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'I won't survive', Iranian scientist in US jail says, as Covid-19 kills many
Apr 04, 2020 15:23Although he was exonerated, Iranian scientist Dr Sirous Askari remains locked up in a detention center in the US, from where he tells the British daily ‘Guardian’ in a telephone conversation that the ‘inhumane’ jail is denying detainees masks and hand sanitizers.
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Coronavirus could trigger biggest fall in carbon emissions since World War Two
Apr 04, 2020 14:50Experts warn that without structural change, the emissions declines caused by coronavirus could be short-lived and have little impact on the concentrations of carbon dioxide that have accumulated in the atmosphere over decades.
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US AWOL on global stage as it becomes new epicenter of coronavirus
Apr 03, 2020 03:39Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has taken steps that have undermined the nation’s ability to effectively deal with a public health crisis: He has shut down the White House’s entire global health unit, ignored warnings that the US is unprepared to deal with a pandemic, and proposed budget cuts for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most recent mistakes include manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing and the decision to test too few people for the coronavirus.
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Citizens at risk as anti-Asian racism surges in US
Apr 02, 2020 11:00Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the virus of racism against ethnic Chinese and other Asians has been spreading across the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, France and elsewhere. In the United States, anti-Asian hate crimes have surged so much that during the March 27 phone call between US President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president emphasized his hope that the US would protect the health and lives of the many Chinese international students in the country.
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Why some heart patients may be especially vulnerable to COVID-19
Apr 01, 2020 10:16As researchers examine deaths from COVID-19, heart patients appear especially vulnerable. In Italy, where the number of deaths has now surpassed those in China, public health officials reported on March 17 that among 355 people who died, a whopping 76 percent had hypertension and 33 percent had heart disease.
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With a quarter of the world’s population under US sanctions, countries appeal to UN to intervene
Apr 01, 2020 03:38The governments of China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela – all under sanctions from the United States – sent a joint statement to the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Director-General of the World Health Organization calling for an end to the unilateral American economic blockade, as they are, “illegal and blatantly violate international law and the charter of the United Nations.”
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Internet curbs on Rohingya risk wider virus outbreak
Mar 31, 2020 11:42Bangladeshi authorities through their official block on Internet access in the Cox’s Bazar camps have obstructed those Rohingya refugees’ right to information on how to protect themselves from contracting the coronavirus. Those restrictions also hobble the efforts of aid groups and government agencies effectively to communicate urgent health messaging to a Rohingya refugee community spread across 34 separate camps.
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Coronavirus: After the EU failed to deliver, Italy looks to Russia for help
Mar 31, 2020 11:37The current global political scene is changing rapidly as a result of the coronavirus. We are seeing new super-powers emerging, such as China and Russia, and former so-called power-houses weakening, such as the US and NATO. The shifting sands of alliances remind us of a similar situation before WW2. Italy, and several other EU members, may find themselves forging new alliances that are headed East.
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800,000 doctors warn Trump: Heed expert warnings and end dangerous campaign against social distancing
Mar 29, 2020 12:19This coming Tuesday US President Donald Trump is expected to give more details about his plans to reopen the economy after just 15 days of social distancing implemented by the White House amid the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
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Who’s behind the COVID-19 global pandemic?
Mar 29, 2020 04:30There is considerable circumstantial evidence that this COVID-19 pandemic was a biological weapon that was deployed against China and Iran and has bounced back against its creators. The experts in biological warfare all say that traditionally, strategists have been skeptical about biological warfare precisely because it has that tendency to bounce back and to create blowback.