Saturday, April 18, 2020

SER 12 (A ) OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR: Will Coronavirus slow the World's Conflicts — OR Intensify them? (r)

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/24/world/coronavirus-conflicts/#article_history



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SER 12  (D)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR

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SER 12  (B)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/ser-12-b-of-x-serials-infectious.html

SER 12  (A)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR

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https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/save-lives-ready-shovels.html

SER 08   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-impossible-ethics-of-pandemic-triage.html

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SER 04 / (C)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/ser-04-c-of-x-serials-infectious_27.html


SER 04 / (B)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic_26.html

 SER 04 / (A)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic.html

 SER 03 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/novel-coronavirus-covid-19.html

 SER 02 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/history-in-crisis-lessons-for-covid-19.html

 SER 01 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/infectious-diseases-infectious-diseases.html  




 VIRUS WAR

Will Coronavirus slow the World's Conflicts — OR  Intensify them?
            Cronavirus   &   War-torn Syria

     ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6HReQuqBw )

War-torn Syria is about the one country least able to deal with the coronavirus. But a case was confirmed over the weekend, and Syrians are bracing themselves for a lockdown. A full-blown outbreak would have severe consequences because a decade of civil war has devastated the country's healthcare system



Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces flash the victory sign next to their unfurled flag in the village of Baghouz in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province on March 24, 2019, after the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was declared defeated. | AFP-JIJI




WORLD


Will Coronavirus slow the World's Conflicts — OR  Intensify them?


 UNITED NATIONS – Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Sahel … with the great powers focused intently on the COVID-19 virus, will armed conflicts across the world decrease in severity or intensify? 

 Experts as well as diplomats at the United Nations say there is a serious risk of the latter.
For guerrilla fighters and extremist groups, “it’s a clear godsend,” said Bertrand Badie, a specialist in international relations at France’s Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).

When the “powerful become powerless,” he said, 
one can see
         “the revenge of the weak over the strong.”

In recent days, some 30 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Mali blamed on jihadis, without drawing any sharp reaction from the Security Council.
In Libya, and Syria’s Idlib region — the object of intense diplomatic attention before the coronavirus stole the spotlight — fighting continues.

Evoking the “potentially devastating impact of #Covid-19 in #Idlib and elsewhere in Syria,” the U.N. undersecretary-general for political affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, called on Twitter for all parties to show restraint.

“If anyone — incredibly — still needed a reason to stop the fighting there,” she added, “this is it.”

Martin Griffiths, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, issued a similar plea: “At a time when the world is struggling to fight a pandemic, the focus of the parties must shift away from fighting one another to ensuring that the population will not face even graver risks.”
Up to now, these countries have not been afflicted by COVID-19 on the scale seen in China, South Korea or Europe. But the virus carries the potential, once it reaches into poor and conflict-ridden countries, of having a devastating impact.

In the absence of concerted assistance 
from abroad, the U.N. fears “millions” 
could die.

The pandemic will not necessarily favor any particular group of belligerents, one diplomat noted, because the ravaging disease has been “uncontrollable.”

“The pandemic could lead to a worsening of conflicts, with the risk of exacerbating the humanitarian situation and population movements,” he said.

But the pandemic might also sap the will of the belligerents and their ability to fight in coming months, some experts said.

“Throwing their troops into battle will expose both states and violent nonstate groups to contamination, and thus to potentially catastrophic losses of human life,” said Robert Malley, president of the Washington-based International Crisis Group.

He believes that the virus “will very certainly diminish the capacity and will of states and of the international system — the U.N., regional organizations, refugees, peacekeeping forces — to dedicate themselves to the resolution or prevention of conflicts.”

It will also throw up a whole set of new obstacles, he said, complicating access to conflict zones, making it harder to organize negotiations in neutral countries, and diverting financial investments to the fight against the coronavirus.

“What government would want to invest in the pursuit of peace in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, the Sahel or elsewhere when it is facing an economic, social and political crisis almost without precedent?” he asked.

With the news media obsessively focused on COVID-19, Malley said, “these conflicts, however brutal and violent they may be, will for many people become unseen and unheard.”

At the U.N., which has been struggling to respond as best it can, diplomats insist that their efforts to monitor regional crises and conflicts will continue, even if the international organization has sharply curbed its schedule of meetings.

“We intend to ensure that #UNSC plays its vital role in maintaining global peace and security,” Britain’s interim ambassador to the U.N., Jonathan Allen, wrote on Twitter. “COVID-19 is the major global focus, but we have not forgotten about Syria, Libya, Yemen.”

But Richard Gowan, a New York-based specialist in U.N. matters, expressed some doubt.

“Security Council diplomats say that it is hard to get their capitals to focus on U.N. issues,” he said.

