Coronavirus

The virus of capitalism has infected the COVID-19 fight in US

Mar 25, 2020 14:40

"U.S.-style capitalism is a virus, and it has infected every aspect of this situation. Worker safety, insurance coverage and costs, medical preparedness, and vital supplies — even the bill intended to rescue the country from some final financial calamity: All have been perverted and disrupted by the profit motive that never, ever, ever sleeps."
Iran launches telemedicine call center to expedite coronavirus fight

Mar 25, 2020 13:59

This telemedicine call center in Tehran answers all questions regarding the coronavirus only by dialing 4030 in Iran. Some 2,000 personnel work 24/7 to answer calls from across the country about the virus, and this is done round the clock, since phones keep ringing nonstop.
US illegal sanctions on Iran endangering human lives not just in Iran: UN envoy

Mar 25, 2020 13:57

Iran’s UN envoy says the US sanctions against the country have endangered "the lives of many people not just in Iran, but also across the globe."
Iranian businessman says pandemic could help Iran restore global economic position

Mar 25, 2020 13:11

The coronavirus pandemic may lead to a drastic change in Iran’s economic position in the world given that many countries are now pressing the United States to ease its illegal and unilateral sanctions on the country to help it fight the virus, says a major Iranian businessman.
Jailed Bangladeshi opposition leader freed in emergency

Mar 25, 2020 11:39

Bangladesh released opposition leader Khaleda Zia from jail on Wednesday for six months to allow the two-time former prime minister to undergo urgent medical treatment.
Trump secretly seeks Asian, European allies’ medical help amid coronavirus spread

Mar 25, 2020 10:28

US President Donald Trump has privately asked some of the US allies in Europe and Asia, including South Korea, to help the country overcome the shortages caused by coronavirus spread.
‘Iranian coronavirus diagnostic test kits ready to go to global market’

Mar 25, 2020 10:26

A manager of an Iranian knowledge-based company says their domestically-developed coronavirus diagnostic test kits are ready to be put to the market, adding that the firm is fairly capable of providing 80,000 kits on a weekly basis to the laboratories recommended by the country’s ministry of health.
Beyond the western economic chaos of coronavirus is a western war economy

Mar 25, 2020 10:06

What does a virus have to do with war and repression? The coronavirus has disrupted global supply networks and spread panic throughout the world’s stock markets. The pandemic will pass, not without a heavy toll. But in the larger picture, the fallout from the virus exposes the fragility of a global capitalist economy that never fully recovered from the 2008 financial collapse and has been teetering on the brink of renewed crisis for years.
US has to shut down biowarfare labs to save the world from pandemics

Mar 25, 2020 09:57

The United States has been using biological weapons regularly for the past 50 years. It dropped hundreds of thousands of germ bombs with cholera and plague on Pyongyang alone during the Korean War, and hundreds of thousands or even millions elsewhere all over China and Korea. The US also attacked its own Congress in 2001.
New lockdowns, emergency states & deaths: Coronavirus keeps impacting lives

Mar 25, 2020 07:44

Around the globe, the outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to impact the lives of people, forcing governments to take measures unprecedented in peacetime.