When most market participants analyzed the Fed’s decision, they generally believed that the U.S. monetary policy was only a signal of a turnaround, but no real change occurred, because the federal benchmark interest rate and QE policy remained unchanged, while the excess reserve interest rate and overnight reversal The 5 basis point increase in the repurchase rate is nothing but a technical adjustment.

“However, judging from the actual effect, this technical adjustment has actually played a role in raising interest rates.” In the “Interpretation of How the Fed’s Interest Rate Meeting Understands the Tightening Signals” in the 172nd issue of the Hong Academy Micro Class on June 19, Song Hongbing said After the Fed raised the “ceiling” and “floor” interest rates, it was tantamount to raising the monetary policy interest rate by 4 basis points. This is a tangible increase in interest rates and simultaneously raised interest rates in all money markets.

The excess reserve interest rate is the ceiling interest rate, and the overnight reverse repurchase is the floor interest rate. As the core interest rate of monetary policy-the federal benchmark interest rate, it is suspended between the ceiling and the floor. For example, the current benchmark interest rate range is 0-0.25%, and the Fed’s expected target value is 0.1% between the two.

When the floor rate (overnight reverse repo rate) was increased from 0 to 0.05%, the repo market rate was immediately increased to 0.05%. why?

Because all those who have money and want to lend can lend money to the Federal Reserve and get Treasury bonds as collateral. There is no risk at all and a steady profit of 5 basis points. In the repo market, any transaction below 5 basis points cannot be done. This is the role of the overnight reverse repo rate as the “floor” rate. At the same time, the yield of short-term treasury bonds also rose immediately. For example, the yield of 3-month treasury bonds is often as low as 0.01% to 0.025%. After the local board interest rate rises by 5 basis points, the yield of 3-month treasury bonds immediately rises to 0.038%, which is 3 The highest value since the month.

At present, interest rates in several money markets have gone up across the board, and eventually the federal funds rate, the most important monetary policy rate, immediately jumped from 0.06% to 0.1%.

“For this reason, the Fed is currently turning itself into a’super pump’.” Song Hongbing said that while the Fed was forced to “release water,” it was also being forced to “pump water.” This self-contradictory approach will cause a huge financial idling and will greatly push up inflation.

According to current data calculations, the Fed will continue to inject about US$120 billion in liquidity into the financial market every month before reducing debt purchases. In addition, the U.S. Treasury Department has $765 billion in cash in the Fed’s checking account. According to the plan of Secretary of the Treasury Yellen, it should be reduced to the level of 500 billion US dollars by the end of June, which means that another 265 billion US dollars of “flood” will flood the financial markets. Although this plan may be slowed down to the second half of the year to be implemented, but in the next six months, there will be about a trillion dollars of currency floods that need to be discharged.

Considering that part of the funds may flow into the overseas US dollar market and the other part into the real economy, Song Hongbing predicts that there may be a flood of US$500 billion in the currency market before the end of the year. In addition, there are also the funding variables of “Two Housing” (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two federal mortgage financing companies with government properties). Therefore, the scale of overnight reverse repurchase may continue to rise, and it may be a high probability event to exceed 1 trillion US dollars in the second half of the year, and it is estimated to be close to 1.3 trillion or even higher by the end of the year.

However, we know that all positive feedback systems are difficult to sustain, because it will require more and more external energy injection, and the scale will become larger and the speed will become more and more fierce. When the outside world cannot meet this energy demand, it will eventually become Self implosion is the end.

When short-term interest rates continue to approach and impact the red line of negative interest rates, the phenomenon that the extremes of things must be reversed will naturally occur. This is the sudden increase in the scale of the overnight reverse repurchase. The time is at the end of March this year. After April, the volume began to rise, and in May it entered a state of soaring. After June, it began to soar.

If QE money printing is to release water, then overnight reverse repurchase is a super pump. While the Fed is working hard to release water, the other side is desperately pumping water. The U.S. dollar flows out of the Fed and stays on the accounts of primary dealers and major banks for a while. The balance sheet has reached its limit, and these currency floods immediately overflowed onto the balance sheet of money market funds. However, due to the asset famine, these currency floods have nowhere to go. In the end, they can only flow back to the Federal Reserve through reverse repurchase overnight. This kind of idling of economically worthless funds has no meaning other than leaving Wall Street empty. . The point is, can this water-pumping currency game last forever? Can this positive feedback system work indefinitely? If it can operate indefinitely, this will be a state where Wall Street’s incomparably wonderful dreams come true. Stocks will always rise, financial assets will appreciate infinitely, and money will be made soft. This hearing violates the law of conservation of energy. The “blind spot” of this game mechanism is inflation. Logically speaking, if “water-pumping” continues to operate, and becomes faster and larger in scale, all money will be made by Wall Street, and the world’s wealth cake will eventually go to Wall Street. Theoretically speaking, it is impossible for currency to seal idling in the financial market. Whether it is stocks or national debt, the person who gets the money will spend it. If there is too much money and things cannot be bought, prices will naturally rise. Severe inflation will force the central bank to raise interest rates, thereby disrupting the operation of the positive feedback system. While being forced to constantly “release water”, while being forced to “pump water” continuously. This self-contradictory approach is brewing a bigger crisis

Local time Monday (June 14), a survey by the New York Federal Reserve showed that American households’ expectations for next year’s inflation, housing prices, income and expenditure growth all rose in May; the median one-year inflation expectation in May increased from 3.4 in April. % Rose to 4.0%, a new high since the inflation expectations index was launched in 2013.

On the same day, another data released by the New York Fed also received attention. The data shows that the Fed accepted US$583.9 billion in fixed-rate reverse repurchase, which continued to hit a record high and exceeded US$500 billion for four consecutive trading days. This reflects the increasing liquidity in the US dollar financing market.

In addition, data released by the U.S. Department of Labor last Thursday (June 10) showed that the U.S. May unseasonally adjusted CPI annual rate was 5%, the highest since August 2008, with an expected 4.7% and a previous value of 4.2%; the United States 5 The monthly unseasonally adjusted core CPI annual rate was 3.8%, a new high since 1992, expected to be 3.4%, and the previous value was 3.0%.

Inflation continues to soar and liquidity is rampant. More and more institutions believe that the Fed will start the process of debt reduction at the end of this year or early next year. Some institutions even warn the Fed to ignore the risks caused by inflation!

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, is more direct. He said that JPMorgan Chase has been “efficiently hoarding” cash instead of using it to buy U.S. Treasury bonds or other investments because it is more direct. High inflation may force the Fed to raise interest rates.

In fact, the performance of the market may also reflect some situations. Last Friday (June 11), in the absence of heavy data or event stimulus, the US dollar index rose significantly and once touched 90.60, while gold fell by more than 20 US dollars. The above-mentioned market may be as simple as non-profit-taking, and it is not ruled out that investors are beginning to bet that the Fed will tighten policy soon. But the final decision is in the hands of the Fed.

“Terror data” + Federal Reserve interest rate, this week the market ushered in the ultimate test?

On Tuesday (June 15), the United States will release data such as the monthly retail sales rate in May, the PPI in May in the United States, the manufacturing index of the New York Fed in June in the United States, the industrial output in May in the United States, and the NAHB real estate market index in June in the United States. Among them, the US retail sales data in May has attracted much attention.

The market expects the monthly rate of retail sales in the United States to fall by 0.7% in May, which was unchanged from the previous value. If the data is in line with or lower than expected, or suggest that the effect of the White House fiscal stimulus is gradually fading, it may weaken the Fed’s expectations of tightening policy. Since consumer spending accounts for about 70% of US economic output, US retail sales data often trigger huge market shocks, so it is commonly called “terrorist data.”

In addition, the performance of the US PPI in May cannot be ignored. As a leading indicator of price trends, the performance of the PPI indicator will reflect the relevant situation of production costs. The market expects that the US PPI will rise at an annual rate of 6.3% in May, which will further reveal the pressure on the transmission of production costs. The overall performance of the above two data may cause greater interference to the short-term trend of the US dollar.

But the market is more concerned about the upcoming Federal Reserve interest rate decision. At 02:00 AM Beijing time on Thursday (June 17), the Federal Reserve FOMC announced interest rate resolutions, policy statements and economic expectations; at 02:30, Fed Chairman Powell held a press conference.

As the CPI data for two consecutive months “exploded”, whether the Fed will change its description of inflation in this policy statement will be one of the focuses of the market’s attention. If the bank still insists that inflation is temporary, it implies that it should not rush to change the current easing policy, which may cause the US dollar to suffer a new round of crit. However, if the Fed admits that inflation poses risks, it will increase expectations for tightening policies, thereby providing strong support for the US dollar.

In addition, because the scale of reverse repurchase frequently hits new highs, whether the Fed makes a relevant statement on this is also worthy of attention. At the same time, the Fed’s latest quarterly economic outlook and dot-map will provide more guidance for judging the FOMC’s economic outlook, labor market, inflation expectations, and interest rate trends, and they cannot be ignored.

In short, if the Fed releases its hawkish tendencies, especially on the issue of inflation, it will be considered by the market as a signal that the bank is about to turn, and may become the fuse for the dollar to initiate a bull market; however, if the Fed still insists on inflation If it is temporary, the market will interpret that the bank is not in a hurry to tighten policy, which may cause more plunges in the dollar.

Technical analysis of the US dollar index: the performance of a position is extremely critical

The daily chart of the US dollar index shows that the price fell to 89.54 (May 25 low, A point) after hitting 90.91 (X point) on May 13 and then the market rose and hit 90.63 (June 4 high, Point D), but quickly retreated significantly and formed a bearish Gartley pattern: 0.618XA=AB, 0.886AB=BC, 1.27BC=CD, 0.786XA=AD, AB=CD.

However, the downward market was supported by 0.786AD (89.77) and stabilized the downward trend line since March 31, avoiding further expansion of the decline. The key pressure above is at 90.63. If it breaks through effectively, in addition to destroying the above-mentioned Gartley pattern, the market will also constitute a bullish 123 rule, or confirm a phased bottom. It does not rule out expanding the increase to 91.00 or even 91.50.

If the price drops significantly below 89.77, the market does not rule out falling to 89.50 or even 89.21 levels for support.

People wear masks to prevent COVID-19 infection at a market in Srinagar, India, June 14, 2021. Photo: THX/VNA The most severely affected country is still the US with 615,247 deaths out of a total of 34,335,515 infections. Next is India with 377,061 deaths out of 29,617,058 cases. Brazil ranks third with 488,404 deaths out of 17,454,861 patients. As a percentage of population, Peru has the highest mortality rate, with 573 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Next is Hungary with 310 people and Bosnia-Herzegovina with 289 people/100,000 people. By region, Latin America and the Caribbean are currently the epicenter of the world’s epidemic, with more than 1.2 million deaths in over 35.1 million infections. Next is Europe, with over 53.6 million people infected with COVID-19, including over 1.15 million deaths. North America has over 625,800 deaths in over 34.8 million infections. Asia recorded over 540,400 deaths in over 38.4 million infections. The Middle East has over 146,400 deaths, Africa has recorded over 134,900 deaths, while the number of deaths in Oceania is over 1,100. On June 15, Thailand recorded 3,000 new infections, including 2,995 domestic infections. On the same day, the country had another 19 deaths. Prime Minister Prayut Chan o-cha said the government has ordered 100 million doses of vaccine and aims to vaccinate 50 million people, or 70 percent of the population, this year and is buying more to expand immunization to 80 – 90% of the population next year. On the same day, the Lao Ministry of Health said that the country recorded 15 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 2,025. Of the 15 new cases, 6 were community infections in the capital Vientiane and 9 imported cases were immediately isolated. According to the Lao Ministry of Health, the failure of a part of the people to strictly comply with epidemic prevention regulations is the cause of new cases in the community. To date, more than 1 million Lao people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. A vaccination site against COVID-19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: AFP/VNA In the past 24 hours, Cambodia recorded an additional 495 cases of COVID-19 and 13 deaths from this disease. Although the epidemic situation in Cambodia is still complicated, the Phnom Penh capital government still decided to allow the resumption of all business and trading activities at the state-managed markets in the city. The Cambodian Ministry of Health said that in the next few days, the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 will reach 3 million and the country is aiming for 10 million people to achieve herd immunity. According to the ministry’s report, so far 2,939,543 people in Cambodia have been vaccinated, or 29.4% of the total 10 million adults expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The number of new COVID-19 cases in Malaysia has been on a downward trend in recent days, after hitting record highs in May. Malaysian Health Ministry data released on June 15 confirmed an additional 5,419 cases. COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 667,876, including 3,968 deaths. The Malaysian government announced on June 15 that it had granted emergency use authorization for one-shot COVID-19 vaccines developed by CanSino Biologics (China) and Johnson & Johnson (USA). Malaysia is speeding up its vaccination program in tandem with strict lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As of June 14, this Southeast Asian country has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine to 3.28 million people, or 10% of the population. Vaccination against COVID-19 in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: AFP/VNA South Korea on June 15 recorded 374 new infections, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 148,647. The country is planning to launch a trial of a new social distancing mechanism within three weeks, starting from the beginning of next month, while trying to prevent a spike in daily new infections. Accordingly, South Korea will lift the current ban on gatherings of 5 or more people and increase it to 8 people. Restaurants and cafes can stay open until midnight in the capital Seoul and surrounding areas, 2 hours later than the current curfew from 10pm. Currently, the capital Seoul and the surrounding area, along with the city of Daegu as well as the resort island of Jeju, are applying social distancing level 2 out of a 5-level scale, while the remaining areas are at level 2. 1.5. Mass gatherings of 5 or more people are prohibited. To date, about 13 million South Koreans, or 25% of the population, have received the first dose of the vaccine. Meanwhile, the Japanese Government has approved a new policy on increasing support for foreigners residing in Japan who have difficulties and obstacles in vaccination against COVID-19. Accordingly, the country will step up support and guide foreigners who are not familiar with the vaccination registration process at their places of residence, as well as have difficulties in contacting the vaccination department. In addition, the government will also promote the implementation of a multilingual portal on COVID-19 prevention measures. The Hong Kong government (China) has announced that it will relax the strict restrictive measures imposed since July last year for ships and boats docked at this Asian shipping hub. According to the Hong Kong maritime authority, from June 15, the crew of ships and boats that dock in this city for fuel or food will be exempt from restrictive measures depending on the situation. A COVID-19 test site in Hong Kong, China. Photo: AFP/VNA Israel has officially lifted the mandatory mask wearing in public places since June 15, after more than a year of implementation. Accordingly, buildings, offices, schools, hotels… will not require employees or visitors to wear masks when in this enclosed space. However, wearing a mask is still applied in a few special cases, for example, people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 who visit patient care facilities are at high risk of death if infected. infected, people on the way to quarantine or passengers on the plane. Earlier, on April 18, the Israeli Government also lifted the mandatory mask wearing rule outdoors and from June 1 lifted all social distancing measures after more than a year of application. Thanks to an effective vaccination campaign, the number of COVID-19 patients and the infection rate in Israel have dropped to a very low level. Also on June 15, the Indian Ministry of Health announced that it had recorded an additional 60,471 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, marking the eighth consecutive day that the number of new cases across India was below the threshold of 100,000 cases. Currently, the total number of COVID-19 cases in this South Asian country has reached 29,570,881 cases. Also in the past 24 hours, with an additional 2,726 deaths, the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in India has increased to 377,031 cases. In the capital New Delhi, after recording a sharp decrease in the number of new cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the last 2 weeks, restaurants and shops were allowed to reopen from June 14 with the evening hours. maximum 50% capacity. However, schools, educational facilities, swimming pools, gyms and public places remain closed. In Europe, the final stage of Britain’s COVID-19 lockdown lifting will be postponed to July 19 instead of June 21 as originally planned. The decision was taken as the UK recorded an increasing number of new cases of COVID-19 due to the emergence of the contagious Delta variant first detected in India. Scientists advising the British Government warn that the number of people needing hospital treatment due to COVID-19 will increase sharply again if the final phase of the blockade easing schedule takes place on June 21. according to the plan. According to the restrictions imposed to prevent COVID-19 in the UK, outdoor events are limited to a maximum of 30 people, indoor events up to 6 people. However, 15 pilot events are on track to ease the lockdown as planned, including upcoming EURO 2020 matches and art and music performances. Those attending these events must present a certificate of vaccination or test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Some regions in Russia have tightened restrictive measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, while focusing on strengthening the response capacity of hospitals in the event of an increase in hospital admissions after the outbreak. as the number of new infections skyrocketed. On June 15, Russia added 14,185 new infections, of which 6,805 were in Moscow, bringing the total number of cases across the country to 5,236,593. In the past 24 hours, Russia also recorded an additional 379 deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 127,780.

Dressed in white, Mr. Kumar sat in the courtyard of the crematorium with other monks. Of the 26 pyre, only one is in operation. Another body is on its way there. “It’s comfortable now. Every 3-4 days, a body with Covid-19 will come here. We have time to breathe, eat and sleep,” he said The Hindu . To this day, he still cannot imagine what he had to go through two months ago. Unforgettable days Walking around the crematorium, Mr. Kumar pointed to an empty lot. Here, the staff of the crematorium had to erect 9 more cremation pylons. On another site, 5 pyre were built. Now, this area is just a black coal-stained void, with a few bricks left. Mr. Kumar pointed to the land that used to be the cremation pyre of Covid-19 victims. Photo: The Hindu. Taking a step further, Mr. Kumar pointed to another field. “This used to be a children’s cemetery. However, when the number of deaths peaked, we had to turn this into a crematorium and build 72 more cremation pylons. We even had to break down a wall to move the wood in,” he recalls. For about 10 days in April, more than 20 staff at the crematorium, including monks, sanitation workers and helpers, worked 24 hours a day. They even have to cremate their bodies in the middle of the night, which is against Hindu beliefs. “People leave dead bodies at the door without telling us. In addition, many families asked us to send back the video of the cremation ceremony,” Mr. Kumar recalled. “My mother used to make me go home and sleep for a few hours. I chanted sutras even in my sleep, according to family accounts,” he recalls. “Now I can sleep well.” Mr. Kumar has a 6-month-old baby girl. He did not dare to hold his child for the past month and a half due to fear of contracting Covid-19. At home, he ate and slept in a separate corner, trying to stay away from family members. “We didn’t wear protective gear because it was too hot. Can’t breathe… We just use masks and gloves,” he said. Now, the situation is less tense. When India’s vaccination campaign kicked off, all crematorium staff were vaccinated. This is a priority object due to the need to handle the body of a person who died due to Covid-19. “We once cremated a 6-month-old boy, who died from Covid-19, while the father of the baby wept bitterly. I will never forget this scene,” Mr. Kumar said. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused pain to hundreds of thousands of Indian families. Photo: BBC. Return to normal state At Lok Nayak Hospital, two large tents used to be used as waiting rooms for patients in front of the emergency ward. To date, they have been removed. No more patients on oxygen outside the hospital. There is no longer a long line of ambulances with the sound of the patient’s family crying and begging the hospital to accept it. Mr. Abhay, a community volunteer, reminisces about the shifts at the peak of the epidemic. “I don’t want to remember,” he said. At the Punjabi Bagh crematorium, the trees used to die because new pyrements were erected next to them. Now the green sprout is back. “I got used to this scene from last year, so I wasn’t affected much,” said monk Pankaj Sharma. However, for inexperienced monks and staff, seeing a mass of bodies leaves a psychological impact. “There were days when we didn’t have time to eat,” said Deepanshu, a 23-year-old employee. “A working day starts at 6:30. We help the victim’s family. Many were crying, scared, and didn’t know where to go or what to do. We only get to rest after 9-10pm.” Contrary to Seemapuri crematorium staff, Deepanshu and colleagues have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. “When the vaccination campaign started, government officials called us to get information. They asked us to go to a nearby hospital. However, when they arrived at the hospital, they said we were not on the list,” one staff member told The Hindu. During the peak of the epidemic, Indian crematoriums operated day and night. Photo: Reuters. “We are near the bodies of Covid-19 and many Covid-19 patients. We deserve an injection,” Deepanshu asserted. Currently, only 1-2 bodies infected with Covid-19 are brought to this crematorium every day. Most of the pyre are not working. “The situation here is not as bad as other crematoriums. People still have to wait, but with a much shorter time,” said monk Pankaj Sharma.

As life expectancy increases, it means that we will have to live with many chronic health problems such as cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. and must take drugs to control these conditions. However, when the disease is stable or in good progress, some drugs will be considered to be discontinued to minimize “multi-drug” and adverse interactions. The scientists found that, among more than 29,000 adults aged 65 and older, who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering medications (while maintaining other medications), had an increased risk of having a cardiovascular emergency. and death. “The results of this study suggest that cutting back on statins may not be the optimal way,” said lead author Federico Rea, of the University of Milan. The patients in the study were taking a statin (such as lipitor) along with blood thinners, blood pressure medications, and diabetes medications from October 1, 2013 to January 31, 2015, and were followed up until January 31, 2015. ends June 30, 2018. Compared with those who continued to take statins, patients who stopped taking them were 24% more likely to need hospital care for heart failure, 14% more likely to have certain other heart conditions, and more likely to die. mortality from any cause is higher than 15%. They were also 12% more likely to need emergency treatment. Because the benefits of statins outweigh the risks in terms of cardiovascular protection, physicians should carefully consider discontinuing their use in elderly patients, the researchers said. Often doctors and patients want to cut off certain medications in the elderly, to avoid having to take multiple medications at once, reduce drug burden, and limit drug interactions… However, this is not always the case. is a safe choice. When deciding to discontinue medication, the physician should carefully consider the evidence based on it. Dr. Benjamin Hirsh, Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital said. The American Heart Association recommends starting statins before age 75 for patients who need it, and continuing it in patients over 75 years of age who can tolerate it. This study further reinforces the benefit of continued statin treatment in older adults, even among those taking multiple other medications. Dr. Gregg Fonarow, University of California said. Jade ( According to Drugs 6/2021 )

According to editor Doroteya Borisova of biên PhoneArena , how Apple handles the account depends on whether relatives seek legal intervention or not. In iCloud’s terms and conditions, Apple says that it can proactively delete iCloud accounts that have been inactive for a year or more, or have been discontinued by users. The data stored in the iPhone, iCloud of the deceased is a difficult problem to handle if the loved one does not have their password. Photo: iMore. This provision indicates that Apple may, in its sole discretion, check whether an account has been discontinued before proceeding with the deletion of the account. However, this will be notified 30 days in advance via the user’s email. Who can access the iCloud of the deceased? iCloud is inherently where all of your iPhone’s information is stored, including backups, photos, videos, iMessages and texts, and purchase history for Apple services (including music and movies). You can assume that a deceased person’s Apple ID will be assigned to the closest family members, to recover the last stored memories. However, according to the legal terms that the user agreed to from the beginning, the loved one does not automatically access the account of the deceased. The clause also stipulates that if there is an intervention from the law, relatives can access the data of the deceased. The procedure to prove to Apple includes providing the name and Apple ID of the deceased person who is requesting access, proof of ownership of the Apple ID, and a court order. Forgot password feature when logging into iCloud. Photo: lifewire.com Plus, if you can access the deceased person’s iCloud-linked email account, legal troubles won’t be an issue. By using the “Forgot Password” feature when signing in to iCloud, you can easily change your account’s password with the account’s associated email. However, Borisova also noted that this practice may violate Apple’s terms of use, leading to the suspension or termination of the account if detected. Here’s what happened to user Jeff Fischer in 2020. Fischer said he was a relative of a deceased person. This person’s account still has 100 USD payable in iTunes. Fischer said he wants to recover the money and send it back to the account holder’s sister. “It took me a lot of phone calls and emails to Apple support to find an employee who knew these issues. I provide the death certificate and notarized copy of my legal status as the decedent’s representative. However, instead of transferring the money from one Apple ID to another, they insist on closing the account and then issuing a check for the remaining credit,” Fischer said. So what about the iPhone? If the deceased is the only individual with the iPhone’s password, access to the phone is not possible even though you are authorized to access their iCloud. Even the FBI does not have a special way to get the password on the iPhone. The only way is to have to set up iCloud on a separate phone or completely factory reset the iPhone of the deceased. However, this means that any information that has not been backed up on iCloud will be lost. Apple’s Legacy Contact feature in iOS 15 update later this year. Photo: PhoneArena. From iOS 15, iCloud account holders can set up trusted contacts, allowing information to be passed on to these people if the account holder dies. Those on the trusted list can then request access to the deceased person’s account. They just need to provide a copy of the death certificate.

Bad cell phone reception Lost in the dead zone

As of: June 8th, 2021 3:59 p.m.

