World Coronavirus News II with Updates

[rangerrebew]

Islamic Hygiene Prevents COVID-19?

03/23/2020 by Raymond Ibrahim 9 Comments

The Islamic world—minus Shia Iran, as explained below—is not suffering from COVID-19 the way non-Muslim nations are because Islam naturally makes Muslims “cleaner” than infidels.

Such is the contention Muslims around the world are currently making. Thus, the recent article, “Coronavirus – an Islamic Perspective,” begins as follows:

    Allāh has blessed us with a religion that is complete and perfect for all times and places.  Allāh tells us in the Qur’ān: “This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favour upon you and have approved for you Islam as your religion”

https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2020/03/23/islamic-hygiene-prevents-covid-19/

[rangerrebew]

Newsweek uses the coronavirus pandemic to promote Islam

Apr 6, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 41 Comments

David Wood offers a marvelous evisceration of Islamic apologist Craig Considine’s dawah in Newsweek in this video. Meanwhile, would Newsweek ever publish an article about how Christian principles can help protect one from the coronavirus? Not on your life.

“Can the Power of Prayer Alone Stop a Pandemic like the Coronavirus? Even the Prophet Muhammad Thought Otherwise,” by Craig Considine, Newsweek, March 17, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

    The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments and news sources to provide the most accurate and helpful advice to the world’s population, as the disease is indeed global in reach. Health care professionals are in high demand, and so too are scientists who study the transmission and effect of pandemics.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/newsweek-uses-the-coronavirus-pandemic-to-promote-islam

[andy58-in-nh]

Well, there's nothing like decapitation to cure a dry cough.

[rangerrebew]

Pakistan: Muslims again deny coronavirus aid to Christians, this time in Lahore

Apr 7, 2020 9:00 am By Robert Spencer 1 Comment

This was previously done in Karachi, as we reported here. As one Muslim writer put it: “It is not permissible to give Zakaah [alms] to any kaafir [unbeliever] except the one who is inclined towards Islam, in the hope that he will become Muslim if you give him zakaah (al-Tawbah:60).” That’s Qur’an 9:60.

“Pakistani Christian Leaders Report Another Incident of Aid Being Denied to Christians,” International Christian Concern, April 3, 2020:

    04/03/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Christian leaders in Pakistan are reporting another incident in which Christians were denied government food aid amid the COVID-19 crisis. This marks the second report of government aid being denied to minorities in Pakistan due to their religious identity.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/pakistan-muslims-again-deny-coronavirus-aid-to-christians-this-time-in-lahore

[rangerrebew]

Coronavirus: China Floods Europe With Defective Medical Equipment

by Soeren Kern
April 3, 2020 at 5:00 am
 

    In Spain, the Ministry of Health revealed that 640,000 coronavirus tests that it had purchased from a Chinese supplier were defective. In addition, a further million coronavirus tests delivered to Spain on March 30 by another Chinese manufacturer were also defective.

    The Czech news site iRozhlas reported that 300,000 coronavirus test kits delivered by China had an error rate of 80%. The Czech Ministry of Interior had paid $2.1 million for the kits.

    A spokesperson for a hospital in Dutch city of Eindhoven said that Chinese suppliers were selling "a lot of junk... at high prices."

    "No. 10 [the residence of the British prime minister] believes China is seeking to build its economic power during the pandemic with 'predatory offers of help' to countries around the world." — The Daily Mail, March 28, 2020.

    "The brutal truth is that China seems to flout the normal rules of behavior in every area of life — from healthcare to trade and from currency manipulation to internal repression. For too long, nations have lamely kowtowed to China in the desperate hope of winning trade deals. But once we get clear of this terrible pandemic, it is imperative that we all rethink that relationship and put it on a much more balanced and honest basis." — Former UK Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15840/china-defective-medical-equipment

[rangerrebew]

The UK Ordered 3.5 Million Coronavirus Tests from China, They're Worthless
Tue Apr 7, 2020 Daniel Greenfield
 

When dealing with the People's Republic of China, it can be hard to distinguish callous contempt for human life, shameless greed, and corrupt incompetence from enemy action.

The coronavirus has been a boom for certain Chinese industries, mask-makers, ventilator manufacturers, and drug companies.

