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cannot afford 
complacency
Key meeting stresses need to reform
disease prevention and control system
By XU WEI Hubei  province  even  as  it  has
xuwei@chinadaily.com.cn switched to epidemic control and
prevention  efforts  on  a  regular
A  key  Party  meeting  on basis. 
Wednesday  stressed  the  need  to The CPC Central Committee has
reform  China’s  disease  preven­ decided to send a liaison group to 
tion and control system and bol­ Hubei to step up guidance and sup­
ster  its  monitoring  and  early port  to  follow­up  containment 
warning capacities for outbreaks efforts in the area, Xi said. 
in  a  bid  to  close  the  gaps  and The liaison group must continue
strengthen weak areas exposed in to  offer  guidance  regarding  the
the COVID­19 pandemic.  rehabilitation  of  recovered Seniors at Wuhan No 49 High School have their temperatures automatically displayed as they return to campus on Wednesday in
The Standing Committee of the patients  and  their  psychological Wuhan, Hubei province, following the easing of restrictions in the Chinese city hardest hit by COVID­19. Seniors at the city’s 121 high
Political Bureau of the Communist counseling  and  press  for  the schools have started their final semester before the gaokao, or national college entrance exam. CHEN XUEZI / FOR CHINA DAILY See story, page 3
Party of China Central Committee, implementation  of  normalized
the country’s top political authori­ containment efforts to prevent the
ty, approved decisions in the meet­ importation  of  infections  and  a
ing to streamline the medicine and
healthcare system and refine laws
and  regulations  on  public  health
possible rebound of the outbreak,
he said. 
Xi  stressed  that  authorities  can
Experts: Treated asymptomatic patients  Country 
and emergency management. 
The Standing Committee heard
a  work  report  by  the  steering
afford  zero  complacency  in  their 
work on all fronts to consolidate the
outcomes of epidemic containment, 
of COVID­19 pose low risk of infection backs WHO
group  sent  by  the  CPC  Central
Committee to oversee the epidem­
ic  response  in  Hubei  province,
and  must  not  undo  all  the  efforts 
that have been made. 
The liaison group must also push
By WANG XIAODONG
wangxiaodong@chinadaily.com.cn
novel coronavirus can be isolated 
from such patients, but the infec­
may continue to be hospitalized if 
they have other active illnesses. 
probe into 
according to a statement released
after the meeting. 
Xi  Jinping,  general  secretary  of
forward  the  enforcement  of  the 
many policies rolled out to support 
economic  and  social  development 
Novel coronavirus patients who
have  turned  asymptomatic  but 
tiousness  of  the  virus  is  signifi­
cantly weakened, Jiang said.
It is highly likely that COVID­19
Ma  Yingmin,  vice­president  of
Beijing  Chaoyang  Hospital,  said 
some patients may have to remain 
virus origin
the CPC Central Committee, empha­ in Hubei to help restore the normal  still test positive for the virus after patients who have been asympto­ hospitalized  for  a  much  longer 
sized at the meeting that the steer­ order  of  life  and  production  at  an  sustained treatment appear to be  matic — including having a normal time due to failed nucleic acid tests. By WANG QINGYUN
ing group has fought alongside the  early date, he said.  unlikely to transmit the virus and  temperature  for  over  10  days,  “Some patients who are not in wangqingyun@chinadaily.com.cn
people  of  Hubei  and  its  capital,  The meeting also underlined the further treatment may not be nec­ healed lungs verified by scans and  serious  condition  can  be  treated 
Wuhan,  and  prioritized  efforts  to  importance  of  summarizing  and essary, medical experts said.  the appearance of antibodies in the easily and their symptoms disap­ The  Foreign  Ministry  said  on
contain the spread of the outbreak,  employing practices proved to be Despite the low risk of infection blood — are not infectious, even if  pear, but it is difficult for them to  Wednesday that China stands ready 
treat  infected  patients  and  ensure  effective during the epidemic con­ from such patients, whose numbers they test positive for the virus in  pass two straight tests,” he said.  to  continue  close  cooperation  with 
the supply of resources.  tainment in Hubei and Wuhan and are small, they still need to be isolat­ their respiratory tracts, he said.  Liang Zong’an, head of the respi­ the  World  Health  Organization  to 
It has made the utmost effort to closing the gaps and strengthening ed  for  medical  observation  until  Jiao  Yahui,  an  official  at  the ratory  and  critical  care  depart­ find the origin of the novel coronavi­
stem  the  spread  of  the  pandemic  the  weak  areas  that  have  already they test negative, the experts said.  National  Health  Commission’s  ment at the West China Hospital of rus  that  causes  COVID­19,  but  it 
and striven to secure the first line of  been exposed.  Jiang  Rongmeng,  an  infectious Medical  Administration  and  Sichuan University, said there has  firmly opposes any political manipu­
defense  in  the  country’s  epidemic  The  country  must  optimize  its disease expert at Beijing Ditan Hos­ Supervision  Department,  said  in  been no evidence of transmission  lation under the guise of an investi­
containment, which has showcased  emergency  management  and pital, said studies show COVID­19  April that the number of confirmed by asymptomatic patients who still gation of its origin.
China’s strength, spirit and efficien­ patient treatment systems in cop­ patients in recovery test negative for COVID­19 patients in Wuhan, the  test positive for coronavirus after  China  supports  reviews  of  the
cy,  he  said,  adding  that  the  group  ing  with  major  outbreaks  and  in the virus on average within 20 days  city hit hardest by the outbreak in  sustained treatment in China.  COVID­19 pandemic at an appropri­
has made important contributions  the area of public health, and, with of becoming sick and being hospi­ China, had fallen to 47, including  “The  possibility  of  their  infec­ ate time, ministry spokeswoman Hua
to winning the people’s war against  an emphasis on prevention, inno­ talized, but some patients continue  more than 30 who still tested posi­ tiousness cannot be ruled out, but  Chunying said at a news conference.
the pandemic.  vate  in  the  methods  and  ways  to to test positive for over 40 days.  tive after sustained treatment.  chances  of  their  spreading  the  Such reviews are to promote inter­
However, Xi said huge uncertain­ conduct health campaigns, said the “However, testing positive for the It was not necessary to continue virus  are  small,”  he  said,  adding  national  health  cooperation, 
ties still linger over the pandemic,  statement.  nucleic acid of the virus does not  to  treat  those  patients  whose  further research is needed.  improve global public health govern­
given  that  the  momentum  of  its  It  is  also  important  to  improve mean  a  patient’s  body  has  live  symptoms had vanished, she said.  “Most such patients are asymp­ ance and support developing coun­
global spread has yet to be curbed  the  environment  in  rural  and viruses  that  can  be  transmitted,”  Under  the  commission’s  guide­ tomatic and therefore do not need tries  in  enhancing  their  health 
and the country is still seeing infec­ urban areas, improve public health said Jiang, who is also a member of  lines, COVID­19 patients can be dis­ treatment if they do not have oth­ systems so that the world can be bet­
tions  among  clusters  of  people  in  facilities, popularize health know­ the  expert  team  organized  by  charged from hospitals only after  er diseases,” Liang said. “But it is  ter prepared for similar challenges in
certain areas.  ledge  and  promote  a  more  civi­ National  Health  Commission  for  they  show  no  related  symptoms  still necessary to isolate them for  the future, Hua said. 
He  called  for  unrelenting  epi­ lized, healthy and greener lifestyle COVID­19 control.  and  test  negative  twice,  with  at  observation  as  long  as  they  test  “What  we  firmly  object  to  is  an
demic  containment  measures  in among the public, it added. Some research has shown that least 24 hours between tests. They  positive for the virus.” inquiry into the pandemic that pre­
sumes China’s guilt,” she said.
“The issue of the origin is a scien­
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Shanghai Disneyland  tific and professional one, and the 
work should be consigned to scien­
tists and experts in disease control 

HEALTH CRISIS  set to reopen next week and prevention,” Hua said, adding 

that such an investigation should be
led by scientists.
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hewei@chinadaily.com.cn
Shanghai  Disneyland  Hotel,  in 
March.  See Ministry, page 4
◆ “We will take a phased approach
Shanghai Disneyland is set to with  limits  on  attendance,  using  Inside
United front displayed become the first Walt Disney Co  an advanced reservation and entry
in pandemic battle theme park to reopen after novel  system,  controlled  guest  density  • Editorial, page 8 
coronavirus­related  closure  as  using social distancing and strict,  • See more, page 10
Editor’s note: Nations are collabo­ China embarks on a steady path  government­required  health  and 
rating in the fight against the novel  to normalcy in daily life and busi­ prevention  procedures,”  he  said. 
coronavirus pneumonia outbreak to  ness activity.  “These include the use of masks, 
limit the damage to people’s health  The  park,  scheduled  to temperature screenings and
and the impact on the global econo­ reopen on Monday, said it  other  contact  tracing  and
my. Here, in the sixth part of a series  Medical workers transfer a COVID­19 patient in Moscow, Russia, on will  follow  a  deliberate  early detection systems.”
titled “One World, One Fight”, we look  Tuesday. The country had reported over 155,000 novel coronavirus approach by implementing  Visitors can check open­
at how countries can work together.  cases as of Tuesday. SPUTNIK VIA XINHUA a  list  of  enhanced  health  ing  hours  and  purchase
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Zhang Hanhui, China’s ambassa­ Bob  Chapek,  who via  the  Shanghai  Resort’s
By REN QI in Moscow
renqi@chinadaily.com.cn  dor to Russia, said the team’s arriv­ became  the  Walt  Disney  Bob online channels and official
Prosperity
al demonstrated the significance of  CEO in February, said on  Chapek travel  partners’  channels. arrives via

