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From Page One
The WHO’s COVID 19 Technical
Lead Maria Van Kerkhove said the
United Nations (UN) health agency
was producing a scientiic notice
consolidating growing knowledge
around transmission.
“We will be issuing our brief in the
coming days, and that will outline
everything that we have in this area,”
she said.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro - who
repeatedly louted virus containment
measures and minimised the risk -
said on Tuesday he tested positive
for COVID 19.
The WHO sent him their best wishes
for a speedy and full recovery.
“It brings home for us all the reality
of this virus: no-one is special,” said
the WHO’s Emergencies Director
Michael Ryan.
“Whether we’re prince or pauper,
we’re equally vulnerable.”
Meanwhile, the WHO is sending
an animal health expert and an
epidemiologist to China this weekend to
lay the groundwork for an investigation
into the animal origins of the new
coronavirus. Tedros said they would
develop the scope and terms of
reference for a WHO-led international
mission, that would pick up from the
work already undertaken in China.
Ryan said inding the source of any
disease outbreak was always “quite a
detective story”.
From Page One
The facts state that the defendant
was resting at home in Kampong Peki-
long, Muara at 7pm on June 28, when he
thought up with an idea on how to cure
the coronavirus.
He took a gas cylinder belonging to
his brother-in-law, who was living in the
same house, at around midnight.
He brought the gas cylinder out and
left it outside the house, before return-
ing inside to ask his brother-in-law for
a lighter.
His brother-in-law refused, even
when the defendant told him that it was
necessary to cure the coronavirus.
He then went to his neighbour’s
house. He knocked on the window with-
out receiving a reply.
The defendant then took the gas cyl-
inder and threw it at the window, smash-
ing it. He climbed through the broken
window, alarming the occupants who
alerted the police.
The police arrested the defendant
upon arriving at the scene.
During investigations, the defendant
told the police he consumed methylam-
phetamine for two consecutive days be-
fore committing the offences.
The psychiatric report stated that
the defendant was suffering from acute
intoxication at the time of the offences.
WHO reviewing new evidence
on airborne coronavirus range
Thai man jailed for theft,
COVID-19 cure mischief
In our news article published yesterday
on page 5 with the headline ‘Fifteen
students enrol in agrotechnology
programme’, the scheme will run for
15 months until October 2021 and not
as mentioned.
What it should have been
France rules out ‘total
lockdown’ in case
of COVID-19 surge
PARIS (AFP) - The French government said
yesterday it was girding for a possible surge in
COVID 19 cases in coming months but would
not respond to any new outbreak with another
nationwide lockdown.
“My aim is to prepare France for a possible
second wave while preserving our daily life, our
economic and social life,” newPrimeMinister Jean
Castex said in an interview on RTL television.
“But we’re not going to impose a lockdown
like the one we did last March, because we’ve
learned...that the economic and human
consequences from a total lockdown are
disastrous,” he said.
Instead any business closures or stay-at-
home orders would be “targetted” to speciic
areas, he said.
“The coronavirus is still here,” Castex warned,
adding that he would travel on Sunday to France’s
South American territory of FrenchGuiana, which
is reeling from a surge in cases.
Oficials reported 124 new cases in the
territory on Tuesday, bringing the total to nearly
5,200, and the government dispatched dozens
of health workers from the mainland as well as a
ield hospital.
The head of France’s national health
agency Jerome Salomon said authorities were
anticipating a second wave of COVID 19 cases
“this autumn or this winter”, depending on a
seasonal impact that remains uncertain.
“What we have to understand is that the
epidemic’s resurgence will basically depend on
our behaviour,” he said in an interview with the
Figaro newspaper.
Even as millions of people prepare to relax
over the summer holiday seasons, Salomon
urged continued social distancing and the use
of face masks, “especially in crowded places
and indoors”.
Castex was named by President Emmanuel
Macron last week to lead a new government
tasked with orchestrating the country’s recovery
from its worst health and economic crisis since
World War II.
Billions of euros have been promised for
investments as well as measures to limit job
losses in an economy expected to shrink around
10 per cent this year.
“We are going to protect people, but above
all we are going to invest in the ecological
transformation, in our country’s recovery,”
Castex said.
He also conirmed he had increased a
proposed wage hike and budget boosts for
hospital staff by around one billion euros in
negotiations with unions this week, bringing the
total envelope to EUR7.5 billion.
But union leaders said that would lift monthly
pay for nurses, technicians and others on the
frontlines of the coronavirus ight by only
EUR180 a month, far short of demands for a
EUR300 raise.
The outbreak killed nearly 30,000 people
in France since the irst cases were reported
in January.
Visitors arrive to visit the Louvre Museum in
Paris. PHOTO: AP
Austria limits travel from
Romania, Bulgaria over virus
VIENNA (AFP) - Austria’s government an-
nounced yesterday it was introducing
travel restrictions for fellow European
Union (EU) members Romania and Bul-
garia after a spike in coronavirus cases
in both countries.
Speaking after a Cabinet meeting,
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he was
issuing an “urgent appeal” to Austrians
not to travel to those countries.
Returning travellers would have to
undergo a mandatory 14-day quaran-
tine or provide a recent negative test,
he added.
Yesterday’s restrictions will also ap-
ply to Moldova.
“We have seen that there are more
and more imported coronavirus cases
from these countries,” Kurz said.
In recent weeks there had been
around 170 imported cases recorded
in Austria, most of them having origi-
nated in the Balkans, said Kurz. Already
last week Austria issued travel warn-
ings for several other Balkan states,
including Serbia and Montenegro,
despite an EU recommendation to lift
travel restrictions.
Checks along Austria’s borders with
Slovenia and Hungary will also be dou-
bled, targetting travellers coming from
the Balkans.
Romania yesterday reported 555
new infections, the biggest one-day
increase yet, which Emergency Depart-
ment Oficial Raed Arafat blamed on
people not respecting the rules.
“We’ve seen an increase in the
number of campaigns denying that
the virus is real,” Arafat told the Digi24
TV station.
In Bulgaria, the number of weekly
cases doubled from between 500 and
550 in mid-June to more than 1,100 over
the past week.
Austria has been spared the worst
of the pandemic, with 18,444 cases and
706 deaths.