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中美再就新冠病毒源頭爭拗。美國總統特朗普早前在社交平台將病毒稱為「中國病毒」；中方批評是對中國搞污名化，表示強烈憤慨。

美國新冠肺炎疫情不斷擴大，再新增近九百宗病例，累計超過四千六百多人染病。總統特朗普早前在社交網站發文，表示華府會大力支持一些受疫情影響的企業，但他就將新冠病毒稱為「中國病毒」。

在北京，外交部批評特朗普的說法是對中國搞污名化。

外交部發言人耿爽稱︰「近來美國一些政客，把新冠病毒和中國相聯繫，這是對中國搞污名化。我們對此強烈憤慨、堅決反對。我們敦促美方立即糾正錯誤、立即停止對中國無端指責。」

耿爽又指，世界衞生組織和國際社會已明確反對將病毒與特定的國家和地區相聯繫，並強調疫情在全球多處爆發及蔓延，當務之急是國際社會合作抗疫。美方亦應先做好自己的事，並與國際合作，維護全球公共衞生安全發揮建設性作用。

中美兩國近日不斷就新冠病毒的源頭互相指責。有分析認為，特朗普在國內被批評應對疫情不力，而中國被指在病毒爆發初期隱瞞疫情，相信兩國是想藉病毒源頭問題轉移視線，為各自的抗疫工作爭取國內外支持。

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countries: 美國 中國

title: 兩岸 - 中美再就新冠病毒源頭爭拗 分析料雙方藉源頭問題轉移視線


countries: 中國 美國

events: 新冠病毒 新冠肺炎

title: 兩岸 - 中美再就新冠病毒源頭爭拗 分析料雙方藉源頭問題轉移視線


title: 國際 - 中美再就新冠病毒源頭爭拗 分析料雙方藉源頭問題轉移視線


title: 國際 - 中美再就新冠病毒源頭爭拗 分析料雙方藉源頭問題轉移視線


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本港確診多十宗新冠肺炎，累計167宗，大部分有外遊紀錄。另外再多四人出院，增至91人康復。

新增個案中，一名69歲男子和太太歐遊後上周五由倫敦回港，之後到佐敦的辦公室，沒有回家。星期日發病，之後到伊利沙伯醫院求醫。

另一名患者是留學瑞士的18歲女大學生，月初在當地已有病徵。上周六經倫敦、吉隆坡返港。本星期在赤柱看私家醫生，再送到東區醫院。

另外，再多一名空中服務員染病。37歲女子本月七日曾在國泰CX315執勤，飛抵西班牙馬德里。十一日在回港的CX320航班工作，主要服務商務艙。星期一到金鐘私家診所作年度健康檢查指有病徵，獲轉介到公立醫院。

還有一名月初到法國經英國回港的30歲女子亦確診，正在瑪麗醫院留醫。

不過，新個案中一名有慢性病的男子最近並無外遊，和太太住在油麻地御金國峯，月初兩度和朋友聚餐。他其中一名朋友曾到瑞士並報稱出現肺炎徵狀，衞生署指正追蹤調查該朋友是否感染源頭。

另外亦有三宗陽性個案，全部在昨晚由歐洲抵港。他們在機場申報有不適，之後直接由救護車送院。

而政府決定擴大病毒檢測，部署加強抽驗入境的高風險人士，正研究在機場運作流程。

衞生防護中心傳染病處主任張竹君表示︰「是優次問題，我覺得主要都是，如果他們有病徵盡快化驗，都是一個最先、優先考慮的事。而沒有病徵那些要看全部做、抽樣做，以及做了之後的成效有幾大。」

中心又指，當大批留學生和港人回來，家居檢疫是最好圍堵做法。

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countries: 西班牙 瑞士 法國 英國

title: 港澳 - 本港確診多10宗新冠肺炎 其中三人昨晚由歐洲航班抵港


countries: 西班牙 瑞士 法國 英國

title: 港澳 - 本港確診多10宗新冠肺炎累計167宗 再多四人出院


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A customer wearing a face mask and gloves goes shopping in the early morning in a supermarket in the Berlin district of Friedenau, Germany, Tuesday, M...
 A customer wearing a face mask and gloves goes shopping in the early morning in a supermarket in the Berlin district of Friedenau, Germany, Tuesday, March 17, 2020 In order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus, the German government has considerably restricted public life. Only for most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

