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The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Thursday declared a formal end to its monkeypox emergency due to rapidly declining case numbers around the world.

Iraq’s Ministry of Health announced Saturday that the country was experiencing “a dangerous rise in viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) cases,” with the ministry recording 90 infections and 18 deaths from the disease in recent days, India’s Zee News reported on Sunday.

China’s ruling Communist Party sent a specialized task force to the Russia-China land port of Manzhouli this week to “investigate hidden loopholes” among the city’s import stations that allegedly sparked an ongoing outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus in Manzhouli last month, the Global Times reported Wednesday.

North Korea’s coronavirus situation is “now under safe and stable control,” the country’s top envoy said at the U.N.’s 75th annual General Assembly on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.

After months of insisting they had the coronavirus pandemic completely under control, Chinese authorities on Tuesday admitted the outbreak in Beijing is “very grim.” Orders were given to lock down at least 29 communities and restrict travel from the city.

Safety protocols for returning to the workforce are more important than ubiquitous coronavirus testing to resume economic normalcy, explained Dr. Anthony Harris, associate medical director and vice president of onsite clinical operations for WorkCare, an occupational health services company.

The use of face masks is “absolutely fundamental” to controlling the spread of the coronavirus, according to Dr. William Schaffner, M.D., a professor of medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University and the medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

The coronavirus is no longer at epidemic levels in the UK as community transmission has fallen, say a team of Oxford University experts.

Public fear, not government orders, drove economic shutdowns during the 1918 flu pandemic, said John Barry, author of “The Great Influenza.”

The coronavirus outbreak reveals the value of faith communities in assisting people during times of crisis, said radio host Dennis Prager.

China’s leaders should face something akin to the Nuremberg Trials for “crimes against humanity” regarding the global coronavirus outbreak, said Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War.

Rather than advancing national unity in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the news media are “trying to tear the country apart,” said Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak while hosting this week’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday.

“I think we’re in the greatest revival in history,” said Mike Lindell, describing adversity as an opportunity for spiritual development.

On Saturday, Andrew Cuomo thanked the Chinese government for facilitating a donation of 1,000 ventilators to the Empire State.

Research into prospective treatments for coronavirus “give us some reason to hope” given early evidence, said Dr. Nicole Saphier.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on Monday that Syrian opposition groups are blaming Iranian militia forces for spreading the Wuhan virus through Syria. The opposition accused the Syrian government of concealing both the extent of the virus outbreak and the role played by Iranian forces in spreading it.

Gov. Tate Reeves a “one-size-fits-all approach” would be ineffective in Mississippi, calling for a “surgical” approach across cities.

China should be held accountable for its conduct leading up to and following the global coronavirus outbreak, said Gordon Chang.

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported on Friday that mainland Chinese companies are reaping huge profits selling face masks to combat the virus unleashed upon the world by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). One Chinese manufacturer literally described its operation as a license to print money.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) repeatedly criticized President Trump’s response to the coronavirus and the White House’s broader political strategy in the months prior to praising the president’s approach to the outbreak.

China is lying about the state of coronavirus within its territory while enjoying support from U.S. news media, said Frank Gaffney.

Bed Beacon finds hospitals as Vrbo finds hotels, said Dr. Kathryn Jarvis, warning of healthcare shortages during the coronaovirus outbreak.

A Harris poll released on Monday found a majority of the American people believe the Chinese government is to blame for unleashing the Wuhan coronavirus upon the world and support President Donald Trump referring to the disease as the “China Virus.”

Members of Congress should be required to place their investments into blind trusts to avoid conflicts of interest, insider trading, and other forms of corruption related to their appropriations of taxpayer funds, said Peter Schweizer.

Chloroquine has yet to be proven safe or effective as a treatment for coronavirus infection, noted Dr. Irwin Redlener.

In a series of leaked emails, Swedish experts slammed the Public Health Authority and state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell for his and the government’s initial approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Irwin Redlener warned of a worsening medical supply shortage – particularly in emergency rooms – as the coronavirus continues to spread.

Taiwan’s highly effective plan for handling the coronavirus epidemic involved 124 distinct action items, a few of them more strict than Americans might be willing to tolerate, including a program that uses the cell phones of Taiwanese citizens to monitor their locations and ensure they do not violate quarantine orders. 

Iran, scene of the world’s worst fastest and deadliest outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, followed the Chinese Communist Party’s lead and attempted to flip the political script on Thursday by claiming its response to the outbreak has been exemplary, the United States is the clearly incompetent party, and Tehran is magnanimously willing to help America get the virus under control.

According to official reports, the Wuhan coronavirus has not quite covered the entire world yet. Several countries, including a few with sizable populations, are reporting zero infections.

A study published last week by the University of Southampton’s WorldPop population mapping group suggested that found China could have prevented 95 percent of the coronavirus infections running wild across the world if the government had listened to the whistleblowing doctors of Wuhan instead of silencing and punishing them for daring to speak out.

The Islamic State has issued travel advice to supporters, telling would-be killers to avoid Europe during the coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Boris Jonson is asking British manufacturers to switch their production lines to start mass-producing ventilators, as the nation faces a shortage of the critical machines in the event of a large-scale coronavirus outbreak.

The GOP faces a political “extinction event” if they block economic relief to those financially hit by the coronavirus, warned Alan Tonelson.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Friday obtained data from the Chinese government that pinpointed the first clear case of the Wuhan coronavirus occuring on November 17, 2019. The Wuhan medical community began suspecting it had an epidemic on its hands in late December, but was suppressed by Communist Party officials who wished to conceal the crisis for as long as possible.