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The Communist-controlled Chinese embassy in France tweeted an anti-Semitic image portraying the United States and Israel as the grim reaper knocking on Hong Kong's door.  The image depicts the United States as the grim reaper holding a scythe with Israel's flag. Countries such as [[Syria]], [[Venezuela]], [[Libya]], and [[Iraq]] are portrayed as places where America and Israel have caused death and destruction. The picture reads, "Who's next?" in French, with the grim reaper approaching a door with Hong Kong written on it.  The distribution of anti-Semitic images, like those posted by China's embassy, runs afoul of French laws.

The Communist-controlled Chinese embassy in France tweeted an anti-Semitic image portraying the United States and Israel as the grim reaper knocking on Hong Kong's door.  The image depicts the United States as the grim reaper holding a scythe with Israel's flag. Countries such as [[Syria]], [[Venezuela]], [[Libya]], and [[Iraq]] are portrayed as places where America and Israel have caused death and destruction. The picture reads, "Who's next?" in French, with the grim reaper approaching a door with Hong Kong written on it.  The distribution of anti-Semitic images, like those posted by China's embassy, runs afoul of French laws.

===Italy===

===Italy===

On April 6, 2020 the London-based newspaper The Times reported that 17.5 million coronavirus antibody tests supplied by China were defective. The Chinese manufacturers of the tests blamed British officials and politicians for misunderstanding or exaggerating the utility of the tests. The British government, which reportedly paid at least $20 million (£16 million) for the tests, said that it was seeking a refund. Meanwhile, other coronavirus tests destined for the UK were found to be tainted with coronavirus.

On April 6, 2020 the London-based newspaper The Times reported that 17.5 million coronavirus antibody tests supplied by China were defective. The Chinese manufacturers of the tests blamed British officials and politicians for misunderstanding or exaggerating the utility of the tests. The British government, which reportedly paid at least $20 million (£16 million) for the tests, said that it was seeking a refund. Meanwhile, other coronavirus tests destined for the UK were found to be tainted with coronavirus.

===Germany===

==Ukraine==

Addressing Chinese communist president Xi Jinping the editor-in-chief of [[Germany]]’s largest newspaper ''Bild'' wrote

A bus containing over 50 people from coronavirus-hit Wuhan was attacked by angry demonstrators in a small Ukrainian town. Protesters lit fires and hurled stones at the six-bus convoy in Novi Sanzhary, [[Ukraine]]. Armoured personnel vehicles were deployed to unblock the road and take the evacuees to a health spa where they will spend 14 days in quarantine.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYemTEQBpyQ</ref>

{{quotebox|"You, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that coronavirus is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond when [[Western]] researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan. You were too proud and too [[nationalist]]ic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace....You rule by [[surveillance]]. You wouldn't be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country. You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world....surveillance is a denial of [[freedom]]. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything. This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft....China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own....The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is coronavirus....your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching coronaviruses in bats, but without maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners? Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of corona victims all over the world?"....In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease. That is your political legacy."”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-outraged-after-largest-german-newspaper-accuses-beijing-starting-coronavirus</ref>}}

A case about a man violating strict German lockdown rules by celebrating a birthday with his friends became the world’s first COVID court case that dealt intensively with the medical facts of the disease and its economic consequences. The court ruled:{{quotebox-float|“Based on what has been said, there can be no doubt that the number of deaths attributable to the lockdown policy measures alone exceeds the number of deaths prevented by the lockdown many times over....At no time did a concrete danger of the overloading of the health system by a “wave” of COVID-19 patients occur. As can be seen from the DIVI Intensive Care Register, which was newly established on 17 March 2020, at least 40% of intensive care beds in Germany were vacant throughout March and April. In Thuringia, 378 intensive care beds were reported as occupied on 3 April 2020, 36 of which were occupied by COVID-19 patients. This was compared to 417 free beds.<br>

 

