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Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 7 () An expert task force setup by the Kerala government on evolving a strategy on easingthe coronavirus lockdown has said the "time is not yet ripe"for its full withdrawal after April 14 and recommended a"phased approach" to the removal of the restrictions.The 17-member committee in its report has suggested awithdrawal strategy that should be gradual, phased andcalibrated to ensure that the case load is always kept belowthe (surge) capacity of the healthcare system to deal with it.It said restricting large scale movement of people acrossinternational and state boundaries was "critical" and shouldnot be considered unless and until the situation was undercontrol in every state.However, the panel said it also felt that prolonged andstringent lockdown would lead to economic hardship, famine andlaw and order problems, which could undermine both thelockdown and the health management objectives.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the 21-daylockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus. The report, submitted to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayanby the committee on Monday, has been sent to the Centralgovernment. When asked about the strategy the government was likely toadopt, Vijayan told reporters that only after knowing theCentre's decision on the lockdown, which ends on April 14,will the state be able to decide on its future course ofaction.The report by the task force headed by former chiefsecretary K M Abraham was for the centre's perusal and not forthe state government, he said."The task force report was for the centre's perusal andnot for the state government. The Prime Minister had soughtthe report from the task force and the state government hadsent it to the Centre after we received it yesterday," he toldreporters here.Replying to a question, he said it was a nation-wide 21-day lockdown and the state government was following theCentre's directions. "The centre had declared a 21-day-long lockdown till April14. Let the Centre take a decision whether to continue ornot... We will take a suitable decision accordingly," Vijayanadded. LGK RRT UDVS VS

Time not yet ripe to ease lockdown: Kerala expert panel

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Paris, Apr 9 (AFP) Lockdown measures in China must be lifted gradually in order to prevent a "second wave" of COVID-19 infections, scientists warned Thursday as thousands in the outbreak city of Wuhan were finally allowed to travel.The strict social distancing measures, including a near 1l-week travel ban, appear to have paid off, and life is slowly getting back to normal in the megacity, even as the virus devastates Europe and the United States.The restrictions enabled Chinese authorities to get a handle on the virus, which during its peak infected thousands of people daily in Hubei province, where Wuhan is situated.Scientists in Hong Kong said that regions outside Hubei would need to gradually lift social distancing measures or risk the epidemic surging back. They analysed the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in four Chinese cities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Wenzhou -- between mid-January and the end of February.The team found that measures such as closing businesses and schools and severely restricting travel successfully reduced the virus' reproduction rate to under 1 -- that is, each infected person infected only one other on average.This is a significant improvement on the transmissibility rate at the start of the outbreak, roughly 2-3, enough to spread the disease exponentially. Models showed that lifting the measures prematurely would lead to new infections approaching levels seen at the peak of the first outbreak wave.The researchers also found that COVID-19 cases were deadly in less than 1 percent of cases outside of Hubei. Inside the hardest-hit province, however, mortality stood at 5.91 percent as Hubei's health systems became overwhelmed, the analysis showed."While these control measures appear to have reduced the number of infections to very low levels, without herd immunity against COVID-19, cases could easily resurge as businesses, factory operations, and schools gradually resume and increase social mixing," said Joseph Wu from the University of Hong Kong who co-led the research. Wu, a world-renowned expert in infectious diseases, said that developed countries would need to strike a balance between keeping COVID-19 reproduction rates below 1 and allowing the economy to function as best as possible.The study also looked at the varying COVID-19 mortality rates among the 10 hardest-hit Chinese provinces, and found a strong link between survival rates and economic development. These ranged from 0 percent mortality in prosperous Jiangsu to 1.76 percent in less developed provinces such as Henan."Even in the most prosperous and well-resourced megacities like Beijing and Shanghai, healthcare resources are finite, and services will struggle with a sudden increase in demand," said Gabriel Leung from the University of Hong Kong."Our findings highlight the importance of ensuring that local healthcare systems have adequate staffing and resources to minimise COVID-related deaths."(AFP) RAXRAX