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mages  from  a  military  cargo the  Sino­Russian  Comprehensive  an  earnings  call  Wednes­ In  the  initial  reopening
plane have been tweeted thou­ Strategic Partnership of Coordina­ day  morning  that  the  decision,  phase,  advanced  ticketing  and  tourism Life, p16
sands of times in Russia.  tion for a New Era. made jointly with local partner  reservations  will  be  required  to 
They show medical experts Defense Ministry plane is occupied  “China and Russia support each Shanghai Shendi Group, follows  maintain limited attendance.  国内统一编号: 
from China sitting with their backs  mostly by supplies sent from China to other  politically  and  morally, “encouraging signs of a gradual  Chapek  said  the  park  has  a CN11­0091         
against the cabin wall, and walking  fight the novel coronavirus outbreak. which  has  set  the  direction  and return  to  some  semblance  of  capacity of 80,000 visitors per day  国际标准编号: 
sideways when they have to visit the Hao Huilong, leader of the Chi­ tone  for  the  two  countries’  joint normalcy in China” and the suc­ and the government has mandat­ ISSN0253­9543  A member of the 
toilet  on  the  eight­hour  flight  to  nese team, which arrived in Russia  fight  against  the  pandemic,”  he cessful  reopenings  of  facilities  ed  they  operate  at  30  percent  邮发代号:1­3 Asia News Network
Moscow  from  Harbin,  capital  of  on April 12, said, “The flight was not said. adjacent  to  the  park,  including  capacity, or around 24,000 visitors. © 2020 China Daily
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‘Paramedics turn down Covid-19 patient’
Residents outraged as patients isolate in shacks, risking transmission of virus
OKUHLE HLATI
okuhle.hlati@inl.co.za
VULNERABLE residents of densely
populated areas have slated the Provin-
cial Health Department’s quarantine sys-
tem, saying Covid-19-positive patients
who share shacks and communal taps
and toilets with several people at a time
are either being discharged too soon, or
not removed from communities at all.
It comes after Philippi residents
claimed paramedics did not transport
a backyarder who tested positive for
Covid-19 to hospital at the weekend.
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SIPHOKAZI VUSO
siphokazi.vuso@inl.co.za
A FRUIT factory tray machine oper-
ator who tried to return to work this
week after being in quarantine for
Covid-19, said she was “chased away
like a dog”.
An emotional Fredouene Schippers
said she was cleared by Tulbagh Clinic
to work again, but when she arrived at
the Rhodes Food Group (RFG) factory on
Tuesday, she was told to leave.
She has worked at the factory since
2006, she said.
“I got there and people asked me
what I was doing. I told them I came to
work, and I was then told to go to the
manager’s office.
“The manager was rude to me; he
said I should leave the factory and not
come back. This makes me very sad, I
don’t want to go back there now, people
look at me like a dog,” she said.
Her mother, Hanna, said her daugh-
ter was tested on April 21 and received
her results on April 27.
When she completed her isolation,
she was cleared to go back to work,
Hanna said.
“The human resource (HR) manager
started shouting at her and asking her
what she was doing there when she was
a coronavirus case.
“She tried to explain to him that
she had the letter from the clinic saying
she can come back to work, but he
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The patient was advised to stay in his
backyard shack, residents said, but then
had to be rushed to hospital on Monday
after his condition worsened.
Also at the weekend, four Dunoon
residents who had been admitted to a
facility were moved back to the informal
settlement on Monday – a move ward
councillor Lubabalo Makeleni said was
shocking.
Buzwe Khali, a family friend of the
Philippi patient, said: “He got very sick
at work last week and was diagnosed
with the virus on Friday. He then started
to get sick on Saturday and got worse on
Sunday, when he suffered from short-
ness of breath.
“Three ambulances responded at
separate times, but all refused to trans-
screamed at her and chased her away,”
she said.
RFG chief executive Bruce Hender-
son said the HR manager at the fac-
tory engaged with the employee, and
explained that she was required to
undergo a medical examination and
had to be tested negative for Covid-19
before returning to work.
The screening form which she had
obtained from the clinic was not suffi-
cient, Henderson said.
He said in terms of the directive
from the Minister of Employment and
Labour, an employer may only allow
a worker to return to the workplace
“if the worker has undergone a med-
ical evaluation confirming that the
worker has been tested negative for
Covid-19”.
“The company is investigating the
conflict between this directive and the
Department of Health regulation which
requires employees to be free of Covid-
19 symptoms for 14 days before return-
ing to work.
“In the meantime, RFG confirms
that once the employee provides the
company with the results of a negative
Covid-19 test, she will be allowed to
return to work and resume her duties,”
he said.
Henderson confirmed the death of
an employee who last reported for work
on April 29.
“She had been part of a routine
employee Covid-19 screening last week
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port him when they were told he was
infected. We made numerous calls to
the health department and were only
assisted on Monday. However, by then
his health had deteriorated. He had to
be admitted to Groote Schuur Hospital.
He could have died. We are not happy
about the way things were handled.”
Philippi CPF secretary Melikhaya
Gadeni said many others had suffered
similar treatment. “We are aware of
more than five cases of similar nature
in our area, and we have been calling
for vastly improved screening in our
community by the health department
and community health-care workers.
“We believe there is disjuncture in
the work of the health department, and
its tracing teams.
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without any adverse findings. It appears
at this stage that the death is not Covid-
19 related but the company understands
that a post-mortem will be carried out,”
he said.
Meanwhile, the community has
called for a total shutdown of the
factory, and yesterday they marched
peacefully before being stopped by
police.
Community activist for the Water
Justice Coalition, Winston Pietersen,
said: “This virus is very dangerous for
our community.
“It’s no longer a workers’ issue. I
am worried that the whole of Tulbagh
is at a big risk, from the community’s
standpoint.
“We will keep on the pressure that
Rhodes must shut down.”
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“Their failure to quarantine an
infected person immediately is cause
for concern. They are allowing them
to return home where self-isolation or
self-quarantine is not possible, risking
the health and safety of their families
and community members at large with
whom they share communal taps and
toilets.
“We have raised this matter with the
department of health and SAPS... they
need to come with a different plan,”
said Gadeni.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
spokesperson Deanna Bessick said the
patient would be accommodated in a
temporary quarantine facility.
“EMS officials are trained... to deter-
mine whether a patient has the pre-
  the spread of Covid-19 in prisons,
mile with home deliveries
SIPHOKAZI VUSO
siphokazi.vuso@inl.co.za
LANGA youngsters are going the extra
mile to serve their community during
lockdown Level 4 by using second-hand
bicycles to deliver food to residents’
doorsteps for only R9.
Delivery requests to one of “Cloudy
Deliveries” seven members, aged
between 17 and 19, are made telephon-
ically.
Residents may either call them to
do their grocery shopping on their
behalf and, in instances where they
have arrangements with shops and take-
aways, to do pick-up deliveries.
The teens load goods on to a basket
attached to the front of their bicycles
and deliver to the gate.
Co-founder Colin Mkosi said they
work for the elderly and men and
women who do not have the time to
go shopping or can’t afford to stand in
long queues.
It provides them with a reliable alter-
native to the way they shop and buy
goods, he said.
“We wanted to make the lives of
Langa residents easier, and to serve
our community. This has made us wel-
comed in the community. Even when
we started, we got immense support,
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scribed Covid-19 symptoms and requires
hospital transportation. If the patient
meets these criteria, they will be trans-
ported.“If a person cannot safely quar-
antine or isolate at home, they will be
accommodated in temporary quarantine
facilities where they can do so safely.
Someone who cannot quarantine safely
at home must inform the health worker,
who will then be able to make the
necessary arrangements,” said Bessick.
Asked if people with whom the
patient might have been in close contact
would be traced, she said: “No. We only
initiate contact tracing if someone has
tested positive.
“However, we ask people who have
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and people trust us with their groceries
and takeaways,” he said.
He said a challenge was the fact that
they do not have their own working
gear, which would make them easier to
identify. They also have to repair their
second-hand bicycles from time to time.
“We are also using two phones, and
sometimes we cannot respond to all
the requests. We are happy that we can
bring in innovative ways and provide
work for young boys. Our overall goal
is to have an online delivery shop and
an app where people can place their
orders online. We want to be a reliable
alternative to the way we do shopping
or the way the exchange of money and
goods takes place between vendors and
customers in black communities, while
also having an impact on the lives of
young boys in our townships,” he said.
Ward councillor Nomtha Dilima said
the initiative had been well received.
“The queues are long, and during the
time of the coronavirus they are busy
with deliveries to people’s homes and
also for community soup kitchens. They
are trustworthy and they are serving
Langa. We need to empower them.”
The team can be contacted on
074 882 0306.
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Covid-19 cases at
prisons could be
‘catastrophic’
ODWA MKENTANE
odwa.mkentane@inl.co.za
HUMAN rights organisation Sonke
Gender Justice says it fears the more
than 160 positive Covid-19 cases at
prisons represent “only the beginning
of a catastrophic increase in positive
cases”.
Two East London inmates died of
complications arising from Covid-19
this week, taking the number of deaths
at facilities to three. One death in the
Western Cape is under investigation.
Sonke’s national prisons
co-ordinator Zia Wasserman has called
on the government to release certain
categories of detainees in order to
reduce overcrowding and curb the
spread of Covid-19.
“We are highly concerned about
and fear that this may only be the
beginning of a catastrophic increase in
positive cases.
“This is largely due to the high levels
of overcrowding, which makes social
distancing practically impossible.
“Furthermore, anecdotal evidence
tells us there are woefully insufficient
supplies of personal protection
equipment (PPE) being distributed
among the staff and those detained
within the prisons.
While we commend the
department for its screening campaign,
we are worried that not enough tests
are being conducted,” Wasserman said.
The Western Cape had 52 cases at
correctional facilities, of which 49 of
the sufferers were officials.
Department of Correctional
Services (DCS) spokesperson
Singabakho Nxumalo said there were
165 cases in the department and
health-care practitioners were already
on site, providing an array of health
services. They had been provided with
adequate PPE and were attending to
those in need of urgent medical care.
“DCS is saddened to confirm two
deaths of inmates with underlying
co-morbid conditions at an East
London centre and we send our
sincere condolences to their families.
“We continue to work with the
Department of Health, adhering to all
their guidelines in fighting against this
pandemic,” Nxumalo said.
In his Cape Times column Beautiful
Truths this week, legal practitioner
and listed counsel of the International
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‘Landmark’
test target
that keeps
being missed
Rowena Mason
Denis Campbell
Matt Hancock’s claim to have tri-
umphed in meeting his goal of 100,000
coronavirus tests a day appeared in
serious doubt last night after the gov-
ernment failed for the fourth day in a
row to hit the target ministers believe
is crucial to exiting the lockdown.
The government’s announcement
of the latest figure came after Boris
Johnson set out a new target of capac-
ity for 200,000 tests a day by the end
of May – a goal immediately dismissed
by medics and opposition figures as
a stunt to distract from yesterday’s
shortfall, with just 69,463 tests car-
ried out or posted to recipients. With
some doubles, those tests were pro-
vided to a total of 57,006 people.
The government has acknowl-
edged that large-scale testing and
contact tracing will be vital to end the
lockdown, but experts warned that
Britain’s low levels and patchy avail-
ability for NHS sites and care homes
meant that would not be possible yet.
The latest figures came as govern-
ment data showed that new infections
had topped 6,000 again – at 6,111 the
highest level for five days – calling into
question the idea that demand for tests
would be falling. After the UK death
toll became the worst in Europe on
Tuesday, a further 649 deaths were
announced yesterday, taking the total
to 30,076.
When the health secretary said on
Friday that he had been successful
in reaching his goal by hitting more
than 122,000 tests on the day, he
described the landmark as an “incredi-
ble achievement” and said that testing
was “crucial to suppress the virus”
and would “help us to unlock the
lockdown”.
But after hitting the target again
on Saturday, the figure has remained
below 100,000 ever since, amid fresh
Death of a
shortages of chemical reagent in some
areas – with ministers also accused of
pop pioneer
fiddling the figures by including tests
posted out but not yet completed. Kraftwerk’s
A Department of Health and Social
Care source argued the target had Florian
always been about showing it was pos-
sible to hit 100,000 if the demand was Schneider
there and claimed it had been lower
because the number of people with 1947-2020
symptoms was falling. “We used the
language originally that we
2  Alexis Petridis Page 17 
wanted to show we could

Picnics and rambles set

from anyone from outside their began broadcasting a new, more the public’s daily lives were imposed
household. But government sources nuanced message – “Stay Safe, Save too soon. But in fact compliance was
warned against expecting an immi- Lives” yesterday, in a hint that the much higher than the government had

