Located in the center of the capital, Bangkok, locals consider it the most ugly part of the beautiful city.

This one and a half square kilometer area, consisting of small houses made of rotten wood and old tones, has swamps of land and drains.

Sothi is a single mother raising her children and grandchildren without any help. She makes a living by selling fried chicken and meatballs in front of a nearby school, but her only source of income is suddenly lost due to the epidemic as the school is closed.

She earned a thousand baht (US 30 30) a day, but suddenly her income was zero. She has been devastated by the virus. This is the story of many of the 20,000 residents of the Klong Toi Katchi population.
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Donated meals

Buying food items for your family for a couch is more important than buying hand sanitizers or face masks. She can only buy one of them.

She says, 'Fortunately no one has been infected in our community yet. So I will not get sick or die from it.

But with that, she also says, 'Poverty is slowly killing us … My only wish is that the situation get better soon and I hope the government will help us. ’

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They have neither school children nor any other customer to buy their food. In such a situation, they are not meeting their daily expenses.

She says, 'I really want to go out to sell food and try to make some money. But I don’t have enough money to buy my own food. In that case, where would I get the money to buy chicken and meatballs and sell them?

She currently spends her meals distributed by different temples and different foundations.

'Whenever I hear that people are being provided free food in the area, I get there and try to get as much food as possible so that the whole house can get enough. I’m scared of the virus, but with limited resources and a lack of money, this is the way I can survive. ’
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For those living in the slums, there are no more career paths left than drug trafficking and smuggling.

Like many others, Thongrowing Thongfuen is a 56-year-old woman who earns a living as a laborer and is currently struggling to make ends meet.

Every day, she and her husband leave the slums and stand on a nearby highway waiting for someone to take them to work. He knows the government’s advice on not leaving the house, but he feels that making money is more important than staying alive.

‘Poor people like us have very little choice,’ says Thongfuin. I know the government is asking everyone to stay home. But if I don’t go out to make money, none of us will survive.

“No one is ready to hire us,” he said. When we are out, we are at risk of getting infected with the virus and we may be carrying it in our neighborhood. But what can I do? My children need food and those from whom we have borrowed keep coming to pay. I have a lot of pressure. Sometimes I don’t even see the benefit of living. ”
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Klong Tui is the largest slum in Thailand. Officially, there are at least 20,000 people living there, but the actual number is thought to be much higher, perhaps close to 100,000.

Houses are built on top of one another, making it extremely difficult to prevent the spread of diseases.

Most of the slum dwellers are aware of the Kovod-19 epidemic but due to limited resources they can do nothing but look at each other.

“Most of the people in this community are children, the elderly and the sick who have little movement,” said Sunit Moinwai, another resident. If there is a single case here, consider the whole community clean.
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Ludda Mengipole is 26 years old and lives in a slum population. She makes face masks and gives people free.

“I am one of the lucky ones who has a job and is able to take care of my family,” she says. But I see a lot of my aunts, uncles and neighbors who are struggling in this crisis.

"They are all workers and they have no job at this time. This is just the first month of the outbreak in Bangkok and people are already in trouble. I cannot imagine what will happen next month. ’

He added: 'The situation in my block is terrible. There is a certified case of Cod 19 … I’m afraid

Jhudo is located on Mirpur Khas Mithi Road, about 300 km from Karachi. Rubina Brohi, 45, who was eight months pregnant, died on Saturday night in a nearby village.

Her husband, Allah Bakhsh Brohi, told the BBC that his wife had died of starvation.

Allah Bakhsh Brohi makes children’s toys from wood, the sale of which used to make him a hundred to two hundred rupees a day, but his work was halted due to a lockdown to prevent the spread of the corona virus. ۔

Allah Bakhsh Brohi is the father of five children aged five to fifteen, and says they had nothing to eat for the past week.

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"I don’t have a goat or a sheep, not even a hen that sells. All the money I had was spent during the lockdown. Used to

'In a kilo of flour, there were barely two, two loaves of bread all the time, the children complained of hunger. If Rubina had ever eaten half a loaf, the shoulder would have been empty.

According to Allah Bakhsh, on the day Rubina passed away, biscuits worth Rs 15 were ordered in the evening and everyone ate and slept. About ten o’clock in the night Robina’s condition deteriorated and she died. ’
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Image caption Allah Bakhsh Brohi claims that Rubina died of hunger

Speaking to the BBC, Assistant Commissioner Asif Khaskheli said that the woman died due to lack of hemoglobin. According to them they had taken a doctor who was told by Rubina’s husband that they had dizziness and she was weak.

Dr Sher Shah Syed, a former president of the Pakistan Paramedical Association and a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, says malnutrition can lead to death.

According to him, lack of hemoglobin increases the chances of death in pregnant women but if food is not available and the required food i.e. steel etc. is not available then the chances of death increase.

The rural health center is located in Jhudo, five kilometers from Nabi Sar Mor, but Assistant Commissioner Asif Khaskheli said the pregnant woman was not even taken to a doctor to be diagnosed with the disease.
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Rubina’s husband says their children were born at home because he could not afford doctors’ fees and medicine.

The Sindh government is distributing rations to the deserving people in the province while the federal government has also announced to give Rs 12,000 per family which is being provided at the union council level but Allahbakhsh has not received this amount. ۔

They say they have not gone to anyone, nor has any government or welfare institution reached them. “They are skilled, not jogis who go door to door begging.”

