In Malawi, pressure is mounting on authorities to consider decongesting the country’s prisons after 51 inmates and 16 prison guards tested positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks.Prisoners’ rights activists are pushing for immediate release of the infected inmates as a measure to prevent the disease from spreading further among the prison population.Malawi prison authorities say they have been deeply concerned since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed on July 14 at Mzimba Prison in northern Malawi.“To be very honest, it is becoming a little bit tough to prevent and manage this pandemic in our prisons simply because prisons are over congested, so, some of the measures we are supposed to implement or reinforce in the light of COVID-19 pandemic cannot work. For example, issues of social distance,” Chimwemwe Shaba, national spokesperson for Malawi Prison Services, said via a messaging app.Shaba said prison authorities have introduced various measures to help contain the virus, such as putting all infected prisoners into separate areas, and a ban on visits by prisoners’ friends and family.“And again we have suspended out day-to-day operations that require inmates to go out of prison formations to work, so that we reduce the risk of contact between the inmates and the outsiders,” he said.Shaba also said all new inmates are being quarantined for 14 days before being sent to various prisons.However, prisoners’ rights lobby groups say this is not enough. They have appealed to President Lazarus Chakewera to consider releasing some inmates to decongest the prisons.The Center for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance is among seven rights groups calling for decongestion of the prisons.Victor Mhango is its executive director.“Our prisons are very congested. The space which was meant for 5,500 prisoners as I am taking today is being accommodated by 40,000 prisoners. If we can let the prisoners be just the way they are today, it will actually be the breeding ground for the virus,” he said.In the letter to the president, Mhango said they suggested a number of factors for the president to consider.“We are talking of terminally ill prisoners. We have so many prisoners on TB [tuberculosis]. We have been hearing from health experts that if this virus can contract someone with some diseases, the possibility of someone dying is very high. We are also taking of old age, we have some people are 65, 70, 80 years old who are in prison.”The call comes a few days after Chakwera pardoned the first prisoner to contract coronavirus.Home Affairs Minister Richard Chimwendo Banda told VOA by phone Monday the government has taken heed of the call to release some prisoners.Banda said the government committee will meet Tuesday for a final recommendation on how to decongest the prisons. He says they will also put in place measures to prevent further spread of COVID-19.Prisons spokesperson Shaba said this arrangement has prompted prison guards to call off a planned sit-in strike this week, against lack of personal protective equipment in prisons.
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Month: July 2020
Нежданчик для Трампа: кардинальный поворот в стане республиканцев
Нежданчик для Трампа: кардинальный поворот в стане республиканцев.
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Чем больше набирает обороты предвыборная кампания, тем более заметно, что в республиканских рядах США уже начался раскол в плане поддержки Трампа, как кандидата на выборы от их партии.
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Обиженный карлик пукин обделался: позиции ихтамнетов в Ливии оказались под прицелом
Обиженный карлик пукин обделался: позиции ихтамнетов в Ливии оказались под прицелом.
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Хабаровск поставил обиженного карлика пукина в тупик. Люди просыпайтесь!
Хабаровск поставил обиженного карлика пукина в тупик. Люди просыпайтесь!
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Хабаровск бьет рекорды, пока москва спала, в субботу там прошел самый массовый митинг за историю города, в котором приняло участие до 75 тыс. человек. При этом люди выходят уже 15 дней подряд и граждан все больше и больше. Понятно почему дегенерат дегтярев покинул Хабаровск на выходные, а обиженный карлик пукин предпринимает все попытки дискредитировать протест, пользуясь самыми гнусными методами
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Озброєний коп крадуна авакова на маминій Інфініті напав на людей
Озброєний коп на маминій Інфініті напав на людей.
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Як проти Стерненка фабрикували справу, відмазували нападників, а шарій і депутати брехали
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Google Employees to Work from Home Until 2021
Google employees will work from home until summer 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, the company announced Monday.The decision affects almost 200,000 employees worldwide, including full-time and contract workers, making Google the first large U.S. company to keep its employees working remotely for over a year.The company stated earlier that most of its employees would work from home for the rest of 2020.The choice to extend remote work into next year could cause other businesses to announce similar plans.Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai made the choice after debating options with an internal group of executives. According to someone familiar with the situation, Pichai’s decision was influenced by employees with children, many of whom are facing the possibility of online school this year.”To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work-from-home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Pichai told employees in a memo. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved ones over the next 12 months.”
