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NYPD girds for more protests before Nov 3 election

This November 3rd will be the one of the most highly contested presidential elections in the modern era…Reports Asian Lite News

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is gearing up for potential protests in the state and the city ahead of the November 3 presidential election, the force announced in a memo.

In the memo from Commissioner Dermot Shea issued on Wednesday, the NYPD said that it will require most personnel to report for duty in uniform and “be prepared for deployment” starting October 25 in order to regulate the expected protests, reports Xinhua news agency.

“This November 3rd will be the one of the most highly contested presidential elections in the modern era.

“There is also a strong likelihood that the winner of the presidential election may not be decided for several weeks.

“Accordingly, we should anticipate and prepare for protests growing in size, frequency, and intensity leading up to the election and likely into the year 2021,” the memo added.

Demonstrators have recently taken over city streets and also across the state of New York to protest against police brutality since the killing of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

  • MINNEAPOLIS, May 30, 2020 (Xinhua) — Protesters hold their hands in the air during a protest in Minneapolis, the United States, May 29, 2020. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced on Friday a mandatory nighttime curfew following three straight nights of growing protests and violence in the biggest city in U.S. midwest state of Minnesota over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in police custody. (Photo by Angus Alexander/Xinhua/IANS)

A preliminary report by New York Attorney General Letitia James on the handling of protests over the summer said 2,000 arrests were made, reports CNN.

The July report also included a review of social media video that showed an NYPD vehicle accelerating through a crowd of protesters.

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Nearly 700k child cases of Covid 19 reported in US

Washington, Sept. 3, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Students study online at a recreation center in Los Angeles, the United States, on Sept. 3, 2020. (Xinhua/IANS)
  • Washington, Sept. 3, 2020 (Xinhua) — Students study online at a recreation center in Los Angeles, the United States, on Sept. 3, 2020. (Xinhua/IANS)

Nearly 700,000 children in the US have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic earlier this year, according to a new report.

The report released on Wednesday by the American Academy of Paediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association said that a total of 77,073 new child cases were reported from September 24 to October 8, a 13 per cent increase in over two weeks, reports Xinhua news agency.

So far, a total of 697,633 child Covid-19 cases had been reported in the US, and children represented 10.7 per cent of all those infected, said the report.

The overall rate was 927 cases per 100,000 children in the population.

Children accounted for 0.9 per cent to 3.6 per cent of total reported hospitalizations, and 0 to 0.23 per cent of all Covid-19 deaths, said the report.

“At this time, it appears that severe illness due to Covid-19 is rare among children. However, states should continue to provide detailed reports on cases, testing, hospitalizations, and mortality by age and race/ethnicity so that the effects of coronavirus on children’s health can be documented and monitored,” it added.

The report comes as the US remains the world’s worst-hit country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases in the country stood at 7,911,497, while the death toll increased to 216,734, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

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Biden gains lead in Wisconsin, Michigan: Poll

Trump, Biden trade early jabs in first presidential debate.

In the 2016 election, Trump had won both the states…Reports Asian Lite News

A new poll has revealed that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has gained big leads against US President Donald Trump in the swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan.

In the 2016 election, Trump had won both the states.

The latest New York Times-Siena College survey released on Monday revealed that Biden was leading the President with a 10 point advantage in Wisconsin, or 51 per cent to 41 per cent, reports The Hill news website.

In Michigan, Biden had an 8 point advantage, 48 per cent to 40 per cent.

Meanwhile, a CBS News-YouGov tracking poll released on Sunday revealed that Trump was trailing Biden by 52 per cent to 46 per cent in both in Michigan and Nevada.

Also, Biden was leading by 5.5 points in the RealClearPolitics average of Wisconsin and by 7 points in the same site’s average of Michigan.

Last week, a Reuters-Ipsos poll revealed that the former Vice President currently held a 5 percentage point lead in Pennsylvania and a 6 percentage lead in Wisconsin, another two key swing states, The Hill news website reported.

While Biden had a 50 per cent support in the two states, Trump had 45 per cent in Pennsylvania and 44 per cent in Wisconsin.

The swing states are Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin/

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Fauci asks Trump campaign to take down ad featuring him

Washington, Sept. 23, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, testifies during a hearing of U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Sept. 23, 2020. Anthony Fauci attended the hearing on Wednesday and warned of the long-term effects that disease might have on those infected. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via Xinhua/IANS)

“To take a completely out-of-context statement and put it in what is obviously a political campaign ad, I thought, was really very disappointing”.said Fauci…Reports Asian Lite News

Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, has said that the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump should take down a new political ad that features his remarks, according to media reports.

In the 30-second ad titled “Carefully”, which was released on October 10, a narrator notes Trump’s recovery from Covid-19 and includes a clip of Fauci, where he says: “I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more,” The Hill news website reported.

In a CNN interview on Monday, Fauci, director of the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said: “I think it’s really unfortunate and really disappointing that they did that. It is so clear that I am not a political person, and I have never either directly or indirectly endorsed a political candidate.

“To take a completely out-of-context statement and put it in what is obviously a political campaign ad, I thought, was really very disappointing.”

