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Wuhan Labs Should be Investigated!

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...r-covid-19
According to several experts, infections caused by lab or wild animals are possible. Getting infected with viruses happens in any part of the world, including Maryland where one virology lab is located.

This article mentions China KNEW there were serious problems in capture and containment of bats they needed in their labs and YES, they were investigating bat coronaviruses!

Meanwhile WHO just states China is conducting four investigations on the origin of the deadly coronavirus. Nope, they're not partaking in such activities.
Still, they prefer to trust Chinese authorities... As if they've ever been trustworthy!  

CANBERRA, Australia — A senior Australian minister has rejected Chinese criticisms that Australia is parroting the United States in calls for transparency on the origins of the coronavirus.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday described Chinese Foreign Ministry criticisms as “unwarranted and unjustified.”
The Chinese ministry has criticized Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s call last week for China to be transparent about the origins of the virus.
Frydenberg told Australian Broadcasting Corp., “Dutton’s role, the prime minister’s role, my role, and all our colleagues’ roles, is to defend the Australian national interest, and that’s what we’ll continue to do, and we’ll speak up about it as required.”
Dutton’s call for Chinese transparency came after U.S. officials revealed intelligence agencies were assessing whether the respiratory virus escaped from a biological laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic began.
The Chinese ministry said Dutton had obviously “received some instructions from Washington.”
“These days, certain Australian politicians are keen to parrot what those Americans have asserted and simply follow them in staging political attacks on China,” a ministry spokesman said in a transcript posted on the Chinese Embassy in Australia’s website.
The ministry has also attacked Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne over her call this week for an independent review into the origins of the virus, including China’s handling of the initial outbreak.
The ministry said her “remarks are not based on facts.”

I had to copy and paste it here since there was no specific article handling this topic as I'd have preferred.  
Even so Australia defends its position of accusing China for wreaking havoc thanks to .

Trump Says US Suspending Immigration Due to Coronavirus
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...oronavirus

New York Governor Heads to Washington to Seek COVID-19 Testing Assistance
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...assistance

Plunge in Oil Prices Could Shake Up Middle East, Russia
https://www.voanews.com/economy-business...ast-russia

Britain Says 2 Research Teams Progressing on Potential COVID Vaccines
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...d-vaccines
It's not just Trump and a pharmaceutical company in the US who says so, Britain is also working on such vaccines and things seems to run smoothly so far.

US Senate Passes Additional Funding for Small Businesses, Hospitals
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...-hospitals

UN Food Chief: World Faces 2 Pandemics - COVID-19 and Hunger
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemi...and-hunger
Still, media like BBC kept telling you that you shouldn't worry about food shortages in supermarkets. Well, UN Food Chief said otherwise...

Virus forces cancellation of iconic events like Oktoberfest

https://apnews.com/1cc36093d3e2f97689da56f4d1e0820f
I really hate you, ! I wanted to enjoy the festival there!

Canadian police say 22 victims after rampage in Nova Scotia
https://apnews.com/97a457692ba2b4255eefa795c212a512
I hope Silly didn't get near Nova Scotia. It was a kind of high death toll indeed.

Hundreds protest NC stay-at-home order in Raleigh

Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina to demonstrate against Gov. Roy Cooper's stay-at-home order and to demand reopening the state's economy. (April 21)

I guess Democratic governors don't have things under control at all...  
Hospital reinstates suspended nurses who demanded masks
https://apnews.com/064720ae6d94c2b9d3271551f35e6cfb
Well, the suspension seemed to be unfair from the very beginning, especially if it was based just on protective gears and related stuff.
US pressures Mexico to reopen plants amid worker walkouts
https://apnews.com/6b2a7eae3be49a1ce6ed03e7b2d9b9f1
It seems US won't tolerate that Mexican plants that supply them with whatever they need stop working out of fears of getting infected.

Chipotle agrees to record $25 million fine over tainted food
https://apnews.com/3cce663eeeb0654c5334ae08a5b25b3c

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. agreed Tuesday to pay a record $25 million fine to resolve criminal charges that it served tainted food that sickened more than 1,100 people in the U.S. in outbreaks from 2015 to 2018 and sent sales plunging.

Nice! That's how you make companies accept their responsibility for intoxicating their customers. Even so I'd have set a higher amount for that fine.