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Senin, 12 April 2021

China calls for halt to mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations amid inoculation push - The Straits Times

BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - China has urged local authorities to halt compulsory coronavirus vaccinations as the central government tries to balance the urgency of its inoculation efforts and possible backlash from a hesitant population.

"Some areas are making the vaccination rather simplified, and even mandatory for everyone. This approach must be corrected," a spokesperson for the National Health Commission said at a Sunday (April 11) briefing.

The directive appears to be aimed at curbing the heavy-handed tactics of some local authorities to ramp up vaccinations after the government set a target of vaccinating 40 per cent of the population, or some 560 million people, by the end of June.

In one example, Wanning, a city in the southern province of Hainan, warned residents could be blacklisted from receiving government benefits or using public transport if they failed to get vaccinated.

China will adhere to the guideline that people get vaccinated voluntarily, according to Mr Wu Liangyou, a senior official at the National Health Commission.

While China has mostly quashed the coronavirus, it is facing hurdles in its vaccination drive as people don't see the same urgent need to get inoculated as those in countries still battling Covid-19.

In order to catch up with western rivals like the US, China has been calling on the tens of millions of people who work at state-owned enterprises, and the roughly 90 million Communist Party members, to act as role models in the push.

The country has administered 164.5 million doses so far, while the US has delivered 187 million, according to Bloomberg's Vaccine Tracker.

The vaccine rollout is facing other challenges, including a supply shortage as the acceleration pushes the limits of domestic vaccine makers.

Uncertainty is also growing over whether the lower protection rate conferred by Chinese shots, compared to mRNA ones by Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc, will hurt the country's race towards herd immunity.

Minggu, 11 April 2021

'The right path': Chile defends Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine use amid fresh efficacy questions - CNA

SANTIAGO: Chilean authorities on Sunday (Apr 11) backed the country's widespread use of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac after China's top disease official appeared to make conflicting statements about its efficacy.

Gao Fu, the director of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a conference in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Saturday that the country was considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines since currently available vaccines "don't have very high rates of protection".

He later said in an interview with state media that his comments were "completely misunderstood".

Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy, but require less stringent temperature controls during storage.

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac was found to be just over 50 per cent effective in reducing infection in Brazilian clinical trials. A real-world study of vaccination and contagion data by the University of Chile suggested last week the vaccine was 54 per cent effective in reducing infection.

Chile paid US$3.5 million to host a clinical trial of the vaccine and has also ordered 60 million doses to be administered to its 18 million-strong population over three years.

The country has largely relied on the Sinovac vaccine, along with smaller numbers of Pfizer's equivalent drug, to roll out one of the world's fastest vaccination campaigns, so far inoculating 4.6 million people with two doses and 7.2 million with one.

Chile also signed deals for the supply of vaccines from western drugmakers Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca but these are yet to materialise because of supply bottlenecks.

On Sunday, Chilean science minister Andres Couve said it was important to focus on the data and the vaccine's effectiveness in reducing illness that required medical treatment or being hospitalised or dying, which it achieved in the Brazilian study in 83.7 per cent and 100 per cent of cases respectively.

He said Chile's health ministry will shortly publish a real world study on the effectiveness of both vaccines rolled out in its population and appealed to Chileans to continue to participate in the vaccination programme.

Heriberto Garcia, director of Chile's Public Health Institute which greenlighted CoronaVac's emergency roll-out, said people should not pay attention to headlines.

"The University of Chile study and the study the health ministry will release say the same thing: the number of people who fall ill and are hospitalised has decreased," he told local newspaper La Tercera. "We are going down the right path."

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Blinken warns of China's 'increasingly aggressive actions' against Taiwan - CNA

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday (Apr 11) the United States is concerned about China's aggressive actions against Taiwan and warned it would be a "serious mistake" for anyone to try to change the status quo in the Western Pacific by force.

"What we've seen, and what is of real concern to us, is increasingly aggressive actions by the government in Beijing directed at Taiwan, raising tensions in the Straits," Blinken said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press.

Beijing on Thursday blamed the United States for tensions after a US warship sailed close to Taiwan.