 People wait in a long queue on the sidewalk at the Corona Test Center of the Medical On-call Service Hessen, Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, March 17, 20...
 People wait in a long queue on the sidewalk at the Corona Test Center of the Medical On-call Service Hessen, Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. The test centers for corona virus smears in Hesse are overworked. Although the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KV) is continuing to expand capacities, the bottleneck is the laboratories. Long queues form every morning. ( Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP)

 A chemist shop displays a sign in London, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as...
 A chemist shop displays a sign in London, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

 Chairs pile up at cafe at Orly airport Tuesday, March 17, 2020, south of Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron announced strong restrictions on free...
 Chairs pile up at cafe at Orly airport Tuesday, March 17, 2020, south of Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron announced strong restrictions on freedom of movement in a bid to counter the new coronavirus, as the European Union closed its external borders to foreign travelers. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

 People, keeping a distance, queue in line in front of a shop downtown Madrid, Monday, March 16, 2020. Millions of people are holing up at home, stocki...
 People, keeping a distance, queue in line in front of a shop downtown Madrid, Monday, March 16, 2020. Millions of people are holing up at home, stocking up on supplies and keeping a wary eye on how close they get to friends and neighbors as the coronavirus spreads to more places. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

 Passengers walk in a train station in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, March 16, 2020. Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, says the governme...
 Passengers walk in a train station in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, March 16, 2020. Spain's interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, says the government will re-establish land borders for people starting at midnight on Monday, allowing only the return of residents in Spain. For most people, the new COVID-19 coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