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Anti-lockdown groups in the UK are becoming increasingly entangled with far-right groups on social media, experts said.</li><li>Anti-vax groups are using the same fringe social media platforms as many prominent far-right extremists.</li><li>Two men were charged after a BBC journalist was chased through the street by anti-lockdown demonstrators in distressing scenes.</li></ul>Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination groups are becoming increasingly entangled with networks of far-right extremists who share threatening messages about journalists on fringe social media networks such as Telegram, experts have warned.A <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjImsDb_bTxAhURO8AKHf6ND8sQFjAAegQIBhAD&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fuk-england-london-57556198&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gRQkYEoqUI-dJZQBHQPd6198&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gRQkYEoqUI-dJZQBHQPd6">second man was charged this week</a> in the UK after a BBC journalist was chased through the street by demonstrators protesting against lockdown measures.Footage of the incident was uploaded by an anti-lockdown group called ResistanceGB to YouTube - where it has more than 28,000 followers - under the title "Top BBC Stooge Chased Out Of Anti-lockdown Protest Over BBC Lies."As a result, The BBC was forced to tighten its security procedures after Fran Unsworth, the director of <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> and current affairs at the national broadcaster, said that the "abuse of journalists is a growing problem," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/20/bbc-tightens-security-after-anti-vaxxer-death-threats-to-staff">the Observer reported</a>.Many prominent figures on the British far-right, including Nick Griffin and Jayda Fransen, subsequently expressed support on social media for the actions of the protestors who pursued Watt through Westminster.Experts say that while the anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown movement in the UK is not inherently far-right, many of them are increasingly using the same fringe social media platforms such as Telegram, where prominent far-right influencers like Nick Griffin and Jayda Fransen have large followings. Many of those figures frequently talk about opposition to vaccines and lockdowns."As anti-vax conspiracy theorists increasingly share online spaces with violent far-right extremists, the chances of radicalization increase also," said a spokesperson for Tech Against Terrorism, an organization tackling terrorist use on the internet that is supported by the United Nations counter-terrorism committee executive directorate."The more these groups share the same spaces, the more likely they'll be influenced by each others' ideas."After Paul Joseph Watson - a right-wing conspiracy theorist and UK editor of Infowars - shared a link to Watt being chased, comments posted in response seen by Insider included: "Good. Scum. Hope he pissed himself" and "He could and should have been lynched." The Observer previously <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/20/bbc-tightens-security-after-anti-vaxxer-death-threats-to-staff">reported</a> other comments shared below the video.Nick Griffin, the former leader of the BNP, referred to the protestors in a <a href="https://twitter.com/NickGriffinBU/status/1404928505750687747?s=20">tweet</a> as "heroes" and added the hashtag "#onlythingthesef---ers understand."Anti-semitic tropes are also being shared in anti-vax groups on social media, experts said."When extremists are banned from large platforms, they don't disappear from the internet; instead they congregate on smaller, alternative platforms that lack either the capacity or willingness to remove their content," said a Tech Against Terrorism spokesperson.

Anti-vax campaigners who have been radicalised on social media pose a growing threat, experts say

<ul class="summary-list"><li>COVID-19 conspiracy groups will pivot to pushing climate change misinformation in 2022, experts say.</li><li>They will frame climate policy as a "loss of civil liberties," an expert told the PA <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> agency.</li></ul>COVID-19 conspiracy groups may pivot to pushing misinformation about the <keyword id="11896310" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate-crisis" source="Orion">climate crisis</keyword> in 2022, experts have warned, according to a <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/national/19819964.experts-warn-covid-conspiracy-groups-may-pivot-climate-misinformation-2022/">Press Association (PA) report.</a>Those who already proliferate baseless <keyword id="11921389" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="conspiracy-theories" source="Orion">conspiracy theories</keyword> about vaccines and lockdowns could turn their attention to spreading misinformation about climate policy, said one extremism expert.They will "frame" climate policy as a "loss of civil liberties and loss of freedoms," said Ciaran O'Connor, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) think tank, during an interview with PA.Phrases like <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/radical-green-overhaul-to-avoid-climate-lockdown-by-mariana-mazzucato-2020-09?barrier=accesspaylog">"green lockdown"</a> and <a href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/19/climate-lockdown-conspiracies-threaten-cop26-say-experts">"climate lockdown"</a> are already being used, he continued, which refer to conspiracy theories that groundlessly state environmentalists will order global lockdowns to help reduce carbon emissions."That's a merging of Covid worlds and climate disinformation worlds," O'Connor said."The climate dialogue, rhetoric, and discussion are going to be rolled into that kind of civil liberties discussion, I think (that) is where you're going to see a lot of these groups go," he went on.Another expert agrees that climate crisis conspiracy theories will have "more activity" in 2020. Jonathan Bright, an associate professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, told PA that people will be thinking about climate change misinformation "quite a lot."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-telegram?r=US&amp;IR=T">Telegram,</a> a cross-platform messaging service, will likely host the evolution of these ideas by conspiracy groups, according to O'Connor. And the analyst added that the counter-narrative would have real-world consequences."Online actions have offline consequences," O'Connor told PA. "What we're seeing in relation to that idea… is the increased threat especially towards public health officials, towards politicians, and even towards frontline staff, people who are working to protect people."In November, ahead of the COP26 event, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-conspiracies-are-spreading-rapidly-during-uns-cop26-event/">CBS News reported</a> that climate change conspiracies were spreading rapidly on the internet. "We found that climate-change disinformation trends on social networks borrow from themes that were effective during the coronavirus crisis," said Blackbird.AI CEO Wasim Khaled, per the media outlet.

