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5月第2個星期日是一年一度的母親節，預祝各位辛苦的媽媽勞工佳節快樂。

當肩挑工作、家庭重任的職業婦女，歷經懷胎十月，再重返職場，無疑是漫長且需要充分休養的過程。從法律的角度，懷孕、生產到產後，配偶與雇主又有哪些不可忽視的勞動權益呢？

當女性決定成為母親，不只面臨身體考驗，更要面臨職場潛在風險。對此我國法律針對懷孕、生產等不同時期，提供包含休假、薪資與工作內容限制等勞動規範，希望減少媽媽們在工作與職場之間所面臨的壓力。而且事實上，在現代「性別友善」理應成為基本原則的職場環境裡，男性工作者或雇主更應該銘記在心。

首部曲：懷孕

1. 工作時間

如果女性勞工發現自己懷孕，首先要注意工作時間。根據《勞動基準法》（簡稱勞基法）第49條，懷孕女性勞工夜間工作，也就是晚上10點到隔天上午6點，基本上是絕對禁止，加班或值夜班都是如此。也就是說，原本值夜班的女性勞工，勢必要調整原本上班時間。

2. 職務調動

在工作內容上，可以要求雇主將其轉調較為輕易的職務或業務，例如調為日班。根據《勞基法》第51條，在懷孕期間，如果勞工主動申請轉調比較輕易的工作，「雇主不得拒絕，並不得減少其工資」。值得注意的是，條文並未要求雇主主動調整職務，因此準媽媽們如有需求，切記應主動提出。

3. 不得歧視

雇主不可因為女性懷孕而給予差別待遇。雖然過去不乏懷孕期間遭到解雇或留職停薪的爭議，但我國《性別工作平等法》第11條規定，在訂定勞動契約時，雇主不得與勞工約定「一旦結婚、懷孕」就離職、留職停薪，甚至解雇等規定，也不得在升遷或分發或考績上給予歧視待遇。

4. 產檢假/陪產假
女性懷孕期間，根據性別工作平等法第15條，懷孕期間應該給予5天產檢假，另外在女性勞工生產時，配偶也有5天的陪產假。產檢假還可以依女性勞工的選擇，拆為10個半天或是40個小時去實施，這兩種假別雇主應該照給薪資。

5. 安胎休養假

如果產檢過程中，醫師診斷需安胎休養，則可以根據醫師所開的證明，另外請安胎休養假。不過安胎休養假與產檢假不同，根據《勞工請假規則》，勞工安胎休養假應該列入病假計算，如果是從薪資來算，一年內病假在30天內給予半薪，如果超過30天則不予計薪。

6. 避免危險業務

若從事比較危險的業務的女性工作者，例如重物處理，或在有害幅射、化學物、甚至微生物環境下工作者，更應該避免在懷孕期間從事這類的工作。以量販店的工作為例，「搬運重物」可能是最常面對的工作。懷孕女性在搬運重物上也有明確規定，如果是斷續性地搬動重物，不可超過10公斤；如果是持續性的作業，則不可超過6公斤。

二部曲：生產

當媽媽勞工順利生產，與她最切身相關的勞動權益，非產假莫屬。根據性別工作平等法第15條，如果是「分娩」（懷孕滿20週以上），就給予8週，也就是從生產開始算56天的產假。

如果懷孕未滿20週，不幸流產，法律同樣給予產假保障。根據性別工作平等法第15條：懷孕3個月以上流產者，有4個星期產假；如果是2個月以上，未滿3個月者，產假1星期；若未滿2個月，則為5天。

薪資計算方式上，則還要加上「雇用時間長短」的變數。不論是否順利分娩，如果母親受雇期間在6個月以上，產假期間工資照給；若受雇期間未滿6個月則為半薪。

如果懷孕未滿3個月即流產者，根據勞動部函示，由勞資雙方協商。最極端的狀況下，雇主確實可以不給，惟雇主不得視為缺勤而影響其全勤獎金、考績或為其他不利處分。但反過來說，勞工也有權利改請病假，也就是說，一年內如果未滿30天，還是有半薪。對於配偶而言，也有陪產假的部分，陪產假薪資照給。

三部曲：產後養育

媽媽勞工產後雖然順利回到工作崗位，但上下班時間勢必配合小朋友作息，另外工作時除了需要多休息，還得額外撥出時間哺餵母乳。因此根據勞基法與性別工作平等法規定，有幾項權益是需要注意的：

1. 哺（集）乳

正如本專欄在2月號提到的「哺乳時間」規定，如果子女未滿2歲需要親自哺乳者，除了原本勞基法規定的休息時間外，雇主應每天另外給予哺乳時間總計60分鐘，並且視為工作時間，不得扣薪。若在正常工時外延長工時超過一小時以上者，雇主也要另外給予哺乳時間30分鐘。

另外如果公司員工人數在100人以上，就應該設置哺集乳室，另外也應該提供托兒設施，或採取適當之托兒措施，例如與外部機構合作，提供員工托兒服務。

2. 工作時間

媽媽在工作時間安排也能適度調整。如果子女不滿3歲，且公司人數在30人以上，可以請求以下兩項調整之一：

(1)每天減少工作時間1小時，但不可請求報酬
(2)調整工時，例如從原本的「朝九晚六」，改為「朝八晚五」

3. 家庭照顧假

如果小孩遇到疾病或重大事故，需要受雇者親自照顧，也可以臨時請「家庭照顧假」。根據《性別工作平等法》第20條，家庭照顧假併入事假計算，一年最多7天，與事假合計一年不得超過14天，且均不給薪。二者不同之處在於，家庭照顧假不應列入員工出勤考績，也不應影響全勤考績或是其他相關處分。

4. 育嬰留停

如果父母在每個子女3歲以前，認為有親自照顧必要，也可以根據《性別工作平等法》第16條只要受雇期間達6個月，就可以申請育嬰留職停薪，最長不得超過2年。如果有子女在2人以上，最長以最幼子女受撫育2年為限。

育嬰留停期間，受雇者一樣可以享有社會保險，原本由雇主負擔的保險費部分，則轉由政府負擔，如果勞工有另外提撥退休金比例，則得延後3年繳納。並得依就業保險法第19-2條規定領取依平均月投保薪資60％計算、六個月的育嬰留停津貼。
留停結束後，除非面對特殊狀況，雇主不得拒絕復職。

雖然大多生育相關勞動法規與「媽媽」有關，但事實上「沒有人是局外人」，現代男性也應該分擔養育責任。因此，上述這些從懷孕、生產到養育的過程，不僅女性要注意，另一半更得謹記在心。

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title: 安胎假、產假到底可以請幾天？別再霧煞煞！懷孕生子、產後育嬰，準媽媽勞工權益一次看懂


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President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator,speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press...
 President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator,speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

 President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Pres...
 President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

 President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Pres...
 President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was having none of that.
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 But Gostin, the Georgetown expert, said it’s not realistic that the country will return to such normalcy soon.
 “The president''s guidance is not entirely irresponsible,” Gostin said. “It’s also not a national plan.”
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 Madhani reported from Chicago.
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 EDITOR'S NOTE — Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. Stobbe has covered medicine for the AP for 15 years.

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 “With the ongoing public health emergency, it is more important than ever for law enforcement to build trust with communities of color,” the senators said in the letter, which was first shared with The Associated Press.
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 African Americans are roughly 14% of the population in the areas included in the analysis.
 Since the CDC issued its recommendations on April 3, several states, including New York, New Jersey and California, began requiring people to wear masks when riding public transportation, visiting grocery stores and pharmacies, or in other spaces where it is difficult to be socially distant.
 Less than one week after the CDC’s mask recommendations, two black men in surgical masks recorded themselves being followed by a police officer as they left a Walmart in Wood River, Illinois. In another incident, an African American doctor who wore a mask as he volunteered to test homeless people for COVID-19 was handcuffed and detained by police outside his home in Miami, Florida.
 Black men also are reportedly being harassed for not wearing face coverings. A day after the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority began requiring customers to wear facial coverings on buses and trains, an African American man without a mask was seen on video being forcibly dragged from a bus by Philadelphia transit officers.
 These incidents suggest mask requirements “could expose Black Americans to unfair and dangerous treatment from law enforcement,” Harris, a former prosecutor, said in an email to the AP.
 “We can’t let this become a bigger problem,” she said.
 Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union of more than 330,000 members, pushed back on the senators’ request. He said the vast majority of the nation’s police officers already receive anti-bias training.
 “In the circumstances we currently find ourselves in, I find it troubling that anyone is asking the nation’s already overworked officers to take time out of their work for training, based on a few allegations of improper conduct,” Pasco said in a phone interview. “This seems like political opportunism, at the least opportunistic time for the country.”
 The FBI asked for more time to respond to a request for comment.
 Systemic racism and discrimination in law enforcement isn’t a new issue. However, various studies of criminal justice data show that African Americans are more likely than whites to be pulled over by police, and are as much as three times more likely to be searched. They have also been arrested and shot by officers at twice the rate of whites.
 In the email, Harris, who is black, said the onus cannot be on black men to ensure that taking precautions against the virus outbreak doesn’t also make them vulnerable to biased policing.
 “We need to place more responsibility on the system, particularly in this moment,” she said. “During this crisis, it is more important than ever for law enforcement to prioritize building relationships of trust with the communities they serve.”
 The letter to the Justice Department and FBI was also signed by Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Ben Cardin of Maryland.
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 Aaron Morrison is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aaronlmorrison.

journalist: By AARON MORRISON , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Senators urge anti-bias police training over mask fears


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FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 file photo Leipzig's Tyler Adams controls the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between RB Leipzig...
 FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 file photo Leipzig's Tyler Adams controls the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between RB Leipzig and FC Augsburg in Leipzig, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

 FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 file photo Leipzig's Tyler Adams controls the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between RB Leipzig...
 FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 file photo Leipzig's Tyler Adams controls the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between RB Leipzig and FC Augsburg in Leipzig, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

 BERLIN (AP) — United States midfielder Tyler Adams picked the wrong time to be the fittest he’s been all season.
 With the Bundesliga suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak, Adams is unsure when he will be able to play a competitive game for Leipzig again, or even if the season can be completed.
 The 21-year-old Adams missed almost the whole of the first half of the season because of a groin injury, then suffered a calf injury in February after five Bundesliga appearances.
 He returned on March 10 to make his Champions League debut against Tottenham, setting up the last goal in Leipzig’s 3-0 win.
 But the team hasn’t played since. The Bundesliga is in limbo with nine rounds remaining.
 “It’s been a bit of a whirlwind,” Adams said by video link on Friday.
 He has been using the time off to complete what he calls his preseason, working on his fitness at home before training resumed in small groups at Leipzig’s ground.
 “I’m really building up to my full capability,” Adams said. “Right now the body feels great, I feel fully recovered from any past injuries. My mental state is clear. I’m just focused on being able to play again.”
 Germany has strict social distancing measures in place. Training is in in groups of three or four -– always while maintaining appropriate distance.
 “It’s a little bit tricky. You can only do certain passing drills. You can do dribbling, you can do running and fitness, finishing. So you have all the individual variables of what it’s like to play in a game, but at the same time, it’s never gonna be 11 vs. 11, right now,” Adams said. “That’s the thing that hurts.”
 New York has become a hotspot for the virus in the U.S. with more than 123,000 cases of COVID-19 registered and nearly 11,500 deaths by Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
 Adams worries about his family back home, but said it was fortunate they live an hour and a half outside the city.
 “It’s not too, too bad there yet, but the numbers there are still increasing. It’s a scary thing. My parents have my brothers at home with them, keeping them occupied … but right now they’re safe,” the player said. “It’s hard. You miss your family, you hope everyone’s safe.”
 Adams joined Leipzig in January 2019 from New York Red Bulls and quickly established himself as a starter in the German side’s midfield. Despite ill luck with injuries this season, Leipzig handed Adams a pay rise and extended his contract last month to 2025.
 The Bundesliga title was attainable before the league was suspended. Leipzig is just five points behind defending champion Bayern Munich.
 Bundesliga clubs were hoping to return to play in May without spectators, but this week the ban on large gatherings was extended to Aug. 31, affecting the start of the 2020-21 Bundesliga, too.
 Playing without fans wouldn’t be a problem for Adams.
 “I’ve played in the USL (United Soccer League in the U.S.), so there were a lot of empty stadiums at the time,” he said. “Being able to go out and play would be a great feeling, but you only want to do so when it keeps everybody safe -– all the players, all the staff involved in running games, and of course the fans. If we continue to play with no spectators, and that keeps them safe, then I would be glad to do that.”
 Adams is in regular contact with Weston McKennie, Erik Palmer-Brown at Austria Wien, and other American players who are overseas.
 “It’s been unique to see what they’re going through. For (Palmer-Brown) they haven’t even had the opportunity to train again. They haven’t even been able to leave the house for a run," Adams said. "Fortunately enough in Germany, we’re still able to get out.”
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journalist: By CIARÁN FAHEY , AP Sports Writer, Associated Press