The United States has a longstanding commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act to ensure that Taiwan has the ability to defend itself and to sustain peace and security in the Western Pacific, Blinken said.

READ: China protests transit of US destroyer through Taiwan Strait

Asked if the United States would respond militarily to a Chinese action in Taiwan, Blinken declined to comment on a hypothetical.

"All I can tell you is we have a serious commitment to Taiwan being able to defend itself. We have a serious commitment to peace and security in the Western Pacific.

"We stand behind those commitments. And in that context, it would be a serious mistake for anyone to try to change that status quo by force."

Taiwan has complained over the last few months of repeated missions by China's air force near the island, which China claims as its own.

The White House on Friday said it was keeping a close watch on increased Chinese military activities in the Taiwan Strait, and called Beijing's actions potentially destabilising.

READ - Commentary: Taiwan is becoming the biggest test in US-China relations

Also on Friday, the US State Department issued new guidelines that will enable US officials to meet more freely with officials from Taiwan, a move that deepens relations with Taipei amid stepped-up Chinese military activity around the island.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the new guidelines had followed a congressionally mandated review and would "provide clarity throughout the Executive Branch on effective implementation of our 'one China' policy" - a reference to the longstanding US policy under which Washington officially recognises Beijing rather than Taipei.

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2021-04-11 14:16:13Z
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China, Russia undermine international Myanmar response, EU's top diplomat says - CNA

BRUSSELS: The European Union's top diplomat said on Sunday (Apr 11) that Russia and China were hampering a united international response to Myanmar's military coup and that the EU could offer more economic incentives if democracy returns to the country.

"It comes as no surprise that Russia and China are blocking the attempts of the UN Security Council, for example to impose an arms embargo," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a blog post.

"Geopolitical competition in Myanmar will make it very difficult to find common ground," said Borrell, who speaks on behalf of the 27 EU member states. "But we have a duty to try."

Security forces have killed more than 700 unarmed protesters, including 46 children, since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a Feb 1 coup, according to a tally by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) activist group.

That includes 82 people killed in the town of Bago, near Yangon, on Friday, which the AAPP called a "killing field".

"The world watches in horror, as the army uses violence against its own people," he said.

READ: Myanmar's post-coup civilian death toll climbs past 700

READ: Myanmar youth fight Internet outages with underground newsletter

China and Russia both have ties to Myanmar's armed forces, as the largest and second-largest suppliers of weapons to the country, respectively.

The United Nations Security Council last week called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military, but stopped short of condemning the coup.

The EU is preparing fresh sanctions on individuals, as well as companies owned by the Myanmar military. The bloc in March agreed on a first set of sanctions on 11 individuals linked to the coup, including the commander-in-chief of the military.

While EU economic leverage in the country is relatively small, Borrell said the EU could offer to increase its economic ties with Myanmar if democracy is restored. That could include more trade and investments in sustainable development, he said.

EU foreign direct investment in Myanmar totalled US$700 million in 2019, compared with US$19 billion from China.

The military says it staged the coup because an election won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party last November was rigged. The election commission has dismissed the assertion.

Protest groups in Myanmar are calling for the boycott of the Thingyan water festival this week, one of the most important celebrations of the year, because of the killings.

"(With) Thingyan approaching, we mourn the senseless loss of life in Bago & around the country where regime forces have reportedly used weapons of war against civilians," the United States Embassy in Yangon said on Twitter.

"The regime has the ability to resolve the crisis & needs to start by ending violence & attacks."

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2021-04-11 12:00:00Z
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Myanmar's post-coup civilian death toll climbs past 700 - CNA

YANGON: A security guard was wounded in a bomb blast outside a military-owned bank in Myanmar's second-biggest city on Sunday (Apr 11) morning, as the civilian death toll from the junta's brutal crackdown on dissent topped more than 700 at the weekend.

The country has been in turmoil since the military removed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb 1.

Myawaddy Bank's biggest branch in Mandalay was targeted on Sunday morning and a security guard was injured in the explosion, according to local media.

There was a heavy security presence in the area following the blast.

The bank is one of scores of military-controlled businesses that have faced boycott pressure since the coup, with many customers demanding to withdraw their savings.

There has been heavy bloodshed in recent days.

