This doesn't look normal. It looks like this has been carefully planned out by whoever or whatever is making this happen.
We need to pay more attention.
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 27 February 2020
Good afternoon to everyone online and in the room.
Let me start, as usual, with the latest numbers.
As of 6am Geneva time this morning, China has reported a total of 78,630 cases of COVID-19 to WHO, including 2747 deaths.
But as you know, it’s what is happening in the rest of the world that is now our greatest concern.
Outside China, there are now 3474 cases in 44 countries, and 54 deaths.
We are at a decisive point.
For the past two days, the number of new cases reported in the rest of the world has exceeded the number of new cases in China.
And in the past 24 hours, seven countries have reported cases for the first time: Brazil, Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan and Romania.
My message to each of these countries is: this is your window of opportunity.
If you act aggressively now, you can contain this virus. You can prevent people getting sick. You can save lives. So my advice to these countries is to move swiftly.
The epidemics in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy and the Republic of Korea demonstrate what this virus is capable of.
But this virus is not influenza. With the right measures, it can be contained.
That is one of the key messages from China. The evidence we have is that there does not appear to be widespread community transmission.
In Guangdong, scientists tested more than 320,000 samples from the community and only 0.14% were positive for COVID-19.
That suggests that containment is possible.
Indeed, there are many countries that have done exactly that.
There are several countries that have not reported a case for more than two weeks: Belgium, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Philippines, the Russian Federation, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam.
Each of these countries is different. And each shows that aggressive, early measures can prevent transmission before the virus gets a foothold.
Of course, that doesn’t mean those countries won’t have more cases. In fact, as of Tuesday, both Finland and Sweden had reported no cases for more than two weeks, but unfortunately both had new cases yesterday.
That’s why we advocate a comprehensive approach. Every country must be ready for its first case, its first cluster, the first evidence of community transmission and for dealing with sustained community transmission. And it must be preparing for all of those scenarios at the same time.
No country should assume it won’t get cases. That could be a fatal mistake, quite literally.
This virus does not respect borders. It does not distinguish between races or ethnicities. It has no regard for a country’s GDP or level of development.
The point is not only to prevent cases arriving on your shores. The point is what you do when you have cases.
But we are not hopeless. We are not defenseless. There are things every country and every person can do.
Every country needs to be ready to detect cases early, to isolate patients, trace contacts, provide quality clinical care, prevent hospital outbreaks, and prevent community transmission.
There are some vital questions that every country must be asking itself today.
Are we ready for the first case? What will we do when it arrives?
Do we have an isolation unit ready to go? Do we have enough medical oxygen, ventilators and other vital equipment?
How will we know if there are cases in other areas of the country?
Is there a reporting system that health facilities are all using, and a way to raise an alert if there is a concern?
Do our health workers have the training and equipment they need to stay safe?
Do our health workers know how to take samples correctly from patients?
Do we have the right measures at airports and border crossings to test people who are sick?
Do our labs have the right chemicals that allow them to test samples?
Are we ready to treat patients with severe or critical disease?
Do our hospitals and clinics have the right procedures to prevent and control infections?
Do our people have the right information? Do they know what the disease looks like?
It’s not usually a runny nose. In 90% of cases it’s a fever and in 70% of cases a dry cough.
Are we ready to fight rumours and misinformation with clear and simple messages that people can understand?
Are we able to have our people on our side to fight this outbreak.
These are the questions that every health minister must be ready to answer now.
These are the questions that will be the difference between 1 case and 100 cases in the coming days and weeks.
If the answer to any of these questions is no, your country has a gap that this virus will exploit.
Even developed countries could be surprised.
Our message continues to be that this virus has pandemic potential and WHO is providing the tools to help every country to prepare accordingly.
We’ve shipped testing kits to 57 countries and personal protective equipment to 85 countries who need it.
We have trained more than 80,000 health workers through our online courses, in multiple languages.
We’ve issued operational guidelines, with concrete actions countries can take in eight key areas to prevent, detect and manage cases.
The guidelines also include key performance indicators, and the estimated resources needed to prepare for and respond to a cluster of up to 100 cases. This is not enough, so we will do more.
WHO stands ready to support every country to develop its national plan.
Once again, this is not a time for fear. This is a time for taking action now to prevent infections and save lives now.
Fear and panic doesn’t help. People can have concerns and rightly so. People can be worried and rightly so. The most important thing is to calm down and do the right things to fight this very dangerous virus.
Thank you.
Having the right connections will benefit you more in life than having certificates.
True or False?
Some people just make themselves tools in the hand of the devil.
The heart of man is truly desperately wicked.
DOMINION MANDATE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020
DISCIPLES MAKE OTHER DISCIPLES (2)
BIBLE READING: MARK 16:15-18
"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV
Many believers have the erroneous belief that the command that Jesus gave us before He ascended to heaven was just to preach the gospel and make other believers. However, the scripture above shows that the instruction was to "make disciples of all nations”; and not to make Christians of all nations. He didn’t end there, Jesus went on to give a description of who these disciples would be. He said that they would be the ones who would obey and also teach others to obey and "...observe all things that I have commanded you...”
In other words, apart from living in total submission and obedience to God’s word, another proof of your discipleship is that you raise and make other disciples. You don’t just get them born again, you train them and teach them and hold them accountable, till they become disciples who will still make other disciples. This can also be seen in the book of John 15 "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” John 15:16 NKJV.
Jesus talks of bearing fruit which are souls but He doesn’t stop there, he says that the souls must also remain. It is souls who are discipled that remain and they are the ones we will be rewarded for.
ACTION POINT:
I will submit myself to discipleship this year so that I can partner with God to disciple others.
PRAYER:
Father, I repent for disobeying You and not submitting myself to Your Lordship and to mentorship that will hold me accountable and enable me to disciple others in accordance with Your Word. I pray that You do a deep work in Me because it is You who works in me both to will and to do of Your good pleasure in Jesus name. Amen.
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