 MADRID (AP) — The morning rush-hour scene at Madrid’s Atocha train station this week perfectly captured the dilemma facing Europe as it confronts the coronavirus.
 Governments have locked down commerce, beefed up health care measures and earmarked billions of euros into Europe's famed safety nets to cushion the economic blow to businesses and blue-collar workers alike from measures meant to contain the virus.
 But trimmed commuter train schedules at Atocha, the main gateway into the Spanish capital for the working classes, meant that huge crowds formed on the platforms, defeating the government’s appeal for “social distancing." Layoffs looming and real meant that those who still had work reported for duty - with or without protective masks - even if they would have preferred to stay home.
 “I fear the coronavirus, but I fear more not being able to pay the utility bills,” said Mari Carmen Ramírez, 55, who was commuting to her 950-euro ($1,100) a month job as an office cleaner. “When this is all over, how are we going to eat?”
 As European governments pass sweeping spending measures to address the pandemic, they are being called on to look out for the workers who are not only losing their jobs - the waitresses and tour guides, hairdressers and hotel maids - but those who still must show up because they can't work from home. Europe’s famed safety nets are being stretched thin, at a time when many economies were already skirting recession and wealth gaps have grown.
 Will it be enough?
 Governments from Prague to Paris, Lisbon to London are deferring tax payments, approving short-term unemployment schemes and paid sick leave to cover even those in preventive quarantine. Hardest-hit Italy approved 25 billion euros in measures, including vouchers for babysitters. The Czech government offered a 750-euro stipend for students studying abroad who opt to stay abroad through Easter. Denmark said it would pay 75% of employees’ salaries if companies promise not to fire staff.
 "This epidemic will be a catastrophe for all countries of the world," warned French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in announcing 45 billion euros ($50 billion) in aid for small businesses on top of the tens of billions already promised for individuals forced to stop working because of workplace closures.
 “The shock will be violent.”
 In Spain, now in second place in Europe after Italy in terms of infections, the left-wing coalition government is set to announce its economic measures Tuesday.
 Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is under pressure to increase government spending and announce subsidies and significant tax cuts to cushion the blow that has already seen German carmaker Volkswagen’s Spanish unit temporarily lay off more than 14,000 from its Martorell plant, near Barcelona. The company said the workers would be paid 80% of their wages until they are re-hired. More than 100,000 workers were affected by similar temporary layoff schemes across industries, Spain's Cinco Días business newspaper calculated.
 Spain is still feeling the aftereffects of the global financial crisis. While the percentage of people classified as economically vulnerable - those who are poor, face high debt or unemployment - inched down from 29% in 2013 to 26% in 2017, it is still much higher than the European Union average of 22%.
 “I have no gloves, no mask, but supermarkets are to remain open, we have been told,” said Génesis Suárez, a 25-year-old supermarket clerk who commutes from Atocha and whose father was fired from his construction job on Friday.
 “With my father at home, I need to contribute to the family’s cashbox. We are still going to receive the electricity bill at the end of the month, aren’t we?”
 The initial aid measures by governments and central banks focused on keeping the financial system running with interest rate cuts and injections of cash for banks.
 Governments have also pledged loans. Germany is offering at least 460 billion euros ($513 billion) in guarantees and like several other countries expanded a short-term work program that was successfully used during the 2008 financial crisis, helping companies keep people on the payroll.
 But again those measures help companies and are not addressing the needs of the most vulnerable: the poor but also manual laborers like cleaners and contractors without a fixed salary.
 “We have about 50% slump in food collection,” said Sabine Werth, head of the “Berliner Tafel” food bank in the German capital, where donations are drying up. Already seven of the food bank's 45 distribution points have closed, depriving the neediest of food close to home.
 While some governments, like those of France and Denmark, have promised to guarantee the majority of individuals' salaries, detail on how they will do that is still largely unclear - though urgent.
 Jim O’Neill, the former chief economist at Goldman Sachs who is now chair of the U.K.-based Chatham House think tank, said cash should be funnelled directly to people.
 That would be an evolution of the monetary stimulus central banks have been providing since the global financial crisis 12 years ago, in which they injected newly printed money into the banking system.
 “At the core of these views is the notion of giving money to people, especially lower income people, directly paid for by our central banks printing money,” he said in a note. “Until recently, I found myself having very little sympathy with these views but, as a result of COVID-19, I have changed my mind.”
 Governments, meanwhile, are bolstering and broadening existing safety nets.
 Britain will ensure workers are entitled to the legal minimum sick pay from the first day of illness rather than from day four. It's unlikely to be enough, however, since the legal minimum is a mere 94.25 pounds ($115) a week.
 An analysis by the Resolution Foundation think tank in Britain suggested that a typical self-employed worker could see income fall by three-quarters if forced into quarantine, while a typical worker eligible for the legal minimum would lose over two-thirds of normal pay.
 Governments are also postponing the payment of taxes, social insurance and mortgages and offering extra paid leave, though the measures appear to be piecemeal.
 ‘’Many Italians are in the front-line trenches: in the hospitals, in the factories and in the pharmacies, behind the cash registers at the supermarkets," Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said in a national address.
 ‘’No one will be abandoned,’’ he vowed.
 The workers reporting for the night shift at the Tenaris steel plant in Bergamo, Italy, felt more than abandoned. They felt terrified. They had been demanding for over a week to be allowed to take vacation rather than continue working with coronavirus claiming more infections in the province of Bergamo than anywhere else in Italy.
 Factories had been exempted from the government’s March 11 shutdown decree, meaning the blue-collar workers of Italy’s industrial heartland were forced to report for duty. Last week, workers at plants across Italy began going on strike or threatening to do so.
 “We were really afraid, to be sitting side-by-side for eight hours without knowing what the conditions were,” Tenaris steelworker Giambattista Morali said. “The company disinfected and gave us some more masks, but it wasn’t enough because we couldn’t guarantee that we’d be working one meter apart.”
 While many people suffer relatively mild symptoms from the virus, the mortality rate has been particularly high in Italy, thanks in part to its elderly population.
 The same health concerns abounded this week at the Atocha station, where railway officials weren’t doing anything to distance commuters jostling to catch their trains.
 “What is this?” wondered Antonio Galiano, a 38-year-old commuter. “Be serious, please, it’s our lives that are at stake.”
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 Winfield reported from Rome. Jan Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; Geir Moulson in Berlin, Colleen Barry in Soave, Italy; Pan Pylas in London, Angela Charlton and Sylvie Corbet, Elena Becatoros in Greece; Hadjicostis, Menelaos Hadjicostis in Nicosia, Cyprus; Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland contributed.