title: US midfielder Adams ruing virus-enforced 'whirlwind' break


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ROME (AP) — A court in Rome has agreed to a request by defense attorneys for a psychiatric examination for one of two young American men on trial for the slaying of an Italian police officer.
 Roberto Capra, a lawyer defending Finnegan Lee Elder, said the court at a trial hearing on Friday also granted another defense request for an expert to review the translation of intercepted conversations his client had in jail.
 Trial began in late February for Elder and his friend, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, both from California. The two were vacationing in Rome last summer when Carabiniere Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello was fatally stabbed. Prosecutors have alleged that Elder thrust a knife into the officer, while Natale Hjorth, now 19, scuffled with Cerciello's partner.
 The defendants have contended that they didn’t realize the other men were plainclothes police but mistook them for criminals following a thwarted cocaine sale hours earlier in a Rome nightlife district.
 Defense lawyers have complained that some of the translations of conversations intercepted in the jail were so poorly done that the meaning of the words play out in favor of the prosecution. Elder’s lawyer has also contended that transcripts prepared for the prosecution omitted conversations that his client had with family members and a personal U.S. lawyer lawyer that were deemed helpful to the defense.
 Friday’s hearing was held without journalists or other members of the public because of Italian government measures aimed at containing Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak. The next hearing was set for April 29.

title: Court in Rome orders psychiatric exam for U.S. man in trial


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In this April 15, 2020, photo, employees, wearing protective gloves and masks, walk to-go orders to waiting cars at Founding Farmers restaurant in Pot...
 In this April 15, 2020, photo, employees, wearing protective gloves and masks, walk to-go orders to waiting cars at Founding Farmers restaurant in Potomac, Md. Founding Farmers is closed to in-restaurant dining during the coronavirus outbreak but they are providing delivery, and curbside pick-up to-go, for meals and groceries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, wears a face shield as he is photographed through the window of his ...
 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, wears a face shield as he is photographed through the window of his restaurant in Potomac, Md. Simons added fresh produce and other grocery items to his Founding Farmers restaurants this month. Simons expects to continue grocery sales once his dining rooms reopen. He's also considering other ideas, like renting out the dining space for events. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

 In this April 16, 2020 photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they work in the kitchen at Little...
 In this April 16, 2020 photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they work in the kitchen at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to the day when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 In this April 16, 2020, photo, a staff member wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as she updates a sign showing that th...
 In this April 16, 2020, photo, a staff member wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as she updates a sign showing that the premises have been sanitized daily at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to the day when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, right, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, stands outside his restaurant in Potomac, Md., as an employee...
 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, right, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, stands outside his restaurant in Potomac, Md., as an employee walks a to-go order to a waiting car. Even before the pandemic, Simons said restaurants were struggling with the popularity of takeout and delivery, high labor costs and lower alcohol consumption among younger patrons. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, stands outside his restaurant in Potomac, Md. Founding Farmers is cl...
 In this April 15, 2020, photo, Dan Simons, one of the owners of Founding Farmers, stands outside his restaurant in Potomac, Md. Founding Farmers is closed to in-restaurant dining during the coronavirus outbreak but they are providing delivery, and curbside pick-up to-go, for meals and groceries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

 In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as they prepare a takeaway orde...
 In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as they prepare a takeaway order at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. Delivery is accelerating in China, indicating many people still want to eat at home. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 In this April 16, 2020, photo, a staff member wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as she carries bowls to a table at Li...
 In this April 16, 2020, photo, a staff member wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as she carries bowls to a table at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to the day when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 In this Thursday, April 16, 2020, photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they work in the kitche...
 In this Thursday, April 16, 2020, photo, staff members wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they work in the kitchen at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to the day when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 In this April 16, 2020, photo, customers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they sit at a table at Little Yunnan ...
 In this April 16, 2020, photo, customers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they sit at a table at Little Yunnan restaurant in Beijing. U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to the day when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

 The days of standing shoulder-to-shoulder at a bar or sharing a meal at a table for 10 are gone for now — and could take a long time to return even after the coronavirus pandemic ends.
 U.S. restaurants are thinking ahead to a time when their dining room doors reopen to a changed world. Owners say there may be physical differences, like masked waiters, disposable menus or fewer tables so patrons can sit farther apart. There will be signs explaining cleaning procedures and glass dividers to protect cashiers. Disinfectant wipes might sit next to napkin dispensers.
 “The pivot with my restaurants doesn’t anticipate a return to exactly what was,” said Dan Simons, the owner of Farmers Restaurant Group, which owns six restaurants, a bakery and a distillery in the Washington area and a restaurant in Pennsylvania.
 Restaurants that have reopened in Asia provide a blueprint. In Hong Kong, public gatherings are limited to four people, and restaurants must keep tables nearly 5 feet apart. Customers’ temperatures are taken at the door, and they are required to wear masks unless they’re eating or drinking.
 In Hefei, China, the La Ma Restaurant reopened March 17 but still checks diners’ temperatures and disinfects the premises every two to three hours, said employee Yang Gui. Business is down by half compared with before the outbreak, Yang said. As few as a dozen diners come some days; two-thirds of the staff have yet to return to work.
 That's changing the experience for diners. Rae Elloso, a teacher in Hong Kong, eats out occasionally because she feels it’s important to have social contact. Dining out is more peaceful now, she said, but also a little uncomfortable when some seating areas are blocked off.
 “When restaurants tape up chairs and tables, the impression I get as a diner is that they don’t want me there, even though I know this is not the case,” Elloso said.
 David Siu, who also lives in Hong Kong, has noticed that restaurants try to turn the tables over more quickly because they have less capacity.
 Delivery is also accelerating in China, indicating many people still want to eat at home. Spending on food at restaurants, convenience stores and other outlets dropped 30% in China in January and February, but delivery spending was up 10% in that period, according to NPD Group, a data and consulting firm.
 Takeout and delivery were already gaining in popularity in the U.S. before the pandemic with the introduction of apps like UberEats; that may accelerate if shell-shocked consumers stay home. Menus will likely be pared down, with more focus on food that travels well.
 John Gordon, founder of San Diego-based Pacific Management Consulting Group, which advises restaurants, thinks U.S. restaurants — like Asia's — will have to follow local guidelines when they reopen. Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested the state might require temperature checks and more distance between tables.
 Gordon says regulations about density will affect restaurants differently. Sit-down restaurants like Cheesecake Factory are designed to bring in a certain amount of money per square foot, so they would see their profitability drop. Fast food chains generally don’t have a lot of business in their dining rooms, so they may not feel as much impact.
 But with business down as much as 80% in the sector right now, Gordon said, most restaurants aren’t yet focused on the impact of potential regulations.
 “They’re just trying to survive to get to whatever the other side of this is,” he said.
 While they wait, some restaurants are already experimenting. Simons added fresh produce and other grocery items to his Founding Farmers restaurants this month. It was a big success. Simons has rehired 175 of his 1,100 staff members, and he's making 60% of pre-virus sales at one location and 80% at another between takeout and groceries.
 Simons expects to continue grocery sales once his dining rooms reopen. He's also considering other ideas, like renting out the dining space for events.
 Even before the pandemic, Simons said restaurants were struggling with the popularity of takeout and delivery, high labor costs and lower alcohol consumption among younger patrons.
 Overall traffic at U.S. restaurants was flat last year, according to NPD Group. But digital orders for takeout were up 33%, while digital orders for delivery rose 16%.
 With those numbers in mind, many restaurants were already shifting away from big dining rooms. In December, Applebee’s opened its first takeout- and delivery-focused restaurant in Mobile, Alabama. The store is half the size of a traditional Applebee’s, and all the food is packaged to go.
 Bent Hansen, the owner of Los Gringos Locos, a Mexican restaurant near Pasadena, California, says it will be up to restaurants to make diners feel comfortable. That will likely mean visible cleaning, fewer tables, touchless ordering and lots of hand sanitizer. He's also thinking of hiring his own delivery drivers so he can make sure cars are sanitized and the food is protected until it’s delivered.
 Restaurants will eventually bounce back, predicts Henry Pertman, director of operations at Total Image Creative, a Maryland-based hospitality consulting firm.
 “If you think this is going to make people want to cook their own meals while surfing the Food Channel, you’re wrong. You can only burn so many pot roasts,” he said.
 But some restaurants just can't make the math work right now. The Downtowner in Lafayette, Indiana, closed its dining room in mid-March and quickly abandoned takeout after getting only a handful of orders. Now the 69-year-old restaurant is shuttered until the crisis passes. Its six full-time employees are signing up for unemployment benefits.
 Still, Manager Yolanda Timmons said she’s optimistic that the restaurant will reopen when the outbreak recedes.
 “We’re going to have the biggest party when we can all get out,’’ Timmons said.
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 Wiseman reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Joe McDonald in Beijing, Zen Soo in Hong Kong and AP researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed to this report.

journalist: By DEE-ANN DURBIN and PAUL WISEMAN , AP Business Writers, Associated Press

title: US restaurants expect big changes when their doors reopen


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Ankith Deekollu, of Columbus, Ohio, installs equipment in a room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is r...
 Ankith Deekollu, of Columbus, Ohio, installs equipment in a room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. Deekollu's company, Mass Technology, is FEMA contractor and was hired to get the hospital ready. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 A view of the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP ...
 A view of the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 Ankith Deekollu, of Columbus, Ohio, installs equipment in a room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is r...
 Ankith Deekollu, of Columbus, Ohio, installs equipment in a room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. Deekollu's company, Mass Technology, is FEMA contractor and was hired to get the hospital ready. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 A view of a sign inside the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus ...
 A view of a sign inside the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 Gloria Oniha, Director of Nursing, gives a tour of a critical care hospital room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. T...
 Gloria Oniha, Director of Nursing, gives a tour of a critical care hospital room at UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 A Prince George County firefighter walks the halls of UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Mo...
 A Prince George County firefighter walks the halls of UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. While the main part of the Hospital closed, the Emergency Room remains open. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 A view of a sign inside the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus ...
 A view of a sign inside the UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 A worker moves a box inside UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus ...
 A worker moves a box inside UM Laurel Medical Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, April 17, 2020. The hospital is reopening on Monday to treat coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Long linked by proximity and the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who live and work in their jurisdictions, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia are now connected by the growing numbers of coronavirus cases they are battling.
 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke in a conference call Friday to discuss coordinating virus response effort. Hogan said the three officials have frequently spoken over the past month. Hogan also noted that their staffs are in daily contact.
 “While we may have individual differences about how we’re going after different things, the sharing of information, the willingness to try to cooperate on things that are of importance to the region has been terrific, and it has been throughout the crisis, and I think it's going to continue," Hogan said Friday after the call.
 Hogan noted that this was the deadliest week yet in the region in and around the nation's capital. He said the area has had more than 21,000 cases of coronavirus and 818 deaths.
 As states review guidelines from the White House aimed at easing restrictions in areas with low transmission of the coronavirus, cases in areas near the capital are “going up rather than down,” said Hogan, who is the chairman of the National Governors Association.
 “We’re all in some part of a phase of talking about the gradual reopening but not able to start that quite yet, and we all are in agreement that we want to do that in a way that’s cooperative," said Hogan, a Republican. "We understand that while each area is unique that there are certainly things that we have to do together as a region.”
 Northam, a Democrat, said at a news conference Friday that Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and the District would “do everything that we can to be in coordination and be consistent” when it comes to reopening the economy.
 “We share some of the same challenges, and we will do everything that we can to be in coordination and be consistent so we’ll be as straightforward as possible for everybody in this region,” Northam said.
 Northam said he, Hogan and Bowser had discussed coordinating regionally on when to lift restrictions on elective surgeries.
 “We want to be consistent because what we don’t want to happen is, if we do it sooner in one state than the other, then individuals will go to other states to have their surgery done," Northam said.
 Northam said Virginia does not meet the criteria to start even the first phase of the White House plan. To do so, the state would need its number of positive tests to be on a downward trend for 14 days.
 “We have not met that criteria. We’re still seeing more cases each day, not fewer. So we are not there yet,” he said.
 Governors in the Northeast and along the West Coast this week announced separate state compacts to coordinate how to begin reopening society amid the coronavirus pandemic. They did not announce specific plans on how to scale back stay-at-home orders or reopen businesses. Instead, both groups said they would coordinate those decisions while first considering the health of residents.
 Although Hogan, Northam and Bowser have not been as formal in announcing a compact, they have been working together for weeks. For example, the three signed a letter to President Donald Trump dated March 15, requesting that the president add the region as a priority location for a federally supported testing site.
 “The National Capital Region is home to over six million residents and the seat of of the federal government, with hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors serving the Department of Defense and other mission essential agencies,” the three wrote. “The health of the National Capital Region is a top priority for the continuity of our democratic government and critical to continuing federal government functions.”
 For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
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 Follow AP coverage of the virus outbreak at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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 Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin contributed to this report in Richmond, Virginia.

