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China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. A delayed and heavily politicised visit by a WHO team of international experts went to Wuhan in January 2021 to produce a first phase report, which was written in conjunction with their Chinese counterparts. It failed to conclude how the virus began. On Thursday the WHO urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive its probe into the origins of the disease. China hit back, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu saying it has never rejected cooperation on tracing the origins of Covid-19, but rejects the politicisation of such a search, state media reported. “We oppose political tracing … and abandoning the joint report” issued after the WHO team’s Wuhan visit, Ma told reporters. “We support scientific tracing.” The joint report said the virus jumping from bats to humans via an intermediate animal was the most probable scenario, while a leak from Wuhan’s virology labs was “extremely unlikely”. Ma rejected suggestions of new lines of investigation. “The conclusions and recommendations of WHO and China joint report were recognised by the international community and the scientific community,” he said. “Future global traceability work should and can only be further carried out on the basis of this report, rather than starting a new one.” China is continuing to conduct “follow-up and supplementary” research into the origins of the novel coronavirus as specified in the joint report, Ma said. The WHO on Thursday called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of the pandemic and “to depoliticise the situation”. In the face of China’s reluctance to open up to outside investigators, experts are increasingly open to considering the theory that the virus might have leaked from a lab, once dismissed as a conspiracy propagated by the US far right. Even WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the initial probe into Wuhan’s virology labs had not gone far enough, while US President Joe Biden in May ordered a separate investigation into the virus origins from the US intelligence community. A WHO call last month for the investigation’s second stage to include audits of the Wuhan labs infuriated Beijing, with Vice Health Minister Zeng Yixin saying the plan showed “disrespect for common sense and arrogance towards science”. Meanwhile, Danish scientist Peter Ben Embarek, who led the international mission to Wuhan, said a lab employee infected while taking samples in the field falls under one of the likely hypotheses as to how the virus passed from bats to humans.

He told the Danish public channel TV2 that the suspect bats were not from the Wuhan region and the only people likely to have approached them were workers from the Wuhan labs.

Ben Embarek previously acknowledged in an interview with Science magazine that “politics was always in the room with us” during the Wuhan trip, which was mired in delays after China initially stalled approval for the international researchers’ entry. Nick Note:  We all new who got here first in the west. We tracked this down from my “dream”. All the people siting at the table in my dream are either dead or not sen or heard from in over a year. China spliced the bat virus DNA in the Wuhan lab to infect humans. Wuhan will go down in history as the modern day   Auschwitz. In this case instead of using syniad gas to exterminate millions the Chinese chose a virus to in the end kill billions. they designed a viral bio-weapon…. And when it accidentally escaped by infected workers shopping at the Wuhan market on their way home from work started this deadly plague spread. All thiose workers ended up in the emergenct room and dies and their bodies disappeared. A hero sused Dr. Li Wenliang realized that their was a new infections disease and spoke out.  Here is what he got for his trouble,.