  • Washington, Sept. 23, 2020 (Xinhua) — Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, testifies during a hearing of U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Sept. 23, 2020. Anthony Fauci attended the hearing on Wednesday and warned of the long-term effects that disease might have on those infected. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via Xinhua/IANS)

Fauci’s remarks on Monday came a day after he issued a statement to CNN in which he said: “The comments attributed to me without my permission in the Republican campaign ad were taken out of context from a broad statement I made months ago about the efforts of federal public health officials.”

According to the top expert, his remarks in the ad were taken from a Fox News interview in March during which he touted the response of the White House coronavirus task force.

But reacting to Fauci’s statement on Monday, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh defended the use of the video, saying: “These are Fauci’s own words. The video is from a nationally broadcast television interview in which Fauci was praising the work of the Trump administration.

“The words spoken are accurate, and directly from Fauci’s mouth. As Fauci recently testified in the Senate, President Trump took the virus seriously from the beginning, acted quickly, and saved lives.”

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Trump feels ‘so powerful’ after Covid recovery

Washington, Oct. 2, 2020 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Sept. 3, 2020 shows U.S. President Donald Trump participating in a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the United States. Trump said early Friday morning that he and his wife, Melania, have tested positive for COVID-19, after a close aide had contracted the virus. (Xinhua/Liu Jie/IANS)

He made the remarks to a huge crowd of supports at an airport in Sanford, Florida on Monday night, about a week after being discharged from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington following his Covid-19 treatment…Reports Asian Lite News

At his first re-election rally following his October 2 announcement of being Covid-19 positive, US President Donald Trump boasted about being “immune” to the disease, adding that he “feels so powerful” following his recovery.

He made the remarks to a huge crowd of supports at an airport in Sanford, Florida on Monday night, about a week after being discharged from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington following his Covid-19 treatment, reports The Hill magazine.

Neither did the President wear a mask nor many others in the crowd. There was no social distancing either.

“I am fighting to make sure we eradicate the virus, rebuild the economy and save our country from the radical left.

“Now they say I’m immune. I feel so powerful. I’ll walk in there. I’ll kiss everyone in that audience.

“I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women, just give you a big fat kiss,” the President was quoted as saying.

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Before he left for the rally, White House physician Sean Conley said that Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus “on consecutive days”, in the first public disclosure about the US President’s health status.

“Repeatedly negative antigen tests, taken in context with additional clinical and laboratory data, including viral load, subgenomic RNA, and PCR cycle threshold measurements, as well as ongoing assessment of viral culture date, all indicate a lack of detectable viral replication,” Conley wrote in a memo.

The memo, however did not specify on which consecutive days Trump had tested negative.

During Monday night’s rally, the President offered sympathies to the people who have lost loved ones due to Covid-19.

“I have such respect for people in this country, the way they have handled it. It’s been an incredible love fest,” The Hill news website quoted Trump as saying.

“And sympathies from all of us to those people whose family members who have died, whose friends, I have lost friends.”

Doctors treating United States President Donald Trump come out of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Washington on Sunday, October 4, 2020. His personal doctor Sean Conley is in front. (Photo: White House/IANS)

Attacking his Democratic rival Joe Biden, Trump said: “He has no strength left. If he wins, the radical left will be running the country.”

He accused the former Vice President of being controlled by “left-wing extremists” and described him as mentally unfit.

Trump is scheduled to campaign in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and Iowa the following day.

Monday’s rally came after Trump made his first public appearance at a White House event on October 10.

On October 8, Conley cleared the President for public engagements “based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting”.

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Trump tests negative for Covid-19

Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus “on consecutive days”, White House doctor Sean Conley said in the first public disclosure about the US President’s health status after his October 2 announcement that he and the First Lady has contracted the disease.

Conley made the revelation in a memo on Monday shortly before Trump left for a re-election campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, his first since the announcement.

The physician said that Trump’s latest Covid-19 results came from an antigen test from Abbott Laboratories, adding that a variety of laboratory data have all indicated that the virus was no longer active in the President’s body, CNBC News reported.

“Repeatedly negative antigen tests, taken in context with additional clinical and laboratory data, including viral load, subgenomic RNA, and PCR cycle threshold measurements, as well as ongoing assessment of viral culture date, all indicate a lack of detectable viral replication,” Conley wrote.

The memo, however memo did not specify on which consecutive days Trump had tested negative.

After the Florida rally, Trump will campaign in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and Iowa the following day.

Monday’s development came after Trump made his first public appearance at a White House event on October 10.

At the South Lawn event, titled “Peaceful Protest in Support of Law and Order”, the President addressed the attendants, many who did not wear masks or were socially distancing, from the Blue Room Balcony.

Trump wore a face mask but took it off later when he started addressing the gathering.

On October 8, Conley cleared the President for public engagements “based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting”.

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‘Immune to coronavirus’: Trump claims

US President Donald Trump.

White House physician Sean Conley did not disclose when Trump last had a negative test result…Reports Asian Lite News

US President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he is now “immune” from the coronavirus, though medical research has suggested it is possible to be re-infected with the virus.

