Fauci to Warn of ‘Needless Suffering and Death’ if States Open Too Soon
The United States’ top infectious disease expert plans to testify at a Senate hearing that moving too quickly to ease restrictions could undermine the country’s quest to return to normalcy.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease expert and a central figure in the government’s response to the coronavirus, plans to deliver a frank warning to the Senate on Tuesday: Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up prematurely.
Dr. Fauci, who has emerged as perhaps the nation’s most respected voice during the worst public health crisis in a century, is one of four top government doctors scheduled to testify remotely at a high-profile — and highly unusual — hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He made his comments in an email to the New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg late Monday night.
Malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide – report
Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry
An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle malnutrition, a “threat multiplier” that is now the leading cause of ill health and deaths globally, according to new analysis.
The Global Nutrition Report 2020 found that most people across the world cannot access or afford healthy food, due to agricultural systems that favour calories over nutrition as well as the ubiquity and low cost of highly processed foods. Inequalities exist across and within countries, it says.
One in nine people is hungry, or 820 million people worldwide, the report found, while one in three is overweight or obese. An increasing number of countries have the “double burden” of malnutrition, obesity and other diet-related diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Boris Johnson defends ‘road map’ for easing lockdown rules, as over 45,000 excess deaths recorded in England and Wales
Samuel Osborne
Boris Johnson has defended his “road map” for easing the country’s coronavirus restrictions, saying the measures were mere “baby steps”.
The prime minister warned the government was ready to reimpose controls if there was any sign of the transmission rate of the virus picking up again.
Meanwhile the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is expected to announce an extension to the furlough scheme. At least 6.3 million people are currently having up to 80 per cent of their salaries paid by the taxpayer under the furlough system, at a cost of some £8bn.
Wuhan to test whole city of 11 million after new cases emerge
BLOOMBERG
Wuhan, where the global coronavirus epidemic first started, has ordered officials to prepare to test its entire 11 million population after the central Chinese city reported a handful of new infections for the first time since its lockdown was lifted, according to state media reports.
All districts in the city have been told to submit a plan which should lay out how they will prepare within ten days to conduct testing of everyone under their purview, said a document cited by local media reports as being released by Wuhan’s anti-virus department. The plan should prioritize the testing of vulnerable groups and areas like residential compounds, the document said.
Coronavirus: 'Modern slavery' at the heart of German slaughterhouse outbreak
Just as lockdown measures are lifting, more than 200 employees at a slaughterhouse in western Germany have contracted COVID-19. DW spoke to workers living in dilapidated, crowded conditions.
I'm standing outside a run-down, two-story brick building in the village of Rosendahl, in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. One of the residents, a man of around 50, tells me the home has been placed under quarantine "because of coronavirus."
His grasp of English and German is limited, and he wants to remain anonymous, but he tells me he's from the Romanian city of Sibiu.
Afghanistan: Gunmen storm Kabul maternity hospital
Afghan forces have evacuated dozens and ended the siege at the hospital, killing the three gunmen, officials said.
Afghan forces have evacuated dozens and ended the siege at a maternity hospital in Kabul, killing the three gunmen behind the deadly attack on the government-run hospital in the capital, the interior ministry spokesman said.
At least four people were killed in the morning assault on the Barchi Hospital, the interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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