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WHO Holds Daily News Briefing on Coronavirus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itP54nMn2sE
What makes me worry a little bit is that less than 20000 people have watched the video. It's been available for 17 hours and still... Of course news media gotta have covered the speech back then. Hopefully...

WHO raises Global Risk from Coronavirus to the highest level of alert
“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

“If we don’t take action... that may be a future that we have to experience,” he said, adding that “a lot of the future of this epidemic is in the hands of ourselves.”

Concerning New Cases in France - For French speakers only
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/live/2020..._3244.html

"A new stage of the epidemic has been reached. We’ve now moved to stage 2: which means the virus circulates in our territory and we have to slow down its spread." said French Health Minister Olivier Véran.

In the wake of the coronavirus, movies like Contagion and Outbreak have become very popular
https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/lifestyles...ar-404335/
I guess it's normal to expect an increase in people watching such movies during any crisis.

Coronavirus: Rescuing China's animals during the outbreak
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51614957

Volunteers in China say they're struggling to keep up with the number of animals being abandoned as the country battles the virus outbreak.

I guess patients and many other people just preferred to forget they had pets to take care of... Well, feeling quite sick or getting quarantined doesn't make things easy for them, right?

Geneva auto show, other big events canceled amid virus fears
https://apnews.com/9ddecfb89c0c9dddc8129322716363a1
Well, many people won't be able to take a look at new cars and concept ones this year in Switzerland.

Section Free of Coronavirus

Fish oil supplements offer 'little or no benefit' against cancer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51674313
Ooops! I know a few people that take suck supplements...

Feds reject removal of 4 US Northwest dams in key report
https://apnews.com/e1a60df0a37f29ce8a86fa18ff8513f5
I know some people love nature but there are things that just won't work no matter how much you think eliminating infrastructure might impact the environment positively. The need for unclean methods to generate electricity would just increase dramatically.

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order
https://apnews.com/48092a71a9008e4c76e195e5fb366ea3
First they blocked Trump's border policy and then they out of the blue decided to wait till the parts get more time to present their arguments and counterarguments!?
I thought the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was just an anti-Trump court. What would make then reconsider it!? O_O

Judge William Fletcher, writing the majority, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups who argued the policy violates international treaty obligations against sending people back to a country where they are likely to be persecuted or tortured on the grounds of race, religion, ethnicity, political beliefs or membership in a particular social group.

Well, USA didn't return the asylum seekers to their own countries, the border authorities just let them stay in Mexico, right?  

Trump picks Ratcliffe as top intelligence official, again
https://apnews.com/88fa3274f1826002e8c39b307922040e
Why would Trump insist on nominating him as an official!?

US, Taliban set peace signing for America’s longest war
https://apnews.com/70626747d0b9ee4dec98042119efff98
So will Trump manage to make the Afghan government and the Taliban sign a peace treaty?


As India counts dead, brutality of Hindu-Muslim riot emerges
https://apnews.com/fc33669f25c98b0762917ea093f21916
Sometimes violence can be far worse than illnesses.