“It seems like I’m immune, so I can go way out of a basement,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

“It looks like I’m immune for, I don’t know, maybe a long time, maybe a short time. It could be a lifetime. Nobody really knows,” Trump added, Xinhua news agency reported.

White House physician Sean Conley said on Saturday that the president, who tested positive for Covid-19 on October 1 and was later hospitalized for three days before returning to the White House with continued treatment, is “no longer considered a transmission risk to others.”

Doctors treating United States President Donald Trump come out of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Washington on Sunday, October 4, 2020. His personal doctor Sean Conley is in front. (Photo: White House/IANS)

However, Conley did not disclose when Trump last had a negative test result.

A study published in September in the journal Nature Medicine, however, indicated that recovery from the coronavirus does not confer lifetime immunity.

Before and after Trump’s infection, a number of White House staff members have also tested positive for the virus.

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Fauci appears in Trump’s campaign ad

In the 30-second ad titled “Carefully”, which was released on Saturday, a narrator notes Trump’s recovery from Covid-19 and includes a clip of Fauci…Reports Asian Lite News

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has released a new ad which features Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, touting the administration’s response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

In the 30-second ad titled “Carefully”, which was released on Saturday, a narrator notes Trump’s recovery from Covid-19 and includes a clip of Fauci, the director of the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, The Hill news website reported.

“President Trump is recovering from the coronavirus, and so is America. Together, we rose to meet the challenge, protecting our seniors, getting them life-saving drugs in record time, sparing no expense. President Trump tackled the virus head on, as leaders should.

“We’ll get through this together. We’ll live carefully, but not afraid,” the narrator is quoted a saying.

Meanwhile, Fauci adds: “I can’t imagine that anybody could be doing more.”

The development comes few days after Fauci said that the September 27 White House ceremony to nominate conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court as a “super spreader” event.

  • Washington, July. 21 (Xinhua) — Donald Trump takes the stage on the last day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United States, July 21, 2016. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS)

Since the event, according to a government memo, at least “34 White House staffers and other contacts” have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in recent days.

According to the memo, an unnamed senior adviser to Trump, who is now back in the White House after his Covid-19 diagnosis, has also tested positive for the disease.

Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller, both senior aides to the President, have tested positive in recent days.

The others in the President’s inner circle who have also tested positive for the virus are First Lady Melania Trump, White House Press Secretary Kayley McEnany, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, Utah Senator Mike Lee, North Carolina Senator Thom Tilis, former adviser Kellyanne Conway and Trump campaign director Bill Stepien.

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US sanctions: Maduro writes to ‘peoples of the world’

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks in a TV address in Caracas, Venezuela, March 16, 2020. (Venezuela's Presidency/Handout via Xinhua/IANS)

The President also said Venezuela is preparing to hold legislative elections on December 6, and that over 90 per cent of local political organizations have fielded over 14,000 candidates for 277 seats…Reports Asian Lite News

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has addressed a letter “to the peoples of the world” on his government’s response to Washington’s unilateral measures against his country.

In the letter dated October 2 and postd on Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza’s Twitter account on Friday, the President discussed measures approved y the National Constituent Assembly, such as the Anti-Blockade Law for National Development and the Guarantee of Rights of the Venezuelan People, reports Xinhua news agency.

Maduro said the law “will allow for the creation of mechanisms to improve the nation’s income”, adding that incentives could be generated “to stimulate internal economic activity” and to promote foreign investment.

The President also said Venezuela is preparing to hold legislative elections on December 6, and that over 90 per cent of local political organizations have fielded over 14,000 candidates for 277 seats.

According to Maduri, the elections “will undoubtedly grant greater strength to our nation and our people, who have resisted foreign aggression with dignity and firmness”.

The President added in the letter that Venezuela has had one law, seven executive decrees, and around 300 administrative measures imposed on it by the US.

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Pence delays Indiana trip to vote early

US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at Republican National Convention.

According to a report in The Hill news website, Pence was slated to travel to Indianapolis, where he is still registered to vote, to cast his ballot in person along with his wife, Karen…Reports Asian Lite News

US Vice President Mike Pence has postponed a planned trip to the state of Indiana on Friday to vote early for the presidential election.

While the reason for the cancellation was not immediately clear, press secretary Devin O’Malley said on Thursday: “Nobody’s sick. There’s no positive tests. The Vice President is planning on travelling on Saturday and Monday.

“We’ll have more information on the Vice President’s schedule next week soon.”

A White House official also said that Pence will vote in Indiana at a later date.

According to a report in The Hill news website, Pence was slated to travel to Indianapolis, where he is still registered to vote, to cast his ballot in person along with his wife, Karen.

But the trip was called off on Thursday afternoon while Pence was in Arizona campaigning, the report added.

On Saturday, Pence will campaign in Florida and in Ohio on Monday on October 12.

United States Vice President Mike Pence (Photo: White House/IANS)

The Vice President has taken a critical role in the campaigning after President Donald Trump announced on October 2 that he and the First Lady had tested positive for the coroanvris.

Pence and his wife had tested negative following Trump’s announcement and also on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Trump insisted he was feeling well, but acknowledged on Thursday morning that he is still taking dexamethasone, a steroid, for treatment.

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