journalist: By BRIAN WITTE , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Maryland, Virgina and District coordinating virus response


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An ambulance passes a road block on a road leading to the San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people i...
 An ambulance passes a road block on a road leading to the San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to the new coronavirus, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 An ambulance of the San Raffaele health care and hospice structure drives past a road block on its way to the San Raffaele hospice after, according to...
 An ambulance of the San Raffaele health care and hospice structure drives past a road block on its way to the San Raffaele hospice after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to the new coronavirus, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 Drivers of a funeral hearse drive past a road block on a road leading to San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, o...
 Drivers of a funeral hearse drive past a road block on a road leading to San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to the new coronavirus, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 Drivers of a funeral hearse wear face masks to protect themselves from COVID-19 as they drive past a road block on a road leading to San Raffaele heal...
 Drivers of a funeral hearse wear face masks to protect themselves from COVID-19 as they drive past a road block on a road leading to San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to the new coronavirus, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 Police cordon off a road leading to San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive ...
 Police cordon off a road leading to San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to COVID-19, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 FILE - In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 file photo, a view of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio nursing home, in Milan, Italy. Italy’s health police say 100 of ...
 FILE - In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 file photo, a view of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio nursing home, in Milan, Italy. Italy’s health police say 100 of some 600 Italian nursing homes inspected since February aren’t up to norm, amid reports of hundreds of elderly dying in facilities across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the biggest case, concerning the 1,000-bed Pio Albergho Trivulzio facility in Milan, staff complained that management prohibited doctors and nurses from wearing protective masks, for fear of alarming residents. The facility has insisted it followed all security protocols and says it is cooperating with the investigation. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File )

 A view of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio nursing home in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Italy’s health ministry has sent inspectors to the country's...
 A view of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio nursing home in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Italy’s health ministry has sent inspectors to the country's biggest nursing home where 70 elderly people reportedly died in March alone while management allegedly downplayed the risk of infection of coronavirus. Italian daily Repubblica says Milan prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into alleged homicide at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio home. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

 ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy (AP) — The World Health Organization has called it a “massacre.” The Health Ministry sent in inspectors. Prosecutors are investigating, and an appalled mayor said the managers of a residential facility she ordered sealed had “jeopardized the life and health of the most fragile.”
 A scandal over coronavirus infections and deaths in Italy’s nursing homes took on broader dimensions Friday, with the National Institutes of Health conservatively estimating that at least 6,773 residents had died since Feb. 1, 40% of them either infected with the virus or with COVID-19 symptoms.
 The true number is higher, since the agency surveyed a fraction of Italy's eldercare homes and few residents of nursing homes nationwide were ever tested. But the institute's survey gave a sample of the toll since Feb. 1: In hard-hit Bergamo province, 534 residents died. The province of Milan reported 749 deaths in nursing homes.
 Some 36% of the thousands of deaths cited by the National Institutes of Health occurred in the second half of March, the period when infections were at their height in Italy and the country had the most virus-related deaths in the world.
 The latest nursing home to be placed under police-enforced quarantine was in the tiny town of Rocca di Papa, in the hills south of Rome. Five people have died at the San Raffaele home and 148 tested positive for the virus, compared to 11 confirmed infections in the rest of the town.
 “Inside it’s a ghost town,” recounted funeral home worker Luciano Bambino as he retrieved a body from the San Raffaele mortuary Friday. “The corridors, the gardens. It was deserted, spectral. They were all closed in, closed off from every point of view.”
 The facility was cordoned off and its residents and staff placed in quarantine, after the acting mayor, Veronica Cimino, said the management failed to cooperate when she asked for data about virus prevention measures. Then, it was determined that the nursing home's medical director lacked proper credentials for the job.
 Prosecutors finally were called in to investigate after virus-related data and documentation didn’t line up, police said. Ambulances came and went Friday to transport critical patients to a hospital.
 “It’s absurd that a private clinic has jeopardized the life and health of such fragile people,” Cimino told The Associated Press outside the facility. She said she was concerned for the residents inside and for their relatives, who have been prevented from visiting by government decree but also deprived of regular status updates from staff about the health of their loved ones.
 The facility, for its part, blamed the region for failing to provide virus tests for residents and staff members, said it had recently replaced the medical director and stated it was cooperating with authorities to turn the home into a COVID-19 facility.
 Criminal investigations of nursing home deaths and infections are underway elsewhere, including one targeting Italy's largest care facility, the 1,000-bed Pio Albergo Trivulzio home in Milan.
 Prosecutors got involved after staff reported that managers prevented them from wearing protective equipment and masks for fear of scaring the residents. The Trivulzio home has said it followed all security protocols.
 The governor of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, on Friday blamed unnamed “technicians” for a regional proposal he approved to send recovering COVID-19 patients to nursing homes to free up hospital beds. Unions representing medical workers have said the measure may have contributed to the infections at Trivulzio and elsewhere.
 Fontana insisted he had done nothing wrong and noted that the transfers were only authorized if the nursing homes could guarantee isolated spaces and dedicated staff.
 The Health Ministry launched its own investigation into the 143 Trivulzio deaths since March. It said it is seeking to determine if the hospital transfers violated ministry norms prohibiting the entry of possibly infected people into eldercare facilities .
 This week, the World Health Organization representative advising the Italian government, Dr. Ranieri Guerra, termed Italy's toll of nursing home deaths a “massacre.” He said the scandal must become an opportunity for the government to reassess how it cares for its elderly.
 “I am part of an organization that is asking the government the same thing: What happened and why?” he said.
 Relatives of residents want the same.
 The newly constituted Justice and Truth Committee for the Trivulzio Victims, launched by the son of a Trivulzio resident issued a public demand for information and action to immediately protect residents.
 “We want everything done to save our dear ones,” the group said in a statement.
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 Winfield reported from Rome.
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journalist: By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Dimension of virus 'massacre' in Italy nursing homes grows


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In this April 17, 2020 photo, a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 347th Quartermaster Company sews together a cloth face mask at Fort Bragg, N.C. ...
 In this April 17, 2020 photo, a U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 347th Quartermaster Company sews together a cloth face mask at Fort Bragg, N.C. Parachute riggers are constructing PPE, while continuing to support Fort Bragg's ongoing Airborne operations. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)

 In this April 17, 2020 photo, U.S. Army soldiers work to assemble face masks in a rigger shed on Fort Bragg, N.C. N C State University donated the 4,0...
 In this April 17, 2020 photo, U.S. Army soldiers work to assemble face masks in a rigger shed on Fort Bragg, N.C. N C State University donated the 4,000 meters being used to make the PPE being distributed to units across the base. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)

 In this April 17, 2020 photo, a mask covers the face of a U.S. Army Fort Bragg soldier as she sews PPE. Her unit has already constructed thousands of ...
 In this April 17, 2020 photo, a mask covers the face of a U.S. Army Fort Bragg soldier as she sews PPE. Her unit has already constructed thousands of masks since "Operation Dragon Mask" began last week on the North Carolina military installation. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)

 FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — It's become a competition for the soldiers of 647th Quartermaster Company to see who can crank out the most face masks during a shift to protect against the coronavirus.
 The parachute rigging unit is essential to Airborne operations at Fort Bragg. On any given day, their shed is filled with paratroopers in red ball caps, busy packing parachutes and readying supplies for jumps.
 While that work continues, soldiers across the room are laser focused on tiny pins and buzzing sewing machines. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, riggers are now making cloth face masks to fight the virus for personnel around the sprawling Army base in North Carolina.
 Initially, Company Commander Captain Anthony Williams set a goal for his soldiers to produce 600 masks a week. "With the soldiers and their adaptability and their resilience, we’re actually producing 600 masks a day,” Williams told The Associated Press.
 North Carolina State University donated 4,000 meters of unwoven material that's being used to construct new personal protective equipment.
 Underscoring the need for the protective equipment, Fort Bragg on Friday announced that a civilian employee and a contractor who worked at the base were the installation’s first two COVID-19 related deaths.
 The fabric makes its way through a multi-step process and is precisely handled, just as the parachutes riggers pack and troopers trust enough to strap on and jump out of an airplane.
 Williams has watched his soldiers embrace the process, some even volunteering to sit behind sewing machines for multiple shifts.
 “It shows you that you don’t necessarily have to be in combat to make an impact or overseas," he said. "You can do that right here in the United States.”
 Across base, the soldiers of the 188th Brigade Support Battalion are using 3D printers to build face shields.
 This PPE is being distributed by the 18th Airborne Corps to units and personnel across Fort Bragg at risk of coming in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus.
 Many have a connection to the virus. Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Manger thinks about his sister who is a physician in Maine. His face brightens when asked how he feels about helping people. “That's every day in the Army," Manger said. “Right now our medical community is the front line. And dang it, if it means producing masks for the medical community, we’re going to produce masks.”
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journalist: By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Fort Bragg soldiers make masks to fight coronavirus pandemic


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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sunday, April 5, 2020. López Obrador spoke to the nation a...
 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Sunday, April 5, 2020. López Obrador spoke to the nation about his economic recovery plan. The President, however, has labeled the situation a "transitory crisis" and says things will be good again soon. Mexico's government has broadened its shutdown of "non essential activities," and prohibited gatherings of more than 50 people as a way to help slow down the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo / Eduardo Verdugo)

 MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump has promised Mexico will be able to buy 1,000 ventilators and other intensive-therapy equipment used in treating severe cases of COVID-19.
 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he spoke with Trump Friday about Mexico’s request to purchase the machines, relatively few of which are available in Mexico.
 López Obrador wrote in his Twitter account that Trump “guaranteed me that by the end of this month we would 1,000, and we can acquire more.”
 López Obrador called it a “new gesture of solidarity with Mexico” and said, “I made the proposal that we could meet in June or July to personally express our appreciation.”
 "I send my affection to our countrymen and the people of the United States," López Obrador wrote, referring to the millions of Mexican migrants who live in the United States,
 Such a visit would be unusual, especially if it implied the Mexican leader would travel to the United States. López Obrador has eschewed trips abroad since he took office in December 2018.
 The left-leaning López Obrador has made good relations with the United States the cornerstone of his foreign policy, and the relationship between the two leaders has been surprisingly warm, considering their ideological differences.
 López Obrador has also gone to great lengths to help Trump on issues like migration, for example, by stopping migrant caravans and allowing migrants who apply for asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico.