journalist: By ARITZ PARRA and NICOLE WINFIELD , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: "How are we going to eat?" Virus tests Europe's social nets


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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, file photo, a woman pumps gas at a convenience store in Pittsburgh. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lun...
 FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, file photo, a woman pumps gas at a convenience store in Pittsburgh. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday, March 15, 2020, that gas prices could continue to fall as demand shrinks amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. industrial production rose last month for the first time since November as chillier weather kept utiliities busy and an uptick in auto production pushed manufacturing output higher. The economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak was not apparent in the February numbers.
 The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that industrial production — including factories, utiliities and mines — rose 0.6% in February, reversing drops in December and January. Industrial production has been flat over the past year.
 Manufacturing production rose 0.1% as busier auto plants offset a drop in production of civilian aircraft, reflecting Boeing's decision to suspend production of the troubled 737 Max airliner. Factory production is still down 0.4% from February 2019.
 Utility output shot up 7.1% as unseasonably warm January gave way to colder weather last month. Mining output slid 1.5% but is up 2.1% over the past year.
 American industry is bracing for the impact of COVID-19, which is bringing ordinary economic life to a near halt as people isolate themselves, airlines cancel flights and public events are called off. On Monday, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that manufacturing activity in New York state dropped this month to the lowest level since the recession year 2009.

journalist: By PAUL WISEMAN , AP Economics Writer, Associated Press

title: US industrial production rises 0.6% in February


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Tourists cover their faces in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbre...
 Tourists cover their faces in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbreak of Covid-19 virus. For most people, the new COVID-19 coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 A man dressed as St Patrick walks past a closed bar in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed late Su...
 A man dressed as St Patrick walks past a closed bar in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed late Sunday to try and tackle the spread of Covid-19. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 A man dressed as St Patrick walks past a closed Temple bar in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed ...
 A man dressed as St Patrick walks past a closed Temple bar in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed late Sunday to try and tackle the spread of Covid-19. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 A woman wears a face mask in a restaurant in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled du...
 A woman wears a face mask in a restaurant in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbreak of Covid-19 virus. For most people, the new COVID-19 coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause more severe illness.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 Tourists pose for friends in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March, 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbre...
 Tourists pose for friends in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March, 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbreak of Covid-19 virus. For most people, the new COVID-19 coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 Workers begin boarding up a pub in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed late Sunday to try and tack...
 Workers begin boarding up a pub in Dublin city centre, Monday, March, 16, 2020. All pubs in the Republic of Ireland closed late Sunday to try and tackle the spread of Covid-19. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 A tourist poses for friends at Temple Bar in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March, 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled d...
 A tourist poses for friends at Temple Bar in Dublin city centre, Tuesday March, 17, 2020. The St Patrick's Day parades across Ireland were cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19 virus. For most people, the new COVID-19 coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