READ: Myanmar security forces with rifle grenades kill more than 80 protesters: Monitoring group

Protesters march against the military coup in Launglone township in Myanmar's Dawei district. (Photo: AFP/Handout)

On Saturday, a local monitoring group said security forces gunned down and killed 82 anti-coup protesters the previous day in the city of Bago, 65km northeast of Yangon.

AFP-verified footage shot early Friday showed protesters hiding behind sandbag barricades wielding homemade rifles, as explosions were heard in the background.

The United Nations office in Myanmar tweeted late Saturday that it was following the bloodshed in Bago, where it said medical treatment had been denied to the injured.

Overall the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has verified 701 civilian deaths since the putsch.

The junta has a far lower number: 248, according to a spokesman Friday.

Despite the bloodshed, protesters continued to rally in parts of the country.

READ: Rights group condemns Myanmar death sentences

Despite the dangers, protesters hit the streets again on Sunday in several cities around Myanmar — Protesters are see in Myanmar. (Photo: AFP/Handout)

University students and their professors marched through the streets of Mandalay and the city of Meiktila on Sunday morning, according to local media.

Some carried stems of Eugenia flowers - a symbol of victory.

In Yangon, protesters carried a banner that read: "We will get victory, we will win."

Protesters there, as well as in the city of Monywa, took to writing political messages on leaves including "we must win" and calling for UN intervention to prevent further bloodshed.

Across the country people have been urged to participate in a torchlight protest in their neighbourhoods after sunset on Sunday night.

DEATH PENALTY RETURNS

Unrest also erupted Saturday in the northwestern town of Tamu, near the Indian border, where protesters fought back when soldiers tried to tear down makeshift barricades erected to block security forces.

Two civilians were killed when soldiers started randomly shooting, said a local, with protesters retaliating by throwing a bomb that exploded and overturned a military truck, killing more than a dozen soldiers.

"Some are in hiding - we are worried that our people will be hurt as a reprisal," the resident told AFP.

The mounting bloodshed has also angered some of Myanmar's 20 or so armed ethnic groups, who control swathes of territory mostly in border regions.

READ: Myanmar youth fight Internet outages with underground newsletter

Myanmar's security forces have arrested more than 1,500 people — Myanmar's security forces have more than 600 people as protesters refuse to submit to military rule. (Photo: AFP)

There were clashes Saturday in northern Shan state, as the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic rebel group, mounted a pre-dawn attack on a police station, said the TNLA's Brigadier General Tar Bhone Kyaw, who declined to give details.

Local media reported more than a dozen police officers were killed, while the TNLA said the military retaliated with air strikes on its troops, killing at least one rebel soldier.

State-run television reported in the evening that "terrorist armed groups" attacked the police station with heavy weaponry and set it on fire.

Meanwhile, state media reported Friday that 19 people had been sentenced to death for robbery and murder by a military court, with 17 of them tried in absentia.

They were arrested in Yangon's North Okkalapa township - one of six areas in the commercial hub currently under martial law, meaning anybody arrested there is tried by a military tribunal.

Myanmar has long had the death penalty, but has not carried out an execution in more than 30 years, said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division for Human Rights Watch.

"It indicates the military are prepared to go back to a time when Myanmar was executing people," he said.

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2021-04-11 07:08:22Z
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Sabtu, 10 April 2021

Singapore leaders send condolences to the UK over death of Prince Philip - CNA

SINGAPORE: President Halimah Yacob and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday (Apr 10) conveyed their condolences to Britain's leaders on the death of Prince Philip, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said.

Madam Halimah, who wrote to Queen Elizabeth II, said that she was "deeply saddened to learn" of Prince Philip's death.

"On behalf of the people of Singapore, I extend my condolences to Your Majesty and the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," she said.

She added that the Duke of Edinburgh "was an exemplary role model for the British people, and served the United Kingdom selflessly and with honour for over six decades".

President Halimah said that "Singapore will always fondly remember" the state visit Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip made to Singapore in 2006, as well as the "generosity and warmth" he showed former President Dr Tony Tan during Singapore’s first-ever state visit to the UK in 2014.

