Late snow in Tokyo on 29 March 2020 after 51 years

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
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Late snow in March hit Tokyo after 51 years. The situation was rare.

The Japan Meteorological Agency stated that snowfall (1 centimetre) began in the northern part of Kanto region and the Koshin mountain area in the early morning of 29 March 2020 while the flat land in the southern part of the Kanto region, such as the 23 districts in Tokyo, also began to change from rainfall to snow in the morning, and some areas even had snow.

The snow in Tokyo lasted till 12 pm.

Due to heavy snow in the morning, some air flights were cancelled. For example, Japan Airlines cancelled 20 flights from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Hokkaido New Chitose Airport and Kyushu Fukuoka Airport from 7 am to 10 am.

The first commercial resumption flight from Hubei on 29 March 2020

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan

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According to CARNOC and China Aviation Daily, the first commercial resumption flight from Hubei Province is performed by Fuzhou Airlines.

On 29 March 2020, Fuzhou Airlines flight FU6779 departs from Yichang, Hubei at 12.03 am for Fuzhou and arrives in Fuzhou at 1.56 am. 64 passengers are onboard the flight.

Source : https://www.minhangshi.com/m/h5/detail/8084287

Shanghai schools re-open in September 2020 while an All Season Hotels branch has become isolation station

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
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According to a Twitter communication from Shanghai and screenshots of webpages showing a hotel chain in Shanghai, the schools of Shanghai will re-open in September 2020 as the epidemic in Shanghai is not yet over. The grave situation of COVID-19 in Shanghai is based on a local police station meeting whereas netizens have pointed to "full rooms" on screenshots of All Season Hotels branches and cannot check-in. They questioned whether the hotels have been requisitioned as isolation stations for covid patients.

Some Shanghai residents have revealed All Season Hotels Luban Road Branch has been requisitioned as an isolation station and the oxygen ventilators had been moved in while the office building next to the hotel had been closed. Netizens exclaimed that Shanghai's covid epidemic situation has worsened. This is besides the conversion of Shanghai Hongkou Stadium into a square cabin hospital.


Source : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/28/a102810701.html

Twenty-odd patients in Wuhan Huanan Seafood Market like to play mahjong

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
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Images : Screenshots from Twitter

According to a recent Twitter post, a staff of the market revealed that the owner of Wuhan Huanan Seafood market and occupants of on the first and second storeys of the western zone of the huge market complex have not been infected with COVID-19. 

The worker also revealed that the first twenty-odd patients in the market like to play mahjong. These patients include outsiders that went into the market to play mahjong after working hours.

An earlier Twitter report revealed that a family of four lived in the market for 43 days. They were not infected with the disease despite not wearing any protective clothing. They were asked to isolate themselves at a Wuhan hotel.

Source : https://twitter.com/LiaoDeming/status/1243761268898402304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1243761268898402304&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntdtv.com%2Fb5%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Fa102811032.html

The first contactless lift in China

Source : China News Network
Ref : http://www.chinanews.com/cj/shipin/cns-d/2020/03-27/news852284.shtml
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Recently, Cloud Cube, a high-tech park in Bei'an High-tech Park, Jing'an District, Shanghai, installed a mass production kit for contactless lift control outside the hall and inside the lift. Users can operate the lift without touching the buttons. It is hygienic and cool.

Belgian cat infected with COVID-19

Reporter : Chen Huichen 
Publisher : Lianhe Zaobao
Ref : https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/world/story20200328-1040933
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Belgian health authorities remind pet owners to pay attention to hygiene, avoid close contact with pets, remember to wash hands and do not let pets lick their faces. (Reuters)

Researchers at the Liege Veterinary Institute in Belgium have found that a pet cat was infected with COVID-19 (covid, in short) by its owner.

AFP reported that Andre, a Belgian government doctor, said that close contact between animals and people diagnosed with covid may be infected, but he stressed that this was an "isolated case."

He said there was no evidence that the animals in the home would pass the virus to the owner or other pets.

Earlier, Hong Kong tested 17 dogs and 8 cats who lived with those infected with covid, and two of them tested positive.

Andre strongly recommends that pet owners pay attention to hygiene when contacting pets, "Avoid close contact with pets ... wash hands after contacting pets, and do not let animals lick your face."

Jiangxi blocks Hubei people. Police of two provinces scuffle as people overturn police cars

Reporter : Lin Lan
Publisher : NTD, New York
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/03/27/a102810124.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
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Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province set up barriers and refused to allow Hubei vehicles to enter the city on 27 March 2020. On the morning of that day, clashes broke out between the police on both sides, and a large number of people joined the melee.


Except for Wuhan City, Hubei Province, other cities will lift the blockade on March 25. Hubei people can go to other provinces with a health certificate.

It is reported Hubei people with health certificates tried to enter Jiujiang City, Jiangxi via the Yangtze River Bridge, and were blocked by Jiangxi police. Police in Jiangxi and Hubei immediately quarreled and fought in Hubei, and a large number of special police arrived to reinforce the scene.

Subsequently, a large number of people joined the confrontation. Some people from Hubei went to the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge at the border of the two provinces, shouting slogans and approaching the defense line of Jiangxi police.


People in Hubei displayed banners, questioned Jiangxi police “Why stopped us in Hubei?” And angrily overturned several Jiangxi police cars and besieged the Jiangxi police.

Hubei citizens broke through the blockade and arrived at the Jiangxi Jiujiang Bridge Police Station, demanding an apology from Jiujiang Police.

[Jiujiang, apologize! Jiujiang, apologize! ]

According to information obtained by Radio Free Asia, Jiangxi Public Security has been robbed of interphones, law enforcement devices and other equipment, and at least 5 Jiangxi Public Security and auxiliary police have been hospitalized. The injuries and losses on the Hubei side are unclear.

Experts point out that the anger of Hubei people has accumulated for many days. Since the outbreak, although officials have declared "Hubei come on," in fact, they have brutally blocked and blocked people in Hubei.

Hu Ping said, "The big background is very clear, that is, the dispute of regional discrimination and anti-regional discrimination. Because Hubei people have been extremely discriminated against for more than two months. Now Hubei people feel that their sentence has expired and they should not be discriminated against again. But people in other provinces are still uneasy and still have to discriminate. So there is conflict. "

Experts point out that another source of the conflict is that local officials of the Communist Party of China know that provinces are under political pressure and are generally creating "zero growth" in COVID-19 cases, so they do not believe that Hubei officials have declared "zero additions" for consecutive days.

Lai Jianping remarked, "Although the report of the epidemic may come from the health commission and from a central level agency, the courts and the wild in Jiangxi are still unbelieving to protect themselves, which shows that the government's credibility is extremely low."

At present, Beijing still adopts strict restrictions on returnees from Hubei, and requires that all returnees be quarantined and inspected for 14 days at their own expense. But when people from Hubei travel to other provinces and cities, they do not require compulsory isolation for 14 days. This move is believed to reflect the double standards of the CCP authorities and the authorities' "zero growth" to Hubei.