Among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) dealing with human rights issues, like Human Rights Watch, concern is growing that whole areas of action are falling by the wayside.

One example: Diplomats say the much-awaited and repeatedly delayed publication of a U.N. summary report on the bombing of hospitals in Syria — originally due at the beginning of the year — is now not expected before April, at the earliest.



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Friday, April 17, 2020

SER 11 OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) :- FAITH GROUPS AS SUPER SPREADER OF CORONA- 19 PANDEMIC

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( A )  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-tablighi-jamaat-delhi/2020/04/02/abdc5af0-7386-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html





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SER 12  (D)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR

SER 12  (C)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases) VIRUS WAR


 SER 12  (B)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/ser-12-b-of-x-serials-infectious.html


SER 12  (A)  OF X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)  VIRUS WAR
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/ser-12-of-x-serials-infectious-diseases_16.html

SER  11  OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

SER 09  OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/save-lives-ready-shovels.html

SER 08   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-impossible-ethics-of-pandemic-triage.html

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SER 05   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)

SER 04 / (C)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/ser-04-c-of-x-serials-infectious_27.html


SER 04 / (B)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic_26.html

 SER 04 / (A)   OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/2019-2020-cornavirus-pandemic.html

 SER 03 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/novel-coronavirus-covid-19.html

 SER 02 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/history-in-crisis-lessons-for-covid-19.html

 SER 01 OF   X SERIALS (Infectious Diseases)
https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2020/03/infectious-diseases-infectious-diseases.html  








FAITH GROUPS AS SUPER SPREADER 
                                 OF  
               CORONA- 19  PANDEMIC




                                              TABLIGHI JAMAT


                              PART ONE OF       PARTS


                            [ [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qVPGrkI_M&t=54s  ]






The Jaipur Dialogues

Tablighi Jamaat is a Sunni jamaat. Basically an offshoot of Deoband, Maulana Mohammad Ilyas Khandhelwi in 1926 founded it to prevent newly converted Muslims from slipping back into Hinduism Dir to the influence of the Shuddhi movement. Even the murder of Swami Shraddhanand by Abdul Rashid is ascribed to TJ. Puritanical and fundamentalist, it is an evangelical organisation that focuses on weaning Muslims away from practices that it considers non-Islamic. It does not believe in following any particular fiqh even though it originated in Hanafi branch of Indian Islam.
Lately, it’s activities have laid a fertile ground which makes it easy for jihadi organisations to recruit its members, even though it abjures politics and violence. It has two major factions, headquartered in Raiwind, Pakistan near Lahore, and in Nizamuddin, Delhi. Both the factions have generated controversy for becoming super-spreaders of Corona Virus. Pakistan TJ has done it globally, while the India TJ has done it across India. Sanjay Dixit takes a look in his usual deep probing style.





India confronts its first coronavirus ‘super-spreader’ — a Muslim missionary group with more than 400 members infected

( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-tablighi-jamaat-delhi/2020/04/02/abdc5af0-7386-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html  )

                                                                       By 

          Joanna Slater,  Niha Masih  & Shams Irfan 
People who took part in a Tablighi Jamaat gathering in March wait to board buses to a quarantine facility amid concerns of infection in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Biplov Bhuyan/Hindustan Times/Getty Imag 




April 2, 2020 
The devotees came by the thousands from all corners of India and beyond, converging on a large white complex in a crowded quarter of Delhi to share a message of piety.













When they left in the first weeks of March, they unknowingly carried the coronavirus with them.












Gatherings last month at the headquarters of a prominent Muslim missionary group are emerging as India’s first “super-spreader” event, complicating efforts to control rising infections in this nation of 1.3 billion people.
More than 400 confirmed cases and at least 10 deaths across the country — stretching from Tamil Nadu in the south to Kashmir in the north — have been linked to people who attended events at the Tablighi Jamaat center near a historic shrine in India’s capital.
The infections, which represent about a fifth of India’s total cases, have sparked a frantic effort to track down anyone who attended the recent meetings. In at least two states, potential contacts are being traced using mobile-phone location data.
IndiaTV पर बोले Arif Mohammad Khan- तबलीगी जमात ने 'लॉकडाउन' का मज़ाक बनाया
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The outbreak also has provoked a spasm of Islamophobia in India, a Hindu-majority nation that is home to 200 million Muslims. In February, the country witnessed its deadliest sectarian clashes in years after the government’s pursuit of a controversial citizenship law sparked violence.
As the pandemic continues, people practicing their faith have become unwitting but powerful vectors in the spread of the virus. A cultlike church helped fuel the pandemic in South Korea. A synagogue north of New York City was at the center of an early outbreak. An evangelical congregation in France was the source of hundreds of infections.

