(04.12.2023)
We have seen what happened in northern Gaza. This cannot be the blueprint for the south. Gaza cannot afford to lose another hospital as health needs continue to soar.
As more civilians in southern Gaza receive immediate evacuation orders and are forced to move, more people are being concentrated into smaller areas, while the remaining hospitals in those areas run without sufficient fuel, medicines, food, water, or protection of health workers.
In a wide-ranging briefing to journalists in Geneva, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reiterated calls for a ceasefire and addressed misinformation targeting the agency, including claims that aid is being diverted.
He said he has also received reports of UN schools being used “for military purposes”.
During the briefing, Mr. Lazzarini said he had received reports that Gaza was under a communications blackout due to the lack of fuel.
He repeated his earlier warning that UNRWA is running out of fuel, thus putting lifesaving support to 2.2 million in Gaza at risk. Everything from aid delivery, to water supply, to even accessing cash from ATM machines will be impacted. (…)
While the agency received a “tiny shipment” of fuel – half a truck – on Wednesday, he said “it was delivered with conditionalities”. The fuel can only be used for trucks collecting goods arriving at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, meaning that water desalination plants, sewage pumping systems or bakeries will go without.
“As from yesterday 70 per cent of the population just in the south has no access anymore to clean water, and as of today, we have raw sewage starting to flow in the streets,” he said.
Die Bundesregierung hat Soforthilfen für die Hochwassergebiete gebilligt. Zunächst würden 200 Millionen Euro aus dem Bundeshaushalt bereitgestellt, teilte Finanzminister Scholz mit.
(13.06.2020)
This SARS-CoV-2 early detection in sewage supports the idea that COVID-19 cases may have been present in the population beforethe first imported case was reported. COVID-19 carriers may have been misclassified as influenza diagnoses in primary care, boosting community transmission before public health measures were taken(11).
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Most COVID-19 cases show mild influenza-like symptoms (14)and it has been suggested that some uncharacterized influenza cases may have masked COVID-19 cases in the 2019-2020 season (11).
Und dann beschlossen sie, Proben aus den Jahren 2018 und 2019 Tests zu unterziehen. „Alle Proben waren negativ auf das SARS-CoV-2-Genom mit Ausnahme der Probe vom 12. März 2019, in der die SARS-CoV-2-Werte sehr niedrig waren, aber mittels PCR-Test waren sie eindeutig positiv„, erklärt Albert Bosch, Professor an der Fakultät für Biologie der UB und Koordinator der Studie.
(28.06.2020)
Wenn das Ergebnis bestätigt werde, würde dies das Datum des ersten Auftretens des neuartigen Coronavirus weltweit bei weitem vorverlegen.
Es bestehe die Möglichkeit, dass viele COVID-19-Infektionen weltweit zunächst als Grippe diagnostiziert und behandelt worden seien, so die Wissenschaftler weiter.
Sinkevicius verwies zudem darauf, dass die Analyse von Abwasser „ein bewährtes Konzept bei der öffentlichen Gesundheitsüberwachung ist“. Hintergrund: Beispielsweise nutzen mehrere europäische Metropolen wie Barcelona Stichproben von Abwassern, um Erkenntnisse über die Menge und die Art des Drogenkonsums zu gewinnen.