Cell phone reception is still patchy in many rural areas. According to the network agency, more than ten percent of the country’s area is affected. Expansion is often delayed – companies could now face sanctions. The deeper you go into Germany’s rural regions, the worse the cell phone reception. This is the result of a current report by the Federal Network Agency. This is by no means a rare phenomenon. As the report shows, the supply is poor or non-existent on eleven percent of the country’s area. However, complete dead zones are really rare: Cell phone users, regardless of the provider, have no reception at all on just 0.3 percent of the area in Germany – they are “areas that are not provided with any technology”. This proportion is highest in Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate with 0.8 percent. In eight of the 16 federal states it is zero.

Annoying “gray spots”

However, 3.8 percent of the country’s area is referred to as so-called “white spots” in the report. In these areas, reception is only possible in the age-old 2G cellular standard. This standard is too slow for modern, complex mobile radio applications such as videos. 7.2 percent of the area are considered “gray spots”. Only one of the three German cellular networks, Telekom, Vodafone or Telefónica Deutschland, can be received there in the 4G standard. Anyone who is a customer of another network is left behind. Gray spots are astonishingly widespread: In Baden-Württemberg the proportion is ten percent, in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate it is 9.9 percent. Bavaria is fourth from bottom with 9.2 percent.

Industry points to high costs

In the Internet age, stable cell phone reception across the board is considered crucial for the development of rural areas. The flow of data is also becoming increasingly important for farmers in the fields, forest workers and hikers. The data from the Federal Network Agency show how great the need for expansion is. The telecommunications industry points to the high costs incurred in rural expansion. The network operators are now cooperating with each other to fill the gaps. In addition, there is a new state “mobile radio infrastructure company” that wants to use funding to enable radio locations where economic operation is not worthwhile. In the future, it is also planned to map 5G coverage and the main points of disconnections in voice telephony in a suitable form.

Main traffic routes not fully supplied

The report by the Federal Network Agency also deals with the issue of network supply along the main transport routes. Since the beginning of 2020, there should be 4G reception everywhere on motorways and ICE routes. However, 100 percent coverage has not yet been achieved. In the case of the motorways, the degree of coverage is between 95.4 and 99 percent, depending on the company, and between 94.4 and 98.2 percent for the railways, writes the Federal Network Agency. After all, the supply along the main traffic routes has been improved.

Fines not excluded

The authority refers to a total of around 550 locations where the companies were unable to ensure the required network supply in good time. “The examination has shown that there are cases of actual and / or legal impossibility at around 20 planned locations. The majority of the cases are temporary delays,” it says. The Federal Network Agency is currently examining possible sanctions against the mobile network operators. It is crucial here whether the delays were caused by the mobile network operator – for example due to late planning of the location – or by third parties, for example due to long building permit procedures or late cancellations by landlords. If the network operator is responsible for the delay, there is a risk of fines.

Photo: CNET Long before the iPhone and iPad came out, Apple had a device called Newton. Accordingly, this is the first effort of “apple defect” in the field of digital user aids. One of the most notable features of Appel Newton is its ability to recognize handwriting. The device comes with a stylus so that the user can write on the screen and then it will convert what you write into electronic characters. Apple also created its own operating system called NewtonOS for this device. After mixed sales reactions and market feedback about the bad handwriting recognition, Steve Jobs quickly canceled the next development project for Newton in 1998. Pippin Photo: CNET Until now, many people still remember Pippin as one of the biggest failures in Apple history. In 1994, Japanese toy maker Bandai approached Apple with the idea of ​​releasing a stripped-down version of the Macintosh for gaming. Apple responded to this idea and released Pippin in 1996. Initially, this machine launched with only four games, but was appreciated for its modern Internet connection. One of the biggest problems with Pippin, though, is the hefty price tag of $599. At the time of Pippin’s launch, the Sony Playstation and Seg Saturn were the market leaders of the same class. With a lower price tag while having more games, Pippin seemed to have lost the game right from the start. A few years after its launch, the total sales of this model still stopped at 42,000 units and Steve Jobs once again canceled this project when he returned to the Apple CEO hat. Apple QuickTake Photo: CNET Launched in 1994, QuickTake was one of the first digital camera devices to be sold on the mass market. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as Apple expected. At $749, no focus, no zoom, preview screen, and memory that can only store 32 images, Apple can’t compete with other camera brands like Kodad, Canon or Fuji. QuickTake actually has three refreshes a short time later, adding a few extra features while keeping the cost down. However, all is still not enough to prevent it from ending “premature death.” MacBook Pro supports cellular connectivity You may not know, back in 2007, Apple once developed a MacBook Pro that supported cellular connectivity. Of course, this machine was never released by Apple. In 2011, such a model was unexpectedly sold on eBay. This device has a SIM slot and a strange part of the antenna mounted on the screen

Vehicles move on the street in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo: THX/VNA) It is no coincidence that New Zealand consistently tops the rankings of both Bloomberg and Australia’s Lowy Institute for COVID-19 response. At the end of 2020, Bloomberg ranked New Zealand as the country with the best overall response in the world to the pandemic. In May 2021, the country in Oceania continued to hold the top spot in Bloomberg’s ranking, despite the rate vaccination against COVID-19 in New Zealand is still quite low, 4.8% of the population, while this index of Singapore, the second ranked country, is up to 29.9%. It is worth mentioning that from October 2020 to May 2021, only in April, New Zealand “gives” this top position to Singapore. Over the past three months, New Zealand has not recorded any more cases of infection in the community. Since the discovery of the first COVID-19 patient on February 28, 2020, this Pacific island nation has had a total of 2,681 cases, of which 17 are being treated, 26 have died and 2,638 who recovered. Life has almost returned to normal for the Kiwi Country’s 5 million people. Authorities lifted restrictions on people and economic activity in the country, but mostly closed borders to prevent the virus from entering the country. When assessing New Zealand as the world’s leader in COVID-19 response, experts agreed that the country had taken the most decisive, quick and effective measures to handle the pandemic, with the least impact. to economic and social activity. To achieve this, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government, with the support of the people and business community, has adopted a strategy of “going ahead and going strong.” New Zealand’s anti-epidemic model is basically prevent the virus from entering foreign countries, purchase equipment to protect essential workers, strengthen testing, contact tracing, isolating cases and above all implementing blockade and social distancing society to cut off the chain of infection.The “secret” of this country can be summed up in six words: drastic-timely-synchronous. Immediately after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a global health emergency, New Zealand on February 2, 2020 decided to ban the entry via air of foreign nationals. All passengers arriving from China, while New Zealand citizens and arrivals from other countries must self-isolate for 14 days. On March 25, when the number of cases in the country was about 200, New Zealand quickly declared a national emergency and Close the border Although the country’s economy is heavily dependent on tourism. Foreigners entering by air and sea must be tested and isolated at a designated facility. With this step, New Zealand has “locked” the door to the virus entering from abroad. The New Zealand government also urgently establishes a national system to directly register personal protective equipment to identify all equipment manufacturers capable of supporting the fight against the epidemic. Many domestic enterprises have responded and increased domestic production or cooperated with foreign companies to find sources to buy masks, hand sanitizer, face shields and medical gowns. The government is also promoting the establishment of a public-private joint venture to purchase test kits and reagents (chemicals for testing the SARS-CoV-2 virus) from various suppliers. While many countries are also looking to buy these medical items when supplies are scarce, New Zealand has achieved a higher test rate than developed countries like the US or South Korea at the same time, with about 2,200 tested per 100,000 population by mid-May 2020. For contact tracing, New Zealand using both “low technology” and high technology to identify and test all close contacts of COVID-19 patients for 14 days. The primary method of tracing is that officials ask each COVID-19 patient to identify their close contact. In addition, the “NZ COVID Tracer” smartphone application for tracing virus infections was deployed simultaneously. People wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Auckland, New Zealand, February 14, 2021. (Photo: THX/VNA) New Zealand has stopped, not just mitigated, the spread of the disease in the community thanks to the rapid adoption of very strong measures. On March 25, 2020, just three days after confirming a domestic infection, authorities implemented a nationwide blockade measure. This is one of the countries applying the strictest blockade order in the world. Although New Zealanders have a high sense of self-discipline, the police still encourage citizens to report violators of epidemic prevention regulations. In just a few weeks, police received more than 336 reports of violations. New Zealand’s disease chart in the first wave of infections last year has demonstrated the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures. The number of new cases per day began to decrease significantly from 89 cases / day on April 5 to only 9 cases / day two weeks later. On April 27, the government began easing the blockade order, although it still imposed some distancing measures. On May 13, New Zealand did not record any new cases, so on June 8, the government completely lifted the blockade order. During the outbreaks of re-emergence in Auckland city in August 2020 and February 2021, authorities immediately took drastic measures. For example, on February 14, New Zealand locked down Auckland, the largest city in the country to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic after recording three new infections in the community on the same day. Meanwhile, the remaining localities apply level 2 restrictive measures. When the outbreak in the community is extinguished, restrictive measures are also eased step by step with extreme caution. One highlight of New Zealand’s anti-epidemic work is the application of technology. New Zealand was one of the first developed countries to use a smartphone app to track infections. In April, the country also launched a trial of a surveillance “elarm” application to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with an accuracy of up to 90% within three days before the patient showed symptoms. such as cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. Integrated with wearable devices such as smart watches or health monitoring devices, the application uses artificial intelligence to detect sudden changes in the user’s heart rate, temperature body temperature, thereby providing an early warning to detect signs of COVID-19. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (centre). (Photo: AFP/VNA) Experts say that New Zealand has proactive, strong, focused, science-based epidemic response measures, and at the same time implements these measures well. In research published in the journal The Lancet Public Health, expert Sarah Jefferies and colleagues point to the factors contributing to New Zealand’s success in the fight against the pandemic are rapid improvements in testing capacity and management. handling cases, the blockade order was for a short time (almost 4 weeks) but very strict. In addition, rapid interventions when the number of cases is low, for example, the warning level increases from 1-4 in five days when the number of cases has not exceeded 1,000 cases. A team of experts from the University of Otago (New Zealand) highlighted the key element of the government’s rapid, science-based risk assessment combined with early and decisive action. The implementation of interventions at various levels (border control, control of community spread, and control of cases) are also effective against the epidemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is highly appreciated for her ability to effectively convey the main message to the community – consider fighting the epidemic as the task of a unified collective of 5 million people, thereby being trusted and obeyed by the people. under very strict restrictions. The above-mentioned drastic measures against the epidemic helped reduce human losses with a very low mortality rate, only 0.53 cases per 100,000 people, but also cost the economy due to the closure policy as well as the impact of the pandemic. Translate. New Zealand’s economy recorded a record 2.9% contraction in 2020. However, in terms of the long-term outlook, the economy is forecasted to grow again this year thanks to the government’s economic stimulus package and New Zealand’s ability to restore normal life as before. pandemic. Moreover, it is the good control of the epidemic that has brought New Zealand’s great economic recovery opportunities. The results of a Bloomberg survey conducted in October 2020 with the participation of about 700 people, most of them senior executives in many industries, of which 53% are from large corporations and 47% are from large corporations. SMEs, showing that New Zealand is the country most trusted by business leaders to invest in the future. In fact, the economy of the “kiwi land” has rebounded as business confidence recently improved and the unemployment rate plummeted to 4.7% in the first quarter of 2021. The Ministry of Finance projects gross domestic product (GDP) growth to reach 2.9% in 2021 and gradually accelerate to 4.4% in 2023. Kiwibank’s chief economist, Jarrod Kerr, said the view For the future, a program to roll out vaccines, travel bubbles with Australia and many other countries in 2021 will support solid growth in 2022. New Zealand’s drastic, timely and synchronous approach to the COVID-19 epidemic, from blockade, distance, to tracing and treatment, has become a model of anti-epidemic recognized by the international community. and provide useful lessons to help governments plan how to respond to the current pandemic as well as future pandemic outbreaks.

Seeing this situation, Tong Tu felt uneasy, so he brought all the accumulated experience for a long time to write the book series “Cleaning Oan Tap Luc”. In the book “Tai Oan Tap Luc” there are many unbelievable cases of injustice in an era where technology has not yet developed. Was the victim suffocated in the fire or burned after death? One night in 1238, a fire in the western suburbs destroyed the entire house. After the fire was extinguished, residents discovered a charred body in it. The dead man was originally a builder who had no grudge against anyone in the village. Upon receiving the report of the crime, Tong Tu prison immediately went to the scene. During the autopsy, Master Tong Tu noticed that the corpse had many abnormalities. Moreover, next to the body, the victim intentionally left an autograph written with only one word “Fill” . By using vinegar and alcohol, Tong Tu found traces of the perpetrator’s crime. (Photo: Sohu) Although burned black, but the dead person’s throat is completely clean, there is no soot, based on the principle that if a living person encounters a fire, in the process of breathing will often accidentally inhale a lot of smoke and dust. the dead do not. Therefore, he confirmed the victim was burned after death. Although the fire was extinguished with water, the clues were long gone, but Tong Tu had his own thoughts. He decided to examine it again and found that the dead body had a wound, like being stabbed with a knife. This fatal wound caused the victim to die, then someone set fire to destroy the evidence. Vinegar has the effect of dissolving blood stains, proving that the victim has been killed and then burned. (Photo: Sohu) Master Song Tu ordered his subordinates to clean up the scene, sweep away the dust where the victim’s body was found, and then poured white vinegar and wine on the ground. Just a moment, after the wine and vinegar had evaporated, there was indeed a streak of blood on the floor. Indeed, the victim was stabbed to death, but who committed the crime? According to traditional Chinese medicine, vinegar is warm and has the effect of removing blood stasis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and detoxifying. As for the explanation of modern science, vinegar has the ability to dissolve animal proteins. Therefore, in this case, Master Tong Tu took advantage of the properties of vinegar to affect the hematoma at the scene, causing it to dissolve and appear. The truth is revealed Based on the evidence, Song Xu suspects that the killer is definitely related to the word “Dien” that the victim tried to save at the scene. But with just one word “Fill” how to determine if the victim is targeting the name or something of the offender? After comparing the knife wounds, Tong Tu concluded that the victim had been stabbed to death. (Photo: Sohu) Song Tu sends a head to investigate the relationships surrounding the builder. Clues began to appear, and the head reported that before his death, the victim had come to help a rich man in the village to build a wall. Immediately after the completion of the work, this builder died. At this time, Tong Tu put his doubts on this incident, he looked more closely and discovered that the housekeeper of the rich house was named Dien That , is similar to the word “Fill” that the victim saved. He ordered a search of Tian Qi’s house and found a bloody dagger. Although Tian Qi insisted on arguing, when comparing the wound on the body, it completely coincided with his knife. After interrogation, Dien That admitted that he killed the builder under the orders of the rich man. As it turned out, that year there was a famine, in order to help the poor, Tong Tu Dai proposed to his superiors the plan of using rice from the rich in the village to distribute to everyone. The rich man devised a plan to hire people to build a wall to block the granary because he did not want to divide the rice among the people. But when the victim finished building, the rich man was afraid of revealing the story, so he sent the housekeeper to kill the man and silence him. So, thanks to the application of profound medical knowledge combined with keen observation, Master Tong Tu once again successfully solved the case and exonerated the dead. Simultaneously with this discovery, he contributed significantly to the next generation with many suggestions to find evidence to impeach many perpetrators.

Things to keep in mind when exercising at home The big difference when practicing at home and when going to the gym, you will be guaranteed the best training conditions from: equipment and machinery to support the training process. There is a support coach to guide the exercises. The practice environment with many participants makes it easier to create an atmosphere of excitement… So when choosing to practice at home, to get the best effect, you need to pay attention to choosing the method that is really suitable for you and Note the following points: The ideal time to exercise at home is from 16:30 to 18:00. Exercise at home should be maintained regularly and regularly. Absolutely do not practice intermittently, so it will not be effective. Dead Bugs Exercise. Exercise V-Ups. Crab toe touches exercise. Make sure the training space is free of any obstacles and large enough for a variety of exercises. Choose to use the right shoes. Practice exercises with increasing intensity, from easy to difficult. Be careful not to overdo it. If you rush and exercise too much, it can lead to muscle and joint injury. With any physical activity, proper warm-up and stretching is important to reduce the risk of injury. Spend 10-15 minutes doing light movements to pump blood and warm up joints and muscles. Increasing intensity will increase your heart rate and make you sweat. Note, if you plan to focus on a certain muscle group, you should spend a lot of time warming up that muscle part. Practicing at home doesn’t have much excitement, so you get bored easily, the practice will not be effective. You can’t even build muscle if you just practice the same movements over and over again. Therefore, you should consider coordinating and flexibly changing exercises. Drink water before, during and after exercise to avoid cramps, fatigue. If you have to work out intensely or sweat a lot, consider sports drinks with electrolytes. Should increase foods rich in vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, iron and electrolytes to avoid injury, support sports activities … After your workout, spend at least 5-10 minutes relaxing your whole body, doing light, low-intensity exercises for a long time to reduce muscle soreness, risk of stiffness, and future injury. Relaxing the body also allows the heart rate to gradually lower safely. After exercising, let the body rest for about half an hour and then have dinner. Quality sleep is very important. It affects recovery, metabolism, muscle growth, weight control, and mental health. One way to improve sleep is to eliminate any distractions like electronics, lights, and noise for at least 30 minutes before bed. Exercise Heel taps. Climbing exercises. How to exercise at home to get 6 pack abs Dead bug exercise: Lie on your back with your arms raised towards the ceiling, and at the same time bend your legs so that your thighs are vertical to your hips and your knees are bent at an angle of about 90 degrees. From that position, slowly straighten your right leg, lowering your left hand behind your head. Then return to the starting position and repeat the same thing for your left leg and right hand. With this exercise, you must always keep your back touching the floor. Don’t forget that your feet and hands should be a few centimeters off the ground. The exercise works on different parts of the body at the same time, thereby helping to strengthen the body and tone the abdominal muscles. Crab toe touches exercise: Sit down with knees bent and feet side by side. Put your hands behind your back, then lift your hips off the floor. Kick your right leg straight up and touch your right foot with your left hand. Return to the starting position and repeat the same thing with the left leg, right hand. If you want to double the effect, try to lift your butt as high as you can and always squeeze your core muscles. This is one of the best moves to work out the lower abs, glutes, and tendons. It can also help you develop impressive core strength, improve endurance, and boost metabolism. Heel taps exercise: Lie on your back with your arms next to your body. Next raise your legs and straighten them 90 degrees off the floor. From this position lower each leg in turn and touch the floor with your heels. Make sure your legs are perfectly straight and don’t rush. The slower the heel is brought down, the more effectively the lower abs are exercised. Doing this exercise at least 3 times a week will tone your abs, glutes, and hip muscles. This exercise also specifically targets the lower body and makes it more stable. V-Ups exercise: Lie on your back on the floor, legs straight and touching. From here, lift your body up with the help of your elbows. Raise your legs up to form a V from your torso. Hold this position for 5 seconds. Then slowly lower your legs, while supporting your upper body with your elbows. Note: Relax, do not strain the neck. The arms and legs should also not be bent. Remember to exhale as your body forms a V. Inhale as you lower yourself down. This exercise mainly works on the mid-abs. It also exercises the pelvic and intercostal muscles. These are the positions you need to work on to get your dream abs. Climbing Exercise: This pretend climb is a compound exercise that works many different muscle groups at the same time. This includes the glutes, quads, hamstrings, and core muscles in the abdomen. Start in a high-arm plank position with your hands shoulder-width apart and your legs straight. From here, bring your right knee up under your chest, then return to the starting position. Do the same thing with the left foot. It is important to keep your back straight and increase the speed slowly.

On April 12, three million Indians gathered on the banks of the Ganges River. They gathered in the ancient city of Haridwar, in the state of Uttarakhand, to take a dip in the sacred river. Devoted and full of Hindu devotees crowded the streets. The Naga Sadhus, the “saints” of the Hindu ascetic practice, pose for a photo on the banks of the Ganges. Photo: AFP. This is one of the holiest days of the Kumbh Mela festival. This festival is one of the most important occasions for Hindus, attracting millions of pilgrims every year. On the same day, India recorded 169,000 new Covid-19 cases and surpassed Brazil to become the second hardest-hit country by the pandemic, according to Guardian . Ignore danger In the weeks before that, a second deadly wave of Covid-19 swept across the whole of India. However, calls to cancel the festival were rejected. By April 15, more than 2,000 festivalgoers had tested positive for the virus. As of the end of the festival on April 28, more than 9 million people have soaked in the water of the Ganges River. The actual number of Kumbh Mela participants is yet to be announced. Millions of pilgrims return home without being tested or quarantined. Several states have begun belated efforts to trace and isolate returnees from Kumbh Mela. In Madhya Pradesh, 789 pilgrims have been placed in quarantine. Of those, 118 tested positive. The Naga Sandhus attend a procession on the banks of the Ganges. Photo: Reuters. T Jacob John, former head of virology at the Indian Council of Medical Research, said: “The pilgrims in the states carry with them mutated strains of the virus and spread the disease everywhere.” . Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that Kumbh Mela could be “the largest super-contagious event in the history of the Covid-19 pandemic”. Devotees attend night prayers on the banks of the Ganges River at the Kumbh Mela festival, April 13. Photo: Reuters. During the festival period, the state of Uttarakhand recorded a 1,800% increase in the number of virus positive cases. Most of the infections are related to the Kumbh Mela festival. No one escapes Covid-19 Thakur Puran Singh, a senior member of the BJP, does not believe he has contracted Covid-19 at Kumbh Mela. At dawn on April 9, he and his family drove nearly 600 km to Haridwar to attend the Kumbh Mela. Over the next five days, his family took several dips in the Ganges River. On April 16, a day after returning home, Mr. Singh started showing symptoms of Covid-19. At first, he refused to believe that he had Covid-19. However, on April 21, his condition worsened. When he was taken to a local hospital, doctors suspected he had Covid-19 because his lungs had been damaged. His son did not believe him and took him to another hospital that he considered more reputable. Thakur Puran Singh and family participate in Kumbh Mela festival. Photo: The Guardian. “I couldn’t believe the doctors and their diagnosis. I didn’t even wear a mask when I took my dad to the hospital,” said Dinesh Singh Thakur. However, Mr. Singh died en route. Eight days later, his brother, Balwant Singh, also died with symptoms of Covid-19. “Even after Mr Singh’s death, the family kept a secret that they had come to Kumbh Mela,” said Dr. Shameema, regional medical director. After returning, they also participated in four weddings. Dr Iqbal Malik, another health official, confirmed that four members of Mr Singh’s family have tested positive. More than two dozen other people who were in close contact with Singh’s family members also had similar results. Mr. Singh’s body was cremated according to the procedures of the victim who died from Covid-19. However, his family still does not believe that he died from the virus. “There are 11 people in my family, why is it that only my father is gone? My father’s death was not due to Covid-19. Fate has called him,” Thakur said. Regret Gopal Singh’s family and neighbors were touched to see him return to his hometown from Kumbh Mela. The people of Madhi Chaubisa village came out to greet him and hoped for blessings. Contrary to the joy of the villagers, he was still terrified. Singh joined about 100 others from the surrounding villages on a sacred pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela. On the way home, he saw everyone falling ill. Many passengers said they had high fever and diarrhea. However, their vehicle did not stop at any of the Covid-19 testing sites. Devotees await the Naga Sadhus at the Kumbh Mela festival. Photo: AP. “I have been to Kumbh Mela twice before but I have never seen anything like this. A lot of people have been infected,” he said. Mr Singh insisted on being tested for Covid-19 despite a local doctor dismissing his concerns. Four days later, as expected, he was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Before that, he had contact with many people in the village. Three other people traveling with Mr Singh also tested positive. Ragu Raj Dangi, head of the village, said: “After everyone returned from Kumbh Mela, the number of people with Covid-19 has increased to more than 30 cases in just a few days. There are still a lot of other people who have symptoms but haven’t been tested.” A few days later, Mamta Bhai, Mr. Singh’s neighbour, developed a fever. She was treated by a local doctor. Although she was later taken to the intensive care unit, she still did not survive. Singh feels guilty: “Stubbornness and ignorance pushed us into a disaster. I feel terrible. Because of fanatics like me, other people get the virus.” Mr. Pragyaanant Giri, a Hindu monk, also went to Kumbh Mela. Like many at the monastery, he believes Covid-19 is a conspiracy. After a month of attending the festival, Mr. Giri developed symptoms of a sore throat and high fever. His companions advised him to rest. The police officer asks a person to leave after taking a dip in the water of the Ganges. Photo: Reuters. After that, his condition worsened. After two weeks of intensive care, Mr. Giri passed away. Despite the rules for patients dying from Covid-19, his body was buried at the monastery. People in the monastery said: “More than 10 people who came into contact with Mr Giri have developed Covid-19 symptoms and some have been hospitalized. However, most members of the monastery are not tested.” Even after Giri’s death, the belief that Covid-19 is not real still pervades the monastery. Swami Harigiri, the head of the monastery, thinks this is a plot against the Hindus. “We drink cow urine. Covid-19 will not affect us. Giri’s death caused by Covid-19 is fake news,” he said. In a small village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a group of five women came to the festival on an 11-day trip. After returning, two people died. Although the local health department announced the victims had tested negative for Covid-19, family members told a different story. Awadh Kishore Tiwari, grandson of Bindu Devi, one of the two dead women, said: “She fell ill the day she returned home. The very next day she was gone forever. My mother also tested positive after coming into contact with her.” Ms Devi’s brother-in-law, Awadhesh Chauhan, said he advised her not to attend the Kumbh Mela because of Covid-19. However, she laughed off: “Nothing will happen to me, don’t worry”. Bringing the ashes of unclaimed Covid-19 victims to the Ganges River Indian volunteers collect ashes from crematoriums to organize funerals for Covid-19 victims in Haridwar city.