READ: Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies aged 99

READ: Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip: The strength behind the crown

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote to Prince Charles, saying: "I was saddened to learn of the passing of your father, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh".

Prince Philip had lived a "significant and remarkable life", Mr Lee said, "dedicated first and foremost to service to the United Kingdom and its people, as well as to the peoples of the Commonwealth and the world at large".

Mr Lee added that education was "an utmost priority" of Prince Philip's. He noted the Duke of Edinburgh's visits to the National University of Singapore in 1972 and the United World College of Southeast Asia in 1989.

"He also met students from the Singapore Sports School during Her Majesty The Queen’s State Visit in 2006, where I had the great pleasure to meet him," wrote Mr Lee.

"On behalf of the Government of Singapore, I extend to you my deepest condolences and sympathies for this immense loss. He will be remembered and missed."

READ: UK PM hails Philip's 'extraordinary life' as tributes pour in

In another letter addressed to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mr Lee extended his "deep condolences" on Prince Philip's passing.

"Our thoughts are with you, your Government and the people of the United Kingdom as you mourn the loss of a public figure who was much loved and respected by all of us."

Mdm Halimah’s and Mr Lee’s letters are reproduced in full below:

Letter from President Halimah Yacob to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

10 April 2021

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Buckingham Palace

Westminster London SW1A 1AA

Your Majesty,

My husband and I were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of your beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On behalf of the people of Singapore, I extend my condolences to Your Majesty and the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Duke of Edinburgh was an exemplary role model for the British people, and served the United Kingdom selflessly and with honour for over six decades. Singapore will always fondly remember the State Visit by Your Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh to Singapore in 2006, as well as the generosity and warmth His Royal Highness had shown to our former President Dr Tony Tan, during Singapore’s first-ever State Visit to the United Kingdom in 2014.

The many decades of public service of His Royal Highness will continue to inspire successive generations of young people, and live on in the memories of many around the world.

Our thoughts are with Your Majesty and the Royal Family during this time of mourning.

Yours sincerely

Halimah Yacob

Letter from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

10 April 2021

Your Royal Highness,

I was saddened to learn of the passing of your father, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

As we mourn his passing, we remember the significant and remarkable life that he had led, dedicated first and foremost to service to the United Kingdom and its people, as well as to the peoples of the Commonwealth and the world at large. He had an indomitable spirit, fighting for peace and justice in the Second World War in his early years, and later steadfastly pursuing environmental causes, where he was well ahead of the times, and taking a close interest in sports and education. His selfless devotion to service has contributed much to advance and uplift the livelihoods of people in the United Kingdom and within the Commonwealth. We will also remember him for his steadfast support of Her Majesty The Queen.

One of his distinguished achievements was the creation of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme over six decades ago. The awards nurtured and empowered young people to gain the skills, confidence and resilience to become exceptional individuals who can make a difference and contribute to society. The scheme also inspired Singapore’s own National Youth Achievement Award programme, which was launched in 1992.

It was clear that the Duke of Edinburgh made education an utmost priority. He visited the National University of Singapore in 1972, and the United World College of Southeast Asia in 1989. He also met students from the Singapore Sports School during Her Majesty The Queen’s State Visit in 2006, where I had the great pleasure to meet him.

On behalf of the Government of Singapore, I extend to you my deepest condolences and sympathies for this immense loss. He will be remembered and missed.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Hsien Loong

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Letter from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to Prime Minister Boris Johnson

10 April 2021

Dear Prime Minister Johnson,

On behalf of the Government of Singapore, I extend to you and your Government my deep condolences on the passing of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Throughout his life, the Duke of Edinburgh devoted himself to public service in support of the Crown and Government. With a steady resolve to uplift livelihoods, he brought forth many initiatives over the years, which continue to benefit the people of the United Kingdom as well as the larger Commonwealth family. His unwavering support of Her Majesty The Queen in fulfilling her role as Head of the Commonwealth was evident in his multiple pioneering efforts. These include his project to empower the youth of the Commonwealth, through ground-breaking initiatives such as the Commonwealth Studies Conferences which enabled them to acquire the skills, self-confidence and resourcefulness to meet the challenges of the future. It is a testament to his foresight that these initiatives continue to support social progress for people across the Commonwealth to this day.