At a 2020 mass, [[Pope Francis]] offered prayers for the ill, for health workers and others who had been troubled by the coronavirus epidemic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/03/11/pope-francis-urges-priests-personally-attend-victims-coronavirus/|title=Pope Francis Urges Priests to Personally Attend to Victims of Coronavirus|date=March 11, 2020|accessdate=March 12, 2020|author=Thomas D. Williams, [[Doctor|Ph.D.]]|publisher=Breitbart News}}</ref>

On 16 April 2020, two days before the decree was issued, 501 intensive care beds were reported as occupied, 56 of them with COVID-19 patients. This contrasted with 528 free beds … The maximum number of COVID-19 patients reported in Thuringia in the spring was 63 on 28 April, and the number of COVID-19 patients was thus at no time in a range where an overload of the health care system could have been feared.<br>

 

This assessment of the actual dangers posed by COVID-19 in spring 2020 is confirmed by an analysis of billing data from 421 hospitals by the Quality Medicine Initiative, which concluded that the number of SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) cases treated as inpatients in Germany in the first half of 2020, totaling 187,174 cases, was actually lower than in the first half of 2019 (221,841 cases), although this included COVID-related SARI cases.  The number of intensive care and ventilator cases was also lower in the first half of 2020 than in 2019, according to this analysis.<br>

 

Mortality statistics paint a similar picture. According to a special analysis by the Federal Statistical Office, 484,429 people died in Germany in the first half of 2020, compared with 479,415 in the first half of 2019, 501,391 in 2018, 488,147 in 2017 and 461,055 in 2016. Accordingly, in both 2017 and 2018, there were more deaths in the first half of the year than in 2020.<br>

 

 

According to a meta-study by medical scientist and statistician John Ioannidis, one of the most cited scientists in the world, published in October in a WHO bulletin, the median lethality rate is 0.27%, corrected to 0.23%, which is no higher than in moderate influenza epidemics."<ref>http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp/howard/weimar_ruling/</ref>}}

==Hong Kong==

==Hong Kong==

==New Zealand==

==New Zealand==

In 2020, [[Destiny Church]] leader Brian Tamaki claimed that Christians who [[Tithe|pay tithes]], believe the [[Bible]] and are filled with the [[Holy Spirit]] have a Psalm 91 “protection policy” against the COVID-19 strain of Coronavirus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/tithe-paying-christians-are-protected-from-coronavirus-by-psalm-91-pastor-brian-tamaki-claims.html|title=Tithe-paying Christians are protected from coronavirus by Psalm 91, pastor Brian Tamaki claims|author=Leonardo Blair|website=[[The Christian Post]]|date=March 3, 2020|accessdate=March 5, 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, [[Destiny Church]] leader Brian Tamaki claimed that Christians who [[Tithe|pay tithes]], believe the [[Bible]] and are filled with the [[Holy Spirit]] have a Psalm 91 “protection policy” against the COVID-19 strain of Coronavirus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/tithe-paying-christians-are-protected-from-coronavirus-by-psalm-91-pastor-brian-tamaki-claims.html|title=Tithe-paying Christians are protected from coronavirus by Psalm 91, pastor Brian Tamaki claims|author=Leonardo Blair|website=[[The Christian Post]]|date=March 3, 2020|accessdate=March 5, 2020}}</ref>

==Philippines==

==Philippines==

On April 24, 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, the Chinese embassy in [[Manila]] released a music video of a song called “Iisang Dagat” (“One Sea”). Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian wrote the lyrics, the lead singer was a Filipino-Chinese, and a Chinese diplomat joined the performers in celebrating “a new era of friendship” between the two countries. But the video received over 65,000 “dislikes” on the first day it was online. Filipinos lambasted the video's imagery of a sea shared by both countries as belying the reality of the dispute.

On April 24, 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, the Chinese embassy in [[Manila]] released a music video of a song called “Iisang Dagat” (“One Sea”). Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian wrote the lyrics, the lead singer was a Filipino-Chinese, and a Chinese diplomat joined the performers in celebrating “a new era of friendship” between the two countries. But the video received over 65,000 “dislikes” on the first day it was online. Filipinos lambasted the video's imagery of a sea shared by both countries as belying the reality of the dispute.

==Tanzania==

==Tanzania==