Infotainment Myanmar Army Probes 'Wider Patterns' of Abuse Against

IMPHAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Latest on the worldwide spread of coronavirus Myanmar races to build field hospital as coronavirus surge stretches health system Reuters * Australia’s Victoria state said the daily YANGON, Sep 16 break,” Kaung Myat Soe, the treatment options. rise in infections in its coronavirus hot spot of chief of the new temporary Officials have asked peo- India’s coronavirus cases surged past 5 million, Melbourne has eased further, putting it on Myanmar authorities are racing hospital, told Reuters on Tues- ple who want to be tested to making it the second country in the world to cross course to relax an extended hard lockdown in to build a field hospital in the day, as construction workers be hospitalised before under- the grim milestone after the United States, while the city by the end of the month. commercial capital of Yangon labored on the field. going swab tests, contributing Brazil recorded its highest one-day death toll in EUROPE to cope with a surge of “The situation will get to a shortage of patient beds, nearly two weeks. * Britain’s testing system for COVID-19 coronavirus infections that worse if we can’t accept pa- said Kyaw Min Tun, who AMERICAS was creaking as a bottleneck prevented people doctors fear threatens to tients, that’s why we are runs a fever clinic in the city. * U.S. President Donald Trump said a including medics from getting a test, with the overwhelm the country’s building the shelters ur- “That is not necessary,” he vaccine against the deadly coronavirus could government saying it may take weeks to re- fragile health system. gently,” he said. said. be three or four weeks away, despite caution- solve the problem. The Southeast Asian na- Decades of neglect by In addition, medical work- ary notes sounded by some U.S. public health * Ireland delayed the planned reopening of tion reported 307 new cases Myanmar’s formerly ruling ers suspected of having the officials about that accelerated timeline. all pubs in Dublin following a surge in cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, its military junta led the health virus have been sent to quar- * U.S. House of Representatives Speaker in the capital, but bars across the rest of the highest daily toll since the system to be ranked the worst antine centres around the city, Nancy Pelosi said Democrats were open to country will be allowed to open next Monday. start of the pandemic in in the world by the World forcing them to shut private Men construct a barricade blocking off their street to prevent the delaying an October recess to get a deal with MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA March, and another 134 on Health Organization in 2000, clinics, said Ko Ko Htwe, a spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yangon, Republicans on a new coronavirus aid bill. * Zimbabwe lifted a ban on inter-city travel Wednesday morning, taking the last time it published rat- doctor at a local clinic. Myanmar, September 12, 2020. * disproportionate percentage of U.S. and extended working hours as the govern- the total to 3,636 cases and ings. The health budget was A spokesman for the COVID-19 deaths have been recorded among ment gradually re-opens the economy by 39 deaths. around 0.3% of GDP prior to health ministry did not an- Some in the centres have said a woman in the building Black and Hispanic people younger than 21, easing COVID-19 restrictions. Myanmar had gone weeks the start of democratic re- swer phone calls and complained of poor condi- died on Tuesday after strug- according to a study. MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS without a case of local trans- forms in 2011. messages from Reuters seek- tions, including patients who gling to breathe. ASIA-PACIFIC * The top FDA official confirmed mission before an outbreak in As of March, the World ing comment. have tested positive for They said her neighbors * China is inoculating tens of thousands AstraZeneca’s U.S. COVID-19 vaccine trial mid-August in the western Bank said Myanmar had just Yangon chief minister COVID-19 being forced to had had to call out to get the of its citizens with experimental coronavirus is on hold. region of Rakhine that has 383 ICU beds for a popula- Phyo Min Thein said in an share rooms with those who attention of volunteers help- vaccines before trials are completed. * Pfizer said participants were showing spread across the country. tion of 51 million and 249 interview published in state have not tested positive. ing run the center. * The Philippines continues to negotiate mild-to-moderate side effects when given either Three hospitals in Yangon, ventilators, compared with media on Wednesday that he Pwint Thiri San, 23, told Reuters was not able to supply deals with a wide range of COVID- the company’s experimental coronavirus vac- the site of most of the cases 6,000 beds and more than hoped to get the outbreak Reuters by phone that her independently confirm the ac- 19 vaccine makers, its health ministry said, cine or a placebo in an ongoing late-stage study. and now under a second 10,000 ventilators in under control within three symptoms were mild but she count. Poe Poe, the manager, despite its president scolding Western firms ECONOMIC IMPACT lockdown, have been neighboring Thailand, a coun- weeks. worried about receiving ad- said by phone she was not and saying he wanted Chinese and Russian * New Zealand’s response to control the novel repurposed to treat COVID- try of 69 million. More He said there were still equate care if they got worse. allowed to answer questions. vaccines. coronavirus helped lessen the short-term eco- 19 patients and the ventilators have since been hundreds of places in govern- Some rooms did not have “I am worried what will * Japan has committed 17.2 billion yen in nomic shock of the pandemic, but massive debt government is building a field donated to Myanmar. ment-run quarantine centers running water, she said, and happen if I suffer shortness funds for its participation in the World Health and continuing disruptions will delay a full recov- hospital with 500 beds on a Some Yangon doctors said where suspected cases and she had not seen any medical of breath here,” said Pwint Organization’s COVID-19 vaccine programme. ery, government data showed. football pitch. the government’s response people who have had contact workers. Thiri San. * China has suspended imports from an * Japan’s exports posted a double-digit slump “We have no more space had contributed to the short- with positive cases are being She and another patient, “I feel depressed and vul- OK Foods poultry plant in Fort Smith, Ar- for a sixth straight month in August as U.S.