A study shows Gradual Easing Of Lockdowns May Be Better For Global Economy

<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMz8aiCLogSbi8Ytkbsm4WxOnikRzwDAMqIzp20BUizk7adMGl-c8TDSW7zaA1Dx4knFIJ13uRBYOSGLnHGZklf2CwvMnnHSXfh1AQTMdB2rs-iXDRplki70t_xlgM0zhnO9PeP_WKsk/s1880/pexels-photo-4031867.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1253" data-original-width="1880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMz8aiCLogSbi8Ytkbsm4WxOnikRzwDAMqIzp20BUizk7adMGl-c8TDSW7zaA1Dx4knFIJ13uRBYOSGLnHGZklf2CwvMnnHSXfh1AQTMdB2rs-iXDRplki70t_xlgM0zhnO9PeP_WKsk/s320/pexels-photo-4031867.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is because the economic cost of a lockdown goes beyond national borders and a shorter, one-off shock is easier to absorb.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Professor Mr Guan said: "Companies will survive the supply chain failures that lockdowns cause by relying on reserves of stock or finding new suppliers. A new study has revealed that a cautious approach to easing lockdown restrictions that reduces the risk of later lockdowns may be better for the global supply chain in the long run.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The study led by researchers at the UCL and Tsinghua University was published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is the first peer-reviewed study to comprehensively assess potential global supply chain effects of COVID-19 lockdowns, modelling the impact of lockdowns on 140 countries, including countries not directly affected by COVID-19.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The study found that stricter lockdowns imposed earlier - such as the two-month lockdown imposed in China - are economically preferable to more moderate lockdowns imposed for four or six months, as the duration of lockdown matters more to economies than their severity.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is because businesses can absorb the shock of a brief lockdown better by relying on reserves and because shorter lockdowns cause less disruption to regional and global supply chains.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Researchers also found that countries not directly affected by Covid-19 may nonetheless experience large losses of more than 20% of their GDP due to fall in consumer demand and bottlenecks in supply chains.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Particularly at risk are open or highly specialised economies, such as Caribbean countries that rely on tourism and Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan that rely on energy exports. This would remove some of the disincentives to early action and provide enormous health and economic benefits over the long term," Mr Coffman added.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The paper used a "disaster footprint" economic model to quantify the direct costs of lockdowns in terms of labour reduction as well as the cascading effects of loss of labour on the supply chain, simulating how constraints to output affect upstream suppliers as well as the firms to which the goods are being supplied. The strict, 80% reduction is based roughly on China's lockdown, during which data suggests 80% of travel stopped, while the 60% lockdown broadly reflects the approach taken in Europe and the United States. Supply chain data was drawn from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database, which divides the world into 141 economies, with 60 sectors within each economy.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Researchers simulated three kinds of lockdown: strict lockdown in which 80% of travel and labour ceases; a more moderate lockdown with a 60% reduction; a third, lighter lockdown with a 40% reduction in travel and labour. If a second shock hits, reserves may be low and supply chains only recently repaired - making a new break much more costly."</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If recurrent global lockdowns occur, New Zealand's food services sector and Jamaica's tourism industry would face estimated productivity losses of about 90%, while China's electronics business and Iran's oil industry would face productivity losses of about two thirds.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The cost to the UK economy, meanwhile, would rise from a potential supply chain loss of 38% (one lockdown gradually eased over 12 months) to 57% (recurrent global lockdowns happening at different times in different countries).</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the United States, the cost to the financial sector would nearly double if a second global lockdown occurs, with potential supply chain loss rising from 33% (one lockdown gradually eased over 12 months) to 57% (recurrent global lockdowns happening at different times in different countries).</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The most important factor affecting the global economic cost of lockdowns, the study found, was the number of countries implementing them, highlighting the importance to the global economy of one country containing an epidemic.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Co-author Professor D'Maris Coffman (UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management) said: "Just as individuals staying at home protect others as well as themselves, so countries imposing strict lockdowns provide a public good to other countries.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"In preparing for the next pandemic, a global facility, in all likelihood administered by the IMF, could ensure that the costs of containing an outbreak are not borne by one country alone. London: Owing to the coronavirus crisis, many countries across the world are under lockdown. Also vulnerable are globalised industries that rely on difficult-to-replace suppliers, such as automobile manufacturing, where production is estimated to fall by up to half.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lead author Professor Dabo Guan (UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management and Tsinghua University) said: "Our study shows the ripple effects caused by lockdowns along global supply chains, with countries not directly affected by COVID-19 still experiencing heavy economic losses.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"While predicting the true cost of lockdowns is not possible at this stage, our research suggests that shorter, stricter lockdowns minimise the impact on supply chains, while gradually easing restrictions over the course of a year may also be less disruptive than a swift lifting of restrictions followed by another lockdown," Mr Guan added.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The researchers estimated that gradually easing lockdown measures over 12 months would minimise supply chain impacts compared to lifting restrictions more quickly, over two months, and then introducing a second round of lockdowns in January next year, which they estimated would increase the cost by one-third.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Co-author Professor Steven Davis (University of California, Irvine) said: "Our analysis quantifies the global economic benefits of robust public health responses and suggests that economic justifications to re-open businesses could backfire if they result in another round of lockdowns."</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Looking ahead to a potential second wave, the researchers found that a strict, globally co-ordinated lockdown implemented for two months would be less economically costly than lockdowns happening in different parts of the world at different times - risking a potential economic loss to global supply chains by 50% rather than 60%.</span></div><div><br /></div>pakuptodate.blogspot.com/