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COVID-19 Diary: Why Aren’t the English Wearing Masks?
The advert on an elevator door at Washington’s Dulles airport read: “Say Hi And Smile At Your Fellow Travelers. It’s Good for Everyone.” That’s easier said than done when you are wearing a mask – and there are no other travelers in sight! I am used to flying a lot. Because of work, sometimes several times a month. I am seldom anxious. There have been the odd anxiety-inducing trips, mainly into war-torn countries. A flight on a wave-hopping small turboprop from Malta into Libya’s Tripoli wasn’t much fun. But I can confide that I was unusually anxious last week taking a flight to London. In fact, the flight turned out to be one of the smoothest transatlantic trips I have taken in 40 years — mainly thanks to the lack of ‘fellow travelers.’ The normally bustling Dulles airport was empty. There were just three other international flights departing the airport on the night I flew out. There were only four other people checking in at the same time as me. Security was a breeze. The normally bustling Dulles Airport was forlorn. “There were just three other international flights departing the airport on the night I flew out.” (Jamie Dettmer/VOA)But there was something forlorn about the airport. Only two small stores were open. The lounges were shuttered. And the few other passengers around were keen to steer very clear of each other. I didn’t have to worry about space between me and others on the Airbus — there were only 30 to 40 passengers on the no-frills flight. Oh, the joy of being able to stretch out. Shouting over masks“We were shouted at for wearing masks. This is why the situation in the U.S. is so dire,” Alex Crawford of Britain’s Sky News explained in a recent broadcast. British broadcasters have been reporting obsessively on the resistance to wearing masks in America. The BBC asked in a recent report: “Why is there a U.S. backlash to masks?” “Many protesters across the States have been pictured defying social distancing guidance without masks or face coverings,” reported Ritu Prasad. “This is in marked contrast to other countries,” she added. And would those counties include Britain — or, to be more precise, England, where Sky News and the BBC are headquartered? Not at all, as I discovered, after arriving in London last week. I had been expecting, when I left Heathrow Airport, to see a masked England. But masks were less in evidence than in the United States. I’d flown from West Virginia, a state not noted for a warm embrace of face-coverings. The governor, Jim Justice, only recently made masks compulsory for shoppers. But even before the gubernatorial instruction, I’d estimate around 70 percent used their own initiative and covered up. Most local stores long ago asked customers to wear masks. But at a large Sainsbury’s supermarket in an affluent suburb of Britain’s capital, only a handful of shoppers had face-coverings. And just one store assistant who might as well not have bothered, since she was only half-covering her mouth and her nose not all. On Friday, mask-wearing for shoppers became mandatory in England’s stores; Scotland ordered everyone to cover up weeks ago. Whether the English do observe the mask rule will be interesting to watch. Supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Asda have announced they won’t enforce the rule — and police forces say they have insufficient manpower. Not much different from US A recent report by London University’s Imperial College and the YouGov pollsters noted: “Britons are uniquely reluctant to wear face masks, given the level of fear around COVID-19 and the number of cases in the country.” They found just 37 percent of people were wearing masks before the mask order came into effect. I asked a Sainsbury’s employee on the eve of the new rule whether she planned to wear a mask. “I am not sure. Anyway I can’t,” she said. “Why not?” I asked. “Cos I don’t like them,” she replied. On Saturday, after the rule came into effect, the locals appeared to be observing the mask rule in the picture-postcard Berkshire village of Cookham, along the River Thames. “We are a well-behaved lot around here,” said Sandy, a barista at Mr. Cooper’s Coffee House. But she told me she’d seen earlier voluble disagreements about wearing masks outside a Tesco supermarket in Maidenhead, a nearby town. Mask-wearing has also divided Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet. And that has not helped to get the message across that face-coverings can prevent transmission of the coronavirus, as a series of studies have shown. For those interested, some links here:This stretch of the Thames was described by Jerome K. Jerome, a nineteenth century English writer, as “the sweetest stretch of all the river.” (Jamie Dettmer/VOA)Hardly surprisingly, people are escaping to the countryside as well as flocking to England’s rivers, trying to leave the coronavirus muddle behind them.The Thames flows by Cookham and Maidenhead. Jerome K. Jerome, a 19th century English writer, described this part of the Thames as “the sweetest stretch of all the river.” In his book “Three Men in a Boat,” a sentimental account of a two-week boating trip with friends, the author complains, though, that, “as a rule on the river, the wind is always dead against you whatever way you go.” “It is against you in the morning, when you start for a day’s trip, and you pull a long distance, thinking how easy it will be to come back with the sail. Then, after tea, the wind veers round, and you have to pull hard in its teeth all the way home.” That could serve as a metaphor for the coronavirus pandemic. But then, as Jerome adds: “This world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”
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Austrian Resort Town Reports Sudden COVID-19 Surge
