| Judge blocks Portland police from using physical force against journalists Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:49 AM PDT  As protests originally sparked by the death of George Floyd continue in Portland, Oregon, a US District Court has issued a two-week restraining order barring the Portland Police Bureau from arresting journalists and legal observers or using force against them.The order comes after the police arrested journalists who were covering a protest on Tuesday. One of them, Lesley McLam, was taken into custody.
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| Why U.S. F-35s, Stealth Bombers and Attack Drones Could Fail in a War Posted: 04 Jul 2020 01:00 AM PDT  Fighter jets, stealth bombers, attack drones and air-traveling missiles all need to "operate at speed" in a fast-changing great power conflict era. What that means is that "sensor to shooter" time (how fast data can go from a sensor to a war-fighter) needs to be drastically sped up. Without that speed, warfighters won't be able to react as quickly to threats and it will be harder to win.
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| 'How the hell are we going to do this?' The panic over reopening schools Posted: 04 Jul 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The CDC issued additional guidance this week on safely reopening schools, with infections spiking in the South and West.
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| Concern over coronavirus mars Trump's Mount Rushmore trip Posted: 03 Jul 2020 08:23 AM PDT  President Trump will visit Mount Rushmore in South Dakota for a Fourth of July celebration, despite controversy about large crowd gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Copenhagen's Little Mermaid labelled 'racist fish' Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:24 AM PDT  Denmark woke up on Friday to the words "racist fish" scrawled across the base of the "Little Mermaid", the bronze statue honouring Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale that perches on a rock in the sea off a pier in Copenhagen. "We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation," a spokesman for the Copenhagen police said. Protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world have in recent months rallied against statues of historical figures who played a role in racist oppression, such as slave traders and colonialists.
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| Alleged email scammer who flaunted wealth on Instagram to face charges Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:18 PM PDT  Ramon Olorunwa Abbas routinely posted about luxury cars, private jets and globe trotting with celebrities to his 2.4 million followers.
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| The Science Behind Your Favorite Fireworks Posted: 04 Jul 2020 10:00 AM PDT |
| Army IDs Fort Hood soldier who killed himself after being questioned about Vanessa Guillen Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:56 AM PDT  Spc. Aaron David Robinson ran away from Fort Hood after officials said they found partial human remains near the Leon River, authorities said.
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| USCIS has had to slow down during the pandemic. Some immigrants will benefit from this Posted: 04 Jul 2020 11:54 AM PDT  The coronavirus crisis and the budget shortfall the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is facing, somehow have turned in favor of immigrants with open processes, who must support their visa, green card and citizenship applications with more evidence or documents.
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| It Would Cost Trillions: The Day North Korea Collapses Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:30 AM PDT  The prospect of a peaceful Korean Unification, however remote it seems, would be a historical event worth planning for. While preparing for the worst, we should hope for the best. Hoping for the best means there is a scenario where North Korea's collapse and regime change occur miraculously, opening doors to South Korea and the West to take over North Korea in what one hopes would be a peaceful absorption. As unlikely as this sounds, it is important to remember that it is not without historical precedent.
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| My friend Ghislaine: Confidante reveals how Maxwell's 'fling' with Prince Andrew means she'll never sell him out Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:19 PM PDT  The revelation that Ghislaine Maxwell will "never sell out" the Duke of York comes from a controversial confidante who has known the Maxwells for years. United by their Jewish families' links to the Holocaust, Laura Goldman remains determined to defend her friend against what she describes as the "the bloodlust of the mob and the criminal justice system against her". Sensationally revealing that Ms Maxwell had a "fling" with the now 60-year-old royal, Ms Goldman claimed the socialite "doesn't see any reason to speak about him to the authorities", adding that Ms Maxwell found the Queen's son "kind of stupid and naive". "If there were girls in the house while he was there, he would have thought they were servants," Ms Goldman said from her home in Philadelphia. "All these people thinking he is evil are just wrong. He is just the kind of entitled person who sees everyone as a servant."
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| An antifa hoax about a 'peaceful flag burning to resist police' riled up right-wing groups in Gettysburg for no reason Posted: 04 Jul 2020 11:45 AM PDT  Despite local news outlets and independent fact checkers debunking claims of a flag burning planned for July 4th, some protesters still showed up.
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| Thomas Jefferson alongside Black great-grandson holds 'a mirror' to U.S. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:37 PM PDT  Shannon LaNier, a TV host in Houston, is pictured in a photo in Smithsonian Magazine alongside his direct ancestor, Thomas Jefferson.
