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China's Premier Li Keqiang has said that the country supports an international inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus after Beijing was accused of preventing foreign scientists from investigating the critical matter. Premier Li Keqiang told reporters today that China also believed that it was essential to get 'a clear idea' of the source of the pathogen, which has killed more than 355,000 people globally. US leaders, including President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo, have claimed that the virus might have escaped from a virus lab in Wuhan during experiments with bats. Premier Li also defended the Communist Party's response to the pandemic, claiming his nation has...

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New Zealand has nobody in hospital with coronavirus and has not discovered a new case for five days, the health ministry said today. The last remaining hospital patient was discharged in Auckland overnight in the latest mark of success for New Zealand's widely-praised response to the pandemic. New Zealand only confirmed its first case on February 26, but had shut its borders by March 19 and started imposing a full-scale lockdown on March 26. The country's success means the lockdown could be virtually scrapped within weeks, with gatherings of up to 100 already permitted and plans being made to re-open travel to Australia. The official tally of 1,504 infections has not budged since last...

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A Ukrainian woman has gone viral for removing her panties and wearing them as a mask after being refused service at a post office, according to a report. The woman was caught pulling off the stunt on surveillance footage at the Nova Posha post office in Kiev, where she walked up to the counter without a face covering, the Sun reported. When told that she would not be provided service without a required mask, the flustered woman removed her pants in front of stunned customers — then took off her white panties and placed them over her face. Witnesses said the woman is a mother of two who was unhappy with safety measures imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Well, she found...

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South Korea reported its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in nearly two months on Thursday, as officials scramble to tackle fresh clusters that have raised concerns of a possible second wave of infections. The country has been held up as a global model in how to curb the virus and has begun to ease restrictions, but is now rushing to contain new infections as life returns to normal. Officials announced 79 new cases Thursday -- taking its total to 11,344 -- with most fresh infections from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area. It was the largest increase since 81 cases were announced on April 5. An outbreak at a warehouse of e-commerce firm Coupang in Bucheon, west of Seoul,...

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Men with longer ring fingers may have a lower chance of dying from the coronavirus and could be more likely to face mild symptoms, according to a new study published in the journal Early Human Development. The reason? The length of ring fingers is believed to be linked to how much testosterone men are exposed to in utero — the longer the finger, the greater the hormonal exposure. And testosterone is believed to protect against severe coronavirus-related illness because it increases the concentration of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in the body. Earlier this month, researchers estimated that men, with no mention of finger length, are more than twice as likely to die from...

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  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was unable to visit his dying mother in her final weeks because he obeyed coronavirus restrictions against visiting care homes, his office has said. The news about Rutte emerged as Britain was gripped by a political row over allegations that the top aide to prime minister Boris Johnson broke Covid-19 rules to travel cross-country to stay on his parents’ estate. Rutte on Monday announced the death of 96-year-old Mieke Rutte-Dilling in a home in The Hague on 13 May, nearly two months after the government shut all such institutions to the public on 20 March. “The prime minister has complied with all directives”, Rutte’s...

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School classes shouldn’t resume unless a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, President Rodrigo Duterte said in a televised speech late last night. Two weeks ago, the Department of Education (DepEd) announced that online classes may start in June, while “face-to-face” education will start on Aug. 24. The DepEd said the law mandates that classes should start by August. However, Duterte doesn’t share the same opinion. Read: PH school year may resume in June, but ‘face-to-face’ learning to start August “Kids shouldn’t be allowed to go out yet. The opening of classes, that’s very [dangerous],” Duterte said in English and...

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hinese health officials in the city at the center of the initial coronavirus outbreak say they tested nearly 7 million people in 12 days to quash fears of a second wave. Local health commission officials in Wuhan released data showing 6.68 million people underwent nucleic acid tests as part of a mass-testing effort to suppress concerns over a second wave of COVID-19 cases in the Hubei region of China. According to analysis conducted by Bloomberg News Tuesday, 206 people who were tested were listed as asymptomatic cases. Wuhan began testing its entire population of 11 million people "at all costs" on May 12, just days after new infections emerged following 76 days of lockdown. Last week,...

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China’s “bat woman” researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is “just the tip of the iceberg” in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks. “If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings,” Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese scientist specializing in viral transmissions from bats, told CGTN in an interview that aired Monday. “If we don’t study [the viruses], there will possibly be another outbreak,” warned...

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  A new survey has shown more than 25 per cent of Americans and 44 per cent of Republicans believe an outlandish conspiracy theory that Bill Gates is plotting to use a Covid-19 vaccine to implant microchips in people. The survey, conducted by Yahoo News and YouGov, asked 1,640 Americans about the conspiracy theory between May 20 and 21. Some 28 per cent of US adults who took part said they believed the widely debunked theory. 32 per cent of them were not sure but 40 per cent believed it to be false. Meanwhile 44 per cent of people who identified as Republicans thought it was true, 31 per cent were not sure and 26 per cent thought it was false. In contrast, 19 per cent of Democrats...

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