The key to the success of seaweed farming is its growing commercial potential. Illustration: sciencefriday. A new study argues that growing a sufficient number of green seaweeds can help reduce pollution, absorbing most of the harmful waste. The study’s co-author, Phoebe Racine, said the thesis was just an early idea and implementation would take time, but given the lack of progress in other aspects, “there was no other option.” in addition to considering alternative methods”. Racine, a researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara, says growing a variety of seaweed species in less than 1 percent of the Gulf of Mexico’s waters could help the United States meet pollution reduction goals that are already out of reach. . She and her colleagues mapped the suitable area for seaweed cultivation in the Gulf, and the suitable area could be more than 38,500 square kilometers. The Gulf of Mexico is being choked with agricultural and municipal waste. In May 2019, the Mississippi River discharged an average of more than 5,000 tons of nitrates and 800 tons of phosphorus into the Gulf of Mexico, the highest levels in 40 years. These excess nutrients from farm fertilizers and animal waste in the Midwest robs the oceans of oxygen off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, fueling toxic algae blooms that have led to the so-called “dead zone”. Eutrophication (also known as eutrophication) is when there are too many nutrients in the pond/lake such as nitrate, phosphorus, which exceed the self-regulating capacity of the pond/lake, causing dense growth of plant and animal death due to lack of oxygen. To environmental experts, this problem seems intractable. Called eutrophication, dead zones are proliferating all over the world. There are more than 700 coastal areas worldwide that are “dead zones” or negatively impacted by currents. While the United States bears the bulk of agricultural waste, municipal wastewater is the main culprit in South America, Asia, and Africa. Annually, they cause economic losses of $3.4 billion in Europe and the United States alone by affecting tourism and fishing resources; while reducing property values, water treatment and adverse health effects. Over the past 10 years, 85 communities in the United States have spent a total of more than $1 billion to prevent or treat toxic algal blooms. Among the hardest hit areas is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where the continued discharge of domestic waste from the heart of the United States has destroyed the local seafood and tourism industries. The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying fertilizer and livestock waste from Midwestern farms. Photo: Bloomberg. Growing seaweed is considered as one of the green solutions to solve this problem. Seaweed farming dates back to 1,700 years ago in China. Today, countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, along with China and South Korea, lead the world in this area. In South Korea, where aquaculture has grown by 300% in the past 30 years, an intensive effort has proven its usefulness as a waste reduction tool. According to one study, farms that grow three major seaweed species and two shellfish species (all filter feeds without additional feed) accounted for 5.7% of carbon dioxide and 8.6% of carbon dioxide emissions. nitrogen emissions from all wastewater treatment plants in Korea. The key to the success of seaweed farming is its growing commercial potential. These aquatic plants can absorb excess nitrogen and phosphorus, turning it not only into food for humans, but also expanding a range of other commercial uses. The most commonly grown seaweeds include red or brown algae or algae. Some are used to make culinary thickeners or jellies for culturing bacteria in the lab. Others are dried into sheets for sushi rolls. While sugar kelp can be used as a sweetener, kelp is also used in toothpaste, shampoo, frozen foods, and even pharmaceuticals. Making seaweed farms profitable will be an important consideration to promote them as an agricultural and municipal waste treatment solution. Asia currently has a very strong demand for seaweed. Human consumption, which includes everything from sushi rolls to broths to salads, is the largest market for harvested seaweed. But growing demand can also be seen in the cosmetic and fertilizer industries, as well as aquafeeds. However, mass aquaculture faces a number of significant obstacles, particularly its labor-intensive nature. Globally, the demand for seaweed is forecast to double to $30 billion by 2025. However, in the United States, the seaweed market is relatively small. Gretchen Grebe, an aquaculture scientist at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, says seaweed farming in the US is largely “in the R&D phase.” “Using seaweed farming to remediate any large amounts of nutrient pollution would require significant expansion — the current scale of farming wouldn’t even matter,” says Grebe. In the United States, states have different regulations regarding aquaculture licensing. While it’s relatively easy to get a seaweed farm permit in Maine and Alaska, in California it requires meeting a stack of overlapping regulations. Bailey Moritz, Program Manager of the World Wildlife Fund, said: “Offshore activities hold promise. Our goal is to see seaweed growth that will have meaningful impacts [đối với sự suy giảm chất dinh dưỡng], and scale is needed for that.” But large-scale offshore seaweed farming is still at least a decade away from taking place in the US, and only when biofuels, bioplastics and animal feed are generated enough. need. Seaweed holds great promise, Grebe said, but scientists are quick to point out that the main driver is the imperative to reduce watershed waste inputs. “We are asking a lot of seaweed farmers to treat the nutritional waste that we dump into the Gulf,” she concludes.

The accident happened at night, when a driver did not see Schwartz appear on the highway. The impact was so strong that Schwartz’s tracking collar broke, resulting in a loss of signal. An anteater collapsed on the highway. Photo: Guardian. According to the researchers, the beast trudged off the highway until it collapsed dead. But they could not find the body of this animal. Schwartz is just one of thousands of wild animals that are stabbed to death each year on the BR-262 highway in Brazil, according to reports. Guardian . The route was built in the 1960s, when safety regulations were not established. BR-262 also cuts through the habitat of many wildlife species, leading to many serious impacts on the environment. Now, activists have joined a class-action lawsuit, forcing Brazilian authorities to recognize how dangerous the highway is. Highway of death BR-262 stretches east-west, passing through the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul. The route also cuts through the Atlantic forest, the Cerrado savanna and the Pantanal wetlands. The deadliest stretch of road stretches for nearly 300 kilometers, running through the cities of Aquidauana and Corumbá, lined with trucks and metal mining vehicles. According to research from the University of Mato Grosso do Sul, every year more than 3,000 wild animals are stabbed to death on this stretch of road. An anteater collapsed on the highway. Photo: Guardian. In 2020, the Pantanal region experienced a severe drought. Biologist Gustavo Figueirôa explains: “When the river level is low, mining companies have to transport by road.” Drought has also caused fires to increase, forcing many species to leave their habitats. When they suddenly cross the highway, drivers easily lose visibility and cause a collision. Environmental and infrastructure agencies are working together to improve old roads like the BR-262. Their goal is to minimize their impact on the natural environment. But this task is not easy, especially when many large animals often appear on the highway. According to biologist Fernanda Abra, some sections of the road of BR-262 have been fenced, but this measure has not worked. “The fence is very low,” Ms. Abra said. Animals can break, climb or jump over.” Class action lawsuit Fernanda Abra, co-founder of environmental consulting firm ViaFauna, began tracking animal stabbings on the BR-262 in 2018. That’s when Abra learned of the class action lawsuit against the Department of Facilities. National Transportation Infrastructure (DNIT). The lawsuit, initiated by many activists, asks the DNIT to come up with more effective measures to protect wildlife in the area. According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Mato Grosso do Sul, DNIT has taken measures such as installing speedometers or installing signs. But these efforts have not resulted in improvement. The Prosecutor’s Office said DNIT is prioritizing the installation of fences and safe passages specifically for animals. Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues de Mello, head of DNIT, said the ministry understands the problems with the BR-262 motorway. But the class action is a wake-up call, forcing them to turn their thoughts into actions. “Fortunately, the Prosecutor’s Office helped us realize a critical situation. And we need to look at how we can do better,” said Luiz Guilherme Rodrigues de Mello. After the lawsuit, DNIT signed a contract with ViaFauna to monitor the highway for one year. Co-founder Fernanda Abra said ViaFauna will release a report in December 2021 or January 2022. In particular, the company offers many specific measures for the problem of stabbing animals to death on the BR-262 highway. An anteater in its natural habitat. Photo: Guardian. Ms. Abra and many experts want people to understand that collisions can be dangerous to both wildlife and people. In addition, these accidents also cause significant damage to infrastructure. According to a study by Ms. Abra, each year the state of São Paulo records about 3,000 collisions caused by wildlife. These incidents killed 22 people and cost about 10.6 million USD to the state budget. Another study, also conducted by Ms. Abra and the Highway Project, concluded the average cost per wildlife collision is around $885. The team believes that finding a solution will prevent the number of accidents and reduce the cost of damage. Crocodiles roam the streets after the blockade order in the US After the blockade order in the US, many streets were deserted, only a few wild animals roamed.

Deadvlei is a white clay basin located near Sossusvlei, inside Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. It is also written as DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, the name meaning “dead swamp” (from the English word dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or swamp in a valley between the dunes). (Photo: Worldkings) This is a white clay basin located near the famous sand dunes Sossusvlei. In this area are scattered hundreds of dead acacia trees – trees that once thrived when the Tsauchab River flooded the land. About 900 years ago, the river began to change direction, causing Deadvlei to gradually become arid. Over the years, the dead trees were dyed black by the sun like bare bones on the sand. However, they do not disappear over time, instead decomposing, the bare branches stuck for hundreds of years in the middle of the white clay swamps turned black in the heat of the desert. (Photo: Gypset Magazine) When the sun rose from the sand dunes, winding like a silk in the distance, the corpses of the trees in Deadvlei still stood for hundreds of years and were stunningly beautiful. At the foot are the hard white mud strips of rock, above the blue sky and around are the sand dunes transforming in the magical bright sunlight. (Photo: Gypset Magazine) At the edge of Deadvlei, visitors can climb the “Big Daddy” also known as the “Crazy Dune” known as the tallest sand dune in the world. To climb to the top of the dune can take about 1.5 to 2 hours. But the hard work will be rewarded with a beautiful view that is reduced to eye level. (Photo: Worldkings) This is one of the places for visitors to see the clearest sky on the planet. Red sand dunes, blue sky make the scene of dead swamp appear more fanciful, in resonance with the morning mist, salsola shrubs and nara melons can still exist, giving life to the barren forest, making the scenery here so unique that visitors cannot see these strange things anywhere else in the world. (Photo: Wolfgang Steiner) (Photo: Wolfgang Steiner) The best time to visit is early morning and late afternoon. This is not only the best time of day to take photos, but also avoids the harsh noonday sun. If you want to visit at sunrise, you should arrive at the gate early before opening time, between 6am and 6:45am. If you come in the afternoon, you need to note that the closing time is from 5:15 to 6:15 pm. (Photo: Travel News Namibia) (Photo: Deviating The Norm) (Photo: Deviating The Norm)

“We no longer recognize our own city. The Israeli army has redrawn the map of Gaza,” the reporter of Guardian in Gaza opened their paper. No longer recognizing his own city This little place is so distorted that the previous map of its roads and landmarks is now useless. On the streets, crater-like bomb craters were scattered. Debris lay scattered on both sides of the road, or sometimes blocked the roads. The famous buildings here no longer exist. 11 days of shelling has displaced the city. The aerial attacks caused the ground to shake violently, to the point that at some bomb sites, buildings seemed to be pulled to the ground rather than being hit from above. The Al-Jalaa Tower in Gaza City, where Al Jazeera and the Associated Press were located, was leveled by an Israeli missile. Photo: REX. On one street, the curving walls of a kindergarten lean down at an angle until they disappear completely. Nearly a week after the attack, large concrete mounds still line Al-Wehda Road. A 7-story building is now just a giant pile of rubble on the corner of the street. In a house, all that remains is a stairway among the dust. Across the street are the ruins of another building. “It’s a very old medical clinic, possibly the oldest in Gaza,” said Abdel-Latif al-Hajj, director general of international cooperation at the health ministry in Gaza. “. Al-Hajj said the building is Gaza’s main Covid-19 testing center. “Anyone can imagine what would happen if we stopped testing,” he said. In addition, war means that thousands of displaced people are now crowded together, which can speed up disease transmission. The 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas has left more than 250 people dead, the vast majority of them Palestinians. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against militia targets in Gaza, while Hamas has fired more than 4,000 rockets towards Israel. “The Al-Wehda Carnage” According to the Guardian , Al-Wehda Street, is the main street in the center of Gaza City. At one end of Al-Wehda, Gaza’s largest medical facility, Shifa Hospital, is home to many survivors. Amjed Murtaja, 40 years old, lying on a hospital bed, legs covered with scratches. He said he was in his apartment on the fourth floor of the al-Wehda building when the bomb hit the balcony. “The building shook. My only thought at that time was to get to my wife and children,” he said. Just as Murtaja ran to another room and was just in time to hug his family, a second bomb fell, causing the entire structure to collapse. “We fell together,” he said. People in Beit Hanoun, Gaza return to their homes after the truce. Photo: Anadolu Agency. After landing, Murtaja’s hand was sandwiched between patches of cotton wool. They were stuck for about four hours, before neighbors and rescuers dug down and pulled them out. His wife Suza broke her back. In the same building, several members of the Al-Auf family, including one of Gaza’s most famous doctors, once the head of the anti-Covid-19 task of Shifa hospital, also died. Mr Murtaja said that while he was trapped, he could hear the screams of neighbors who were also trapped in the rubble like himself. Murtaja’s wife, Suza, is in the same hospital, but in a different women’s ward. Lying in an IV hospital bed, she said that after the sudden tremor, she was disoriented and at first thought she had been knocked over by a cupboard. One hand was stuck, the other hand held the phone and turned on the light, only to find that the building had collapsed. During the four hours she was trapped, she tried to coax her 2-year-old to sleep, but debris kept falling and waking him up. Israel said Thursday’s attack on Al-Wehda was aimed at destroying a vast network of tunnels it called the “Metro”, because it believed Hamas was hiding its military resources. The military said it had no intention of knocking down the building. So far, there has not been any clear evidence that Hamas is hiding what is in this tunnel system. The shelling on Al-Wehda Street was the deadliest attack in Gaza in the 11-day Israeli-Hamas conflict. Photo: AP. Nearly a week after the attack, a sign was erected in front of the building, bearing the names of those who died and the words “Al-Wehda massacre”. It was considered one of the deadliest attacks in Gaza in the 11-day Israeli-Hamas conflict, claiming the lives of 42 people. According to the United Nations, violence in Gaza has destroyed nearly 260 buildings. 53 schools, 6 hospitals and 11 health care centers were damaged. Nearly 80,000 people are displaced in the region, and about 800,000 have little access to tap water. The strip’s two million residents live inside what they call the “world’s largest prison,” with unemployment rates over 50%, health care systems collapsing, water sometimes poisoned and power is cut off continuously. Gaza Strip in ruins as seen from satellite Satellite images show the severity of damage in the Gaza Strip during more than 10 days of intense fighting.

Modernization plan The production of the Challenger 2 main tank began in 1994 and lasted until 2002. The tank was officially commissioned in 1998. Immediately after that, the search for a way to modernize the equipment. of Challenger 2 began to be implemented, but until recently, all the ideas were not developed, for various reasons. However, the basic reason for refusing to modernize the Challenger 2 tank was lack of finance. RBLS introduces the tank model of the Challenger 2 Life Extension Project project in 2019. At the end of 2015, the British Ministry of Defense launched the Challenger Life Extension Project 2 (LEP), to upgrade its existing tank fleet. The project was originally planned to follow a “small” modernization, focusing only on instrumentation. The project was then completed in 2019. However, in 2019, the LEP program was relaunched, with new requirements. Proposals are currently being made for a larger modernization, focusing on weapons systems, power plant complexes, turrets and other structures. In addition, the project also considers modifying the volume and cost of the modernization process. In 2019, the German-British joint venture Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) proposed the Challenger-2 modernization project. In September of the same year, the new experimental tank of the project appeared at an exhibition. Then the necessary tests are carried out, in order to determine the actual characteristics and compare with other competing development projects. As a result, RBSL’s project was recognized as the most successful and recommended for full-scale implementation. On May 7, 2021, the British Ministry of Defense announced the signing of a contract for the project. Some contents of the proposed modernization program have been reported in detail. Accordingly, the project will upgrade the Challenger-2 main tank into the Challenger 3 version. Main tank for the future Between 1994 and 2002, the British Army purchased 386 Challenger-2 tanks and 22 training vehicles. By 2010, the number of equipment in the lineup was reduced to 225 and has remained at that level to this day. According to previous plans, such a main tank force would be maintained until 2035. However, now the plan has been revised, regarding the Challenger 3 project. He started implementing the Challenger 2 Tank Life Extension Project since 2015. In March 2021, a new assessment of defense and security was published, which made a request to reduce the tank fleet. Accordingly, only 148 tanks will be used in the future and will be repaired and modernized. This allows them to remain in service until the 2040s. The remaining 77 vehicles will be retired from service. The new contract between the British Ministry of Defense and RBSL accepts this option and begins implementation. The main work of the Challenger 3 project will be carried out at the RBSL plant in Telford (UK). This project will provide 200 jobs, including 130 vacancies for engineers. Individual units will be provided by other companies, where another 450 jobs will be created. In the coming years, contractors will have to complete the project development and prepare the production line. The first tanks to be upgraded are scheduled to arrive in 2027. The last of 148 main battle tanks will return to service in 2030. The total cost of this modernization project, according to the contract. , would be £800 million (about £5.4 million/tank). The British Ministry of Defense highly appreciates the prospects of the new project. The country’s military expects the Challenger 3 to become a “world-class tank” and “NATO’s deadliest machine”. In addition, new weapons and other modern systems will allow the British Challenger-3 to surpass modern Russian main battle tanks. Comprehensive upgrade RBLS’s Challenger 3 project involves extensive modernization of the existing tank line, with the replacement of most major systems and equipment. As a result, the new tank will enhance mobility, increase protection, firepower and other important stats. In addition, the upgraded tank can function as part of a command combat system, along with a modern control system and easy data exchange. The main changes of the Challenger 3 project. During the upgrade process, the tank shell will receive new modular front armor. Its composition and properties are not specified, but the degree of protection is reported to be significantly increased. To replace the old tower, a new hood was developed with reinforced armor and the volume required to install new equipment. In the future, tanks will also receive active defense complexes. Challenger-3’s weapon system is equipped with a 120mm smoothbore gun Rheinmetall Rh 120 L55A1 manually loaded. Cannons can use a full range of existing and new ammunition for different purposes. In particular, the tank’s ammunition base will include new high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, with a DM11 programmable fuse. Additional weapons will include a remotely controlled machine gun combat module. RBSL intends to carry out a radical overhaul of the fire control system and other equipment on the tank. The lens system, control computer and other components of the tank will be selected new, without using the standard equipment of the Challenger 2. The fire control system will be combined with the associated vehicles. modern communication, providing the exchange of data on the tactical situation. Project outlook The Challenger 2 Life Extension Project (LEP) program has passed its first phase and is entering a new phase. In the coming years, the joint venture Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land and related companies will have to organize new content and kick-start work on a series of equipment modernization. According to the general plan, by 2030, the British army will completely renew its main tank force. Challenger 3 will be the main tank of the British army in the future. Due to a lack of funding, the British army could not afford to maintain a large tank fleet, and currently has only 225 main tanks. The modernization of all these equipment also becomes impossible and about a third of the tanks will have to be decommissioned due to lack of funds to restore. Besides, the increase in the capabilities of upgraded tanks is not only due to the benefit of new equipment and weapons. It is also based on the objective limitations and shortcomings of existing tanks. Accordingly, the Challenger-2 has not undergone a major upgrade and its characteristics remain at the level of the late 1990s. This fact led to the need to develop an entirely new combat unit. However, from a technical point of view, experts say that Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land’s Challenger 3 project seems quite successful. The proposed solutions are indeed capable of improving the technical characteristics and increasing the combat capabilities of existing tanks. In addition, all the necessary capabilities of a modern main tank are provided.

An estimate of the number of daily excess deaths from Covid-19 around the world. Photo: The Economist In the year to 8 May, South Africa recorded 158,499 excess deaths (deaths that were higher than estimated under previous trends due to demographic changes). Health officials are confident that 85-95% of these deaths are caused by the new strain of corona virus, which is almost three times the official statistics. The disparity stems from the fact that, for a death to be recognized as caused by SARS-CoV-2, the deceased needs to undergo testing and be confirmed. Although South Africa does more testing than its neighbors, rates are still low. And the cause of death is not fully documented for those who die at home. Common phenomenon Mortality rates that exceed official statistics, at least at some point during the pandemic, occur in most if not all of the world. According to the most recent data, the number of excess deaths in the US was 7.1% higher than official statistics between early March 2020 and mid-April 2021. Studies have discovered such a mismatch in several countries. For example, the UK saw an excess death rate that was higher than published in the first wave of infections, but lower in the second, reflecting how measures to contain the spread of the virus helped. save many lives. A similar situation occurs in France. The inadequacy is simply because most countries, especially poor ones, do not provide such data in a timely manner. The best official data only reflect more than half of the real numbers, while the worst data show only about a quarter of reality. Photo: The Economist The Economist has attempted to model the extent of excess deaths during the pandemic in countries that do not report. With 95% probability, the model estimates the number of deaths globally to date between 7.1 and 12.7 million, with an average of 10.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of the missed deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. The actual death toll in most rich OECD countries is 1.17 times the official data, but 14 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa. Notable points The structure of the first and second waves in Europe and the US is less visible in the data of the statistical model for the whole world. Overall, the pandemic is increasingly concentrated in developing economies and continues to increase. In some places, seroprevalence surveys have shown that many people have Covid-19 antibodies, a sign of previous illness. Other factors that may also play a role are the measures governments have taken to limit the spread of the virus. Demographics also have an effect, with more young people often synonymous with lower mortality rates. By collecting 121 indicators for more than 200 countries and regions and machine learning models, The Economist experts estimate that, by May 10, there is a 95% probability that the pandemic has led to 2.4 – 7.1 million excess deaths in Asia (official death toll at 0.6 million), 1.5 – 1.8 million in Latin America and the Caribbean (officially 0.6 million), approx. 0 -2.1 million in Africa (officially 0.1 million), 1.5 – 1.6 million in Europe (officially 1 million) and 0.6 – 0.7 million in the US and Canada ( official 0.6 million). In Oceania, where only 1,218 deaths are officially reported, the model predicts that the actual number of deaths is between 12,000 and 13,000. The estimated range for Africa and Asia is very broad due to lack of data. If the probability is 50%, the estimated range narrows significantly, to only 3.3 – 5.2 million excess deaths in Asia, 0.8 -1.6 million in Africa and 8 ,2 – 10.5 million cases worldwide. In 2020, the number of daily deaths increased during 33/52 weeks. After a brief lull in early 2021, they bounced to new highs, largely due to the tragedy in India. According to estimates, the South Asian country is seeing between 6,000 and 31,000 deaths a day, far exceeding the official figure of about 4,000, in line with independent epidemiological estimates. Remarkably, the death rate from the epidemic is actually worse in richer countries. For Asia and Africa, the estimated death toll per million population is about half that of Europe. India is just the equivalent of Britain, at least for the time being. If two communities have the same level of health care, the community with more elderly people will have a higher number of deaths. If demographics are the only differentiating factor, estimates suggest that epidemic deaths in Japan (mean age 48) are 13 times higher than in Uganda (mean age 17). However, in absolute terms, the mortality rate among the young and poor population is much higher than that of the rich population of the same age group. And for the elderly in poor countries, the situation is clearly dire. The number of excess deaths (red) and the number of officially announced deaths by week in the US. Photo: The Economist Meaning of model The fact that mortality rates are relatively low in the developing world seems to be due to age several different meanings, as the virus is spreading more easily among younger people, a finding that has been reinforced by investigations. serum value. This implies many cases of non-fatal illness. It also means that the virus has a lot of opportunities to mutate. There is a documented exception where in some Southeast Asian countries, mortality rates appear to be very low. It is possible that residents here are benefiting from “cross-immunity”, the level of protection against SARS-CoV-2 caused by infection in other virus outbreaks in the area in the past. But, unfortunately, there are now signs that the numbers are on the rise. The Economist’s estimation model is the first of its kind, though not the only way to deduce the total number of deaths from Covid-19. However, Ariel Karlinsky, a statistician at Israel’s Kohelet Economic Forum think tank, notes that either way, the estimates are no substitute for official data. Tuan Anh

Cryogenic technology and the promise of bringing the dead back to life (Photo: Internet) Cryogenics, also known as cryopreservation, is the technique of freezing a dead body or body parts to protect them from decomposition. Proponents of cryogenics see it as a magical technology to bypass death and even reach immortality. They decided to freeze and preserve the body intact, hoping to wait until science developed enough to revive the dead body and cure whatever caused them to die before. . (Photo: Internet) To date, more than 350 dead people worldwide have been preserved at low temperatures at one of four facilities providing this service: two in the US (Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Arizona and Cryonics Institute, Michigan State); 1 in Russia (KrioRus company), and 1 in Portugal (also Alcor lab). About 1,000 people have signed up for the post-mortem resurrection service. In this list, there are famous figures such as Britney Spears, Simon Cowell, Larry King, Don Laughlin (a gambling business magnate in the US) or director Charles Matthau… How are cryogenics performed? Legally, deep freezing is only performed when the patient is dead. The ideal time to start a cryogenics procedure is about 2 minutes after the patient’s heart stops and no more than 15 minutes afterward. First, the body is gradually cooled with ice and injected with chemicals to reduce clotting. After the temperature drops to near 0°C, blood is drawn to be replaced with a solution intended to protect tissues and organs. (Photo: Internet) The technicians also injected the body with another solution to prevent ice crystals from forming, then continued to cool the body down to -130°C. As a final step, the body is moved to a container of liquid nitrogen. There, it will be cooled down to -196°C. Cost of cryogenics The fee that a person has to pay if they want to deep freeze the whole body at the Cryonics Institute is from about 35,000 USD (about 800 million VND). While if you do the procedure at KrioRus in Russia, it will cost you 37,600 USD (about 860 million VND). At Alcor, the cost of preserving a person is 220,000 USD (equivalent to 5 billion VND), if you want to save more, just preserve the brain for about 80,000 USD (approximately 1.8 billion VND). This cost does not include the annual maintenance fee, which means that the longer you keep it, the more money you have to spend. (Photo: Internet) chances of success Many scientists believe that the chance to revive a dead person is almost zero. Because the body’s organs, especially vital organs such as the heart, lungs, brain, and kidneys, must have been damaged when freeze. Until now, the damage that has occurred and resulted in death is irreversible. Due to the severe damage to internal organs and the brain, the law requires technical participants to be scientifically dead, which makes it almost impossible to revive a dead person. (Photo: Internet) Alcor doesn’t offer a clear technique to resurrect someone who’s been dead too long, or a technique under development in the future to bring the dead back to life. A very vague technology on Alcor’s website is described that they will use molecular nanotechnology with microscopic nano-sized robots that can replace damaged chromosomes and can restore individual cells. . It is worth mentioning that Alcor has not researched this technology, in fact they only trade in freezing and preserving the dead and no one is responsible for the patient’s promise to revive. Alcor’s main research is only on techniques to preserve the dead as best as possible. The prospect of resurrecting a frozen body has so far been quite remote and unrealistic. And many in the scientific community even consider this to be unethical.