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| WHO sees first results from COVID drug trials within two weeks Posted: 03 Jul 2020 08:26 AM PDT  The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon get results from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, its Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. "Nearly 5,500 patients in 39 countries have so far been recruited into the Solidarity trial," he told a news briefing, referring to clinical studies the U.N. agency is conducting. "We expect interim results within the next two weeks."
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| Canada suspends extradition with Hong Kong over China security law Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:23 PM PDT  Canada on Friday suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong to protest the tough new national security law China has enacted in the financial hub. Canada is also halting exports of sensitive military gear to Hong Kong and updating its travel advisory for the city so Canadians will know how the law might affect them, the foreign ministry said. "Canada is a firm believer in the 'one country, two systems' framework," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, referring to the semi-autonomous model adopted after Britain returned Hong Kong to China in 1997.
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| Trump struggles to say 'totalitarianism' in dark Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:47 AM PDT  In a speech in front of Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump appeared to slur as he stumbled over several words - most notably "totalitarianism".The speech to mark Independence Day was an official presidential address that at times felt more like a campaign event, and saw the president accuse "angry mobs" of deploying "cancel culture" to demand "total submission from anyone who disagrees" - referring to protests regarding statues of controversial historical figures.
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| Russia Has a Nuclear Missile That Can Kill Nearly Anything on the Planet Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:00 AM PDT  How? Think range.
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| For nearly 160 years, St. George has been known as Utah's 'Dixie.' The name is all over the city. Is it time to change? Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:48 PM PDT  The word "Dixie" is everywhere in St. George, Utah. The controversy over its Confederate ties is back in the public eye — but it's not a new debate.
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| 5 Americans who flew by private jet to Italy were reportedly denied entry due to the EU ban on visitors from countries with high coronavirus infection rates Posted: 04 Jul 2020 04:47 AM PDT  Officials on the island of Sardinia expressed frustration at having to exclude the US travellers after their long flight, said reports.
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| Michael Cohen may have violated the terms of his prison release by eating out at a restaurant in Manhattan Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:50 AM PDT  The New York Post obtained photos showing Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, eating out with his wife and another couple in Manhattan Thursday night.
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| Florida, Texas post daily COVID-19 records as 'positivity' rates climb Posted: 04 Jul 2020 08:27 AM PDT  For a sixth straight day, Texas also registered an all-time high in the number of people hospitalized with the highly contagious respiratory illness - 7,890 patients after 238 new admissions over the past 24 hours. By comparison, New York state - the U.S. epicenter of the outbreak months ago, reported just 844 hospitalizations on Saturday, far below the nearly 19,000 hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients at the peak of its coronavirus crisis. During the first four days of July alone, a total of 14 states have posted a daily record increases in the number of individuals testing positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 130,000 Americans.
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| Biden narrows list of vice presidential contenders Posted: 03 Jul 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has narrowed his reported list of vice presidential contenders, with several black women in contention; Jacqui Heinrich reports on the latest.
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| 'A dereliction of duty': Former CIA director says Trump has gone 'Awol' in handling of coronavirus Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:46 PM PDT  Donald Trump has gone "Awol" in his leadership of the US through the coronavirus pandemic, former CIA Director and Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said in a scathing attack on the president."This president has essentially gone Awol from the job of leadership that he should be providing a country in trouble," Mr Panneta told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, branding the situation a "major crisis".
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| Just How Powerful Are China's Aircraft Carriers? Posted: 03 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT  Can they stand against America's?
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| Sikh pilgrims in deadly Pakistan train crash Posted: 03 Jul 2020 07:10 AM PDT  At least 21 die as an express train hits a van carrying the pilgrims near the city of Lahore.
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| Two people critically injured after car plows into protesters on Seattle freeway Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:20 PM PDT  Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide protests
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| Mexico's COVID deaths pass 30,000, world's 5th highest total Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:48 PM PDT  Mexico topped 30,000 COVID-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the coronavirus outbreak began. Officials reported 523 more confirmed coronavirus deaths for the day, bringing the nation's total to 30,366 for the pandemic. Mexico's total confirmed infections rose by almost 6,000 to 251,165, about on par with Spain, the eighth highest caseload.
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| Indian man wears gold face mask to ward off coronavirus Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:46 AM PDT  An Indian man said he paid about $4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country. The precious metal covering weighs 60 grams (two ounces) and took craftsmen eight days to make, said businessman Shankar Kurhade, from the western city of Pune. "I am not sure if it will be effective to protect me from a coronavirus infection but I am taking other precautions," he added.