Stunt counselor Asif Khaskhali acknowledged that Robina’s family was suffering from extreme poverty, but said the government’s distribution of rations was limited. “Poor people come to me all day but they are distributing rations based on the list made.”

However, after the death of Rubina Brohi, the officials of Mirpur Khas district administration went to her house to find out the situation and according to Allah Bakhsh, the authorities gave her Rs 30,000 in cash and also distributed rations in the entire settlement.

'Besides, the soldiers also came, they also gave ration and some others gave milk and water besides food and drink, while the local landlord complained why they did not tell us.

"The kids are happy now, playing games or else they were killed. The little ones do not yet understand that their mother has died.

It is to be noted that one of the reasons for the disagreement between the federal government and the Sindh government regarding the delay in the implementation of the lockdown in Pakistan and the Sindh government was the issue of day laborers.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said that poor man in the country may not die of corona virus but due to severe lockdown he may die of hunger. Close relatives will not let him starve, but if he gets the virus, no one will come near him.

The laboratory is located in the city where the first Corona virus outbreak was reported.

US President Donald Trump says the US government is now reviewing anecdotal information that the virus spreads from a laboratory to the world.

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The Washington Post published these sources after receiving diplomatic posts.

According to these posts, in 2018, US scientific diplomats were sent to China’s Research Laboratory for multiple inspections.

These scientists twice warned the United States that the laboratory lacked adequate safety measures.

According to news reports in the Washington Post, the American scientific diplomat in China was upset over the security and administrative weaknesses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and requested further assistance.

According to the news, diplomats were worried that research on the virus spreading bats in this Chinese laboratory could pose a risk of a serous-like outbreak.

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tipsIn addition to the Washington Post, US TV channel Fox News also reported a news that reinforces the Corona virus’s reaction to launching a lab.

The outbreak came to an end late last year when some of the virus-infected patients were linked to a food market in Wuhan.

Despite widespread speculation that there is no online evidence, there is no evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 that caused the Cod-19 was actually accidentally emitted from a laboratory in China.
What kind of security arrangements does the Chinese lab have?

The laboratories that carry out research on viruses and bacteria, and the security measures they implement, are called BSL, biosafety levels.

The laboratory consists of four levels of BSL depending on which biological agents are being investigated.

Biosafety Level 1 is the lowest level and laboratories do this while researching known types of biological agents that are not harmful to humans in any way.

At Level 4, laboratories research the most dangerous pathogens, some of which contain only vaccines or treatments: the Ebola, Marburg virus, and measles vaccine to the extent that Russia and the United States laboratories.

With a slight difference, standards like BSL are practiced all over the world.

In contrast to the general standard, the largest level in Russia is called 1, while the lowest level is called 4, says Dr. Philipa Lentzos, a biosecurity specialist at King’s College London. According to them, the security measures and procedures adopted are exactly the same.
How unusual are the reservations in the diplomatic post?

Accidents happen. In 2014, in a research center near Washington, small boxes of smallpox were found in cardboard boxes, which were mistakenly left in the containers. In 2015, the US military accidentally sent samples of live anthrax to nine laboratories nationwide, including a South Korean military base.

In large numbers of research laboratories have different safety systems.

Laboratories made in accordance with BSL-IV are very strict arrangements because they work on extremely dangerous microbes. Wikipedia lists 50 such laboratories, including the WHI located in Wuhan, but no final list of such laboratories is available.

The BSL-4 lab works on hazardous microbes and has to ensure optimal safety. For this reason, lacking in any of these lab safety measures is very important.
Haven’t previously made claims about virus removal from the lab?

Yes, as soon as the Corona virus came out, speculation just happened, which could not be confirmed as to what caused it.

According to a viral theory in January, the virus was developed in a lab as a biological weapon.

Scientists have repeatedly rejected this theory. Scientists think the virus is spread to animals and more likely it is spread to bats.

The viruses can also be created for basic scientific research purposes.

For example, such research could improve the potential of disease-causing microbes to understand their potential behavior in the future, and to determine how the virus might be affected in the future. can go.

An American study published in the Corona virus genome in March found no evidence that the virus was transmitted.

A co-author of the study, Christiane Anderson of the Scripps Research Institute in California, said at the time of the publication that comparing the available genome sequences of the known corona virus, we can conclude that SARS-CoV-2 (Corona Virus) is born naturally.

An allegation later emerged that the naturally-born virus was accidentally ejected from a lab.

The reason for this allegation was to have Wuhan’s seafood market close to two research institutes where research on infectious diseases was being conducted.
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WIV’s research on bats’ corona viruses is part of the official record. The investigation was conducted legally, which appeared in several international journals.

This research is not surprising since China experienced the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s.

This is a very difficult question from where the (rumor) started, ”said Dr. Philipa. According to him, it is possible that bilateral security experts’ discussions with Wuhan’s seafood market have been discussed and China’s position has been questioned.

However, no evidence is available so far that this Sars-CoV-2 was a Wuhan investigative agency.

China’s Foreign Office spokesman Xiao Lijan told reporters at a news conference Thursday that World Health Organization officials have said many times that there was no evidence that the corona virus was made in a laboratory.

US President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for his efforts to control the outbreak, says the US government is investigating the theory of emissions from the lab.

China has been accused by the United States of America several times over its lack of transparency in the early days of the outbreak, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Beijing knows what it knows about the virus. Have to tell the truth.

During this literal war between the two countries, a lot of hard-working and largely unseen scientific research will continue to determine what the virus actually is.