Austria’s tourism industry received a blow after 53 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed since last week in the popular resort town of St. Wolfgang. The lakeside resort shortened bar opening hours after a coronavirus outbreak was detected on Friday. The local tourism office said at least 50 of those new cases were seasonal workers from abroad in the hospitality industry. In an interview Monday, Health Minister Christine Haberlander said more than 1,000 additional COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Austrian authorities in St. Wolfgang. The provincial government said guests who stayed in town from July 15 will be informed about the outbreak. Tourism officials say news of the outbreak already caused many to cancel hotel reservations over the weekend. Two of the hotels there have closed. Many of the town’s businesses reportedly are worried that visitors will stay away for the rest of the season. St. Wolfgang, situated on Wolfgangsee Lake, one of Austria’s best-known lakes, was once a favorite vacation spot of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Austria’s coronavirus outbreak has been relatively limited compared to other Western European countries. It has recorded 20,510 cases and 713 deaths, though infections have accelerated in the past month.
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Body of Late Congressman, Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Returns to Washington
The late U.S. congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis returned to Washington on Monday, taking a final journey past several civil rights landmarks before his casket was taken to the Capitol, where it will lie in state for officials and the public to pay their last respects. Lewis died last week at the age of 80 after a yearlong battle with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer.His casket is being brought to the building where he served the people of his Georgia district for 33 years. After flying into Joint Base Andrews in Maryland outside Washington, Lewis’ casket was loaded into a hearse and taken into the city via motorcade led by motorcycle police. The motorcade took a circuitous route through the city, with a slow pass by the Lincoln Memorial where, in 1963, Lewis had been the youngest speaker during the Martin Luther King-led March on Washington. The motorcade then drove by the memorial honoring King, on the tidal basin just off the National Mall. A hearse with the flag-draped casket of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., pauses in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on way to the Capitol, July 27, 2020.Next, the motorcade wound across the Mall, past the White House and onto the newly minted Black Lives Matter Plaza, where the civil rights icon made his last public appearance in early June. Lewis, who was diagnosed in late December with pancreatic cancer, died July 17. From there, the motorcade worked its way back to the Mall for a pass by the African American Museum, where Lewis is remembered among other civil rights activists. From there, the motorcade eventually arrived at the Capitol where Lewis’ casket was greeted by a host of high-profile political leaders for an arrival ceremony in the Capitol’s Rotunda. Inside the capitol, public officials, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, are expected to pay their respects. The general public has been prohibited from entering the Capitol complex since mid-March, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so Lewis’ casket will be positioned at the top of the center steps of the Capitol, just outside the Rotunda. The flag-draped casket of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a key figure in the civil rights movement and a 17-term congressman, lies in state at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2020.Later Monday, people would be able to walk up to the bottom of those steps to pay tribute to Lewis, with social distancing and mask-wearing requirements in place. Lewis will be the second Black lawmaker to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. Congressman Elijah Cummings, who died last year, was the first.The public will be able to pay their respects to Lewis all day Tuesday, before his body is flown to Atlanta to lie in state Wednesday in the Georgia Capitol. A funeral will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the historically black church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached. He will be laid to rest in Atlanta’s South View Cemetery.Prior to returning to Washington, Lewis lay in state Sunday in Montgomery, Alabama, to give the people of his home state a final chance to pay their last respects.Lewis’ body arrived at the Alabama Capitol shortly after a horse-drawn caisson brought his flag-draped casket across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the same bridge where police beat him and other civil rights marchers when they tried to cross it during a walk to Montgomery in 1965. That day became known as “Bloody Sunday.”That day was known as “Bloody Sunday.” No one at the bridge 55 years ago would imagine that one day, a Black man would cross that same bridge in honor, with flags across the state flown at half-staff as a sign of respect for him and all he fought to achieve.FILE – An image of the late Georgia Congressman and civil rights pioneer U.S. Rep. John Lewis is projected on to the pedestal of the statue of confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., July 22, 2020.Sunday was the second day of nearly a week of memorials and remembrances for Lewis.Lewis rose to fame as a leader of the modern-day American civil rights movement of the 1960s. At 23, he worked closely with King and was the last surviving speaker from the August 1963 March on Washington where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.The civil rights movement led Lewis into a career in politics. He was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1981 and to Congress in 1986, calling the latter victory “the honor of a lifetime.” He served 17 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia’s fifth district.