Here is the story (pretty accurate) from the authoritative scientific publication The Journal of Nuclear Medicine” Dr Li Covid story This is a man who deserves a Nobel prize….. In the greatest tradition of the medical profession he stood up for truth. The story is a spin job. When China realized the cat (after they tortured to death Dr Li) was out of the bag. They brought Dr Zhang to show they were doing something. This was to cover the fact that China not only genetically spliced the bat virus to infect humans but sent tour groups (paid for by the communist party) of  infected people to every major city in the world. Why? Because they new the plauge would shut down the world economy and they did not want to be the only weakened country. It makes perfect sense if you understand China’s diabolical leadership. First economic leadership them military world demonetization. And this plague is a terrible thing to waste is their key to weakening western economies and political systems. And yes i believe they are isolating, and genetically splicing and releasing mutant strains. And i believe mankind’s only hope, only defense is to vaccinate its populations every 6 months from the ongoing attackes. Its a war we are in like it or not realize it or not. And to be clear here China allows SMALL outbreaks to pretend they are infected too. I want to be clear here the Chinese economy is back. The US will soon be in another even more devastating shutdown. The Chinnese are using internal quarantines to manipulate the global supply chains… See story about the China Ningbo shipping terminal shut down over one (1) Covid-19 infection. The third largest container terminal in the world.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation centers and hospitals in order to battle a COVID-19 crisis that is overwhelming healthcare and mortuary services in parts of the Caribbean island. The country, which managed to contain infections for most of last year, is now facing one of the worst outbreaks worldwide, fueled by the spread of the more-infectious Delta variant, even as it races to vaccinate its population. Cuba’s rolling seven-day average of confirmed COVID-19 cases has surged eightfold within two months to 5,639 per million inhabitants, ten times the world average. One in five tests are positive, four times the benchmark 5% positivity rate cited by the World Health Organization. The seven-day average for confirmed COVID-19 deaths is around 52 per million inhabitants, six times the world average, although the real number could be much higher accounting for potentially undiagnosed cases. The COVID-19 surge has come amid Cuba’s worst economic crisis in decades that had already resulted in medicine shortages  and long queues for scarce goods that made implementing lockdowns tricky. The predicament has come as a shock to some in the Communist-run country where the right to public healthcare is considered sacrosanct. “I witnessed queues of more than 20 hours, people dying in the corridors (of the polyclinic),” wrote Ana Iris Diaz, a professor at the university of the central Cuban city of Santa Clara and self-professed “revolutionary”, in a Facebook post that went viral this week. “I saw an elderly woman die after several hours of waiting and four days without an antigen test or PCR. Simply put, I saw what I would have hoped to never see: the collapse of our health system.” Cuba’s Communist government did not reply to a request for comment. It has denounced the United States for tightening sanctions, saying this has also slowed down its vaccine rollout due to the difficulty of acquiring inputs. Critics blame more Cuba’s inefficient state-run economy. Deaths in Cuba since the start of the pandemic are still only a half of the global average, according to official data. The death toll is rising fast though. In the eastern province of Guantanamo, artist Daniel Ross said a 30-year-old friend of his who caught COVID-19 had recently died due to a lack of medicines and oxygen. “Here, we fight COVID-19 with Azitromicina, which costs 16 pesos usually in the pharmacy, but they haven’t had any for months now,” he said, adding that the cost had surged to 3600 pesos, equivalent to $150 on the black market. Also infected and struggling to breathe, he said he was doing inhalations with yagruma leaves but sometimes could not even heat water because of the power outages that have become more frequent lately. Ihosvany Fernandez, director of communal services in the province of Guantanamo, said on local television that total deaths there, from any cause, had surged at the start of the month to more than 60 per day from around 12 on average usually. Official data show no more than 10 COVID-19 death daily in Guantanamo for those days suggesting underreporting in deaths from the respiratory disease. One of the province’s incinerators had broken down due to overuse, said Fernandez, so they were installing another and using a variety of state vehicles to transport the corpses given insufficient hearses. So far, a quarter of Cuba’s 11.2 million inhabitants have been innoculated with its two most advanced vaccines that officials say have proven more than 90 % effective in phase three trials. In one bright spot, the case-fatality rate in Havana, where nearly two thirds of the population has now been fully innocculated, was just 0.69 % compared to 0.93% for the rest of the country in the first week of August, according to official data, suggesting the shots are working. Nick Note:  Cuba and i have a long history. If you want to know  where socialism and the we are here to serve and protect military steroid monsters end up talk to any Cuban and they will give you a ear full. Rahaull taught me about the Cuban cigars. The Cohiba is GODS gift to mankind….. Along with Cuban women who roll these cigars… My favorites are the Behike 56 that cost silly money, followed by the Genois Maduro and the Maduro Magicos. My humidor is down to a 60 day supply.. (smoking one a day like the vitamin) So its time to stock up. Their is one little problem…. All is in all Cohibas are out of stock in London. I sent Anna to my favorite tobacconist and his shelves are bare. What the hell is going on??????? It turns out production has been cut in half because so many workers are sick…. My Cohiba Indicator is flashing its warning….

The key final demand index moved up 7.8 percent for the 12 months ended in July. Highest EVER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Producer prices accelerated at the fastest annual pace on record in July as supply chain disruptions and materials shortages continued to put upward pressure on costs.

The producer price index for final demand (THE REAL NUMBER) increased at a 7.8% pace for the 12 months ended July, according to the Labor Department. The July print was faster than the 7.3% pace recorded in June. The reading was the strongest since record keeping began in November 2010.

