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India Sees A Record Rise In Coronavirus Cases With 6 000 Infections

2021-01-03T18:02:56Z

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[/news/india/index.html India] saw a record 6,000 new [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] cases today as it piles up infections at the fastest rate in Asia, while the death toll is mounting in [/news/indonesia/index.html Indonesia] and fears of a second wave are growing in [/news/iran/index.html Iran]. The 6,088 new cases in India have sent the total soaring to 66,330 in a country of 1.3billion where the lockdown has been partially eased and where some hospital wards are at full capacity. India made up nearly a quarter of Asia's new infections yesterday, with the continent as a whole accounting for 23 per cent of the world's daily tally - up from a figure as low as eight per cent in March and April. Turkey has seen 152,587 cases, the most in Asia, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm từ Hà Nội] and suffered 4,222 deaths, although new infections have slowed and the government says it has the outbreak under control. China and Iran - the birthplace of the pandemic and an early hotspot respectively - are both facing fears of a second wave, and there are doubts about the accuracy of both regimes' figures. Meanwhile in south-east Asia, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] Indonesia has already seen 1,242 deaths after confirming only 19,189 cases so far amid a shortage of testing capacity. This graph shows the daily number of coronavirus cases in six of the worst-affected countries in Asia. China was the early leader after the outbreak began in Wuhan late last year, but India is now becoming Asia's epicentre India is also recording the highest number of daily deaths, while the death toll is also mounting in Indonesia. Iran's crisis has declined from its peak but there are fears of a second wave of the disease After the outbreak began in China, Asia accounted for the vast majority of new cases in January and still made up more than 90 per cent of new infections throughout most of February. That figure plummeted in early March when the virus began to ravage Europe, which first recorded more new cases than Asia on March 6. As virus cases then started to pile up in the United States, Asia's share of new cases fell as low as 7.5 per cent on March 24 and 7.8 per cent on April 4. However, it has since increased again - passing 20 per cent on May 11 and only once falling below that threshold since then. Asia has now overtaken Europe again, although North America is still seeing more cases while South America is now the continent with the fastest growth in infections. The fastest growth is occurring in India, where the health ministry today reported more than 6,000 new cases in a day for the first time. Only the United States, Brazil and Russia recorded more new cases than India yesterday. RELATED ARTICLES [# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/news/article-8344481/South-America-new-coronavirus-epicentre.html South America is becoming new coronavirus epicentre: Brazil...] [/news/article-8343727/World-passes-five-million-coronavirus-cases-Latin-America-seeing-infections.html More than five million people have been infected with...] [/news/article-8346491/China-drops-GDP-goal-pledges-higher-spending-parliament-starts.html Thousands of masked delegates gather at China's National...] Share this article Share An epidemiologist at the Public Health Foundation of India acknowledged that 'this surge in cases has happened after movement of people has been partially allowed' following a nationwide lockdown. 'But if you see overall, this is a much lower exponential trajectory as compared to the rest of the world,' said Giridhar Babu. Indian PM Narendra Modi ordered the world's largest lockdown in late March, which has been extended until May 31 but relaxed in some areas. Airlines will be allowed to resume flights with about a third of operations as of Monday, but only on domestic routes and under strict rules. India's contagion hotspots include the capital New Delhi, financial hub Mumbai, Modi's home state of Gujarat, and the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The country has seen 3,583 deaths. 'Our Covid wards have been full for the past week, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and we are expanding capacity to enable us to admit more patients,' said Dr Lancelot Pinto at the P. D. Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. INDIA: Health personnel wearing white and blue protective gear carry the coffin of an 80-year-old woman from a mortuary to an ambulance in Srinagar, after she died following a coronavirus infection INDONESIA: A motorcyclist gestures as he is questioned by an Indonesian official at a checkpoint in Jakarta today, as the government urges people not to travel unnecessarily to mark the end of Ramadan In the Middle East, Iran has seen 126,949 cases and revealed yesterday that around 10,000 health workers are among those infected, admitting that 'some of them have died'. Iran was blamed for exporting the virus around the region in the early weeks of the pandemic, with many cases linked to the Shi'a pilgrimage site of Qom which was initially not shut down. The Iranian regime now fears a second wave of the disease, urging people not to travel at the end of Ramadan because 90 per cent of the population in some areas has not yet been exposed to the virus. The official death toll is 7,183, the highest in Asia, and since the start of the epidemic there has been suspicion that the regime's figures are far too low. A report by a parliamentary research centre suggested that the actual tally of infections and deaths in Iran might be almost twice that announced by the health ministry. However, Iran has been easing lockdown measures in the hope of reviving an economy which was already battered by US sanctions. Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia has suffered 62,545 cases, the fifth-most in Asia, although authorities have only announced 339 deaths - a very low mortality rate of 0.5 per cent. Saudi Arabia is also facing an economic crisis after oil prices collapsed because of the pandemic, at one stage falling into negative territory. The kingdom has also lost revenue from the suspension of Muslim pilgrimages to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were closed to visitors due to Covid-19. The country's finance minister says it will need 'strict and painful measures' including sharp spending cuts to deal with the crisis. SAUDI ARABIA: People pray during Ramadan while practising social distancing at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, which has been closed to pilgrims because of the coronavirus pandemic IRAN: People wear masks on the Tehran metro on Wednesday, after Iran started to lift lockdown restrictions despite a continuing increase in infections - amid fears of a second wave Elsewhere, Turkey is home to Asia's largest outbreak but yesterday saw the daily number of new cases drop below 1,000 for the first time in weeks. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began easing lockdown restrictions earlier this month, allowing inter-city travel in some provinces and easing a curfew on vulnerable people. Health minister Fahrettin Koca said the country is ready to start accepting 'medical tourists' from 31 countries and said played down fears of a second wave of infections. 'If we continue to abide by the rules of social distancing, wearing a mask and a limited social life, then we don't see a risk of second wave,' Koca said yesterday. 'Like the rest of the world, we are also monitoring actively such a risk around September or October. But we are in a position to take necessary measures in the case of a second wave.' Turkey has recorded 152,587 cases in total, but the government says that more than 110,000 of those have already recovered from the disease. The country has seen 4,222 deaths. In south-east Asia, Indonesia has the region's highest death toll with 1,242 as the government struggles to increase its testing capacity. Indonesia has so far conducted around 50 tests per 100,000 people, compared with 2,500 per 100,000 in neighbouring Singapore. President Joko Widodo promised in April that 10,000 tests would be carried out per day, but the goal is yet to be reached, with testing rates hovering at less than half that figure. On top of that, there are fears that millions of people will leave Jakarta at the end of Ramadan in the world's largest Muslim-majority country. The government has banned people from travelling for the holiday, but some people have been allowed to go if they provide proof of reasons to travel and a health certificate. Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo said this week he expected one million people to return to his province from greater Jakarta this year. TURKEY: Municipal morgue workers in Istanbul wear protective suits and face mask as they pull the coffin of a coronavirus victim out of the building in Turkey's largest city yesterday CHINA: A foreign journalist is tested by a medical worker wearing a blue protective suit and a face shield ahead of the Chines People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing yesterday By contrast, Vietnam has not yet reported a single coronavirus death and has limited total cases to just 324 after taking early action to close borders and quarantine thousands of people. By mid-March, Vietnam made the wearing of masks in public places mandatory nationwide, well ahead of most other countries. Kidong Park, the World Health Organisation's representative in Vietnam, has said there is no indication of any outbreaks beyond what the government has reported. China has reported only a trickle of new cases and deaths in recent weeks after sealing off Wuhan for more than two months, but has recently found a cluster of cases in two north-eastern provinces. A medic on the National Health Commission has also voiced fears that the pathogen is changing after finding that patients in the provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang were reacting differently to those in Wuhan. Patients in the northeastern clusters were also carrying the virus for longer than earlier cases in Wuhan, and they were taking longer to recover, said critical care expert Qiu Haibo. Patients in the northeast also rarely exhibited fever and tended to suffer damage to the lungs rather than across multiple organs, he said. South Korea has been widely hailed as a model for its handling of the outbreak, although it recently saw a new cluster of cases linked to bars and nightclubs in Seoul. Some nightclubs and bars in the capital have been ordered to close again, and authorities have also [http://scp-knowledge.org/?s=delayed delayed] the planned reopening of schools by a week. The country has carried out more than 800,000 tests, which have shown 11,142 positive results - leading to 264 confirmed deaths. Secretive North Korea claims it has no virus cases at all, but many experts and North Korean defectors regard this as implausible.