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Cameroon Citizens Raised $40M for COVID Relief, But Where is It?
Cameroon has bowed to pressure from rights groups and ordered investigations into the management of the COVID-19 solidarity fund contributed to by civilians. The rights groups said most of the $40 million cash and material had been embezzled. An outcry was sparked after rights groups said 4,000 bags of rice donated to COVID-19 patients were illegally sold.
About two dozen people are this Monday morning at the Messassi government hospital in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde for consultations. Among them is 27-year- old Ernestine Sahmo who is visiting for her weekly diabetes control. Sahmo says she and other patients are surprised at the absence of COVID-19 prevention kits at the hospital.
“Most of the time you go there and there is no water. You just find a bucket being placed there without any water in it and at times too you don’t even meet soap,” she said.The hospital officials declined to comment on the absence of soap to wash hands. But the government of Cameroon said enough thermometers, soap, disinfectants, hand sanitizers, face masks, medicines and sufficient quantities of water were distributed all over the country.
The government said it used money contributed to a COVID-19 solidarity fund to buy the COVID kits. Cameroon president Paul Biya contribited $ 1.8 million to the fund.
Other contributions were received from civilians, companies, minister, lawmakers and senior sate functionaries.
Cameroon also received assistance to fight COVID-19 from foreign governments. The central African state said it received $226 million in emergency funding from the International Monetary Fund.
Other people contributed food with a local company handing to the government huge quantities of rice.
Apande Fadimatou of the NGO “Health fo All” says the government should give an account of how much it received and how much it spent. Fadimatou says some of the medicines the government claims it purchased have not been seen. She says she believes some money, food and nonfood items have been diverted.
She says she is surprised that even for the sake of governance and to respect Cameroon public management principles, an audit has not been conducted on the COVID-19 solidarity fund ordered by Cameroon president Paul Biya. She says the government should give the right information to civilians if it ordered the 4,000 bags of rice weighing 50 kilograms each and some COVID-19 protective materials donated by the people to be sold because it needed money to buy COVID-19 rapid test kits as some people claim. Cameroon health minister Manaouda Malachie says neither the funds nor the goods had been diverted. He says the ministry of health with the ministries of territorial administration, finance and trade made sure food items were distributed to all hospitals with COVID-19 patients. He says some food was given to Cameroon’s 10 regional governors to distribute to families and communities hardest hit by COVID-19.
Manaouda says face masks, hand sanitizers, soap and buckets were shared to civilians, and protective kits for hospital staff members distributed in hospitals. He says independent control teams and solicitors were invited to follow up the process and render accounts in case there is need. Manouda said the government had spent more than $40 million from the fund and from government contributions since March when the first case of COVID-19 was reported. He did not state how much has been contributed.
Manouda said following requests by rights groups and civilians, Cameroon prime minister Joseph Dion Ngute has ordered an investigation into how the funds and material were used.
In July, Human Rights Watch asked Cameroon to disburse funds to support health care facilities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and investigate any missing funds.
