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People without regular incomes or any financial cushion deserve social policies that ensure dignity and enable them to comply with #COVID19 public health measures advised by national health authorities and @WHO. #coronavirus
I grew up poor and understand this reality. I call on countries to develop policies which provide economic protections for people who can't earn or work amid the #COVID19 pandemic. Solidarity! #coronavirus
Developing countries, home to 1/4 of the 🌍 population, will likely be hit hardest by #COVID19. At this critical moment in history, broad agreement on debt relief will be key to allowing nations with fragile health systems & economies to channel their resources into saving lives.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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Countries are asking ppl to #stayhome & shutting down population movement to limit #COVID19 transmission. These steps can have unintended consequences for the poorest & most vulnerable. I call on countries to ensure these populations have food & life essentials during the crisis.
My appreciation to Prime Minister @narendramodi for announcing a $24 billion package to support 🇮🇳's vulnerable populations during #COVID19 crisis, including:
-free food rations for 800M disadvantaged people
-cash transfers to 204M poor women
-free cooking gas for 80M households.
However, many developing countries will struggle to implement social welfare programs of this nature. Broad and expedited agreement on debt relief is essential to enable them to care for their people and avoid economic collapse. #Solidarity
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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To slow the spread of #COVID19, many countries introduced "lockdown" measures. But on their own, these measures will not extinguish epidemics. We call on all countries to use this time to attack the #coronavirus.
You've created a 2nd window of opportunity.
Aggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat & trace are not only the best & fastest way out of extreme social & economic restrictions – but also to prevent them. This is especially relevant for many countries with vulnerable health systems. #COVID19
Although we're especially concerned about vulnerable countries, all countries have vulnerable populations, incl. older people. They carry the collective wisdom of our societies & we need to work together to protect them from the #coronavirus & to ensure their needs are being met.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
@DrTedros
The #COVID19 pandemic is accelerating. It took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the first 100K cases, 11 days for the second 100K cases & just 4 days for the third 100K cases.
These numbers matter, these are people, whose lives & families have been turned upside down.
Asking people to stay at home and other physical distancing measures are an important way of slowing down the spread of the #coronavirus and buying time – but they are defensive measures. To win the #coronavirus we have to attack as well.
We need to attack the #coronavirus with aggressive and targeted tactics – testing every suspected #COVID19 case, isolating and caring for every confirmed case, and tracing and quarantining every close contact.
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Gov N E Wike Information.
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My Dear Good People of Rivers State

I am constrained to address you again after my last broadcast of Thursday, March 26, 2020.

#COVIDー19
After some days of monitoring the level of compliance of the State Government's directive for markets in the state to be closed, we were shocked to discover that some markets have continued to violate the sit-at-home order.

#COVIDー19
We have no choice than to make some painful, but necessary decisions to further prevent the spread of coronavirus in the State.

Therefore, after a meeting of the State Security Council today, the following decisions were taken:

#COVIDー19
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Raul Zelik
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Verrückt, wie rasant Bürgerliche gerade Diskurse anpassen. Im Börsengespräch bei @DLF empfahl Anlageexperte einer Privatbank gerade Verstaatlichung von Unternehmen (zum Schutz vor - ausländischen? - Übernahmen), Abschied von schwarzer Null und "Helikoptergeld" (=BGE).👇
Von der Leyen hat sich für Ausgabe von europäischen Staatsanleihen ausgesprochen. (Also das, was man Südeuropa immer verweigert hat.) Bayern will sogar Industriekonversion von Automobil- in Medizingeräteherstellung!! (Söder für demokratische Planwirtschaft?)
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Zeigt, wie falsch Globalisierungsdiskurse von Jahrtausendwende lagen. Der (National-) Staat ist fürs Kapital überhaupt kein Auslaufmodell.
Aber auch für linke Staatskritik eine Denksportaufgabe: ohne Sozialstaat und public health ist die Krise nicht zu bewältigen.
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Rahul Mane
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This thread is documentation of #viral, #PseudoScience & #irrational information circulating around in the midst of #CoronavirusOutbreakindia.
Starting from @AltNews report debunking uniform latitudes of places where #Corona came.

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Coronavirus: Is drinking cow urine any help?
By Reality Check team @BBCNEWSIndia1

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China culled around 18,000 chickens in Shaoyang city in the southern province of Hunan as a result of a flu outbreak. Rumours in India started circulating, that broiler chicken has been infected with Coronavirus and people should avoid consuming it.

altnews.in/coronavirus-in…
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Timothy Huyer
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Today, the Prime Minister indicated that the Government is considering whether or not to use the Emergency Measures Act. So here is a partial primer on how that could occur and what that could mean.

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The Emergency Measures Act is the more modern replacement of the War Measures Act, which was so (in)famously invoked by the current prime minister’s father. The current Act is, hopefully, a kinder, better balance between protecting public safety and individual liberty.

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The emergency that could be declared in response to #COVIDー19 would be a “public welfare emergency”, which includes “an emergency that is caused by a real or imminent...disease in human beings, animals or plants...

3/
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Megan Mineiro
@MMineiro_CNS
#COVIDー19 court update: Chief Judge Beryl Howell has ordered civil and criminal proceedings postponed at the U.S. District Court for D.C. saying the "ends of justice" are served by protecting public health and safety. @CourthouseNews
Judge Howell's pandemic order postpones all civil and criminal trials until May 11, citing a “reduced ability to obtain an adequate spectrum of prospective jurors."
Judge Howell also postponing all non-jury trial proceedings over the next month, including hearings and court appearances, absent an order from a presiding judge on or before Apr 17 for a teleconference or in-person hearing.
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Robert Peston
@Peston
If this leak to ⁦@guardian⁩ is right, and if it implies that the government’s policy of managing the epidemic peaks is likely to require the hospitalisation of 7.9m over 12 months, the question arises why Chinese-style suppression via... theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
coercive social distancing followed by radical behavioural change would not be preferable. This Public Health England document, if accurate, will test the cross-party and four nations unity on how best to tackle the #COVIDー19 crisis
Obviously, and as I said yesterday, we will see coercive isolation of over 70s for four months, quite soon. But there is still uncertainty over the extent and timing of restrictions on social interaction to be placed on the rest of the population, and how...
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