opposition to the February coup.
UN accreditation issues are dealt with by a nine-member committee, whose members include the US, China and Russia. It traditionally meets in October or November.
Until a decision is made by the credentials committee, Kyaw Moe Tun will remain in the seats, according to the General Assembly rules. The same rule also applies to the representative of Afghanistan.
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Junta cuts off Internet connection in 11 more townships in northern Myanmar
Source : Myanmar Now / Image : EPA
The junta cut off mobile internet access and most Wi-Fi services
to 11 townships in war-torn areas of Chin State and Magway Region at 6 pm on
Thursday evening, according to locals and members of the local resistance
forces in the area.
The affected townships are Gangaw, Htilin and Myaing in Magway Region, and Falam, Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, Paletwa, Tedim, Thantlang and Tonzang in Chin State.
Locals have said that the internet blackout will make it difficult for locals to both send and receive information on the conditions in the region.
“After the internet connection is cut off, the phone connection may also be cut off. In that case, I don't think the situation will be easy,” a Mindat resident told Myanmar Now.
A church and several buildings were hit by artillery shells fired by the Myanmar army during a clash with the Chinland Defence Force (CDF) on 22 September in Mindat.
Fighting broke out between the junta’s troops and the CDF in Thantlang on 18 September 2021, forcing nearly the entire population of the town to flee. At least 18 homes and a government building were set ablaze by the junta’s artillery fire, and a Christian pastor who tried to put out the fire was shot dead by the Myanmar army troops.
Soldiers cut off the ring finger on his left hand to steal the pastor’s wedding band; details of the act went viral on social media.
In the Chin State capital of Hakha, internet access was still available on Saturday morning, according to locals.
Since 14 September 2021, the internet connection has been cut off in Myingyan and Mogok in Mandalay Region; Taungdwingyi in Magway Region; and Ayataw, Butalin, Kani, Pale, Taze, Ye-U and Yinmabin in Sagaing Region.
Hpakant in Kachin State has suffered an internet blackout since August.
The recent addition of 11 townships in Magway and Chin State to the blackout on Thursday brings the total of townships without internet access to 22.
A spokesperson from the anti-junta Mindat People’s Administration Team speculated that the restrictions on internet access were likely timed to occur as the military intensifies operations in the region to suppress the resistance movement.
“It is either that they cut the internet and the flow of information because they fear that we will step up offensives against them, or they are preparing to get the upper hand to launch offensives against us,” the spokesperson said.
He insisted, however, that the lack of internet access would not have a major impact on the activities of local guerrilla groups, which do not rely on the internet for communication.
An official from the Yaw Defence Force (YDF), a local resistance group operating in Gangaw, Myaing and Htilin townships in Magway, echoed the assessment of the situation by the spokesperson of the Mindat People’s Administration Team.
“The military cut the internet because they can’t win. It is their usual tactic and won’t have much impact on the revolutionary forces. We will continue what we are supposed to be doing, regardless,” the YDF official said.
The military council has not published information on the cuts.
Following the February 1 military coup, the junta imposed tight controls on the internet nationwide in an effort to suppress news of its brutal crackdowns on peaceful anti-dictatorship protests.
Internet freedom in Myanmar has since collapsed, creating what Freedom House (FH) and Free Expression Myanmar described as “the most severe decline ever documented” in FH’s annual Freedom of the Net global surveys on and analysis of the issue.
“As part of its attempt to crush dissent and maintain power, the military junta shut down internet service, blocked social media platforms and websites, seized control of the telecommunications infrastructure, and ramped up intrusive surveillance,” Myanmar’s Freedom of the Net report, released on 21 September 2021, said.
In 2019, at the height of the conflict between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, much of northern Rakhine State lost internet access for more than a year.
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