to be allowed next week nent reopening of the economy, with

Heather Stewart
Kate Proctor
Richard Adams
Picnics, sunbathing and unlimited
rambles will be among the first activ-
ities to be allowed when the lockdown
loosens, it emerged last night, after
•
Boris Johnson announced that restric-
tions would be eased from Monday.
With the stringent restrictions due
to be reviewed today – with details to
be announced on Sunday – the prime
minister is expected to change the
rules so people would be able to leave
the house repeatedly in a single day,
so long as they kept a safe distance
one saying: “We just aren’t in a space
of significant changes at all.”
The changes – which are likely to
leave the public hanging on weather
forecasts in the hope of conditions
that will make more time out of the
house possible – were mooted after
Johnson said at prime minister’s ques-
tions that the government wanted to
“get going with some of these meas-
ures on Monday”.
The government Twitter accounts
stark “Stay Home, Save Lives” slogan
is set to be ditched in the coming days.
But the communities secretary,
anticipated. The Conservative party’s
election campaign chief, Isaac Levido,
has been helping to draw up the com-
Robert Jenrick, said there could munications plan for “phase two”, as
still be localised lockdowns even as Johnson has called it.
restrictions began to lift nationally, Scotland’s first minister,
8 
indicating there could be “interven- Nicola Sturgeon, has said
tions in smaller, micro communities
where you’re seeing the virus take
hold again”.
When the lockdown first began,
some experts were concerned that
“fatigue” would set in if restrictions on
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get GOP
support on
state aid
Senators buck
reluctant Trump
BY DAVE BOYER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Trump is facing a growing
rift with Senate Republicans who are
siding with Democrats on the need to
provide hundreds of billions of dollars in
emergency aid for states and cities that
have lost tax revenue during the COVID-
19 pandemic to pay for first responders
and other basic expenses.
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of
Florida said they are inclined to provide
more aid to states despite the president’s
warning that he opposes more money
for states that have been “mismanaged”
by Democrats.
“No doubt states have been hit pretty
hard,” Mr. Graham told reporters at the
Capitol. “If it were set up the right way,
I think it makes sense.”
Mr. Rubio said in a Twitter post that
Congress will “have to provide additional
assistance to state & local governments.”
“Federal taxpayers shouldn’t have
to pay for pre-Covid19 spending deci-
sions that are irresponsible,” Mr. Rubio
tweeted. But he said there is “a baseline
of spending on essential government
services which we can’t have collapse.”
Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is an-
other Republican who is outspoken
about the need to provide more aid to
states. He is suggesting a formula to al-
locate funds based partly on how hard
the virus has hit a given state.
But Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican,
» see VIRUS | A6
INSIDE
Crowded airliners
Cancellations contribute to full
planes on fewer flights. A7
Domestic violence victims
face tougher situations. A5
Safe and healthy screen usage
still possible in lockdown. A7
Taiwan criticizes WHO for
exclusion from assembly. A9
Virginia volunteers offer
face mask ‘fit tests.’ A12
Temporary morgue opens at
Laurel ice skating rink. A12
BEARING GOOD NEWS: Maryland
Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday that
the state could begin its first stage of
reopening next week if coronavirus rates
continue to level off into next week.
FULLY RECOVERED: Sen. Rand Paul (right) wore no protective face mask Wednesday when he talked with Sen. Mike Lee and
others on Capitol Hill. “Of all the people you’ll meet here, I’m about the only safe person in Washington,” Mr. Paul told reporters.
CONGRESS
Paul claims immunity from COVID-19,
leads anti-mask rebellion at Capitol
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Leave it to Rand Paul, the Senate’s
leading libertarian and a physician to
boot, to lead the charge against tyranni-
cal government leaders calling for their
previously coronavirus-infected subjects
to wear face masks.
Mr. Paul, the only senator known to
have contracted COVID-19, touched off
a debate over antibodies and immunity
when he returned Monday to Capitol
Hill without the facial cover-ups that
have become increasingly de rigueur in
prepares to reopen Maryland
Public schools to remain closed for rest of academic year
BY SOPHIE KAPLAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan eased
coronavirus restrictions Wednesday to
allow residents to participate in some
outdoor activities and resume elective
medical procedures, but he closed public
schools for the rest of the academic year.
Effective at 7 a.m. Thursday, residents
may participate in golfing, fishing, boat-
ing, tennis, camping and some other
outdoor activities, Mr. Hogan said at a
pandemic America.
Not to worry, he said.
“I have immunity. I’ve already had
the virus, so I can’t get it again and I
can’t give it to anybody,” the Kentucky
Republican told reporters on Tuesday. “I
can’t get it again, nor can I transmit. So of
all the people you’ll meet here, I’m about
the only safe person in Washington.”
He was promptly scolded by outlets
such as NBC News, which said Mr. Paul,
an eye surgeon, “can’t be sure of those
claims.” The Washington Post said “no
one knows whether recovered covid-19
patients are immune to a new infection
press conference. He added that local
governments can exercise flexibility in
reopening playgrounds and parks.
Meanwhile, the Maryland Depart-
ment of Health will issue guidelines
for how to approach and begin offering
elective procedures at the discretion of
hospitals and health care providers, the
governor said.
“Now I realize these are only small
steps and that they may be of little
comfort to those who are out of work
and who are struggling financially,” Mr.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
— or, if they are immune, how complete
or long-lasting that immunity might be.”
“Sen. Rand Paul won’t wear mask,
says he has immunity to coronavirus de-
spite lack of evidence,” said USA Today.
Unbowed, Mr. Paul declared his inde-
pendence from the mask despots. “The
fake news can’t stand that some people
might not need to submit to the new
authoritarianism of the left because they
are immune to coronavirus,” he tweeted.
“Modern science disagrees.”
He also had a message for others who
» see ANTIBODY | A6
Hogan said, “but it is thanks to all of
you and your incredible sacrifices that
we are making great progress. … We
are preparing to launch our reopening
plan in order to get people safely back
to work, safely get our small businesses
back open again, get our economy back
on track so Maryland and our nation can
defeat this virus and come back stronger
and better than ever.”
In March, Mr. Hogan ordered schools
» see MARYLAND | A5
PUBLIC HEALTH
Virus clusters
traced back
to members
of choirs
Singers breathe in
others’ infections
BY TOM HOWELL JR.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Clusters of COVID-19 transmission
from Washington state to Georgia have
been traced to choir sessions, with sing-
ers who lead worship or entertain com-
munities uniquely vulnerable to the
respiratory disease.
Scientists say choir members force-
fully emit droplets that other singers
breathe in deeply before their cues,
creating a perfect transmission chain.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the
coronavirus, ripped through a choir
in Mount Vernon, Washington, after
an early March practice. Within three
weeks, 45 members had been infected
and two died, even though members
avoided direct contact and no one
seemed ill during rehearsal, according
to local reports.
One of Georgia’s earliest clusters of
COVID-19 has been traced to a lengthy
March 1 service for a retiring music min-
ister in Cartersville. The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution reported that at least four
people who attended the event or were
close to someone who did later died.
“It’s been broadcast to us specifically,
‘Please, don’t have any more choirs,’ ” Bu-
ford Church of God pastor Joey Grizzle
told The Washington Times.
His church northeast of Atlanta has
been taking precautions for weeks. Its
large choir started work on an Easter
performance in January, but when the
big day came, it couldn’t join conductor
Bob Tabor on stage.
» see CHOIR | A6

TEXAS PENTAGON

Jailing of salon operator Military prepares to emerge

exposes rift on reopenings from sick bay, resume training
BY STEPHEN DINAN BY MIKE GLENN pandemic spread to virtually
THE WASHINGTON TIMES THE WASHINGTON TIMES every continent and sea lane, but
there are signs from the shores
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he never envisioned a salon Rim of the Pacific, the world’s of Australia to the skies over
owner being jailed for violating his stay-at-home orders, as he largest maritime warfare exer- Denmark that the U.S. military,
lashed out Wednesday at a judge who put a mother behind bars cise, is set to kick off this summer gingerly but inexorably, is getting
for seven days for refusing to shutter her shop. off the coast of Hawaii, but U.S. back to business.
Attorney General Ken Paxton was even more pointed. He military planners say it will have Hosted by the U.S. Pacific Fleet
asked why Dallas County, which has released hundreds of a different feel and look in the age in Hawaii, the biennial multina-
people from its jails to try to limit risks of COVID-19, would of the coronavirus. tional war games, better known
now boost its population by a nonviolent offender who wanted Just like their civilian counter- as RIMPAC, will be exclusively at
to make a living. parts, Pentagon planners are fac- sea. Gone this year are cultural
“A community that released all those people, some of ing a dual challenge from COVID- activities and military exchange
whom committed serious crimes, can certainly stand to 19: trying to get a handle on the programs — not to mention
release one more — a mother whose only crime was oper- raging outbreak among the ranks large-scale amphibious landings
ating a small business in an effort to feed her children,” Mr. while planning for the inevitable by U.S. Marine Corps units.
Paxton said in a letter demanding the release of salon owner day when the lockdown is over. “In these challenging times, it
Shelley Luther. STAYING AFLOAT: The Navy will host the Rim of the Pacific, the world’s Major war games years in is more important than ever that
largest maritime exercises, off the coast of Hawaii again this summer, but the the planning had to be curtailed
» see TEXAS | A10 drills will be held only at sea to protect against a spread of the coronavirus. or scrubbed altogether as the » see PACIFIC | A10

POLITICS NATION WORLD COMMENTARY VOLUME 38, NUMBER 92

Nuns back at Supreme DeVos’ Title IX changes Pompeo vows to secure Joe Biden has become
Court to dispute birth fortify rights of accused release of Americans an albatross for the
control mandate. A4 on campuses. A7 in Venezuela. A9 Democrats. B1 7 02803 87040 7

INDEX American Scene A8 | Commentary B1 | Comics B8 | Dear Abby A11 | Editorials B2 | Horoscope A11 | Inside the Beltway A2 | Metro A12 | Nation A7 | Politics A4 | Sports B10 | Television A11 | World A9
 Air Canada packs ’em in
Physical distancing rules ignored A3

Happier
Dog Days
Let Rover have
his catnap C1

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NEWS

Crime
Drug rings
adapting to
COVID-19
world A5

Ya l e t ow n
Barber
guides clients
through DIY
haircuts A6

Dan Wood dons protective gloves after learning he’ll be allowed to reopen his Yagger’s Kits restaurant in mid-May. However, Wood says rules
for reopening may be too restrictive for his small establishment. “We figure we could only have 15 people inside” at a time, he says. Francis Ge orgian

NP Horgan unveils B.C.’s ‘new normal’

Ca na da Offices, stores, shops and parks
Military to reopen as lockdown loosens
crash victims
honoured at
R o b S h aw
ceremony Np1
VICTORIA   British Columbians will
soon be able to hug loved ones, re-
sume socializing, visit restaurants,
get a haircut and restart some out-
door recreation, as the government
loosens COVID-19 restrictions and
morphs into a “new normal” that
could last for the next year.
Premier John Horgan outlined
a plan Wednesday to reopen the
economy that he said was only pos-
sible because of the sacrifices made
in the past two months as people
U. S . stayed at home and reduced the
spread of the coronavirus.
More than 437,000 people have
asked for government financial
support in B.C. due to COVID-19
business closures and social dis-
tancing requirements. The provin-
cial economy has suffered what’s
expected to be its worst decline in
more than 70 years.
“It’s been weeks since we’ve seen
our friends or families; many feel
confined and alone,” said Horgan.
“This pandemic has been tough on
all of us. And yet the people of B.C.
have risen to the challenge with
compassion and determination.”
Hair salons, beauty salons, more
retail stores, restaurants, cafés,
pubs, provincial parks for day use
only, museums, libraries, parks,
beaches and office work sites will
be allowed to reopen in mid-May if
they can meet new safety, distanc-
ing and hygiene guidelines. The
likely date is May 14 for provincial
parks and May 19 for the rest of the
businesses, said Horgan.
Non-urgent surgeries, which
have been postponed the past
two months, are set to resume in
mid-May, with more details to
come today from Health Minister
Adrian Dix.
It won’t be until between June
and September that hotels, over-
night park campsites, domestic
film production, movie theatres
and symphonies can reopen, ac-
cording to the province. Some in-
school K-12 classes could resume
on a voluntary basis before June,
but it’s not until September that
the province expects to fully re-
open all classrooms — and then
likely using alternating days for
students and routine daily health
screening of all kids.
Bars, nightclubs, and casinos
need more planning before re-
opening, while conventions, live
audiences for professional sports,
concerts and gatherings with more
than 50 people will remain banned
for the foreseeable future or until
a vaccine is developed.
“Restrictions on large gather-
ings are here to stay,” said Horgan.
“It won’t be the flipping of a
switch.”
S e e R E O P E N   o n A4

White House to
M a n i t o ba Pa l m e r S i d e - e ff e c t s sp o rt s r e ta i l
keep virus task
force NP4 Robust safety rules Medical resources Blood thinners could Devastated shops
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Trail of genomic breadcrumbs helps

Scene scientists track spread of coronavirus
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The novel coronavirus driving

the COVID-19 pandemic has left
both cool a trail of breadcrumbs that allows
and cultural C3 scientists to follow its spread from
country to country and through
communities.
Food The genetic code of the virus
Fine dining — referred to by scientists as
SARS-CoV-2 — is a single strand
gets a takeout of RNA about 30,000 characters
twist C4 long, written with a four-letter
alphabet.
The virus replicates itself mil-
lions of times over when it passes
from person to person, and every
once in a while a “typo” creeps
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$2.38 plus GST mutation. Usually, the typo isn’t
$3.33 minimum in important enough to change the
outlying areas function of the virus, but that
change stays in the code as the vi-
rus moves through the population.
The earliest version of the vi-
rus was isolated from a man who
worked at a wet market in Wuhan,
China, in early January. That ge-
netic code is the baseline to com-
pare with all later samples of the
virus.
Those later samples are being
tracked by Nextstrain.org, a pub-
lic website that draws on genomic
data posted by scientists all over
the world, including British Co-
lumbia. The data allows them to
create elaborate family trees that
show how the virus spreads and
to where.
SARS-CoV-2 appears to accu-
mulate new mutations at a pre-
dictable rate, about twice a month.
If the virus passes from person to
person undetected for several
weeks, new mutations will occur.
The genome of the virus taken
Sports
from a person infected directly Yo u t h
due to travel in China will be very
similar to the baseline genome, Slow return
with few if any additional muta-
tions. for minor
But a sample taken from some- sports B5
one infected weeks later, after
the virus passed from person to
person through the community
in B.C., could feature several new
typos, or be more closely related
to an outbreak in Europe or the
United States.
And that’s exactly what we’re
seeing in B.C., according to an
analysis of 58 samples sent from
the B.C. Centre for Disease Con-
trol to Nextstrain.
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What’s
A Mainstay on the Front Line Gets a Salute
Virus Widens
News Rift Between
U
Business & Finance