Wuhan To Test Entire Population After New Virus Cluster: State Media

2021-01-01T21:53:20Z

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The planned tests come after Wuhan reported the first cluster of new COVID-19 infections since the city re-opened after a 76-day lockdown on April 8 Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city's entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. [https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Officials Officials] have been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city of 11 million people, according to an official notice carried by news outlets. "Each district should make plans and arrangements to conduct nucleic acid tests on the entire population in its jurisdiction within a 10-day time limit," the notice said, although it was unclear when testing would begin. The plan come after Wuhan reported the first [http://de.pons.com/übersetzung?q=cluster&l=deen&in=&lf=en cluster] of new COVID-19 infections since the city re-opened after a 76-day lockdown on April 8. Six new cases were reported on Sunday and Monday from a residential compound in Dongxihu District. But an official from the Dongxihu District epidemic prevention and control commanding office told AFP that they have "not yet received news about this notice". Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state broadcaster CCTV it was "not necessary" for every person in Wuhan to be tested. "Neighbourhoods without any cases don't need to screen every person," Wu said, while large-scale screening should focus on "key jobs" and other criteria. China has largely brought the virus under control, but it has been on edge about being hit by a second wave as it has lifted lockdowns and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] restrictions across the country. Virus clusters have appeared recent weeks in the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which border Russia. With the virus taking hold in other nations, China has barred most foreigners from entering the country. Wuhan has reported 3,869 deaths since the novel coronavirus first emerged there in December, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] accounting for most fatalities in China. Scientists believe the virus jumped from animals to humans at a market that sold wildlife in the city.

