Monday, August 31, 2020
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प्रणब मुखर्जी की बहन की वो भविष्यवाणी, जो सच साबित हुई
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हीर खान का पाक लिंक! क्रिकेटर पर मां का कबूलनामा, होगी जांच
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Japan to extend emergency loan support of Rs 3,500 crore towards India's fight against COVID-19
New Delhi: Japan on Monday said it will extend emergency loan support of up to Rs 3,500 crore (50 billion yen) towards India's response to the Covid-19 pandemic that includes implementation of health and medical policy.
Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs of Finance Ministry, CS Mohapatra and Japanese ambassador Suzuki Satoshi exchanged notes here on Monday, concerning the provision of the yen loan to New Delhi to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to an official release by the Japanese embassy, this "COVID-19 crisis response emergency support loan" provides the necessary funds for India's fight against coronavirus.
This financial support will support the implementation of health and medical policy by the Government of India and will lead to the development of hospitals equipped with ICUs and infection prevention and management facilities.
It is expected that these measures, in addition to controlling the spread of infection in the country, will also contribute to the recovery and stability of the country's society and economy, as well as to sustainable development.
The loan will have an interest rate of 0.01 percent per annum with a redemption period of 15 years, including a four year grace period.
Moreover, both the countries also exchanged notes on a grant worth 1 billion Yen to India through Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) scheme, namely, "The Economic and Social Development Programme".
It is expected that this grant aid will lead to reinforcing the fight against infectious diseases including COVID-19, in India, and contribute towards further strengthening cooperation between Japan and India.
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JEE मेन एग्जाम LIVE: मुंबई में रेलवे ने किए हैं खास इंतजाम, जानें हर अपडेट
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मेट्रो के बाद अब रेलवे भी तैयार, 100 और ट्रेनें जल्द दौड़ेंगी पटरी पर
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मई में अतिक्रमण करके चीन ने हमें छकाया था, इस बार हमने उसे चकमा दे दिया: रक्षा अधिकारी
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जानें क्यों रात 3 बजे विराटको जगाना चाहते थे कुलदीप
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LIVE: प्रणब मुखर्जी को आज आखिरी विदाई, 2 बजे अंतिम संस्कार
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भारत-चीन के बीच तनाव, समझें पैंगोंग झील का रणनीतिक महत्व
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Joe Biden condemned violence across the US; so why won't Donald Trump do the same?
When Elizabeth Neumann went to work in counter-terrorism in Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, she thought she’d be focussed on Islamic extremism, as she was in George W Bush’s administration. But as the assistant secretary for counter-terrorism and threat prevention at DHS, she soon realised that she had to take the threat of White-supremacist terrorism seriously.
“It was probably 2018 when we started to realise that this was not just a blip, that Charlottesville wasn’t just a blip,” she told me.
Even as she and her colleagues worked to understand how domestic White supremacists were being emboldened, there was a series of shocking attacks, including the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018. Europeans working in counter-terrorism told their American allies that the threat of right-wing extremism was eclipsing that of returning Islamic State fighters.
“They were talking to us going: ‘Hey, you guys are the exporters here. You need to do something about this,’” said Neumann.
But combating White nationalism isn’t easy when you work for an administration that incites it. As she said in a recent Republican Voters Against Trump ad, the president’s language “gave permission to White supremacists to think that what they were doing is permissible”.
You’ve probably heard analysis like this from the Left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Centre and the Anti-Defamation League. This is coming from someone who voted for the president and worked for him until April.
Such violence is the main terrorist threat facing America. According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, right-wing extremists were behind two-thirds of terrorist attacks and plots in the United States last year, and over 90% of such attacks between 1 January and 8 May this year. Trump has inspired and encouraged them.
Yet if you follow coverage of the presidential campaign, political violence appears to be seen, by Democrats and Republicans alike, as largely a problem for Joe Biden. Shortly after an apparent Trump supporter named Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with murder in the killing of two left-wing protesters in Wisconsin, a CNN headline said, “Why Democrats Are Worried About Kenosha”.
I’m not faulting CNN here. Democrats are worried. I’m worried. At least one presidential poll has shown tightening.
Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican, has conducted focus groups of largely disaffected female Trump voters, and has seen hints that urban unrest could be helping the president. There’s reason to fear that the president’s attempts to terrify suburban swing voters could work, especially if the media uncritically transmits his propaganda. But that only shows how much American politics is trapped in Trump’s alternate reality.
To try to break out of it, Biden’s campaign has gone on the offensive. On Sunday, he issued a statement condemning violence “of every kind by anyone, whether on the Left or the Right” and challenging Trump to do the same. On Monday, he drove home the point: “This president long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country. He can’t stop the violence because for years he’s fomented it.”
Biden is right. However violence plays politically, the reality is that only one of the two candidates cheers it. Trump has urged his fans to thuggery since his first presidential campaign. He invited Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple charged with felonies for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters, to speak at the Republican National Convention.
Recently he liked a tweet sympathising with Rittenhouse, who has emerged as a macabre folk hero among some Republicans. During a Monday news conference, the president defended Rittenhouse, arguing that he was acting in self-defence.
“It’s not just the president, it’s the entire Republican Party right now, kind of implying that we’ve got to take matters into our own hands and seek law and order,” said Neumann.
This weekend, a convoy of Trump supporters in flag-bedecked trucks headed into Portland, Oregon, to confront left-wing demonstrators. Once in the city, they shot paintballs and pepper spray at protesters. On Twitter, Trump called them “GREAT PATRIOTS.”