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26 Rohingya Refugees Found Hiding on Malaysian Islet
Malaysian authorities say 26 Rohingya refugees who were thought to have drowned after jumping off a fishing boat and trying to swim ashore on the island of Langkawi have been found alive.Officials said Monday that the Rohingya were found hiding on a nearby islet. The search began when one of the refugees was found Saturday on the islet off Langkawi and told the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency that a minimum of 24 others were missing.Senior agency official Zawawi Abdullah says 12 men, 10 women, and four children in total were found.Officials say they believe local fishermen took the refugees out to sea and deposited them off Langkawi in the hopes that they come ashore undetected.The Rohingya have been detained for further investigation and will be handed to the immigration department, according to Zawawi. Officials also say two other migrants were arrested for suspected trafficking. Malaysia does not recognize refugee status, although the mostly Muslim country is a popular destination for Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar.A military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017 caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee. Most are now living in overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin reported in June that Malaysia could not take in any more Rohingya immigrants, saying that the economy had been too badly hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. He added that those already residing within Malaysia will not be sent out.Malaysia is home to more than 2 million illegal immigrants, in addition to around 180,000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to the Associated Press. Around 101,000 of these are Rohingya.
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Kenyans Urged to Treat Pandemic Stress
Kenya’s Ministry of Health says the number of mental health cases have jumped dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the country’s mental health taskforce, 25% of coronavirus outpatients and 40% of in-hospital patients suffer from mental health issues such as depression. But more Kenyans are seeking help and speaking up about it. Mohammed Yusuf reports.Camera: Mohammed Yusuf
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American Charged with Aggravated Murder of Wife in France
A Brooklyn man who told French police investigators that he killed his wife by stabbing her twice during an argument has been charged with her murder, a prosecutor said Monday. The French-American, identified in French media reports as Billy Kruger, told investigators that he acted in self-defense, Marie-Agnès Joly, a prosecutor in the southwest city of Narbonne, told The Associated Press. Kruger was placed under formal investigation Sunday on a preliminary charge of aggravated murder and ordered held in jail, pending a possible trial. The body of his wife, 52-year-old Laure Bardina-Kruger, was found Friday in Peyriac-de-Mer, on the Mediterranean coast, south of Narbonne. The couple lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he is a diving instructor and she worked as a teacher, Joly said. The couple had a holiday home in Peyriac-de-Mer, and police found the wife’s body hidden in the storm drain nearby. The husband was detained Friday as he was preparing to fly from Toulouse, bound for Jakarta, the prosecutor said. The couple had been expected to fly out together. The wife’s parents raised the alarm after they were unable to reach the couple by phone ahead of the flight. Police sent to the couple’s home found that the wife’s belongings were still there. They then learned that the husband had checked into the flight alone. He was arrested in the boarding zone of the airport. During police questioning, the man said he stabbed his wife twice, the prosecutor said. He said they’d been arguing and he put forward “a vague” explanation of self-defense, she said. The investigation is continuing.
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UK’s Johnson Urges Britons to Shed Weight
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging citizens to exercise and shed weight, saying he has done so since his recovery earlier this year from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The prime minister’s office introduced a “Better Health” campaign Monday and released a video of himself walking his dog and talking up the benefits of regular exercise.Johnson said at the peak of his illness, when he was taken into the intensive care unit to be treated for COVID-19, he was way overweight. Since he returned from the hospital, Johnson said he started running, which has become easier for him and that he has lost more than six kilograms.Johnson’s advice comes after a recent report from Public Health England showing the overweight and obese are at greater risk for severe illness and of death from COVID-19. The prime minister said losing weight and becoming fit would also protect the National Health Service from becoming overwhelmed with patients.Johnson said he doesn’t want to be excessively “bossy or nannying” about losing weight, because he understands the struggles many people have with doing so. He said he just wants to be helpful. As part of the “Better Health” campaign, Johnson’s government will fight the “obesity time bomb” by banning advertising of junk food before 9.00 p.m., ending “buy one get one free” deals and putting calories on menus. Government data show more than 60% of British citizens are overweight as is one in three children. The data indicate overweight children are five times more likely to become overweight adults.Losing weight is hard but with some small changes we can all feel fitter and healthier.If we all do our bit, we can reduce our health risks and protect ourselves against coronavirus – as well as taking pressure off the NHS. Our Better Health Strategy https://t.co/WdazXhuhRNpic.twitter.com/KZhW8p17FJ— Boris Johnson #StayAlert (@BorisJohnson) July 27, 2020
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US National Security Adviser Infected with Coronavirus
U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced on Monday. O’Brien, who heads the National Security Council, “has mild symptoms and has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site. There is no risk of exposure to the President or the Vice President,” according to a White House statement.