Millennia later, scientists believe they have figured out why – a dense cloud of carbon dioxide causes animals that breathe it to suffocate. Dating back 2,200 years, the cave was rediscovered by archaeologists from the University of Salento in 2011. Simulation image of Plutonium It was located in a city called Hierapolis in ancient Phrygia, in what is now Turkey, and was used for animal sacrifices, which were bulls led through Plutonium, or the Gate of Pluto, the ancient god of the underworld – by the purified priests. The purified priests are sacrificing bulls As the priests led the bulls in, people could sit on high chairs above and watch the smoke billowing from the gate killing the animals. “ This space was so full of fog and dense that one could hardly see the ground. Any animal that goes inside is met with instant death. I threw the sparrows in and they immediately took their last breath and fell. ” wrote the Greek historian Strabo (64 BC – 24 AD). A photo showing dead birds at the entrance to “Hell’s Gate” It was this phenomenon that alerted the archaeological team to the location of the cave. Birds flying too close to the mouth of the cave suffocated and fell – indicating that, thousands of years later, it is still as deadly as ever. The culprit is seismic activity underground, according to volcanologist Hardy Pfanz of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, who led a study of the cave’s gas in 2018. A fissure runs deep inside. below the area emitting a large amount of volcanic carbon dioxide. Today’s Status of Plutonium The team measured carbon dioxide levels in the area connected to the cave, and found that the gas – slightly heavier than air – forms a layer 40 centimeters (15.75 inches) above the floor. They found that the gas is scattered by the Sun during the day, but it is most dangerous at dawn after a night of accumulation. Concentrations that reach above 50% at the bottom of the lake, about 35% at 10 cm, can even kill a person – but, above 40 cm, concentrations drop rapidly. During the day, there was still some carbon dioxide about 5 centimeters high, as evidenced by dead bugs found by the team on the floor of the site. And inside the cave, they estimate CO2 concentrations consistently range from 86 to 91 percent, as neither the Sun nor the wind can enter. An inscription at the site indicates the hell gods Pluto and Kore. (Francesco D’Andria / University of Salento) The team notes in their paper that there is a strong touristic element to the place. Tourists could purchase small animals and birds that they could throw down for sacrifice, and on holidays larger animals were sacrificed by priests. “While the bull was standing in the lake with its mouth and nostrils 60 to 90 cm high, the large, mature priests (galli) always stood upright in the lake, ‘ the team wrote in their 2018 paper. Spectators will see large, strong bulls that can’t stand the smoke for a few minutes, while the priests remain strong and proud – a testament to the power of the gods and priests to perform. present to the people at that time. However, researchers believe that the priests were well aware of the characteristics of the cave and surrounding arena, and were able to conduct major sacrifices at dawn or dusk in the early days. Quiet day for maximum effect. Current status of the area They may also burrow their heads inside or into caves during midday ceremonies to demonstrate their abilities, holding their breath to endure. But the presence of oil lamps also suggests that priests approached the cave at night, according to the researcher who found it, Francesco D’Andria. Currently, the ancient city of Hierapolis still becomes one of the attractions attracting thousands of tourists.

People wait in line to get tested for COVID-19 in New York, US, February 5, 2021. Photo: THX/VNA Specifically, over the weekend, the number of new COVID-19 cases in the 7-day average in the US was about 40,800 cases, down 30% from the previous 2 weeks and down 43% from the most recent peak in the middle of the epidemic. last April (71,000 cases/day). This number is also the lowest number of new cases recorded in the US since September 19, 2020. Meanwhile, the average number of deaths from COVID-19 per day in the past 7 days in the US is 667 cases, much lower than the epidemic peaks last winter. Currently, about 46% of the US population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and more than 30% have received the full dose. US President Joe Biden announced last week that the country’s new goal is to vaccinate at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by July 4 by Independence Day for 70% of the adult population and 160 million adults. receive a full dose of vaccine. In Washington, D.C., the number of new daily COVID-19 cases is now at its lowest level in nearly a year. The city government plans within the next two weeks to lift restrictions on most businesses and public places. Accordingly, museums, zoos, restaurants, shops, religious facilities … are allowed to reopen completely from May 21, while bars, nightclubs, entertainment venues … entertainment, stadiums can reopen from June 11. Wearing a mask is still mandatory in enclosed spaces, except when eating and drinking. More than 225,000 people out of a population of 700,000 in Washington are now fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, in New York state, more than 60% of its nearly 20 million population has received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. To increase immunity, Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 10 announced a pilot program, allowing people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 to ride the subway for free. Specifically, from May 12-16, New Yorkers can get a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine at one of six selected medical facilities. Once vaccinated, they will receive a free metro pass for a week or a suburban rail return ticket. Governor Cuomo said the program, if successful, would be replicated. On the same day, May 10, the US State Department announced that it had lowered its travel advisories to the UK and Israel to level 3 and level 2, respectively, from the highest level of warning level 4. Last month, the Department of State US delivery has put 119 countries, including the UK, Israel, Canada, France, Mexico and Germany, on the alert level 4 list, which recommends not to go to these countries because these are places with a high risk of infection. COVID-19 infection is very high. Currently, about 150 of the 209 destinations on the US State Department’s list are under Level 4 alert.

With a length of 69 km, the North Yungas road connecting La Paz to Coroico in Bolivia is also known as the Grove road. However, many people know this place with the world-famous “death road” nickname. North Yungas “death road” was built in the 1930s. Whenever moving through this road, drivers always have to “stress their brains”, be very careful because the road is quite zigzag, with many dangerous turns. On one side of North Yungas Road is a cliff, a gentle hillside. The other side is a deep, barrierless abyss. In addition, the weather here often has heavy rain, which can cause landslides, slippery road surface, dense fog that obstructs visibility… These things put vehicles traveling through the North Yungas road at risk of accidents. According to one statistic, every year about 200-300 people die on the “road of death” North Yungas. Therefore, to ensure safety, drivers are recommended to move at a moderate speed to be able to handle unexpected situations. Although the North Yungas road is extremely dangerous, some adventurous cyclists come here for an exciting experience. To limit and prevent accidents on North Yungas Road, Bolivian authorities built a new route from La Paz to Coroico. Thanks to the new road, the number of accidents on North Yungas Road has decreased significantly. Invite readers to watch the video: Fall in love with the red maple leaf road in Hanoi. Source: THDT1.

Modernization plan The production of the Challenger 2 main tank began in 1994 and lasted until 2002. The tank was officially commissioned in 1998. Immediately after that, the search for a way to modernize the equipment. of Challenger 2 began to be implemented, but until recently, all the ideas were not developed, for various reasons. However, the basic reason for refusing to modernize the Challenger 2 tank was lack of finance. RBLS introduces the tank model of the Challenger 2 Life Extension Project project in 2019. At the end of 2015, the British Ministry of Defense launched the Challenger Life Extension Project 2 (LEP), to upgrade its existing tank fleet. The project was originally planned to follow a “small” modernization, focusing only on instrumentation. The project was then completed in 2019. However, in 2019, the LEP program was relaunched, with new requirements. Proposals are currently being made for a larger modernization, focusing on weapons systems, power plant complexes, turrets and other structures. In addition, the project also considers modifying the volume and cost of the modernization process. In 2019, the German-British joint venture Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) proposed the Challenger-2 modernization project. In September of the same year, the new experimental tank of the project appeared at an exhibition. Then the necessary tests are carried out, in order to determine the actual characteristics and compare with other competing development projects. As a result, RBSL’s project was recognized as the most successful and recommended for full-scale implementation. On May 7, 2021, the British Ministry of Defense announced the signing of a contract for the project. Some contents of the proposed modernization program have been reported in detail. Accordingly, the project will upgrade the Challenger-2 main tank into the Challenger 3 version. Main tank for the future Between 1994 and 2002, the British Army purchased 386 Challenger-2 tanks and 22 training vehicles. By 2010, the number of equipment in the lineup was reduced to 225 and has remained at that level to this day. According to previous plans, such a main tank force would be maintained until 2035. However, now the plan has been revised, regarding the Challenger 3 project. He started implementing the Challenger 2 Tank Life Extension Project since 2015. In March 2021, a new assessment of defense and security was published, which included a request to reduce the tank fleet. Accordingly, only 148 tanks will be used in the future and will be repaired and modernized. This allows them to remain in service until the 2040s. The remaining 77 vehicles will be retired from service. The new contract between the British Ministry of Defense and RBSL accepts this option and begins implementation. The main work of the Challenger 3 project will be carried out at the RBSL plant in Telford (UK). This project will provide 200 jobs, including 130 vacancies for engineers. Individual units will be provided by other companies, where another 450 jobs will be created. In the coming years, contractors will have to complete the project development and prepare the production line. The first tanks to be upgraded are scheduled to arrive in 2027. The last of 148 main battle tanks will return to service in 2030. The total cost of this modernization project, according to the contract. , would be £800 million (about £5.4 million/tank). The British Ministry of Defense highly appreciates the prospects of the new project. The country’s military expects the Challenger 3 to become a “world-class tank” and “NATO’s deadliest machine”. In addition, new weapons and other modern systems will allow the British Challenger-3 to surpass modern Russian main battle tanks. Comprehensive upgrade RBLS’s Challenger 3 project involves extensive modernization of the existing tank line, with the replacement of most major systems and equipment. As a result, the new tank will enhance mobility, increase protection, firepower and other important stats. In addition, the upgraded tank can function as part of a command combat system, along with a modern control system and easy data exchange. The main changes of the Challenger 3 project. During the upgrade process, the tank shell will receive new modular front armor. Its composition and properties are not specified, but the degree of protection is reported to be significantly increased. To replace the old tower, a new hood was developed with reinforced armor and the volume required to install new equipment. In the future, tanks will also receive active defense complexes. Challenger-3’s weapon system is equipped with a 120mm smoothbore gun Rheinmetall Rh 120 L55A1 manually loaded. Cannons can use a full range of existing and new ammunition for different purposes. In particular, the tank’s ammunition base will include new high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, with a DM11 programmable fuse. Additional weapons will include a remotely controlled machine gun combat module. RBSL intends to carry out a radical overhaul of the fire control system and other equipment on the tank. The lens system, control computer and other components of the tank will be selected new, without using the standard equipment of the Challenger 2. The fire control system will be combined with the associated vehicles. modern communication, providing the exchange of data on the tactical situation. Project outlook The Challenger 2 Life Extension Project (LEP) program has passed its first phase and is entering a new phase. In the coming years, the joint venture Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land and related companies will have to organize new content and kick-start work on a series of equipment modernization. According to the general plan, by 2030, the British army will completely renew its main tank force. Challenger 3 will be the main tank of the British army in the future. Due to a lack of funding, the British army could not afford to maintain a large tank fleet, and currently has only 225 main tanks. The modernization of all these equipment also becomes impossible and about a third of the tanks will have to be decommissioned due to lack of funds to restore. Besides, the increase in the capabilities of the upgraded tank is not only due to the benefit of new equipment and weapons. It is also based on the objective limitations and shortcomings of existing tanks. Accordingly, the Challenger-2 has not undergone a major upgrade and its characteristics are still at the level of the late 1990s. This fact led to the urgent need to develop a completely new combat unit. However, from a technical point of view, experts say that Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land’s Challenger 3 project seems quite successful. The proposed solutions are indeed capable of improving the technical characteristics and increasing the combat capabilities of existing tanks. In addition, all the necessary capabilities of a modern main tank are provided.

At the cremation site, where the fire was only temporarily extinguished late at night, loved ones had to wait for hours to say goodbye. The cremation scene was photographed, filmed, even broadcast live on social networks. These images will be sent to relatives in quarantine across India. They even appear on entire world news and newspapers, bringing India’s tragedy to a global audience. Fire ceremony participants must wear masks and protective gear. Photo: The New York Times. From the rooftops, local residents took pictures of the fire to show the world why they had to wear masks even indoors. Smoke and a strong smell of death, enveloping narrow alleys all day, even crept through closed windows, according to The New York Times. The cremation flame is a testament to the devastation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on India. Exhausted from cremation The Covid-19 virus spread too quickly in India. The country continuously records more than 400,000 new cases every day. Nowhere in the country is beyond the devastating “tsunami”. Every day about 300 official deaths are recorded in New Delhi. However, this number is not believed to reflect the reality. “Before the pandemic, I received six to eight bodies a day,” said Jitender Singh Shunty, founder of a volunteer cremation organization Seemapuri, east of New Delhi. Now, every day I have to hold a cremation ceremony for about 100 bodies. Through his organization Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal, Mr. Shunty has provided free or low-cost cremation services to the poor for 25 years. As demand skyrocketed, Mr. Shunty’s full-time workforce encountered numerous difficulties. They had to build dozens of new crematoriums in the adjacent field. Mr. Shunty’s cremation center received 100 bodies a day. Photo: The New York Times. Mr. Shunty’s daily job is to help move bodies and arrange the location of his cremation. During a pandemic, he had to change his protective shirt, mask and gloves dozens of times a day. At night, he slept in his car because his wife and two sons had Covid-19. Crematorial staff are receiving special care in the hospital. “Our team is about 16 people. We are working day and night, ”he said. “It is only 8 am, but I have received 22 phone calls to confirm the body.” According to Hindu tradition, cremation is a frequently used method. They believe that cremation disrupts the association of the soul with the physical body. The eldest son will lead the funeral delegation and relatives will carry the body onto the funeral pyre. A Hindu monk, also known as pandit, will recite his last prayers before the fire is lit. The ash of the deceased will be scattered in the Ganges or another sacred river. Mourners will gather at the deceased person’s home to commemorate and conduct prayer rituals. Families usually collect the ash immediately to avoid confusion. Unclaimed ashes, Mr. Shunty said, are held for up to two months, after which they are scattered into the Ganges River. Separate birth and death In addition, the pandemic also deprives the deceased’s final rites and deprives relatives of their private space. Traditionally, relatives will gather to share the pain of loss. Now, the fear of infection keeps most loved ones away. Even many bodies were cremated with no one nearby. “My family members can’t even see those last moments,” said Mittain Panani, a 46-year-old businessman. Mr. Panani and his brother are the only two people who directly attended their father’s cremation in Mumbai. His mother is still hospitalized with Covid-19. “Even if you have money, power, influence, you can’t do anything in that moment. I feel really powerless, ”he said sadly. Relatives brought the body of Covid-19 patient to the cremation area. Photo: The New York Times. “Flames were rising from the funeral pyre, relatives wearing masks and protective clothing. The scene is like the end of the world, ”said Dimple Kharbanda, a film producer who returned to New Delhi to attend the cremation ceremony of his late father. She had to beg relatives, including aunts in the neighboring state, not to come to Delhi because of the risk of infection. “When someone in India dies, we get together and talk about them, their lives, their habits and the good things. However, at this point, we can’t even do that, ”said Poonam Sikri, Ms. Kharbanda’s biological aunt. “When I watched his cremation (Miss Kharbanda’s father) on the phone, it felt like I had lost a part of my body. I want to stroke his hair, rub his face and hug him one last time. But I can’t do it ”. For the families of Covid-19 victims, the cremation site is the final stop of a series of difficult trials. It ended a series of days dragging patients from hospital to hospital in search of a bed and struggling in line for oxygen. Last stop Before Darwan Singh’s body was taken to Seemapuri, his family did everything they could to save the 56-year-old breadwinner. His fever did not go away while the oxygen level in his blood dropped to a dangerously low level of 42%. For two days, his family could not find a hospital bed or an oxygen tank. His nephew, Kuldeep Rawat, said he was given oxygen for an hour before the hospital supplies ran out. The family brought Mr. Singh home at night. The next day, they had to wait another five hours in the parking lot of another hospital. Mr. Rawat said the family had to pay a bribe of about $ 70 to get a free bed in a public hospital. Unfortunately, Mr. Singh died overnight. According to Hindu tradition, cremation is believed to break the connection of the soul with the physical body. Photo: New York Times. With the Seemapuri cremation center overloaded, the hospital was unable to immediately hand over the body. On April 25, his body and five other people were taken to the cremation site. Mr. Rawat said he had to get in an ambulance to confirm his uncle’s identity. The family then took him inside the crematorium and had to wait 5 hours before it was his turn to bring his uncle to the pyre. Even the last stop also cost them a relatively large amount: 25 USD for the prayer meeting, 34 USD for wood, 14 USD for the pandit priest and 5 USD for the protective suit. Mr. Singh’s family could not even come to the funeral. Both his mother, wife, daughter and son were infected with Covid-19. Mr. Rawat feared that he would also be infected during the period of sending his uncle to the emergency room. “They have a hard time understanding what’s going on.” For the families living around the crematorium, the fire that burns all night and day is a constant reminder of Covid-19’s death that awaits them. In the Sunlight Colony, where shabby houses and flats lie with Seemapuri, smoke is so much that many people are forced to wear masks while indoors. Children are rinsed with hot water before going to bed and laundry is dried in the room. People living near cremators must wear masks even when indoors. Photo: The New York Times. Waseem Qureishi, a resident right next to the Seemapuri crematorium, said: “My kitchen is upstairs but I really can’t stand it inside. If the wind is headed towards my house, the situation is even worse. Anuj Bhansal, an ambulance driver who lives near the Ghazipur crematorium, also in eastern New Delhi, says he is very worried about his four children. He said every time the cremated body number reached 100 people, children in the neighborhood would run up a nearby garbage hill to see. “When the children watched the fire and smoke coming from the cremation site, they asked why it did not go out,” Mr Bhansal said sadly. “They have a hard time understanding what’s going on.” The chaplain’s account of the funeral for 150 Covid-19 patients before cremation Every day, Hindu cleric RamKaran Mishra performs a funeral for about 150 people who have died from Covid-19 at the Ghazipur crematory facility east of New Delhi, India.

