The President of the United States, Donald Trump, warned this Saturday that next week will be “the hardest” in the fight against the coronavirus and “there will be many deaths”
“This will probably be the hardest week and there will be many deaths unfortunately,” Trump said during the daily press conference for the coronavirus task force at the White House, although he said the datathey would be worse if measures had not been taken to stop the infections.
The US president justified the decision to invoke the Defense Production Law to ban the export of medical and medical supplies. Specifically, he pointed out that it was a“retaliation” for companiesthat they had not provided the US Government with what it had requested to assist in the fight against the coronavirus.
“You can call it retaliation because it is what it is. It is retaliation.If they don’t give us what we need for our people, we will be tough, and we are being very hard, “said the president, according to the statements collected by CNN.
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Trump advanced that he will send to the state of New York, the most affected by the virus, more respirators from a reserve that the Executive keeps 10,000 to use throughout the country, after Governor Andrew Cuomo estimated that New York City I was going to be out of respirators in a few days.
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“We have 10,000 right now in our reserves. They areabout 10,000 and we’re going to move some to New York. We are going to need some more. We are going to send them to New York City and the state separately, and we will deliver them where they need it, “the president said.
Also, he has assured that he will send 10,000 military personnel to New York City to face the coronavirus, assuring that it is the “hottest” point in the country, where there have been a greater number of positives.
China has officially begun the research and development of 6G technology.
The news came less than a week after the country rolled out its superfast 5G network.
The country's Technology Bureau has formally set up a team of experts to work on the next-generation mobile internet connection, state media said today.
A total of 37 telecommunication specialists drawn from universities, institutions and corporations are on the panel, which is tasked with laying out the development of 6G and proving the scientific feasibility of it.
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The country's Technology Bureau has formally set up a team of experts to work on the next-generation 6G mobile internet connection just a week after launching 5G
The news was announced during a 6G launch ceremony in Beijing on Sunday, according to a report by Chinanews.com.
Wang Xi, deputy minister of the Technology Bureau, said at the conference that the bureau was set to work with the experts to design a specific research plan for 6G and carry out preliminary research.
China's three state-owned telecommunication carriers - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - launched their 5G data plans just last Thursday.
The country is due to activate more than 130,000 5G base stations by the end of this year to support the network, which is one of the world's largest 5G deployments.
Chinese engineers have already built a '5G smart town' near Shanghai, where residents will be able to download TV series, movies or games at an impressive speed of 1.7GB per second.
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China has named Wuzhen the country's first '5G town' which has which boasts super-fast internet connection in every corner of the place. Wuzhen (pictured) is an ancient water town
5G signal is sent out to the nooks and crannies of the 27-square-mile town of Wuzhen by more than 140 transmitters, which went into service recently.
The country is also on its way to completing a 5G-equipped high-speed train station, in collaboration with Chinese tech giant Huawei.
The 'super-fast' 5G network will be fitted to the existing Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which is one of Asia's busiest traffic hubs and handles some 60 million passengers a year .
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Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station (pictured) handles some 60 million passengers a year
Visitors to the station will be able to download a 2GB high-definition film in less than 20 seconds, according to Huawei.
In comparison, it would take three minutes and 20 seconds to download the same film on a standard 4G network.
WHAT IS 5G AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
The evolution of the G system started in 1980 with the invention of the mobile phone which allowed for analogue data to be transmitted via phone calls.
Digital came into play in 1991 with 2G and SMS and MMS capabilities were launched.
Since then, the capabilities and carrying capacity for the mobile network has increased massively.
More data can be transferred from one point to another via the mobile network quicker than ever.
5G is expected to be 100 times faster than the currently used 4G.
Whilst the jump from 3G to 4G was most beneficial for mobile browsing and working, the step to 5G will be so fast they become almost real-time.
That means mobile operations will be just as fast as office-based internet connections.
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Potential uses for 5g include:
Simultaneous translation of several languages in a party conference call
Self-driving cars can stream movies, music and navigation information from the cloud
A full length 8GB film can be downloaded in six seconds.
