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Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we look at responses to COVID-19 and China’s reopening, the complaint by Israel’s Minister of National Security, and a link between the climate update and domestic violence.
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China responds to COVID-19 restrictions
Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we look at responses to COVID-19 and the reopening of China, the complaint from Israel’s Minister of Homeland Security, and a link between the weather update and domestic violence.
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China responds to COVID-19 restrictions
China has criticized other countries’ COVID-19 restrictions, calling them “excessive,” after several countries said they would require negative COVID-19 tests from the Chinese.
“We that the access restrictions followed by some countries targeting China lack clinical basis, and some exaggerated practices are even more unacceptable,” said Mao Ning, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry. “We strongly oppose attempts to manipulate COVID measures for political purposes and will take countermeasures based on the precept of reciprocity. “
The comments come as countries around the world grapple with how to care for China’s reopening and overthrowing its zero-COVID approach. of COVID-19 cases in the country, have led some countries to require Chinese travelers to take a negative COVID-19 test.
This week, Canada and Australia announced they would require such controls. France followed suit and encouraged the European Union in general to do the same. The United States also recently imposed a requirement. Countries vary in their approaches. Some, like the U. S. , say a negative check will be required to fly to the U. S. Italy and Japan, by comparison, will require passengers arriving from China to go through a check upon arrival.
The UK, which has said it is still running on the main points of its policy, also said on Tuesday that those who tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival would not be required to quarantine. UK Transport Secretary Mark Harper said: “What we do is collect this data for surveillance purposes. “Harper has been critical of COVID-19’s restrictions on the pandemic.
“This is a country, China, that is not sharing fitness knowledge with the global fitness formula like we expect everyone else to do,” Harper added. “That is why we have put in place this transitional precautionary measure when China opens its borders. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman said the country is looking to strike the right balance between recognising that about 1 in 45 people in the UK are recently infected with COVID-19 and the possibility of new variants.
What we are today
Palestinians punish Israel’s national security minister. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s new national security minister, built a holy site in Jerusalem on Tuesday, prompting complaints around more than one corner. Ben-Gvir ed the Temple Mount, which is also the site of the al-Aqsa Mosque, becoming the first Jewish minister to do so in five years. The Palestinian Authority called Islam’s third-holiest site an “unprecedented provocation,” and Jordan summoned its Israeli ambassador for a rebuke for Ben-Gvir’s Array.
Ben-Gvir was also censored through Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. “As a minister representing the government of Israel, you will have to act on the orders of the Chief Rabbinate, who has long banned visiting the Temple Mount,” Yosef said. He wrote in a letter to the Minister of National Security. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, and the Chief Rabbinate’s position is that the site is “too sacred for Jews to set foot on. “
Domestic violence similar to weather replacement. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found a link in its 2022 report linking climate change (particularly extreme weather, which climate change makes more common) and domestic violence. The report has highlighted evidence that extreme weather events are at the root of domestic violence, so climate replacement is, in addition to an environmental and economic problem, a gender equality issue.
Terry McGovern, who directs the public and family health branch at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, told The Washington Post that the link between climate change and domestic violence is “overwhelming. “
Keep an eye on
Zelensky warns of a long crusade of Russian drone strikes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian intelligence had an explanation for why Moscow would continue to strike with Iranian-made drones and that Russia’s plan was to try to “exhaust” Ukraine. Zelensky has stated so. So far this year – that is, the year 2023, just days old – Ukrainian air defenses have shot down more than 80 drones of this type.
More consequences of the Mexican criminal escape. At least two investigators tasked with locating fugitives from a criminal in northern Mexico were shot dead by gunmen. Authorities now at least 30 criminals escaped during Sunday’s criminal escape in Ciudad Juarez. Los Mexicles, a gang that has been connected to the Sinaloa cartel, is lately suspected of being guilty of the violence.
most of Tuesday
• The myth of American fatigue in Ukraine through Raphael S. Cohen and Gian Gentile
• Elections to watch in 2023 through Allison Meakem
• 10 conflicts to watch in 2023 via Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood
tips
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told local reporters in Brazil that the organization will ask each and every country in the world to name a stadium after soccer star Pele.
Emily Tamkin is a global affairs journalist and The Influence of Soros and Bad Jewish. Twitter: @emilyctamkin
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