None of this means the left is blameless. During this weekend’s confrontation in Portland, Aaron Danielson, a member of a Far-Right group called Patriot Prayer, was shot to death, and a man who describes himself as “100 percent antifa” is reportedly being investigated for the killing. Whoever did it, Danielson’s death is a travesty and, unless he was killed in self-defence, a deep moral stain.
There’s no denying that some of the convulsive demonstrations of recent months have given way to violence and nihilistic destruction. When protesters in Seattle tried to set up a radically utopian police-free zone, six people were shot in 10 days, two of them fatally.
But Biden is hardly a catalyst to left-wing extremism. Besides, at least some of the violence associated with the Black Lives Matter protests has been perpetrated by far-right provocateurs. In his speech at the RNC, Vice-President Mike Pence condemned the murder of a federal officer, Dave Patrick Underwood, “who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California.” He neglected to mention that the man charged in the killing, Steven Carrillo, was reportedly linked to the Boogaloo Bois, an outgrowth of the militia movement that seeks to incite a second civil war.
Like the Boogaloo Bois, Trump sees his interests served by the destruction of civic peace. “The more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the better it is for the very clear choice on who’s best on public safety and law and order,” Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s departing senior advisor, told Fox & Friends last week.
If the president succeeds in making political violence a Biden liability, he’ll have all the more incentive to set this country on fire.
Michelle Goldberg c.2020 The New York Times Company
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नदी पार कर पढ़ने जाते थे प्रणब दा, 13 नंबर से रहा खास कनेक्शन
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कोरोना LIVE: JEE Main का एग्जाम आज, छात्रों को दी गई है छूट
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फ्यूचर रीटेल, भारती एयरटेल और BEML के शेयर में आज कमाई के मौके!
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कोरोना की रेकॉर्ड रफ्तार, जानें किस राज्य में कितने मरीज
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'Here we go again': Second wave of coronavirus grips 'canary in the coal mine' Spain
Málaga, Spain: At midday on Sunday, there were 31 patients inside the main coronavirus treatment centre in Málaga, the city with the fastest-rising infection rate in southern Spain. At 12.15 pm, the 32nd arrived in an ambulance. Half an hour later came No 33.
The garbage can by the door overflowed with masks and blue surgical gloves. Relatives hovered in silence outside — one of them in tears, another feeling a pang of déjà vu.
“My brother-in-law had the virus in the spring,” said Julia Bautista, a 58-year-old retired office administrator waiting for news Sunday of her 91-year-old father.
“Here we go again,” she added.
If Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe’s coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second.
France is also surging, as are parts of Eastern Europe, and cases are ticking up in Germany, Greece, Italy and Belgium, too, but in the past week, Spain has recorded the most new cases on the continent by far — more than 53,000. With 114 new infections per 100,000 people in that time, the virus is spreading faster in Spain than in the United States, more than twice as fast as in France, about eight times the rate in Italy and Britain, and 10 times the pace in Germany.
Spain was already one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe, and now has about 440,000 cases and more than 29,000 deaths. But after one of the world’s most stringent lockdowns, which did check the virus’ spread, it enjoyed one of the most rapid reopenings. The return of nightlife and group activities — far faster than most of its European neighbours — has contributed to the epidemic’s resurgence.
Now, as other Europeans mull how to restart their economies while still protecting human life, the Spanish have become an early bellwether for how a second wave might happen, how hard it might hit, and how it could be contained.
“Perhaps Spain is the canary in the coal mine,” said Professor Antoni Trilla, an epidemiologist at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, a research group. “Many countries may follow us — but hopefully not at the same speed or with the same number of cases that we are facing.”
To be sure, doctors and politicians are not as terrified by Spain’s second wave as they were by its first. The mortality rate is roughly half the rate from the height of the crisis — falling to 6.6 percent from the 12 percent peak in May.
The median age of sufferers has dropped to around 37 from 60. Asymptomatic cases account for more than 50 percent of positive results, which is partly due to a fourfold rise in testing. And the health institutions feel much better prepared.
“We have experience now,” said Dr María del Mar Vázquez, the medical director of the hospital in Málaga where Bautista’s father was being treated.
“We have a much bigger stock of equipment, we have protocols in place, we are more prepared,” Vázquez said. “The hospitals will be full — but we are ready.”
Yet part of the hospital is still a building site — contractors have yet to finish a renovation of the wing of the hospital that deals with coronavirus patients. No one expected the second wave for at least another month.
And epidemiologists aren’t certain why it arrived so soon.
Explanations include a rise in large family gatherings; the return of tourism in cities like Málaga; the decision to return responsibility for combating the virus to local authorities at the end of the nationwide lockdown, and a lack of adequate housing and health care for migrants.
The surge has also been blamed on the revival of nightlife, which was reinstated earlier and with looser restrictions than in many other parts of Europe.
“We have this cultural factor related to our rich social life,” said Ildefenso Hernández, a former director-general of public health for the Spanish government. “People are close. They like to get to know each other.”
For several weeks in places like Málaga, nightclubs and discos were allowed to open until as late as 5 am, as regional politicians attempted to revive an economy dependent on tourists and partygoers. Revellers were allowed only to dance around a table with friends, rather than mixing with strangers — but the rules were not always observed.
In one notorious incident in early August, a performer was filmed spitting at dancers on a crowded dance floor at a beach club outside Málaga.
The venue was quickly closed, all nightclubs were ordered to shut two weeks later, and bars must now shut by 1 am. But critics fear the restrictions are still far too lax.