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A medical worker prepares to test a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trin...
 A medical worker prepares to test a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 A medical worker waves goodbye after testing a young person for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testin...
 A medical worker waves goodbye after testing a young person for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, ...
 Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 A medical worker asks a young man to roll down his window as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-thro...
 A medical worker asks a young man to roll down his window as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 A medical employee dances to make a child smile as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive...
 A medical employee dances to make a child smile as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 Workers direct people as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trini...
 Workers direct people as Children's National Hospital tests children and young adults for COVID-19 at a drive-through (drive-in) testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 A medical worker tests a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity Univers...
 A medical worker tests a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 A medical worker tests a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity Univers...
 A medical worker tests a young man for COVID-19 at a Children's National Hospital drive-through (drive-in) coronavirus testing site at Trinity University, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is struggling to test enough people to track and control the spread of the novel coronavirus, a crucial first step to reopening parts of the economy, which President Donald Trump is pushing to do by May 1.
 Trump on Thursday released a plan to ease business restriction that hinges on a downward trajectory of positive tests.
 But more than a month after he declared, “Anybody who wants a test, can get a test," the reality has been much different. People report being unable to get tested. Labs and public officials say critical supply shortages are making it impossible to increase testing to the levels experts say is necessary to keep the virus in check.
 “There are places that have enough test swabs, but not enough workers to administer them. There are places that are limiting tests because of the CDC criteria on who should get tested," said Dr. Megan Ranney an emergency doctor and associate professor at Brown University. "There’s just so many inefficiencies and problems with the way that testing currently happens across this country.”
 Trump's plan envisions setting up “sentinel surveillance sites” that would screen people without symptoms in locations that serve older people or minority populations. Experts say testing would have to increase as much as threefold to be effective.
 The plan pushes responsibility for testing onto states.
 “You know, the federal government shouldn’t be forced to go and do everything, ,” Trump told reporters Thursday.
 But state and local officials as well as lab managers say they cannot expand testing until there are more supplies.
 This week governors, physician groups and laboratory directors called on the Trump administration to address shortages of swabs, protective gear and highly specialized laboratory chemicals needed to analyze the virus' genetic material. Hospitals and state health departments report scouring the globe to secure orders, competing against each other and their peers abroad in a system that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., described as “mayhem.”
 “The federal government cannot wipe their hands of this and say, ‘Oh, the states are responsible for testing,’” Cuomo said Friday as he complained of a shortage of chemicals manufactured in China. “I don't do China relations. I don't do international supply chain."
 Trump has denied that the U.S. has fallen short, asserting that the U.S. has the “most expansive and accurate testing system anywhere in the world.” Only in recent days has the U.S. surpassed the rate of testing in South Korea, which has conducted about one test for every 100 people. Vice President Mike Pence told reporters Monday that if governors “would simply activate” underused high-capacity testing machines, “we could double the amount of testing in the U.S. literally overnight.”
 "That is not the experience in Rhode Island,” said Gov. Gina Raimondo, D-R.I.
 Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas, whose state has one of the lowest per capita testing rates in the country, told CNN it has been difficult to get testing supplies. Gov. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., a Trump ally, said testing needs to be stepped up before he can lift restrictions.
 Jennifer Rodriguez, a pharmacy technician at a major retail chain in California, said she was sent home by her employer last week after coming down with symptoms. Her company would not test her, and she spent hours on the phone trying to find a place that would, she said.
 The San Luis Obispo County health department can only test 50 samples per day, and a spokeswoman said those tests are reserved for people who are hospitalized, first responders and those who have had contact with people who tested positive. Rodriguez didn’t qualify. Another clinic told her she might have to pay $150 if it determined she did not fit its test criteria.
 “I just feel like medical workers, or even people on the front line, they should have some kind of priority,” said Rodriguez.
 For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.
 Lab officials and health expert told The Associated Press that supply shortages have prompted them to limit who can be tested. That can leave out people who have symptoms but aren’t sick enough to be hospitalized, or people who have no symptoms and might unwittingly spread the virus. Experts say it will be crucial to test those people if the economy is to reopen.
 Ed Thornborrow, medical director of the University of California at San Francisco Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, said he wants to run 3,000 tests per day, but he can only do 100 to 250 now because he lacks enough nasal swabs. He works constantly to find more.
 “That’s what I spend most of my time on these days,” he said.
 Meghan Delaney, chief of pathology and lab medicine at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, says shortages of chemicals known as reagents are constraining how many tests her lab can perform.
 Vendors, in response, are restricting what hospitals can buy, said Dr. Robin Patel of the Mayo Clinic’s infectious disease laboratory.
 “It’s a little bit like rationing,” Patel said.
 In early March, Trump announced a plan for nationwide testing via drive-thru sites at chains such as Walmart and Target, linked by a Google-affiliated website. Six weeks later, the website is a pilot program available in just four California counties. Few of the retailers' sites have opened, and executives from companies including Walgreens have said they are waiting for direction from the federal government.
 Trump also has promoted a 15-minute test developed by Abbott Laboratories as a “game changer.” Federal officials initially distributed 15 machines to public health labs in each of the 50 states and U.S. territories, along with 250 to the Indian Health Service. Alaska received 50.
 But governors say they didn't get enough cartridges needed to run large numbers of the Abbott tests.
 Rhode Island received only 120, much fewer than they were promised. Raimondo said when the state tried to get more, Abbott and others that make the test cartridges directed her to the federal government, which in turn told her to go directly to the companies.
 On Thursday, Raimondo said the state had now received about 850 tests.
 Federal health officials declined to say how many cartridges were initially sent to states, but said more will be available as Abbott increases production. The company says it is currently producing 50,000 cartridges daily.
 The U.S. bungled its initial rollout due to flaws with the test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Precious time was wasted in February as the test was corrected and redistributed. Private labs at hospitals, universities and commercial companies weren't fully enlisted in the effort until March.
 The U.S. is currently testing roughly 145,000 people daily, for a total of 3.4 million results reported, according to state data compiled by the Covid Tracking Project. Public health experts say capacity needs to be much higher, in part to repeatedly test essential workers and to isolate those who test positive and to track down their close contacts to prevent new outbreaks.
 “We still probably need to be doing three times more testing than we’re doing now,” said Dr. Ashish K. Jha, director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard. “I don’t see America getting by anytime soon with 100,000 to 150,000 tests.”
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 Smith reported from Providence, Rhode Island.
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journalist: By MATTHEW PERRONE and MICHELLE R. SMITH , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: No plan in sight: Test troubles cloud Trump recovery effort


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【大紀元2020年04月17日訊】中共病毒（武漢肺炎）疫情之下，從2020年1月21日至4月4日的74天內，17名法輪功學員在迫害中悲慘離世。

明慧網報導，這17名法輪功學員中有5人是在中共監獄被迫害致死，1人在看守所遭迫害而死。此外，僅遼寧省就有8名法輪功學員被迫害致死。他們生前都被非法判刑，遭中共監獄、看守所酷刑迫害。

哈爾濱木蘭縣法輪功學員商貴民曾被非法判刑14年，關押在佳木斯監獄、牡丹江監獄遭受酷刑迫害；本溪市傳染病醫院醫生、法輪功學員趙成林兩次被非法判刑，遭13年冤獄折磨；齊齊哈爾李惠豐遭12年冤獄；湖南省衡陽市72歲肖美君遭10年冤獄迫害。

遼寧省遼陽市65歲的法輪功學員于永滿，2019年11月15日被綁架，非法關押在遼陽市看守所，於2020年2月23日離世，看守所方面說他屬於「突發疾病」死亡。

大連市的六名法醫對于永滿的遺體進行屍檢，主刀法醫發現他有一根肋骨骨裂，肺部也有撕裂傷痕。疫情期間，監獄看守所完全處於封閉管理，中共對法輪功學員的強制轉化（放棄修煉）迫害從來沒有停止。

疫情期間被迫害致死法輪功學員統計表

河南省洛陽市洛寧縣東宋鄉陳家三兄弟：老大陳躍民、老二陳少民、老四陳孝民，堅持修煉法輪功、按「真、善、忍」要求自己，努力提升道德、做好人。他們三人相繼被中共警察綁架構陷而迫害離世。

陳孝民遭鄭州市新密監獄迫害致骨瘦如柴，於2020年3月10日含冤去世，年僅51歲。

陳孝民曾經在河南省勞教三所遭受酷刑，被警察賈子剛、劉天勛、徐水旺三人親自「上繩」折磨，並用電棒電擊全身。

「上繩」刑罰極其殘酷，是拿細尼龍繩將人用特殊的方法捆綁，把兩手反背捆起來，往上拉得能挨住脖子；繩子緊得勒到了肉裡，一動也不能動。一次半小時，不斷地拉緊繩子，半小時後鬆開，緊接著再綁，綁一次為上一繩。此酷刑可導致繩子深勒進肉裡，致使雙手失去知覺，難以恢復。

遼寧瀋陽市法輪功學員李桂榮於2020年1月中旬被遼寧省女子監獄迫害致死，終年78歲。李桂榮原是瀋陽市大東區合作街小學校長，曾被譽為「區十佳優秀校長」。

2006年10月，她被綁架、枉判7年；2015年2月，再次被綁架、被瀋陽市渾南區法院枉判5年，劫入遼寧省女子監獄老殘隊五小隊迫害。

獄警為了逼迫她「轉化」，指使獄霸和犯人毒打她，拳腳相加、橫踢亂踹，並用硬底鞋猛跺她的雙手，手背立即腫起了青紫色的大包，渾身被打得變成了青紫色。

有一次，惡人薅住她的頭髮滿屋跑，大把大把的頭髮被薅了下來。她還遭受蹲刑迫害，蹲一天一宿半、蹲兩天兩宿半。在蹲的過程中，她被禁止吃飯、上廁所、睡覺。

湖南省岳陽市君山區法輪功學員范文秀被非法判刑3年半，在湖南長沙女子監獄遭殘酷洗腦迫害，被迫害得出現大腸穿孔、惡性腫瘤晚期，當時醫生說只能活10天了。

她被保外就醫之後，仍遭當地司法局人員騷擾、恐嚇，於2020年1月21日在岳陽市巴陵醫院含冤離世，終年53歲。

遼寧朝陽市雙塔區法輪功學員林桂芝被中共警察迫害得家破人亡。林桂芝在7年冤獄中被毒打，吃的飯菜裡被人放了藥，致使她每日數次昏迷，被迫害致喪失意識，生活不能自理，於2020年2月20日含冤離世，終年58歲。

遼寧瀋陽市47歲的航空工程師、法輪功學員胡林於2019年5月23日發放真相資料時被綁架，被非法判刑2年；2020年2月16日，在瀋陽市瀋北尹家鄉康家山監獄被迫害致死。

胡林因堅持「真、善、忍」的信仰，遭中共多次綁架、被非法關押、非法勞教，在派出所遭毒打、背銬、電擊、刑訊逼供。警察用電棍長時間電擊胡林的膝蓋、手指尖、腳趾尖、生殖器；把大蒜搗碎抹在他的眼睛上、還用香菸熏。在看守所遭「約束帶」、電棍電擊、剝奪睡眠、奴役等殘酷迫害。

吉林德惠市五台鄉法輪功學員肖永芬，被非法判刑七年，於2020年1月31日在吉林長春蘭家女子監獄被迫害致死，遺體2月1日被火化。肖永芬與丈夫孫桂昌2017年9月被警察入室綁架，都被非法判刑7年，孫桂昌被非法關押到公主嶺監獄。肖永芬在長春黑嘴子勞教所被迫害得精神失常，後患有高血壓和糖尿病（後期），腳部嚴重潰爛。

肖永芬女兒說，母親離世時腳上爛的洞都沒長上。

遼寧遼陽市65歲的法輪功學員于永滿，2019年11月15日被綁架，非法關押在遼陽市看守所，於2020年2月23日遭迫害離世，看守所方面說「突發疾病」。于永滿本人生前身體健康，被綁架之前每天都會騎車或步行出門講法輪功真相。

2020年2月29日下午，來自大連市的6名法醫對于永滿的遺體進行屍檢，主刀法醫發現于永滿有一根肋骨骨裂，肺部也有撕裂傷痕。現家屬已要求屍檢，調看看守所監控，並聘請律師討公道。

黑龍江省齊齊哈爾市法輪功學員李惠豐遭12年冤獄酷刑，包括上大掛、電擊生殖器、關小號等等。他一度被迫害致瀕臨死亡，於2020年1月20日突發腦出血，28日含冤離世，年僅48歲。

李惠豐於2001年1月22日被齊市建華區刑警三中隊非法抓捕，被刑警三中隊10萬伏超高壓電棍電擊，生殖器被電糊。

2001年7月，李惠豐被齊齊哈爾市建華區法院以強加的罪名判有期徒刑12年、剝奪政治權利4年。

大慶監獄的獄長將李惠豐強制帶到「小號」，鎖到鐵凳子上用警棍和拳頭毆打，後將李惠豐上大掛7個多小時。

2013年1月，回家後的李惠豐經常遭當地公安騷擾，不得已背井離鄉；2020年1月20日，身心遭受重創的李惠豐突發腦出血，經搶救無效，於2020年1月28日含冤離世。

