International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound said on Monday the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a USA Today report.
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Pharmacists ordered to stop dispensing untested coronavirus ‘cure’

Australian pharmacies see unprecedented demand for two antimalarial medications touted as a potential treatment for COVID-19, in turn creating a shortage for patients that actually needed them.
EU to give €20 million to aid sanctions-hit Iran in coronavirus fight
The European Union will send €20 million in humanitarian aid to Iran, which is subject to US sanctions, to help alleviate the coronavirus outbreak, and will support Tehran’s request for IMF financial help, the EU’s top diplomat said Monday.
How to Prevent a Coronavirus Depression

If we keep up our current strategy, our economy will die.
Hungary to consider bill that would allow Orbán to rule by decree
Heil Orban?

Government says legislation is a necessary response to coronavirus but critics fear it is open to abuse
Hungary’s parliament will consider an emergency bill this week that would give prime minister Viktor Orbán sweeping powers to rule by decree, without a clear cut-off date.
The bill seeks to extend the state of emergency declared earlier this month over coronavirus, and could also see people jailed for spreading information deemed to be fake news. The government has portrayed the move as a necessary response to the unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, but critics immediately labelled the legislation as dangerously open-ended and vulnerable to abuse.
Inoreader – The isolated tribes at risk of illness from Amazon missionaries
As evangelical Christians use their influence with Brazil’s government to cast their net ever wider, indigenous people vulnerable to common diseases face a growing threat A radical group of evangelical Christian missionaries set on converting every last tribe on Earth has raised fears that deadly diseases – and even the coronavirus – will spread in the Brazilian Amazon. The group has based its newly bought helicopter right beside a reserve with the world’s highest concentration of isolated indigenous groups, who have little resistance to common illnesses. There are more than 100 isolated indigenous groups in Brazil, all highly vulnerable to common diseases such as measles and flu, and 16 of them live in the same reserve in the Javari Valley, a vast, remote area the size of Austria. Covid-19 could wipe out any of them.
Source: Inoreader – The isolated tribes at risk of illness from Amazon missionaries
Trump signals change in coronavirus strategy that could clash with health experts | World news | The Guardian
Meanwhile health officials warned of a dire shortage of protective masks and growing pressure to increase available ventilators. Trump has resisted pleas by governors to fully use his powers under the Defense Production Act, which can compel companies to produce vital equipment. The surgeon general, Dr Jerome Adams, told NBC: “I want America to understand this week it’s going to get bad. We really need to come together as a nation … we really, really need everyone to stay at home.”
WATCH: Covid-19 test patient films procedure to take fear out of it for people

A Meath videographer has filmed himself getting the Covid-19 test in an effort to take the fear and mystery out of the procedure.
‘If Willow gets Covid-19, she hasn’t a hope’: Mum of vulnerable child laughed at for wearing mask

The mum of a vulnerable toddler, who was laughed at for wearing a mask and gloves in public has urged ‘selfish’ people to realise their reckless behaviour could kill someone
‘We have one chance to get this right’ – Three Lords Mayor call for national lockdown

The lords mayor of three Irish cities have united to call for a nationwide lockdown.
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