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News in brief The United States has asked China to revise new export quality America’s love affair with control rules for protective equipment needed in the outbreak so they are not an obstacle to timely supplies, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called for the reopening of the country’s borders, as he pushes to restart South America’s an elderly epidemiologist largest economy. AFP | Washington dedicated to the doctor, who sition of having to gently cor- for heroes,” said Julian Zelizer, Mexico’s president urged medical workers aged 60 to 65 to has been in the public eye for rect things Trump says as the a professor of history and public return to their jobs and treat non-coronavirus patients, in ove over, Ruth Bader decades. president stands next to him, affairs at Princeton University. a bid to help the health system handle an expected surge of Ginsburg. There is a On Facebook, the “Dr Antho- glowering. “Even in a difficult political demand from the virus. Mnew feisty super sen- ny Fauci Fan Club” has more “In a moment of crisis like environment, Fauci has insisted Britain was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the ior in Washington who is capti- than 79,000 members. this, Americans are desperate on speaking the truth -- even outbreak and 40,000 people could die, a leading public health vating American hearts. A video game called “Fauci’s with an angry president stand- professor told lawmakers, a day after the UK’s hospital death toll Anthony Fauci is everywhere Revenge” has lasers shooting ing besides him,” said Zelizer. rose to 14,576. these days -- not just as the out of his eyes to help defeat For Thompson, “he seems to Britain launched a new coronavirus taskforce to support straight-talking coronavirus the virus. be talking sense and science.” Indeed, for many, efforts to make a vaccine available to the public as quickly as point man at President Donald And in the US capital, one Trump’s daily pandemic brief- restaurant is selling the “Fauci the diminutive ‘God bless his soul’ possible. ings but on T-shirts, coffee mugs Pouchy” -- cocktails in a pouch Tony Mastrangelo, who drove Ireland plans to expand its coronavirus testing capacity to and, yes, even donuts. with a straw, for pickup and de- 79-year-old three hours to buy Fauci donuts 100,000 tests per week over the next 10 days as it considers Indeed, for many, the diminu- livery, of course, in these days of epidemiologist in Rochester, said the doctor “is easing stay-at-home restrictions on May 5, Chief Medical Officer tive 79-year-old epidemiologist the Great Lockdown. very honest and doesn’t spin an- Tony Holohan said. with a heavy Brooklyn accent The original is made with with a heavy ything a certain way. He doesn’t Singapore is assessing whether to place recovered migrant workers on is the country’s new hero -- a vodka, lemonade, elderflower Brooklyn accent have an agenda which I think is cruise ships rather than back in dormitories that have become infection hotbeds, no-nonsense scientist speaking and grapefruit juice. awesome.” despite problems controlling onboard outbreaks encountered elsewhere. truth to a terrified nation led by “They’re selling out like cra- is the country’s “He reminds me of my grand- a president who sometimes has zy,” said Rohit Malhotra, bev- pa. God bless his soul. He was a Japan said it hoped to start distributing relief payments next month, after a loose grasp of the facts. erage director at Capo Italian new hero -- a no- little Italian guy who was just extending a state of emergency nationwide. Nick Semeraro, owner of Do- Deli in Washington, which has nonsense scientist honest. And that’s how I think Israel is heading off shortages of disposable surgical masks by mass- nuts Delite in Rochester, New a backroom speakeasy. Fauci is,” said Mastrangelo. producing washable versions sized to fit everyone from children to bearded men. York, is just one of the business “Our highest was around 300 But Fauci has also earned speaking truth to Hundreds attended Orthodox Easter celebrations in Georgia on owners paying tribute to the in a day.” himself enemies among US con- Sunday despite a curfew imposed as a containment measures to slow the spread doctor -- and simultaneously a terrified nation servatives for correcting Trump. cashing in on Fauci-mania. ‘Sense and science’ led by a president He has been the target of in- of the coronavirus. Georgia has declared a state of emergency, imposed a lockdown, Semeraro is churning out do- Probably no one expected this sults on social media, which led a