A study shows Gradual Easing Of Lockdowns May Be Better For Global Economy

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People are Gathering Outside White House For Protest Over George 's Death

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People are Gathering Outside White House For Protest Over George 's Death

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‘beaten to death for having no mask’ Police officer set on fire at protest

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhbmgcOUY3zNhP0I3DWKPSyBD44ZqGvvpt-SgKL7iUF-tv-VwAZVC5cipvbBWPIZQhPVqzFpDfL6rC5suhnyPsFsfzw6xPLgUDaguy9y9HvJOHRZk72Ty6IzdoxAX_chM9_969zVfFzM/s615/0_PAY-Newsflash-CopFireProtest-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhbmgcOUY3zNhP0I3DWKPSyBD44ZqGvvpt-SgKL7iUF-tv-VwAZVC5cipvbBWPIZQhPVqzFpDfL6rC5suhnyPsFsfzw6xPLgUDaguy9y9HvJOHRZk72Ty6IzdoxAX_chM9_969zVfFzM/s320/0_PAY-Newsflash-CopFireProtest-04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: -0.07px; text-align: start; text-indent: 20px;">Image: Newsflash/Mario Marlo</span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And I give you my word, Giovanni's death will not go unpunished," Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said on Twitter. Disturbing footage shows a police officer being set on fire by a protester during demonstrations over the death of a builder allegedly beaten to death by police.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The incident took place during protests in the city of Guadalajara, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco as locals gathered to ask for justice for Giovanni Lopez, 30, who died after his arrest.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the video, officers in helmets can be seen facing up to protesters when one of the officers gets onto his motorbike.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A protester then runs up behind him and pours flammable liquid onto the officer before setting him alight.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The officer goes up in flames along with the seat of his bike and he falls to the ground.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Protesters then rush towards him but they are kicked away by other officers in riot gear who shield the officer and take him to safety.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, confirmed that the officer was injured in the protest along with five others in the police force.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Around 26 people were arrested while three patrol cars were reportedly burnt out.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The protesters were shouting “Giovanni was killed by the state” as they seek justice in the case of Lopez who died after being arrested by municipal police in Ixtlahuacan de Membrillos, in Jalisco state.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Protesters claim the construction worker died after being beaten by police last month.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He was arrested for an "administrative offence" with reports saying he was stopped whilst not wearing a face mask in public.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Governor Alfaro claimed that “interests coming from Mexico City, with the goal of causing instability” were behind the protests and said that no violent acts were committed against the protesters.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He said: “Guadalajara police and state police met the requirements of the circumstances and knew to resist without falling into provocation”.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"We already have the first arrests and we have decided to take control of the Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos municipal police</span></div><div><br /></div>pakuptodate.blogspot.com/

‘beaten to death for having no mask’ Police officer set on fire at protest

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Black Lives Matter movement protests spread Worldwide,

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTxxkqBwDu8Q2m6X8d0AgU44In-N42T3MkuNh9fjy08fgPhyjteDbAbFswYfRxfCLTMzItH1pFrYLJ6j9PZEjGgjGY8xH1KXaOy2sZmer-xGZljB8WbP2ifHEi5bkWGZqw_RwfqydzHI/s680/stream_img.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTxxkqBwDu8Q2m6X8d0AgU44In-N42T3MkuNh9fjy08fgPhyjteDbAbFswYfRxfCLTMzItH1pFrYLJ6j9PZEjGgjGY8xH1KXaOy2sZmer-xGZljB8WbP2ifHEi5bkWGZqw_RwfqydzHI/s320/stream_img.jpg" width="320"></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I understand why people are deeply upset,” Hancock said on Friday.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“But we are still facing a health crisis and coronavirus remains a real threat.”<span></span></span></div>

Black Lives Matter movement protests spread Worldwide,

I understand why people are deeply upset,” Hancock said on Friday. “But we are still facing a health crisis and coronavirus remains a real t...