李惠豐的妻子張淑哲也在2001年1月22日這一天被綁架，先被非法勞動教養，後被非法判刑，在哈爾濱女子監獄遭受迫害。

資料來源：明慧網

文字整理：李潔思；責任編輯：高靜#

events: 武漢肺炎 死亡

taiwan-subdivisions: 東區 員林 南區 牡丹

title: 74天內 至少17名法輪功學員遭迫害離世


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】（大纪元记者魏文彬综合报导）许多NBA球队在停赛期间，对球员及员工进行中共肺炎检疫，耗费大量检测资源。体育新闻网站“The Athletic”最近披露，联盟告知各队不需要对外公布检测结果，因此怀疑NBA染疫的选手可能不只10位。

杜兰特（Kevin Durant）等10位NBA球员，加上4名工作人员，NBA目前累积14人罹患中共肺炎。就在杜兰特所属布鲁克林篮网队公布全员检疫结果后，纽约市长白思豪（Bill de Blasio）认为，有限的检测量能“该用在重病的人身上，并非只是在有钱人身上”。

另外，湖人和塞尔提克等队在3月20日公开采检报告后，近一个月没再听到任何确诊消息，是否与联盟希望这30支球队对疫情病例噤声有关，仍待后续观察。

NBA首位出柜球员、前篮网中锋柯林斯（Jason Collins）日前确诊，他近日向媒体揭露染疫期间病况，“那时我就像被泰森（Mike Tyson）揍了一记重拳，正中我的心脏。”于是连忙住进医院，目前他表示自己已完全康复。◇

责任编辑：高小虔

title: NBA染疫球员 或不只10位


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】（大纪元记者郑宜芬台湾台北报导）美国科幻巨匠法兰克‧赫伯特（Frank Herbert）的小说《沙丘》（Dune）翻拍成电影，最近在台湾发布首波剧照，张震饰演贵族御医，穿着一袭暗色中式长衫，表情神秘严肃。该片卡司还有“水行侠”杰森‧摩莫亚（Jason Momoa）、“甜茶”堤摩西‧柴勒梅（Timothee Chalamet）等加盟演出，备受瞩目。

该片由曾荣获奥斯卡提名的丹尼‧维勒纳夫（Denis Villeneuve）执导，张震先前担任第71届坎城影展评审，因此与导演结识，力邀他在片中演出。

适逢“中共病毒”（武汉肺炎）在全球肆虐，许多电影都被迫停拍或延后上映，导演丹尼‧维勒纳夫表示：“这部电影是由来自世界各地的人们共同制作，在我看来这些人都像家人一样重要，我非常荣幸可以跟观众呈现他们辛勤的成果。并期待着在大银幕上一起欣赏这部作品，届时将是我们再次相聚的美好时刻。祝愿大家健康平安。”

该小说多次被选为“美国100部必读书单”，也是首部同时获得雨果奖Hugo Award与星云奖Nebula Award的作品，并摘得“轨迹”杂志Locus Magazine“20世纪最佳科幻小说”桂冠。

《沙丘》讲述一个聪明又富有天赋的年轻人，肩负超越自己理解的伟大天命，且必须远行至宇宙中最危险的行星，以确保他家人及族人未来的延续。敌对势力为抢夺唯有此行星才出产的珍贵资源大打出手，唯有能战胜自己恐惧的人才能存活。电影在匈牙利及约旦实地拍摄，预定于2020年12月上映。

责任编辑：辛幼安

title: 张震拍好莱坞科幻片 水行侠、甜茶也加盟演出


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【大紀元2020年04月18日訊】（大紀元記者佟亦加綜合報導）中共病毒（武漢肺炎）疫情肆虐全球，損失慘重。中共當局為了挽救瀕臨崩潰的經濟，已強令各領域復工。

在演藝圈停工多月等待復工之際，中共官方16日發布了一份相當於「限酬令」的「倡議書」，其中規定影視業每部劇集的主角每集的片酬最多40萬元（人民幣，下同），可能相當於一線明星當初獲得天價片酬的一個零頭。

據香港《蘋果日報》披露，4月16日，「中國電視劇製作產業協會」發布了《關於厲行節約，共克時艱，規範行業秩序的倡議書》（下稱倡議書）。其中強調，演藝行業要奉行節約之風，反對一切奢靡之氣。並要求將電視劇和網劇的製作成本，控制在毎集400萬元以內，攝製人員酬勞同步降低30%。

官方聲稱，疫情暫時被壓制，影視製作行業將迎來復工復產高峰。而疫情對影視製作業的衝擊很大，全行業面臨資金嚴重短缺、生產周期延長、疫情防控困難、購片價格銳減等一系列困難。要求團結一心共渡難關。

《倡議書》提出了非常具體要求：譬如建議各攝製組要精打細算，無論在工作人員、車輛、服裝、佈景和物資配置，都要能節約就節約，將有限的資金投入到製作中，避免過度追求奢華，應把工夫花在內容和人物形象的塑造上。

最引人注目的是，該文件強調要調整主角過高的酬金，避免製作費用嚴重超支和失衡。其中提出，根據國際慣例，一部電視劇、網絡劇的編劇、導演和男女主演的酬金，各自最高不得超過製作成本的10%，全體演員酬金不得超過製作成本的40%。

文件舉例稱，如果一部劇的總投資是400萬元，那麼，男女主角分別最多每集獲得40萬元的片酬。

事實上，早在2018年范冰冰稅務風波爆發後，北京已試過向演藝圈明星藝人身上「剪羊毛」。當時，中共廣電總局頒令各綜藝節目所有嘉賓的總酬金不得超過1,000萬人民幣，說是要抑制天價片酬。

當時有港媒披露，已拍攝《中餐廳》第二季的舒淇及趙薇，要分別退回4,000萬給湖南衛視，而王菲演出《幻樂之城》則有傳收了一億的酬金，若要退錢，王菲便要將9,000萬差額退回給製作單位。

繼對演藝圈下達「限酬令」之後，中共廣電總局今年2月下旬又發布「限集令」。一份《關於進一步加強電視劇網絡劇創作生產管理有關工作的通知》規定，嚴禁拖長劇集，要求電視劇及網絡劇不可超過40集。

業界解讀，這一「限集令」所針對的也是明星的片酬問題，即通過限制劇集數來減少藝人的總體片酬。有分析指，如果按照最高40集每集40萬的片酬，劇集的主角獲得的最高片酬就是1,600完，這與2018年以前許多一線明星動輒上億的片酬相比，只是一個零頭。

顯然，中共官方針對演藝圈發布的種種「限酬令」，與中國當前的經濟形勢密切相關。

根據最近的一項獨立研究，有2.05億中國人無法重返工作崗位。今年第一季度，中國經濟崩潰，增長錄得 -6.8％，這是自1978年中共實行「改革開放」政策以來的首次。

責任編輯：楊明

journalist: 顯然，中共官方針對演藝圈發布的種種「限酬令」，與中國當前的經濟形勢密切相關。

countries: 香港 中國

title: 因疫情中共再發限酬令 主角每集最多40萬


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【大纪元2018年10月30日讯】（大纪元记者佟亦加综合报导）受大陆女星范冰冰逃税事件影响，中共广电总局对演艺圈祭出“限酬令”，综艺节目一集不得支付艺人超过80万人民币酬劳。日前，在大陆工作的台湾艺人的小S（徐熙娣）的薪酬也受波及，她被迫降价主持新节目，估计损失上百万人民币。

据台媒《苹果日报》报导，小S先前主持的大陆综艺节目《姐姐好饿》一二季，在爱奇艺上线播出后，获得较高的点击率。她现在续下的新节目，是原本《姐姐好饿》的第三季改名为《姐姐的花店》。

由于节目型态由棚内改成外景，新节目以实境秀方式呈现，因此，在节目中担任花店老板娘的小S，将于下月飞往意大利佛罗伦斯录像，估计外出时间长达一个月。届时，她将与欧阳娜娜等嘉宾在佛罗伦斯经营花店，而且每集都有不同任务，包括到客人的庆生会场或丧礼上布置鲜花，甚至到街头派发传单宣传花店等，预计节目将在12月推出。

据悉，小S之前的主持薪酬是每集约108万元（人民币，下同），而按照现在大陆官方的薪酬标准，她主持一季共12集节目，最多能赚进960万元。这样，一季节目比以前减少216万元人民币的酬金。而对于接下降价主持的新节目，小S日前低调证实：“就是《姐姐好饿》第三季。”

据早前报导，在范冰冰因“阴阳合同”案被调查期间，中共广电总局已对演艺圈下达“限酬令”，其中规定，明星参加综艺节目，每集的片酬不能超过80万元人民币；如果担任常驻嘉宾，则每季片酬的上限是1,000万人民币。

中共官方10月3日公布了对范冰冰的处罚决定：范冰冰须在期限内缴清逾8.84亿元的税金、滞纳金及罚金，才能免于刑责。之后，当局向明星大腕“割韭菜”的系列行动明显升级，“限酬令”也开始动真格。

稍早前，港媒《苹果日报》就披露，已经录制完湖南卫视《中餐厅》第二季的赵薇和舒淇，已被迫分别吐出4,000万给电视台。

责任编辑：杨明

title: 受中共限酬令影响 小S主持新节目或损失百万


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】中华民国医师公会全国联合会（台湾医师会，TMA）理事长邱泰源今天（17日）表示，世界医师会（WMA）发文给世界卫生组织（WHO），呼吁世界卫生大会（WHA）能再对台湾代表团敞开大门，以开创新局。

 身兼民进党立委的邱泰源指出，过去几年台湾医师会都只能到WHA会场外，但他和历任卫福部长都与世界医师会会长、秘书长等重要干部有密切互动，也针对重要主题，开办国际研讨会。

 他说，世界医师会今年发表强力措辞的信函给WHO表示，这波COVID-19（中共肺炎）大流行的恐怖后果已说明，不让台湾有效参与WHO，对全球公共卫生是错误与伤害。

 根据邱泰源提供的信函指出，世界医师会认为在严重急性呼吸道症候群（SARS）危机期间，世卫让台湾孤立无援太久；如今COVID-19（中共肺炎）大流行，世卫又忽视台湾在初期的洞察力与警告。这两次错误导致世界付出庞大代价。

 世界医师会告诉世界卫生组织（WHO）秘书长谭德塞（Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus），WHA能否再次对台湾代表团敞开大门以开创新局，将掌握在谭德塞的手中。

 世界医师会呼吁谭德塞，不要让世界卫生组织再卷入政治游戏中。

 邱泰源说，这封信件给予台湾的医疗界相当大的鼓舞，他将以世界医师会理事、台湾医师会会长等职务，全力配合政府，争取台湾加入WHO。

 每年5月定期在WHO总部日内瓦举行的世界卫生大会（WHA），受到武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）疫情影响，WHO尚未正式公布是否如期举行或改以视讯方式进行。

责任编辑：陈安

title: 世界医师会发函WHO 吁让台湾参加WHA


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】美国总统川普今天（华盛顿时间17日）推文质疑世卫忽略台湾卫生官员警示武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）有人传人的邮件，对武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）做出误导性主张。这是继白宫之后，川普首度公开以台湾警示质疑世卫处理不当。

据中央社报导，川普连日来对世界卫生组织（WHO）因应2019冠状病毒疾病（中共肺炎）多所批评、并暂停金援，今天上午再度透过推文质疑世卫处理不当。

川普在推文中引述胡佛研究所（Hoover Institution）研究员陈仁宜在福斯新闻网（Fox News）提出的3点质疑，世卫为何忽略台湾卫生官员在12月底警告武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）可能存在人传人可能的电子邮件？世卫为何在1、2月武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）全球蔓延时，做出多项不精确或具有误导性的主张？为何世卫等这么久才采取果断行动？

白宫曾于15日的新闻稿说明美国追究世卫因应武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）疫情的责任时提到，台湾在发现病毒有人传人的相关报导后曾向世卫通报，世卫却未将这份资讯对外公开。