As beds continued to fill up in Málaga’s hospitals this weekend, residents were still cramming into bars along certain beach fronts until well past midnight. In some bars, the tables were tightly packed together — far closer than the current rules of two metres, or about six feet, allow.
At closing time, drinkers spilled out onto the beaches and pontoons, mostly without wearing masks. There they congregated in groups of more than 20 — a normal sight during any other Spanish summer, but far larger than the gatherings of 10 or fewer now allowed by law.
Some were teenagers who said they had recently recovered from a mild form of the virus, and who now therefore considered themselves immune. Others felt the pandemic restrictions were an overreaction.
“I don’t think COVID is real,” said Victor Bermúdez, a 23-year-old shop assistant at an early morning gathering on a pontoon jutting into the Mediterranean. “Well, yes, it’s real — but it’s not as serious as they say. It’s all a plan to kill the poor and boost the rich.”
During the lockdown, the Central government set a clear agenda from Madrid. But with the lifting of the state of emergency at the end of June, certain powers were returned to each of Spain’s 17 regional governments, leading to a disjointed and confused approach.
When regions attempted to enforce restrictions on local life, some of their decisions were struck down by local judges, who argued that only the central Parliament had the power to introduce such measures.
“We don’t have the legal tools that guarantee us the ability to take decisions,” said Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the regional government in Andalusia, the region in which Málaga lies.
The debate has also become the latest proxy for a bitter conflict over the Spanish Constitution that has been brewing for more than four decades. For federalists and Catalan separatists, for example, the debacle highlights how power was never properly devolved after the death in 1975 of the dictator Francisco Franco. For Spanish nationalists, it instead shows how the process of decentralisation has already gone too far.
“There is a kind of war going on to show what kind of political system is better,” said Nacho Calle, the editor of Maldita, a prominent fact-checking service. The decentralised approach has led to a piecemeal system of tracking and tracing potential coronavirus victims. Some regions employ several thousand trackers to trace people who might have come into contact with infected people, while other regions hired only a few dozen — slowing the rate at which potential patients are told to enter quarantine.
And even in regions with large numbers of trackers, like Andalusia, health workers on the ground report that the process is still too slow and understaffed in certain locations.
Francisca Morente, a nurse in a clinic west of Málaga, was one of hundreds of local nurses seconded this summer to work as a tracker because of staff shortages at her district’s official tracing unit.
But even now, Morente is one of just five trackers working at her clinic — not enough to make the hundreds of daily calls that a proper tracing service requires. And even once she manages to track down potential coronavirus patients, those patients still currently need to wait a week until their tests are processed, because of bottlenecks at local laboratories.
“We need more trackers and more resources,” she said. “We need a designated tracker unit in every clinic, instead of this temporary system that we have at the moment.”
A lack of institutional support for undocumented migrants has also contributed to the second wave, according to some experts. Some recent outbreaks began among foreign farmhands living in cramped communal accommodations.
Barred from seeking unemployment benefits and lacking formal labor contracts, undocumented migrants cannot easily take time off work if they are sick. Nor can they afford the kinds of homes that would allow them to easily self-isolate.
“If I have to quarantine, then I cannot work,” said María Perea, a 50-year-old Colombian cleaner waiting on Monday for the results of a coronavirus test. “And if I cannot work, then I have no money.”
But in general, doctors say that Spain is in a far stronger position to fight the virus than it was in March.
National coordination is improving — the central government last week agreed to a deal to deploy 2,000 soldiers as contact tracers. Testing speeds are accelerating — in Málaga, the biggest hospital can process tests within a single morning, thanks to the recent purchase of a series of robots. Across the road, a makeshift hospital built in a rush in April stands empty, ready for a rise in cases.
“It’s not like the first wave,” said Carmen Cerezo, 38, a train attendant waiting outside the Málaga hospital while her father was tested for coronavirus inside.
“We’re calmer now,” she said.
Patrick Kingsley and José Bautista c.2020 The New York Times Company
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एक महीने में लगभग 20 लाख भारतीयों को हुआ कोरोना, रेकॉर्डतोड़ परफॉर्मेंस से बढ़ा खौफ
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Petrol Diesel Price: आज फिर महंगा हुआ पेट्रोल, जानें अपने शहर के दाम
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Sunday, August 30, 2020
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Portland shooting amplifies tensions in presidential race as Donald Trump ramps up attacks, Democrats fire back
Portland: A fatal shooting in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend led President Donald Trump to unleash a torrent of tweets and attacks Sunday, capping a volatile week of street violence that is becoming a major theme in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign.
On Saturday, a man affiliated with a right-wing group was shot and killed as a large caravan of supporters of Trump drove through downtown Portland, where nightly protests have unfolded for three consecutive months. No suspect has been publicly identified and the victim’s name has not been released.
The shooting came in the same week that a 17-year-old armed with a military-style weapon was charged with homicide in connection with shootings during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that left two people dead and one injured.
The pro-Trump rally in Portland drew hundreds of trucks filled with supporters and adorned with Trump flags into the city. At times, Trump supporters and counter-protesters clashed in the streets, with fistfights occurring and Trump supporters shooting paintball guns from the beds of pickup trucks as protesters threw objects at them.
Trump on Sunday morning posted or reposted a barrage of tweets about the clashes in Portland, with many of them assailing the city’s Democratic mayor, Ted Wheeler. The president retweeted a video showing his supporters shooting paintballs and using pepper spray on crowds in Portland before the fatal shooting.
Trump wrote that “the big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected,” a remarkable instance of a president seeming to support confrontation rather than calming a volatile situation.