The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.0 percent in July, as prices for final demand services advanced 1.1 percent and the index for final demand goods rose 0.6 percent.    Producer prices rose 1% in July, matching the increase from June. Analysts were anticipating prices would grow at a 0.6% pace. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the jump last month in its producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — followed a 0.2% drop in June and a 0.4% uptick in May. The increase last month was about twice what economists had expected. Wholesale energy prices shot up 5.3% in July, including a 10.1% surge in gasoline prices. Food prices slid 0.5%. Excluding the volatile food and energy prices, so-called core producer prices rose 0.5% last month.  Nick Note: This insanity.. This is the garden embedded inflation grows in. A disaster is on the near horizon… And we will make a killing….. I tried to warn them. their is nothing they can do the fuse has been lit on the ticking time bomb…. The really sad part is the numbers PROVE WHAT I HAVE BEEN WARING AND THEY ARE STILL IN DENIAL…..

South Korea on Wednesday confirmed more new cases of COVID-19 in a single day than it has seen so far during this pandemic. Making matters even more concerning, experts say the coming weeks could be even worse. This is the first time that the country has logged more than 2-thousand Covid-19 infections in a single 24-hour period.
South Korea on Wednesday reported 2,223 new Covid-19 infections. The greater Seoul area saw the highest number of local infections yet, with the local caseload at 1,405.Health authorities say the Delta variant is driving up cases, with clusters erupting in workplaces, indoor sports facilities, churches, and at care hospitals.
But the worst is yet to come.

Experts last month have already projected that at the virus’ current reproductive rate,.. the nation will see 2,5-hundred to 3-thousand new cases a day by late August.

Experts are also worried about the enormous strain this will put on healthcare services, saying a sudden rise could overwhelm medical staff and supplies. In that case, what can be done – that hasn’t already been attempted – to try and curb the spread. Health authorities say that in order to protect our lives and the economy, we first need to decrease the risk of infection by cutting down on travel and social gatherings. But we can’t only rely on social distancing to fix the problem. Vaccinations are of the utmost importance as well. “We need to do our best to protect the most vulnerable people and facilities by curbing the infection spread through prevention methods, and also by raising the vaccination rates.” There will be a boost in the supply of Pfizer’s vaccines today, with six million additional doses arriving. Nick Note: Unfortunately this is what should heave been done 6 months ago. Social distancing and toilet paper mask will not stop this monster. And their is not enough time to get their populations 2 doses of effective vaccines….. Their only solution is testing on a mass scale and extreme lock down which the masses will never accept. So the great culling of stupis people has begun…

OKYO -Japan’s top health adviser said on Thursday he would request stricter emergency measures for about two weeks to tackle a spike in COVID-19 cases in Tokyo and other areas.

Shigeru Omi told reporters the contagion should treated as a natural disaster and he called on the government to increase testing to find and contain the spread.

A few days after the end of the Tokyo Olympics, the capital reported 4,989 new daily cases on Thursday, down slightly from record 5,042 last week. The new number of patients with serious symptoms increased to an all-time daily high of 218. There has been no evidence that the Olympics https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-08-07/olympics-tokyo-feared-games-would-spread-covid-numbers-suggest-that-didnt-happen directly increased case numbers in Japan, but health experts have warned that holding the Games could have encouraged people to relax infection controls. Japan is vaccinating more than 1 million people a day, but it still lags many major economies in inoculating its population. Tokyo is already under a state of emergency, the fourth so far in the pandemic, though some experts have said it should be expanded to cover the whole country. The western prefecture of Osaka reported a record 1,654 new cases on Thursday. Hospital beds are filling up rapidly, mainly with patients in their 40s and 50s, Omi said. To try to break the chain of infection, he said, authorities should try to reduce human mobility to about 50% of the average in July. His comments echoed those of a separate panel of experts who said on Thursday contagion in Tokyo had become uncontrollable.

“The number of new positive cases is rapidly increasing, making it impossible to control the situation,” Norio Ohmagari, a health adviser to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, told a panel chaired by Governor Yuriko Koike.

Koike urged residents to avoid travel and stay home to slow the transmission of COVID-19, which is causing hospitals to have to forego some standard medical care. Nick Note: In this next wave governments will do anything possible to avoid lock downs making things far worse….. People will be dropping dead  on the streets.