ber said it is shedding

about 14% of its work-
U.S., China
force amid the impact of the
pandemic, and Lyft, which Relations between the U.S. cooperative programs with
cut about 17% of its staff last and China, strained for years, Beijing, an analysis of their
week, is responding with ag- have deteriorated at a rapid policies showed.
gressive cost reduction. A1 clip recently, leaving the two Chinese officials, for their
nations facing fewer shared part, are following through on
 The eurozone economy
interests and a growing list of President Xi Jinping’s call last
will suffer “a recession of his-
conflicts, including sniping fall to resist anything they
toric proportions this year”
this week over the coronavirus perceive as standing in the
because of the pandemic,
pandemic. way of China’s rise. They have
EU officials predicted. A9
stepped up military activities
 The Treasury Depart- By Kate O’Keeffe, in the contested South China
ment plans to ramp up auc- Michael C. Bender Sea and intimidation of Tai-
tion sizes of longer-dated and Chun Han Wong wan, a U.S. ally, and state me-
securities and will issue a dia has issued extraordinary
new 20-year bond. A2 The Trump administration public denunciations of Secre-
has moved to involve much of tary of State Mike Pompeo.
 GM eked out a $292
the U.S. government in a cam- On Wednesday, a Chinese
million first-quarter profit
paign that includes investiga- Foreign Ministry spokes-
on stout U.S. truck sales,
tions, prosecutions and export woman challenged Mr. Pompeo
but signaled steep losses
restrictions. Nearly every cabi- to present evidence to support
in the current quarter. B1
net and cabinet-level official his recent claim that the new
 CVS warned of a coming either has adopted adversarial coronavirus came from a Chi-
surge in medical problems positions or jettisoned past Please turn to page A8
unrelated to the coronavirus,
as its data suggest people
are delaying routine care. B1
 The SEC ordered stock
exchanges to give brokers
Ride-Hailing Apps
and investors greater input
into how real-time stock
prices are distributed. B1 Face Bumpy Road
 California canceled a
$600 million mask contract BY TIM HIGGINS
from Blue Flame Medical, a AND PARMY OLSON
THE
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politically connected coro-

navirus-supply company. A4 Uber Technologies Inc. and
smaller rival Lyft Inc. are brac-
CORONAVIRUS
 Sinclair Broadcasting
agreed to a $48 million
ing for a new reality in ride- PANDEMIC
hailing: fewer passengers for
civil penalty to settle in-
the foreseeable future.
vestigations by the FCC. B2 Students gain leverage in
Uber said Wednesday it is
 The Dow and S&P 500 cutting about 14% of its work- college choice, A3
edged down 0.9% and force, and Lyft, which cut about Emergency services face
0.7%, respectively. The 17% of its staff last week, is re- financial strains, A6
Nasdaq gained 0.5%. B11 sponding to the coronavirus
pandemic with aggressive cost Nursing homes plan
 Samsung’s de facto leader changes for safe visits, A12
cutting to ride out the excep-
said he doesn’t intend to pass
tional challenge to their busi-
down management of the con-
nesses.
glomerate to his children. B3
Lyft reported first-quarter tancing, altered consumer be-
earnings Wednesday that havior and expected corporate
World-Wide seemed resilient to the worst of cost cutting will be significant
the pandemic, but they only in- headwinds for Lyft,” Chief Ex-
corporated a couple of weeks of ecutive Logan Green said dur-
 U.S.-China relations have the impact, through the end of ing a conference call with ana-
deteriorated at a rapid clip March. In April, as global travel lysts. “Rider demand on our
recently, leaving the two na- ground to a halt and local gov- platform will be down for the
tions trading recriminations ernments ordered people to foreseeable future.”
this week over the coronavi- shelter in place, ridership The pandemic has chal-
rus pandemic while facing plunged 75%, the company said. lenged the very business model
fewer shared interests and a SERVING: Nurses Day was observed across the U.S. on Wednesday. From top, nurses Kim “Even as shelter-in-place or- that supercharged Uber and
growing list of conflicts. A1 Kalwasinski, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Linet Ngete, Swedish Medical Center, ders and travel restrictions are Lyft. They grew into some of
 Trump said the White First Hill, in Seattle; and Victoria Muhammad, Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. modified or lifted, we antici- the world’s most valuable
pate that continued social dis- Please turn to page A5
House coronavirus task
force would remain in

How Germany Kept Factories

place, with a new focus on
reopening the country and Europe Braces for a Recession
developing a vaccine. A4
As nations’ debts have soared, the eurozone economy faces

Open Despite the Pandemic

 Senate Republicans are ‘a recession of historic proportions this year,’ threatening the
citing renewed deficit fears bloc’s stability, European Union officials said. A9
as they pump the brakes on
more relief spending, putting Annual change in eurozone GDP Debt as a percentage of GDP
them at odds with Trump’s
push for new initiatives. A4 10% 100 %

 Germany announced a Safety rules, testing and contact tracing helped ward off outbreaks
further phasing out of the
5 75
nation’s lockdown, which
has been among the light- BY TOM FAIRLESS keep its plants open. Just 15 of its 6,700 em-
est in Europe. A1, A10 ployees in Germany have contracted the vi-
MULFINGEN, Germany—When much of rus, the company said. 0 50
 The Education Department Europe’s economy shut down in mid-March, Large parts of Europe have been ravaged
issued the final version of its business kept right on going at Ebm-papst by the pandemic, but Germany has fared bet-
rule for how schools must in- Group, a fan and motor manufacturer based ter. While it has seen roughly the same num-
vestigate and respond to alle- near Germany’s Black Forest. ber of diagnosed infections as similar-size –5 25
gations of sexual harassment Throughout the six-week national lock- neighbors—Italy, Spain, France, the U.K.—it
and assault, bolstering pro- down that now is gradually being lifted, the has registered only about one-quarter as
tections for the accused. A3 family-owned company kept its domestic many deaths. –10 0
 Supreme Court justices factories running at 80% of normal capacity, And German authorities, unlike those in 2010 ’20 2010 ’20
voiced split views over rules said Chief Executive Officer Stefan Brandl. Italy and Spain, gave all factories the option
allowing employers to claim Social distancing, ubiquitous face masks, to stay open through the pandemic. More Note: 2019 is an estimate; 2020 and 2021 are forecasts. Source: European Commission

religious exemptions from in-house Covid-19 tests and contact-tracing than 80% of them did so, and only one-quar-
when employees fell ill helped the company Please turn to page A10
covering birth control in their
health-insurance plans. A3
 Israel’s top court ruled
that Netanyahu can form a
government while under in-
Four-Legged City Dwellers Roam
While Humans Are Stuck Inside
Silver Lake Makes Big Tech Bets
While Rivals Sit Out the Crisis
dictment, removing a final
hurdle to his bid to remain in i i i
power as he goes on trial. A11
 Trump vetoed a resolution Coyotes, foxes, toads venture out during
that would limit the presi-
dent’s ability to take military lockdowns; ‘they were here all the time’ BY MIRIAM GOTTFRIED began pushing for Mr. gripped the world and threw
action against Iran without Dorsey’s replacement, Mr. its economy and financial mar-
approval from Congress. A3 At times when shares of Durban called the CEO, the kets into chaos, and re-estab-
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otes and birds have been right since the early 2000s, after But Twitter Chief Executive Lake has returned to repeat- 6 after the home-sharing plat-
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Cornelius Gati, a research snares and poison bait. They ested in selling, people famil- rus crisis, one in which it cancellations. Two weeks later,
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Rettungspakt mit dem Staat. Fall der 2007 verschwundenen wächst Obst und Cambridge und die Macht
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Die EZB soll sich erklären Kritik an Trump

Nach dem Karlsruher Urteil: Der Bundestag will das Europaparlament beteiligen
Abgeordnete von Regierung und Oppo-
sition im Deutschen Bundestag wollen
mit dem Europäischen Parlament zu-
sammenarbeiten, damit Deutschland
weiter an den Anleihekaufprogrammen
der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB)
für EU-Länder teilnehmen kann. Uni-
on, SPD, Grüne und FDP verfolgen
nach Informationen der F.A.S. einen ge-
meinsamen Ansatz, um dem jüngsten
Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
über die EZB nachzukommen.
Die Karlsruher Richter hatten festge-
stellt, dass die EZB versäumt habe, die
„Verhältnismäßigkeit“ ihres milliarden-
schweren Kaufprogramms von Anlei-
hen im Euroraum (PSPP) zu prüfen.
Die Richter verboten Deutschland, an
diesem Programm weiter teilzunehmen,
falls die EZB nicht darlege, dass sie die
Wirkungen – etwa hohe Mieten und
niedrige Zinsen – berücksichtigt hat.
Zugleich wurde angeordnet, dass Bun-
destag und Bundesrat „verpflichtet sind,
auf eine Verhältnismäßigkeitsprüfung
durch die EZB hinzuwirken“.
Das Urteil bringt Deutschland nach
den Worten der Grünen-Abgeordneten
Franziska Brantner in eine „Zwickmüh-
le“: Einerseits verlangt es, auf eine „Ver-
hältnismäßigkeitsprüfung“ bei der EZB
„hinzuwirken“. Andererseits verbietet
die verbriefte Unabhängigkeit der Zen-
tralbank jede Einflussnahme.
Als Lösung zeichnet sich eine Idee
des CDU-Europaabgeordneten Sven Si-
mon ab. Er schlägt vor, dass nicht der
Bundestag eine Erklärung der EZB ver-
langen solle, sondern das Europaparla-
ment. Dieses hat nämlich anders als die
nationalen Parlamente durchaus das
Recht, Fragen an die EZB zu richten. Si-
mon hat deshalb die EZB schriftlich ge-
beten, ihre internen Beratungen zu den
Wirkungen ihrer Kredite öffentlich zu
machen. Wenn sie das täte, würde nach
Simons Ansicht wohl klar, dass sie die
Prüfung, die Karlsruhe vermisst, tatsäch-
lich durchgeführt hat. Die Bank ist ver-
pflichtet zu antworten.
Union, SPD, Grüne und FDP unter-
stützen diesen Vorschlag. Für die CDU
sagte der Vorsitzende des Europaaus-
schusses Gunther Krichbaum, so könne
man „die nötige Stellungnahme der
EZB erreichen“. Der haushaltspolitische
Fraktionssprecher Eckhardt Rehberg
merkte an, er sehe hier einen „gangba-
ren Weg“, und Brantner, die europapoli-
tische Sprecherin der Grünen ist, sprach
von einem „Ausweg“. Der Parlamentari-
sche Geschäftsführer der FDP-Fraktion
Florian Toncar sieht einen „konstrukti-
Washington will wohl Soldaten aus Deutschland abziehen
In der großen Koalition gibt es scharfe
Kritik an den angeblichen Plänen der
ven Ansatz“, und der SPD-Abgeordnete amerikanischen Regierung, 9500 Solda-
Christian Petry sagte, der vorgeschlage- ten aus Deutschland abzuziehen. Die Plä-
ne Weg könne „helfen“. ne zeigten, „dass die Trump-Administra-
Mit einer Antwort der EZB ans Euro- tion eine elementare Führungsaufgabe
paparlament könnte die erste Forderung vernachlässigt: die Einbindung der Bünd-
aus Karlsruhe erfüllt werden: Dass die nispartner“, sagte Unionsfraktionsvize Jo-
Bank darlegt, wie sie die Verhältnismä- hann Wadephul der F.A.S. Alle profitier-
ßigkeit ihrer Kredite geprüft hat. Wie ten vom Zusammenhalt des Bündnisses,
aber kann der Bundestag die Forderung nur Russland und China wollten Zwist.
erfüllen, auf die EZB einzuwirken, Die Pläne seien ein „Weckruf an uns Eu-
ohne ihre Unabhängigkeit zu verletzen? ropäer, auch sicherheitspolitisch unser
Hier könnte helfen, dass das Europapar- Schicksal selbst entschiedener in die
lament mit dem Bundestag verzahnt ist. Hand zu nehmen“. Die stellvertretende
Manche Europaabgeordnete nämlich SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Gabriela
können an Ausschusssitzungen des Bun- Heinrich nannte den Mangel an Kommu-
destags teilnehmen. Der Abgeordnete nikation „erschreckend“.
Simon könnte damit die Antwort der Gegenwärtig stehen etwa 34 500 ame-
EZB auf seinen Brief in den Bundestag rikanische Soldaten in Deutschland. Soll-
einbringen. Rehberg von der CDU ten die Pläne umgesetzt werden, würde
meint, der Bundestag könne dann „in ei- bis September knapp jeder Dritte abzie-
ner Debatte dazu Stellung nehmen“. ul. hen. Profitieren will von der Entwick-
lung nun Polen. Ministerpräsident Ma-
teusz Morawiecki äußerte am Samstag
die Hoffnung, dass ein Teil der abgezo-
genen Soldaten in seinem Land statio-
niert werde. Der außenpolitische Spre-
cher der Unionsfraktion, Roderich Kie-
sewetter, warnte jedoch vor einem sol-
chen Schritt. Eine Stationierung in Po-
len gefährde die Nato-Russland-Grund-
akte, in der die Atlantische Allianz sich
verpflichtet hat, keine substantiellen
Truppenteile dauerhaft an ihrer Ostflan-
ke zu stationieren.
Der frühere Kommandeur der ameri-
kanischen Landstreitkräfte in Europa,
Generalleutnant Ben Hodges, sagte der
F.A.S., die Zahl der für den Abzug vorge-
sehenen Truppen lasse keine strategi-
schen Überlegungen erkennen. Das gel-
te auch für die kurze Frist, in der er erfol-
gen solle. Der Abzug werde die Einsatz-
bereitschaft der alliierten Streitkräfte in
Europa beschädigen. lohe./ul. Seite 8