The shooting immediately reverberated in a presidential campaign now entering its most intense period, and came on the heels of a Republican National Convention in which the president had sought to reframe the 2020 race as a “law and order” election.
Over the weekend, officials with Joe Biden’s campaign were inundated with concern and unsolicited advice from supporters and allies suggesting the need for a forceful and frontal response. Biden issued a statement Sunday accusing Trump of “recklessly encouraging” violence, while condemning “violence unequivocally” himself.
“I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the Left or the Right,” Biden said. “And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same.”
Biden will follow up with a speech in Pittsburgh on Monday, and discussions are underway for a possible trip to Kenosha soon. But the Biden campaign wants to avoid being drawn into a prolonged period of focus on unrest in the streets that campaign officials see as an effort by the Trump campaign to distract from the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic downturn, which has forced millions into unemployment.
At the same time, Chad F Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, on Sunday left open the potential of sending federal law enforcement to quell the unrest in Portland.
During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Wolf said “all options continue to be on the table” to deploy more federal agents to Portland despite the strong opposition of local leaders, who say such tactical teams have only heightened tensions.
Wheeler, at an afternoon news conference at City Hall, said the shooting had left his heart heavy, and he denounced violence. But he pointed to Trump’s combative and unyielding message as a generator of the nation’s escalating polarisation and violence, and he called on the president to work with him and others to help de-escalate tensions.
“Do you seriously wonder, Mr President,” he said, “why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence? It’s you who have created the hate and the division.”
He added: “We need to reset. The president needs to reset. I need to reset. This community needs to reset. And America needs to reset. And it’s going to take his leadership in the White House and it’s going to take my leadership here in City Hall to get it done.”
Trump responded quickly to the mayor’s remarks, mocking Wheeler and calling him “wacky” and a “dummy.”
“He would like to blame me and the federal government for going in, but he hasn’t seen anything yet,” the president wrote on Twitter.
Trump is planning to visit Kenosha on Tuesday, although both the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, a Democrat, and the mayor of Kenosha, John Antaramian, also a Democrat, urged him to reconsider. “I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing,” Evers said.
The shooting in Portland ended a week of upheaval that began when a white police officer in Kenosha repeatedly shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, leaving him paralyzed below the waist, his family said. The shooting prompted a new wave of protests against racism and police brutality that included the postponement of professional sports games.
During the unrest after the shooting of Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Illinois resident, was charged in connection with the fatal shootings of two protesters.
The escalating tensions and violence over the past week came three months after the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
Floyd’s death prompted a national outcry over policing and racial injustice, spurring protests in cities across the country, some of which have been accompanied by looting and violence.
For now, the Biden campaign is trying to focus on what it says is the irony that Trump is the president, yet is trying to blame his challenger for the scenes of violence during his tenure.
“He keeps talking about what Biden’s America would look like — well, this is Trump’s America,” Representative Cedric L Richmond, a national co-chair of the Biden campaign, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
But violence and unrest in the streets is an issue Trump is eager to embrace.
On “Meet the Press,” Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, described Trump as being “on the side of law enforcement and the rule of law” and spoke of violence in “Democrat cities.”
“Most of Donald Trump’s America is peaceful,” Meadows said. “It is a Democrat-led city in Portland that we’re talking about this morning who just yesterday denied help once again from the federal government.”
A video that purports to capture the Saturday night shooting in Portland, taken from the far side of the street, showed a small group of people in the road outside what appears to be a parking garage. Gunfire erupts, and a man collapses in the street.
The man who was shot and killed was wearing a hat with the insignia of Patriot Prayer, a far-right group based in the Portland area that has clashed with protesters in the past. Joey Gibson, the head of the group, said Sunday he could not share many details but could confirm the man was a good friend and supporter of Patriot Prayer.
During some of Portland’s nightly demonstrations since the killing of Floyd, protesters have smashed windows, lit fires and thrown fireworks at law enforcement officers who have struggled to maintain control.
In recent days, right-wing demonstrations have also sprung up in the city, and Trump has repeatedly highlighted the unrest in Portland as evidence of the need for a tougher response to the chaotic protests in many American cities.
Patriot Prayer, which promotes Christianity and smaller government, has repeatedly clashed with activists in Portland. The group has sometimes operated alongside militia groups, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that some Patriot Prayer events have drawn white supremacists. Last year, Gibson, the group’s leader, was charged along with others with rioting after a brawl in the city.
While protests in Portland have persisted, their size has changed over time. The nightly events began with mass demonstrations after Floyd’s death, then shrank to smaller numbers of people who repeatedly clashed with the police. In July, when the federal government sent camouflaged agents into the city, the number of protesters grew drastically once again.
In more recent days, the protest crowd has typically numbered just a few hundred people. On Friday, after a peaceful demonstration in front of Wheeler’s residence, a crowd went to a police association building, where some of the protesters set fire to the front of the building before the police dispersed the crowd.
The police have made dozens of arrests in recent days as they have chased protesters through the streets, at times knocking them to the ground.
The police said they had made 10 arrests Saturday night, although it was not immediately clear how many were participants in the pro-Trump rally and how many were countering the event.
Mike Baker, Thomas Kaplan and Shane Goldmacher c.2020 The New York Times Company
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
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MP: सीहोर में मकान गिरा, 4 लोग मलबे में दबे, 1 की मौत
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Zuckerberg says Facebook erred in not removing post calling armed civilians to enter Kenosha after Jacob Blake’s death
Washington: Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says.
The page for the “Kenosha Guard” violated Facebook's policies and had been flagged by “a bunch of people,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted Friday on Facebook. The social media giant has in recent weeks adopted new guidelines removing or restricting posts from groups that pose a threat to public safety.