Learning Mandarin In China Is Best

2021-01-01T09:20:45Z

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Where you will study Mandarin is almost as important as how you will study Mandarin. Choosing a location that is not conducive to cultivating good language learning habits means you will spend much more time (actually, much less time) studying than you would like. In this section we will discuss learning Mandarin in and outside of China. Learners who study Mandarin in China will find that they develop much faster than those who study in their home countries. This is because those in China are immersed in the language, meaning they not only have 24/7 access to the language via TV, radio, etc., but they also have countless opportunities to use the language in their day-to-day lives. It is quite common for someone who studies six months or less in China to surpass their counterparts who spend four years or longer learning at the university level. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); Before we look at choosing a location within China, let's look at an example of how choosing one location over another will help you reach fluency much faster than choosing another. Caroline chooses to study in Harbin, Heilongjiang province at the Harbin Institution of Technology. Harbin is renowned for speaking with the most standard Mandarin in all of China. While a very large city, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm từ Hà Nội] it has a very small native-English speaking community. Most Chinese locals in Harbin do not speak any English. James, on the other hand, chooses to study at Fudan University in Shanghai, where the Shanghaiese dialect is spoken alongside Mandarin. Both Shanghai and Fudan are known internationally. Shanghai is a very large city, with a massive native-English speaking community, and Fudan is a huge university with a large Mandarin-learning student body. Imagine that these two students are studying the same amount of hours each week, using the same curriculum and have teachers who teach using the same teaching style. Let's also imagine that both students have similar personalities, learning styles, and study habits. Which student do you think will reach a higher level faster? The answer: Caroline. Why? Three reasons: immersion, standard pronunciation, and student body. Let's examine these issues below. Immersion Know this early on: A classroom is merely a place where you are given the tools necessary to succeed. The best classrooms at the best universities with the best teachers cannot make you put into practice what you use in the classroom outside of the classroom. The more opportunity you have to practice outside the classroom, the greater the chances that you will succeed in reaching your language learning goals. As Caroline lives in an area with a very small English-speaking community, she will practically be forced to speak Mandarin every day. Cities such as Harbin generally have very few English-speaking locals. This means that Caroline will have to speak Mandarin when she goes grocery shopping, visits restaurants, takes cab rides, etc. in order to communicate. There will also be fewer locals pressuring her into speaking English. It is also much more likely that most of her friends will be Chinese locals who cannot speak English. By having no other choice than to speak Mandarin day in and day out, Caroline will very quickly learn to think in Mandarin. This will quicken her response time and make her sound more natural when she speaks as she will no longer need to translate back and forth from English to Mandarin. Dialect and L1 interference Harbin locals only speak Mandarin. Mandarin is their mother language. They do not speak any other "dialect" of Chinese. On the other hand, Shanghaiese is the mother language in Shanghai, not Mandarin. (Review our discussion above on the how "dialects" in China are actually mutually incomprehensible languages, and do not have much in common.) This means that most Shanghai locals grow up as children speaking Shanghaiese, and begin learning Mandarin once they start school. In language learning, the most common source of errors for any learner is L1 interference. L1 simply means "language one", or [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] mother language. For example, an American's L1 is English. A Russian's L1 is Russian. In China, a locals L1 is usually whatever local "dialect" is spoken. A local indigenous to Guangdong (the province bordering Hong Kong) will likely speak Cantonese as his or her L1. A local indigenous to Shanghai will likely speak Shanghaiese as his or her L1. L1 interference is when a learner's mother language causes them to make an error in L2, or his or her second language. For example, a student whose L1 is Mandarin and L2 is English is likely to pronounce the word "volleyball" as "wolleyball", replacing the "v" with a "w". This is because the "v" sound does not exist in Mandarin. The student's brain and mouth makes up for the inability to produce a "v" sound by replacing it with the sound/mouth movement which most closely resembles that sound. In this case, "w" is closest to "v". In Shanghai, many locals do not pronounce words ending in -g correctly, often times negating to pronounce the -g sound. For example, the word for "class" or "course", kecheng is often pronounced kechen. Many Chinese from the south also fail to correctly pronounce consonant + -h initials (e.g. sh, ch, zh). How does this apply to you learning Mandarin in Shanghai? Well, if your [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=teacher&gs_l=news teacher] is a local from Shanghai, grew up speaking Shanghaiese, and learned Mandarin in school, she's learned Mandarin as an L2, and it is very likely she speaks Mandarin with a Shanghaiese accent. As you learn from this teacher, you'll be speaking your own foreign-accented Mandarin with a Shanghaiese accent. Essentially, you'll be speaking Mandarin with two accents. Starting to see the problem here? With Mandarin already being a pronunciation-sensitive language, you want to speak with as standard as an accent as possible, [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=meaning&gs_l=news meaning] you want to sound like a Chinese from northeast China, not like someone from southern China. To be fair, anyone teaching Mandarin at a university or public school, or anyone offering tutoring services in Mandarin, is likely to speak standard Mandarin (though not guaranteed). It is also likely that most big cities will be comprised of people who come from all parts of China, and communicate with one another using standard Mandarin. With that said, the majority of the population will be made up of locals, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] and remember what we said above? It is not just about having a good teacher with standard Mandarin. It is about having an environment in which you can immerse yourself in standard pronunciation. Having a teacher who speaks flawless Mandarin can be counterproductive if none of the locals do. It would be like learning American English in Scotland. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); English speaking population Being immersed in standard Mandarin is more than half the battle. However, another issue you should seriously consider is the native-English-speaking resident population and student body of the place you are choosing. Quite simply, the more English speakers a given location has, the more English will be spoken. Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, for example, is comprised largely of non-Chinese. This means that should you decide to attend BLCU, you could be tempted to speak more English and make more English-speaking friends than you would elsewhere. It all comes back to immersion and opportunities to practice. If you are immersed in and speaking the language every day, your skills will develop quickly. If you are immersed, but hang out only with other English speakers, and spend little time actually using what you are learning in the classroom, your skills will not develop quickly. 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2021-01-01T09:20:33Z

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