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WORLD NEWS Thursday 20 February 2020

In this Feb. 18, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency,
workers go door to door to check the temperature of residents
during a health screening campaign in the Qingheju Communi-
ty, Qingshan District of Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.
Associated Press Thousand of farmers converged on The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in the lat-
est protest against the government's plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide.
Iran state news Associated Press

agency says new virus Dutch farmers protest in The

has killed 2 citizens Hague against emissions policy

By AMIR VAHDAT the first in the country, ac- THE HAGUE, Netherlands are major polluters. Sieta which we've already been
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The cording to the semi-official (AP) — Thousands of angry van Keimpema of Farm- doing for years," said .
new virus has killed two el- ISNA news agency. Offi- Dutch farmers converged ers Defence Force, which "Why is everything aimed
derly Iranian citizens, Iran's cials later said the two pa- on The Hague on Wednes- organized the protest, said at the farmers?" he added.
state-run IRNA news agen- tients had died. day in the latest protest politicians should listen to Police issued tickets to a
cy reported Wednesday. ISNA quoted an official in against the government's farmers, whose plans would small number of farmers
IRNA quoted Alireza Va- the country's health minis- plans to rein in emissions of reduce emissions while also across the Netherlands
habzadeh, an adviser to try, Kiyanoush Jahanpour, nitrogen oxide. protecting jobs in the lucra- for driving their tractors on
the country's health min- as saying that "since last As tractors poured into tive agriculture sector. highways and police in The
ister, as saying that both two days, some suspected the city, the Dutch military "Our government sweeps Hague arrested a 33-year-
victims had been carrying cases of the new coronavi- parked large trucks across farmers from the country- old protester for ignoring
the coronavirus and were rus were found." strategic roads to prevent side and plants houses on their instructions and cre-
located in Qom, about 140 The virus causes the illness farmers from driving into the places where farmers' ating "a dangerous situa-
kilometers (86 miles) south that the World Health Or- the business and shopping barns are demolished and tion on the road."Another
of the capital Tehran. ganization recently named center. memories of agriculture man was detained at the
The state news agency COVID-19, referring to its The demonstration comes are erased," Van Keimpe- end of the protest as police
said later that schools and origin late last year and the a day before a debate in ma said. blocked roads to prevent
universities in Qom would coronavirus that causes it. parliament on how to rein Ype Reinsma, a farmer a couple hundred demon-
be closed so an investiga- The new virus emerged in in emissions of the pollut- who traveled to the protest strators approaching the
tion could take place. No China in December. Since ant nitrogen oxide. Farm- from the northern province agriculture ministry.
additional details were re- then, more than 75,000 ers believe they are being of Friesland, said lawmak- In October, thousands of
leased. people have been infect- disproportionately target- ers should "give the sector farmers, many driving trac-
Earlier on Wednesday, Ira- ed globally, with more than ed by lawmakers, saying a chance to use far more tors, descended on The
nian authorities confirmed 2,000 deaths being report- that aviation, construction effective ways to reduce Hague, causing traffic cha-
two cases of the new virus, ed, mostly in China.q and other industries also emissions of nitrogen oxide, os across the country.q