The deadly “tsunami” called COVID-19 is sweeping across the Indian subcontinent, leaving tragedies that scare the world. With each passing day, India has recorded more tragic records of the number of people infected with COVID-19 as well as the number of deaths from this deadly virus since the outbreak of the epidemic in China more than a year. before. For days in a row, the number of people infected with COVID-19 has reached a world record, exceeding 300,000, while the number of deaths steadily exceeds a terrible threshold of 3,000 people per day. This South Asian nation’s health system showed signs of not tolerating the aggressive attack of COVID-19. Hospitals refused to accept patients with COVID-19 because they were completely overloaded. Newspapers reported that patients who reached the hospital gate died there because they were not admitted. Many hospitals deplete their oxygen supply, causing the death of patients to be abnormally high. Photo: LG In particular, hospitals such as Gorakhpur have had to make the painful option of withdrawing the ventilators of elderly patients who have not improved after a long period of treatment. to give oxygen to young patients with a greater chance of life. The crematoriums were nearly melted down by not turning off the fire for 24 hours a day. And even when running at full capacity, the crematorium could not handle the number of corpses caused by COVID-19, causing people to organize cremation in open areas. The pictures of the crematoriums burning red fire day and night are like scenes from horror movies about hell. The world is horrified by the tragic scene, at the dire consequences caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The frightening thing is that it seems that these deadly scenes are not yet the culmination of the pandemic. Many experts make gloomy predictions about the number of people infected and dying in India will continue to rise and peak in the days of May 2021. Meanwhile, the lack of oxygen continues to put enormous pressure on the oxygen plants. Once considered a drugstore in the world, a source of vaccines against COVID-19 for other countries, now India itself is in a shortage of vaccines, having to import … All signal a gloomy future before the epidemic in this South Asian country. Wrong chain Because a country that only a few weeks ago confidently thought that it had entered the final stage of the war against COVID-19 and successfully controlled a pandemic, is now suddenly engulfed in a “tsunami”. This death? In March 2020, India is one of the rare countries in the world implementing a national blockade to fight pandemics, a harsh measure not easy to take for a country with 1.3 billion people. This measure may have had serious consequences for the Indian economy as well as the well-being of the people. However, for the Indian authorities at that time, the threat of COVID-19 was the greatest one, existing and must be prevented at all costs, from spreading it. This strong measure has yielded positive results. The number of deaths is much lower than experts predicted. The number of daily infections also plummeted after reaching a peak of 100,000 per day in September 2020. It was at that time that began a series of mistakes that would cost India a hefty price point later. The first is the erroneous belief that India can achieve a state of public immunity to easily overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. This belief stems from studies that suggest that the majority of Indians, except for the rich and middle-class, from working outdoors a lot, absorb a large amount of vitamin D, thus increasing the body’s ability. resistant to viruses. These theorists claim that the low mortality in the late 2020 period supports this point. But, they have not learned a valuable lesson from countries like Sweden or the UK, which have had time to misplace their beliefs in community immunity and thus have suffered painful consequences. pain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. After a period of social “relax” with belief in community immunity and as a result, the number of infections and the death rate skyrocketed compared to other countries with the same social conditions, gender. These countries are forced to formally admit mistakes in terms of policies, leading to tragic consequences for society. The mistakes made by these countries in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate that in critical moments, the right policy is needed and is more valuable than a single dose of vaccine. fabricated). If the policy is wrong, not only a few individuals but the whole society will have to pay the price. But, the second mistake is the main cause of the current humanitarian tragedy in India. Until early 2021, the Indian authorities acted as if the COVID-19 pandemic ceased to exist. Large rallies are allowed. In particular, despite the risks of transmitting COVID-19 in a crowded environment, Indian officials have allowed millions of believers to participate in religious festivals with the policy of “belief in God will win. fear of viruses ”. A typical example of this phenomenon is the Kumbh Mela festival, one of the holiest Hindu pilgrimage ceremonies that take place on the banks of the Ganges River with millions in attendance. Most of the millions of people gathered in this place without masks, without spacing, turning such festivals into “super infectious” events, the ideal environment for the virus to spread at breakneck speed. , sowing invisible death would turn tragedy for days afterward … For whom the Bell Tolls! The world has not underestimated the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Until the tragedy struck, the prospect of a global catastrophe stemming from a pandemic raging in India emerged. Considered to be the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, India has participated in the vaccine supply chain for poor, developing countries around the world. Currently, preliminary statistics show that up to 92 developing countries depend on supplies of vaccines from India. The COVID-19 pandemic broke out in India on a large scale, creating a favorable environment for the mutant virus to form new strains. By the time India was caught in the midst of COVID-19, which led to a shortage of vaccines and a slow pace of vaccination, it was natural that Indian authorities tightened exports of COVID vaccines. -19 abroad. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, India joined the COVAX program to provide equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Until the COVID-19 “tsunami” hit, India froze vaccine exports, including for the COVAX program, to save vaccines for use to meet domestic demand. As a result, the worldwide supply chain of vaccines is under enormous pressure; At least 92 poor countries that received vaccines from the COVAX program were severely affected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India’s withdrawal from the program to worry about domestic issues caused COVAX to lack 90 million doses of vaccine planned for 60 low-income countries in March and April. Another, more significant concern is that the widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in India, with many untreated people, has been a favorable environment for the virus to mutate, creating new strains, which are more virulent, and “smarter” to adapt to human-made vaccines. It is also worth mentioning that new variants of the COVID virus in India have been discovered and have entered dozens of countries around the world, posing a big challenge to the global health network. for example, countries with weak health systems themselves. Realizing those risks, the world has frantically rushed in to help India overcome the aftermath of the pandemic. The US, UK, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) are rushing to send breathing machines and vaccine materials, while a number of other countries have also pledged to assist India to overcome the crisis. France, New Zealand and Spain pledged to share some of their dosages with the COVAX program to help reduce vaccine shortage tensions for poor countries due to India’s withdrawal from the program. Even China, which is in a state of border dispute with India, has announced it will send the vaccine to its neighbor, but did not say how much and when to send it. It seems that, in the meantime, helping India is also helping me! Please do not ask who is the bell for your soul, the bell for your soul!
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Normally, people would use carp, the body is cooked covered with sauce, while the head is kept fresh, the eyes and mouth are still moving. Yin Yang Fish is the creative result of a Taiwanese chef. Yin Yang fish dish started appearing on news sites in China and Taiwan for quite some time, but it wasn’t until photos and videos of it went viral on social media that more people became known. This dish is the creative result of a Taiwanese chef. He developed a special cooking technique, causing the cooking speed to be so fast that the mouth and eyes of the raw head of the fish still twitch when served. Invite readers to watch the video “Smoked land – A strange dish of Vinh Phuc people”. Source: VTV3. It is known that the fish’s scales are carefully removed without injuring it. Then, the head is wrapped in a towel with ice cubes to keep its freshness, the body is dipped in an oil pan and fries quickly for 2 minutes. It is then carefully placed on a large plate, covered with a sweet and sour sauce and served to the guests. Although the chef said that the fish was actually completely dead, the eyes and head were still moving due to uncontrolled nerve spasms. However, the video of this dish still angered animal activists and part of the public. Finally, the dish. Although the yin-yang fish dish is banned in Taiwan, it has not completely disappeared. This dish is still served in some parts of China to this day. Some videos on Youtube show that when people stick chopsticks into their mouths, the gills of the fish are still in motion. In addition, some TikTok videos posted in March this year have views of more than 3 million, proving that this dish is still being served in some restaurants.

At a barber shop in Liverpool, customers flock in droves, making the barbers never rest their hands. The pubs, entertainment areas, parks, and gyms were full of people after more than 3 months of being in silence because of the blockade. “I felt like I was released from prison” Says Kate Asani, a London resident. While Asani was chatting with friends in the afternoon sun at Kilburn pub, the Indian Ministry of Health announced the country had 168,912 new cases. April 12 is also the day when India “regained” the position of the second translation area in the world from Brazil. In a row after that, the number of new cases of the South Asian country in turn pushed the record of the previous days. Currently, India is struggling with the biggest medical crisis in the world and doesn’t know when to stop. The number of cases of COVID-19 in India is still growing rapidly. (Photo: NYT) Contrast picture The contrast between rich countries with oversupply of vaccines and poor countries, short of breath in the vaccine race is becoming clearer than ever. In the early days of May, the US airports were getting ready for a summer that promises to be very bustling when tourists fly back. After a period of closing most stores for COVID-19, Philadelphia International Airport is planning a reopening of 185 food, beverage and retail stores. Jim Tyrell, Philadelphia Airport’s Chief of Revenue, says not only are stores resuming operations, but customers are shopping at the airport more than ever before. Currently, Americans who have the COVID-19 vaccine can fly to many places, including Europe. People who have received the two-dose vaccination can go to a public place without wearing a mask. Major cities in the US have also recently been voiced about reopening. New York officials on May 3 announced plans to “fully open” the city from July 1 to after more than a year of closing due to translation. In Europe in late April, a number of countries began to gradually loosen blockade measures. On April 22, the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office announced the roadmap to reopen the country until August. Accordingly, restrictions on sports and entertainment activities for young people will be gradually lifted from April. The library and museum will reopen in May. The ban on gathering of 10 or more people during outdoor events will be lifted in July and indoor events can start from May. 8. In early May, France eased travel restrictions across the country before allowing businesses, culture and sports facilities to resume phased in from the middle of this month. At the same time, Greece has allowed restaurants to reopen after long closings. Part of the reason that the US, France or the Netherlands confidently chart the reopening route is due to their abundant vaccine inventory. In most developing countries, vaccine orders soared to billions of doses. The number of cases of COVID-19 in this country is also on the decline, people are ready for the upcoming summer vacation. The British danced in celebration as the blockade was eased. (Image: Reuters) Whereas in many developing countries, the virus is still raging, sometimes out of control. Immunization delay due to a shortage of supplies makes these countries unable to protect the most vulnerable. “We are living in a state of inability to defend at all levels” Said Victor Guevara, 72, from Honduras. In many countries, people of his age have priority to be vaccinated, Guevara said. Guevara’s relatives in Houston (USA) have also been vaccinated. But he and many Hondurans still don’t know when he will be on the vaccination list. Honduras – a Central American country with about 10 million people has only injected 59,000 doses. Nepal – India’s neighbor is struggling to cope with the new epidemic wave. Two major state hospitals in the capital, Kathmandu, are facing a serious risk of hypoxia. The Ministry of Health of Nepal acknowledges that the sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country is beyond the capabilities of the health system. “Hospitals have almost run out of beds so the situation is difficult to control”, Nepal’s Ministry of Health said. Similar to India, many corpses of patients with COVID-19 in Nepal have to be cremated outdoors due to overloaded cremation centers and crematoria. In Bangladesh – another neighboring country of India, the government of this country is forced to extend the blockade measures when the disease progresses seriously. The number of deaths in the capital Dhaka increased sharply in recent days, making Rayerbazar – the cemetery for the burial of patients with COVID-19 in this city increasingly narrow. Jasimuddin – the custodian of Rayerbazar said that every day he and others had to prepare in advance for the grave for 15 to 20 bodies. Although starting at the beginning of February, Bangladesh’s immunization campaign is still extremely slow. Those who are lucky enough to get their first shot are not sure when they will get their second shot. In African countries, the COVID-19 mortality rate is rising sharply. Kenya recorded an increase in the number of deaths compared to January of 674%. This rate in Djibouti is 550%. Experts in Africa warn that the crisis in India will soon spread across the black continent. “We don’t have enough medical staff, we don’t have enough oxygen”, Said John Nkengasong, director of the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week, Brazil became the second country to cross the 400,000 COVID-19 death mark after the US. A shocking statistic in mid-April showed that every minute three Brazilians died of COVID-19. South America – the region is home to 5.5% of the world’s population accounts for 32% of all deaths from the epidemic. “What’s happening is a disaster”, Argentina’s Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said. In India, COVID-19 is still raging, the number of people infected with COVID-19 is still growing rapidly. Due to a shortage of hospital beds, people in the country die in hospital corridors, on roads, in their homes. Parking lots turned into places of cremation. This picture is too much in contrast to the relaxation and freedom in countries with superior immunization rates such as the UK or the US.

Shopping malls will be allowed to open from 11am to 9pm, while convenience stores across the capital will be closed from 10pm to 5pm the next day. The barber shop can only provide trimming and washing services. In addition, gatherings of 20 or more people will be prohibited. The capital Bangkok is at the center of the third Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand and one of 18 localities listed by the government as “red zones”, where the opening hours of certain facilities is limited. Thailand on April 24 at the same time recorded the highest number of new Covid-19 cases and the number of people dying from this pandemic on a daily basis. The Government of Thailand’s Covid-19 Situation Center (CCSA) on April 24 confirmed an additional 2,839 new cases, of which only 12 were imported, bringing the total number of cases in the country. now to 53,022 cases. The CCSA also confirmed eight more patients died of Covid-19, bringing the total number of people who did not survive the epidemic to 129 cases. Of the new infections recorded on April 24, the capital Bangkok accounted for the largest number with 1,582 cases, followed by Chiang Mai (151 cases), Chon Buri (119 cases), Nonthaburi (96 cases), and Samut. Prakan (84 cases), Pathum Thani (59 cases), Samut Sakhon (57 cases), Surat Thani (46 cases), Nakhon Sawan (38 cases) and Songkhla (34 cases). According to CCSA statistics, since April 1, Thailand has recorded a total of 27,000 Covid-19 cases, of which 56% are in Bangkok. The number of people killed from this pandemic nationwide since the beginning of the month has reached 43 cases.

For many consecutive days, the world media has been flooded with heartbreaking information and images from today’s most devastating pandemic hotspot. Many patients in India die while waiting for their beds, oxygen supplies depleted in hospitals leading to tragic deaths beyond imagination. “India experienced its worst day because of Covid-19” became the headline used by many newspapers day in and day out. Photo: Reuters. After surpassing the US daily record for the first time on April 22, with 315,000 new cases, India has continuously set new records in the past few days. Photo: Reuters. India is suffering from the darkest chapter of the pandemic. Bodies were piled up in crematoria. Many cremation facilities operate non-stop, staff here say they get almost no rest. Photo: Reuters. In Hinduism, cremation is traditionally the most important part of funeral rites as these religious believers believe that the body must be cremated in order for the soul to transcend. Photo: Reuters. On April 29, the country recorded 379,257 new cases of Covid-19 and 3,645 people died from the pandemic. To date, the number of Covid-19 cases in India has reached 18.38 million, of which 204,832 died, according to the Ministry of Health of India. In the capital New Delhi, 27 temporary crematoriums were built at the Sarai Kale Khan crematorium. Dozens of other rigs are being added in a nearby park. Officials are also looking for more space near the city’s Yamuna River, according to the Guardian. Trees in the park were cut down to make a pyre. Photo: Reuters. Experts fear the actual number of cases in India could be up to 30 times higher, which is more than half a billion cases, according to CNN. The country’s daily death toll is expected to continue to rise through mid-May, according to predictive models from the University of Washington Medical Metrology and Evaluation Institute in the United States. The death toll could reach more than 13,000 a day, more than four times the current daily death toll, according to projections. Photo: Reuters. Jitender Singh Shanty is doing more than 100 cremations a day at a crematory in east New Delhi. “If more bodies are received, we will cremate the streets. There are no more vacancies here, ”said Shanty. Photo: Reuters. An employee in protective clothing is digging a grave to bury the victim of Covid-19’s death in Gauhati, India. Photo: AP. In city cemeteries such as New Delhi, which records the highest number of illnesses each day, ambulances line up waiting for the body to be cremated. The burial place was slowly shrinking in the cities, the flames burning through the night. Photo: Getty. India’s “fall” is believed to have stemmed from many causes such as lack of preparation, neglect of epidemic prevention, lack of medical equipment, and a rapidly spreading new strain. Photo: Reuters. “No New Delhi has ever seen such a scene. The bodies of 5-year-old children, 15-year-olds, and 25-year-old youth were burned. Even newlyweds are the same. It’s heartbreaking, ”Jitender Singh Shunty, a nonprofit medical provider, told Reuters. In the photo is a mass cremation of the victims of Covid-19 death that took place at a site in New Delhi, India on April 22. Photo: Reuters. Crowds of people also play a huge role in the spread of the virus in India. Blockade and quarantine restrictions are believed to have been lifted too soon in the world’s second most populous country. Residents are allowed to organize major parades. Hindu festivals attract tens of millions of pilgrims. These people often gather in cramped locations without protection. Pictured is the scene of Indians dancing during the Holi Spring Festival in Prayagraj city, Uttar Pradesh state on March 29. Photo: AP. Millions of voters still vote in the final stages of elections in West Bengal state, despite the record-rising deaths and infections caused by Covid-19. In the photo is the scene of people waiting in line to vote at the polls on April 29. Photo: AFP. Countries have already begun to take measures to help India. The White House on April 28 said it would provide $ 100 million in aid to India, including 1,000 medical oxygen cylinders, 15 million N95 masks and one million Covid-19 rapid test kits. The US is lifting a ban on sending raw materials abroad, enabling India to produce more AstraZeneca vaccines. Photo: AP. The 105-year-old man ‘defeated’ Covid-19 in India Dhenu Umaji Chavan (105) and his wife (95) contracted Covid-19 in March. Both were discharged earlier this month after being treated at a hospital in Maharashtra state.

Reputation of the hero From the pier in Tam Thon Hiep commune, Can Gio district, we followed a canoe to the headquarters of Division 1 – a forest protection unit belonging to the Can Gio Mangrove Management Board (MB). In the midst of the immense water waves, talent Nguyen Hoang Phi, an employee of Can Gio Mangrove Management Board, skillfully allowed a canoe to turn the waves of Long Tau River towards the Dua River, soaring. The wind winds all four sides, taking a full breath, it feels like all the freshness, freshness of the sea, the green forest is going deep into the chest. Belonging to the next generation, he has never held a gun to fight in fierce war days, but when it comes to Rung Sac, Phi can never stop talking. Just right on the Long Tau river, he proudly: “This is a” graveyard “buried hundreds of enemy warships, including many military transport ships with a tonnage of tens of thousands of tons. Come is the river that contributes to the honor of the heroic Rung Sac “. The Standing Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang planted a souvenir tree at Rung Sac Square on April 27, on the occasion of the People’s Committee of the city announcing the Prime Minister’s decision to recognize Can Gio district meeting the new rural standard. 2020 Photo: HOANG Trieu In order to decipher this strategic position, in order to block the enemy’s military supply path, protect our supply forces, on April 15, 1966, the Regional Command decided to establish the Special Forest Military Zone. Sac (later renamed to Group 10 Special Forces of Rung Sac). Since then, Rung Sac is within the range of enemy destruction. Can Gio Mangrove Management Board is managing and protecting 34,713.64 ha of forest and forestry land, of which forest area accounts for 32,446.44 ha; allotted forest protection to 133 households and 11 units. Anh Phi said that in the early years of the resistance war against the US, the forest was dense with trees. But from 1964 onwards, more than 4 million liters of chemicals, 2 million tons of bombs and ammunition of the enemy fell down to devastate, making Rung Sac almost bare. The special mission combatants Rung Sac fell into poverty in the middle of the wild. However, thanks to the “natural la geotung” map with a series of canals, forest trees form favorable walls for guerrilla tactics, shielding our troops from the eyes of the enemy, along with our products. Heaven bestowed and the warfare inherent in the people, Rung Sac base was still not wavering. Residents of the forest After half an hour of floating, the canoe took us to Division 1 headquarters. It was a grade 4 house built on a triangular islet in Tam Thôn Hiệp commune overlooking the Dua River, surrounded by marshland. drown. This is the workplace and living place of 4 officers, employees, managers of 14 households and 28 employees of the subdivision. Mr. Tran Van Ho, Head of Division 1, picked us up and took us around the headquarters. What caught our eyes was the simple leaf kitchen, full of black pots and pans. Mr. Ho pointed to a wood stove hidden in the corner, and said that in the first wave, this wind was very rare. To save money, people only use firewood for cooking. In Can Gio forest, green vegetables are also precious because the soil here is almost completely acidic. If you want to grow vegetables, you need to invest in soil, manure and fresh water from the shore. However, the most precious is still fresh water. Only the rainwater tanks located around the Division 1 headquarters, Mr. Ho explained: “The water here is 120,000 VND / block, but sometimes there are boats changing. Therefore, the subdivision is equipped with these tanks to catch the water. rain water used. Many households around, when the water runs out, often stop by and ask, whoever wants to scoop as much as possible “. Telephone waves in Rung Sac are “luxury”. Where the waves can be caught, the forest guard leaves the phone “catchy” like this. Photo: TUYET TRINH Seeing that on a number of pillars in the kitchen where there are many horizontal plastic bottles, we asked curiously, Mr. Ho replied: “This is the phone holder to … catch the signal”. It turns out, not only lack of necessities, but also the telephone signal here is a “luxury”. Where you can catch the phone signal, you tie up bottles like this to mark it. Lack of and many things, Mr. Ho has been sticking to the forest for more than 20 years. “So attached, now I no longer think about going ashore looking for another job. Getting acquainted with the muddy smell, the taste of salty water here and I can not leave,” – he said, his eyes dazed. up steadiness, steadfastness. Mr. Ho took us to visit the people of the second generation who are continuing their parents to protect and preserve Sac Forest. The first place we visited was the family of Mr. Nguyen Hoang Phien – brother of Phi, the leader of Division 1 Self-Management Group. Session said that his father, Mr. Nguyen Van No, was one of the 10 first forest keepers in Rung Sac. In 2012, Phien succeeded his father, “partly due to a difficult family and unable to go to school; a part has attached blood and flesh to each tree, the wave of when my brothers were in a hurry to practice speaking” . The session emphasized that the most important job of contracted households here is forest patrol. Mr. Phien’s family is managing 109 hectares, on average, each month, he patrols 20-30 times regardless of day and night, including traveling alone and with self-management team. Patrols must be done regularly to promptly detect if forest loggers or wildlife have appeared. Leaving Mr. Phien’s house, we went to the forest post of Mr. Tran Minh Tung’s family. Canoes run in the middle of the immense Sac Forest, Mr. Ho shows us how to distinguish fish, mangrove, tiger, parrot … covered like “roofs”. In more than 32,447 hectares of forest today, there are over 60 species of plants, each having its own role in the “war” with the sea. He said: “In it, mangroves play the role of reinforcing the battlefield, because with the intricate roots, the tall and wide foliage, it can retain what is most necessary that water has brought to the earth”. Launching our eyes around, we were very pleased with the blue landscape. It is hard to imagine this is a land that once suffered from enemy bombs and chemical toxins decades ago. The green color of the forest has covered all traces of the war, making it difficult for visitors to imagine this is a land once destroyed by bombs. Talking about the revival of this dead land, it must be mentioned the efforts of tens of thousands of people from all over the districts of Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City, the core of the youth volunteer force has poured in here to plant trees and rejuvenate. forest creation. Among those people was Mrs. Dinh Thi Hong, the mother of Mr. Tran Minh Tung. Like the Phi – Phien brothers, Tung also had a childhood associated with Rung Sac – Can Gio. When he was a child, he went with his mother to plant forests. Growing up, thanks to planting forests, he met his wife today. Later, he and his wife stayed in Can Gio, replacing their mother to keep the forest. In the afternoon, the canoe took us back to the pier. The sudden beating in the deep water made us startled because we remembered the stories about the water in the past where many crocodiles were hiding and stalking this person. In the forest there are many dangers, poor living conditions. However, the residents that we have met or known through the story have never intended to leave the forest to live on shore. Many people stick to their parents’ career, others – like Tung and his wife – are unable to leave a peaceful life thanks to being surrounded by mother nature here. “We stick wherever we go, we can do everything together. That is happy enough” – Mr. Tung expressed. In the distance, looking at the identical mangrove forests that have opened up the direction of ecotourism development for Can Gio, we again silently thank the residents of Rung Sac who have been sticking to this day. The most fear is deforestation At night, driving a motorboat to patrol and guard the forest, there are all kinds of dangers waiting for unarmed people like Nguyen Hoang Phien if they accidentally face a logger or a wild beast. We asked Phien if he was afraid, he laughed: “The most fearful thing is the loss of the forest”. “In the past, following my father to the forest, I have many times encountered loggers and” lash out “on the river. Later, due to good propaganda and awareness raising for the people, there is no longer a phenomenon. cutting trees, deforestation “- Mr. Phien said.

Last week, India’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan affirmed that the Covid-19 death rate in this country is “at the lowest in the world”. The statement of the head of the medical industry is in stark contrast to the series of shocking images and stories of cremations burned day and night due to overloaded bodies, patients dying on the road due to lack of breathing. gas, according Guardian . Question of concealing data of the dead? Official records of the Indian authorities show that the number of people infected and fatal has increased continuously. On May 1, the South Asian country experienced another record-breaking day with 401,993 new cases and 3,523 deaths from Covid-19. But health experts have the same view that the official number does not fully reflect the size of the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 in India. At this time, because medical facilities are overloaded and lack medical supplies, many patients cannot be hospitalized and die at home, even without adequate testing. Meanwhile, the local authorities were accused of not making accurate statistics, even hiding the actual death toll in the area where they were responsible. Relatives stand by when the dead body is cremated. Photo: Reuters. In the past month, in the city of Karnataka, Bangalore – where the number of infections has been among the fastest growing in the country – the number of corpses registered for cremation with Covid-19 is twice as high as the number of deaths recorded by the authorities. The information concealment charge is particularly notable in Uttar Pradesh, where the state government is governed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party. Adityanath, governor of Uttar Pradesh, insisted that the state had no shortage of oxygen, and threatened to prosecute anyone who spread panic information. Authorities Uttar Pradesh denied allegations of information hiding. The truss burned day and night In the Muzaffarnagar city of Uttar Pradesh state, data are available from the weekly newspaper Observer The collection revealed the discrepancy between the local authorities’ death statistics and the number of bodies cremated at city cremation facilities and cemeteries. Official data recorded only 10 deaths from Covid-19 in the last four days of April. But according to Ajay Kumar Agarwal, owner of a city cremation facility, that is only an odd number compared to the bodies burned. burned at this facility every day. “Normally we cremate 3 bodies per day. But in the past 10 days, the number of cremated bodies has increased many times. There are days 18, some days 20, then 22 and 25. In the past 10 days, not yet.” we have less than 12 bodies every day, 90% of which are corona deaths, “said Agarwal. Mr. Agarwal’s cremation facility only had seven crematoriums, so the staff had to cremate the body on the ground. Some of the bodies were sent to another facility 35 kilometers from the city. The pyre burned day and night in India. Photo: Reuters. Mr. Agarwal accused local authorities of publishing “inaccurate” data, denying the possibility that the city has experienced no days, or that only one or two people died of Covid-19 in the past week. . “The authorities have not released the exact death figures. I don’t understand why they are hiding it. Maybe they don’t want people to panic,” Agarwal said. Similar comments were made by Sanjay Mittal, an employee at another cremation facility in Muzaffarnagar. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. We set the crematorium on fire from dawn to dusk,” Mittal said. Before the pandemic, Mittal’s cremation facility handled about 5 bodies a day. But on April 27, they received 21 bodies. On April 28, the number of bodies decreased to 15, before once again increasing to 19 on April 29. “It is noon now, and we have already got 12 bodies. I don’t know how much more will it be by the end of the day,” Mittal said on April 30. The number of bodies taken for burial has also increased sharply in the Muslim cemetery in Muzaffarnagar. “Before the corona virus, we buried 2-3 bodies a week, but now it is 6-7 bodies a day. Only three of them come from the hospital, the rest are either dead at home or not tested,” Mr. Abdul Quadir, curator, said. Government data show that Muzaffarnagar has a very low rate of testing. On April 27, the whole city did not conduct tests. On April 29, only 561 people were tested, all positive for corona virus. The actual number of deaths could be 3 times higher An unnamed doctor from the Medical Association in Uttar Pradesh state said that many people die from pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis – typical symptoms of severe form Covid-19. “We have to accept that the death toll from corona virus is much higher than the official statistics. The bodies we see at the crematorium are mostly self-medicating at home, and they die.” The number of deaths like this is very high, but most of them have not been recorded. The rate of testing here is much lower than the need, “the doctor said. Murad Banaji, the mathematician who modeled the plague in India, said the numerous streams of evidence suggest that the understatement of deaths from disease is a serious problem. This expert believes that the number of deaths in India is at least 3 times higher than the official statistics. The conclusion is based on calculations from major cities like Mumbai, where during the first outbreak of the epidemic he calculated the number of “excess deaths” compared to the annual number of deaths. Mass cremation area in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters. This calculation could put the number of Covid-19 deaths in Mumbai from 13,000 to about 21,000. Banaji stressed that in less developed rural areas, such as in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, with limited medical facilities, Covid-19 deaths are not recorded “perhaps much larger than in cities like Mumbai “. The consequences of inaccurate statistics on the number of deaths can be very serious. It will affect the effective allocation of resources, limiting the ability to develop a suitable immunization strategy to help prevent future outbreaks. “If we don’t have data to understand what’s going on in the current pandemic, how can India prepare for the future?” Mr. Banaji said. The chaplain’s account of the funeral for 150 Covid-19 patients before cremation Every day, Hindu cleric RamKaran Mishra performs a funeral for about 150 people who have died from Covid-19 at the Ghazipur crematory facility east of New Delhi, India.