COVID-19 conspiracy groups could pivot to pushing climate change misinformation in 2022, experts warn

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9752857" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="scott-atlas">Scott Atlas</keyword>, the controversial <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> advisor to President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>, blasted lockdowns in an interview with Russian propaganda platform RT.</li><li>"The lockdowns will go down as an epic failure of public policy," Atlas said during his appearance. "The argument is undeniable. The lockdowns are killing people." </li><li>Public <keyword id="6354750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> experts have been urging local officials to enact lockdowns and business closures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.</li></ul>A top <keyword id="6356037" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-house">White House</keyword> coronavirus advisor criticized lockdowns in an interview appearance on Russian propaganda outlet RT, saying shutdown policies are "killing people.""It's a deadly pandemic, there's no understating that," Scott Atlas, a closer advisor to President Donald Trump, said. "We've had 230,000 lives roughly lost from the virus and certainly many lost from the policy of shutdowns.""The lockdowns will go down as an epic failure of public policy," Atlas added. "The argument is undeniable. The lockdowns are killing people." Public health officials have been recommending lockdowns and business closures for months to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, along with other measures like wearing a mask and maintaining a social distance of six feet. Atlas said lockdowns and other measures taken to slow the spread of coronavirus are "creating a generation of neurotic children" and said data shows college students are killing themselves "due to the lockdown."The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of students between the ages of 18 to 24 considering suicide increased in the month of June, but not because of lockdown policies as Atlas said in the interview. The spike is due to increasing mental health problems and anxiety, according to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm?s_cid=mm6932a1_w">CDC data</a>. Students reported feeling more anxious and depressed because of the coronavirus in part, but the feelings are not specific to lockdowns. In a tweet Sunday morning, Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322892481751646212">promised</a> there would be no lockdowns despite the number of positive coronavirus cases increasing in the country.Atlas made the remarks on RT, a Kremlin-backed platform that uses YouTube as its "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-is-the-propaganda-vehicle-of-choice-for-russias-rt-lawmakers-say-2019-10">propaganda vehicle of choice</a>," a team of US lawmakers said last year. On Sunday afternoon, Atlas walked back his interview with RT, apologizing for appearing on the platform. "I recently did an interview with RT and was unaware they are a registered foreign agent," he <a href="https://twitter.com/SWAtlasHoover/status/1322962638012358657">tweeted</a>. "I regret doing the interview and apologize for allowing myself to be taken advantage of. I especially apologize to the national security community who is working hard to defend us." Atlas also took down the link to the interview he had tweeted upon airing. Atlas has in the past been accused of spreading disinformation and false information surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Twitter earlier this month <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tweet-removed-dr-scott-atlas-masks-dont-prevent-covid-19-2020-10">dinged and removed</a> one of his tweets saying masks don't work, a decision that Atlas railed against. Prominent coronavirus experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-atlas-hits-back-critics-questioning-science-fauci-redfield-2020-10">have publicly expressed concern</a> over some of Atlas' remarks and beliefs, including his criticism of lockdowns. Fauci in September called Atlas an "<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/09/29/fauci-atlas-task-force-fox-news-stelter.cnnbusiness">outlier</a>." Billionaire Bill Gates referred to Atlas as a "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQINyKIp1M">pseudo-expert</a>," expressing frustration at Trump's willingness to listen to him.Atlas fired back at both Fauci and Gates in the interview."I'm proud to be an outlier, especially when the inliers are completely wrong," he said regarding Fauci's comments."I frankly don't care what somebody like Bill Gates says. Being rich does not confirm expertise," Atlas said. "I feel very good about not only my own expertise, my own CV. I'm a healthcare policy person. I've been working in this for 15 years."The coronavirus has infected more than 9.1 million people in the United States, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Of that, more than 230,000 people have died from the disease.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The UK could be heading for another "hard lockdown" if the new law banning most gatherings of more than six people is not obeyed, an expert who advises the government on COVID-19 has warned.</li><li>"We really need to act very quickly now to prevent this from growing exponentially," the Imperial College London professor Peter Openshaw said.</li><li>He said the "trickle" of <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> cases could turn into a "cascade" if the new rules were ignored, adding that the country "must act fast" to stop the virus from spreading rapidly throughout the population.</li><li>The government says a second lockdown is still a "nuclear option."</li></ul>The UK faces the prospect of a second "hard lockdown" if new rules banning large social gatherings are not obeyed, an expert has warned, saying the "trickle" of new coronavirus cases threatens to turn into a "cascade" within days.Peter Openshaw, an Imperial College London professor who is an expert in experimental medicine and has advised the government on COVID-19, <a href="https://twitter.com/SophyRidgeSky/status/1305116859650445315?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">told the Sky News host Sophy Ridge on Sunday</a> that the government "must act fast" to stop the coronavirus from spreading rapidly and urged people to obey new rules banning most social gatherings of more than six people."We really need to act very quickly now in order to prevent this from growing exponentially," he said. "And that's the main point, is that we must act fast because it is so much harder to get this sort of thing under control if you delay — even a few days is potentially going to be quite dangerous now at this particular moment."Openshaw said the daily spread of infections, which increased significantly last week, had returned to "exponential growth." He also cited <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-cases-in-care-homes-spiral-again-jhp8g6tw3">news that the virus had started to spread again in care homes</a> as evidence that more "hospitalizations and deaths" were inevitable.Ridge then asked him about measures like the UK's new rule barring six or more people from meeting other than in a handful of settings like weddings."I'm afraid it is going to cause pain and suffering for us all to go back to some degree of lockdown, but if we don't do this now, we are going to be right back in hard lockdown in short order," he <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-britain-only-has-a-few-days-to-avoid-second-national-lockdown-professor-warns-12070680">said</a>. The coronavirus' spread is accelerating in all parts of England, according to <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-imperial/england-brings-in-more-local-restrictions-as-covid-19-rate-soars-idUKKBN2621SJ">government figures published Friday</a>.Statistics from Imperial College London <a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-imperial/england-brings-in-more-local-restrictions-as-covid-19-rate-soars-idUKKBN2621SJ">indicate that the R rate</a> — which is the average number of people an infected person transmits the virus to — is at 1.7, indicating exponential growth.Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to maintain the current system of introducing local lockdowns in areas, such as Birmingham and Bolton, where infection rates are highest.Robert Buckland, a cabinet minister, <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sunday-shows-round-up-justice-secretary-would-resign-if-uk-breaks-law-in-unacceptable-way">insisted on Sunday</a> that a second national lockdown remained a "nuclear option."