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Nationalist must not allow fevour to inflame border conflict China, India , observers say

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwiqYyUZwhiQqvcq4U6Zhnp_7KjDyO2cWicdOs3uVkW46_QfJ_tT-F00NrhHmqLuwME3sfRhpFUw37rdFk2krmF_fHTR1oH6Mlzo654sLed-XjeTQzdcGkx5f8dl2ANrHaaFCis6Hc7c/s1200/9a38be06-a7a2-11ea-8ea0-d7434be00753_image_hires_144950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwiqYyUZwhiQqvcq4U6Zhnp_7KjDyO2cWicdOs3uVkW46_QfJ_tT-F00NrhHmqLuwME3sfRhpFUw37rdFk2krmF_fHTR1oH6Mlzo654sLed-XjeTQzdcGkx5f8dl2ANrHaaFCis6Hc7c/s320/9a38be06-a7a2-11ea-8ea0-d7434be00753_image_hires_144950.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> Photo: AP</span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The border war, also known as the Indochina War, started on October 20 when Chinese troops from the People’s Liberation Army took India-controlled Ladakh and crossed the McMahon Line to win a landslide victory.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The war lasted just a month – ending when Beijing declared a ceasefire on November 20 – but left a long shadow over how Delhi perceives Chinese intentions.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing. Delhi at that time stood with Moscow.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“In 1962, India decided to go to war with an isolated China, which had split ties with Moscow and faced a series of major problems at home and overseas,” Sun said, referring to the Great Famine from 1958 to 1961 and the Tibetan uprising of 1959, which saw the Dalai Lama flee to India.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Also in 1962, the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in the Cuban missile crisis.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The 1962 Indochina War lasted just a month but cost more than 2,000 people their lives. This is not 1962,” Amarinder Singh, the chief minister of the Indian state of Punjab, said recently about the latest conflict.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mohanty said China’s growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean had pushed Indian policymakers to adopt a multipronged policy on the diplomatic and military fronts, including strengthening its ties with the US.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Despite the mistrust between the two countries, Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi understood the possible consequences of the world’s two most populous nations going to war.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“Beijing and New Delhi have set up a five-level military communication mechanism – from brigades to chief commanders – for handling border disputes and hold regular meetings to share information,” he said.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“China and India must prioritise their economies as they are home to more than a third of the world’s people.”</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hong Kong-based military observer Liang Guoliang said that since 2015, Beijing had shifted its national defence strategy away from its northwest regions to the coastal areas of the East and South China seas, which meant its border dispute with India was a “secondary” matter. Photo: Reuters</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The eastern sector, of about 90,000 square kilometres, corresponds roughly to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which is under Indian control but claimed by China as “South Tibet”.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The central or middle sector, west of Nepal, is the smallest contested area at about 2,100 square kilometres and is almost entirely under India’s control.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The western sector, Aksai Chin, covers about 33,000 square kilometres and several districts in Xinjiang, and has been under Chinese control since 1962 when the two nations fought a short but savage war in which more than 2,000 people were killed.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The 1962 conflict took place during the Cold War when the world was divided between the US and its allies on one side and the former Soviet Union and its supporters on the other. Photo: Getty Images</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The 1962 Indochina War lasted just a month but cost more than 2,000 people their lives. Photo: Reuters</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nationalist sentiment is growing in both India and China. Diplomats and defence officials from China and India might have promised to work together to ease border tensions, but they must also strive to quell a rising tide of nationalism at home, observers say.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Despite 2020 marking 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, over the past month border tensions have once again been running high, with troops engaging in fist fights and stone-throwing in the Galwan River valley between Ladakh in Indian-administered Kashmir and Chinese-administered Aksai Chin.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Since their two-month military stand-off in Doklam in the summer of 2017, both Beijing and New Delhi have boosted their border defences. That dispute was sparked by China’s construction of a road in the area – known as Donglang in Mandarin – which is claimed by China and Bhutan, an ally of India.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">While the cause of the latest conflict remains unclear, Sun Shihai, principal research fellow at the China Centre for South Asian Studies at Sichuan University in southwest China, said that India had taken advantage of the prevailing tensions between Beijing and Washington.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is advocating aggressive unilateralism when dealing with border problems involving China, Pakistan and Myanmar,” he said.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“There are signs and risks emerging that some Indian officials believe they can take advantage of the tensions between China and the US, as Washington is trying to bring India into its Indo-Pacific Strategy to contain a rising China.”</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Manoranjan Mohanty, an expert on China-India affairs based in New Delhi, said India’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status and impose direct federal rule, as well as increasing its counter-insurgency operations across Kashmir during the coronavirus lockdown, had put Beijing on high alert, as China’s only direct road link between Xinjiang and Tibet is in Aksai Chin.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The long-running border dispute between China and India is a legacy of treaties – like the Ardagh-Johnson Line and McMahon Line – signed by the British colonial government that ruled India and a declining Chinese Qing dynasty in the 19th and 20th centuries.</span></div><div><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But Beijing later refused to recognise the treaties, which sowed the seeds of a territorial dispute along the China-India border, which encompasses three separate regions covering more than 120,000 square kilometres (46,330 square miles) around the Himalayas at altitudes of up to 4,300 metres above sea level.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nationalist sentiment is growing in both India and China.</span></div><div><br /></div>pakuptodate.blogspot.com/

