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Authorities in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have issued an early epidemic warning after a resident contracted bubonic plague. Bubonic plague, known as the 'Black Death' in the Middle Ages, is one of the most devastating diseases in history, having killed around 100million people in the 14th century. The confirmed plague case has sparked fears of a new wave of virus outbreak erupting in China when the country is still battling the coronavirus. But experts have claimed that the disease, which usually affects wild rodents and is spread by infected fleas, will not become a global health threat like COVID-19. Authorities in Bayan Nur in the northern Chinese region of Inner...

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An Indian man said he paid about US$4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. The precious metal covering weighs 60 grammes (two ounces) and took craftsmen eight days to make, said businessman Shankar Kurhade, from the western city of Pune. “It is a thin mask and has tiny pores that is helping me to breathe,” Shankar said. “I am not sure if it will be effective to protect me from a coronavirus infection but I am taking other precautions,” he added. When going out, the 49-year-old said he likes to adorn himself with gold jewellery weighing a kilogram, including a bracelet, necklace and rings on each finger of...

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Proof that timing is everything: husband and wife team Andrew and Rachel Montague are set to make £30 million after setting up a hand sanitiser business just 12 weeks ago. The couple created ClearWater Hygiene, a business producing high-grade hand sanitiser aimed at frontline workers and the wider public. They work with Deeside Gin Distillery in Banchory, Aberdeenshire to make the sanitiser, which is then bottled in Preston, Lancashire. Each sanitiser contains 80% ethanol liquid, making it suitable for use in hospitals, care homes and other public health facilities. The company has secured major contracts with corporate customers including the Post Office, JD plc, O2 Retail, BP,...

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Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization (WHO) to revise recommendations, the New York Times reported on Saturday (Jul 4). The WHO has said the coronavirus disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes or speaks. In an open letter to the agency, which the researchers plan to publish in a scientific journal next week, 239 scientists in 32 countries outlined the evidence showing smaller particles can infect people, the New York Times said. "We are aware...

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India has over-taken Russia with the world’s third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases, at nearly 700,000, according to the latest data, as the outbreak shows no sign of slowing. Health ministry data on Monday showed more than 23,000 new cases reported in the previous 24 hours, down slightly from Sunday’s record increase of almost 25,000. There have been almost 20,000 deaths in India since the first case was detected there in January. India is now the world’s third worst-affected country, behind only the United States and Brazil. It has seen eight times the number of cases as China, that has a similar-sized population and is where the virus originated late last...

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A groom died two days after his wedding in eastern India after becoming infected with coronavirus, with 80 people linked to the ceremony testing positive for Covid-19. A total of 400 guests were tested after the wedding, which took place two weeks ago in Paliganj, in the state of Bihar, said Kishore Chaudhary, the chief medical officer in Patna. Those who tested positive have been taken to a local treatment center, Chaudhary told CNN on Thursday. The groom was sick before the wedding on June 15, according to Surendra Kumar, district official in Paliganj, and his condition was worsening. He had traveled from Gurgaon, in the northern state of Haryana, for the wedding, Kumar told CNN....

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No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least. The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world. Experts and campaigners are alarmed both by the US unilateral action on remdesivir and the wider implications, for instance in the event of a vaccine becoming available. The Trump administration has already shown that it is prepared to outbid and outmanoeuvre all other countries to secure the medical supplies it needs for the US.“They’ve got access to most of the drug...

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Beer Bottle Crossing, Idaho   Beer Bottle Crossing, in Adams County, is located in the Payette National Forest 13 miles southeast of Council. Dull, Ohio Dull is an unincorporated community in Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. Dull is 2.50 miles (4.02 km) west-southwest of Ohio City. Dull was originally called McKee, and under the latter name was laid out in 1879 by J. M. Dull and others. A post office was established under the name Dull in 1880, and remained in operation until 1909. Catfish Paradise, Arizona Catfish Paradise is an unincorporated community located at the southern end of the Topock Marsh.[11] Many species living in the area include Bullfrogs, Carp, Sunfish,...

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Photos of an unusually-tall cactus growing on the side of a three-storey building in Tokyo, Japan, have been doing the rounds on social media, raising the question: ‘is this the world’s tallest cactus?’ Last Wednesday, Japanese Twitter user =Yang= (@0okome0) posted a bunch of intriguing photos of a building he had spotted in Takinogawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Area. It wasn’t the building that drew people’s attention, but a green pole on the side of it. =Yang= himself admitted that at first he thought it was simply a green-painted utility pole, but the deformed top, which stretched onto the roof of the building, told him otherwise. As he approached the strange...

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When the European Union allows people to fly into its member nations tomorrow, Thailand will be the only country in Southeast Asia whose citizens would be allowed to do so. The union yesterday named Thailand among 14 countries deemed “safe” to enter the region due to its success in containing the coronavirus pandemic. The other 13 nations on the list, which is subject to change, are Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Tunisia and Uruguay. Excluded: China and the United States. In early January, Thailand became the first country outside China to report a COVID-19 case. Since then it has confirmed only 3,171...

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