 DUBLIN (AP) — St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world have fallen victim to the new coronavirus — but even a pandemic could not quash the desire to celebrate the color green, Guinness and all things Irish.
 Parades and parties were canceled around the globe Tuesday as governments imposed restrictions on human contact to slow the spread of the virus.
 Irish authorities called off Dublin’s parade, which usually draws half a million revelers into the streets of the capital city, and pleaded with people not to congregate at house parties. Thousands of pubs across Ireland have been closed as part of measures to fight COVID-19, tens of thousands of pints of Guinness will go un-poured and 140,000 people who work in pubs, restaurants and childcare are unemployed, at least temporarily.
 But even in a time of social distancing and self-isolation, the desire to mark the day bloomed.
 Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTE, urged people to post footage of their improvised, isolated celebrations on social media. The hashtag #RTEVirtualParade soon became a riot of flag-waving family processions, pets in green, white and orange tricolors and children performing Irish dancing.
 Peter Hynes, a dairy farmer in County Cork, southwest Ireland, assembled his family for a makeshift procession through the farmyard that included a child in a wheelbarrow, a calf, a pony, a quad bike and a young man banging a bucket as a drum.
 “We just kind of grabbed whatever we could use as props,” said Hynes, who lives on the farm with his wife and three daughters aged 6 to 16. “We just wanted to fly the Irish flag around the world, because that’s what’s done on St. Patrick’s Day every year.
 “We didn’t think it would get the reaction it did. But to see the messages coming from Italy and Spain and Australia, and people in quarantine — it just put a smile on their face. That’s all we wanted to do.”
 In the U.K., London’s St. Patrick's Day festival in Trafalgar Square was called off, and the government urged Britons not to visit bars and restaurants but did not formally shut them down.
 In the U.S., New York’s giant parade was canceled for the first time in its 258-year history. Other cities including Chicago and Boston also scrapped their long-established parades.
 Still, landmarks around the world, including Sydney Opera House, the London Eye and The Colosseum in Rome, were lit up in green as part of Tourism Ireland’s “Global Greening” project.
 “We hope our Global Greening will bring a little positivity and hope to people everywhere and remind them that, if we all do the right thing now by following advice of our medical experts, this crisis will pass,” said chief executive Niall Gibbons.
 In his annual St. Patrick’s Day message, Irish President Michael D. Higgins urged people to show “solidarity and concern for the well-being of our fellow citizens” as they marked the country’s patron saint.
 “St Patrick's Day has become a profound expression of a common history that extends far beyond Irish shores,” he said. “As members of that global community, we must commit to working in a spirit of solidarity and co-operation, joining with citizens across the world in fighting this global health emergency.”
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 Jill Lawless reported from London.
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journalist: By PETER MORRISON and JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press

title: Virus dampens St. Patrick's Day revels around the world


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TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan soccer, who is also the vice-chairman of the Japan Olympic Committee, has tested positive for the coronavirus and apologized for possibly infecting others.
 "I have slight fever and pneumonia ... but otherwise I'm doing fine," Kozo Tashima said in a statement released by the Japan Football Association on Tuesday.
 Tashima visited Europe and the U.S. on football business from Feb. 28-March 8. He got himself tested after learning on Saturday that Serbian soccer association president Slavisa Kokeza, whom he said he was seated near at the UEFA general meeting in Amsterdam, was infected with COVID-19. Swiss soccer president Dominique Blanc, who also tested positive on Saturday, was also there.
 Tashima apologized to Japan Football Association officials, staff, and journalists whom he has had contact with at conferences and meetings for the past week without knowing he was infected.
 “By facing squarely with the disease, I hope to contribute to eliminating prejudice against the new coronavirus," he said. “I will cooperate in various research for the disease, and I will be back.”
 The 62-year-old Tashima first visited Belfast, Ireland, to attend an annual meeting of the International Football Association Board. He had a presentation at the UEFA meeting in Amsterdam on March 2, went to the U.S. for women's soccer events, and arrived back in Tokyo on March 8. He went to his office several times last week to prepare for a board meeting.
 “In Amsterdam and elsewhere in Europe in early March, there was not as much nervousness over the coronavirus as now, and everyone was hugging, shaking hands and exchanging kisses,” he said in the statement.
 He said he disclosed his infection because he had to inform people he had contact with, and that he didn’t want to cause trouble to his neighbors. Such revelation is unusual in a country where prejudice against infectious diseases are strong, and patients and their families most often remain anonymous to avoid harassment.
 “At a time when many people around the world contracted the virus and are fighting the disease, I have decided to firmly face this,” Tashima said.
 For most people the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for some, especially older adults and those with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.
 The vast majority of those who are infected recover from the new virus. According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.
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journalist: By MARI YAMAGUCHI , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Japan soccer chief gets coronavirus after Europe, US trip


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A sign hangs in the window at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Woodmere Village, Ohio. All bars and restaurants in Ohio will be clos...
 A sign hangs in the window at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Woodmere Village, Ohio. All bars and restaurants in Ohio will be closed until further notice, said Gov. Mike DeWine, who is taking a tough stance on trying to stem the coronavirus saying "if we don't take these actions now, it'll be too late." (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

