China could shape any result in its favor by putting off the WHO investigation until after the pandemic
Updated 0847 GMT (1647 HKT) May 19, 2020
As Xi Jinping prepared to address the World Health Assembly on Monday, it seemed like the Chinese leader might be in a vulnerable spot.
More than 100 countries had signed onto a resolution calling for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. While the language in the document was thoroughly diplomatic, and did not call out any particular country, it grew out of a push by Australia to look into China's own failures in the initial stage of the crisis, and went against Beijing's stated desire for any investigation to be run by the World Health Organization (WHO) itself.
Nicaragua's 'express burials' raise fears Ortega is hiding true scale of pandemic
An independent tally puts coronavirus deaths at nearly 10 times the official figure as bodies are interred quickly and quietly
Shortly after midnight, five ambulances pull up at the German Nicaraguan hospital in Managua – lights flashing, but no sirens wailing.
The gates quickly close behind them, but reopen after less than half an hour, and the convoy heads out again into the dark streets.
All through the night, ambulances come and go from the hospital, which has become a key battleground in Nicaragua’s fight against the coronavirus.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever be the same’: Medical workers on coronavirus frontline face mental health crisis
A drop in cases has offered a brief respite for medical staff treating coronavirus patients, but it has also forced them to consider their own wellbeing, writes Richard HallRichard HallNew York
For many frontline medical workers in New York, the past few months have felt like a war. On the darkest days of the coronavirus outbreak, 1,000 people were dying here every 24 hours. Refrigerated trucks appeared outside of hospitals to be used as temporary morgues. The city became the epicentre of the global outbreak.
Today, there is a break in the clouds. Due to social distancing and quarantine measures, the number of deaths is down to fewer than 200 a day and continuing to fall.
But as the chaos abates in the emergency rooms and intensive care units, nurses and doctors are preparing for an entirely new fight. Experts are now warning of a mental health crisis for medical workers who have spent the past months on the frontlines of the pandemic.
Robots and electrostatic sprayers: Air travel industry looks to technology to bring back wary passengers
Airports and airlines struggle to decipher what it will take to restore confidence in wake of pandemic
· CBC News
Daniel Gooch, the president of the Canadian Airports Council, was winging his way to Vancouver from Ottawa for meetings on March 12 just as the coronavirus was about to upend the world.
"By the time I landed, most of my meetings were cancelled," he told CBC News.
The next morning, he got on a plane and returned home to Ottawa. It was his last business trip.
"It's going to be a very long recovery," Gooch said. "The airports are empty, the revenue has almost completely stopped and we don't know when it will come back."
Hackers access details of millions of EasyJet passengers in cyber attack
British budget airline easyJet said on Tuesday hackers had accessed the email and travel details of around 9 million customers, and the credit card details of more than 2,000 of them, in a “highly sophisticated” attack.
“There is no evidence that any personal information of any nature has been misused, however ... we are communicating with the approximately 9 million customers whose travel details were accessed to advise them of protective steps to minimise any risk of potential phishing,” it said.
The airline, which has grounded most of its flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is locked in a long-running battle with its founder and biggest shareholder, said it did not look like any personal information had been misused.
Myanmar police seize largest haul of synthetic drugs
Police in Myanmar have seized South East Asia's biggest ever haul of synthetic drugs, the scale of which they described as "off the charts".
More than 200m methamphetamine tablets, 500kg of crystal methamphetamine and 300kg of heroin were found in raids in north-east Shan state.
Thirty-three people were arrested in the operations, which were carried out between February and April.
Myanmar is thought to be the largest global source of methamphetamines.
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