Why did the W.H.O. Ignore an email from Taiwanese health officials in late December alerting them to the possibility that CoronaVirus could be transmitted between humans? Why did the W.H.O. make several claims about the CoronaVirus that ere either inaccurate or misleading….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020

责任编辑：陈安

title: 川普推文质疑世卫组织：为何忽略台湾警示？


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】不满在不知情、无防护的状况下送餐到居家隔离检疫者，台北市美食外送员工会今天（17日）到疫情指挥中心抗议，要求政府、企业重视外送员防疫问题，避免接触感染者又趴趴走，成为防疫破口。

 据中央社报导，武汉肺炎（中共肺炎）全球大流行，多数民众为求自保，尽可能待在家中、少出门，让美食外送平台顺势崛起，不过外送员每天在外奔波、接触餐厅及订餐民众，却没有口罩等防护装备，恐成防疫破口。

 台北市美食外送产业工会成员，今天上午到中央流行疫情指挥中心大门口抗议，要求政府正视外送员防疫漏洞，比照计程车给予一定口罩配额。

 台北市美食外送产业工会理事长陈泓瑞表示，随疫情延烧，愈来愈多外送员在不知情状况下送餐到居家隔离、检疫者家中，直到送完餐下楼才听管理员说该住户是居家隔离者，即便外送平台推出“无接触送餐”机制，实际运作仍有很大机会接触到订餐民众，令外送员相当恐惧，频频向外送平台业者投诉，却遭已读不回。

 律师陈又新表示，外送员不仅没有政府、业者提供口罩等防护装备，也无从得知订餐者是否为居家检疫检疫者，一旦被感染又到处趴趴走，恐成防疫破口。

 陈又新说，外送员多次向外送平台反应、协调，但外送平台却置之不理，主要问题就出在对外送员身份双重标准，要管理的时候就称“雇佣”，要替外送员负起提供口罩、保险等责任时就称“承揽”，呼吁政府、企业负起责任。

责任编辑：郑宜芬

title: 送完餐才知是居家隔离者 台外送员忧成防疫破口


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】日本首相安倍晋三今晚（17日）召开记者会说明中共肺炎（武汉肺炎）疫情，回答记者提问时表示，有关世界卫生组织（WHO）遭质疑不中立的问题，日本一直都强力支持台湾以观察员身份参与。

 据中央社报导，在日本，2019年冠状病毒疾病（中共肺炎）疫情日趋严重，为防止疫情扩大，日本首相安倍晋三7日发布“紧急事态宣言”，对象是东京、大阪等7都府县，昨天再发布“紧急事态宣言”，对象扩至全日本47都道府县。

 安倍今晚在首相官邸（行政中心）召开记者会说明疫情及发布紧急事态宣言的理由。有日媒记者问到，美国总统川普认为在这次因应疫情，世界卫生组织（WHO）倾向中国（中共），没处理好疫情，决定停止对WHO的金援。昨晚安倍参与7大工业国（G7）领袖视讯会议时，针对WHO发表看法，也回复对WHO的金援是否须重新调整？

 安倍答说，他在G7领袖视讯会议表示，国际社会仍需以WHO为中心一致抗疫，可以说目前能处理疫情的国际组织只有WHO，不过，WHO的功能确实有必要受到充分的检视。

 安倍表示，各界对WHO的看法有很多，有人质疑WHO在政治上不中立，日本的立场一直是强力要求应让台湾以观察员的身份参与，不该具政治性，而是要彻底守护每个人的健康才对。

 安倍说，抗疫的第一线仍须有WHO的合作才行，日本完全没考虑要断绝给WHO的分担费，而是应该好好予以支持，至于有关WHO的问题点、课题，等疫情平息后再好好检视。

责任编辑：陈安

countries: 日本 中国

title: 安倍：力挺台湾以观察员身份参与WHO


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【大纪元2014年12月10日讯】香港演员陈豪、田蕊妮（阿田）、胡定欣等人8日为新剧《鬼同你OT》进行开镜拜神仪式。对于今年问鼎“视后”，阿田则言没有压力，最近因开工拍摄连“战衣”也还未准备好。

田蕊妮当日受访时直言与陈豪喜好一样，都喜爱喝咖啡，更赞赏对方的咖啡比以往的好喝。对于合作上，她更赞赏对方的幽默感，说对方让她开怀大笑，导致不能认真拍摄，要不停重拍。

田蕊妮笑言可能是对方冲的咖啡有催笑作用，要陈豪包自己一世喝咖啡。对此，陈豪直言没有问题，待他生意有着落，就可以平价一点卖给她。他亦嘲笑阿田笑点低，不觉得自己有那么幽默，可能是因自己傻傻的个性让对方笑个不停。此外，陈豪也透露最近为儿子举行一岁生日会，招呼了不少朋友庆祝。

责任编辑：程美关

title: 喜好相同爱咖啡 田蕊妮欣赏陈豪幽默感


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【大纪元2016年08月29日讯】（大纪元记者宋祥龙香港报导）演员萧正楠（Edwin）与田蕊妮（阿田）昨（28）日出席无线新剧《巨轮II》的宣传活动，2人都希望剧集有好收视，能获观众的支持。

Edwin透露全剧共39集，将播出2个月，除了想有好收视之余，亦盼剧集有韧力。被问可会担心观众没有耐性，他说：“我相信收看了第一辑的观众都必定会继续捧场，而且新的一辑多了新人物，会更好看！”

Edwin明白女友感受

提到于剧集预告片中，Edwin跟陈凯琳有不少亲热戏，女友黄翠如日前表示会选择性跳过不看这些戏份，Edwin笑说:“她当时只是给马国明刺激到，马国明说看完预告片后很羡慕，其实我也羡慕他买了新房！”Edwin又补充说假如是翠如和其他对手拍亲热戏，他也会逃避观看。

田蕊妮难忘游水戏

阿田亦十分期待剧集播出，她更表示一些朋友看完剧集预告片后忍不住感动到流泪。她又坦言今次拍得比上一辑辛苦，其中一幕游水戏分，由于公海十分大浪，拍足半天的她不但非常辛苦，更从船家口中得知那海域有鲨鱼出没，她直言：“真的愈拍愈惊慌！”被问对收视可有信心？她说：“最近收视不错，希望可以承接住威势。”

恭喜定欣剧集高收视

至于可有信心凭角色再夺视后？阿田表示言之尚早，自己也没有特别去想。问及是否看好胡定欣，对方今年走势强劲，所拍剧集都有很好的收视。她说要恭喜定欣：“我一向看好她，我们是很好的拍档，希望她之后一直能这么强劲，最要紧是观众喜欢！”提及最近荣升人母的钟嘉欣亦有参与《巨轮II》演出，阿田被问对方会否返港宣传？她说：“不知道，没收到消息。BB女很漂亮，鼻子高高的，好像混血儿！”◇

责任编辑：辛幼安

title: 萧正楠田蕊妮合作新剧 对《巨轮2》收视有信心


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【大紀元2020年04月18日訊】（大紀元記者佟亦加綜合報導）從香港亞視出道的港星田蕊妮（阿田），在無綫（TVB）拍戲12年。今年1月預告與TVB結束合約的她，4月16日在facebook（fb）宣布：「今天是我跟TVB的合約完結的日子。」網民紛紛留言表示：「最正確決定。」

阿田16日在fb貼出一張照片，並宣布：「今天是我跟TVB的合約完結的日子。」照片中，她背著鏡頭，面向蔚藍色的天空，張開雙臂。雖然她坦言還沒有任何計劃，但從照片上的神采可見，她對未來滿懷期待。

她寫道：「我不打算在這裡公開感謝誰，因為在私底下已感謝了他們。我反而想公開感謝每一位觀眾，謝謝你們這些年來對本人的支持與鼓勵。在這過去的十二年間，為大家演出了無數的角色，什麼視后銜頭、什麼獎項，都不及你們的愛戴！」

1月14日，田蕊妮在將軍澳出席活動時預告，她與TVB即將約滿，雖然TVB曾找她談續約一事，但她去意已決，準備嘗試新挑戰。田蕊妮坦言，作出這一決定需要很大的勇氣。

香港去年爆發遍地開花的「反送中」運動，民眾要求港府回應五大訴求，但被中共挾持的港府不停地指責民眾為「暴徒」，當時，田蕊妮曾在fb發文嘲諷林鄭的發言就像「無限Loop」(放錄音機)，結果引起大陸小粉紅不滿，要求TVB封殺田蕊妮。

田蕊妮在TVB12年期間，拍攝了超過20部劇集，包括《誰家灶頭無煙火》﹑《巨輪》﹑《舌劍上的公堂》﹑《鬼同你OT》﹑《巨輪II》等，憑藉《巨輪》中的角色，拿下「萬千星輝頒獎典禮2013」雙料視后，奪得最佳女主角及最受歡迎電視女角色。之後再憑《鬼同你OT》中的「孫淑梅」一角，獲得「萬千星輝頒獎典禮2015」最受歡迎電視女角色，演技備受肯定。

一度有傳，田蕊妮將過檔到古天樂旗下的公司，當時田蕊妮不作回應，表示新計劃待落實後再公布。

此次，田蕊妮在帖文中感慨：「至於接下來的計劃是什麼，老實說，真的沒有！近年香港所發生的種種事情和這次全球的疫情，令我深深體會到計劃追不上變化這回事！世界彷彿停頓，倒不如趁這個時候好好想想自己真正需要的是什麼？真正喜歡的又是什麼？」

對於田蕊妮宣布不再與TVB續約，網民紛紛留言表示支持：「 跨出一大步，前路任闖蕩。」「離開大台，做回自己，活得更快樂！」「相信這是你一生中最正確的選擇！」「離開CCTVB（香港央視），走得好！」

責任編輯：楊明

title: 田蕊妮結束與TVB合約 網民：最正確選擇


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【大纪元2014年05月12日讯】香港女星田蕊妮昨天（11日）出席新碟签唱会，她的父母也到场支持。阿田表示新碟的销量比预期好，她很感谢歌迷的支持。但阿田在讲到母亲时就忍不住落泪，直言自己一向眼浅，指自己很少有时间陪父母，所以特意教父母用电话App聊天，一解相思之苦。

另外，提到中国大陆网民发起罢看她老公杜汶泽的电影，阿田就表示老公没受影响。对于有中国大陆片商指阿泽无艺德，阿田则力撑老公，指演员的艺德应该是准时和演好每个角色，她所认识的阿泽很准时，也很用心演好每个角色，这就是艺德！至于他们对生活上有什么看法，这是他们的自由。◇

（责任编辑：程美关）

countries: 香港 中国

title: 签唱会父母到场 田蕊妮撑老公有艺德


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【大纪元2016年10月13日讯】无线台庆剧《来自喵喵星的你》即将开播。昨天，剧集主演胡定欣、田蕊妮和陈豪出席“物理达人 超然登场”活动。陈豪表示对收视很有信心，指开心题材是剧集优势，相信观众想看开心的情节，这次剧集虽有上次《鬼同你OT》的影子，但又有新的题材。

在活动上，他们大玩游戏，十分好笑。陈豪在定欣和阿田头上用火枪烧装水的气球，还可以在定欣和阿田中选一人穿雨褛“避水灾”，陈豪叫她们自己猜包剪揼决定，搞到定欣和阿田“发火”，以她们的绝活“神同步”闹爆陈豪。

问定欣是否担心新角色不如《城寨英雄》中的“刁兰”受欢迎？她笑言自己今年拍的剧集都已经播出了，四个角色都很不一样，没有什么好担心的，什么角色都要拍，最重要是观众享受。

阿田否认是多产演员

提到阿田主演的剧集连播，阿田直言这纯属错觉，强调自己并非多产演员，正播的《巨轮II》和之前播的《鬼同你OT》有一年的时间。她表示《来自喵喵星的你》在《巨轮II》未播完就会开播，本担心观众会混淆，但见到新剧宣传片反应不错后如释重负，指演戏有180度不同，如果混淆一定是她自己的问题。

另外，阿田最近在网上自贴骚腹肌照，她坦言为健康才做运动，并已经见到成效了，但就没有加入“操肌”行列，不过就透露老公一直有为新戏操肌。

陈豪被问到是否如传言准备生第四个小朋友？他坦言凑三个已经很吃力，现在很忙，廿四个小时都不够用。提到他下月会开拍《使徒行者2》，他预计要出埠拍摄，不知要拍多长时间，但就指不会要求缩短外出时间，已经接了就以拍戏为先，太太在家看住小朋友他很放心。◇

