Chinese lawmakers have imposed new biosecurity laws to adopt disease and risk management programs following months of international backlash. In order to report any potential health threats, health workers are encouraged.
As part of wider measures to strengthen its management of disease outbreaks, Beijing passed a new law on Saturday to protect whistleblowers who reveal knowledge about public health emergencies. It is also hope that the new biosecurity law would correct structural shortcomings,
such as those that hindered China's initial response to the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese lawmakers said. The new legislation, which comes into effect next year on April 15, calls on people to report "events that threaten biosecurity."
The total index of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) dropped by 47,000 to about 1.5 million units on Sunday, a decrease of more than three percent compared to the previous day.
Based on the local news outlets' reports, Iran's primary mining, petrochemical, and refining companies had the largest share of market index decline.
The total index of the Iran Stock Exchange soared from about 500,000 units at the beginning of the Iranian calendar year, starting March 20, to two million units in mid-August. Many experts have blamed government manipulation for the stock market increases,
The artist and satirist network "Schuppen 68" wants to burn 68 rolls of toilet paper in various places in Hanover in protest against the impending hamster purchases as a result of the corona pandemic.
According to a survey, around ten percent of all consumers, especially younger people, wanted to stock up on toilet paper, pasta and other everyday goods in Germany in the coming weeks, said network spokesman Klaus-Dieter Gleitze on Monday in Hanover:
"Hamster purchases are as superfluous as a goiter, that has been shown by all experiences from the first Corona phase. "
In view of the increasing number of infections in the corona pandemic, Hessen is significantly tightening its rules, including for private parties. This would implement resolutions between the federal and state governments,
said Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) on Monday in Wiesbaden. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days - the so-called seven-day incidence - are decisive in the adapted escalation concept.
In Hesse, the virus was detected in 336 other people within one day, as the Ministry of Social Affairs announced on Monday (as of midnight). The number of people who died in connection with the virus increased by 3 to 576.
Several relatives of passengers killed in the downing of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight PS752 by the Iranian military in January 2020 have filed a lawsuit against Irans regime in a federal court in Washington, D.C.
This is announced in a statement by the law firm Herischi & Associates, which will provide legal support for the case, the Ukrainian-registered European Pravda news outlet reported.
The lawsuit was initiated by relatives of several U.S.-born victims of the crash against the Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A member of staff at Taiwan's European Union representative office tested positive for COVID-19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@MOFA_Taiwan) said Monday.
Recently, the employee showed mild symptoms of COVID-19 and a complete diagnosis was confirmed on Oct. 16, MOFA said in a press release. The Brussels office, which is also responsible for Taiwan's affairs in Belgium,
has also ordered three other representative office workers who have been in touch with the patient to stay in home quarantine for two weeks. The representative office has been disinfected and, although with rotating work shifts, remains open.
A new coronavirus mutation with a higher transmission capacity in the central municipality of Trondheim has been identified by the Norwegian health authorities ,
local chief physician Tove Rosstad told the NRK public broadcaster on Monday. "We don't know where the virus came from. No such kinds of the virus have ever been seen in Norway before. We also searched international databases but did not find this kind there either",
Rosstad told the broadcaster. According to the official, the Norwegian health authorities concluded that after it begun to act differently and infect people more rapidly than before, the virus mutated.