A continuous red-fire manual cremation in India. Photo: Reuters For the fourth day in a row, on April 25, India set a global record for the number of new infections, stemming from a new virus variant sweeping, overwhelming every effort by the populous nation. world number 2. According to AP, the report of the Indian Ministry of Health on April 25 recorded 349,691 new cases, bringing the total number of cases in this country to over 16.9 million cases, the second most in the world after the US. In addition, there were 2,767 deaths in the past 24 hours, pushing the number of COVID-19 deaths in India to 192,311. Experts say that the actual death toll could be much greater, since it does not include suspected cases, and many deaths from COVID-19 are attributed to underlying medical conditions. . The Indian crisis is most evident in cemeteries, cremations and cremations, or in heartbreaking images of a series of suffocating patients on their way to a hospital due to lack of oxygen. India set a world record for the fourth consecutive day with the number of new infections reaching nearly 350,000 people. Photo: Reuters Cremation sites in the Indian capital New Delhi are running out of space and fiery cremation rigs lit up all night in other heavily affected cities. In the city center of Bhopal, a number of cremators have increased their capacity from a few dozen bodies to over 50 a day. However, bodies awaiting cremation still have to wait. At the city’s Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat crematorium, workers said they cremated more than 110 people on April 24, although figures from the city government of 1.8 million people only report the total number of deaths. because COVID-19 that day was 10 people. Mamtesh Sharma, a location official, said: “The virus is devouring the people of our city like a monster.” Watch the video of the painful scene of disinfection and cremation of the body of the COVID-19 victim in India (Source: Sky news) The massive influx of bodies has forced cremators to skip all the personal rituals and rituals that Hindus believe will help liberate souls. “We burned the bodies as soon as we arrived,” said Mr. Sharma. It was as if we were in the middle of a war. A monk rushed out of the cremation area of ​​COVID-19’s body after the ceremony. Photo: Getty Images Cremation of the body of COVID-19 victim with firewood in New Delhi on April 24. Photo: Reuters A grave digger at the largest Muslim cemetery in New Delhi, where 1,000 people have been buried during the pandemic, said more bodies are now being moved than last year and that the site will soon run out of space. The situation is equally dire at hospitals that are already packed with patients. People desperately wait in line to die, sometimes they stop breathing in the outer streets while waiting to see a doctor. Indian health officials are currently looking to expand intensive care areas and increase oxygen supplies. Patient COVID-19 was taken to a hospital in New Delhi. Photo: AFP A manual cremation ground for victims of COVID-19 in New Delhi. Photo: Getty Images Hospitals and patient families themselves struggle to procure the scarce medical equipment that is being sold at exponentially increasing prices. The crisis contradicted the government’s statement that “no one in the country will be left without oxygen,” in an April 24 statement by Indian Attorney General Tushar Mehta before the Supreme Court of Delhi. The crisis of the new COVID-19 wave is a huge failure for a country that only in January, Prime Minister Modi declared victory over the epidemic and is proud to be the “pharmacy of the world” – home global vaccine production, which is a model for other developing countries. Off guard against the spike in infections, the federal government has asked industrialists to increase production of oxygen and other drugs that are in short supply. However, health experts say India has a whole year to prepare, but they have not. People wait in line to pump more oxygen into the tank, to save patient COVID-19. Photo: DailyMail Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina (USA), said the Indian government had “reacted very passively to this situation instead of actively”. Ms. Kuppalli said that the government should be using 2020, when the virus is better controlled, to prepare plans to tackle in the event of an outbreak, while at the same time “stockpiling drugs and developing relationships. Public-private partnerships to support the production of essential resources in the event of such a situation ”. “Most importantly, they should look at what’s going on in other parts of the world and understand that the possibility of India in a similar situation is only a matter of time,” said Ms. Kuppalli. Associate Professor Kuppalli called the Indian government’s early statements on pandemic victory a “mistake”, as it encouraged people to relax prevention measures when they should have continued to adhere to it. strict spacing, wear masks and avoid crowds. People waiting to be vaccinated against COVID in Mumbai, India Photo: AP Containers of oxygen were transported on board, delivered to India. Photo: Reuters Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing criticism for allowing Hindu festivals and massive election rallies, which experts suspect has contributed to the speed of the spread. of the virus. In such an election rally just two weeks ago, Modi could barely hide his joy when declaring to supporters in the state of West Bengal: “I have never seen such a large crowd.” . At that time, SARS-CoV-2 had begun to strike again and experts warned that a fatal increase was inevitable. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on April 25 that the US was “deeply concerned” about a serious COVID-19 outbreak in India. “We are working around the clock to deploy more supplies and support to our friends and partners in India as they bravely fight this pandemic,” said Mr. Sullivan on Twitter. Neighboring Pakistan also expressed support for people in India. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said it offered to provide relief assistance including breathing apparatus, oxygen supply unit, digital X-ray machine, personal protective equipment (PPE) and related items.

“I promise to take them home,” said Rommel, the man’s voice distorted behind the two masks he wore on his face. Mr. Rommel finally broke his promise. Just three days later, Rommel’s brother Juan Carlos, 52 years old, died waiting for his turn to be used in the active treatment room at Rebagliati hospital in the capital Lima. The very next day, Rommel’s 80-year-old mother died of encephalitis, a symptom the doctor said was Covid-19. Four days after the mother’s death, Rommel’s father also passed away. “The pain is really so great, I cannot face this truth,” Mr. Rommel could not hide his agony. Massacre in South America On April 18, Peru experienced the deadliest day since the pandemic broke out with 433 patients dying of Covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths to more than 57,000. New strains, the most serious of which are strain P1, are pushing Peru into the next wave of epidemics, the country’s authorities warned. And Peru is no exception in South America. Latin American countries are in despair when the P1 strain spreads faster than ever, making the epidemic situation worse and worse. New cases and deaths rose again in Argentina, Boliva, Peru, Venezueala and Uruguay, with the P1 strain being thought to be the cause behind the new epidemic wave. Hospitals in many South American cities are overcrowded due to too many patients with Covid-19. Photo: AP. “The Brazilian sea of ​​strains has infiltrated nearly every corner of the region,” warned Peruvian Health Minister Osscar Ugarte. Peru, one of the most serious outbreaks in the world, is now entering the deadliest phase of the pandemic. Ester Sabino, a Brazilian scientist tracking the spread of the P1 strain, said genetic analysis confirmed the P1 strain appeared from the city of Manaus in the Brazilian state of Amazon in the second half of November 2020. In just a few weeks, Manaus gained worldwide fame after city hospitals were overwhelmed by a surge in patients. The P1 strain knocked out the medical system at the places it passed, depleting the oxygen stores, causing many patients to die from not receiving timely treatment. “What we are witnessing is a massacre,” said a health worker at Manaus. Sabino initially hoped the Brazilian epidemic, along with the spread of the P1 strain, could be under control by 2021 when the vaccine begins to be widely distributed. But the Brazilian authorities failed. The spread of the P1 strain is now completely out of control. In Araraquara, a city south of Sao Paulo, a blockade was issued after the outbreak of P1 positive cases. Across Brazil, hospitals are overflowing with Covid-19 patients, many of them in their youths, in contrast to what happened in the early onset of the epidemic. The number of deaths in Brazil doubled in just three months, from 195,000 in early January to more than 384,000 as of April 23. “This strain not only spread much more strongly, it also significantly reduced the effectiveness of the vaccine, increasing the rate of re-infection,” said Antonio Quispe, a Peruvian epidemiologist. Quispe described the P1 strain spreading “quickly and brutally”, bringing a bad nightmare to South America. Incubator of dangerous strains Fearing new strains with vaccine resistance, governments of some countries have tightened traffic control and closed borders with South America. Recently, France has banned all flights from Brazil, French Prime Minister Jean Castex explained that Brazil is experiencing a “terrible” epidemic. “Europe has the right to fear what is happening in Brazil. The more the virus spreads, the more new strains appear. The situation is now extremely, extremely serious,” said Marcos Boulos, infectious disease expert. from the University of Sao Paulo, said. South American countries, where the epidemic is spreading out of control, provide ideal environments for the incubation of new virus strains, Boulos warned. Mr. Boulos’s judgment was correct in India. Variant B.1.617 – Indian variant – is the product of the superinfection in the South Asian country. Last week, India has twice set a world record for corona virus cases on April 22-23. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi likened the health crisis to a “hurricane” that swept across the country. Scientist Miguel Nicolelis criticizes President Jair Bolsonaro’s erroneous strategy that has turned Brazil, South America’s most populous nation, into a global corona virus threat. The coffin carrying the body of the deceased Covid-19 patient is taken to a cemetery in Manaus, Brazil. Photo: AFP. “Brazil is now like an incubator, creating all kinds of strains of the virus,” said Nicolelis. While some mutations can weaken the virus, others have the potential to make the virus spread more aggressively, or increase their virulence, the scientist warns. Scientists also rang alarm bells about the epidemic situation in India’s 1.3 billion population. “Change can happen even faster there. India is paving the way for the advent of countless mutations. It’s a terrifying prospect,” warned Nicoleles. “Countries like Brazil and India cannot be spurned or abandoned. They need help, because disease is not a problem for any country, it is a worldwide problem,” said Nicolelis. . In Lima, Mr. Rommel still does not know what type of virus has killed three of his relatives. Even so, the man understands the scale of the disaster engulfing the country, where more than 57,000 people have died from Covid-19. “There are 30 patients waiting in line for each intensive care bed, and they prioritize young patients,” which was what the doctor told Rommel when he took his brother Joan Carlos to the hospital at the end of the month. 3. After being admitted to the hospital, Rommel’s brother never got a chance to leave the emergency room. He died only 3 days after pneumonia and pneumothorax. “The plague here is like a war where people are dying because they can’t find a hospital bed,” Rommel said sourly. India ‘broke the game’ in the second wave of Covid-19 India is being devastated by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In just 24 hours, the number of deaths due to the country’s pandemic reached 2,000 people and more than 300,000 new cases.

Meanwhile, health officials are looking to increase special-care beds and oxygen reserves. Not only relatives of patients, but also hospitals find all kinds of ways to buy medical equipment, even on the black market. Social media sites and television news are filled with images of relatives of Covid-19 patients struggling to find oxygen sources outside hospitals or crying on the streets when their loved ones die. while waiting for treatment. Family members mourning when patient Covid-19’s death is taken to the crematorium in Jammu, India. Photo: AP “It’s like we’re in the middle of a war.” Video recorded by The Caravan Magazine shows a woman crying after the death of her 50-year-old brother. This man was rejected by 2 hospitals [do đã quá tải và không còn chỗ] and died waiting to be taken to the 3rd hospital. The patient’s oxygen tank was exhausted and had no reserves. April 25 is the fourth consecutive day that India has broken a global record for the number of Covid-19 cases recorded per day, mainly due to a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. As of the morning of April 26, India recorded 17,306,300 cases of Covid-19, of which 195,116 died and is currently the second largest epidemic area in the world, after the United States. Besides the heartbreaking image of exhausted patients on the way to the hospital due to lack of oxygen is a terrible picture in cemeteries and crematoria. The funeral homes in New Delhi are full of seats. The fire that cremated the victim of Covid-19 turned red in the night sky in the most affected cities. In the central Indian city of Bhopal, some funeral homes have increased their capacity to more than 50 crematoriums, but many bodies still have to wait hours and hours for their turn. Social networking sites and television news were filled with images of families crying when their loved ones died. Photo: AP At the Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat city crematory, workers said that on April 24 alone, they cremated more than 110 people. “The virus is devouring the people of our city like a monster. We cremated the bodies as soon as they arrived. It was as if we were in the middle of a war, ”said Mamtesh Sharma, a Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat city official. Refugees in the largest Muslim cemetery in New Delhi, where 1,000 people are buried during the Covid-19 pandemic, say more people have been brought there than last year. “I’m afraid we will run out of space very quickly,” said Mohammad Shameem. Crisis has been predicted The federal government has demanded that the industry increase oxygen production and other medications are scarce. Health experts say India had a year to prepare for this inevitable scenario, but they did not. Dr Krutika Kuppalli, an assistant professor at the Department of Infectious Diseases, University of South Carolina Medical, said that the Indian government should have taken advantage of 2020, when the epidemic was still under control, to anticipate storage of medicines and the development of new wave risk coping systems. The source of medical oxygen in India is running out. Photo: AP Instead, early declarations of victory over the Covid-19 pandemic left citizens letting go of precaution at a time when they should have continued to practice social distance, wear masks and avoid them. crowded people. Indian officials are facing criticism for allowing Hindu festivals as well as large-scale election campaigns to be held while experts have warned such activities will cause translation. The disease spreads rapidly. “They should have looked at what was happening in some parts of the world and understood that sooner or later they would be in a similar situation,” said Kuppalli. Currently, countries around the world are actively sending aid to India to help this country cope with the “Covid-19 tsunami”. The US says it will soon send stockpiling oxygen, test kits, medications, personal protective equipment and raw materials to India for the Covid-19 vaccine production. He also decided to send to India the necessary medical supplies and equipment, along with 600 ventilators and mobile oxygen generators. The first shipment departed from the UK on April 25 and will arrive in India on April 27.

Seemapuri cremation site blazed as cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus increased dramatically in New Delhi, India. Photo: Indian Photo Agency According to The Guardian (UK), the COVID-19 “tsunami” that swept through India is causing the number of cases and deaths in this country to increase exponentially. Cremators across the capital New Delhi are struggling to process the increasing number of bodies brought in. Many families of victims of COVID-19 deaths have to wait up to 20 hours to cremate each body because the crematoriums are full. In New Delhi, photos taken on April 27 show smoke rising from dozens of crematoriums in a parking lot that has been turned into a temporary cremation site. Elsewhere, workers had to build temporary crematoriums on vacant land outside crematoria. In addition, parks and many other empty spaces were also utilized. Workers build a temporary crematorium in a park on the grounds of a crematorium in New Delhi Photo: Getty Images “People are dying, dying out,” said Jitender Singh Shanty, who coordinates more than 100 cremations a day at a site east of the city. If more bodies were received, we would cremate the streets. There are no more vacancies here. We never thought we would see such horrible scenes ”. Worker building temporary crematorium in New Delhi Photo: Getty Images Previously, the BBC (UK) also reported that Indian officials had requested to cut trees in the park for firewood to cremate COVID-19 victims. The staff at the cremation site also had to work harder than usual. They were so busy that family members of the COVID-19 victims had to come in to help, like bringing firewood to a funeral pyre. Lines of corpses of COVID-19 victims await cremation at the Subhash Nagar crematory, in New Delhi on April 27. Photo: ANI At the Sarai Kale Khan cremation site in New Delhi, staff are handling approximately 60-70 bodies a day. This facility was originally capable of handling only 22 bodies. As a result, 27 new crematoriums have been built at this crematorium and dozens more are being added in a nearby park. Officials are also looking for more space near the city’s Yamuna River, as the COVID-19 death toll is expected to be even higher. Geeta Colony Cremation Site in New Delhi, India. Photo: India Today An employee at the Sarai Kale Khan crematorium shared that they were operating continuously from early morning to midnight. The Ghazipur crematorium in East Delhi had to build an additional 20 crematoriums in the parking lot. The situation is similarly tense, according to NDTV, about 25 other cremation and burial sites in the city. Sarai Kale Khan cremation site built 70 new crematoriums on the hideout when large numbers of corpses came here every day. Photo: India Today In the past 24 hours, India set a world record for new infections again, with 362,902 cases, while there were 3,285 new deaths, according to worldometers statistics site. According to CNN, India has recorded a total of more than 17.9 million cases of COVID since the outbreak of the pandemic, but the real number, according to experts, could be 30 times higher, which means that half a billion cases. Health officials and scientists in India have long warned that COVID-19 infections and reported deaths were negligible for a number of reasons, including poor infrastructure. , human error and low testing rate. India has pledged to provide emergency medical assistance amid overcrowded hospitals that continue to be unable to accommodate more patients due to a lack of beds and oxygen supplies. The country also imported 20 frozen vehicles and sent them to the states in an effort to address the shortage of oxygen vehicles. Many countries around the world, including the UK, Germany and the US, have also pledged to provide emergency medical aid to India in the context of the country’s health system struggling with COVID cases. -19 spike.

As India suffers from the world’s worst corona virus crisis, our New Delhi chiefs describe the fear of living in the midst of a pandemic spreading at large scale and speed. so. The crematoriums piled up the bodies, as if a war had just happened. Fire burns day and night. Many places held mass cremations, with dozens of people at the same time. And, at night, in some areas of New Delhi, the sky was blazing with flames. The sick person, without a bed, must lie down on the ground. Photo: New York Times. I waited for my turn to become infected Sickness and death were everywhere. Dozens of homes in my neighborhood have people infected. One of my colleagues is sick. My son’s teacher is also sick. The neighbor is two houses on the right side: Um. The two houses on the left: Um. “I don’t know what kind of illness I have,” said a good friend of mine who was in the hospital. “Just taking a breath and you will …”, his voice fades, unable to finish the sentence because he is too tired. He barely has a decent bed. And the medicine that the doctor prescribed for him is not in India. I was sitting in my house waiting for my turn to get sick. That is the feeling it is in New Delhi, as the world’s worst Covid-19 crisis is happening all around us. It’s out there, I’m here, and I feel as if it’s only a matter of time before I get sick. India is recording more infections every day, sometimes up to 350,000, more than any other country since the beginning of the pandemic, and that’s just the official numbers. Most experts believe that this number is lower than reality. The crematorium was overloaded, many bodies were waiting for their turn. Photo: New York Times. New Delhi, the vast capital of India’s 20 million people, is suffering from a huge spurt. A few days ago, the positive rate reached a staggering 36%. This means that more than a third of people tested are infected. A month ago, this figure was less than 3%. The disease spread so quickly that hospitals were completely flooded with sick people. Thousands of people were turned away. Medicine is exhausted. The same goes for lifesaving oxygen. Patients are trapped in long, tangled lines at the hospital gate or at home. They were gasping for breath, literally. Although New Delhi was blocked, the epidemic was still raging. Doctors across this city and some of Delhi’s top politicians are giving desperate SOS calls, both on social media and on TV, to beg for oxygen, medicine, and help. . It was as if war had just happened in India Experts have always warned that Covid-19 could devastate India completely. The country is vast with about 1.4 billion people, densely populated, and in many places, its inhabitants are still very poor. What we are witnessing is very different from last year, in the first wave of India. Then there is the fear of the unknown. Now we know. We know the overall disease, its size, its speed. We know how frightening this second wave is, it hits everyone at once. The outdoor collective cremation ground is constantly red and fiery. Photo: New York Times. What we feared in the first wave of last year is now coming to the fore: the disruption, the fall, the realization that so many people will die. As a foreign reporter for nearly 20 years, I traveled around war zones, was kidnapped in Iraq and sent to jail in many places. But this pandemic is worrisome in another way. There is no way to know if I, my wife, and two children are among those with mild illness and then recover well, or if we will be exhausted. And if we get really sick, where do we go? The intensive care areas are full. The entrance to many hospitals has been closed. A new strain here has a “double mutation” that can cause a lot of harm. Science has yet to delve into it, but as far as we know, one mutation makes the virus more contagious, and the other makes it partially resistant to the vaccine. Doctors are quite scared. I talked to a few people and they said that I had the vaccine twice but still got very sick. A Covid-19 patient is waiting to be hospitalized in South Delhi, April 24. Photo: New York Times. So what can we do? Personally, I try to stay optimistic, believing it to be one of the best immune system boosters. However, in reality, I find myself lazily walking indoors, cooking for the children in a lethargic state, feeling like both my mind and body are dough like wet powder. I’m afraid of checking my phone because I miss a text message telling my other friend that my friend is seriously ill, or worse. I am sure millions of people feel the same way. I began to visualize the symptoms: Did I have a sore throat? What is that headache? Is my condition worse today than yesterday? A part of where I live, South Delhi, is now blocked. Like many other places, we had a strict blockade last year. But now, the doctors here are warning us that the virus is more contagious and we have a lot less chance of getting help than the last wave. Therefore, many of us are frightened when we step outside, as if there is poison in the air and everyone is afraid of breathing. No one wears a mask, not even the police Delhi is plunged into hardships and dangers, but the situation is still getting worse. Epidemiologists say the number will continue to grow, possibly up to 500,000 new infections per day nationwide, and up to one million Indians will die from Covid-19 until August. It should not be like this. India was anti-epidemic well up until a few weeks ago, at least on the surface. The country closed its doors, experienced the first wave, then reopened. The mortality rate here is very low (at least according to official statistics). Last winter, life almost returned to normal. I was out for the news in January and February, driving through towns in Central India. Nobody – I mean, no one, not even the police – wear a mask. This is as if the country is telling itself: “It’s okay, we have it under control”, despite the wave of a second wave. But now, not many people dare to think like that anymore. Relatives of a Covid-19 victim were performing a religious ceremony during the funeral on April 24. Photo: New York Times. Many in India are also upset with the speed of the vaccination campaign. Less than 10% of the population has received one dose, and only 1.6% are fully vaccinated, even though India is producing two vaccines. “Catastrophic catastrophe” Here, as elsewhere, the rich are less affected by a crisis. But this time it was different. A friend of mine, well connected, asked all the people he knew to help his friend, a severe Covid-19 patient. His friend is dead. No one can help him in hospital. The patient is paralyzed. “I tried everything to get him a bed, but we couldn’t. Everything is chaotic, ”my friend said, his emotions still intact. “This is a disaster. This is murder ”. Every day, I ventured out to buy food because no one delivered it. I wear two masks completely and stay as far away from others as possible. Almost every day passed, a family of 4 of us all withered from inside. We try to play together, try not to talk about the people who just got sick, or the people running around town looking for help, and they probably won’t find it. Sometimes we just sat quietly in the living room, looking out at the sweet figs and palms. Through the open window, on long, hot, quiet afternoons, we can only hear two languages: the sound of an ambulance. And birds. ‘The dead cannot leave peacefully in New Delhi either’ India is suffering from a serious shortage of medical equipment and oxygen in the context of a rapidly increasing number of Covid-19 cases. The patient’s family had to wait languidly for the cremation.