Facebook took down the page Wednesday, after an armed civilian allegedly killed two people and wounded a third Tuesday night amid protests in Kenosha that followed the shooting of Blake, who is Black.
“It was largely an operational mistake,” Zuckerberg said. “The contractors, the reviewers, who the initial complaints were funneled to, didn’t, basically didn’t pick this up.”
Zuckerberg did not apologise for the error and said that so far, Facebook hasn't found any evidence that Rittenhouse was aware of the Kenosha Guard page or the invitation it posted for armed militia members to go to Kenosha.
Facebook is now taking down posts that praise the shooting or shooter, Zuckerberg said. Yet a report Thursday by The Guardian newspaper found examples of support and even fundraising messages still being shared on Facebook and its photo-sharing service, Instagram.
Zuckerberg also contrasted the treatment of Blake, who was shot in the back by Kenosha police, and the white 17-year-old now charged in Tuesday's slayings, Kyle Rittenhouse, who carried an AR-15-style rifle near police without being challenged. Zuckerberg also acknowledged the civil rights demonstration Friday in Washington DC.
“There’s just a sense that things really aren’t improving at the pace that they should be, and I think that’s really painful, really discouraging," Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg also said the company is working on improving its execution, though he did not provide details. He acknowledged that the approaching presidential election would present greater challenges around polarising content.
“There is a real risk and a continued increased risk through the election during this very sensitive and polarised and highly charged time," he said.
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मौसम LIVE: एमपी के शाजापुर में भारी बारिश से बाढ़ जैसे हालात, जन-जीवन प्रभावित
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Muharram 2020: History Behind Observance of the Mourning Day and the Battle of Karbala
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सांसद साक्षी महाराज के क्वारंटीन को लेकर गरमाई सियासत, झारखंड बीजेपी अध्यक्ष ने दी आंदोलन की धमकी
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एक दिन में 79 हजार कोरोना संक्रमित, भारत में टूटा अमेरिका का खौफनाक रेकॉड
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Friday, August 28, 2020
TRP Race: Kundali Bhagya Back At Top, Beats Shri Krishna
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Sushant Case Live: रिया, शोविक, पिठानी और नीरज से आज फिर होगी पूछताछ, गेस्ट हाउस पहुंची CBI
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330 करोड़ की संपत्ति जब्त, UP में इन दिनों बाहुबलियों की उड़ी नींद
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Hurricane Laura makes US landfall: Category 4 hurricane leaves 4 dead, causes extensive property damage
Houston: Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron in Louisiana on Thursday, bringing "catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding" that killed at least four, caused extensive damage to property and snapped electricity supply.
Laura, a Category 4 hurricane with a maximum wind speed of 150 miles per hour and one of the strongest to hit the US, slammed into the Gulf Coast early Thursday and roared through Louisiana. The bulk of the damage was reported in Louisiana. The storm barreled over Lake Charles, Louisiana, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people.
President Donald Trump is expected to visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to survey the destruction caused by one of the catastrophic hurricanes in living memory here.
Speaking at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters, hours before the final night of the Republican National Convention, Trump said the campaign briefly considered postponing his convention speech until Monday so he could travel to Texas, Louisiana and possibly Arkansas to survey the damage, but ultimately decided to continue with the speech as planned.
Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence were briefed in detail along with damage pictures by FEMA officials at its National Response Coordination Center.
"This team forward deployed resources," Pence said. "We were ready for the worst, and by all accounts from the experts, while this was obviously a major storm with devastating impact, it was not as bad as it could have been."
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Trump that the situation on the ground "is fluid and challenging," but the FEMA is responding. The hurricane's top wind speed of 150 mph put it among the most powerful on record in the US.
At least four deaths have been linked to the storm in Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said Thursday. All of the victims died when trees fell on their homes. One victim was a 14-year-old girl in Vernon Parish. The other three are a 68-year-old man in Acadia Parish, a 51-year-old man in Jackson Parish, and a 64-year-old woman in Allen Parish.
Widespread power outages across Louisiana and Texas are increasing and as of 4 pm. CST more than 8,40,000 people remained without power, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Louisiana is experiencing the worst of the outages with almost 6,00,000 people without electricity.
Videos shared on social media showed that wind blew out dozens of windows in high-rise office buildings, including the 22-story CapitalOne tower, ripped the top off a sky bridge, and tipped an RV on its side. The whistling winds mimicked the alarm-like sounds that could be heard inside buildings, according to videos on social media.
Laura damaged key transmission lines, conductors and some transmission towers that handle bringing power from the east. KHOU-TV said that the power utility is asking customers in the western area north of Houston to voluntarily curtail their power usage to help the infrastructure.
In Lake Charles, a regional hub known for its petrochemical plants and crowded casinos, commercial buildings were peeled apart, exposing insulation and wood frames. Billboards were punched out and trees snapped in half.
Fire broke out Thursday morning at a chemical plant in Westlake, local authorities said, sending thick smoke over a wide area and prompting shelter-in-place directives for residents in the communities of Westlake, Moss Bluff and Sulphur.
Mayor Robert Hardey of Westlake said the fire was burning at a plant operated by BioLab, a subsidiary of Kik Custom Products, which makes cleaners, antifreeze and other chemical products. A spokesman for the parent company, confirmed in a statement that the fire was the result of storm damage.
Meanwhile, Texas governor Greg Abbott said Thursday that his state dodged a bullet. He said there were still no confirmed fatalities in Texas nearly 12 hours after Laura made landfall and his state appeared to have made it through the storm with minimal or no loss of life, which he said was a "miracle."