“The work of the National Security Council continues uninterrupted,” the statement added.
O’Brien, who is 54, is the highest-ranking member of the administration of President Donald Trump known to have been infected with the coronavirus. FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump stands in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House with U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.Previous White House aides who tested positive for COVID-19 include a personal valet for Trump, as well as Katie Miller, who is Vice President Mike Pence’s top communications aide.Last week, the cafeteria at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House and containing the offices of the vice president and the National Security Council, was closed after a cafeteria employee tested positive for the virus.Also last week, a Marine assigned to the presidential helicopter squadron was diagnosed with COVID-19. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., also tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting the couple to leave early from the president’s Mount Rushmore speech during the July 4th holiday weekend.There has been no immediate comment about O’Brien’s diagnosis from the president, who is to travel to the state of North Carolina on Monday to visit a bio-technology center that manufactures components of a potential COVID-19 vaccine. O’Brien has been working from home for the past week, according to officials, after having traveled to Europe to meet with counterparts to discuss China.The national security adviser is frequently in contact with the president, although it is not known when was the last time they met. O’Brien and Trump appeared together publicly during a July 10 visit to the U.S. Southern Command in Miami. More than 4.2 million people in the United States have tested positive for the coronavirus – the most of any country. About 147,000 are confirmed to have died in the country of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Jail Releases Did Not Increase US Crime Rate, Report Finds
Many large U.S. cities that kept people out of jail at the apex of the COVID-19 outbreak did so without seeing a spike in crime, according to a new study that looks at the relationship between crime and efforts to reduce jail populations during the pandemic.The report, released Monday by the The front entrance of Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth, Texas, May 16, 2020. Hundreds of inmates inside the facility have tested positive for COVID-19 and several inmates have died with numbers expected to rise.Concern that the releases posed a public safety risk appear to have been overblown. ACLU researchers found that cities that reduced arrests and jail numbers did not see an uptick in crime. Twenty-four out of the 29 county jails it studied reduced their populations from 5% to 40% in March and April. All saw decreases in crime. The data was compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice.“When analyzing decarceration rates and crime trends together, the analytics team found no correlation,” the report says. “More decarceration was not associated with more crime.”That crime rates fell even as prisoners were let loose does not mean some did not re-offend, a phenomenon known as recidivism. Roseberry said that while it was “certainly possible” that some of the released inmates may have re-offended, it was not something the ACLU team examined.”More importantly, any risks of re-offending need to be weighed against the risk of an individual dying of COVID-19 in jail or prison,” Roseberry said. “It is also plausible that many did not re-offend, especially as we didn’t detect any abnormal spikes in crime.”Studies have shown that the odds of re-offending decline with age. Levin noted that states such as Oklahoma and Iowa conduct individualized assessments to determine an inmate’s release eligibility and reduce recidivism. Michigan more than halved its jail population this spring without seeing a marked increase in crime.“For the most part, what we’ve seen is pretty encouraging,” Levin said.As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the United States, authorities should continue their decarceration policies, the ACLU said.“We should continue to reduce incarceration as this COVID-19 crisis continues, and cases rise and fall,” the report says. “And we should never go back to the old normal, even after COVID-19 passes.”