India banned all religious gatherings when it instituted a three-week nationwide lockdown March 25. But several states and cities already had implemented their own restrictions: Delhi, for instance, prohibited all assemblies of more than 50 people March 16.
The activities of Tablighi Jamaat have emerged as a particularly potent vehicle for transmitting the virus. Founded in India nearly a century ago, the group has as many as 80 million adherents worldwide. It is built around small bands of itinerant missionaries who urge fellow Muslims to deepen their observance and model their lives directly on the ways of the prophet Muhammad.
The group eschews politics and in theory operates without formal record-keeping, said Barbara Metcalf, a prominent historian of South Asian Islam. It stresses proselytizing and travel, producing a “state of vulnerability and uncertainty in which one learns to be dependent on God,” Metcalf wrote.
The Tablighi Jamaat cases in India may be linked to another religious gathering held by the same group in Malaysia. At the end of February, 16,000 people from numerous countries attended a multiday Tablighi Jamaat event at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur. That gathering was the source of hundreds of coronavirus cases in Malaysia and dozens more in Brunei, Cambodia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Cases have also emerged at a Tablighi center in Pakistan.
By early March, missionaries from several Southeast Asian countries were in India. Nearly all of them passed through the bustling complex in Delhi’s storied Nizamuddin district and then traveled on to different parts of India. Several of them later died, including a Filipino man and six Indonesians. One Indian who went home to Kashmir after participating in a three-day event at the Delhi center also died.
Missionaries and devotees continued to arrive at the center even after Delhi authorities banned large gatherings. Then India suspended all passenger trains March 22, followed swiftly by the countrywide lockdown. 
About 2,300 people were stuck at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters, unable to leave or travel. Yet the authorities took no action to remove them until this week, when all of those at the center were shifted to quarantine facilities or hospitals.
“Everybody now wishes that [activities] had been discontinued earlier,” said Fuzail Ayyubi, a lawyer representing the Delhi center, adding that the group had communicated its situation to the authorities and cooperated with the police.
“This is not the right time to blame us or the government,” Ayyubi said. “Everybody is stuck in a situation mankind hasn’t seen before.”
Local authorities across India are racing to contain the outbreak, sometimes using methods that appear to be without precedent here. In Kashmir, a restive Muslim-majority region, the government compiled a list of more than 800 residents who were present earlier in March in Delhi, including in the neighborhood where the Tablighi Jamaat center is located.
The list was assembled with the help of telecom companies after an analysis of data from cellphone towers, call records and travel itineraries, said a senior police official in Srinagar, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.
Three other officials and doctors in Kashmir confirmed they had received instructions to check on the health of the individuals mentioned on the list. The Washington Post reviewed a copy and contacted 10 people listed. All confirmed they had recently been either near the Tablighi Jamaat center or in another Delhi neighborhood frequented by Kashmiris.
Kashmir has been subject to a broader crackdown since last August, when India stripped the territory of its autonomy and statehood. Rohit Kansal, the top bureaucrat in Jammu and Kashmir, did not confirm or deny that the region was using cellphone data in its effort to trace contacts. The territory is “following a proactive and aggressive policy of test and trace,” he said.
In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, authorities say that about 1,100 residents traveled to the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in March. Many of those have come forward, and the state is using a “multitude of methodologies,” including “clustering of cellphone data,” to trace people, said Beela Rajesh, the state’s health secretary.
The Indian government has expansive authority to require mobile-phone operators to share data. While the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a right to privacy in 2017, its legal contours remain unclear.
Indian officials are increasingly looking to cellphone data to help enforce measures to control the pandemic. Arvind Kejriwal, the top elected official in the state of Delhi, announced Wednesday that the local government would temporarily use cellphone data to determine if more than 20,000 people were violating orders to quarantine themselves at home.
Some Indian Muslims worry that the infections linked to the missionary group will intensify anti-Muslim rhetoric. The cases can be used as “a convenient excuse for some to vilify Muslims everywhere,” wrote Omar Abdullah, a senior politician in Kashmir. One prime-time anchor referred to the coronavirus cases as “a murderous attack in the name of faith,” and “CoronaJihad” trended on social media.
The first-known Indian victim of the outbreak at the Tablighi center was Mohammad Ashraf Anim, a 65-year-old Kashmiri businessman. He had traveled to Delhi to take part in a special three-day quarterly event for devotees, said a person familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Anim returned home to Kashmir and attended prayers at a mosque the following Friday. A few days later, he developed coronavirus-related symptoms. He died March 26.Irfan reported from Srinagar.
Home to nearly 2 billion people, South Asia could be the next coronavirus hot spot
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