Abbott toured the affected areas of East Texas Thursday and described seeing roofs sheared off buildings and uprooted trees following an aerial tour of the damage near their shared border.
Abbott said about 8,500 people were served in Texas shelters. He said the state minimized potential loss of life because residents in the storm's path heeded local advance warnings to evacuate.
Hurricane Laura made landfall overnight near Cameron, Louisiana, bringing "catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding" to portions of the state, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The storm had intensified rapidly into a Category 4 hurricane before slamming into the Gulf Coast near the Louisiana-Texas border.
By mid-Thursday, the hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it moved north over Louisiana, which took the brunt of the damage. It was continuing to bring strong winds and flooding rainfall to northern Louisiana and southeastern Arkansas, according to forecasters.
High water levels were persisting along the Gulf Coast. Tornadoes are possible through Thursday night in parts of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.
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नोएडा: रिटायर्ड दारोगा ने पहले बेटे और फिर खुद की ली जान, जानें क्यों
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How to Watch Netflix for Free in 2020?
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Russia announces advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials of Sputnik V in 40,000 volunteers over six months
The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month, in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957.
The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease among international medical experts, who called Russia’s fast-tracked approval and failure to share any data supporting claims of the vaccine’s efficacy a major breach of scientific protocol.
Scientists around the world say any widely-used vaccine should first be tested in advanced trials involving tens of thousands of people to prove it is safe and effective before being licensed.
In his invitation to the Russian capital’s residents, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin appeared to announce those kind of broad studies would be launched soon. He said the “post-registration research” will last six months and involve 40,000 people.
Sobyanin encouraged Moscow residents to sign up, arguing that the vaccine was based on longtime previous research and proven to be safe.
“We all were eager to see the creation of a vaccine, and now we have it,” Sobyanin said. “Now, Moscow residents have a unique chance to become the main participants in clinical research that will help defeat the coronavirus.”
The Russian Direct Investment Fund that bankrolled the vaccine said it will facilitate similar trials in five other countries, which it didn’t name.
“The post-registration clinical trial will allow for a permanent registration certificate and expansion of the circle of possible vaccine recipients, including the 60+ age group,” the fund said in a statement.
Scientists at the World Health Organization said last week that although they had begun discussions with Russia about its vaccine, they had not yet received any detailed data about it.
In announcing the vaccine’s approval on Aug. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin said one of his two adult daughters already had been inoculated with it. He said the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and was shown to provide lasting immunity to the coronavirus, although Russian authorities have offered no proof to back up claims of safety or effectiveness.
Experts warn that using an untested vaccine that has not yet proven to be safe or effective could ultimately undermine the response to the pandemic and cause more distrust among people about whether or not to be vaccinated.
As of Wednesday, Russia had reported a total of over 970,000 confirmed virus cases and 16,683 deaths. Russian officials have said the vaccine would initially be made available to high-risk groups, including medical workers and teachers before it comes to broad use.
The vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow with assistance from Russia’s Defense Ministry uses a different virus -- the common cold-causing adenovirus -- that’s been modified to carry genes for the “spike” protein that coats the coronavirus, as a way to prime the body to recognize if a real COVID-19 infection comes along.
That’s a similar technology as vaccines being developed by China’s CanSino Biologics and Britain’s Oxford University and AstraZeneca — but unlike those companies, Russian scientists haven’t published any scientific information about how the vaccine has performed in animal tests or in early-stage human studies.
Putin said one of his daughters has received two doses, and had minor side effects such as slight fever, and was “feeling well and has a high number of antibodies.”
However, many international experts remained skeptical as the experimental shots so far have been tested on just a few dozen people and there’s no published scientific evidence backing official claims of its efficiency.
The Russian Health Ministry said that the vaccine is expected to provide immunity from the coronavirus for up to two years, citing its experience with vaccines made with similar technology.
Becoming the first country in the world to approve a vaccine was a matter of national prestige for the Kremlin as it tries to assert the image of Russia as a global power. Putin repeatedly praised Russia’s effective response to the outbreak in televised addresses to the nation, while some of Moscow’s top officials – including the country’s prime minister and Putin’s own spokesperson – became infected.
Last month, the U.S., Britain and Canada accused Russia of using hackers to steal vaccine research from Western labs. Russia has denied involvement.
Several vaccines, including those developed by Oxford and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, are currently in advanced testing and hope to have results later this year.
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New Zealand mosque attacks: Christchurch gunman given life imprisonment without parole
Christchurch: The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The judge imposed the maximum available sentence on 29-year-old Australian gunman Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the first time the sentence has been imposed in New Zealand.
Judge Cameron Mander said Tarrant's crimes were so wicked that a life time in jail could not begin to atone for them. He said they had caused enormous loss and hurt and stemmed from a warped and malignant ideology.
"Your actions were inhuman," Mander said. "You deliberately killed a 3-year-old infant as he clung to the leg of his father."
The March 2019 attacks targeting people praying at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques shocked New Zealand and prompted new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons. They also prompted global changes to social media protocols after the gunman livestreamed his attack on Facebook.
During the four-day sentencing hearing, 90 survivors and family members recounted the horror of the attacks and the trauma they continue to feel.
Some chose to yell at the gunman and give him the finger. Others called him a monster, a coward, a rat. Some sung verses from the Quran or addressed him in Arabic. A few spoke softly to Tarrant, saying they forgave him.
