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*德國進入強勢封鎖,關閉學校、餐廳、及非必要性企業,以阻止新冠病毒急劇上升。
Corvid-19: Germany introduces new restrictions amid rise in cases https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55324422
*當醫療人員開始施打疫苗後,許多美國人開始詢問何時他們才能接種疫苗?
Covid vaccine: When will Americans be vaccinated? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55149138
* 美國總統川普所屬的共和黨權力最高成員,參議院多數黨領袖麥康奈,在選舉人團投票後一天,對拜登上個月贏得總統大選表示祝賀。
Mitch McConnell: Top Trump ally breaks silence to congratulate Biden https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55323407
*澳洲向WTO提出訴訟,反對中國政府對其出口的小麥課徵80%反傾銷稅。中國為懲罰澳洲加入美國五眼聯盟圍堵中國,包括參與南海軍演、禁止TikTok、華為5G等,目前至少已停止40%澳洲進口的產品,包括煤、小麥、葡萄酒。其中葡萄酒課徵約200%的關稅。
Australia launches WTO appeal against China's barley tariff https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55328102
* 聯合國警告,隨著戰亂暴力事件持續,衣索比亞北部提格雷地區約有230萬兒童,無法獲得最起碼生存所需糧食等人道援助。
Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: About 2.3 million children cut off from aid, UN says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55327559
* 阿伯丁大學的研究人員在一個雪茄盒中,發現了一件久違的埃及古木文物,古木約5000年歷史,考古學家希望它能為大金字塔之謎提供新的考古缐索。
Great Pyramid: Lost Egyptian artefact found in Aberdeen cigar box https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55315623
* 亞馬遜創辦人傑夫·貝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)前妻麥肯齊·斯科特(MacKenzie Scott),離婚後,在過去疫情期間四個月內向食品銀行和緊急救濟基金捐款超過40億美元。
MacKenzie Scott gives away $4.2bn in four months https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55313522
* 塞克斯公爵王子哈里和夫人梅根,與串流媒體服務Spotify簽定製作和主持播客Podcast 的協議。
Prince Harry and Meghan sign Spotify podcast deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55327171
Great Pyramid: Lost Egyptian artefact found in Aberdeen cigar box https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55315623
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【#譚德塞不能說的秘密】《華爾街日報》4月5日社論,講述台灣早在2019年12月31日已經通知世衛,台灣有證據相信武漢肺炎病毒是人傳人,但世衛高層卻選擇只發佈中國提供的消息(「沒有證據是人傳人」),最後證明是fake news。
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World Health Coronavirus Disinformation
By The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
April 5, 2020 5:28 pm ET
//The coronavirus pandemic will offer many lessons in what to do better to save more lives and do less economic harm the next time. But there's already one way to ensure future pandemics are less deadly: Reform or defund the World Health Organization (WHO).
Last week Florida Senator Rick Scott called for a Congressional investigation into the United Nations agency's "role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus." The rot at WHO goes beyond canoodling with Beijing, but that's a good place to start.
The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China, sometime in the autumn, perhaps as early as November. It accelerated in December. Caixin Global reported that Chinese labs had sequenced the coronavirus genome by the end of December but were ordered by Chinese officials to destroy samples and not publish their findings. On Dec. 30 Dr. Li Wenliang warned Chinese doctors about the virus, and several days later local authorities accused him of lies that "severely disturbed the social order."
Taiwanese officials warned WHO on Dec. 31 that they had seen evidence that the virus could be transmitted human-to-human. But the agency, bowing to Beijing, doesn't have a normal relationship with Taiwan. On Jan. 14 WHO tweeted, "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission." The agency took another week to reverse that misinformation.
On Jan. 22-23 a WHO emergency committee debated whether to declare Covid-19 a "public health emergency of international concern." The virus already had spread to several countries, and making such a declaration would have better prepared the world. It should have been an easy decision, despite Beijing's objections. Yet director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus declined and instead traveled to China.
He finally made the declaration on Jan. 30—losing a week of precious time—and his rhetoric suggests the trip to Beijing was more about politics than public health. "The Chinese government is to be congratulated for the extraordinary measures it has taken," he said. "I left in absolutely no doubt about China's commitment to transparency."
A University of Southampton study suggests the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% had China moved to contain the virus three weeks sooner. Yet Dr. Tedros gushed that Beijing had set "a new standard for outbreak response." He also praised the speed with which China "sequenced the genome and shared it with WHO and the world." China didn't do so until Jan. 12.
On Jan. 30 Dr. Tedros also said that "WHO doesn't recommend limiting trade and movement." President Trump ignored the advice and announced travel restrictions on China the following day, slowing the spread of the virus. U.S. progressive elites echoed WHO and criticized Mr. Trump. WHO didn't declare the coronavirus a pandemic until March 11.
Not that any of this has prompted much soul-searching. Alluding to China, WHO official Michael Ryan said last week, "We need to be very careful also to not to be profiling certain parts of the world as being uncooperative." Beijing touted the remarks, as it has other WHO statements.
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This record is tragic but not surprising. Much of the blame for WHO's failures lies with Dr. Tedros, who is a politician, not a medical doctor. As a member of the left-wing Tigray People's Liberation Front, he rose through Ethiopia's autocratic government as health and foreign minister. After taking the director-general job in 2017, he tried to install Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador.
China inevitably gains more international clout as its economy grows. But why does WHO seem so much more afraid of Beijing's ire than Washington's? Only 12% of WHO's assessed member-state contributions come from China. The U.S. contributes 22%. Americans at WHO generally are loyal to the institution, while Chinese appointees put Chinese interests first or they will suffer Beijing's wrath.
China's influence over WHO has been organized and consistent, whereas the U.S. response has been haphazard. Washington needs a quarterback to lead the fight against Chinese dominance at WHO and other international organizations. Yet the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs lacks a political appointee.
The U.S. will have allies in an effort to reform WHO. A frustrated Japanese deputy prime minister called WHO the "Chinese Health Organization." British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly is rethinking U.K.-China ties over China's lack of candor about the virus.
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Congress should investigate how WHO performed against the coronavirus and whether its judgments were corrupted by China's political influence. Of all international institutions, WHO should be the least political. Its core mission is to coordinate international efforts against epidemics and provide honest public-health guidance.
If WHO is merely a politicized Maginot Line against pandemics, then it is worse than useless and should receive no more U.S. funding. And if foreign-policy elites want to know why so many Americans mistrust international institutions, WHO is it.//
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