 A sign for "carryout only" hangs on a door leading into The Original Pancake House, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Woodmere Village, Ohio. All bars and re...
 A sign for "carryout only" hangs on a door leading into The Original Pancake House, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Woodmere Village, Ohio. All bars and restaurants in Ohio will be closed until further notice, said Gov. Mike DeWine, who is taking a tough stance on trying to stem the coronavirus saying "if we don't take these actions now, it'll be too late." (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

 Custodian Patti Alesci cleans desks at Orange High School, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday ordered eve...
 Custodian Patti Alesci cleans desks at Orange High School, Monday, March 16, 2020, in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday ordered every school in Ohio to close for three weeks beginning at day's end Monday. DeWine says it's possible Ohio schools may be closed for the rest of the academic year. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A week before Ohio recorded any coronavirus cases, Gov. Mike DeWine delivered his first warning, banning spectators from an international fitness and bodybuilding festival that brings in more than $50 million for the state's largest city.
 Organizers of the annual Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus pushed back, and critics called DeWine an alarmist, but he didn't budge. In the following week, he was the first governor to shut down schools statewide and also moved to keep fans away from the NCAA men's basketball tournament first-round games in Ohio, along with NBA and NHL games in the state, before the organizations all canceled or postponed their seasons.
 His latest moves: ordering all bars and restaurants to stop serving dine-in customers and effectively shutting down the state's presidential primary Tuesday by first going to the courts and then having the state's health director declare a health emergency.
 Now the Republican's early directives to restrict the movements of residents are being proved prophetic, and many other governors are following his lead while trying to temper the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that has infected more than 183,000 people worldwide and killed more than 7,100.
 “Everybody has to make their call and what they think is the right thing to do,” DeWine said Monday. “This is a time when every governor understands the gravity of what they are doing.”
 Business groups that are certain to take a financial hit are largely praising his decisions. So are the state's Democrats, who are quick to compare DeWine's serious and somber tone with President's Donald Trump's early attempts to downplay the virus as something similar to the seasonal flu.
 Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper thanked DeWine and other governors on Twitter for "stepping in to lead in absence of traditional presidential leadership.”
 At age 73, DeWine is familiar to Ohioans, though he has been little known on the national stage. He has been elected to almost every office along the way to the governor's seat, including the U.S. Senate.
 “For someone who's spent a lifetime shaking hands and trying to talk with people, this is tough. But if I can learn to do it, everybody else can too,” he said last week while advising Ohioans to practice social distancing.
 Not everyone is happy with him. Some Democrats are calling for all-absentee voting instead of a delay the primary until as late as June. Many food industry workers and owners complained on social media about how his order will kill their businesses.
 Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, also a Republican, questioned on Twitter why DeWine didn't instead reduce the number of people allowed in bars and restaurants. But he later told The Associated Press he wasn't going to criticize the governor.
 “I’m certain he has much more information regarding the severity of the situation than the rest of us,” Householder said.
 As of Monday, there were 50 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Ohio, but no reported deaths.
 For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover.
 In DeWine's daily news briefings, streamed live so ordinary residents can pop in, he strikes a somber but not panicked tone, calmly reciting the latest statistics and frequently deferring to his health director, Dr. Amy Acton, to answer specific questions.
 But with each passing day, DeWine has made a point to emphasize the gravity of what the nation is facing.
 “Delay means more people will die," he said Sunday. ”Literally every day we delay, the data clearly shows that more people will die."
 More than that, he said, the Ohio health care system “will not hold up" for others with urgent needs, such as those with strokes or heart attacks.
 His briefings sometimes run over an hour as DeWine, Acton and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted take questions from reporters and offer detailed explanations.
 “On the front end of a pandemic you look a little bit like an alarmist, you look a little bit like a Chicken Little, the sky is falling,” Acton said last week. “And on the back end of a pandemic, you didn’t do enough.”
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 Seewer reported from Toledo. Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus contributed. The Associated Press receives support for health and science coverage from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

journalist: By JOHN SEEWER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Ohio governor's early actions on virus now winning praise