5G is expected to be so quick and efficient it is possible it could start the end of wired connections.
By the end of 2020, industry estimates claim 50 billion devices will be connected to 5G.
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The evolution of from 1G to 5G. The predicted speed of 5G is more than 1Gbps - 1,000 times greater than the existing speed of 4G and could be implemented in laptops of the future
has condemned the arrest and prosecution of Funke Akindele and her husband, AbdulRasheed Bello popularly known as JJC Skillz, for breaching the restriction order put in place by the Lagos State government to check the spread of COVID-19.
HURIWA in a statement on Tuesday signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko claimed that the Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Ramatu Tijani Aliyu, violated the COVID-19 stay-at-home order and social distancing regime by going about supervising the fumigation of some areas of the metropolis in Abuja alongside dozens of residents and a large retinue of hangers on and staff.
The Civil Rights Advocacy group, therefore called for the arrest and prosecution of the Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory for overtly flouting COVID-19 directives set by the Federal Government.
The group further condemned the Lagos State government for punishing Funke Akindele and her hubby claiming they were made scapegoat by the state to divert attention from the heightened accusations over a lack of due diligence in the application of the N10 billion COVID-19 fund.
“This choreographed detention and prosecution of Funke Akindele and co was orchestrated as a perfect diversionary tactics to keep people busy talking about it whilst not remembering that some Lagos residents angrily rejected loafs of bread donated to them as relief materials by some officials.
“This was just some kind of exhibitionism by the Lagos state administration to try to hoodwink the gullible people that it is working even when government has failed to address the larger issues of forcing families to stay at home with no electricity power and no clean water supplies to millions of Lagosians as we write.
“In as much as we are not condoning lawlessness, we believe that Funke Akindele and her family are victims of a lynch mob social media justice advocates who found an ally in the Lagos state administration that yearns to divert attention from some deep rooted social failures during this Covid-19 curfew.
“Her conviction is illegal and we urge her to repudiate her guilty plea and file an appeal making use of the services of a smart legal team to overturn the charade of a court decision done by a court whose prosecution team also failed to observe social distancing rule as can be seen from the photo taken from the entrance of the court room,” the group added.
The Civil Rights Advocacy group also accused the Police of double standards for failing to arrest the serving FCT Minister, Aliyu and her security details for not observing social distancing guidelines while fumigating some areas in Abuja on Monday.
“Is the Nigerian law not supposed to apply to everyone? Why was
arrested and charged for flouting the curfew when she only held a social party of few guests compared to the Abuja minister of state who gathered nearly one hundred people in a place to commission the jamboree of fumigation of Abuja markets? This double standards defeat the Cause of Constitutionalism,” the group said.
“What we’re seeing is an enormous logistical nightmare,” Dr. Jennifer Ellice, an LA-based ER doctor, said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade recently (video above). “We’re trying to deal with very sick surges of COVID patients and in addition, we still have to take care of folks with appendicitis, folks who are breaking their legs.”
Emergency Medical Technicians bring a patient into Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 6, 2020 in New York. (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)
In order to help alleviate an influx of patients at some hospitals, some cities have found alternative locations to treat patients. In New York, the Javits Center wasrepurposed to start treating patients, and a U.S. Navy ship was deployed to serve as a hospital as well.
“People are getting very sick very quickly,” Ellice said, “and we don’t understand all the aspects of this disease and the natural progression. It is frightening on many fronts.”
The New York metro area accounts for over 60,000 cases. (Graphic: David Foster/Yahoo Finance)
‘We need something so we can communicate quickly’
With assistance from a New York Times reporter, Ellice called on Silicon Valley companies to step up and help medical professionals across the country communicate with each other about what they were seeing on the ground. Slack (WORK), a messaging platform, stepped up to the challenge.
“The response was amazing,” she said. “Within 24 hours of it starting, we had 450 people log in. We have a community now of almost 3000 people. I look forward to seeing it expand even further. It’s an important platform for us. There hasn’t been anything like it in the space. We need something so we can communicate quickly.”