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| Protester Blamed ‘Black Man’ for Giving Her Molotov Cocktail Gear. Then Cops Found Note From a White Painter. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:00 PM PDT  When 27-year-old Samantha Shader was first arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at police, she told detectives that the supplies—including glass bottles—were given to her by a group of Black men and women, according to federal court records.But weeks later, on Friday, police arrested a white man who admitted to providing the materials, 29-year-old Timothy Amerman. According to court records and a Facebook page that appears to belong to Amerman, he works as a painter in Saugerties, New York. Amerman faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of civil disorder or civil disorder conspiracy, for which he was charged in a federal complaint this week.Shader allegedly threw the explosive at a police vehicle with four New York Police Department officers inside at 11 p.m. on May 29 during the nationwide unrest following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, prosecutors have said. The vehicle was damaged but the officers—who were reportedly uninjured—were able to jump out of the van and chase Shader down.New York Cops Beat Protesters for Crime of Being ThereProsecutors have claimed that Shader bit one of the officers' legs when she was being taken into custody. She was arrested early the next morning in Brooklyn, and waived her Miranda rights, telling law enforcement officers that she was "approached on the street and given 'the bottle' by a Black male, who was in a group with one other Black male and a Black woman," federal prosecutors allege in the federal complaint against Amerman.Shader "described the man who handed the bottle to her as a 'thicker guy' with hair in 'skinny dreads' that were different colors," and the second man "as smaller than the first and wore a hat that concealed his hair," the complaint claims, noting that Shader alleged the woman had "poofy" hair. "Shader stated that she felt [it was] important at the time she took the bottle because she was the only white person in the area," the complaint claimed.Prosecutors said that Shader, who was allegedly caught on camera hurling the bottle toward the police vehicle, has been previously arrested 11 times in 11 states. She was reportedly convicted in three of those incidents. Shader's court-appointed lawyer, Amanda David, has repeatedly declined to comment on the charges, and she did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast on Saturday.But when officers searched the car Shader and her sister drove to New York City from her home in Catskill, police said they found a note with Amerman's fingerprints that read: "I found a few more glass bottles Than I thought I had, Though still not many. I'm giving you my mask in hopes That helps. Wish I had more. There's also a bag in here for you. BE SAFE Please. Really Good Luck, - Love Tim."Shader was previously indicted on seven charges related to the incident, and her case is pending. Her sister, Darian, was charged with resisting arrest for allegedly jumping on the back of an officer who was trying to detain Shader.During the protests after Floyd's death, the NYPD was heavily criticized for its often violent response, in one case shoving a Brooklyn woman to the ground, causing her to be hospitalized. The next day, videos showed police cruisers driving into a crowd of protesters. The Daily Beast reported that a hospital worker simply walking home from his job was beaten by police that same weekend.In an interview with authorities, Amerman admitted that he gave Shader "projectiles to throw at police and counter-protesters," but decided against joining her to "cause some hell," according to the complaint filed in his arrest.Amerman was set to appear in federal court in Albany on Saturday afternoon, followed by a bail hearing. He was still in custody on Saturday and did not yet have a defense attorney listed on federal court documents.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Dozens mourn man who killed himself in busy Beirut district Posted: 03 Jul 2020 09:18 AM PDT  Dozens of people lay flowers on a main Beirut street where a man killed himself on Friday, with some blaming his death on the country's economic collapse that has left more and more Lebanese hungry. Reuters could not establish the motive for the apparent suicide. The 61-year-old man shot himself in the head in front of a Dunkin' Donuts store in the capital's busy Hamra district, witnesses said.
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| A massive economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic are pushing Lebanon towards a famine Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:39 AM PDT  There are estimates from the World Bank that 75% of the country's population could end up living in poverty, France24 reported.
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| Iran's Military Is Armed to the Teeth with Lots of Missiles Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:30 AM PDT  And it has built the region's largest missile force.
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| VA Secretary Robert Wilkie: Helping 46 states, territories with coronavirus response Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:57 PM PDT  Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports.'
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| Somalia restaurant attack: Six killed by al-Shabab Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:24 AM PDT  Militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the bomb explosion in the town of Baidoa.
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| Scientists are studying poop to understand how COVID-19 spreads Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:53 AM PDT  "One of the very few positive things that could come out of COVID-19 is that we recognize that there is data within our wastewater," said one researcher.
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| Black family sues Hilton after white clerk calls police over hotel's own billing mistake Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:02 AM PDT  A billing mistake by the hotel results in a dispute that led to police being called to the Hampton Inn. Now the guests are suing.
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| Crusading ex-cop's arrest sparks police pushback in Russia Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:31 PM PDT  When police moved in to arrest Vladimir Vorontsov in May, they didn't bother to knock. Instead, two commando teams stormed the former policeman's top-floor apartment in southeast Moscow at around 7:00 am, one abseiling down the high-rise while the other broke down the door. "Our daughter thinks that bandits came and took daddy away," Aleksandra Vorontsova told AFP, describing the swoop on her husband, an activist for police labour rights.