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Conmebol President Alejandro Dominguez gives an interview at the soccer organization's headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Domí...
 Conmebol President Alejandro Dominguez gives an interview at the soccer organization's headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Domínguez expressed reservations with the new format set up for the FIFA club world championship recently announced by FIFA. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

 SAO PAULO (AP) — The Copa America was postponed until 2021 on Tuesday because of the coronavirus outbreak.
 South American soccer body CONMEBOL said the tournament in Colombia and Argentina will be played between June 11 and July 11 — the same dates as the postponed European Championship.
 “It is an extraordinary measure for an unexpected situation, and it answers the fundamental need to avoid an exponential development of the virus, which is already present in all countries that are members of the confederation,” CONMEBOL President Alejandro Domínguez said in a statement.
 “We also thank UEFA and its president, Aleksander Čeferin, for the joint work and the coordinated decision to also postpone Euro 2020 for the benefit of all the soccer family.”
 The last Copa America was played in Brazil in 2019 and won by the hosts. This year's edition was expected to open a new era with the tournament every four years, at the same time as the European Championship.
 CONMEBOL had already suspended its club competitions, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana, because of the outbreak.
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journalist: By MAURICIO SAVARESE , AP Sports Writer, Associated Press

title: Copa America postponed to 2021 because of coronavirus


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「國之將亡，必有妖孽」。幾年前，香港社會上已出現「 這個城市正步向死亡」（This city is dying）的說法。今天，香港仍未死，但妖氣沖天，出現不少荒誕怪異的現象，立法會議員何君堯近日牽頭推動基本法23條立法，目標是在現屆立法會7月任期完之前通過，是一個例子。

何君堯近日接受《亞洲周刊》訪問，文章題為〈基本法23條立法又掀熱議〉，他指及時立法能幫助香港戰勝疫情，化解當下社會危機，現時正是推出23條的最佳時機。新型冠狀病毒仍是一個謎，科學家仍在努力分析研究疫苗，戰勝病毒，何君堯說23條立法可戰勝疫情、化解危機，匪夷所思。沒有最荒謬，只有更荒謬。

他在訪問中表示，香港正處於關鍵時刻，必須要規管任何危害國家安全和破壞公共安寧的行為，23條可以成為良方。何君堯與香港政研會、新界關注大聯盟等團體近日成立「23同盟」，在網上發起支持 23 條立法聯署，聲稱聯署人數已達一百萬人。傳媒報道，約只有四分一是港人，其餘是內地人。

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同盟於周日在全港十八區設街站收集簽名，目標是取得200萬人聯署支持。簽名並沒有掀起什麼熱潮，新界關注大聯盟「私人送出」口罩「幫吓市民」倒引起一番熱鬧，防暴隊出動維持秩序，「光頭劉sir 」警長劉澤基與fans合照，加添笑料和鬧劇味道。不少傳媒只作政治八卦新聞處理，社交媒體上網民亦視作政治笑話一樁。

「23 同盟」不但認為立法可抗疫，更可解決一大堆他們認為是問題的問題，建議就 2003 年的 23 條草案進行修訂，包括新增禁止發放假新聞、禁止在任何公共示威配戴口罩、禁止在公眾場所侮辱執法者、禁止公務員參加反政府活動、禁止在緊急情況下發動罷工等條文。23 條變成「靈丹妙藥」，超越23條內容，打著立法違憲立法，有製造混亂、趁火打劫之嫌。

何君堯將一堆親中政黨根本提出的立法要求加進23條內容，大有綑綁味道，但「23 同盟」內卻不見民建聯、工聯會、新界社團聯會等名字，亦不見他們出席記會或公開和應，要求在7月前立法；與中聯辦關係密切的《文匯報》、《大公報》亦未見鋪天蓋地文宣，顯然並非「西環」意願。疫情全球爆發，香港正面對第二波社區感染個案，假如特首林鄭月娥提出法察，或同意何君堯以私人法案提出，形同政治自殺，與港人攬炒。