Ellice realized that her and the doctors had both medical and logistical challenges, with one of the main issues being the shortage of PPE.
Dr. Lauren Miller, left, and Dr. Micah Moore look over notes at a Mobile Health Unit for drive-thru coronavirus testing at Robert C. Byrd Clinic in Lewisburg, W.Va., March 24, 2020. (Jenny Harnish/The Register-Herald via AP)
“One of the very first topics that I remember discussing was a doctor in New York who worked at eight different hospitals, had one mask that he had been using for a week,” she said. “He was describing the challenges of trying to intubate and trying to work with patients who are very, very sick without getting exposed himself.”
Other topics that have been discussed are treatment and testing for COVID-19. Normally, Ellice explained, the medical community is able to rely on information disseminated from associations and peer-reviewed journals to figure out effective approaches. But the quick spread of the virus has changed the stakes.
“We are relying on sources from everywhere — WhatsApp from Chinese doctors or talking to our peers from medical school and residency,” she said. “We’re just trying to figure out what we are all seeing and what we need to do to beat this.”
Over 1 million people have been infected with coronavirus. (Graphic: David Foster/Yahoo Finance)
Muted optimism
In California, where Ellice is based, the peak of coronavirus cases is projected to be around April 19, but she noted that the models keep changing. The hope is to buy time for the medical community, because there are concerns that there aren’t enough ventilators in supply, although Ellice said there are enough where she works.
“I think there’s some very muted optimism that we may be bending the curve here on the West Coast in Washington, Oregon, and California,” she said. “As we do, we’ll maybe see that peak get pushed farther out, which is good.”
Some studies have indicated that the virus could go away with warm weather. Although Ellice said it’s “certainly a possibility,” she also expressed caution.
“The northern latitudes have higher populations,” she explained. “So predicting, modeling, determining whether this will go away in the summer is very difficult. As a scientist, I would hesitate to say comfortably if this is going to go away in the summertime. We definitely hope that it will, but again, we can’t predict.”
Pedestrians wearing masks during the coronavirus outbreak walk along a deserted Hollywood Boulevard, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
In any case, another question arises: Will the coronavirus come back as seasons change to colder weather near the end of the year?
“This is a very difficult thing for us to predict,” Ellice said. “There’s some concern that with the folks who are now quarantined who aren’t seeing this disease, they may be more vulnerable when or if this disease does come back in the fall. It’s difficult to say how this disease is going to react.”
One thing she does know for certain, though, is that coronavirus is “definitely not the flu. If this does return, we may in fact have to deal with large parts of the community that are not immune and may present another challenge in the fall.”
Adriana is a reporter and editor for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter@adrianambells.
Wife of the President Aisha Buhari and former first ladies Patience Jonathan and Turai Yar’Adua on Thursday gathered in Abuja in commemoration of Maryam Babangida, ten years after her demise.
The event was organised by Aisha Babangida, Mariam’s daughter with former military president Ibrahim Babangida.
Aisha Buhari, the host shared some photos and a short video from the event on her verified Instagram handle.
In her post, she said, “I attended an event organised to mark the 10th anniversary of the demise of former First Lady, late Mrs Maryam Babangida; the initiator of women empowerment Programme.
“The event is tagged, Mother Of The Nation History Revised 2020 held on Thursday in Abuja.”
She also lauded Maryam Babangida and her legacies adding that former first ladies should continue in this clime of meeting and sharing their experiences.
“I am happy to meet with some former first ladies at the event.
“The armchair discussion and the experience sharing by the first ladies were quite interesting and inspiring. While I commend the effort of Aisha Babangida for putting the event together, I would like to also suggest that Former first ladies should continue to explore avenues for sharing their experiences. It is hoped that this will enhance the Programmes of the next future First Ladies as well as shape the future of the younger generations,” she added.
Wife of vice-president Yemi Osinbajo was also in attendance.
Maryam Babangida was the wife of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who was Nigeria’s head of state. She died in December 2009.
