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Mayor loses job over Prime Minister ‘deserves this’ Covid-19 comment
Sheila Oakes, who is mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire and a district councillor, posted the comment on Facebook on Monday night. Following her comments, Amber Valley Labour group withdrew the party whip from the councillor, saying a "full investigation" would take place in due course. [Full Article...]
U.S. threatens to block China Telecom from serving American market
The top departments of the United States government have endorsed cutting off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the USA market because of legal and security risks, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. communications". In November 2018, industry monitors observed that Google services were made unavailable to USA enterprise users for over an hour, because China Telecom's netwo... [Full Article...]
Dr. Fauci: ‘As a society, just forget about shaking hands’
Anthony Fauci said the United States could be up and running again by the summer months providing citizens adhere to social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders throughout April. "It is very likely that we will progress towards the steps towards normalisation as we get to the end of this thirty days". "So we are hoping, with cautious optimism, that at the same time we're in for a bad w... [Full Article...]
China reclassifies dogs as pets, not livestock, in post-virus regulatory push
Citing the "progress of human civilisation" as well as growing public concern over animal welfare and prevention of disease transmission from animals to humans , China's Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs singled out canines as forbidden in a draft "white list" of animals allowed to be raised for meat. [Full Article...]
Hong Kong to offer HK$100b Covid-19 relief package, says report
At the time, many protesters were wearing masks to hide their identities from the authorities. However, the court emphasizes a protest's potential to rapidly turn violent and notes that banning face masks is constitutional in a time of "public danger". [Full Article...]
Google uses your location data to ensure you obey stay-at-home orders
But Google's move to release location data highlights concerns around privacy. Location data has been used in South Korea and China to help contain and track COVID-19 cases, and the USA government. Google is keen to stress this aggregated data is anonymised to make sure no user data can identify a specific person's movements. Data from Google's newly-released COVID-19 Community Mobil... [Full Article...]
Japan enters month long state of emergency
By Monday there were 1,116 confirmed infections in the metropolitan region of 14 million people. Japan's strategy so far has been to focus on clusters and to trace infection routes , rather than testing everyone. It also requests the cancellation or postponement of events and exhibits. The declaration will give prefectural governors the authority to call on people to stay at home and for non-... [Full Article...]
Fiji suffers widespread damage after Cyclone Harold roars through Pacific
Packing winds of up to 260 kilometres per hour (160 miles per hour), it cut power in parts of Tonga and police said at least three tourist resorts north of the capital, Nukualofa, had been reduced to rubble. Director of the National Disaster Management Office Vasiti Soko confirmed that people in Viti Levu are now under restricted movement as a precautionary measure. [Full Article...]