UK is facing a 'cascade' of new coronavirus cases and could be heading toward a 2nd 'hard' lockdown, an expert warns

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3828720" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="President-Donald-Trump">President Donald Trump</keyword> on Monday claimed that the lockdowns implemented during the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> pandemic haven't reduced future infections and "inflict more harm" than they prevent. </li><li>"Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future — they just don't. It comes back, many times. It comes back," Trump said at his press briefing. </li><li>Earlier on Monday, Dr. <keyword id="225564" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Anthony-Fauci">Anthony Fauci</keyword> said certain US states that are experiencing rising infection rates and case surges should consider reimposing at least partial shutdowns. </li></ul>President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that the lockdowns implemented during the coronavirus pandemic haven't reduced future infections and "inflict more harm" than they prevent — contradicting Dr. Anthony Fauci."It's important for all Americans to recognize that a permanent <keyword id="91743" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdown">lockdown</keyword> is not a viable path toward producing the result that you want," Trump said during his coronavirus-focused press briefing, adding that new lockdowns would "ultimately inflict more harm than it would prevent." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-lockdowns-successful-evidence-from-around-the-world-2020-4">Overwhelming evidence</a> has shown that lockdowns around the country and the world have helped the spread of COVID-19.Trump went on to argue that lockdowns, which involve shuttering non-essential businesses and closing schools, are designed to "buy time" for states and localities to build hospital capacity, research the <keyword id="10860" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Virus">virus</keyword>, and develop treatments, but aren't effective in preventing future outbreaks. "Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future — they just don't. It comes back, many times. It comes back," he said.Earlier on Monday, Dr. Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert who's advising Trump, said certain US states that are experiencing rising infection rates and case surges should consider reimposing at least partial shutdowns. Fauci told the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday that some states outside of the South and West are seeing an "insidious increase" in the percent of positive COVID-19 tests — an early warning sign that these places could soon see uncontrolled surges in the virus. Experts say these states <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-threat-rises-across-us-we-just-have-to-assume-the-monster-is-everywhere/2020/08/01/cdb505e0-d1d8-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html">include</a> Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee."You may need to pause, you may need to drop back a little bit. I don't think you necessarily have to revert to go all the way back to reclosing," Fauci told JAMA. Fauci emphasized that it's of utmost importance to contain the virus before the fall when the influenza season begins. Dr. Deborah Birx, another top public health expert advising the federal government, said on Sunday that the coronavirus pandemic had entered a "new phase" and reached an "extraordinarily widespread" community spread in both urban and rural areas. Trump has undermined and publicly disagreed with Fauci on a number of issues related to the pandemic response. While the president has aggressively downplayed the threat the virus poses to Americans and resisted various efforts to mitigate the spread, he's accused Fauci of being an "alarmist" and calling for overly-extreme measures to fight COVID-19. On Monday, Trump called Birx "pathetic" after she issued her stark warning about community spread.

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