Nationalist must not allow fevour to inflame border conflict China, India , observers say

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Black Lives Matter pretest in Australia, Thousand joined and clashed seen

<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRI-LBEPSB2x6hTg_bQPZkK0w_0r8IupJVqMiHuXiQAxzJBS8xu7ItcyND0906gGyPidqI1fiFRycIDiP502QYi7__5FRbr4gsZgips0qGxiYq1-Nq6ANPViAu3RRhFuPHvtqX6G5dz6E/s920/920x920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRI-LBEPSB2x6hTg_bQPZkK0w_0r8IupJVqMiHuXiQAxzJBS8xu7ItcyND0906gGyPidqI1fiFRycIDiP502QYi7__5FRbr4gsZgips0qGxiYq1-Nq6ANPViAu3RRhFuPHvtqX6G5dz6E/s320/920x920.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font color="#9e9e9e">News Heaven picture</font></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">At least one demonstrator was arrested for allegedly assaulting a female police officer. Demonstrations were also held in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, and other towns and cities around the country. Some of the protests have sparked clashes with police.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In Sydney, the footage shows a massive crowd assembled outside the city’s town hall. Protesters shouted “I can’t breathe” and “Black lives matter” as they waved signs and marched. The anti-racism rallies focused on seeking justice for an estimated 400 Indigenous people who have died while in police custody since 1991.Protests mirroring the Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the United States have sprung up across Europe, in cities including Dublin, London, Paris, and Berlin. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">However, scuffles later broke out with police in the city’s Central Station, with local media reporting that demonstrators were hit with pepper spray. The gathering was ruled lawful by the New South Wales appeals court at the last minute, despite restrictions on assembly due to the coronavirus pandemic.A counter-protester standing on the steps of the town hall as he held a sign saying “All lives matter” was pushed and booed by the crowd, before being escorted away by police. Countless thousands have taken to the streets across Australia as part of growing worldwide demonstrations against police brutality and racism.</span></div><div><br /></div>pakuptodate.blogspot.com/

Black Lives Matter pretest in Australia, Thousand joined and clashed seen

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UK’s rapid-fire changes on face coverings advice criticized.

<div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-ZkbjmNNHK61IbHq2XNANx70Am1CWOh57cuf1StjJQtqzy55B5F7X3iuS7iMrmpVTituT31zUrQ1Go18CWjtr6rUY-_eZlx_cZtgwkUQNrPq5BfRoR8CeFQYBLJzRAWlsYC-SVLcr9I/s1086/XDF103-65_2020_123910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="1086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-ZkbjmNNHK61IbHq2XNANx70Am1CWOh57cuf1StjJQtqzy55B5F7X3iuS7iMrmpVTituT31zUrQ1Go18CWjtr6rUY-_eZlx_cZtgwkUQNrPq5BfRoR8CeFQYBLJzRAWlsYC-SVLcr9I/s320/XDF103-65_2020_123910.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">LONDON - The British government faced criticism Saturday for another sudden change in its advice on face coverings that has left those running hospitals in England scrambling to work out how they will be able to meet the new requirements.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">On Friday, as the World Health Organization broadened its recommendations for the use of masks, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said all hospital staff in England will have to wear surgical face masks from June 15 while visitors and outpatients will need to don some sort of face covering.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">His announcement came a day after the government said face coverings, which can be made from any fabric, would be mandatory on public transport in England, from the same date to coincide with the planned reopening of nonessential shops such as department stores and electronic retailers.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The government, which notably did not recommend their use at the height of the pandemic, now says face coverings can provide some limited protection to others and help people avoid unknowingly spreading the virus.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The change in advice echoed developments elsewhere in Europe, where the guidance through the pandemic has often been confused and contradictory.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">On Friday, the WHO said it is now advising that in areas where the virus is spreading, people should wear fabric masks when social distancing is not possible, such as on public transport and in shops.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS organizations including hospitals, said the British government appeared to be making last-minute decisions “on the hoof“ that seem “overly influenced” by political considerations.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I think it’s the latest in a long line of announcements that have had a major impact on the way the NHS operates, in which those frontline organizations feel they have been left completely in the dark and they are then expected to make significant and complex operational changes either immediately or with very little notice,“ he told the BBC.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">News <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/2020/06/06/uks-rapid-fire-changes-on-face-coverings-advice-criticized.html" target="_blank">link</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">pakuptodate.blogspot.com/</div>