何君堯在訪問中承認，搶先立法與9月立法會選舉有關，因為如果建制派再大敗，「港獨分子佔領把持立法會，到時特區政府變成跛腳鴨，香港形同淪陷」。諷刺的是，香港將面對一段不短的動盪不安、最差的日子，他卻視為「最佳時機 」推23條立法，添煩添亂，民主派支持者更憤怒，溫和「藍絲」 也反感，更多會轉「黃」，投民主派；何君堯奪取23條議題， 或可取得「深藍」愛國人士票，保住議席，換來建制再一場大敗。何君堯保自己，勢將重創建制派，為泛民助選。

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title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


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title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


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title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


events: 放假 選舉 冠狀病毒 罷工 死亡

title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


events: 死亡 選舉 放假 冠狀病毒 罷工

title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


events: 選舉 放假 冠狀病毒 罷工 死亡

title: 眾新聞 | 何君堯推23條求自保　拖累建制為泛民助選


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新北市長侯友宜以「超前部署」推動防範新冠肺炎疫情，由新北市護理師護士公會理事長周繡玲帶領退休護理師一起站出來號召成立的「新北護理防疫隊」，今 (17)日正式成軍，向防疫指揮官侯友宜宣示要加入防疫行列、和一線醫護人員並肩作戰。侯友宜以授證感謝這群當仁不讓的勇者，願意再度挺身而出且號召所有退休或不在職的護理師一同加入戰線、守護台灣。

侯友宜表示，一直以來，他都以視同已發生社區感染的最壞打算，超前部署、讓第一線防疫人員全力備戰。正因為新北市用最謹慎的備戰態度打這場戰役，需要更多護理人力一起推動防疫工作，未來面對疫情更加嚴峻對醫療系統造成嚴重衝擊時，亦能保持醫療量能、敏捷防疫。

周繡玲指出，新北護理防疫隊的工作內容包括電話向居家隔離者進行健康關懷、提供防疫衛生教育及照顧資訊、協助疫情調查、發送居家隔離單與防疫手機等工作。若疫情發展為大規模社區傳播，新北市依中央流行疫情指揮中心指示設立「隔離收治中心」收治輕症病患時，護理防疫隊將進一步協助隔離收治中心的各項護理工作。

新北市衛生局長陳潤秋表示，防疫有賴政府、民間、一線人員戮力齊心，新北護理防疫隊的成立旨在號召已退離的護理同仁們一起加入防疫行列，成為新北防疫機制最堅強的後盾，要全力讓台灣順利渡過疫情危機。

journalist: 王峻昌

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北 新北市

title: 防疫做伙來！新北退休護理人員組隊協力守護台灣 | 政治


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本集主要内容：
 蒋欣童站在山头遥望，等待罗永泽，却久久没有看到心上人归来。那云花劝蒋欣童回去休息，安慰蒋欣童，罗永泽肯定是因为事情耽搁了。蒋欣童遗憾难过，那云花提议，不妨直接去北京找罗永泽，蒋欣童没有回应，而是选择一直站在山顶等待。
（《远方的山楂树》 第16集）

journalist: 任凭

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第16集_CCTV节目官网-电视剧_央视网(cctv.com)


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本集主要内容：
 罗永泽在信中让蒋欣童照顾好自己，蒋欣童称已经做好了面对困难的准备。蒋欣童想要打掉孩子，可是还差医院的诊断书。由于蒋欣童害怕医院查出自己的孩子并不是出意外那天夜里怀上的，一直不敢去医院做诊断。
（《远方的山楂树》 第15集）

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第15集_CCTV节目官网-电视剧_央视网(cctv.com)


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本集主要内容：
 罗永泽让蒋欣童去找宋赫男母亲把孩子做掉，蒋欣童碍于面子不愿意这么做。罗永泽要蒋欣童放下尊严，为前程考虑，蒋欣童相信未来一切都会雨过天晴。蒋欣童决定要把孩子生下来，罗永泽坚决反对，并跟蒋欣童发生冲突，罗永泽的态度让蒋欣童失望，两个人因此闹得不欢而散。
（《远方的山楂树》 第17集）

title: 《远方的山楂树》 第17集_CCTV节目官网-电视剧_央视网(cctv.com)