Tarrant had earlier fired his lawyers and told the judge that he didn't wish to speak at the hearing. A standby lawyer appointed by the court told the judge that Tarrant did not oppose a sentence of life without parole.
Tarrant in March had pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism, reversing his earlier not guilty pleas.
Prosecutors said Tarrant had flown a drone over the Al Noor mosque and researched the layout as he meticulously planned his attacks. He arrived with six guns including two AR-15s.
Crown prosecutor Mark Zarifeh said he'd aimed to kill as many people as possible. "The offender's actions are a painful and harrowing mark in New Zealand's history," he said.
Tarrant was noticeably thinner in his sentencing hearing than when he was first arrested. He didn't show the brazenness he did at his first court appearance the day after the attacks, when he made a hand gesture sometimes adopted by white supremacists.
Dressed in a gray prison tracksuit, Tarrant showed little emotion during his sentencing. He watched the speakers, occasionally giving a small nod or covering his mouth as he laughed at jokes, often made at his expense.
Sara Qasem spoke Thursday during the four-day hearing about her beloved father Abdelfattah, who was killed in the attacks.
"All a daughter ever wants is her dad. I want to go on more road trips with him. I want to smell his garden-sourced cooking. His cologne," she said. "I want to hear him tell me more about the olive trees in Palestine. I want to hear his voice. My dad's voice. My baba's voice."
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Jacob Blake shooting: Teenager arrested and charged during violent unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kenosha, Wisconsin: As Wisconsin’s governor sent hundreds more National Guard troops into Kenosha, Wisconsin, a teenager from nearby Illinois was arrested and charged in a shooting that left two people dead during a chaotic night of demonstrations in the latest American city to explode in rage.
The arrest came after a third night of unrest as protesters have poured into Kenosha’s streets to decry the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black father who was paralysed after a White officer fired on him seven times in front of his children.
Amid the ire, some in the crowd have torched buildings and the authorities have fired tear gas in an effort to clear the streets. Counter-demonstrators have also emerged, and along one crowded, dark street Wednesday gunfire broke out, sending bystanders fleeing into parking lots and screaming in terror.
The violence that broke out came as demonstrators scuffled with a group of men carrying long guns who said they were protecting the area from looting. The authorities said the White teenager who was arrested on Wednesday morning, identified as Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was not believed to be a protester. His social media accounts appeared to show an intense affinity for guns, law enforcement and President Donald Trump.
Rittenhouse was arrested in Antioch, Illinois, on charges of first degree intentional homicide, according to a court document from Lake County, Illinois. Antioch is about 30 minutes southwest of Kenosha, just over the Illinois line.
Two people, a 26-year-old from Silver Lake, Wisconsin, and a 36-year-old from Kenosha, were killed, the authorities said, and a third person was injured.
The fatal shooting followed a tense night of standoffs between the police and demonstrators and escalated a situation that had drawn the attention of Trump, who is in the third day of the Republican National Convention and has sought to portray Democratic cities as rife with dangers and crime.
Protests over the shooting of Blake also spread to sports, where the NBA postponed multiple playoff games on Wednesday after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their match-up with the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Blake.
This was the latest flashpoint in a summer of unrest that began with the killing of George Floyd and set off soul searching across the country as well as protests, some of which have turned violent.
Trump tweeted Wednesday that he planned to deploy federal law enforcement officials to Kenosha and that Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, had agreed to the help.
“I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER!” he wrote on Twitter. He also wrote: “We will NOT stand for looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness on American streets,” said Trump, who is fighting for support in swing states like Wisconsin, which had surprised many in 2016 by picking Trump.
Evers on Wednesday announced that his office was sending more members of the Wisconsin National Guard to Kenosha — the numbers have grown to 500 from about 125 earlier in the week — as protests have intensified. On Tuesday, Evers declined federal assistance from the White Office, his office said, but additional conversations took place Wednesday.
It was uncertain what federal assistance Evers had been offered and details of any federal involvement were uncertain late Wednesday, though an official in Evers’ office indicated that some level of help had been accepted.
“The federal government is planning to assist in facilitating conversations with other state partners and provide FBI support to our state response,” Britt Cudaback, Evers’ deputy communications director, said in a written statement.
The unrest in Kenosha has persisted night after night, while little information has been released about the shooting of Blake, who is in the hospital, partially paralysed, according to his family. Video footage showed him being shot in the back as he tried to get into his car.
The authorities have not released details about what led to the encounter, or identified the police officer who shot him. That officer, as well as two others on the scene, have been placed on administrative leave.
The Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting. At a news conference on Wednesday, Chief Daniel Miskinis of the Kenosha Police Department said that he supports Wisconsin’s policy of sending such police shootings to an outside team of investigators but “unfortunately, what that also brings is what you see here before you today: a chief who doesn’t have details about the incident.”
Local officials vowed not to let violence continue and announced that a curfew, which has been moved up to 7 pm Central time, would extend until Sunday. “It’s something we have to do,” Sheriff David Beth said.
On Tuesday night, before the shootings near the gas station, loosely-organised demonstrations had taken place in a shifting, hours-long standoff between the police and protesters. Early in the night, protesters assembled outside a newly-erected metal barrier protecting a county courthouse downtown and threw water bottles, rocks and fireworks at the police.
The police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, repeatedly warning the crowd through a bullhorn that they were violating the city curfew and risking arrest. The crowd was eventually forced out of the park with tear gas and onto city streets, where the standoff continued.