UK’s rapid-fire changes on face coverings advice criticized.

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Corona Virus updates

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">According to Worldmeter, more than six million coronaviruses are confirmed and </div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span>    </span>  </blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><table class="qyEGdc" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; max-width: 455px; table-layout: fixed; width: 455px;"><tbody><tr><td class="dZdtsb QmWbpe ZDeom" data-absolute-value="6535354" data-is-data-cell="true" data-per-million-value="927.4782763102409" data-vfs="6535354" jsname="VBiLTe" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(223, 225, 229); margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 9px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="amyZLb" style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12px;"><span>    </span>Confirmed</div><div class="m7B03" style="color: #202124; font-family: Roboto-Medium, Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; padding: 2px 0px;"><div jsname="fUyIqc">6.54M</div></div><div class="h5Hgwe" style="color: #70757a; font-size: 12px;"><div jsname="fUyIqc">+119K</div></div></td><td class="dZdtsb QmWbpe ZDeom" data-absolute-value="-1" data-is-data-cell="true" data-per-million-value="-1" data-vfs="-1" jsname="VBiLTe" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(223, 225, 229); margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 9px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="amyZLb" style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12px;">Recovered</div><div class="m7B03" style="color: #202124; font-family: Roboto-Medium, Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; padding: 2px 0px;">--</div></td><td class="dZdtsb QmWbpe ZDeom" data-absolute-value="387155" data-is-data-cell="true" data-per-million-value="54.94390236013096" data-vfs="387155" jsname="VBiLTe" style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 9px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="amyZLb" style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12px;">Deaths</div><div class="m7B03" style="color: #202124; font-family: Roboto-Medium, Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; padding: 2px 0px;"><div jsname="fUyIqc">387K</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicAE5UaPFk8zZKhX3iGgYxe4aHEnMLEJ8mdaGuSnn9L3ugZfc7cF9d5SeU2-11vWQEHJ7dWXKwloI6f3z9MK7GSIBY-ID5ilYq_xRh3r1pWq5rrdpkLiHbibBtGtr3TsVpsC_xLCSMNI/s624/9551bd2d-fbc7-4a00-9f4e-b89154548fd1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicAE5UaPFk8zZKhX3iGgYxe4aHEnMLEJ8mdaGuSnn9L3ugZfc7cF9d5SeU2-11vWQEHJ7dWXKwloI6f3z9MK7GSIBY-ID5ilYq_xRh3r1pWq5rrdpkLiHbibBtGtr3TsVpsC_xLCSMNI/s320/9551bd2d-fbc7-4a00-9f4e-b89154548fd1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Note the promise was "to provide" - not actually to ensure everybody in the home had had a test, but only that the option had been there to take one.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The promise came following a political storm over the high number of deaths in elderly care homes from Covid-19.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This morning the Department for Health and Social Care told me that the announcement over whether or not that target had been met would not come today - but rather sometime in the next few days.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The DHSC also said it couldn't confirm whether it would be providing extra funds for councils - but that it recognized care homes were facing significant challenges. It said it had already given an extra £600m to help reduce the infection rate in homes.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Figures show that at least 16,000 people have died from the virus in care homes - but that may be an underestimate.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There have been allegations that while the government scrambled to provide PPE to NHS staff, those working and living in care homes had been left to fend for themselves.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">England and the rest of the UK have not been alone in their difficulties with care home cases during the pandemic. On 15 May, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that the government would provide tests for every resident and member of staff in elderly care homes in England by early June. Other European countries have also had high numbers of deaths in care homes – with WHO Europe reporting that up to</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">50% of Covid-19 deaths across the region were in care homes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #555555; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The USA, Canada and other countries have also been affected – with coronavirus-related deaths in Canadian care homes corresponding to 72% of all Covid-19 deaths in the country</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

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