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GERMANY

Experts: Rapid testing helps explain few German virus deaths

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has confirmed more than 1,100 cases of the new coronavirus but — so far — just two deaths, far fewer than other European countries with a similar number of reported infections....the first two announced Monday: an 89-year-old in the western city of Essen and a 78-year-old man in Heinsberg county near the Dutch border. Both locations are in North Rhine-Westphalia state, which accounts for 484 of the 1,112 infections confirmed in Germany to date.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/experts-rapid-testing-helps-explain-172747085.html

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China chemical one-up-manship. I thought the locusts were in Africa?

China to dispatch first batch of supplies on Monday to control locust disaster

China will dispatch the first batch of supplies to Karachi on Monday to assist Pakistan in controlling the locust disaster.
The first batch to be dispatched will include 50,000 liters of pesticides and 14 air-powered high-efficiency remote sprayers.
An expert group of China which has already visited Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab province has said in the current large-scale outbreak of the locust disaster in Pakistan, the spraying of chemical pesticides and biological pesticides is more conducive.

http://www.radio.gov.pk/08-03-2020/china-will-dispatch-first-batch-of-supplies-on-monday-to-assist-controlling-locust-disaster