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A10 WORLD NEWS
Friday 21 February 2020

The remains of a Kerala state-run bus that collided head-on
with a truck near Avanashi, Tamil Nadu state, India, Thursday,
Feb.20, 2020.
Associated Press
Bus-truck collision

on Indian highway

kills at least 19 Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant against the new coronavirus in front of a
church in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.
Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — A bus lore in Karnataka state. New threats emerge in outbreak
collided at high speed with "We do not know if the
a truck on a highway in truck driver dozed off or if
southern India early Thurs- there was a tire burst, the while China voices optimism
day, killing at least 19 peo- Press Trust of India news
ple, police said. agency quoted police of-
The bus driver was among ficer Siva Vikram as saying. By KEN MORITSUGU Mayor Kwon Young-jin rea reported its first fatality
the dead, but the truck The truck entered the Associated Press made a nationally tele- and Japan said two former
driver survived the head-on wrong lane and crashed BEIJING (AP) — Chinese vised appeal for those pre- passengers of the Diamond
collision, said police officer into the bus coming from health officials expressed ventative measures, warn- Princess cruise ship had
Sauranya, who uses one the opposite direction, rip- new optimism Thursday ing that a rash of new cas- died of the illness, bring-
name. She said nine injured ping off part of its body over a deadly virus out- es could overwhelm the ing the death toll there to
people were hospitalized and leaving tangled re- break while authorities in health system. He pleaded three.
and others were allowed to mains, he said. South Korea's fourth-largest for help from the country's Other deaths confirmed
go home after treatment. More than 110,000 people city urged residents to hun- central government. by the World Health Orga-
The accident occurred are killed every year in ker down as fears nagged Daegu and surrounding nization outside mainland
near Avinashi, a town road accidents across In- communities far from the ill- towns reported 35 new China include two in Hong
in Tamil Nadu state. The dia, according to police. ness' epicenter. cases of the coronavirus on Kong and one each in
state-operated bus was Most crashes are blamed The confidence voiced by Thursday. France, the Philippines and
on its way to Thiruvanan- on reckless driving, poorly China's government came The flare-up came more Taiwan.
thapuram, the capital of maintained roads and ag- as it reported a reduced than 1,400 kilometers (900 The trajectory of the out-
Kerala state, from Banga- ing vehicles.q number of new infec- miles) from COVID-19's epi- break remained clouded
tions. But doubts remained center across the Yellow by China's zigzagging daily
Thai police arrest about the true trajectory Sea in China's Hubei prov- reports of new cases and
of the epidemic as China ince and its capital of Wu-
shifting ways of tallying
fugitive in Dutch again changed its meth- han, a sign of the risks the them.
od of counting and new virus potentially poses to The number of new cases
in China declined again
threats emerged outside communities across the re-
expat's 2003 murder the country. gion and beyond. Thursday, to 394, a notable
"The downward trend will "Everything that is not shift from the 1,749 figure
not be reversed," insisted known about this is causing released a day earlier. An-
Ding Xiangyang, deputy concern," said Dr. David other 114 deaths in China
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in his wife had conspired with
Thailand have arrested a a Thai lover and her elder chief secretary of the State Heymann, a professor of in- were linked to the virus.
man who has been a fugi- brother to get Odekerken's Council and a member of fectious disease epidemiol- But those statistics came
tive since being convicted life insurance and inherit the central government's ogy at the London School after yet another change
in absentia of the 2003 mur- his assets, which were es- supervision group. of Hygiene and Tropical in how cases are counted.
der of a Dutch expatriate. timated to be 100 million Whatever promises were Medicine. Last week, China's National
Anupong Sutthani, one of baht-200 million baht ($3.2 aired where the illness pos- Though all but about 1,000 Health Commission said
three people convicted of million-$6.4 million). es its biggest threat, coun- of more than 75,000 re- officials in Hubei would re-
killing Jules Odekerken, was Anupong, the lover, was a tries around the world con- ported cases of COVID-19 cord new infections with-
arrested Tuesday evening former politician who had tinued to grapple with the have been recorded in out waiting for laboratory
in the northern province of working as a contractor rippling effects. The latest China, scattered cases test results, relying instead
Phrae, police said Wednes- to help build Odekerken's front in the widening glob- have erupted elsewhere. on doctors' diagnoses and
day. Odekerken married a house, a police statement al fight against COVID-19 Iran announced three lung imaging. On Thurs-
Thai woman, Marisa Prom- said. Odekerken was beat- emerged in Daegu, South more infections Thursday, day, though, it returned to
mana, in 1997 and had en to death by Anupong Korea, where the city's a day after the country's its prior way of counting, a
been running a newspaper and the brother, Seksan 2.5 million residents were state-run news agency, decision sure to aggravate
in the resort town of Patta- Prommana, who left his urged to stay inside, wear- IRNA, reported its first two observers who say consis-
ya when he was killed. battered body at a gar- ing masks even indoors to deaths stemming from the tency is key to understand-
A 2007 trial established that bage dump, it said. q stem further infection. virus. In addition, South Ko- ing COVID-19's path.q