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| Explainer: Strike capability, other military options on table after Japan's Aegis U-Turn Posted: 02 Jul 2020 07:14 PM PDT  Japan's decision to scrap two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defence systems means it must find other ways to defend a 3,000-kilometre archipelago along Asia's eastern edge. In a surprise decision, defence minister Taro Kono recently halted the 2025 deployment of Aegis Ashore because booster rockets used to accelerate SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missiles might fall on communities in northern Akita and southern Yamaguchi prefectures. The expense of Aegis Ashore project also affected Kono's decision.
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| Texas Gov. Moves to Stop COVID-19 but It’s Already Out of Control Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:54 AM PDT  Democratic officials angry at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's handling of surging coronavirus numbers in the state this week had one lackluster place to voice their frustrations about the rapidly escalating public health crisis killing their constituents: a Zoom press conference."While some states followed the advice of public health experts, Texas did not," Dallas-area State Rep. Toni Rose said from a webcam on Wednesday, a photograph of the Texas Capitol superimposed behind her. It was certainly not the first time Democrats in the state had inveighed against a pandemic approach criticized by some as too reckless, and followed months of power struggles between local and state leaders in Texas over lockdowns, masks, and more.But the politics of the COVID-19 situation in the state—Democrats yelling into the void, at least until Gov. Greg Abbott ordered mask use in hot zones across the state Thursday—had already given way to hard numbers, not just of cases, but also of hospitalizations, with the state's medical system suddenly under pressure that seemed unthinkable even a few weeks ago."If rates [of infection] continue to increase 50 percent week over week, you can only do that for so long," said Dr. David Lakey, vice chancellor for health affairs and chief medical officer at the University of Texas system and a member of the Texas Medical Association COVID-19 Task Force.He added that chief medical officers across the state, at least this week, are "really busy, but they're managing it." The fear, he explained, is what next week, or the week after, will look like. And while beds, ventilators, and ICU rooms are holding up overall so far, "they're starting to see some challenges in staff," like respiratory therapists and nurses. As those challenges rise with the climbing hospitalizations, staffers have gotten sick or been forced to quarantine after exposures. And the numbers are getting more ominous. Texas broke another record for daily new cases on Tuesday, at 8,076 infections, according to state data. The previous record, on Monday, was 6,975. Days earlier, the record was 5,996. On June 16, the state broke the 4,000-mark for the first time.As Democratic State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who represents San Antonio, said during the press conference, Gov. Greg Abbott "gambled" with Texas lives with an aggressive reopening, and "we have lost."After a slew of mayors and judges tried to drag their feet on the governor's swift reopening plan earlier this spring, the state's attorney general sent letters to leaders in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio warning that rules stricter than the state's might be met with legal action. As the surges worsened across the state, though, Abbott gave his tacit consent for local officials to impose masking requirements on businesses, and urged individual Texans to mask up. 'If People Die, People Die': Texas COVID Hot Spots Keep Getting WorseThis week, Abbott went much further, shutting down bars statewide and suspending elective medical procedures in eight counties. Bar owners who previously said they supported Abbott's reopening turned against the governor, with some protesting in front of the state Capitol holding signs that read "Bar Lives Matter." And on Thursday, Abbott made a remarkable turnaround, ordering residents to wear face masks in all counties with at least 20 COVID-19 cases, and empowering local authorities to break up gatherings of more than 10 people.But conversations with health experts and medical professionals in the state suggested the emerging crisis at medical facilities in Texas was already deeply advanced.Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical complex, indicated last Thursday that its base intensive care capacity hit 100 percent and that it was "on pace to exceed an 'unsustainable surge capacity' of intensive care beds by July 6," The Houston Chronicle reported this week. Last week, the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston began admitting adult patients because of the surge, according to the paper. Internal communications at Houston hospitals revealed a lack of space and therapeutic drugs as the region's medical facilities worked to treat more than 3,000 COVID-19 patients, including about 800 in intensive care, NBC News and Propublica reported Wednesday.Meanwhile, as of Tuesday, about 75 percent of Tarrant County's intensive care unit beds were occupied, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported.At recent hospitalization growth rates, facilities in Tarrant and Dallas counties could reach their surge capacities in as few as four weeks, according to Rajesh Nandy, an associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in the University of North Texas's School of Public Health."The simplest way to look at is this: Let's say the trend doesn't change, and hospital capacity stays the same as it is currently. Under those assumptions, it would be two to three weeks before they're operating at max capacity," Nandy, whose team has studied local and national COVID-19 data since the pandemic began, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "It probably would be three to four weeks when we'd be