Kunstmesse Art Festnahmen in Castorf befolgt Zehntausende

Basel abgesagt Missbrauchsfall Hygieneregeln gegen Rassismus
Die weltweit wichtigste Kunstmesse, In einem schweren Fall von Kindes- Der Berliner Theaterregisseur Frank Zehntausende Menschen haben am
die Art Basel, die Ende Juni ihr 50. Ju- missbrauch hat die Polizei Münster Castorf will sich nun doch den be- Samstag in Deutschland gegen Rassis-

biläum gefeiert hätte, hat am Samstag
auch ihren Ausweichtermin im Sep-
tember abgesagt. Damit reagierte die
Messeleitung auf das Ausstehen von
Schweizer Regularien für Großveran-
staltungen in der Pandemie sowie
wachsenden Druck ihrer Kunden.
Gut fünfzig Galeristen hatten zuletzt
die Absage gefordert. Viele hatten be-
reits durch den Ausfall der Art Basel
Hongkong im Februar Geld verloren.
Mit stark reduziertem Publikum und
ausbleibenden Gästen aus Übersee wä-
ren jetzt die Kosten für Miete und
Transport kaum zu decken gewesen.
Die Absage bedroht einen essentiel-
len Teil der Infrastruktur des globalen
Kunsthandels in der Existenz. Die
Schweizer Messegesellschaft steht
nicht erst seit dem Zerfall ihrer Uh-
renmesse Baselworld unter Druck
und wird von privaten Investoren um-
worben. Im Vorteil sind regionalere
Formate wie das Berlin Gallery Week-
end oder die Viennafair, die beide im
September stattfinden wollen. kjr.
elf Verdächtige festgenommen. Drei
fünf, zehn und zwölf Jahre alte Jungen
seien als Opfer identifiziert worden.
Der Hauptbeschuldigte ist ein 27 Jah-
re alter Mann aus Münster. Gegen
ihn und sechs weitere Beschuldigte,
darunter seine 45 Jahre alte Mutter,
wurde Haftbefehl erlassen. Die Er-
mittler hätten „unfassbare“ Bilder se-
hen müssen, sagte der Leiter der Er-
mittlungen, Joachim Poll, am Sams-
tag. Mindestens vier der Männer sol-
len wechselweise den fünf- und den
zehnjährigen Jungen in einer Garten-
laube in Münster über Stunden sexu-
ell missbraucht und die Taten gefilmt
haben. Die Mutter des Hauptbeschul-
digten sei Nutzerin der Hütte; sie soll
den Missbrauch in Kauf genommen
haben. Bei dem Zehnjährigen handelt
es sich um den Sohn der Lebensge-
fährtin des Hauptbeschuldigten. Der
Fünfjährige sei der Sohn eines Be-
schuldigten aus Staufenberg, der
Zwölfjährige der Neffe eines Beschul-
digten aus Kassel. dpa
hördlichen Hygieneregeln unterwer-
fen, um weiter inszenieren zu können.
Im November wird er am Berliner En-
semble das Stück „Fabian oder Der
Gang vor die Hunde“ nach dem Ro-
man von Erich Kästner herausbrin-
gen. Wegen der Corona-Pandemie
sollte das für März geplante Stück ei-
gentlich auf längere Zeit verschoben
werden. „Dann war es Castorf aber
dringlicher, die Premiere möglichst
bald herausbringen zu können, auch
wenn er dann mit den Hygieneregeln
umgehen muss“, sagte der Intendant
des Berliner Ensembles, Oliver Reese,
der F.A.S. Ende April hatte Castorf
die staatlichen Vorgaben noch abge-
lehnt und betont, er wolle sich „von
Frau Merkel nicht mit weinerlichem
Gesicht sagen lassen, dass ich mir die
Hände waschen muss“. Reese sagte,
das Theater habe keinen Druck auf
den Regisseur ausgeübt. „Frank Cas-
torf lässt sich zu nichts bringen, er
bringt sich höchstens selbst dazu“, sag-
te er. boll. Seite 24
GLÜCK IST.
mus und Polizeigewalt demonstriert.
Zu einer Kundgebung in Berlin ka-
men nach Polizeiangaben 15 000 Teil-
nehmer, in München waren es Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich
20 000. Auslöser war der Tod des
Schwarzen George Floyd in den Ver-
einigten Staaten bei einem Polizeiein-
satz Ende Mai. An manchen Stellen
wurde der wegen der Corona-Pande-
mie geltende Mindestabstand nicht
eingehalten. Auch in Hamburg,
Frankfurt, Mannheim und Stuttgart
gingen Tausende auf die Straße. In
Hamburg kamen zu zwei Kundge-
bungen insgesamt 14 000 Menschen.
Erlaubt waren nur 800. Im Anschluss
an die friedlichen Proteste in der In-
nenstadt kam es zu Auseinanderset-
zungen zwischen Demonstranten
und der Polizei. Drei Beamte wurden
verletzt. Eine Polizeisprecherin sagte, Video
einige Vermummte hätten Banner
entrollt mit der Aufschrift „Bullen-
schweine“ und „ACAB“, was für „All
cops are bastards“ („Alle Polizisten
sind Bastarde“) steht. dpa
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Nissenkorn moves Berlin ups pressure on Israel to nix

forward today
on emergency
powers bill
• By YONAH JEREMY BOB
The government will start
moving forward with a
new coronavirus emergency
powers bill on Sunday, Jus-
tice Minister Avi Nissenkorn
announced over the week-
end.
sis-level coronavirus trends,
it appears that despite heat-
ed debates in the Knesset for
the last 10 weeks, the gov-
ernment still prefers to have
the Shin Bet (Israel Security
Agency) take a key role.
No other democracy has
used their intelligence agen-
cies to perform such surveil-
lance, though many have
pressed their citizens to vol-
untarily download an appli-
cation to their cellphones to
be surveilled.
Others have convinced
cellphone companies to
hand over citizens’ data to
follow coronavirus trends.
annexation amid calls for sanctions
German FM expected in
upcoming visit to warn PM
• By LAHAV HARKOV,
RACHEL WOLF
and KHALED ABU TOAMEH
German Foreign Minister
Heiko Maas is expected to
visit Israel this week to warn
Israeli leaders against moving
forward with annexing parts
of the West Bank.
Maas plans to meet with
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashke-
nazi, Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu and Alternate
Prime Minister and Defense
DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex 30% of Minister Benny Gantz before
the West Bank last night at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) heading to Amman.
Netanyahu has said he will
bring sovereignty in the West
its alliance with Israel and its
respect for international law.
News of Maas’s visit comes
as Palestinian Authority
Prime Minister Mohammad
Shtayyeh on Friday called on
the EU to impose sanctions
on Israel to prevent it from
extending its sovereignty to
parts of the West Bank.
Pelosi: Annexation
will undermine
US security, Page 2
He also called on the EU to

Thousands protest against

Nissenkorn emphasized Bank to a vote in the coming recognize a Palestinian state
the bill’s aspects which will weeks, which the coalition on the pre-1967 lines, with
limit emergency powers and agreement would allow him east Jerusalem as its capital.

annexation in Tel Aviv

AVI NISSENKORN
(Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)
Some of the key param-
eters of the bill are still
unclear and may evolve
during the impending
Knesset debate over it, but
overall, it normalizes many
of the emergency powers
the state has been using
since March, while impos-
ing some greater degree of
limitations.
Regarding the key ques-
tion of who will monitor cri-
protect privacy.
The provisions he flagged
included: the Knesset and
the courts will continue
to function even during a
general nationwide corona
emergency absent some
additional specific reason,
the right to protest is pro-
tected, policemen cannot
enter a residence without a
warrant and initially a coro-
na emergency is supposed to
last only 30 days.
Additional limits that
Nissenkorn noted were: the
See BILL, Page 7
• By RACHEL WOLF
A joint demonstration of Jews and Arabs
protesting against annexation took place in
Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night.
“The annexation is a war crime. A crime
against peace, a crime against democracy, a
crime that will cost us blood,” said Meretz
leader Nitzan Horowitz.
“This has nothing to do with what is good
See PROTEST, Page 7
to do as early as July 1.
This would coincide with
Germany taking the Council
of the European Union’s pres-
idency, which rotates every
six months, and presiding
over the UN Security Council
for a month.
The German government
is concerned that the move
will force it to choose between
EU High Representative for
Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell
has released several state-
ments warning Israel of apply-
ing its laws in the West Bank,
and representatives of many
European countries, includ-
ing Germany, have echoed
those remarks in statements
See PRESSURE, Page 7

Coronavirus cases
climb exponentially
Seven residents of senior living center
test positive • 106 schools closed
• By MAAYAN HOFFMAN
The number of coronavirus
cases in Israel is exponentially
growing. Over the weekend,
between 7 p.m. Thursday and
the same time Saturday, 257
people were diagnosed with
COVID-19. Among the newly
infected are seven residents of
a senior living facility in Or
Yehuda.
WHO updates
advice on wearing
masks, Page 3
Testing to increase
today, Page 4
“We need to assume that
we are in an outbreak of
unknown magnitude,” said
outgoing Health Ministry
director-general Moshe Bar
Siman Tov during recent inter-
nal deliberations, according
to the Hebrew media site N12.
He said that the number of
coronavirus cases continues
to expand and that “it will
take time until we understand
the extent” of the challenge.
Sources in the meeting
claimed he used the term
“second wave,” which he later
denied.
Three more people died
over the weekend, bringing
the total to 295. Of the 2,407
active cases, some 21 are intu-
bated.
However, it should be noted
that the number of people
being tested for the virus has
nearly tripled. The Health
Ministry reported that more
than 16,160 people were test-
ed on Friday and more than
7,000 on Saturday by 7:30
p.m., with the expectation
that more people would be
screened by midnight.
The increased screening
comes on the backdrop of
a change in testing policy,
rolled out by newly appoint-
ed Health Minister Yuli Edel-
stein. Now, people with or
without coronavirus symp-
toms can request screening.
Previously, testing was des-
ignated for those who were
in quarantine and showed
symptoms. For asymptomat-
ic cases, people were eligible
to be tested only if they had
stayed in the vicinity of a con-
firmed coronavirus patient
for more than 15 minutes or
had returned from a country
with a high rate of infections.
Although there are more
patients, the increased test-
ing rate means that still only
around 1% of those tested are
found to have coronavirus.
Experts believe that if Israel
maintains an infection rate of
one to less than one, restric-
tions can continue to be lift-
ed. If the rate hits even 1:1.1
or 1:1.2, then another lock-
down could be necessary.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said on May 4 that
if Israel saw more than 100
new patients per day that a
lockdown could be reinstated,
but no such move has been

See CLIMB, Page 7

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eration affirmed that the UAE The plan calls for
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an immediate end to the fight- the handing over of arms so hosts of
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presidential council in
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which Libya’s three regions
Al Sissi announced a new initia-
is the population of would be represented and it
tive for Libya, which proposes an
Libya, a country in the will rule during one-and-a-
elected presidential council.
half years of transition period
Maghreb region followed by elections
Foreign diplomats

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Speaking alongside Libyan Turkey is sponsoring terrorism in front of the world
National Army (LNA) chief Khal- and is transferring terrorists from one place to
ifa Haftar, and eastern parlia-