India is facing the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the world in recent weeks. An ambulance carrying patients queued for admission to the state Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad City, Gujarat state, April 22. (Photo: AP) Medical staff assist in bringing patients of Covid-19 into hospital in Ahmedabad City. (Photo: AP) Last Friday, hospitals in the capital New Delhi signaled for help to the government when the supply of oxygen was only enough to use for a few hours. (Photo: AP) India’s hospital system falls into a shortage of hospital beds and medical oxygen when there are hundreds of thousands of new infections every day. This South Asian country can produce at least 7,100 tons of oxygen / day, including the amount of oxygen for industry. In theory, with the above mentioned output, India could meet the current oxygen demand. The main problem is that medical oxygen is not delivered in time to the hospital to save the patient. This delay stemmed from the location of the production units and distribution systems. (Photo: AP) Medical staff removed the patient from the scene of the fire at Vijay Vallabh Hospital for Covid-19 treatment in Virar, near Mumbai, April 23. Thirteen patients died from the incident. (Photo: AP) People queue for medical oxygen refills in New Delhi. On April 21, at least 24 people with Covid-19 disease in western India died after running out of oxygen supplies supplied to their breathing apparatus. (Photo: AP) To address the serious shortage of medical oxygen, the Indian government has mobilized the country’s railway industry to organize high-speed trains that carry oxygen from steel mills to areas where the epidemiology is most critical. Over the past 24 hours, these special trains have transported nearly 150 tons of oxygen. (Photo: AP) The government also uses Indian Air Force cargo planes to transport empty containers to production centers. After being filled with oxygen, the tank will be transported to localities by road. The Indian armed forces are importing 23 German oxygen-producing mobile devices. In addition, the government has ordered the conversion of argon and nitrogen storage tanks into oxygen tanks. According to experts, in the coming days, the number of cases in India will continue to increase strongly, the country will have to solve two problems of oxygen production and distribution simultaneously. (Photo: Xinhua) According to the latest statistics, the state of Maharashtra accounts for 27% of India’s 2.5 million Covid-19 cases that have not been cured and 33% of India’s more than 190,000 deaths. Mumbai City plans to build 16 facilities in 12 hospitals in the area to produce oxygen from the air. It is estimated that this plan will require a cost of 12 million USD. (Photo: AP) Residents wait for the Covid-19 vaccine at an immunization center in Mumbai, April 24. According to experts, along with increasing supplies of medical oxygen, drugs and other medical supplies, boosting Covid-19 vaccination will help India get out of the current dangerous wave. India has the strength of one of the most vaccine-producing countries in the world. According to the ANI news agency, India will start the third phase of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign on May 1, with all 18 years of age and older. Residents can register for the vaccination from April 28. According to India’s Health Ministry data released yesterday, the country has injected 138,379,832 million doses of vaccine since the start of vaccination on January 16. (Photo: AP)

According to reports, the police received the police and said that a 7-year-old boy was wandering alone in the hotel parking lot early in the morning. The child told the police that he was waiting for his stepfather, David William Keller. According to reports, the police found by investigating the hotel’s surveillance video that Kahler was also wandering in the hotel parking lot at the time and tried to enter the car. At that time, the hotel staff said that the car did not belong to him. Later, surveillance shots showed him driving a stolen car to pick up his son. The man then got into the car and said to the police, “He is my father.” When the boy just got in the car, a policeman suddenly drew his gun and fired three shots at Kahler. The boy cried and screamed “He is my father, no! Stop!”. A policeman then took the child away from the vehicle.

The video showed the policeman saying to his companion next to him, “He pointed his gun at me.” According to reports, the police said that they found a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol at the scene. Kahler was shot and was taken to a nearby hospital and died. The police said the child was not injured and has been protected. The police said the Honda Accord that the man drove to pick up the child was a stolen vehicle in a certain block.

Original title: An American man who stole a car to pick up his son was shot and killed by the police three times. The boy cried out, “Stop! He is my father.”

India ‘broke the game’ in the second wave of Covid-19 India is being devastated by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In just 24 hours, the number of deaths due to the country’s pandemic reached 2,000 people and more than 300,000 new cases. Every night, fire blazed brightly on the banks of the Ganges River. Not the flames of traditional Hindu festivals, they are the cremations of the bodies of the victims who died for Covid-19, a horrifying symbol of the unprecedented humanitarian tragedy taking place in India. Degree. From urban to rural areas, patients die in the despair of relatives, because they cannot find an empty hospital bed. The supply of oxygen and medicine was depleted, leading to countless cases of robbery of medical supplies from the hospital. At cremation facilities, crematoriums are always red for 24 hours, but countless dead bodies are still waiting in line, according to the report. Financial Times . Staff at a cremation facility in New Delhi. Photo: AFP. The epidemic wave is unprecedented The grim reality has sparked a flame of public anger over the authorities’ preparations. Just two months ago, India appeared to have successfully controlled the epidemic. However, as of April 22, India broke the world record for the number of new infections per day with 312,732 virus-positive cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata party allegedly put political interests above public health after holding a series of large-scale rallies, as well as allowing a Kumbh Mela festival of millions to be held. attendees in the midst of the second epidemic wave. A new strain is suspected of being behind the current wave of terrible epidemics, leading experts to fear India is on a path similar to Brazil – a country where the health system and economy have been brought down by the corona virus. down. “The health system is not well prepared for this epidemic wave. A lot of people in government across the country are not thinking of this new wave of epidemics. Some miraculously they assume we are already.” over the pandemic, “said Srinath Reddy, chairman of the Indian Community Health Foundation. Although the mortality rate is still relatively low, other indicators are pointing to a worsening crisis. Both the number of new infections and the positive rate are growing at the fastest rates in the world. The rate of infection increased from 3% last month to 16% now. Relatives kneel and cry beside the body of a patient who has died of Covid-19. Photo: AP. In the capital New Delhi, there are more new infections every day than in any other city. Every 5 days, the number of Covid-19 cases doubles. In many areas, the number of infected people outstrips the hospital’s ability to service. In the city of Nagpur, the proportion of patients requiring intensive care is 353 people per million people, higher than anywhere in Europe. Meanwhile, in the financial capital Mumbai, the rate is 194 patients per million population. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that many deaths from Covid-19 have not been fully counted. According to media reports in seven counties in the states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, at least 1,833 bodies have been cremated with Covid-19 in recent days. However, only 228 deaths from Covid-19 have been officially recorded. In the Jamnagar district in Gujarat, 100 people died of Covid-19, but only one case has been officially reported. People died everywhere The state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 200 million people, is one of the poorest states in India. The situation in the capital Lucknow shows that India’s medical infrastructure is on the brink of collapse. Local media said that at King George’s College of Medicine alone, up to 50 patients lined up for a hospital bed. Shivi Shah is a resident of Lucknow. When her brother was positive for corona virus last week, Shah decided to send his parents to his home to avoid the worst scenario. But it was all too late, for both Shah and father. After only 3 days, her father began to lose his eyesight. 45 minutes after the emergency call, an ambulance arrived at the Shah’s house, but the car was not equipped with enough medical equipment to treat her father. The man later died on the way to the hospital. The cremation facility staff members hand-clasped the dead body of Covid-19 before placing it in the crematorium. Photo: Daily News. Unable to find a place to bury his father’s body, Shah continued to receive bad news about his mother. Her mother passed away just a few hours later in her sleep. By this time, both the Shah and his son had a fever, they were waiting for the results of the Covid-19 test. “None of us have ever seen tragedy and death like what’s happening. The situation is much worse now than last year, so many people die on the street, or die in their own homes, before. was seen by a doctor or got the test results, “said Seema Shukla, a nurse at the Sanjay Gandhi Medical Institute in Lucknow. “From early morning to midnight, my phone rang continuously. My relatives and friends desperately begged for help, they needed everything, ventilators, hospital beds, nurses, oxygen tanks, medicine. men, “said Shukla. Officials warn a new strain of strain is likely to be the cause of the current wave of epidemics, strain B.1.617 was first discovered in India in March. Scientists are doing more research on this strain, suspecting it is more contagious and resistant to vaccines. Jeffrey Barrett, an expert from the Wellcome Sanger Genetic Research Institute, said the number of cases in India gave a very dark picture, but scientists are still uncertain whether the B.1.617 strain is. is the cause or not. Up to this point, experts have mostly criticized a part of the unconscious population and the complacent, subjective attitude of the Indian government for leading to a bad spread in the second wave of epidemics. Vineeta Bal, an expert from the National Institute of Immunology in India, says the cause of the current crisis has even deeper roots. The collapse of the health system is the result of years of government neglect to public health infrastructure, Bal said. Over the years, India’s health spending has lagged far behind the world average. “The problem is not only the current government but also the public health system for the past 50 years. The situation will not be resolved in a single year of crisis. The health system has been left indifferent. very, many years, “said Mrs. Bal. Santosh Kumar, son of party leader Bharatiya Janata in Lucknow, said he was isolated at home with his family. All four members of Mr. Kumar’s family have Covid-19. “The whole system has collapsed. The rest of the government here are in quarantine. People have to find out for themselves what medicines they can take and what they can do to save themselves”, Mr. Kumar said.

New York Times sent reporters to cremations across India and found that the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 was higher than official figures. According to experts, Indian politicians and health officials missed many cases, both unintentional and intentional. The victim’s family also contributes to conceal the disease status of the deceased, making the situation even more complicated. “This is a data disaster,” says epidemiologist Bhramar Mukherjee from the University of Michigan. “From all modeling calculations done, we believe that the actual number of deaths is 2 to 5 times higher than reported”. The actual situation of the cremation ground In a cremation ground in the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the state of Gujarat, western India, fire was lit night and day to serve the cremation of the dead. Mr. Suresh Bhai, an employee here, said he had never seen so many deaths. However, in the section of cause of death on the file, he did not enter Covid-19. “Oops, sick, sick, sick …”, Mr. Suresh said. “That’s what we write.” Indian people pray after the death of a loved one caused by Covid-19. Photo: The New York Times. Mr. Suresh said that this order was issued by his superiors. These people declined to comment on the incident. Cremation is an important part of Hindu farewell rituals. This is considered an act to help the soul be released from the body. The staff at the cremation site said they felt exhausted. These employees also shared that they have never seen so many deaths at the same time today. In the industrial city of Surat, Gujarat state, some of the iron frames used for cremation have melted due to overuse. In the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state, the authorities had to make use of the park to cremate the body. The price of subjectivity Not long ago, India seemed to be on the right track in the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic, when cases and deaths were under control. Facing this achievement, both Indian officials and people proved subjective and did not continue to take measures to prevent epidemics. But the worst has only just begun. The number of more than 300,000 new infections a day exceeds the capacity of the Indian health sector. The beds are seriously overloaded. A hospital bed with dozens of people lined up for use. There was a time when hospitals in the capital New Delhi only had enough oxygen for a few hours. Cremation of the dead in India. Photo: The New York TImes. Countless Indians are on social media pleading for beds, medicine and oxygen to breathe. The cremations were red and red regardless of day and night. There were times when dozens of bodies were cremated at once. Meanwhile, India’s vaccination campaign is having problems. Only 10% of people in this country get at least one vaccine, even though India is the leading manufacturer of vaccines in the world. According to the Washington Post , the rate of people who have had two injections in India is only 1.4%. Medical experts believe that part of the cause comes from the mutant virus strain B.1.617. This is called a “double mutation” strain, which carries the mutation of two other mutant viruses. This makes B.1.617 both more contagious and more difficult to control than conventional viruses. “Cremation sites have never been so crowded” Residents of Bhopal city, Madhya Pradesh state, say cremations have never been so crowded. Bhopal officials recorded 41 deaths related to the Covid-19 outbreak in mid-April 13 days. New York Times At the city’s crematorium and cemetery for victims of Covid-19, the death toll amounted to more than 1,000 during that same period. “Many deaths have not been recorded. This number is increasing, ”said Dr. GCGautam, a cardiologist in Bhopal. According to him, the government did so because it did not want to create a wave of panic among the people. A similar situation was observed in Lucknow and Mirzapur, the main cities of Uttar Pradesh state. In the state of Gujarat, the local Sandesh newspaper pointed out that the number of deaths per day is about 610, many times higher than the 73-121 number announced by the government. The rapid increase in the number of deaths caused the cremation grounds to become crowded. Photo: The New York TImes. There are many reasons leading to this situation. Subjectively, according to epidemiologist Bhramar Mukherjee from the University of Michigan, some families do not want to have to bury their loved ones with the strict process of handling the bodies of Covid-19 patients. Objectively, some states are said to have received requests from the central government, where they have to slightly reduce the numbers from reality. In addition, even in the pre-pandemic years, only about a fifth of deaths have been forensically examined. This means that the cause of death of the majority of Indians is not recorded in official records. For his part, Mr. Suresh Bhai continued to work diligently. “Every day, my cemetery has to deal with 15-20 patients of Covid-19 who have died,” he said amid the flare of the flames. India ‘broke the game’ in the second wave of Covid-19 India is being devastated by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In just 24 hours, the number of deaths due to the country’s pandemic reached 2,000 people and more than 300,000 new cases.

Actual casualties are 2-5 times higher The second wave of Covid-19 in India quickly pushed the country into a total crisis, overloading hospitals, depleting oxygen supplies, desperate lines of people not being treated by doctors and there is evidence that the actual death toll is much higher than officially reported, according to the New York Times. Every day the Government of India records more than tens of thousands of new infections – a world record high – more new cases than any other country to date. However, experts say those numbers, no matter how staggering, represent only a small fraction of the true spread of the pandemic that puts the country in a state of emergency. Millions of people dare not even step out the door for fear of spreading the disease. Indian people mourn in front of a cremation site. Photo: NYT The sudden increase in new infections in recent weeks, with a newer variant, is raising suspicions about the actual number of deaths from India’s Covid-19 – currently reported to be 200,000. , with more than 2,000 people dying every day. Investigations from cremation facilities across the country revealed a large number of deaths from Covid-19 far exceeding the official figure. According to analysts, politicians and hospital managers can reduce this number. “It was a complete data massacre,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has followed India closely. “From all the models we have done, we believe that the actual death toll is 2 to 5 times what is reported.” At one of the major cremation sites in Ahmedabad, a city in the state of Gujarat, western India, flames blazed through the night sky, burning 24 hours a day, like an industrial factory never. Turn off. On April 24, Indian officials reported nearly 350,000 new infections, while the number of deaths continued to increase. At a hospital in New Delhi, doctors said 20 patients in critical condition died after oxygen pressure dropped. Doctors claim that severe oxygen scarcity is the cause of the soaring death toll. In Bhopal, a large city in central India, where the disaster of gas leaks in the 1980s caused thousands of deaths, residents said this was the “busiest” time in cremation zones. since that disaster. Over the course of 13 days in mid-April, Bhopal officials reported 41 deaths related to Covid-19. But a survey by the New York Times found the number of deaths at the same time to more than 1,000. A similar phenomenon took place in Lucknow and Mirzapur – major cities in the state of Uttar Pradesh – and across Gujarat, during the same time period, authorities reported between 73 and 121 Covid-related deaths. -19 per day. But detailed figures compiled by one of Gujarat’s leading newspapers – Sandesh – indicate that the number is many times higher, around 610 people per day. What’s happening in India? Months ago, India appeared to have effective epidemic control. After the stern blockade orders that prevented the first outbreak from being eased, India no longer recorded a large number of cases. Officials and citizens have begun to be subjective and act as if the worst days are over. Now, countless Indians have been forced to go to social media to send an emergency (SOS) calling to give them bed, medicine or “some oxygen to breathe”. At the same time, India’s Covid-19 vaccine campaign is also facing difficulties. Less than 10% of Indians have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, even though the country is the world’s leading producer of the vaccine. Severe Indian needs have had a ripple effect around the world, especially in poorer countries. The country had planned to export millions of doses of vaccine but so far this has stopped completely due to severe shortage of vaccines in the country. This also affects when some countries have to divert imports from other countries Doctors are concerned, this terrible wave originated from the emergence of a virus variant “double mutation” – B.1.617. This variant contains genetic mutations found in two other uncontrolled versions of the SARS-CoV2 virus. One of the mutations included in the highly contagious variant was the cause of California (USA) struggles earlier this year. The other mutation is similar to the one found in South Africa and is thought to make the virus more resistant to the vaccine. However, scientists warn that it is too early to know for certain how dangerous the new variant emerging in India is. The results can be worst when combined with the ability to spread faster and more difficult to control. This is worrying scientists across the globe as high-rate vaccinated countries are easing and starting to be subjective. Because of the failures in India, Brazil and elsewhere that there is a risk that the virus could mutate to “beat” existing vaccines.

Bodies piled up in cremators and mass burial sites across India are raising fears that the number of deaths caused by the second Covid-19 wave in the country is many times higher than figures are officially published. Relatives mourn a patient who has just died of Covid-19 in New Delhi, India. Photo: Reuters Medical services and other essential services across India nearly collapsed when the second wave of Covid-19 swept through the country at frightening speeds in mid-March. The cemeteries ran out of space. The hospital refused to accept patients because of being overloaded, and the families desperately asked for help on social networks On April 22, India broke the record for the number of new cases per day globally with 314,835 new cases. With nearly 16 million people infected with Covid-19, India is the second most severely affected country in the world, behind only the US. The outbreak of the 2nd Covid-19 wave in India not only risks its economic recovery, but also affects the global war against epidemics. “Things are out of control,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Research in New Delhi. There is no oxygen. It is very difficult to find a hospital bed. Can’t get tested. You have to wait more than a week. The health system almost collapsed. Earlier on April 21, at least 22 Covd-19 patients being treated with a ventilator died while waiting for oxygen supplies, a senior official in Nashik district in Maharashtra state, India said. Faced with a serious shortage of medical supplies in hospitals across the country, local and state governments have urged the federal government to provide more oxygen and medicine. On April 21, President Modi announced the plan to supply 100,000 oxygen cylinders nationwide, build a new oxygen production plant and set up hospitals exclusively for Covid-19 patients. But experts fear that the plan was launched too late and the number is too little in the context of virus-infected patients struggling every day with “death” and the continuation of mass gatherings. causing the virus to spread faster and more strongly. Urgent cries for help on social networks With so few options available, many families have been calling for help via social media. Anil Tiwari, 34, lost his beloved father in November 2020 due to the Covid-19 translation. Last week, his mother also tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. She has been admitted to hospital treatment but needs to be in a special care bed (ICU). Due to the lack of ICU beds in the hospital, Anil Tiwari pleaded for help on her Twitter page: “Please save my mother. I love her more than anything. After days of relentless efforts, including calling the city government to be placed on the waiting list, Tiwari’s mother was finally given an ICU bed. But what she needed right now was oxygen – something that the hospital was lacking. “She can still walk, but always find it hard to breathe,” said Tiwari. Demand for Remdesivir for Covid-19 and its medicinal ingredients skyrocketed in the second wave of Covid-19, forcing the Indian government to temporarily ban drug exports to increase supplies. market connection. The government has allowed hospitals to use the drug in emergencies, although the Health Organization (WHO) previously said, there is no evidence that Remdesivir reduces the risk of death in infected individuals. Covid-19 heavy. Abhijeet Kumar, a 20-year-old college student, used Twitter to donate medical bills for his 52-year-old uncle, who is hospitalized in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “The injections are very expensive. They say it costs between 12,000 and 15,000 rupees (about 160 to 200 USD). He had two doses but needed a third and we could not afford it. My uncle works as a plumber, ”said Abhijeet Kumar. Some states in India said that high demand while limited supply has enabled the “black market” to scream high prices for Remdesivir and some similar drugs. Even nurses and doctors are working hard to find beds and treatment options for their loved ones, said Parkar, a pulmonologist in Mumbai. Indian Mistakes and A Warning to the World Although most attention has been on the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appeared in India recently, experts believe that the cause of the new Covid-19 outbreak is It can stem from social behaviors, weaknesses in the health system and a number of policy mistakes in the country. Indian officials may have been too subjective to believe that the worst has fallen behind when the number of Covid-19 cases began to decline in September 2020. The number of cases fell for 30 weeks in a row before starting to increase in mid-February and breaking out in mid-March. According to some experts, India did not seize the opportunity to consolidate its infrastructure. health care and immunization campaign intensification. “The authorities have not provided a long-term overview of the pandemic,” said Dr. Vineeta Bal, an immune system researcher at the National Institute of Immunology in India. Suggestions to upgrade the health system, such as building the capacity of hospitals or hiring an epidemiologist to monitor virus growth, have been ignored, she said. Currently, the Indian authorities are trying to restore many emergency measures that were removed when the number of cases decreased. India could have avoided a shortage of oxygen – something Latin America and Africa experienced a year ago if it converted its industrial oxygen production system into a network of supplies. medical. However, many facilities have returned to provide oxygen to industries and hospitals in this country are facing severe hypoxia. Analysts said that India will face a great challenge in preventing the health system from collapsing until enough people are vaccinated to achieve community immunity. Although India halted vaccine exports in March to meet domestic needs, it is not clear whether the country’s vaccine makers will be able to speed up production. “Vaccination is one way to slow the spread of the virus, but it depends on production speed and availability of vaccine doses,” said Srinath Reddy, president of the Indian Community Health Foundation. . In addition, the Indian government has also received criticism for not pausing major religious festivals, such as the Kumbh Mela bleaching festival on the banks of the Ganges River or election events. Many experts believe that the activities of gathering people have caused the number of cases to explode more strongly./.

When expounding the relationship between the two locations and the name of the exhibition, Li Xiangning, the curator of the exhibition and dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, said: “‘The dead like this” describes the relationship between space and time. Bringing the sense of’ruins’ that spans time from the’side garden’ to the art gallery, interacting with the existing riverside images and the artist’s works, forming a connection between the existence and the other.”

Exhibition site APSMUSEUM “The Dead”

Standing on the second-floor terrace of the “Border Garden” on the Yangpu Riverside, you see the river slowly flowing in front of you. A musician is playing the oboe, and the urban landscape is pushed into the distance. The city in the frame and the power plant in the distance are in the building. Among the ruins and new landscapes, “The son said on the Sichuan:’The dead are like a husband, and will not give up day and night’.” It seems to have become a footnote to the scenery.

Standing on the “side garden”, you can see the Huangpu River and the old power plant.

In the hinterland of Lujiazui, Pudong, inside the APSMUSEUM in the center of Lujiazui, walk into a long corridor, where the scenes on the “side garden” are transmitted on a long wall and a long screen. Here, Liu Yichun reconstructs the real space on the riverside in an abstract way, while Qiu Anxiong’s creations give the city’s daily scene a surrealism through a series of gradually suspended and weightless people and objects. light”.

In APSMUSEUM, the real-time transmission image of Yangpu Riverside is superimposed on the image of people walking in the museum and Qiu Anxiong.

The images here are transmitted in real time to the display screen of the “Border Garden”, superimposed on the ruined scenery and the hustle and bustle, connected by an immersive installation, like two containers, carrying the history of Shanghai’s industry and the prosperous present, and the works of art are also in between. It reminds the state of people and things in the process of urbanization.

The audience clicks the screen, and the animation on the screen floats to the sky.

“Border Garden” and APSMUSEUM, the superposition of reality and virtuality

The “Border Garden” is not a garden, but a ruined wall that was originally used by a coal dock to resist coal from falling. In 2019, architect Liu Yichun borrowed from the construction rules of Chinese gardens and transformed it into what it is today. The “side garden”.

After the transformation, the wall of the coal terminal that resisted the fall of coal became a “side garden”.

In fact, there were two walls here. After the other wall was crushed, the fragments of the building were thrown between the pier and the flood wall. Over time, the soil entered the cracks, and weeds and trees grew. The wall underneath, together with the fragments of another wall that shattered, formed a landscape-like whole. Although it has been transformed into a “landscape”, it still has a sense of barrenness. It is precisely this kind of landscape that conveys the sense of time of the industrial history along the Huangpu River, and also conveys the geography of Yangpu Riverside that was relatively located on the fringe of Shanghai in the past. feature.

“Bianyuan” facing the Huangpu River

In an exclusive interview with The Paper, Liu Yichun recalled coming to the site north of the Yangpu Bridge for the first time. “(They) existed like some kind of ruins, because they were left unused for a long time, the beams and columns had been damaged, and some soil fell on it. With weeds and even trees, it seems that these ruins are returning to nature in some way.” Liu Yichun said, “We are going to rebuild on the ruins today, and to some extent, we are terminating the process of returning to nature. , What does this termination mean to the ruins?”

Before the renovation, it almost returned to the natural site.

Liu Yichun used the words “ruins” and “trace” many times when he talked about “Bian Yuan”. “The same thing can be understood as either a’ruin’ or a kind of’trace’. When the ruins are transformed When it is a part of the new building, it becomes a trace on the original site and solidifies it in a new way. So I think these are two different understandings of time. The’ruin’ seems It is a kind of disappearance, and the’trace’ seems to be a kind of preservation.” “I want this place to be remodeled, but the barren scene of the original site and urban life can be retained to a great extent.”

The “Border Garden” of Yangpu Riverside. ©Tian Fangfang

The original site of the reconstructed “Border Garden” and the existing weeds and trees constitute the landscape. ©Tian Fangfang

APSMUSEUM is a “non-profit” art space founded by Art Pioneer Studio and its founder Wang Bin. It is also an experimental space. Although it is located in a shopping mall, it does not hesitate to pursue its artistic pursuits and invites Italy Architect Stefano Boeri is doing space design (as academic consultant for this exhibition), and the opening exhibition will be held in November 2020. “Space Leader” also invited many international big-name artists to participate. Prior to this, Xinzhifeng Art Institute undertook the curatorial, full supervision, and overall control of the permanent public art works of Yangpu Riverside. For issues such as public art, the connection between art and the space environment, we have been doing interdisciplinary integration and exploration.

