Population Mobility and Public Health Risk Mapping - COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan in Nepal (2020): Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City
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1. INTRODUCTION
The Coronavirus disease 2019, hereinafter referred to as COVID-19, is caused by SARS CoV-2 Virus and is the third recorded animal-to-animal transmission of a Coronavirus, after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS, 2002), and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS, 2012). The first COVID-19 case was detected in Hubei Province, China, on 17 November 2019. Since then, the disease has spread throughout the globe to the extent to be declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), on 11 March 2020. As of 4 November 2020, the number of cases stands at 47,059,867, including 1,207,327 deaths worldwide.
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Kirk Taray holds onto a bat that was caught on a mist net as Ryan Llamas holds up a torch during field work at Mount Makiling in Los Banos, Laguna province, Philippines (Reuters)
Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits race to untangle the claws and wings of bats caught up in a big net after dark in the Philippine province of Laguna.
The tiny animals are carefully placed in cloth bags to be taken away, measured and swabbed, with details logged and saliva and faecal matter collected for analysis before they are returned to the wild.
China investigated weaponising coronaviruses in 2015: Reports
Chinese military scientists allegedly probed the weaponising of coronaviruses in 2015, according to global media reports which draw on documents obtained by the US State Department.
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UPDATED: May 10, 2021 00:17 IST
China allegedly investigated weaponising of coronaviruses in 2015, according to global media reports. (Photo: File image for representation)
Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the Covid-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons, according to media reports referring to documents obtained by the US State Department.
According to ‘The Sun’ newspaper in the UK, quoting reports first released by ‘The Australian’, the “bombshell” documents obtained by the US State Department reportedly show the Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) commanders making the sinister prediction.