But they aren't to be trusted.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/04/uk-ordered-35-million-coronavirus-tests-china-daniel-greenfield/

[rangerrebew]

India: Muslims claim charges that Islamic convention was super-spreader of coronavirus are just “Islamophobia”

Apr 5, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 19 Comments

Tablighi Jamaat continues to spell trouble for India and other countries, especially in Southeast Asia. The Islamic revival group has consistently ignored all warnings about COVID-19, and has recently brought together large assemblies of Muslims: 250,000 in Lahore and 16,000 in Malaysia. In Indonesia, a Tablighi Jamaat event of 9,000 was halted, and the attendees forced into quarantine. Still, the group is not fazed in the least. The group is now being defended by Muslim Students of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and more aggressive Islamic supremacists. It is also reported to have ties with al Qaeda, Taliban, and Kashmir jihadis.

Now the usual, familiar term “Islamophobia“ is being utilized to further the Tablighi Jamaat agenda, in response to Indian authorities’ attempts to limit the group’s activities, which are threatening to spread the coronavirus to the rest of the population:

India: Muslims claim charges that Islamic convention was super-spreader of coronavirus are just “Islamophobia”

[mountaineer]

Reminder: China reports no new deaths.

China in Focus - NTD   @ChinaInFocusNTD
A funeral home director in Taiwan recently received an urgent order of 200,000 body bags from China. This comes as more countries question China's #CCPVirus (#coronavirus) number. Some Taiwanese funeral operators are also producing an alarming number of body bags for #China.

8:00 AM · Apr 7, 2020

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[rangerrebew]

France's coronavirus death rate accelerates, cases near 100,000
 

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s coronavirus figures on Monday showed that the rate of increase in fatalities - now at almost 9,000 - sped up again after several days of slowing, while the increase in people needing intensive care continued to decelerate.

The total number of cases, combining hospital and nursing home statistics, increased by 5,171 over the last 24 hours to 98,010, meaning France will likely become the fifth country, after Italy, Spain, the United States and Germany, to cross the 100,000 threshold on Tuesday.

“The pandemic hasn’t stopped expanding. The figures prove it,” Health Minister Olivier Veran said, adding that the government had decided to mass screen nursing homes which account for about 27% of the total death toll.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-toll/frances-coronavirus-death-rate-accelerates-cases-near-100000-idUSKBN21O2OX

[Cyber Liberty]

Someone should start a rumor that dogs produce naturally a COVID vaccine that benefits their owners.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

A funeral home director in Taiwan recently received an urgent order of 200,000 body bags from China.

That's a lot of body bags to a country that has shown little interest in protecting it's own people.  I'm betting they are for resale.

[TomSea]

Brit Hume@brithume
Boris Johnson 'stable' in ICU and does not have pneumonia, says Downing Street #Boris

https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1247504565412540422

So, while I'm sure there are other stumbling blocks, that has to be good news.

[skeeter]

Who vacations or has cause to go to Islamic countries? Wait until their wretched diaspora go home for their first official holiday in May.

[Jazzhead]

Praying, too, for the PM.

[sneakypete]

That's a lot of body bags to a country that has shown little interest in protecting it's own people.  I'm betting they are for resale.

@Once-Ler

You are probably right. A gallon of gas and a match are much cheaper,as well as safer for the living.

[TomSea]

I just saw this tweet by the reliable Jennifer Zeng.... but I'm still absorbing it...

Jennifer Zeng 曾錚
@jenniferatntd
Sanyuanli in #Guangzhou, #Guangdong province under #LockDown due to #CoronavirusOutbreak. Hundreds of thousands of black people live in this area.
For more: http://bit.ly/2uBfJPr
#CCPVirus #COVID2019 #Coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak #CoronavirusPandemic #coronaviruschina

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1247528535863881737

I once watched this video, this African leader may or may not have been "Communist" but CGTV, (Chinese Global television) made a documentary on him.  I guess I state this because these "blacks" in China, are probably from Africa and part of China's development projects in Africa. I have heard them mentioned before.

As for Thomas Sankara, he is sometimes called the "African Che", Sankara really doesn't look too bad to me.  A pretty good documentary actually, I'd be on guard to propaganda. I have no way of really judging this topic fairly. It's not clear to me that he was a "Communist" so to speak.:


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CGTN, Chinese Global Television Network, same thing.

[mystery-ak]

Frances Martel7 Apr 20202,006
5:38

Locals in Wuhan, where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, have heard screams coming from funeral home furnaces, and some treated in hospitals say they saw workers put living coronavirus patients in body bags, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Monday.

RFA noted that it could not independently verify that the Chinese Communist Party was burning coronavirus patients alive, nor has the Communist Party confirmed or denied the rumors. Yet the rumors persist that, to make room for new patients in Wuhan’s overcrowded hospitals, medical staff chose older patients less likely to survive the infection and shipped them to incinerators while they were still alive and conscious.

