May 10, 2021
James Kon
The Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) yesterday reached another milestone with the launch of Civil Emergency Response Team (CERT), along with the Non-Medical Community Ambulance Services and a new logo for the BDRCS cadet team.
Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abdul Mokti bin Haji Mohd Daud launched these latest initiatives during the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day celebrations, together with the 73
rd BDRCS anniversary at The Centrepoint Hotel.
The theme of the 2021 World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day Celebration for Brunei Darussalam is ‘Empowering the Well-Being of the Society’.
The recent arrival of the double mutant Indian Covid-19 variant in Bangladesh is due to the lack of strict enforcement of institutional quarantine for those returning from India.
The government has found eight people infected with the Indian variant and all of them have entered the country through the Benapole land port.
Since April 26, around 2,500 Bangladeshis have entered through the busy port with Covid-19 certificates, according the Jessore Civil Surgeon office.
Of them, 128 went to different places of the country including Dhaka for medical treatment without completing mandatory 14-day quarantine. Even if one carries a negative certificate, the person can be Covid-19 positive anytime. That s why a 14-day quarantine is recommended, Dr Sheikh Abu Hanif, civil surgeon of Jessore, told The Daily Star yesterday.
Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1700 GMT, May 9
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10 May 2021, 03:49 GMT+10
CANBERRA Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that the country will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Morrison said in an interview with News Corp Sunday newspapers that there is no appetite among Australians to re-open the country s borders to international travelers as COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world. I don t see an appetite for that at the moment, he said. I think what we re seeing at the moment is the appreciation of the people that the pandemic isn t going anywhere. (Australia-COVID-19-Borders) - - - - NEW DELHI India s COVID-19 tally crossed the 22-million mark on Sunday, reaching 22,296,414, as 403,738 new cases were registered in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.
China s Red Cross Society to Send $1 Million to India Amid COVID-19 Surge
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BEIJING (Sputnik) - The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) will transfer $1 million to its Indian counterpart to support the organization s efforts in fighting the raging COVID-19 pandemic in the country, China s ambassador to India, Sun Weidong, said on Sunday. RCSC also decided to provide $1 million in cash assistance to the Indian Red Cross Society through International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help India fight against #COVID19, Weidong tweeted.
Earlier in the day, India, a nation of well over a billion people, received the first batch of COVID-19 humanitarian aid donated by the RCSC, consisting of 100 oxygen concentrators, 40 ventilators and other medical supplies.