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ment head Aguila Saleh in Cairo,
Al Sissi said: “There can be no
stability in Libya unless peaceful
means to the crisis are found that
include the unity and integrity of
Even as a decision regarding when and the national institutions.”
how schools will welcome back students “The initiative could be a new
start in Libya.”
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reports
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increase regional and interna- based in Tripoli. — Agencies
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Las protestas responden a una vieja herida no curada de
una sociedad en donde aún impera un racismo estructural
Vivir siendo negro en EE UU
AMANDA MARS, Washington la población negra en ese país.
Las protestas desencadenadas Un ciudadano negro tiene dos
en EE UU por la muerte en Min- veces más posibilidades de mo-
neapolis de George Floyd a ma- rir de un ataque al corazón que
nos de la policía hunden sus raí- un blanco no hispano, hay cin-
ces en una vieja herida no cura- co veces más presos negros que
da: la discriminación que vive blancos e, incluso, en la tímida
OPINIÓN Lo único que me sorprende es que haya tardado tanto Susan Neiman
IDEAS
¿Debe haber una
vicepresidencia
científica?
Dos investigadores
plantean cambios
políticos
Gobiernos, Parlamentos y parti-
dos deben incorporar científicos
para tomar las decisiones ade-
cuadas en emergencias como la
que ha provocado el coronavi-
rus, sostienen los investigadores
Rafael Yuste y Darío Gil, que pro-
ponen incluso crear vicepresi-
dencias científicas.
70 años de la conquista del
DEPORTES
Annapurna, la montaña maldita P38
recuperación económica de ma-
yo tras la hecatombe del coro-
navirus se siente la brecha: el
paro entre los blancos ha baja-
do del 14,7% al 13,3% mientras
que para los negros sube del
16,7% al 16,8%. PÁGINAS 2 Y 3
P4
EL PAÍS SEMANAL
La agonía y
resurrección del
doctor Moreno
Y 39
Las primeras
elecciones
con mascarilla
bordean la ley
Organizar los comicios
en Galicia y País Vasco
es un rompecabezas
normativo y sanitario
ELSA GARCÍA DE BLAS, Madrid
El próximo 12 de julio se celebra-
rán las elecciones autonómicas
en Galicia y en el País Vasco. Se-
rán las primeras elecciones con
mascarilla. Las costuras de la Ley
Orgánica del Régimen Electoral
General (LOREG) se están forzan-
do para facilitar el voto en condi-
ciones de seguridad sanitaria y a
la vez evitar una caída de la parti-
cipación. PÁGINA 16
EDITORIAL
Tareas claras
P12
EMPRESARIOS FRENTE
A LA CRISIS
ANTONIO HUERTAS
Presidente de Mapfre
“Hay que
romper el
confinamiento
mental”
MIGUEL JIMÉNEZ, Madrid
El presidente de Mapfre, Antonio
Huertas, considera que, tras aban-
donar el confinamiento físico,
“hay que superar el mental”, es
decir, “salir afuera para entender
la sociedad”. También se muestra
preocupado por evitar “una gene-
ración perdida” sin oportunida-
des tras la crisis. PÁGINAS 46 Y 47
NEGOCIOS
La economía
del narco echa
raíces en el sur
Solo en cannabis esta
industria mueve
1.300 millones de euros
A pesar de la presión policial, el
negocio de la droga se extiende
por la costa andaluza. Es una in-
dustria con epicentro en el Cam-
po de Gibraltar que solo en canna-
bis mueve 1.300 millones y que el
estado de alarma no ha logrado
detener. Málaga es un imán para
las bandas mafiosas.
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Washington in marcia per Floyd: assediati i palazzi del potere
INSEGUENDO
IL “BOOM”
DEI TEDESCHI
MASSIMO GIANNINI

«C
i meritiamo un sorri-
so», ha detto Giuseppe
Conte festeggiando la
riapertura dei confini regionali
del 3 giugno. Purtroppo c’è poco
da sorridere e nulla da festeggia-
re. All’appuntamento della ripar-
tenza arriva un Paese stremato dal
virus. In tre mesi di lockdown è ri-
masto fermo il 30 per cento del va-
lore aggiunto della Nazione e il 35
per cento della sua forza lavoro.
Secondo la Banca d’Italia il Pil
2020 potrebbe crollare del 9 per
cento nella migliore delle ipotesi,
del 13 nella peggiore. Sono in cas-
sa integrazione 7 milioni di lavora-
tori, e a fine anno ne potrebbe re-
stare a casa per sempre almeno 1
milione. Il 60 per cento delle parti- DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES/AFP RAMELLA / SYNC-STUDIO
te Iva ha già perso un terzo del fat- Manifestanti sfilano per le strade di Washington MASTROLILLI — PP. 2-3 Sit-in contro il razzismo in piazza Castello per Floyd FAMÀ — P. 5
turato di un intero anno. Quattro
famiglie su dieci fanno fatica a pa-
gare le rate del mutuo della casa,
quattro cittadini su cinque presen-
I CORTEI DA MARTIN LUTHER KING A OBAMA

QUANDO LA FOLLA
L e truppe americane erano al co-
mando di tre futuri generali del-
la Seconda guerra mondiale, Dou-
PROTESTA DEI RAGAZZI IN TUTTO IL MONDO

DA TORINO A OTTAWA
D all’assassinio di Floyd, un uo-
mo nero soffocato per 8 minu-
ti e 46 secondi sotto il ginocchio di
tano domanda di prestito statale glas MacArthur, George Patton, un poliziotto bianco, è nato un mo-
garantito sotto i 25 mila euro e ven- CAMBIA LA STORIA Dwight Eisenhower. PER LA RAZZA UMANA vimento globale, antirazzista e an-
gono respinti dalle banche. GIANNI RIOTTA – PP. 2-3 RULA JEBREAL tifascista. – P. 17
Ha ragione il governatore Igna-
zio Visco: molti hanno perso la vi-
ta, molti piangono i loro cari, mol-
via libera al decreto azzolina. I pediatri: riaprire subito gli spazi per i giochi L’INTERVISTA
ti temono per la propria occupazio-
ne, nessuno deve perdere la spe-
ranza. Ma in che cosa dobbiamo
sperare? Con tutta la buona volon-
tà, la settimana appena conclusa
promette assai poco per l’estate,
ancora meno per l’autunno (e la-
Lockdown, allarme bimbi
sciamo stare l’anno prossimo, che
è materia per aruspici). Tutti i ten-
tativi fatti per allungare lo sguar-
do al di là delle nostre miserie quo-
tidiane sono falliti. Il 2 giugno ce
“Gravi danni psicologici” Altolà della Meloni:
Così ripartirà la scuola, l’ora di 45 minuti e nelle aule studenti a rotazione
lo siamo bevuto in un amen. Il Ca-
po dello Stato ha provato a riempi- con questo premier
re di senso la Festa della Repubbli-
dialogo impossibile
P
ca, dando voce alla crescente vo- I pediatri lanciano l’allarme: dopo COSA NON VA NELLE LEZIONI IN REMOTO remetto che non sono una mi-
lontà di ripresa e di rinascita che il lockdown cresce il disagio psico- soneista, non odio il nuovo,
pure esiste nell’Italia profonda. logico per i bambini. La Camera SOLO IN CLASSE non odio il web, adoro il mio AMEDEO LA MATTINA

Di fronte al “nemico invisibile”,
ha parlato di unità morale, di con-
divisione di un comune destino,
di spirito costituente.
CONTINUA A PAGINA 17
dà il via libera al decreto Scuola e
la ministra Azzolina traccia le li-
nee guida in vista della riapertura
di settembre. CAPURSO, GALEAZZI
E TOMASELLO – PP. 6-7
Mac, credo al contrario che siamo «Non ho motivo di dubitare della
C’È AMORE fortunati a vivere in quest’epoca, e lealtà di Berlusconi. Lui pensa di
PER LA PAROLA sono entusiasta, anche se poco
competente.
dialogare col governo, ma si rende-
rà conto che non è possibile». Così
NADIA FUSINI CONTINUA A PAGINA 17 la leader di FdI, Giorgia Meloni. – P. 9

