Coronavirus may 'never go away,' says WHO official
Updated 1103 GMT (1903 HKT) May 14, 2020
The coronavirus spreading across the globe might never be eliminated, a leading World Health Organization official has said.
During a media briefing in Geneva, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's health emergencies program, warned Wednesday that the disease may join the mix of viruses that kill people around the world every year,
"This virus just may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. HIV hasn't gone away," Ryan said. "I'm not comparing the two diseases but I think it is important that we're realistic. I don't think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear."
'Stay out of my moist breath zone': Covid-19 anthem takes the drool out of school
New Zealand school principal writes tune to help children returning to classes after lockdown
It is regularly cited as the most hated word in the English language and even Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has visibly struggled while using it. But now the word “moist” is being deployed for good – in a song written by a New Zealand school principal that aims to helps children observe social distancing guidelines.
Shirley Șerban of Lake Brunner school in the South Island penned the song Moist Breath Zone as a health and safety message for students returning to school after the Covid-19 lockdown.
President pushes for schools to reopen as New York investigates 102 cases of severe coronavirus-related illness in children
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump has called on the states to reopen their schools as soon as possible as part of lockdown-ending measures, contradicting the advice of top expert Dr Anthony Fauci on the highly dubious basis that coronavirus has “very little impact on young people”.
“I think they should open the schools, absolutely. I think they should,” the president told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “Our country’s got to get back and it’s got to get back as soon as possible. And I don’t consider our country coming back if the schools are closed.”
Hungary illegally held asylum-seekers, ECJ rules
The EU's highest court has ruled that Hungarian authorities circumvented EU law by holding Afghan and Iranian asylum-seekers in prison-like conditions. It also said Budapest was obliged to reconsider their applications.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday ruled that asylum-seekers at a Hungarian border camp near the Serbian border were being held in unlawful detention under EU law, siding with last month's opinion of the court's advocate general.
The conditions prevailing in the Roszke transit zone amount to a deprivation of liberty," said the court. "The persons concerned cannot lawfully leave that zone of their own free will in any direction whatsoever."
Russia demands retraction over reporting of death toll
Read the full story here.Russia's Foreign Ministry has accused the Financial Times and The New York Times of spreading "disinformation" after the two newspapers alleged that the nation's coronavirus death toll could be much higher than officials are reporting.
The Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said letters demanding a retraction would be passed on to the newspapers' editors-in-chief on Thursday.
China relocates villagers living in 800m-high cliffs in anti-poverty drive
They used to call an 800m-high cliff home, but dozens of villagers in China's Sichuan province have now been relocated to an urban housing estate.
Atulie'er village became famous after photos emerged showing adults and children precariously scaling the cliff using just rattan ladders.
Around 84 households have now been moved into newly built flats as part of a local poverty alleviation campaign.
It's part of a bigger national campaign to end poverty by the end of 2020.
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