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Irish antibody testing plans and Trump suggests G7 return to Camp David: Today's Covid-19 main points

Here is the latest news on the virus today.

LAST UPDATE | 20 May 2020

9895 Covid 19 Quiet streets with some commuters on Dublin's north quays. Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

A DAY AFTER health officials faced questions from TDs about the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, ministers will today be questioned by the opposition.

It comes as we got our first indication of when antibody testing is likely to begin in Ireland, a plan that should give a truer sense of how many people in the population have had the virus.

Here are today’s Covid-19 main points

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  • US President Donald Trump has suggested that the G7 summit could happen in Camp David and not by video conference. The meeting planned for three week’s time had originally been planned for the presidential retreat before the Covid-19 pandemic. 
  • The University of Cambridge has confirmed that all “face-to-face lectures” will be moved online during the next academic year.
  • The English Premier League has confirmed that there have been six positive results across arising from the first wave of Covid-19 testing for footballers.
  • Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students have returned to school after a coronavirus delay of more than two months.
  • A registry of death certificates in Mexico City suggests the actual Covid-19 death toll in the city could be more than three times the recorded number. The registry mentioned Covid-19 in 4,577 deaths while the official total is 1,332. 
  • New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has raised the prospect of Kiwis enjoying extra public holidays and a shorter working week to help the country’s post-lockdown economy.
  • The 3,000 members of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, will gather in Beijing this week after months of delay due to Covid-19. 

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    Feb 27th 2012, 4:00 PM

    Merely doing what should be done. If there is no will on the part of those who should be following up on this kind of material than go ahead Assange and Anonymous

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    Feb 27th 2012, 3:28 PM

    Nothing mindblowing so far but still paints a good picture of what is going on around Europe and the world in general at the moment. Cant imagine it helping Assange thou, dudes on a fast track to Gitmo.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 5:05 PM

    I don’t agree with this action at all. As far as I’m concerned, STRATFOR is probably the only source of reliable intelligence and information available on issues such as Iran, free of political and ideological bias.

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:15 AM

    Reliable? Free of bias?

    On the first point, they are incredibly unreliable. Have you even read any of their email exchanges on Iran? They made ridiculously sloppy assumptions based on poor data that any idiot who reads a newspaper could make.

    In one particular exchange, one analyst merely asserted that Israel destroyed some of Iran’s infrastructure, totally baseless on any evidence and according to his colleague, extremely unlikely.

    During today’s Frontline Club conference (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20736311) One of the reporters, Yassin al Saadi, in the middle east described Stratfor’s understanding of Middle Eastern situation as extremely poor. “Stratfor are an institution that seems completely disconnected from the political and social realities of the situations they cover.” “Stratfor lack Arabic speakers or experts, and over-rely on single sources.”

    On the second point, their CEO is George Friedman, who is heavily influenced by the non-conservative agenda. He wrote a book on it. Not to mention that they are partnered with Goldman Sachs’. Stratfor are nothing if not biased. The middle eastern reporter also commented Stratfor’s outlook was fundamentally racist against Arabs.

    Also, they’re an intelligence company so incompetent they didn’t even have their emails secured. They included credit card numbers, unencrypted. They had contact details of all their sources, all unencrypted. http://goo.gl/nG4ch.

    Totally incompetent. Corrupt and ill-informed.

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:16 AM

    That was in reply to Daithi, btw.

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    Feb 27th 2012, 7:08 PM

    Wikileaks trying to stay relevant before Assange’s deportation case is decided, Anon purely in it for the lulz, still doesn’t answer the big problem I have with both – Who hacks the hackers?

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    Feb 28th 2012, 12:19 AM

    Wow Danny, you’re so informed. TELL ME MORE.

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