- to accommodate a huge out- age of hospital space and sent. who asked not to be named, nerable,” she said. Reuters kansas, because of coronavirus cases among bound shipments shrank due to a global demand workers, the USA Poultry & Egg Export slowdown from the pandemic, casting a shadow Council said. over a trade-led recovery from the deep recession. Japan's Suga crafts 'continuity Myanmar army probes China says has seen positive results in China-UAE phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials Cabinet' after voted Prime Minister 'wider patterns' of BEIJING, Sep 16 TOKYO, Sep 16 and coordinating policies. Taro Aso and Foreign Minis- Suga, who won a ruling ter Toshimitsu Motegi, along abuse against Rohingya Japan’s Yoshihide Suga was Liberal Democratic Party with Olympics Minister Seiko China and the United Arab Emirates have seen some positive results in their Phase III COVID-19 NAYPYITAW, Sep 16 vaccine trials, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news briefing in Beijing on voted prime minister by (LDP) leadership race by a Hashimoto and Environment Wednesday. parliament on Wednesday to landslide on Monday, faces a Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, become the country’s first new plethora of challenges, in- the youngest at 39. The Myanmar military has said it is investigating “possible The United Arab Emirates on Monday granted emergency approval for use of a coronavirus wider patterns of violations” before and during a 2017 vaccine, six weeks after human trials in the Gulf Arab state started. Reuters leader in nearly eight years, cluding tackling COVID-19 “It’s a ‘Continuity with a appointing a new cabinet that while reviving a battered capital C’ cabinet,” said crackdown in Rakhine State that the United Nations has said kept about half of the familiar economy and dealing with a Jesper Koll, senior adviser to was executed with genocidal intent against Rohingya China says it hopes Japan will not develop official ties with Taiwan faces from predecessor Shinzo rapidly aging society. asset manager WisdomTree Muslims. BEIJING, Sep 16 Abe’s lineup. With little direct diplomatic Investments. More than 730,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh that Suga, 71, Abe’s longtime experience, Suga must also Abe’s younger brother, year following the launch of a sweeping security cam- China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that China hopes Japan will refrain from developing right-hand man, has pledged cope with an intensifying Nobuo Kishi, was handed the paign that refugees said included mass killing, gang-rape official ties with Taiwan. to pursue many of Abe’s pro- U.S.-China confrontation, defence portfolio, while out- and arson. Spokesman Wang Wenbin was asked at a news briefing about China’s views on Japan’s grammes, including his build ties with the winner of going Defence Minister Taro The army has denied genocide, saying it was carrying new defence minister, who has close ties with Taiwan. He said China hoped to enhance “Abenomics” economic strat- the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential Kono takes charge of admin- out a legitimate operation against Rohingya militants, but cooperation with Japan. Reuters egy, and to forge ahead with election and try to keep Ja- istrative reform, a post he has says it has court-martialed some troops over incidents in structural reforms, including pan’s own relations with held before. certain villages though details on the perpetrators, their Earthquake strikes Nepal, no casualties reported deregulation and shutting Beijing on track. Yasutoshi Nishimura, crimes, and sentences have not been released. About half of the new cabi- Abe’s point man on COVID- The military, in a statement carried in state media on KATHMANDU, Sep 16 down bureaucratic turf battles. Abe, Japan’s longest-serv- net are carryovers from Abe’s 19 response, remains Tuesday, acknowledged for the first time a possible broader pattern of abuses. An earthquake measuring 6 magnitude struck Nepal on Wednesday morning, the country’s ing premier, resigned because administration. Only two are economy minister, while of ill health after nearly eight women and the average age, Trade and Industry Minister It said the military-run Office of the Judge Advocate seismological centre said, and tremors caused by the quake were felt in the capital, Kathmandu. General had reviewed a report by a government-backed The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre measured the magnitude at 5.3. Police years in office. Suga served including Suga, is 60. Hiroshi Kajiyama, the son of under him in the pivotal post of Among those retaining a politician to whom Suga commission that accused soldiers of committing war said they had received no reports of casualties or damage from the quake so far. crimes and had expanded the scope of its investigations in The epicentre of the quake was Ramche, about 100 km (62 miles) east of Kathmandu, near chief cabinet secretary, acting their jobs are key players looked up as his mentor, also as top government spokesman such as Finance Minister retains his post. Reuters response. the border with China’s Tibet region. Reuters The office was “investigating possible wider patterns of violations in the region of northern Rakhine in 2016- 2017”, the military said in the statement. “Allegations regarding villages in the Maungdaw area are included in the scope of this wider investigation,” the Infotainment military said, referring to a district on the border with Bangladesh that was a focus of its security operations in Ozzy Osbourne to release ‘Blizzard Of Ozz’ 2017. Lady Gaga reportedly being lined It provided no more details and an army spokesman did expanded edition to mark its 40th anniversary not answer telephone calls by Reuters seeking further NME album, Osbourne will digitally comment. up to play X-Men character release the live concert films The announcement follows reports last week that two NME Ozzy Osbourne has announced Live & Loud (1993) and Live Myanmar soldiers have been taken to the Hague to ap- an expanded edition of his debut at Budokan (2002). 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