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Envoy Wishes US Was More Like Vietnam in Virus Fight
Vietnam may look to the United States for everything from technology to study abroad programs. But when it comes to a pandemic that has killed nearly 147,000 Americans and zero Vietnamese, according to Johns Hopkins University, the richer nation would do well to follow Vietnam’s lead, according to a top U.S. envoy in the Southeast Asian nation. After years of investing in public health, Vietnam headed off COVID-19 early in the year by testing, treating, and isolating patients quickly. The U.S. consul general in Ho Chi Minh City, Marie Damour, held up this response as a model, speaking at an event to mark the silver anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between the two former war enemies. FILE – Health workers walk through the grounds at a makeshift COVID-19 testing facility in Hanoi, Vietnam, Mar. 31, 2020.“Vietnam has very decisively become probably the country that has been most successful in addressing COVID-19 and suppressing and contact tracing and making sure that the entirety of the society has been involved in this struggle,” Damour said on Thursday. “And that is an example that I would love to see the United States emulate in this particular subject.” The comments came before Vietnam suffered a setback, this weekend, when it reported a new local COVID infection and broke a 100-day streak without infections. Still Vietnam has had just 424 cases this year and Damour was frank that, in contrast to Vietnam, her own nation should do more about the pandemic. U.S. government officials have run the gamut in their attitude toward the pandemic, from the president who said last week that the coronavirus will disappear, to state governors who have treated it as an existential crisis. Vietnam benefits US
Damour’s comments were meant as well to highlight what the United States gets out of its relationship with Vietnam. Despite having more limited resources and less global visibility than the United States, Vietnam brings different contributions to the table. Lessons on Covid are an example of that. Skyscrapers rise over a vastly different Saigon-turned-Ho Chi Minh City than the one left by U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War. (VOA)A look at the two nations’ response to handling the pandemic is a study in contrasts. Vietnam and the United States both reported their first cases of the coronavirus in the same week in January.
Having experience with SARS and other tropical diseases, Vietnam moved immediately to quarantine patients, trace contacts and limited movement in the population. It is now the most populous nation, of nearly 100 million people, to have reported zero deaths from COVID and fewer than 500 cases.By contrast the United States went back and forth on whether to wear masks and shut down cities amid a shortage in tests and hospital capacity. The President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, half a year into the pandemic, that it probably will “get worse before it gets better.” The United States has turned to nations such as Vietnam for donations and purchases of personal protective equipment. Aboutface in diplomacy
The year 2020 was supposed to be a banner year for Vietnam and the United States. There are not many diplomatic turnabouts as stark as that of the two nations, which fought a war that ended in 1975 and forced the closure of the U.S. Embassy in then-Saigon.Young Vietnamese use a library and study center at the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. (VOA)The site reopened in dramatic fashion as a U.S. consulate in the ’90s when the two sides re-established ties. Now, a quarter century later, they are celebrating a silver anniversary of relations, in muted form amid the COVID crisis. Bilateral trade has skyrocketed, along with the exchange of tourists and students, and signs of wartime resentment are scant. The turnabout gives the U.S. a friend in Asia at a time when regional strains with China are becoming increasing. In Ho Chi Minh City, blown up snapshots of Vietnamese and American officials paper the outer walls of the U.S. Consulate at street level. A few stories above, on Thursday, the consulate commemorated the anniversary with speakers from both sides. “I think that the relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam is on a track that, it’s very hard to change course of the track,” said Dr. Nguyen Thanh Trung, director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. “And I think it’s not dependent on the decision of any individual. I think it’s just, we have built so many things.”
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Australian State Posts Single-Day Record of New COVID-19 Cases
Australia’s coronavirus-stricken Victoria state reported a record-high 532 new cases Monday despite reaching the midway point of a six-week lockdown of its capital, Melbourne. The nation’s second-most populous state also posted six more deaths, five of them in elder care facilities, putting Victoria state’s total COVID-19 death toll to 77, making up the bulk of Australia’s 161 total fatalities. Victoria currently has over 4,500 active coronavirus cases, also the most in the nation. Victoria Premier David Andrews blamed the dramatic rise of new cases on residents continuing to go to work or generally go out in public despite developing symptoms. “This is what is driving these numbers up and the lockdown will not end until people stop going to work with symptoms and instead go and get tested,” Andrews said, warning that some of Victoria’s biggest industries and mass employers could be temporarily shut down if employees keep going to work with coronavirus symptoms.
Melbourne’s five million residents were placed under a mandatory face mask order last week in the latest attempt to control the spike in COVID-19 infections. Residents are currently banned from leaving home unless going to work, school, medical appointments or shopping for food. Authorities have also shut down the border between the country’s two most populous states due a spike in COVID-19 cases in the city of Melbourne.
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