IOC member Pound says Tokyo Olympics to be postponed – report

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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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Hungary to consider bill that would allow Orbán to rule by decree

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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.

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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.”

Source: Trump signals change in coronavirus strategy that could clash with health experts | World news | The Guardian

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