overloaded even with surge capacities. At that point, we'd have to consider creating new facilities at convention centers."Despite those warnings, Dallas-area hospitals have repeatedly said they don't need to prepare a pop-up facility at a nearby convention center, with the chair of the Texas Medical Associations' board of trustees telling the newspaper that there are "a number of safety valves that could be pushed."Still, said Nandy: "Our health-care system will be overwhelmed if it continues like this."And ragged, frustrated medical providers all over the state have said they're anxious about the days to come."We are in an entirely different place now than what we were just four weeks ago," said Dr. Pritesh Gandhi, an Austin-based primary care doctor and the associate chief medical officer at People's Community Clinic, which serves uninsured and underinsured Central Texans. "In the last few days, our clinic has seen three or four times as many patients for drive-through testing than we had weeks ago, and it's reflective of massive community spread." Gandhi, a Democratic candidate for Texas' 10th Congressional District, called the medical community's efforts to provide care for Texans during the past month of surges "extraordinarily challenging" and said it has been "complicated by failures at both the federal and state level.""We're testing more, having more positives, having more symptomatic patients, doing more drive-through testing," Gandhi told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "Staff are getting sick, just like anywhere else."Gandhi, and the group of Democratic state representatives who held the press conference, decried an undercurrent of "science denialism" and "hostility towards public health" perhaps best embodied by an interview Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick gave to Fox News hours earlier. He said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the country—and the face of the federal response to the pandemic—was "wrong every time on every issue.""He doesn't know what he's talking about!" Patrick told Fox News on Tuesday evening. "I don't need his advice anymore."Dr. Lakey—a former commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services who was appointed by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry—was more forgiving of Abbott than others in the state. He said he doesn't envy those, like the governor, who've had to navigate the middle ground between complete statewide shutdowns and complete light-switch openings."It's a very fraught time in public health," said Lakey. "No one has a crystal ball. There's no perfect plan.""You make your plan, and then you have to be ready to adjust your plan," said Lakey. "That's not a sign of failure, it's a sign that you're looking at the data and trying to make the best decision."But both Rose and Rep. Donna Howard, who represents Austin, said their constituents would likely benefit from a second statewide shutdown, and that Abbott's decisions had been deeply damaging. Martinez-Fischer emphasized that stay-at-home orders were a tool that should never have been taken out of local hands."We know that it worked before," said Howard. "That contained the spread before. We have to do what we have to do here, and unfortunately shutting down may be our only option."Whether or not that's true, it remains unclear if Abbott would do it, as he's said "closing down Texas again will always be the last option." Then again, many public health experts question whether it would be necessary.As Lakey noted: It's no longer March. Those trying to battle the crisis in Texas have the benefit of months of nationwide observation, studies about intubation, clinical trials, and promising therapeutic treatments like Remdesivir. And the mask order could help turn the tide."We have learned from that experience and are bringing those lessons to the response," said Lakey. Still, he and others point to the myriad unknowns in the coming days, from July 4 weekend celebrations to college students possibly returning to campuses in just a few weeks.As Gandhi said on Wednesday, "We're angry and we're exhausted because of the incompetence." "It didn't have to be like this."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| The surgeon general refused to give a yes or no answer when asked if he would advise people to attend large gatherings for the 4th of July Posted: 03 Jul 2020 10:37 AM PDT  During an appearance on the "Today" show, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams didn't advise people not to attend large gatherings for the 4th of July.
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| Iran: A Budding Drone Superpower? You Decide. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 09:27 AM PDT  The Iranian Defense Ministry announced that it has acquired three new drones that are capable of flying almost 1,000 miles and from an altitude of up to 45,000 feet
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| CNN reporter mugged at knifepoint live on air in Brazil Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:31 AM PDT  A CNN journalist was mugged at knifepoint during a live broadcast in Brazil.Bruna Macedo and her team had set up near the Bandeiras Bridge in Sao Paulo on Saturday to report on rising water levels in the Tete River due to heavy rain.
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| Kim Jong Un urges North Koreans to keep up virus fight Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:38 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked "unimaginable and irretrievable crisis," state media said Friday. Despite the warning, Kim reaffirmed North Korea's claim to not have had a single case of COVID-19, telling a ruling party meeting Thursday that the country has "thoroughly prevented the inroad of the malignant virus" despite the worldwide health crisis, the Korean Central News Agency said. Outsiders widely doubt North Korea escaped the pandemic entirely, given its poor health infrastructure and close trade and travel ties to China, where the coronavirus emerged late last year.
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