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WHO warns of Afghan Covid spike
BBC News ^ | August 19, 2021

Posted on 08/19/2021 9:40:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on countries to ensure that health services across Afghanistan are maintained, as it warned of increasing cases of Covid-19 across the country.

The organisation's regional director, Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, said that WHO teams in areas which had seen large influxes of people fleeing the Taliban advance are now reporting increasing cases of people with Covid-19 like symptoms.

According to the WHO, there have been 152,365 cases of coronavirus in the country and 7,043 deaths.

However, Afghanistan has limited testing capacity and reporting of cases across the country is sketchy.

WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic also warned that the chaos at Kabul airport, where thousands of people are trying to flee the Taliban, is slowing deliveries of crucial medical supplies.

Refugees at the airport are being tested for the virus before boarding evacuation flights.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; ccp; china; virus

1 posted on 08/19/2021 9:40:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The wheels on the bus go round-and-round...”


2 posted on 08/19/2021 9:41:54 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE)
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LOL. Covid in the Land of Bacha Bazi. Covid is the least of their worries. Covid would actually be an improvement.

3 posted on 08/19/2021 9:42:32 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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Refugees at the airport are being tested for the virus before boarding evacuation flights.

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Looking at the pics of mass chaos, people falling off of airplanes, babies being thrown over razor wire fences .... we’re to believe refugees are being tested for COVID?


4 posted on 08/19/2021 9:46:33 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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This segment is ridiculous. He is quoting some dead rapper and I SEE YOU /ICU

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1428369983118233601


5 posted on 08/19/2021 9:53:55 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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what about all those 640 people that rushed the airplane and got into it

I bet none of the vaxxed...and many have COVID...


6 posted on 08/19/2021 9:55:22 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It should be clear to anyone, WHO cares. Who cares?


7 posted on 08/19/2021 10:01:04 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one in Afbidenstan has the fungyouflu. Why? No television!


8 posted on 08/19/2021 10:03:47 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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Who cares about damn COVID? Women and girls are going to be wrapped up in burkas or killed. People are being beaten and shot, soon and inevitably the beheadings. But we aren’t allowed to escape from the covid insanity that has been foisted on us for almost 2 years. People are flooding the country and displacing our citizens who now are living in tents and the same people keep asking if the replacements have COVID. Is it somehow acceptable if they don’t have COVID? I’m more worried about tuberculosis. If COVID is such a big deal why are there no dead bodies in the homeless camps? Why are there no dead migrants? Why are there no dead ICE agents?


9 posted on 08/19/2021 10:09:18 AM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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C-17 leaving Kabul with no standing room.

None of these bastards are wearing a mask, nor, are they 6’ apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ..

10 posted on 08/19/2021 10:10:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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So every person who is found with multiple bullet holes in their body, died of Covid, right?


11 posted on 08/19/2021 10:48:23 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Quick, send Obama over and tell them it’s just a birthday party!


12 posted on 08/19/2021 11:10:24 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cranial rectal inversion.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 11:16:01 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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SERIOUSLY!!!


14 posted on 08/19/2021 11:25:16 AM PDT by a real Sheila (I'm NOT anti-vax. Just asking questions. We should ALL be asking questions!)
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To: RummyChick

That’s real?


15 posted on 08/19/2021 11:36:16 AM PDT by EEGator
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