L’ULTIMO SCANDALO OLTRETEVERE

Londra e lo Ior: vi spiego la guerra vaticana

GIANLUIGI NUZZI
potere e denaro, dilatatosi all’om-

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leggeva il resoconto riservato dei na. Da cardinale a capo dei gesuiti
fondi paralleli finora trovati: 600 mi- accertò che metà dei loro depositi in
lioni di euro mimetizzati tra deposi- banca erano investiti nientemeno
ti, fondi, fondazioni, riserve non che in aziende produttrici di armi.
contabilizzate. Un magma nero di CONTINUA A PAGINA 11 AGASSO JR — P. 11
.
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El kirchnerismo
retoma su
EE.UU. marchó marcha triunfal
por Floyd
Van der Kooy
Reclamo masivo, La cuarentena
que se repitió en fisurada
Londres y París
P. 22
Carlin Gaby Herbstein
En Washingon. Miles El virus La fotógrafa que
de estadounidenses,
contra el crimen
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O mundo de punhos cerrados
Pelo 12º dia, manifestantes tomaram as ruas de diversas
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Centrão faz os cálculos George Floyd, assassinado por um policial branco. PÁGINA 15
políticos do apoio explícito ao
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an end to police brutality and racial oppression. In the District, protesters wonder whether the momentum will endure. Story, A11
Black police chiefs walk line
to e≠ect change from within
BY A RELIS R . H ERNÁNDEZ
AND S COTT W ILSON
The day that George Floyd’s
cries for his mother reverberated
across the country, Chief William
T. Riley III walked up to a group of
his officers discussing the horror
they had seen.
“You know, chief, we already
know if anything like that hap-
pened with us, we wouldn’t have a
job,” one officer said.
Riley, a black police chief who
was hired to transform the force in
Inkster, Mich., after the suburban
Detroit city settled a police brutal-
ity lawsuit in 2015, had trouble
hiding his delight. But he re-
mained firm.
Worldwide movement
Demonstrators fill the streets in
cities around the globe. A7
Voices from the pandemic
‘The fires were
everywhere’
Paul Swann, on the
death of his mother,
Darlene Krawetz
AS TOLD TO E LI S ASLOW
I didn’t think she could die like
this. Even once her fever hit 104
and her heart started racing out
of control, my mind wouldn’t go
there. Every time she got another
bad diagnosis, I would tell her:
“You’re fine. This is
An oral the low point. We’ll
history of manage and get
covid-19 and through it.” She
those was so healthy. She
affected. practically lived at
the farmers mar-
ket. The virus got into her lungs
and her heart and her liver, and I
still thought she was going to
beat it. I was giving her CPR, and
I was telling myself: “This can’t
kill her. This won’t kill her.”
I caught myself doing the same
thing at her funeral this week.
I’ve never been to a funeral be-
fore, and it was all so weird. There
was a prayer and a poem, and that
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H ANNAH N ATANSON
AND J OHN W OODROW C OX
More than 10,000 people
poured into the nation’s capital
on the ninth day of protests over
police brutality, but what awaited
this sprawling crowd — the larg-
est yet in Washington — was a
city that no longer felt as if it was
being occupied by its own coun-
try’s military.
Gone were the 10-ton, sand-
colored tankers in front of Lafay-
ette Square and the legions of
officers braced behind riot
shields, insisting that citizens
stay away. In fact, few police were
visible anywhere. And when pro-
testers did see law enforcement
— authorities in camouflage,
grouped in twos or threes and
seldom armed — they did not
scream abuse, as many of them
had in previous days.
Few of Saturday’s demonstra-
tions were choreographed, as
protesters flowed from one im-
promptu gathering or march to
another. Those who came out in
Washington — and San Francisco,
see protests on A10
In Trump’s feud
Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post
with Bowser,
overtones of race
and power
Political reckoning
BY D AVID N AKAMURA,
J OSH D AWSEY
Will the protests roiling America bring actual change? AND F ENIT N IRAPPIL
The first night of major unrest
“You are right,” Riley said. “Not BY D AN B ALZ and what kind of country do we pouring in reaction to one more in Washington had exploded in
only would you not have a job, AND G REG M ILLER want to be? killing of an unarmed black chaos on May 29, with protesters
you’d be locked up.” The knee on the neck became person seemed to take on a and Secret Service officers bat-
In the past six years, as Black All week, the images of an as real as it has long been sym- desperate, new urgency in a tling outside the White House. At
Lives Matter has emerged as a American reckoning accumu- bolic. The viral image of George year of cascading crises: im- 8:30 the next morning, Mayor
national movement to confront lated — peaceful demonstra- Floyd gasping for breath, a po- peachment, pandemic, massive Muriel E. Bowser and her senior
police brutality against people of tors calling for racial justice; liceman atop his limp body, unemployment and racial up- aides huddled on a conference
color, the job of leading a depart- phalanxes of riot police poised fused with the historic meta- heaval. call for an update from the city’s
ment while black has become far for clashes; urban centers phor that for 400 years has President Trump caused the police chief.
more complex, politically sensi- aflame with scattered violence; described the violence and rac- first of these crises and com- Eleven minutes later, they
tive and personally painful. a moat of metal erected around ism aimed at black Americans pounded the others with his were interrupted — by a number
Black police executives face the the White House; a president — the original sin of a great conduct. His often incendiary of angry tweets from President
exhausting work of leading orga- demanding military suppres- nation. words, his divisive record on Trump. Praising the federal offi-
nizations that have historically — sion of an “angry mob” before Whether these events will issues of race, seemed to act as cers, Trump warned protesters of
and often disproportionately — theatrically brandishing a Bi- move the country closer to its accelerant to the forces that the “vicious dogs” and “ominous
arrested, beaten and killed people ble. long-cherished ideal of equality swept this week across the weapons” at their disposal. Then,
who have the same color skin as The scenes laid bare the may be years in the answering, American landscape. It was the as the mayor’s chief of staff read
they do. This amounts to a cruel struggle for unity against deep- but the past days have suggest- president who echoed the the tweets out loud, Trump lam-
paradox: Becoming law enforce- ening division in America 2020. ed that something is changing. words of a racist police chief basted Bowser.
see chiefs on A13 By week’s end, the unfolding The protests reached into every from the 1960s in a tweet saying Trump wrote that the Demo-
events — at times uplifting, at corner of the United States and that “when the looting starts, cratic mayor “who is always look-
Youth protesters times shocking — crystallized touched nearly every strand of the shooting starts.” ing for money & help, wouldn’t
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their voices heard. C1 What kind of country are we, What began as one more out- see reckoning on A8 see trump on A26
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night, parked in a lot that was pay and amplified anxiety. A21
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‘Keep up the momentum’
Peaceful protesters return to the streets, demanding action on racial injustice
Protesters take a knee in Nathan Phillips Square before marching in one of two Toronto demonstrations on Saturday against racism and police violence.
Thousands join marches
in Toronto with a message
for police, political leaders
LAURA ARMSTRONG
AND MAY WARREN
STAFF REPORTERS
Thousands of peaceful protesters
returned to the streets of Toronto for a
second consecutive day, and a second
straight weekend, to rally against racism
toward Black and Indigenous people in
Canada and North America.
There were two marches Saturday af-
ternoon: one that began at Nathan Phil-
lips Square and criss-crossed the down-
town core, and another that started at
Trinity Bellwoods Park and headed to
Queen’s Park for an hours-long demon-
stration. There was still a small group
marching in the early evening.
Protesters at Nathan Phillips Square
emphasized racism is not exclusive to
the United States, days after Premier
Doug Ford said Canada doesn’t have the
same “systemic deep roots” of racism as
its neighbour.
“There are many people who do not
accept that this occurs,” said Nicholas
Thompson, a member of a grassroots
group called Stop Killing Black Lives
who organized the march from Nathan
Phillips Square. “The premier said that
this doesn’t really exist … there are many
people who believe that this doesn’t ex-
ist, and we can’t have that change if we
don’t have the acknowledgment first.
That is critical.”
The protest was the first for Nardia
Campbell, whose father and fiancé live
in the U.S. “People think racism doesn’t
exist here,” she said outside city hall.
PROTEST continued on A8
Inside
Health-care workers share
experiences of racism, A6
Toronto’s long history
of anti-racist protest, IN1
Commissioner’s statement
on Black players could be a
turning point for NFL, A15
OLIVIER DOULIERY AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
STEVE RUSSELL TORONTO STAR
Top: Protesters gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.
Middle, bottom: Toronto marches set out from city hall and Trinity Bellwoods.
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
RICK MADONIK TORONTO STAR
Massive turnout in D.C.
as movement sparked by
Floyd death grows wider
EDWARD KEENAN
WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
WASHINGTON— Tanya DeLeon was
standing by the new, fortified fencing at
Lafayette Square near the White House
on Saturday afternoon, wearing a shirt
that read “Black Mom Magic.” Asked
why she came to join the racial justice
protests, she just pointed to her son
Nicholas.
“We’re here to protest all the injustice
in this country,” 13-year-old Nicholas
said. “We want to bring awareness to
everyone — all the Black people that
have been killed by bad cops, even ones
that haven’t been recorded and justice
hasn’t been brought to them.”
And how did Nicholas feel right now?
“Powerful,” he said.
If there is strength in numbers, then
Saturday’s crowds on the streets of
Washington were by a fair measure the
RICK MADONIK TORONTO STAR largest and most powerful yet. An esti-
mated 200,000 people, outraged by
George Floyd’s death 12 days earlier at
the hands of Minneapolis police, gath-
ered in the newly renamed Black Lives
Matter Plaza near the White House, be-
fore the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,
and on the grounds of Capitol Hill. They
marched through residential and com-
mercial neighbourhoods all across the
city, in a movement against police bru-
tality and in favour of racial justice,
chanting “Black Lives Matter.”
April Phillips, a 47-year-old navy veter-
an, drove three hours from Norfolk, Va.,
STEVE RUSSELL TORONTO STAR to join the call for change.
ANALYSIS continued on A9
Eight minutes,
46 seconds
How George Floyd’s
killing ignited a global
powder keg, A10
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United in Protest, From Coast to Coast
A vast wave of demonstrations took place across the United States on Saturday, including in, clockwise from top left: Washington;
Manhattan; St. Paul, Minn.; and Seattle. They were part of a growing, coalescing movement to fight systemic racism. Page 23.
As Heroes Die, In the Pandemic, as Ever, ‘I Will Give You Rest’
Who Will Carry
By ELIZABETH DIAS
Europe’s Torch? conscious
Beyond the glass lay a man, un-
in the electric blue light, Changes
By JASON HOROWITZ
ROME — For years, Gildo Ne-
gri visited schools to share his
stories about blowing up bridges
and cutting electrical wires to sab-
otage Nazis and fascists during
World War II. In January, the 89-
year-old made another visit, leav-
ing his nursing home outside Mi-
lan to help students plant trees in
honor of Italians deported to con-
centration camps.
But at the end of February, as
Europe’s first outbreak of the co-
ronavirus spread through Mr. Ne-
gri’s nursing home, it infected
him, too.
Shut inside, he grew despond-
ent about missing the usual pa-
rades and public speeches on Ita-
ly’s Liberation Day, grander this
year to mark the 75th anniversa-
ry. But the virus canceled the
April 25 commemorations. Mr.
Negri died that night.
“The memory is vanishing, and
the coronavirus is accelerating
this process,” said Rita Magnani,
who worked with Mr. Negri, at the
local chapter of the National Asso-
ciation of Italian Partisans. “We
are losing the people who can tell
us in first person what happened.
And it’s a shame, because when
we lose the historical memory we
lose ourselves.”
Time and its ravages have al-
ready cut down the lives and
blurred the memories of a genera-
tion that saw close up the ideolo-
gies and crimes that turned Eu-
rope into a killing field.
The virus, which is so lethal to
the old, has hastened the depar-
ture of these last witnesses and
forced the cancellation of anniver-
sary commemorations that of-
fered a final chance to tell their
stories to large audiences. It has
also created an opportunity for
rising political forces who seek to
recast the history of the last cen-
tury in order to play a greater role
in remaking the present one.
Throughout Europe, radical
right-wing parties with histories
of Holocaust denial, Mussolini in-
fatuation and fascist motifs, have
gained traction in recent years,
moving from the fringes and into
parliaments and even governing
coalitions.
The Alternative for Germany is
looking to capitalize on the eco-
nomic frustration the coronavirus
crisis has triggered. In France, the
hard-right National Rally had the
country’s strongest showing in
the last European Parliament
Continued on Page 7
NATIONAL 17-26
A Convention Derailed
President Trump and the G.O.P. are
moving to largely shift the proceedings
outside North Carolina. PAGE 17
Defending Democracy Abroad
With the United States in turmoil, diplo-
mats struggle to make the case for
human rights overseas. PAGE 21
BOOK REVIEW
Conflicted Soul of the West
In his first installment of a series on
overlooked or under-read American
writers, A.O. Scott considers the individ-
ualistic spirit of Wallace Stegner. PAGE 1
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MICHAEL A. MCCOY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
CHLOE COLLYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
began to pray.
Ritual of the Last Rites United
The coronavirus has led the
but Endures
shadow of death. In just three
shrouded in tubes. His family was
not allowed to visit. His body
could not be touched.
The Rev. Ryan Connors stood at
the door watching, his Roman col-
lar barely visible beneath his face
shield.
Since the coronavirus pan-
demic began, he had gone to the
bedsides of Covid-19 patients
across the Boston area to perform
one of the oldest religious rituals
for the dying: the Roman Catholic
practice commonly called last
rites.
For centuries, priests have
physically anointed the dying
with oil to heal body and soul, if
not in this life, in the next. Many
Catholics have spent their entire
lives trusting that in their most
The Rev. Ryan Connors praying over a Covid patient at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston.
Spared Virus’s Havoc, but Not the Economic Pain
By MICHAEL H. KELLER
and STEVE EDER
In Corpus Christi, Texas, many
people strain to name anyone in-
fected with the coronavirus. In
east central Wisconsin, members
of the Y.M.C.A. express frustra-
tion with a distant health crisis
that shut down the group’s com-
munity services. In western Col-
orado, the summer recreational
season was canceled before it
INTERNATIONAL 14-16
A Grim Turn in the Amazon
Deforestation has surged as Brazil fo-
cuses on the pandemic, raising the risk
of worse fires than a year ago. PAGE 14
Girl’s Death Shakes Iran
The beheading of a 14-year-old has set
off a national debate: Do women and
children have a right to safety? PAGE 15
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2020
States to the valley of the
difficult hours a priest, and
through him God, would come to
their aid.
On this Tuesday morning, in the
intensive care unit at St. Eliza-
beth’s Medical Center, all that Fa-
ther Connors knew about the pa-
tient was his name, and that his
family had called for a priest.
He had a clear plastic bag with a
cotton ball containing a few drops
of holy oil. He carried a photocopy
of pages from a liturgical book.
At 10:18 a.m., he slid open the
door. He walked over to the bed,
careful to avoid the tubes on the
ground.
He stretched out his hand, and
RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
even started — again with little
sign of the virus.
The coronavirus has killed
more than 100,000 Americans and
brought much of the economy to a
grinding halt. Though all 50 states
have begun to reopen against a
bitter partisan backdrop, in many
parts of the country the dual
health and economic calamities
are not playing out in parallel.
A New York Times analysis of
coronavirus infections, official
layoff notices and federal unem-
SUNDAY BUSINESS
How Corporations Fail Blacks
Black executives discuss their private
fears and their disappointments with
corporate America. “We seem to have
hit a wall,” one said.
AT HOME
Talking to Kids About Racism
Discussing race needs to start early in
life, and there is no shortage of books
that can help keep the complicated
conversation moving.
SUNDAY REVIEW
Jamelle Bouie
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
months, a microscopic particle
has laid bare human mortality.
The entire nation has worked to
avoid death, shutting down cities,
masking faces in the streets, and
isolating the dying from their
loved ones in their final hours.
And yet, more than 100,000 people
have died, and often, died alone.
Many rituals, a guide through
life’s most sacred moments, have
been impossible. Children said fi-
nal goodbyes to dying parents
through windows or on FaceTime,
if they bid farewell at all. Only
rarely have religious leaders been
allowed into hospitals and nursing
homes. Families attend funerals
on Zoom.
The country is facing a deeply
Continued on Page 8
ployment data highlights the
sharp disconnect between ex-
treme economic pain and limited
health impact from the pandemic
in many parts of the country. It is a
split that presents local officials
and businesses with difficult
choices even after Friday’s en-
couraging jobs report suggested
more of the country was returning
to work.
Some business owners and
Continued on Page 12
SUNDAY STYLES
Fire Island Won’t Be the Same
In the Pines, gay clubs are closed, but
many people are keeping their summer
shares. Can they social distance? PAGE 1
PAGE 1
Summer Camp as Guinea Pigs
Entrepreneurs are swamping camp
directors with sales pitches for services
to screen for the coronavirus, with your
children as test subjects.
ARTS & LEISURE
PAGE 5
On ‘The King of Staten Island’
Pete Davidson of “S.N.L.” is trying to tie
the many strands of his life together in
PAGE 5 this film by Judd Apatow.
Fierce Protectors of Police
Impede Efforts at Reform
Unions Using Their Outsize Political Power
Resist Checks on Officers’ Behavior
This article is by Noam Scheiber,
Farah Stockman and J. David Good-
man.
Over the past five years, as de-
mands for reform have mounted
in the aftermath of police violence
in cities like Ferguson, Mo., Balti-
more and now Minneapolis, police
unions have emerged as one of the
most significant roadblocks to
change. The greater the political
pressure for reform, the more de-
fiant the unions often are in resist-
ing it — with few city officials, in-
cluding liberal leaders, able to
overcome their opposition.
They aggressively protect the
rights of members accused of mis-
conduct, often in arbitration hear-
ings that they have battled to keep
behind closed doors. And they
have also been remarkably effec-
tive at fending off broader change,
using their political clout and in-
fluence to derail efforts to in-
crease accountability.
While rates of union member-
ship have dropped by half nation-
ally since the early 1980s, to 10
percent, higher membership rates
among police unions give them re-
sources they can spend on cam-
paigns and litigation to block re-
form. A single New York City po-
lice union has spent more than $1
million on state and local races
since 2014.
In St. Louis, when Kim Gardner
was elected the top prosecutor
four years ago, she set out to rein
in the city’s high rate of police vio-
lence. But after she proposed a
unit within the prosecutor’s office
that would independently investi-
gate misconduct, she ran into the
powerful local police union.
The union pressured lawmak-
ers to set aside the proposal,
which many supported but then
never brought to a vote. Around
the same time, a lawyer for the un-
ion waged a legal fight to limit the
ability of the prosecutor’s office to
investigate police misconduct.
The following year, a leader of the
union said Ms. Gardner should be
removed “by force or by choice.”
Politicians tempted to cross po-
lice unions have long feared being
Taking a Knee: In the G.O.P.,
From Sidelines Some Weigh
To Front Lines A Biden Vote
By KURT STREETER
It is a simple gesture, swaddled
in outrage and long-endured grief,
that gained powerful currency
through the protest against police
brutality and racial injustice led
by quarterback Colin Kaepernick
on the fields of the National Foot-
ball League.
Taking a knee.
Across the nation these last
hard, uncertain days, demonstra-
tors have turned to the gesture on
city streets. At a nighttime march
in Minneapolis on Wednesday, a
crowd of 400 knelt for nearly five
somber minutes. On the same day,
George Floyd’s son, Quincy Ma-
son, walked through a crowd at
the site where a white police offi-
cer had pinned his father to the
ground by a knee to the neck.
There, before a makeshift memo-
rial, Mr. Mason dropped to a knee.
The gesture has even been
made sporadically by law enforce-
ment officers, members of the Na-
tional Guard and by prominent
politicians as an act of solidarity
or effort to pacify.
In New York, a police com-
mander knelt with activists out-
side Washington Square Park. In
Portland, Ore., officers in riot gear
knelt before demonstrators, some
of whom responded by walking to-
ward the officers to shake their
Continued on Page 24
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‘Not the Hometown’ I Knew
PAGE 1 In an essay, Arizona Cardinals wide
receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr. writes of
present-day unrest and recalls a more
peaceful time in Minneapolis. PAGE 30
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labeled soft on crime by the un-
ions, or more serious conse-
quences.
When Steve Fletcher, a Minne-
apolis city councilman and fre-
quent Police Department critic,
sought to divert money away from
hiring officers and toward a newly
created office of violence preven-
tion, he said, the police stopped re-
sponding as quickly to 911 calls
placed by his constituents. “It op-
erates a little bit like a protection
racket,” Mr. Fletcher said of the
union.
A spokesman for the Minneapo-
lis Police Department said he was
unable to comment.
A few days after prosecutors in
Minneapolis charged an officer
with murder in the death of
George Floyd, the president of the
city’s police union denounced po-
litical leaders, accusing them of
selling out his members and firing
four officers without due process.
“It is despicable behavior,” the
union president, Lt. Bob Kroll,
wrote in a letter to union members
obtained by a local reporter. He
also referred to protesters as a
“terrorist movement.”
Mr. Kroll, who is himself the
subject of at least 29 complaints,
has also chided the Obama admin-
istration for its “oppression of po-
lice,” and praised President
Continued on Page 22
DAVID DEE DELGADO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A police officer at the demon-
strations in New York City.
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — It was one
thing in 2016 for top Republicans
to take a stand against Donald J.
Trump for president: He wasn’t
likely to win anyway, the thinking
went, and there was no longstand-
ing conservative governing
agenda that would be endan-
gered.
The 2020 campaign is different:
Opposing the sitting president of
your own party means putting
policy priorities at risk, in this
case appointing conservative
judges, sustaining business-
friendly regulations and cutting
taxes — as well as incurring the
volcanic wrath of Mr. Trump.
But, far sooner than they ex-
pected, growing numbers of
prominent Republicans are debat-
ing how far to go in revealing that
they won’t back his re-election —
or might even vote for Joseph R.
Biden Jr., the presumptive Demo-
cratic nominee. They’re feeling a
fresh urgency because of Mr.
Trump’s incendiary response to
the protests of police brutality,
atop his mishandling of the coro-
navirus pandemic, according to
people who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to disclose private
discussions.
Former President George W.
Bush won’t support the re-elec-
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Voices
raised
in pain,
hope,
anger
Since George Floyd’s
death, a national
reckoning is unfolding
in American cities.
By Laura King,
Kurtis Lee
and Jaweed Kaleem
DALLAS — America is
having a conversation with
itself, in voices that ring with
rage, despair — and, some-
times, hope.
For nearly two weeks,
street protests have surged
across the country, leaping
cities and towns in an elec-
trifying arc, reverberating
far beyond the Minneapolis
street corner where a white
police officer put his knee on
the neck of a black man,
George Floyd, and kept it
there for nearly nine min-
utes.
That image — and all it
evoked about America’s dis-
turbing past and troubled
present — was seared into
the collective conscious-
ness. Floyd’s last words — “I
can’t breathe” — were at
once a dying man’s tragic
plea and a distillation of
multiplying national bur-
dens.
“The bubbles we all have
been living in have popped,”
said Denita Hawkins, a laid-
off fitness instructor from
the Cleveland suburb of
Strongsville, Ohio. A 35-
year-old black woman, a
mother of two sons,
Hawkins wept when she, like
countless others, witnessed
Floyd’s fatal arrest on video,
on Facebook.
8:46. The minutes and
seconds it took a grown man
to stop moving. At protests
everywhere, the number be-
ACROSS
THE U.S.,
CALLS
FOR
JUSTICE
Peaceful protests
spark long-overdue
discourse on police
brutality and
institutional racism.
By Sarah Parvini,
Melissa Etehad,
Tracy Wilkinson,
Alex Brandon Associated Press Maria L. La Ganga
THOUSANDS converged Saturday on the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in and Kevin Baxter
Washington, D.C., to protest the killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
They jammed onto the
Brooklyn Bridge. Flowed
past the White House, newly
fortified to keep the nation’s
citizens at bay. Forced city
officials to close Chicago’s
famed Lake Shore Drive.
Marched on USC, Sunset
Boulevard, Beverly Hills,
Los Angeles City Hall, San
Pedro, Huntington Beach.
Tens of thousands of
demonstrators took to the
streets across the country
Saturday — in some cities,
for the 10th straight day — to
protest the killing of George
Floyd, a black man who died
May 25 in Minneapolis with a
white police officer’s knee on
his neck.
The protesters de-
manded justice. They called
for racism and police brutal-
ity to end. They were loud.
They were boisterous. And
they were peaceful.
There were no apparent
incidents of vandalism or
looting, no broken windows
or stolen goods. And for the
most part, the throngs of law
enforcement officers in riot
gear stood down. Unlike ear-
lier in the week, there were
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times no reports of tear gas, rub-
A RELATIVE of Breonna Taylor, right, is hugged by another woman after speaking to protesters in Bever- ber bullets or police batons
ly Hills. Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was killed by police in March in her Louisville, Ky., home. connecting with flesh in
most U.S. cities.