责任编辑：赵慧心

title: 田蕊妮剧集连播否认多产 陈豪凑三仔不够时间


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【大纪元2018年10月11日讯】（大纪元记者李熙采访报导）平度老兵维权事件，遭到警方五天三次镇压。平度市复退军人服务中心主任曲林洲在朋友圈发文称老兵为“兵痞”，引起众怒。曲林洲还被指是这次殴打38名老兵引发平度维权事件的罪魁祸首。

10月4日晚，38名山东平度老兵欲乘车进京上访，才刚出发就在利津服务区内遭当地大群截访人员拦截、殴打，导致6人受伤住院治疗。据老兵消息称，是曲林洲带领当地公安局副局长和截访人员前往殴打38名老兵，才引发数百老兵手持木棍到平度市政府门前要说法。

据悉，平度事件发生后，曲林洲在微信朋友圈称前来声援的老兵是兵痞，要平度人不要理会他们，商家不要接待他们，出租车不要拉他们，不要给他们的串联提供便利和服务。甚至说平度商家是帮凶，为了蝇头小利贩售蜡木棍、灭火器给老兵。

曲林洲的一番说法显然没有起到作用，平度老百姓依然给老兵们送水、送水果、送食物，表达他们对老兵的支持。

“兵痞”一说引起老兵的愤怒，开始起底曲林洲的身家，老兵质疑他的官帽是不是买来的？在这位置上贪腐了多少钱？要他晒出房产收入。还揭露出他利用职务之便为其父申请职工退休生活费等等。

网民分析，平度事件原本规模不大，老兵聚集时最多也就500余人，而且诉求、行为相当理性，仅是希望体制内解决。是当局过度反应，全省动员万余警力、平度市内4000警察和辅警，并派一二千名警力和老兵保持平行移动。警力始终保持为老兵的四五倍，最多时六七倍。大规模警队惊动了市民，惊动了世界，一个疯狂的政权。

平度事件发生后，一些地方政府的“维稳”密件陆续流出。河南省信访通报密件用了新名词——“极端信访”。内容显示，公安机关密切掌握维权老兵微信动态。档结尾显示一个内网信箱：Xf.lxb@hnxf.gov.cn。

同时，烟台栖霞市机密文件显示：针对平度事件，要求各级启动“战时维稳机制”，把属地老兵带回、控制。

此次事件中武警的出现，也意味着中共中央高层参与了指挥平度镇压，现在武警归属中央军委管辖。

平度事件虽暂时告一个段落，不过各地老兵周二（9日）还是持续在当地维权，江西老兵在省政府大门前练摊，内蒙古老兵也在自治区政府前聚集维权，福建老兵则北上京城上访。

10日，山东老班长李清（音）持续向全国战友号召到平度维权，他强调，2018年老兵维权口号：“只要干不死，就往死里干”。有响应号召前来的广东浮云老兵被严密的警力给拦截在市区外。

责任编辑：林琮文

title: 称老兵为兵痞 山东官员曲林洲惹众怒被起底


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【大紀元2020年04月17日訊】（大紀元記者李新安採訪報導）「上訪，一直是上訪……其實我很不願意走到這樣一條道路上。」廣州退役軍人袁玉文上訪了17年，什麼問題都沒解決，反被勞教、遭打壓，他表示很多老兵得不到安置，感到很心寒。

袁玉文係原武警8730部隊三級轉業士官，1989年3月從湖南省漣源市應徵入伍，1996年結婚，2002年轉業。袁玉文表示，對於部隊將他介紹轉業至廣東省，廣州市花都區民政局以不符合安置條件為由，不予安置，也沒有發放自謀職業一次性安置補助金。妻子上訪也被非法關押過。

袁玉文在網上發布的相關文件顯示，2002年其所在部隊給廣東省民政廳發出了「部隊士官退出現役」的行政介紹信，廣東省退伍軍人安置辦公室同意接收安置。

然而，一份廣州市花都區政府退伍軍人安置辦公室的答覆文件顯示，「駐地婚是不符合異地轉業士官安置條件的」，「只能入戶不安置」。

「民政部門無中生有說我的檔案不符合安置條件，但是誰都知道，部隊跟地方移交了，如果不符合條件，廣東省就不會接收。廣東省接收我的檔案，白紙黑字寫得清清楚楚，但是到了廣州，他們就說我不符合條件了。」袁玉文說。

為了生計他只能自己找活幹。更讓他哭笑不得的是，等到2018年，轉業安置退役軍人事務局成立後，該局堅稱「原花都區退伍辦於2002年5月為袁玉文辦理了安置入戶手續，並於2002年8月安排袁玉文到花都區殯儀館工作，安置工作已完成」。

「他們又說我這個已經安置了，安置工作已經完成了。原來說不符合安置條件，共產黨就是這樣的，自相矛盾。」袁玉文告訴記者，「當時去殯儀館是自己找的工作，跟他們沒有關係。他們民政局自己承認這個事，『不是政府安置行為』。反正你上班了，強制受理。上班了就解決了。」

「當時幹了一個多月、不到二個月，不想用你了就辭退你，想不讓你幹就不讓你幹。那一次去了3個人上班，都被辭退了，過一、二個月辭退一個，看你不順眼就辭退了。」他說。

2004年12月，袁玉文向中央有關部門舉報當地政府弄虛作假，被當地政府打擊報復。2005年4月1日，袁玉文被以所謂的「擾亂社會管理秩序」為罪名，非法勞教一年，關在廣州市潭崗勞教所。

袁玉文說，「這個事他們本來想私了，我性子很直，要求依法依規辦，他們就刁難我，在那裡面天天叫我加班，不准我休息，幹到晚上9點多鐘；家裡來人不准給我買東西；不准我申訴寫材料。」

「做工主要做衣服。白天上班他們不讓我寫，最後我寫的申請材料，是晚上12點多趴在走廊寫的，燈光很暗，回憶起來想哭，在那裡面受很多委屈。伙食很差，我現在血壓、心臟不行就是在那裡熬的。血壓很高。」他說。

袁玉文對當地政府對他的勞動教養決定不服，申訴了十幾年，沒有哪個部門下結論，沒有答覆。

袁玉文表示，為了維權這些年上訪去的部門太多了：「花都區裡的紀委、信訪局、民政局、退伍軍人事務所；廣州市民政局、退伍軍人事務局、紀委；省裡面民政廳、退伍軍人事務廳、省紀委都去過，包括中央民政部、中央軍委、國家信訪局，因為被非勞教上訪到公安部。」

「你去上訪就把你關在救助站、偏僻的地方，關半個月，被關了幾十次。去北京上訪幾十次，來來回回不解決問題。叫黑社會拿鐵棍過來嚇唬你，騷擾你。」

「現在不讓我去了，只要一離開花都他們就知道了。另外我現在身體也不行了，想不通，壓力大，心臟也不好了。當地政府一直不理不睬。」

2019年4月12日，廣州市公安局花都區分局的一份行政處罰書顯示，袁玉文2019年4月起，通過手機微信發送信息的方式「散布謠言」，被以擾亂社會秩序，處以警告並罰款1500元。

袁玉文說，「我把花都區民政局的回覆書發到網上，他們就說我散布謠言。我不服到法院起訴，法院不受理，到現在不了了之。」

《新京報》網2020年1月報導，河南一退伍軍人被頂替工作23年。河南周口鄲城縣的仵瑞華，1995年退伍後一直沒被安置，直到去年10月看到安置名單時才知道被人頂替檔案就業。頂替人現為鄲城縣宜路鎮政府幹部。

袁玉文也懷疑被人頂替了自己的轉業安置編制。他到地方退役軍人事務局去查，但沒有結果。「我去問過了，他們不理你，沒辦法，不提供查詢。我們去找政府沒用的，力量太小了……」

袁玉文表示，不予安置的情況很多，老兵上訪的很多，全國都是這樣的。但是共產黨就是這樣，錯了就要錯到底，拖死你就算了，你死了一了百了，看你命大不大了。

「按政策雙向選擇，可以安排工作，也可以自謀職業。實際上是強迫你自謀職業，給你幾萬塊錢，自己找工作，強制你簽字，威脅、欺騙……」他說，「現在大部分都是這樣的。像我們那時候90%都沒有安置，那時候我一分錢沒有，到現在他說已經安置了。」

他最後說，「我們辛辛苦苦在部隊幹了那麼多年，沒有功勞也有苦勞，回到地方受到這樣的待遇和打擊，確實很不公平。我們上訪十多年，希望老問題能夠得到解決。」

長期關注老兵維權的中國異議人士李方向大紀元表示，老兵問題的根源是在於中共政權類似朝鮮先軍政治，軍隊規模龐大，徵軍規模也很龐大，除了國防軍，還有大量的武警、內衛部隊。這些士兵在部隊服役的時候，中共承諾分配工作，到了近些年，這些承認成為兌現不了的債務。

李方表示，中共竊政以後，累計有五六千萬的老兵。全國上訪的老兵據說大概有五六百萬。這麼多的人地方上無法承載，如果全部發錢，他們的財政也負擔不起。過度承諾和大規模的軍隊體系，造成了這麼一個後果。

「聽很多老兵反映，有的地方上的腐敗官員把名額賣給了自己的親戚朋友，導致這些士兵回到地方長年安排不了。像袁玉文這個情況就是地方政府不作為，地方跟中央、跟軍方有扯皮。」他說。

李方表示，老兵這個群體很特殊，一般以群體上訪為主，因為多年個人上訪沒有用。最大規模維權是發生在2016年11月10號，上萬名老兵圍住了中央軍委大樓，那次事件給中共高層造成震憾，導致退伍軍人事務部的產生。

但是，退伍軍人事務部產生迄今為止，非但對老兵的訴求沒有解決，反而對老兵上訪的打擊很大。特別是2018年幾個老兵事件後，對老兵維權進行打壓，抓老兵領袖，軟禁的軟禁，判刑的判刑。對老兵打壓的另一個方式是禁言，封掉微信群。

責任編輯：周儀謙#

title: 上訪17年 廣州退役老兵維權屢遭打壓


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【大纪元2018年10月09日讯】（大纪元记者顾晓华采访报导）山东平度市老兵维权事件升级，10月7日，数千警察暴力清场，五六百名老兵被抓后遣返回家。10月8日，平度市处于全面封锁状态，外地声援老兵已无法进入，最终决定进京讨说法。

据老兵消息，10月7日老兵与警方再次发生冲突之后，在平度现场的五六百名老兵全部被抓至西关小学与中学，8日，学校停课，老兵陆续被当地政府遗送回家。

10月8日，平度市内仍然是警察林立，到处是警车，高速路口全部封锁，设卡盘查。

青岛老兵李先生说：“平度市戒严了，路口都是警车，高速公路也都是警车，现在聚集很难了。”

平度市全面封锁，各地声援老兵本打算10月8日在青岛市的五四广场聚集，但是那里也是布满警车。目前各地老兵选择进京讨说法，已有老兵踏上进京的列车，预计未来数天将会有大批老兵涌入北京。

10月6日下午，当地警方暴力清场，双方激战。7日，老兵第二次集结在农业技术市场的广场。

李先生表示，7日早上他与其他战友再次来到广场集合，老兵人数大约有五六百人。当局也调动了大批警察，在现场围堵他们。

上午，老兵们决定在市区游行。李先生说：“游行过程中警察围堵我们，我们巧妙地避开了，走了一个多小时，由于老兵岁数大了，还有残疾老兵，很多人吃不消，我们在聚集的广场东侧荷花池边上坐下来休息进行调整。”

李先生透露，老兵休息时，平度市市长、公安局局长、民政局局长等官员到现场进行接谈，老兵们要求警察先撤离再谈判，遭到市长的拒绝，“市长非常霸道，态度非常傲慢。”

市长离开之后，增派大批防暴警察、特警到现场将老兵包围起来，警察人数达到二三千人。老兵与警察在此时发生了第二次冲突，河南老兵陆先生向记者透露，冲突过程中又有七八名老兵受伤，当时他也是受伤者之一。

“特警、防暴警察就拿盾牌、胶棍围堵我们，我们被围到池塘边，一个老兵就掉到下面，碰到头部，我们要求警察把老兵送到医院治疗，警察无动于衷，也没送，后来矛盾激化。”

