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To: Snowshoe who wrote (153666)	2/27/2020 7:06:41 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217501

some daisy chain of folks shall be severely social-scored soonest, and if that is all that happens to the chain of perps, lucky break for perps I fear worse and if anything additionally come to light, possibly the worst, and for the ex-convict? bad thing await. all to be example-d as par for the course w/r to dress-rehearsal bloomberg.com China Tries to Quell Uproar After Ex-Convict Got Past Wuhan Lockdown China officials pledged to investigate how an ex-convict infected with the coronavirus got to Beijing from a Wuhan prison, in a case fanning new criticism about how the month-old lockdown is being handled. The woman traveled by car to a relative’s home in the Chinese capital after being released Saturday from Wuhan Women’s Prison -- a facility stricken by an outbreak affecting more than 250 people. Her coronavirus infection was disclosed by local officials Wednesday, days after Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Beijing to “spare no effort” to keep the disease from expanding at the heart of Communist Party power. The woman’s full name wasn’t released, fueling speculation about her identify and what special dispensation she may have received to get past travel restrictions effecting some 60 million people in Hubei province. She was a former county water bureau employee sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption charges, Caixin magazine reported Thursday, citing a relative it didn’t identify. The incident prompted quick promises of investigations by authorities including Hubei party secretary Ying Yong, who was installed in the job earlier this month amid public criticism of the government’s response to the outbreak. Xi has claimed personal responsibly for the decision to lock down Hubei, with an economy the size of Sweden’s, to keep the outbreak from spreading. “We will get to the bottom no matter who has been involved,” Ying said Wednesday, according to the official Hubei Daily newspaper. The case “has severely violated the ban on exiting Wuhan and Hubei. Such things should be strictly prohibited at this critical moment of virus control,” he said. The unusually rapid response underscores leaders’ sensitivity toward allegations of shortcomings in its handling of an outbreak that has infected more than 80,000 people and killed more than 2,800 in China and elsewhere around the globe. Xi has called the episode a “major test” of party rule. Special PermitsSeparately, Vice Justice Minister Liu Zhiqiang was named to lead an investigation including the party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Ministry of Public Security. Beijing’s local anti-corruption body also said Thursday it had set up a task force to investigate how she was able to cross into city and access a residential compound. Wuhan residents with special needs could apply for travel permits, the party’s Global Times newspaper reported, citing a traffic bureau employee it didn’t identify. The Caixin report said the woman was unaware of the outbreak at the Wuhan prison and wasn’t tested for the virus before she left for Beijing, although she already had a fever. Even the country’s tightly censored media joined in the criticism of the incident. “It is most important to systematically sort out whether there are loopholes and weak links in the current epidemic prevention and control system,” the Paper, a Shanghai based news site, said in a commentary Thursday. People are concerned whether “the epidemic prevention system is robust enough to withstand potential erosion and keep us all safe,” the commentary said. — With assistance by Dandan Li

To: Snowshoe who wrote (153666)	2/27/2020 8:25:39 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217501

RE <<U.S., South Korea postpone annual military drills due to coronavirus>> Team China Duck Army mobilised, positioned, and ready to launch ferocious attack, and by the way do not have to face being Peking-ed, a win win win Pure attrition / endurance combat, or absolute feast, depending on PoV. bloomberg.com Army of 100,000 Chinese Ducks Ready to Fight Locust Swarms Alfred Cang27 February 2020, 12:31 GMT+8 Chinese duck platoons are waiting to be deployed to neighboring Pakistan to fight a swarm of crop-eating pests that threaten regional food security. At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan as early as the second half of this year to combat a desert locust outbreak, according to Lu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The ducks are “biological weapons” and can be more effective than pesticide, said Lu, who is in charge of the project in tandem with a university in Pakistan. People ride a cart as locusts swarm in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Photographer: Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images “One duck is able to eat more than 200 locusts a day,” Lu said in a telephone interview on Thursday, citing results of experiments to test the ducks’ searching and predation capabilities. A trial will start in China’s western region of Xinjiang later this year before the ducks are sent to Pakistan, Lu said. Swarms of desert locusts have been spreading through countries from eastern Africa to South Asia, destroying crops and pastures at a voracious pace. The pest plague, together with unseasonal rain and a scourge of low quality seeds, has hit major crops in Pakistan’s largest producing regions, weighing on its already fragile economy. And it has also migrated into India. Read: Locust Swarms Ravaging East Africa Are the Size of Cities It will be crucial for China, which shares a land border with Pakistan and India, to prevent an invasion. However, China does have some shield in the form of the Himalaya mountains that stand as a barrier between the Indian subcontinent and the Plateau of Tibet. A group of Chinese agricultural experts visited Pakistan this week to help control the locust outbreaks as the plague moves eastwards, according to a report posted on the website of China’s consulate-general in Karachi. In other unusual tactics, Pakistan’s government urged its citizens to eat locusts too. People should take advantage of the situation and barbecue locusts or make a curry, according to a local newspaper report. To gauge how serious a locust attack can be, look to Africa. The cost of fighting desert locusts in the continent’s east has doubled to $128 million, with more countries being affected each day, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said. The situation remains extremely alarming in the Horn of Africa, while there has been a significant movement of swarms over the Arabian Peninsula that reached both sides of the Persian Gulf, the FAO said in its latest locust watch report. — With assistance by Faseeh Mangi (Updates with Pakistan report in 8th paragraph)

To: Snowshoe who wrote (153666)	3/2/2020 6:21:29 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217501

Imperatives give rise to solutions bloomberg.com China Says African Swine Fever Vaccine Effective in Lab TestsChina has been trying to find a vaccine since outbreak in 2018 Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next. China’s Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, the country’s top research body on animal diseases, said it developed an African swine fever vaccine that laboratory testing has showed is safe and effective. The institute, which is overseen by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said the live vaccine with reduced virulance was created from a series of gene-deleted viruses using the country’s first African swine fever strain as a backbone. The disease, which is deadly for pigs but isn’t known to harm humans, first broke out in China in 2018. Since then, hog herds in the world’s top consumer and producer of pork have fallen by nearly half as global researchers looked to develop the world’s first African swine fever vaccine. “The vaccine is currently the most promising one for commercial production and will provide important technical means for the effective prevention and control of African swine fever in China and other related countries,” the Harbin institute said. It did not give an outlook on when the vaccine will be put into production. The disease caused a pork supply shortage that pushed up the country’s food inflation, leading Beijing to urge domestic research institutes to prioritize the development of an effective vaccine. Earlier this year, the American Society for Microbiology said U.S. government and academic experts developed a vaccine against swine fever that proved 100% effective. Although it shows promise, the American vaccine is still some years awayfrom being available to farmers, experts said in January. The development of official vaccines in China was given priority after unauthorized experimental vaccines against the disease were used to immunize millions of hogs in the country. The illegal vaccines caused “chaos” because of their varying levels of efficacy, local media reported last year. — With assistance by Shuping