Marching as a multicultural front

came a rallying cry. Marking
the clock’s tick, protesters,
on city streets and park
lawns, lie prone, hands be-
hind their backs as if cuffed.
“America was founded on
slavery, but it’s never truly
sought to address this hor-
rific past,” said Lee Daugh-
erty, the owner of a land-
mark now-shuttered
LGBTQ-friendly bar in Dal-
las. “We must put a mirror
up to the face of America,
and not put it down.”
In this fraying, fraught
moment, long-held assump-
tions and presumptions
about public life in this coun-
try have suddenly become
part of long-overdue daily
discourse: about race and
[See Voices, A11]
Protests attract diverse allies, some first-timers, to racial justice cause
friend. “I am emotionally and phys-
By Leila Miller ically exhausted yet I continue this
fight,” she wrote, demanding that oth-
Throughout his life, Alan Mich- ers not be complacent in the face of
noff ’s engagement with racial justice racism.
issues had been “next to none.” While “That just struck a chord with me,”
the 30-year-old North Hollywood resi- Michnoff said. “A lot of people have
dent had always been aware of police been saying that. Just hearing it over
brutality against black people, he had and over again, and it being perhaps
not actively spoken up. the right time, it finally hit for me.”
Last weekend, as the George Floyd He donated to local bail bond funds
protests swelled nationwide, some- and signed petitions demanding
thing changed. Michnoff came across charges against the officers involved
a passionate Instagram post by a in Floyd’s death and that of Breonna
Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medi-
cal technician who was shot by
Louisville, Ky., police in her apart-
ment. On social media, Michnoff
found link after link to resources for
people seeking to support the move-
ment.
“I felt I had no choice but to partici-
pate in something so important,” he
said, holding up a cardboard sign that
read “Silence is violence” at a protest
in front of the North Hollywood police
station Thursday.
The protests [See Allies, A10]
Mayors marched. Nurses
waved signs, wore masks,
handed out hand sanitizer.
Denver Broncos football
players and staff joined pro-
testers leaving the Colorado
Capitol. Law enforcement
agents in some cities took a
knee — the near universal
sign of anti-racist protest,
thanks to former San Fran-
cisco 49ers quarterback
Colin Kaepernick.
In a perfectly California
touch, a white Tesla parked
in the middle of Sunset Boul-
evard, and its occupants
handed out water and food.
At Hollywood and Vine, Jose
Lagunas waved a rubber fac-
simile of President Trump’s
head on a stick. “If there’s
[See Protests, A9]

COLUMN ONE Biden: No one

can ignore Trump bars some
This man of letters delivers racial injustice

Chinese students
The presidential
candidate writes that
all must play a part in
Nothing stops San Clemente carrier from his rounds combating systemic
racism. OP-ED, A19 tions deemed to support
By Brittny Mejia L.A., Bay Area Universities alarmed China’s “military-civil fusion
strategy.” That strategy, the
by order, which U.S.

B
efore the start of his shift, James
Daniels taped the latest note of
gratitude to workstation No. 31.
In the nearly 16 years he’s
delivered mail, the letter carrier
has received hundreds of notes of apprecia-
tion. But over the last couple of months, as
the world changed around him, so did their
tone.
In April, a month after Gov. Gavin New-
som ordered Californians to stay at home
to slow the spread of COVID-19, a family
along his San Clemente route wrote a note
that began, “Dearest Angel man James you
are a blessing.”
It included Psalm 91, a fitting hymn for
this era, its words associated with times of
hardship:
“Do not be afraid of the terrors of the
night, nor fear the dangers of the day, nor
dread the plague that [See Daniels, A12]
on split paths
The state’s biggest
metropolitan areas
reopen at different
paces. CALIFORNIA, B1
Unrest on both
sides of border
Guadalajara protest
against death of man
in police custody has
parallels. WORLD, A3
Weather
Cloudy, then sunny.
L.A. Basin: 79/61. B10
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
MAIL CARRIER James Daniels, 59,
watches for cross traffic as he walks 7 85944 10300 9 uate students and research-
his route in San Clemente, Calif.
calls security measure.
By Teresa Watanabe
President Trump’s re-
cent decision to halt entry of
some Chinese graduate stu-
dents to the U.S. is sowing
broad anxiety, particularly
in California, as universities
fear they could lose an es-
sential source of research
talent.
U.S. officials say that
Trump’s order, which took
effect last week, is aimed at
safeguarding national secu-
rity by barring Chinese grad-
ers associated with institu-
order says, involves Chinese
efforts to acquire foreign
technologies to advance
China’s military capabili-
ties.
In a news briefing last
week, State Department of-
ficials stressed that Chinese
students and scholars pur-
suing legitimate studies
here would continue to be
welcomed and that the or-
der will affect only a small
number who could be used
by the People’s Liberation
Army to divert or steal sensi-
tive technologies.
“American universities
and research laboratories
should not be used to con-
tribute to PRC goals of mili-
[See Students, A13]

BUSINESS INSIDE: Many people return to work, but the outlook for others is hazy. A16