Turkey to ‘open the gates’ and allow millions of migrants unrestricted passage into Europe

The Turkish government on Thursday said that it would open its border with Syria and permit any and all migrants from the Middle East to pass through to reach Europe.

The senior Turkish official said that Erdogan’s government has decided to no longer allocate resources to stopping Syrian migrants from reaching Europe by land or sea, Reuters reports.

According to the senior official’s announcement, Turkish police, coast guard, and border security officials have been ordered to stand down.

The move, which Recep Erdogan has been threatening to take for a long time now, comes allegedly due to imminent wave of nearly 1 million Syrian migrants who’ve been displaced from Idlib.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/turkey-to-open-the-gates-and-allow-millions-of-migrants-unrestricted-passage-into-europe/

Number of US coronavirus cases with unknown origin rises to 4

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported two new cases of the coronavirus that do not appear to be travel-related, bringing the total number of suspected cases with unknown origins to four.

One case was reported in Oregon and the other in Washington state, the CDC announced late Friday. The new untraceable cases follow California health officials on Friday reporting a second case of coronavirus in a person who had no previous connection to anyone with the disease.

The cases have raised concerns among health officials about so-called community spread, in which an illness spreads in communities despite the source of the infection being unknown. The first suspected case of community spread was announced in California on Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/485267-number-of-us-coronavirus-cases-with-unknown-origin

U.S.-Taliban sign landmark agreement in bid to end America's longest war

The U.S. has agreed to withdraw all forces from Afghanistan within 14 months and pull out of five bases in 135 days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-sign-landmark-agreement-bid-end-america-s-longest-war-n1145166?fbclid=IwAR2alDieSwaSXV9vipmj3OmColS3lSrzobuVHD0ssKCJlNBlQaN-nolQ37s

U.S. cases rose to 66, including four instances of community spread.

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1:06 p.m. 1st known US death from coronavirus confirmed

The first known death in the United States from coronavirus has been confirmed. According to health officials in Washington State, there has been one death from COVID-19 in Kings County, Washington, and new cases. Officials will provide an update during a press conference on Saturday afternoon.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/high-school-student-washington-latest-coronavirus-community-spread/story?id=69301655

Person in Washington state first in US to die from new virus

Officials in Washington state say a person has died of COVID-19, the first such death in the United States.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE

Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.

The patients — an older Northern California woman with chronic health conditions, a high school student in Everett, Washington and an employee at a Portland, Oregon-area school — hadn’t recently traveled overseas or had any known close contact with a traveler or an infected person, authorities said.

https://apnews.com/f175d89567a26d59cab27725c9e8a0d7?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=A

Thailand cooking the books,Calls it "viral Pneumonia"

Thailand says they only have 41 cases of Coronavirus, but 2500+ cases of "VIRAL PNEUMONIA"

https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/eng/situation.php#

Italy will not report "Asymptomatic people who test positive" for Covid_19

Nei prossimi giorni i dati sulle persone colpite dal coronavirus in Italia si abbasseranno o resteranno stabili dopo giorni di crescita a ritmo sostenuto. Il cambiamento non sarà però dovuto, probabilmente e purtroppo, a una diminuzione della circolazione del virus ma a un nuovo sistema di calcolo dei casi.

L’idea del ministero è quindi quella di non comunicare più agli organismi internazionali che fanno i conti dell’epidemia tutti i casi asintomatici, cioè di persone che sono positive al tampone ma non hanno alcun problema di salute. Questi contagiati rappresentano tra il 40 e il 50% dei tutti i casi segnalati in questo momento.

Translated it reads:

In the coming days, data on people affected by coronavirus in Italy will be lowered or will remain stable after days of growth at a rapid pace. However, the change will not be due, probably and unfortunately, to a decrease in the circulation of the virus but to a new system of case calculation.

The idea of the ministry is therefore to no longer communicate to the international bodies that deal with the epidemic all asymptomatic cases, that is, of people who are positive to the tampon but have no health problem. These infected account for between 40 and 50% of all reported cases at this time.

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/28/news/cambia_il_metodo_di_conteggio_esclusi_i_positivi_asintomatici-249765660/?refresh_ce