night curfew and a ban on gatherings of more than three people in a bid to contain nuts that feature a picture of soft-spoken man who first rose who sometimes the government to boost the the spread of the virus. But bowing to pressure from politically influential religious Fauci on edible paper where to prominence during the AIDS security around him. authorities, the government allowed Easter services to go ahead the hole should be -- his way of crisis in the 1980s to become a has a loose grasp Trump himself retweeted a honoring the government’s top pop culture icon. of the tweet with a #FireFauci hash- infectious disease expert. With his frequent White tag, but said later he has confi- “I’ve never met a guy so ad- House appearances, Fauci has dence in him and called him mired by so many people. I have been “propelled into everyone’s a “fantastic guy.” never heard one negative com- consciousness,” said Robert Amid all the love and ment about him,” Semeraro told Thompson, a expert on televi- hate, Fauci remains AFP. sion and popular culture at Syr- stoic. “In my opinion, he was like acuse University in New York. When asked about a a cool calm voice in chaos,” Fauci is all over social me - petition drive to have he said of Fauci’s behavior at dia, giving live interviews in him declared People Trump’s daily coronavirus brief- his raspy voice on Snapchat, magazine’s Sexi- ings, which can morph from a answering questions from bas- est Man Alive for recounting of scientific facts ketball star Stephen Curry on 2020, he replied: Egypt lights up the Great into something more like a cam- Instagram and talking to late “When they show paign rally. night funnyman Trevor Noah this to me at my age, Pyramids Semeraro said demand for on YouTube. I say, ‘Where were you his treats is so high that he has Many Americans like Fauci when I was 30?’” had to open up extra telephone because of his direct way of ex- So far, more than 18,000 lines, and is now shipping the plaining a world that has been people have signed Fauci donuts across the country. transformed by the pandem- the petition. ic. ‘In Fauci We Trust’ He is often in Fauci’s craggy, bespectacled the excruciat- face is showing up elsewhere, ing po - too: on T-shirts with the slo - gan “In Fauci We Trust” and on coffee mugs with the line “Keep calm and wash your hands.” Americans can even buy Fauci The Great pyramids is lit up with blue light and projected with a laser message “Stay Home” on the Giza plateau outside the Egyptian capital of socks and candles. Cairo on the World Heritage Day, as the country fights against the spread Online marketplace Etsy now of the COVID-19. offers more than 3,000 items ‘Captain Tom’, 99, raises more than $31 million for UK carers Reuters | London but it’s the reaction that people aptain Tom Moore, a have had as well. Just wonder- C99-year-old British war vet- fully British,” Harry told the eran described by Prince Harry Declassified podcast for ex-ser- as “utterly amazing”, has now vicemen and women. raised more than 25 million Moore’s original target was pounds ($31.3 million) for the to raise 1,000 pounds, but that health service by walking 100 modest aim was blown away as laps of his garden. media attention from around The World War Two veteran, the globe zoomed in on his gar- who has used a walking frame den in Bedfordshire, central with wheels since breaking his England. hip, set himself the target of The retired army officer will walking the 25 metres around be the guest of honour when a his garden 100 times before his new “Nightingale” field hospital 100th birthday on April 30. Congratulations to opens in Harrogate in northern He completed his task on Tom. What he’s done England next week, which is Thursday. is utterly amazing. being set up to help deal with the Prince Harry said in an inter- It’s not just what coronavirus outbreak. view published on Sunday that “I am still amazed by the he was honoured to be an army he’s done but it’s the amount of kindness and gener- veteran in the company of peo- reaction that people osity from the UK public who ple like Moore. have had as well. Just continue to give despite it be- “Congratulations to Tom. Retired British Army Captain Tom Moore, 99, walks to raise money for health workers, by attempting to walk the length wonderfully British ing an uncertain time for many,” What he’s done is utterly amaz- Moore said in a statement on of his garden one hundred times before his 100th birthday this month as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) PRINCE HARRY ing. It’s not just what he’s done continues, Marston Moretaine, Britain Saturday.