陆先生继续说：“他们拿着胶棍打，我们就反击，当时我们手里什么都没有，在路边捡棍子反抗，后来警察又拿辣椒水喷我们。”

“当时场面比较混乱，警察一直在追打，连打带抓，有的人反击，有的人后退。”

最后，老兵们寡不敌众，所有人被送到西关小学校关押起来，平度老兵维事件就这样被镇压下去。

李先生表示，在学校里，四五个人一个教室，由特警看守，然后老兵陆续被遣送回家。

另外据悉，受伤老兵到医院治疗，结果在医院里没有管没人问，政府方面也未负责医药费。

10月4日，38名平度老兵自驾进京途中被当地公安暴力截访，从而引发全国老兵抗议。老兵们表示，他们将继续讨说法，不给一个交代，维权不止。 #

责任编辑：孙芸

title: 鲁数千警镇压老兵维权 亲历者述清场过程


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世界已到了末劫的时候。
哪一个国也逃不脱，
每一个国，都面临着对与错的关口。
走对了，前方就是希望的黎明；
走错了，前方就是死亡的哀鸣。
神与魔，都在作为——
神要做的是重生，重生，重生，
神运用的是真理，慈悲，光明。
大法救世，给人指引了一条光明路。
魔要做的是毁灭，毁灭，毁灭，
魔运用的是邪说，杀戮，嗜血。
中共祸世，给人掘好了万座死亡墓。
看今日之中共——
制造病毒，传播病毒，
中共对全人类进行着荼毒。
炮制谎言，散布谎言，
魔鬼向全世界表演着欺骗。
这世界，已残破成什么？
现在，是决战的时刻，
历史，做最后的抉择。
这是正与邪的决战，
这是神与魔的决战。
正与邪，你选哪边站？
神与魔，你为谁而战？
上天在看着，世人在做着。
为人类，唤世人齐出手，消灭这赤兽。
为世界，唤世界同行动，埋葬这中共。

人类已到了历史的尽头。
哪一个人也跑不了，
每一个人，都面临着生与死的追求。
走对了，前途就是生命的重生。
走错了，前途就是魂魄的凋零。
神与魔，都在行动——
神要做的是救人，救人，救人，
神运用的是怀忍，行善，求真。
大法救人，真相传遍了世界千万里。
魔要做的是毁人，毁人，毁人，
魔运用的是施暴，作孽，渎神。
中共害人，屠刀指向了人类亿万死。
看当下之世界——
不识神魔，珠目相混，
利益成了世界沸腾的主题。
不辨好坏，黑白颠倒，
金钱作了世人至死的归依。
这世人，正堕落成什么？
现在，是拯救的时分，
历史，开新元的大门。
这是天与地的拯救，
这是灵与肉的拯救。
善与恶，你与谁为友？
神与魔，你跟谁而走？
上天在看着，世人在做着。
救人类，唤世人快出手，消灭这赤兽。
救世界，唤世界快行动，埋葬这中共。@*

责任编辑：林芳宇

title: 千瑞：决战时刻 拯救时分


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【大纪元2020年04月18日讯】（大纪元记者钟心萍美国休斯顿报导）4月17日星期五，德州州长Greg Abbott宣布了行政命令，计划将以5月初为目标重新开放德州的经济，其目标是在批准德州居民重返工作岗位的同时，遏止中共病毒（COVID-19）的扩散。

该行政命令将允许一些此前被停工的非重要企业从下周开始提供“零售送货（retail-to-go）”服务，但是仍不允许客人进入店内消费。

Abbott在新闻发布会上表示，他成立了一支由州领导人和卫生官员组成的“专攻小组”，专门为接下来的行动提供建议。该小组将监督州长所说的分阶段重新开放计划，并定于4月27日和5月的某个时候宣布更多开放业务计划。“德州居民们正在接受一项巨大的挑战，我们的生活和生计都在经受着考验。我们可以共同克服此次疫情大流行，让人们重新开始工作。”

同时，Abbott也宣布了所有学校在今年上半年学年结束之前将保持关闭，因为卫生官员确定，大量学生聚集仍然不安全。不过教师可以在教室进行视频教学、管理工作和打扫教室。

州长表示，尽管德州需要提高测试能力，但到目前为止，已有足够的数据显示可以开始决定哪些业务和活动可以重新开放。下周，也将放宽医疗机构的手术限制，允许在医院进行少量非紧急手术，前提是这些手术不会耗尽医院的个人防护设备用品，并保证医院有至少25%的能力用于治疗中共肺炎患者。他说，“现在感染和住院的数量开始趋于稳定，我们也有稳定的个人防护设备供应，有大量的病房和呼吸机可提供治疗。”

从下周一开始，也将重新开放州立公园，但群体聚集人数不得超过5人。而且所有去州立公园的人必须戴口罩或面罩，并且必须与非家庭成员保持6英尺的距离。

德州目前执行的“居家令”有效期将持续到4月30日。

责任编辑：李在田#

title: 重启德州经济 州长宣布初步计划


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【大纪元2020年04月18日讯】有消息人士披露，加州医疗人员感染中共病毒（武汉肺炎）的人数大大高于公布的数字，仅加大洛杉矶分校（UCLA）就有超过175例感染。

据《洛杉矶时报》引述知情人士消息，中共病毒已经在UCLA的门诊、老年病、妇产科及儿科重症监护部门蔓延。

其它还有：圣莫妮卡的普罗维登斯（Providence）St.John’s医疗中心的8名医疗人员感染；圣佩德罗（San Pedro）的普罗维登斯Little Company of Mary医疗中心30名医疗人员或者是遭感染，或者正等待检测结果；硅谷的圣克拉拉谷医疗中心6名医疗人员感染，其中1人死亡；沙加缅度（Sacramento）加大戴维斯医疗中心10名医疗人员感染；西达赛奈医疗中心5名医护感染；此外，全州的老年中心以及护理机构也有数百护理人员感染。

目前还没有法规强制要求医疗机构报告已知的感染，州和县当局也没有强制规定。

当被问到有多数医疗人员感染时，UCLA的发言人以邮件回复说：没有相关数据提供。拥有3.5万名员工的南加普罗维登斯医疗集团周四说，该集团有49名医疗人员在工作中感染，但拒绝披露所涉及的医疗机构。

西达赛奈中心发言人承认确有员工感染，但拒绝给出具体数字，并说该中心医护人员倒班前都会进行筛查。◇

责任编辑：张宛

title: 加州医护人员感染中共病毒或超公布数字


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【大纪元2020年04月17日讯】（大纪元记者赖玟茹台湾台北报导）台中央流行疫情指挥中心表示，台湾17日无新增中共肺炎（武汉肺炎）确诊病例，截至目前累计395例确诊，其中境外移入340例、本土病例55例。确诊个案中6人死亡，166人解除隔离，其余持续住院隔离中。

对于连两天都是零确诊，是否意味着台湾疫情趋缓，指挥中心指挥官陈时中表示，当然可以讲是有趋缓，照美国的标准是要连两周确诊病例数往下降，藉由这样的指标看台湾属于“平稳”，也期待能够往这样的方向“守好来”，并呼吁，大家还是要维持生活基本规范、社交距离等注意事项，“才能将这样的成果维持下来”。

另外，日前指挥中心宣布自欧洲、美国返台需采取严格居家检疫措施，让边境检疫能够做得更好。陈时中表示，除欧美国家外，考虑对东南亚国家采取相同严格检疫方式，因为现在看起来东南亚这边也有点蠢蠢欲动，有些地方的疫情不太透明，待时间订下来之后就会公布，“当然也很快了”。

指挥中心指出，全球累计2,059,582例确诊，分布于184个国家／地区；病例数以美国636,350例、西班牙177,633例、意大利165,155例、法国147,863例及德国127,584例为多；病例中133,138例死亡，以美国28,326例、意大利21,645例、西班牙18,579例、法国17,167例及英国12,868例为多。

指挥中心提醒，民众平时应做好手部卫生与咳嗽礼节。自国外入境时，如有发烧、咳嗽等不适症状，应主动通报机场及港口检疫人员并配合防疫措施；返台后应落实14天居家检疫，如出现疑似症状，请联系卫生局或各县市关怀中心，并依指示就医，切勿搭乘大众运输工具；就医时，请务必告知医师旅游史、职业别、接触史及是否群聚（TOCC），以供及时诊断通报。

责任编辑：玉珍#

title: 台湾连两天零确诊 维持395例


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生活中心／詹婷惠報導

氣象局表示，今（18）日是多雲到晴，多數仍是暖且有陽光的天氣型態，溫度方面各地接近30度；然而，隨著南方雲系北移，使得東南台灣水氣增多，花東地區需留意陣雨或雷雨，特別是海面移入的對流。至於其他地區，午後有雷陣雨機率，小範圍分布在各地山區、南部地區。

▲氣象局分析週休假期2天的天氣。（圖／翻攝自氣象局臉書）

據氣象局表示，天氣狀態變化以週末為分界，週末2天是未來一週天氣最穩定的時間，今天週六是多雲到晴的天氣型態，多數是暖而有陽光，各地高溫接近30度。然而，隨著南方雲系北移，使得東南台灣水氣增多，花東地區需留意陣雨或雷雨，特別是海面移入的對流。至於其他地區，午後有雷陣雨機率，分布在各地山區、南部地區。

至於明天週日，天氣與今天雷同，微弱偏南風讓天氣更溫暖，各地大多為多雲到晴的天氣，只在東半部地區偶爾小飄雨，北部地區及各地山區也有午後雷雨的機率；各地氣溫約28到31度。

下週一微弱鋒面通過台灣北部海面，北部水氣跟著增多，除東半部地區有局部短暫陣雨，北部地區也開始雲量增多有些飄雨，其他地區為多雲。

journalist: 詹婷惠

title: 把握週末曬暖陽！下週一變天　中部以北地區「雨神同行」 | 生活


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政治中心／綜合報導

世界衛生組織（WHO）宣布中國武漢肺炎正名為「COVID-19」後，我國為避免民眾混亂，中央流行疫情指揮中心於2月12日表示將仍簡稱為武漢肺炎（COVID-19、新冠肺炎），對於台灣持續使用這樣的稱呼，佛教弘誓學院創辦人釋昭慧法師發文表示「武漢人不喜歡使用這個稱謂，我們就不能使用」，讓網友們熱議直呼「那就學川普叫中國肺炎」。

▲釋昭慧表示「武漢人不喜歡使用這個稱謂，我們就不能使用」。（圖／翻攝自釋昭慧臉書）

昨日佛教弘誓學院創辦人釋昭慧法師於臉書以「不當疫名宜應終止」為題表示「歧視，一直伴隨著本次嚴峻的疫情而發生。先是對華人的歧視，波及所有亞洲黃種人，近期則擾攘於黑膚色的非洲族裔是否受到歧視的問題。歧視確實是一種心理性的病毒，它帶著煽動性、感染力、傷害力與反作用力。麻煩的是，有時我們也會在無意識間，捲入歧視共業之中。例如：理所當然地稱呼Coronavirus為『武漢病毒』。每當看到官方與媒體自自然然地稱呼『武漢肺炎』，我的內心都會感到些微不安。」

釋昭慧認為我們必須審慎檢視自己的言語與心念，是否有不自覺加入歧視的行列，她繼續表示「你或許會說，名詞只是標示發生地點，沒有歧視意圖。然而『歧視』與否，必須尊重被名稱所指涉之當事人的感受，既然武漢人不喜歡使用這個稱謂，我們就不能使用。」

▲釋昭慧發文。（圖／翻攝自釋昭慧臉書）

文章一出，引起網友一陣狂酸，「法師畢生可曾為『香港腳』一詞平反？」、「我們應該改成歧視掩蓋疫情的人，那是誰？」、「那就學川普叫中國肺炎」、「我們香港手足全叫『武漢肺炎』」、「有道理，但我做不到欸」、「非洲豬瘟好像沒人提出正名與歧視的問題」、「法師，其實稱為『新冠肺炎』是非常沒有邏輯的，因為如果明年有了另外一支新的冠狀病毒那要叫做⋯？Errrr…好的，中國武漢肺炎病毒。」

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title: 籲停用歧視名！釋昭慧「武漢人不喜歡」…網：好的武漢肺炎 | 政治