Many protesters left the area, but others lingered and walked to a gas station several blocks away. There, a group of men with guns stood outside, promising to protect the property and verbally sparring with the arriving protesters. As the night stretched on, the gas station became a tense gathering spot, with bystanders watching from parked cars and people milling around in the street, arguing and occasionally shoving each other.
Police officers had crept closer to the gas station in armoured trucks, urging the people who were still there to go home. Then, after midnight, the shots rang out.
Beth said that the investigation was focused on the group of men with guns outside the gas station, and that investigators were scouring video taken just before the shooting.
In one video, the men are shouting at each other, clutching their guns and occasionally pulling each other away to defuse the conflict.
“I’ve had people saying, ‘Why don’t you deputise citizens?’,” he said. “This is why you don’t deputise citizens with guns to protect Kenosha.”
The protests of the shooting of Blake have reverberated far beyond Kenosha: Demonstrators in other cities have chanted his name, and protests in cities like Madison, Wisconsin, have intensified since the police shooting.
In Florida, the NBA postponement was an extraordinary escalation of how players have demonstrated for social causes this season, with numerous athletes speaking out against systemic racism and police brutality.
“WE DEMAND CHANGE,” Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James said on Twitter, writing in all caps. “SICK OF IT.”
The postponement also affected first-round games between the Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers, and between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets.
Players from the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors said Wednesday they were considering also boycotting the first game of their series Thursday night, and that some had raised the possibility of leaving the NBA’s restricted site at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, where the league is playing out its season in quarantine because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Julie Bosman and Sarah Mervosh c.2020 The New York Times Company
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First documented COVID-19 reinfection proof in Hong Kong doesn't change vaccine agenda, say experts
Researchers in Hong Kong have reported what they said was the first confirmed case of COVID-19 reinfection in August, after the person recovered from an earlier infection by SARS-CoV-2 in late March. The 33-year-old man was reportedly infected a second time during travel in Europe.
The evidence documented for COVID-19 reinfection has raised questions around how durable our immunity really is against SARS-CoV-2 – either naturally or with a vaccine. The big issue with our current understanding of the reinfection puzzle is decoding the many kinds of immune responses the human body has to the virus, experts have said,
In the Hong Kong case, the man had travelled to Spain and returned to Hong Kong via the United Kingdom. A saliva sample was taken upon arrival in Hong Kong as part of a screening protocol and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Aug. 15.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong sequenced the virus from the first and second bouts of infection. This analysis showed that the two sequences did not match, suggesting that the second bout of COVID-19 was not linked to the first. There was a total of 24 differences in the sequences of the two infections.
There were also no antibodies found in a blood sample taken soon after a positive test at the airport before his travel. This is a key indication that the second virus had not been lingering unnoticed for months, and strong evidence of reinfection.
"This is certainly stronger evidence of reinfection than some of the previous reports because it uses the genome sequence of the virus to separate the two infections," Jeffrey Barret, a senior scientific consultant for the COVID-19 Genome Project at the Welcome Sanger Institute, commenting on the study to AFP.
Even so, reinfection is rare
The researchers highlight the need for caution against reinfection, even if very rare.
"Our study proves that immunity for COVID infection is not lifelong – in fact, reinfection can occur quite quickly," Kelvin Kai-Wang To, lead author of the forthcoming study, and microbiologist at Hong Kong University's Faculty of Medicine, told AFP. "COVID-19 patients should not assume after they recover that they won't get infected again."
Experts not linked with the study concur, adding that the finding doesn't change the need for a working vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
"It is to be expected that the virus will naturally mutate over time. This is a very rare example of reinfection and it should not negate the global drive to develop COVID-19 vaccines," Brendan Wren, professor of microbial pathogenesis at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told Financial Times.
In contrast, other experts are reassured to some extent by the case, since the second infection was asymptomatic — suggesting that the immune system might have played a part in reducing the severity of the disease, even if it did not neutralize the virus in his body.
"It is very hard to make any strong inference from a single observation," Jeffrey Barrett from the Wellcome Sanger Institute COVID-19 Genome Project. “It may be that second infections, when they do occur, are not serious, though we don’t know whether this person was infectious during their second episode.”
In a 13 April study from South Korea, 116 recovered cases of COVID-19 were found positive again. The study poured over these reported cases of reinfection, and concluded that the virus detected in all the recovered patients was simply leftover dead virus from the earlier infection flaring up as false positives.
Considering the evidence on both sides, it isn't surprising that the news about 'proof' from Hong Kong is met with caution by most experts, since the study offers limited evidence towards the overarching concerns around reinfection.
Reinfection is a key consideration for vaccines
The intensity and duration of the body's immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been questioned time and again. It is a crucial determining factor in how long vaccines will be effective for, and how frequently a booster dose is needed.
Antibodies are agents of the immune system that are produced rapidly in the body's fight against an infection, or a threat to the immune system is discovered. The number of these initial antibodies is known to decline between the first to third month of recovery, depending on how severe the infection was. But for COVID-19, whether the antibody decline makes us more vulnerable to reinfection is a still a mystery.
Being able to tell the difference between a reinfection with COVID-19 and a relapse of the same infection will help medical teams tighten treatment procedures for patients. It will also bring experts a step closer to understanding and eliminating the novel coronavirus.
To the public, proof that reinfection is possible will also bring clarity on the testing process, its potential inaccuracies, and limit alarmism and any false information or speculation that might be making the rounds about COVID-19 reinfection.
Experts around the world are cautiously stressing that reinfection is rare (if not very rare).
However, considering the many unknowns about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it might still be risky to tout this theory as a fact. This, because declaring reinfection is not possible, may give people a false sense of security, which could be potentially dangerous.
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