We have warm memories of the Duke of Edinburgh’s many visits to Singapore, both accompanying Her Majesty The Queen and in his capacity as a member of the Royal Family. His visits regularly featured tours to one of our nature and wildlife reserves and educational institutions. It reflected his lifelong support for environment and education causes. We recall his gracious opening of the Singapore Polytechnic, one of our oldest post-secondary institutions, during his first visit in 1959.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s contributions to the Commonwealth and the furthering of close relations between our countries are part of his lasting legacy. He will be missed. Our thoughts are with you, your Government and the people of the United Kingdom as you mourn the loss of a public figure who was much loved and respected by all of us.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Hsien Loong

The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Prince Philip's funeral to be held on April 17, Harry to attend but not Meghan - The Straits Times

WINDSOR, ENGLAND (REUTERS) - The funeral service for Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, will be held on April 17, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday (April 10), adding that their grandson Prince Harry would attend.

Long-established plans for his funeral have had to be redrawn and scaled down because of Covid-19 restrictions, but Buckingham Palace said they remained very much in line with Philip's wishes.

Philip, known as the Duke of Edinburgh and at his wife's side throughout her 69-year reign, died on Friday at Windsor Castle aged 99.

He will be given a ceremonial royal funeral, not a state funeral, with no public processions, held entirely within the grounds of Windsor Castle and limited to 30 mourners.

"The occasion will still celebrate and recognise the Duke's life and his more than 70 years of service to the queen, the UK and the Commonwealth," a palace spokesman said.

The funeral will be held at the castle's St George's Chapel and will be preceded by a minute's silence across the country.

Exact details of who will attending were not released, but among those present will be Prince Harry, whose explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey alongside wife Meghan last month plunged the royal family into its greatest crisis in decades. Meghan, who is pregnant with their second child, will not attend on doctor's advice, the palace said.

During the interview, Meghan said her pleas for help while she felt suicidal were ignored and that one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their unborn child's skin might be.

Harry, the Duke of Sussex, also bemoaned his family’s reaction to the couple’s decision to step back from official duties and move to Los Angeles.

"The Duke of Sussex is planning to attend," the palace spokesman said.

"The Duchess of Sussex has been advised by her physician not to travel. So the Duke will be attending."

Buckingham Palace stressed the service would be held in line with government coronavirus guidelines, meaning members of the royal family including the queen would be expected to wear a mask.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be among the guests in order to make space for as many family members as possible, his office later said.

'A family in mourning'

Tributes have flooded in from across Britain and from world leaders for Philip, who was a pillar of strength for the queen. At 94, she is the world's oldest and longest-reigning living monarch.

The armed forces marked Philip's passing at noon on Saturday (7pm Singapore time) with a Death Gun Salute. Artillery units in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and Gibraltar, and some navy warships, fired their guns.

The royal family asked the public to heed social distancing rules and avoid visits to its residences, but people still laid cards and bouquets outside Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

"It's not something I've ever done before," said Joanna Reesby, 60, who came to pay her respects at Buckingham Palace. "I brought yellow roses for friendship because I think that's what he exhibited to everyone who came into his world."

The queen has lost her closest confidante, the one person she could trust and who was free to speak his mind to her. They had been married for 73 years and Philip would have turned 100 in June.

Asked how the queen was coping, the palace spokesman said: "It's a family in mourning".

Members of the family have been visiting the grieving monarch at Windsor Castle.

"The queen has been amazing," said a tearful Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, as she left with her husband Prince Edward, the youngest son of Elizabeth and Philip.

On its official Twitter feed, the royal family put up a tribute paid by the queen to her husband on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1997.

"He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know," she said.

Flags at Buckingham Palace and at government buildings across Britain were lowered to half-mast and billboard operators replaced adverts with a photo and tribute to the prince.

A Greek prince, Philip married Elizabeth in 1947 and broke the news of her father's death five years later while they were visiting Kenya, meaning that she was queen at the age of 25.

He went on to play a key role helping the monarchy adapt to a changing world in the post-World War II period, and also to support the queen as the monarchy faced numerous crises over the years. He finally stepped back from public duties in 2017.

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2021-04-10 16:24:13Z
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