APSMUSEUM “The Dead” Exhibition

APSMUSEUM is also a product of the development of the times. The Lujiazui area where it is located is a product of the development and opening up of Pudong. The urban issues it focuses on are also the result of changes in people’s lifestyles in the process of urbanization.

In this exhibition, APSMUSEUM is created as a surreal space. From the perspective of architectural intervention, Liu Yichun links the two places. The long walkway and screen in APSMUSEUM form a physical echo with the long wall of the “side garden”. . The people and objects in Qiu Anxiong’s silhouette animation slowly leave the ground and float to the sky. People walk in it, as if they are also a kind of garden.

In the APSMUSEUM in the center of Lujiazui, walk into a long corridor, where the scenes on the “side garden” are transmitted on a long wall and a long screen.

This space corresponds to the real space of the “Border Garden”. The superimposition of reality and virtuality forms an unfamiliar experience of the familiar daily urban space. “The border garden in the material world of the riverside and the imaginary border garden constructed from the images in the art gallery are connected across time and space. The border garden of the art gallery reflexively implants the real existence on the riverside through data transmission. This border garden It is the image twin of Bibian Garden, and it is the interpretation and reconstruction of the meaning of Bibian Garden.” Li Xiangning said.

The “Border Garden” renovated by Liu Yichun

Liu Yichun, Qiu Anxiong, and Jin Wang have cross-border cooperation with “literati consciousness”

The first time I saw Qiu Anxiong’s work was at the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. At that time, he made an animation “New Mountain and Sea Classics I” in the ink language of propylene and water transfer, which talked about the energy problems in urban development without too much. His language resonated with many people at that time.

Since then, he has successively completed “New Book of Mountains and Seas II” and “New Book of Mountains and Seas III” in 2009 and 2017, which are related to the creation time, and his focus ranges from “energy conflict” to “space and biotechnology”. Until the discussion of reality and virtuality in the Internet age. It seems that everyone is in the “New Mountain and Sea Classic” of the city, and every “weird and chaotic” that appears in it is also a common object around us. In the “urban landscape” with the image of the ancient Chinese, it is oneself that is seen.

“New Classics of Mountains and Seas III”, 2013-2017, ink and wash animation

“New Classics of Mountains and Seas III”, 2013-2017, ink and wash animation

Qiu Anxiong was born in 1972. From the 1970s to today, the changes in Chinese people’s lives are the greatest and most peculiar in history-from a farming society that relies on land for food, into an agriculture, industry, post-industrial consumption, information Social fusion. The plots of some science fiction novels that have appeared have become realities within reach of the moment. Many things can be solved on a smart phone, as long as there is a network cable to the outside world. Being able to participate in major social events while lying on the sofa makes everything easier and easier, and life becomes “lighter” unknowingly.

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Qiu Anxiong’s customized video works for this exhibition make people feel a kind of “light”. The silhouette of the little girl walked into the screen, blowing away the soap bubbles in her hand, the puppy floated away from gravity, and when touched again, the person would be gently lifted… but it was as light as a piece of paper, without itself His face has been separated from the real life.

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“The Internet has constructed a weightless world. It is not only the weightlessness of life, but also the weightlessness of our feelings about time. Fragmented information shatters the continuity of time. Only what is happening now can attract the attention of the Internet public. Yesterday’s events were forgotten. The shorter and more stimulating information in the online society, the more effective. Long and rational knowledge is rarely sought after. In the sense of time that was forgotten yesterday, we have lost the depth of time, let alone history. I feel that the weight of time gradually disappears in this weightless era.” Qiu Anxiong said.

Recalling the times we experienced, mobile phone screens have changed the way of life of many people. The social media platform is like a gluttonous behemoth that can swallow anything as long as it can bring traffic. Everyone’s lives are involved in this endless national carnival performance.

APSMUSEUM “The Dead”

The image of Qiu Anxiong, together with the excitement of the opening of the APSMUSEUM exhibition, was projected into Liu Yichun’s “Border Garden” building, superimposed with the passing ships on the Huangpu River and the lonely music. The sense of ruins and weight of the building itself makes the “lightness” of contemporary life even more “empty”.

In virtual and reality, one of the two musicians plays the oboe in the “Bian Yuan” and the other plays the viola in APSMUSEUM, separated by a river, the two are surrounded by music dialogue. The music they played was from Jin Wang. This name may be relatively unfamiliar in the field of visual art, but in the field of music, his chamber music works have been performed in concerts such as the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival many times, and he has cooperated with Yang Fudong and Qiu Anxiong many times. . “Most of the music has specific performance occasions, but this time it is two different spaces. Playing music at the same time also gives a lot of room for imagination. It also expresses’the dead are like their husbands, not giving up day and night’ The concept of time and space.” Jin Wang said.

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Although art, music and architecture tell their own stories, art is the ultimate carrier. On the opening day, there was also a forum where the curator and three artists talked about the inspiration of the exhibition from different angles. Li Xiangning talked about the role of art in urban renewal based on the connection of the Huangpu River and the Urban Space Art Season. Liu Yichun talked about his architectural practice with the theme of “The Boundary of the Art Museum”, and using the “Border Garden”, he explained how the art of the art museum is integrated into the public behind. And Wang Bin’s original intention of doing public art and APSMUSEUM was to let the artists in the “white box” be understood by more people. Many of his practices have also worked with field and cross-field cooperation. This time he joined the interaction between technology and art. .

Opening Forum

It is reported that in June this year, the “Bianyuan” branch will move to the Anaya Lonely Library in Qinhuangdao. It will face the sea and tell the story of “One City, One Story”. There will be more touring exhibitions in the future, and different spaces will bring difficulties. The same experience.

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Passenger at Changi International Airport, Singapore, on March 15, 2021. Photo: AFP / VNA According to the Vietnam News Agency reporter in Singapore, in addition to the above regulations, those who have recently come to India and have not completed the 14-day quarantine period to 23:59 p.m. on April 22 will have to undergo concentrated isolation for another 7 days. These individuals will have to undergo 3 PCR tests: on arrival, on the 14th day and before the end of the quarantine period. In recent days, India has continuously recorded the highest number of new infections and daily deaths ever. In the past 24 hours, the South Asian country recorded 332,503 cases and 2,256 deaths. These are the number of new infections and deaths caused by COVID-19 in a day at levels not seen since the outbreak of the pandemic. According to worldometers.info, as of the morning of April 23 (Vietnam time), India had a total of 16.2 million cases, of which 186,928 died. In addition, the Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) on April 22 announced that 17 workers at the Westlite Woodlands dormitory were found to be re-infected, although there is no evidence that these cases are related. epidemic in India or with a new strain of virus appearing there. Therefore, preventive measures for COVID-19 will be tightened for migrant workers to minimize the risk of re-infection in those who have recovered from the disease. Accordingly, all new migrant workers from higher-risk countries and regions will be placed on quarantine for 14 days at quarantine facilities. After they test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, they will be sent to the Migrant Labor Referral Center (MWOC). In the past, these workers had to stay on quarantine for only 4 days at the quarantine facilities before being sent to MWOC during their remaining quarantine period. As for the newly arrived migrant workers whose test results have antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, they will have to undergo a bi-weekly screening regime. Previously, they were exempt from this requirement. As of April 29, recovered workers living in dormitories or those working in the construction, marine and processing industries living in Singapore will have to undergo periodic inspections. about 9 months, or 270 days, from the date they get COVID-19.

India ‘broke the game’ in the second wave of Covid-19 India is being devastated by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In just 24 hours, the number of deaths due to the country’s pandemic reached 2,000 people and more than 300,000 new cases. The data for the new infections that India reported in January and February 2021 was overwhelmingly positive, as the country of more than 1.3 billion people recorded a dramatic drop from the first peak. by 2020 it will be more than 100,000 cases, down to less than 10,000 cases / day. The data reported later on cases and deaths both seem to have a miracle happening. With more than 312,000 new cases of Covid-19, on April 22, India broke the US record and became the country with the highest number of cases of Covid-19 daily in the world. Photo: New York Times. Jishnu Das, a medical economist at Georgetown University, USA, told NPR in the early February interview: “Not that India is testing less or the data is being underreported. At first, the number of infections skyrocketed and then suddenly disappeared. Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) have been reduced. All indicators represent the decline of the pandemic. ” However, a pandemic has not disappeared so easily. It may take years to figure out the reason for that illusion, but clearly India missed the true rate of cases earlier this year, even at a time when people were celebrating the decline. decrease of the disease, until it is too late. Although it is thought that the cause is the newly discovered strain of Covid-19 in India, this wave of rise is due to the failed combination of social management, weakness in India’s health system. and policy decisions. Before the second wave – likened to a tsunami – swept the world’s second most populous country, the virus was believed to have been suppressed in India, even some regions believed to be moving forward. community translation. Besides, as the vaccination is in progress, many people have reason to believe that the situation can be controlled. Experts say that it seems that India has made the same mistakes with other countries, including the UK, after the first wave reached its peak. The countries would then return to normal and would be severely attacked by the second wave. Dr. Chandrakant Lahariy wrote in an article for India Today last week: “The second wave of Covid-19 has come a few months after the second wave in other countries where the same situation happened somewhere. mid to late 2020. There is no reason to believe that the situation will be different in India. ” “Although lax in social governance is noted, from February to April 2021, the government is also not determined to enforce measures to prevent public health epidemics. With the enacted Covid-19, it was the policymakers and elected leaders that let loose for the crowds. Among them were festivals, like Holi at the end of the month. 3, Kumbh Mela in Haridwar (March and April), election demonstrations in 5 states (March to April) “. On the other hand, India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines, has repeated the same mistakes that have occurred in the US and elsewhere, assuming that vaccination alone is enough to control Covid-19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi then stressed that social distance remains an “ultimate optimal” measure. In fact, from the UK experience, the combination of active immunization, containment and surveillance offers the best chance of mitigating the impact of the pandemic. There are three key factors: First, without effective surveillance, Covid-19 will make use of those blind spots to spread again. Second, even in the midst of the immunization movement of India, when many people are not vaccinated Covid-19 remains a strong threat, possibly putting pressure on the health system. The third and final lesson is about leadership. Actions that promote improved public awareness and encourage prejudice against normalization have a real impact in public health emergencies that depend heavily on encouraging people to be more careful.

When arriving in the area of ​​Phuoc Thanh commune, My Tho city, suddenly hit the motorbike BS: 63AS-023.37, controlled and carried by Mr. Vo Minh Tri (39 years old, living in Phuoc Thanh commune, My Tho city). The daughter is Vo Thi Xuan Mai (14 years old) traveling in the same direction. This passenger car continued to break the roadside lighting post and then stopped 80m from the scene. Being hit, father and daughter fell on the street, the female student died on the spot, a passenger and Mr. Tri were seriously injured and were taken to the emergency room. The scene of the accident The lighting post was turned on and fell along the roadside, the power line pulled across the road was also broken, so the people had to temporarily fix the problem. Relatives of the victim said that Mr. Tri was on his way to school when he was in an accident. At the scene, the school girls’ notebooks were scattered on the road, motorcycles and passenger cars were badly damaged. Passenger car cramped Receiving the news, the Traffic Police Department of Tien Giang province was promptly present at the scene and coordinated with Phuoc Thanh Commune Police and My Tho City Police to regulate traffic and investigate the cause of the accident. Until 9:30 am the same day the scene was completed.

The scene of the accident caused 7 deaths Accordingly, through inspection, the private enterprise producing, trading and exporting wood Huy Hao (DN Huy Hao) was granted the license for transport business by car number 1103 dated January 25 by the Department of Transport. / 2016 valid until January 25, 2023, permitted to do business in freight transportation. Records showed that enterprise Huy Hao was granted the badge “Truck” for 4 cars of the Supervisory Board, including: 36C- 136.40; 36C -123.29; 36C – 031.46 and 36C – 165.67. Huy Hao enterprise has not fully complied with the regulations on goods transportation business in the Government’s Decree No. 10/2020 / ND-CP of January 17, 2020; Circular No. 12/2020 / TT-BGTVT dated May 29, 2020 of the Ministry of Transport and guiding documents of Thanh Hoa Department of Transport. This enterprise does not maintain according to regulations relevant documents and documents in the transport management process. Failure to comply with the procedures to ensure traffic safety as prescribed. Do not update, store or manage information from the cruise monitoring device. Violating regulations on business and business conditions of transport by car to cause a traffic accident causing serious consequences or higher. Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 100/2019 / ND-CP dated December 30, 2019, providing for the sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of road and railway traffic. The inspection team has made a record of administrative violation, decided to sanction an administrative violation for enterprise Huy Hao, the total fine is 46 million dong. In addition, the authorities also deprived the right to use the badge for 2 months for infringing vehicles, and deprived the right to use the transport business license for 2 months. Request DN Huy Hao to remedy violations of regulations on business and transport business conditions by car, and report to the Inspector of the Department of Transport according to regulations. Before that, as reported by Dan Sinh newspaper, at around 9:15 a.m. on March 22, at Km 13 + 570, on Ba Vai slope, provincial road 530, in the Hac village, Tri Nang commune, Lang Chanh district , the control sea car 36C – 136.40 going downhill in the direction from Tri Nang commune to Lang Chanh town, crashed into the right side of the road. The accident caused the driver, assistant car and 5 other people dead on the spot. Thanh Hoa provincial police then decided to prosecute the case to investigate and clarify the cause of the particularly serious accident mentioned above.

The fire at a hospital in the Virar area of ​​Mumbai suburbs occurred two days after 24 patients using the COVID-19 ventilator died from an oxygen leak at a hospital in Nashik, another city in the state Maharashtra. At the time of the fire, about 90 patients were being treated in the hospital, some patients needing oxygen were transferred to nearby hospitals. Dilip Shah, CEO of Vijay Vallabh Hospital, said the fire in the intensive care unit on the second floor had been extinguished. Cause of the fire is currently under investigation. The fire came as the state of Maharashtra, hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, is struggling with skyrocketing infections. 314,835 COVID-19 cases recorded in India on Thursday brought the total number of cases in the country since the pandemic began to 15.9 million, second only to the United States. This is also the 7th consecutive day that India has recorded a number of new cases above 200,000. The COVID-19 pandemic had gone badly and put the health system in this country at risk of collapse. Hospitals are overloaded with patients and a serious shortage of manpower. Many hospitals in the western and northern regions of India, including the capital New Delhi, announced that the supply of oxygen was about to be depleted. Sponsorship news

Health experts fear that the double strain is gradually invading the country of 1.3 billion people, making the Covid-19 wave more dangerous than ever. On April 17, according SCMP, India has recorded a total of 14.2 million SARS-CoV-2 infections, ranking 2nd globally and more than 174,300 deaths. Since mid-March, the Covid-19 epidemic in India suddenly became complicated again because of the emergence of a double-strain. “Dual mutants” Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the dual-strain in India is falling into the interest of experts. “Two of the mutations it possesses have been found in other strains in the world,” added Maria. According to the expert, this makes the double variant in India possible to increase transmission, reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine. The second wave of Covid-19 threatens to destroy all of the country’s anti-epidemic efforts, despite harsh measures. The double-strain variant, B.1.617, was first detected in India with 2 mutants E484Q and L452R at the same time. Migrant workers crowded on a bus to their homeland when New Delhi was frozen in March 2020. Photo: AP. Viruses are always changing, it’s part of evolutionary biology. Some mutations weaken the virus, but others allow it to multiply, thrive, or spread faster. According to the Outbreak – a data site using the GISAID global storage system – the popularity of this double strain has increased by 52% compared to genetically sequenced samples in almost January. According to Anurag Agrawal, director of the Indian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, after the Geomomics Institute for genetic sequencing, some districts of the state of Maharashtra, the epicenter of the current wave, the rate of double-mutation infection increased. to more than 60%. B.1.617 appeared in patient samples in 10 states of India. Mr. Agrawal predicts that this number will be increased by two key mutations that make it infectious, immune-resistant. Rakesh Mishra, director of the Center for Cell and Molecular Biology, based in Hyderabad, responsible for the nCoV genome project, warns: “This strain spreads faster than any other found. before. Sooner or later, it will become a popular strain of all India ”, According to Mr. Agrawal, the characteristics of the double strain variable are being investigated and analyzed by experts. The L452R mutation once made the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic in the US wobbly. The L452R mutation increased viral transmission by 20% and antibody efficiency by 50%, he said. “Variant B. 1.617 has all the signs of a very dangerous virus. We have to do everything we can to identify the spread and stop it, ”said William A. Haseltine, former professor of Harvard Medical School, USA, wrote on Forbes on April 12. According to the Outbreak, B.1.617 detected in at least 10 countries and territories, including UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand. The funeral system in India is overcrowded because of a record high number of deaths. Photo: Anadolu Agency. “There are corpses everywhere” According to the VICE , in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, videos of the huge number of cremated bodies spread at breakneck speed. It is like wildfire. On April 15, a reporter of the company The Print describes this horrifying scene as “corpses everywhere”, “every 10 minutes a body must be cremated”. Not only were the bodies that had died because Covid-19 needed cremation, but the cemeteries in India were overrun with the dead. An employee at Baikunth Dham shared with The Print: “We are overworked. After the holiday season, the number of deaths began to increase. I haven’t taken a break since last year. Every day, nearly 60-65 bodies are brought here. Pointing his finger towards the injured leg, the person added: “I had an accident but I can’t rest. The number of people who died lately is not a normal number. Many people have to wait 5-6 hours for it. Their relatives were cremated in turn. Before that, the average number was about 20-25 bodies. ” However, no one can determine whether all these deaths were due to Covid-19 or something else. An Indian woman is given the Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: Reuters. A shortage of hospital beds and pre-treatment deaths are common in India – similar to what happened in Brazil or the US recently. There is also a critical shortage of drugs used urgently during the Covid-19 pandemic, Remdesivir and Tocilizumab. People have to go to the black market to find medicine. Apart from Lucknow, cemeteries in other cities are also overloaded. In Bhopal, central India, some cremation facilities report they receive 40 bodies a day. In the capital New Delhi, a cremation site received more than 400 deaths from Covid-19 in the first 13 days of April. In the city of Gujarat, western India, a man has to wait 12 hours for his brother. in the past, the victim died of Covid-19, and was allowed to go to his final resting place. The big problem facing India is that the vaccination rate is too low. From February 16 to April 16, the number of people vaccinated in this country was 14.9 million, accounting for only 1.1% of the population. Many experts warn that at the current rate of immunization, it could take India up to 10 years to fully cover 70% of the population.

1. On April 18, 1906, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake and fire occurred in San Francisco of the United States, killing at least how many people? Icon 3,000 people Icon 4,000 people Icon 5,000 people The correct answer is answer A: April 18, 1906, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake and fire occurred in San Francisco of the United States, killing at least 3,000 people. Between 225,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of the city’s total population of approximately 410,000; half of the population were evacuated to Oakland and Berkeley. The cost of the earthquake damage at that time was estimated at about $ 400 million in 1906 prices, which is the same amount as the total national budget of the United States at that time (about $ 6.9 billion in present-day values). The earthquake was the first natural disaster to be made into film and the subject of photography. More than that, it appeared at a time when seismic science was flourishing. 2. 18/4/1506 is the starting date of the church in Vatincan? Icon St. Peter’s Basilica Icon San Giovanni in Laterano (Saint John Lateran) Icon Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore The correct answer is answer A: St. Peter’s Basilica (Peter) is one of the four largest temples in the Vatican and is considered the holiest place of 1.2 billion Christians. At the same time, this is the convergence of the oldest artistic quintessence of the painting, sculpture and architecture of the Renaissance period. St. Peter’s Basilica, built on April 18, 1506 and completed on November 18, 1626, is a Renaissance-style church located in Vatican City, west of the Tiber River and near the Janiculum Hill and Hadrian Mausoleum . This work, designed by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is the most famous masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and one of the largest churches in the world. The temple has a height of 136 m from the basement and it is also a large space with an area of ​​2,067 square meters. In front of the temple is a square designed in an oval shape as showing God’s protection for the faithful here. Around the square are 284 columns arranged in rows and above these pillars are the adornment of 140 sculptured statues with a height of 3.24m. 3. On April 18, 1942, the United States launched air raids on Tokyo and other Japanese cities, the first attack on Japan. This is true or false? Icon It’s correct Icon Wrong The correct answer is answer A: On April 18, 1942, the United States launched air raids on Tokyo and other Japanese cities, the first attack on the Japanese government. The bombardment of Tokyo was a series of air strikes carried out by the United States Air Force that took place on the Pacific front during World War II and was one of the most devastating bombing raids in history. On April 18, the first air strike against Tokyo was the Doolittle Attack, where 16 B-25 Mitchell planes from the USS Hornet attacked targets including Yokohama and Tokyo. That landed at airports in China. Although the airstrike did not damage Japan’s military potential, it was a propaganda victory for the United States. When it was the first time American bombers could strike Japan right away. As the bombing plan was not finalized in this airstrike, no aircraft returned to the base, all crashed or had to make an emergency landing (except for one aircraft that successfully landed on the other side. in the territory of the Soviet Union, then detained and repatriated secretly). The remaining two crew members were taken prisoner. 4. What year did France, West Germany, Italy and 3 Benelux countries, namely Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Paris Agreement on the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community on April 18? Icon 1950 Icon 1951 Icon 1952 The correct answer is answer B: The Paris Treaty, signed on April 18, 1951 between France, West Germany, Italy and three Benelux countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), created the European Coal and Steel Community. (ECSC). … This treaty is seen as the foundation of bringing the European countries together in peace, after World War II. The Paris Treaty took effect on July 23, 1952 and expired on July 23, 2002, exactly 50 years after it entered into force. This treaty is seen as the foundation of bringing the European countries together in peace, after World War II. Some of the main enemies of the war now shared the production of coal and steel, key resources, formerly central to the war effort. 5. On April 18, 1978, the Khmer Rouge army crossed the border, starting massacre in An Giang province, Vietnam? Icon The Son My Massacre Icon Massacre My Lai Icon Ba Chuc Massacre The correct answer is answer C: The Ba Chuc massacre is a war crime committed by the Khmer Rouge government. The incident took place in Ba Chuc commune (now Ba Chuc town), Tri Ton district, An Giang province. From April 30, 1977, the Khmer Rouge army began to simultaneously open fire to attack the southwest border – Vietnam. On April 18, 1978, the Khmer Rouge army swept into Ba Chuc, bluntly killing innocent civilians. Many people ran to Phi Lai and Tam Buu pagodas and ran up Tuong mountain to hide, but were also brutally slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge. During the 12-day occupation from April 18 to April 30, 1978, Khmer Rouge troops killed 3,157 civilians. Only three people survived the carnage. The massacre was one of the causes of the Vietnam-Cambodia border conflict, and then the border campaign against southwestern Vietnam (also known as the Southwest Border War). At the end of 1979, the authorities and people of An Giang province built a crime evidence population. Including the tomb is the current main structure containing the skulls of 1,160 victims. 6. April 18, 1955 is the date of the death of the great scientist? Icon Newton Icon Stephen Hawking Icon Albert Einstein The correct answer is C: Albert (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) is a German theoretical physicist, recognized as one of the greatest physicists of all time, who developed general relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other being quantum mechanics). Although best known for the mass-energy equivalence equation considered the “most famous equation in the world”, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his contributions to with theoretical physics, and specifically for discovering the law of the photoelectric effect. His work on the photoelectric effect was the landmark that gave birth to quantum theory. 7. How many kilometers did anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl travel on a Kon-Tiki raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands? Icon 7,000 km Icon 8,000 km Icon 9,000 km The correct answer is Answer B: Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 – April 18, 2002) is a Norwegian anthropologist and explorer. He is best known for his expeditions aimed at testing anthropological hypotheses, most notably his journey on a Kon-Tiki raft spanning 8,000 km from South America to the Islands. Tuamotu (Pacific Ocean). Thor Heyerdahl was born in 1914 in Larvik, Norway. From an early age Heyerdahl has been interested in zoology. He studied at the University of Oslo majoring in zoology and geography and began to study the culture and history of the Aboriginal Polynesians himself. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl made his most famous voyage on the Kon-Tiki raft. With the aim of demonstrating the connection between the Polynesians and the South American Indians, Thor Heyerdahl and some friends used a raft made entirely of natural materials to cross the Pacific without help. to the help of any modern scientific and technical means. After 101 days at sea departing from South America, Heyerdahl’s group arrived at the Tuamotu Archipelago on August 7, 1947. In total, the raft has covered more than 8,000 km and proved that the South American Indians were fully capable of making similar trips in the past. Heyerdahl’s travel logbook Kon-Tiki Journey was later translated into more than 50 languages, and the documentary about the trip won an Oscar for best documentary film of the year. 1951. Result Please work harder! point