RFA quoted a source “close to the funeral industry” identified only as Ma who said that he had heard reports of “people restrained and forced into body bags when they were still moving.”

“Some people are saying that … there are video clips of screams coming from funeral homes, from inside the furnaces … which tells us that some people were taken to the funeral homes while they were still alive,” Ma added.

Ma also noted the existence of video testimony from an anonymous older woman who had been treated at a Wuhan hospital, presumably for Chinese coronavirus.

“One old lady was saying that they put one guy into … a body bag when he wasn’t even dead yet, and took him off to the crematorium because there was no way of saving him,” Ma told RFA.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/04/07/report-wuhan-funeral-homes-burned-people-alive/

I report you decide

[mystery-ak]

Delingpole: Trump Offers Boris Coronavirus Drugs Not Available Through British Health Provider
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/07/delingpole-boris-johnson-may-be-denied-chloroquine/

[TomSea]

I would like a better source but a few places are reporting this.

Coronavirus China cover-up: UK seriously considering shock Wuhan laboratory leak theory
A CHINESE laboratory leaked deadly coronavirus pathogen, Government ministers fear, as the once far-fetched theory gains traction.
By Brian McGleenon
PUBLISHED: 12:37, Sun, Apr 5, 2020

Senior sources in the Government have revealed they are now seriously considering whether coronavirus leaked from a Chinese laboratory. That the virus leaked from a laboratory, as indicated by this Express online article in February, is now "no longer being discounted" claim ministers. A Cobra member has approached the Mail on Sunday to reveal the Government did not rule out a leak from China's only Level Four Bio-safety laboratory.

The member of Cobra said: "There is a credible alternative view to the zoonotic theory based on the nature of the virus.

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan.

Read more at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1265224/coronavirus-china-original-wuhan-laboratory-leak-bioweapon-military-grade-china-scientist

Okay, so someone tipped off the Daily Mail (the Mail) about this. Take this for what it's worth.

[TomSea]

It sounds like they are saying he is ordinarily "Foreign Minister Secretary". I have heard of him before, he's probably ok.

Dominic Raab takes charge of U.K. as Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care
Alex Hudson    By On 4/7/20 at 7:23 AM EDT

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition has worsened after contracting coronavirus as First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab takes temporary charge of government.

Johnson was admitted to intensive care at around 7 p.m. BST on Monday. Raab, the government minister designated to deputize for the prime minister when he is unable to fulfill duties, is said to be the "first among equals" in the cabinet.

This means the business of government can continue as usual, he can chair meetings and lead the response to COVID-19. Precise details of the prime minister's condition are not yet known.

Read more at: https://www.newsweek.com/dominic-raab-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-intensive-care-1496510

[TomSea]

This thing snowballs and that is concerning:

France reports horrific coronavirus death toll in past 24 hours – total deaths over 10,000
FRANCE has reported a record 1,417 new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours - almost double the country's previous record of 833 announced yesterday.
PUBLISHED: 18:45, Tue, Apr 7, 2020

More:  https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1266260/France-coronavirus-death-toll-latest-covid19-macron-news

[TomSea]

This disease snowballs and that is concerning.

France reports horrific coronavirus death toll in past 24 hours – total deaths over 10,000
FRANCE has reported a record 1,417 new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours - almost double the country's previous record of 833 announced yesterday.
PUBLISHED: 18:45, Tue, Apr 7, 2020

[TomSea]

North Korea chaos: Secret meth labs BOOM as coronavirus sparks economic collapse
CORONAVIRUS restrictions in North Korea have sparked a boom in the country's illegal drugs trade with struggling traders driven to trafficking methamphetamine in the poverty-stricken hermit state.
By Simon Osborne
PUBLISHED: 14:41, Mon, Mar 30, 2020

Pyongyang has not reported any confirmed cases of the disease, which has spread around the globe after being first diagnosed in neighbouring China, though some foreign experts have expressed doubts. Residents of North Hamgyong province told Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service that government bans on commercial and social activities had left many people finding it difficult to make ends meet.

One resident said: “They could barely keep their heads above water when they could do business.

“Now the number of people going into drug trafficking is increasing."

Read more at: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1262337/coronavirus-north-korea-methamphetamine-pyongyang-kim-jong-un?int_source=traffic.outbrain&int_medium=traffic.outbrain&int_term=traffic.outbrain&int_content=traffic.outbrain&int_campaign=traffic.outbrain

Again, some caution with these stories, some do sound like they could be "made-up".

[Polly Ticks]

As I understand it, meth labs going 'BOOM' has always been a risk.

[DB]

This thing snowballs and that is concerning:

Isn't France one of the better healthcare European countries?