according to researchers at the university of hong kong the 33 yoorld man was first diagnosed in lateh and discharged in april but officials say in august he was intektfected again and is asymptomatic. a patient in the netherlands and another in belgium have been reinfected with the coronavirus. reinfection is common with other coronaviruss, adding that some patients may only have short liffed immunity to reinfection >>> some north texans are still drink bleach as a cure the north texas poison center is warning not to drink it. >>> the battle to reopen schools is still being fought. but teachers are rejoicing after the governor says to reopen schools is not safe. >> reporter: he granted authority to close back down if they choose. school board members say they had no choice but to open because if they didn't, the governor would cut off dollars >> it's not safe for our children to learn or our teachers to teach. >> there was not room in classrooms to social distancing. there is not room to set desks 4 feet apart not less 6 feet apart. >> where the politics seems to override the science

. >>> meanwhile, researchers at the university of hong kong say they've confirmed the world's first casef reinfection with the coronavirus. they suggest patients who recovered should be vaccinated and keep wearing masks. the research team announced monday a 33-year-old man contracted thehe virus a s sond time this mononth after his f f infection i in latee march. the teamm and h health a author say the man spent about two weeks in hospital and was discharged after testing negative. then his second infection was confirmed at an airport screening upon his return to hong kong from a trip to spain via britain earlier this month. he has not developed any symptoms and left hospital last friday. the researchers say the gene sequence of the virus detected in the second infection was partially different from that of the first one. they said this case shows that while coronavirus patients develop antibodies, the levels could decrease after a few months. >>> data from john hopkins university shows the number of cases worldwide has topped 23.5 million. officials of japan's ruling party say prime min

of new cases. so what's going on in hong kong, and what are the lessons for other countries? professor malik peiris is chair of virology at the universityfor coming on the programme. good evening, lewis. so what's going on there, why are the numbers creeping up? yeah, so this last month ofjuly, more than double the total number of cases for the total number of cases for the first six months of the year. essentially, we can see that there were multiple introductions of the virus in june, at the time when hong kong was lifting its social distancing measures and one of these introductions, more or less, exploded into the vast majority of cases that we see now, coming from this single introduction... crosstalk. by introduction... crosstalk. by introduction you mean someone by introduction you mean someone coming in. a mistake, essentially, at the border? that is correct. so we are sequencing the virus and fingerprinting it so we can see distinct strains of the virus. i see. so what about things like social distancing? what else has contributed to the spread? so in june with the cases coming out of control, hong kong lifted its social distan

in their research paper the team at the university of hong kong says the 2nd infection was a different strain of the virus and that the patient was asymptomatic the study examines how often people who've had covered 19 are immune to new infections and for how long these questions have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work school and social activities as many countries in europe and around the world went into lockdown to slow the spread sweetened wind against the tide opting not to confine its population schools and restaurants remained open in the hope that infected people would become immune thus allowing them to continue their lives as normal and ultimately slowing the spread of the virus. i think people. take in big responsibility. if. we can be. sweden's infection rate and deaths per 1000000 were soon among the worst in europe. and yet testing showed the country still fell a long way short of the estimated 90 percent which would create herd immunity nor is the rest of the world anywhere close to that. the w.h.o. says that until the world has rea

the 1st documented case of a patient being reinfected with corona virus has been reported in hong kong researches at the university of hong kong say a 33 year old man fell sick again 4 months after his 1st bout in march but scientists say he's suffering from a different strain of the virus and unlike his 1st infections 2nd time he did not have any symptoms researches have suggested that patients who recover from the corona virus are immune to reinfection but that antibody levels can fall after a few months world health organization warns against jumping to any conclusions based on just one case to fish or as an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at the director of the elizabeth griffin program at the georgetown university medical center she says this latest development suggests that reinfection impatience can happen that any symptoms being present. it's so it's not so much a mutation as the virus is error prone when it replicates mistakes get introduced into its genome and over time to virus sort of drifts away so that there are distinct families and that's what appears to have happened in

falling steadily in hong kong since peaking late injuly, with just a handful of infections confirmed on monday. ben cowling is a professor at the school of public health at the universityrs are now coming down, down every day. we will get to zero very soon. mass testing could help us to confirm there are no asymptomatic infections left in the community that might still be able to spread the infection around, if we were to relax our social distancing that's been so successful in stopping the current epidemic. 430,000 people, though, have signed up so far. are you saying there's a better alternative? it's really, really expensive to do mass testing. just to test one person for covid is 50 down £50 or more. almost all those tested will be negative, so there must be other good ways to spend billions of pounds. now because we have national security law in place in hong kong, obviously people are very conscious, including you, about what they can and cannot say. but presumably there is a risk about harvesting personal data here, as well? that has been expressed as a risk, but i don't think it's a major problem. for me, the concern about mass testing is the concern about why

chances of being reinfected with coronavirus a slim it comes after a man in hong kong was reinfected coated 94 months after recovering from his 1st bout of the illness scientists at the university of hong kong say the strain that infected him the 2nd time was different to the 1st. so we've heard anecdotal reports every now and then of people who have tested negative been tested positive and it hasn't been clear up until this case whether that was simply a problem with testing whether people weren't getting infected a 2nd time but it's very important to understand what this means in terms of the mukasey and this is why we have got a lot of research groups actually tracking people measuring antibodies trying to understand how long the immune protection lasts the natural immunity protection and that should be understood as it is not the same as the immune protection that a vaccine provides. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a suspect has been arrested after 2 people were shot dead in another night of unrest in the u.s. city of can i show the 17 year old was held in neighboring illinois after the 3rd consecutive night of violence after the police shooting of an unarm

developing news for you, a man in hong kong is now the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time. that's according to new research from the university of hong kong. those findings suggest that some patien patients who will recover from covid-19 may have short-lived reinfection. his symptoms subdued but then he tested positive again four months later. this is after returning to hong kong from spain. he remains asymptomatic. >>> now it's time to get a look at that forecast for you because we have been talking about that. of course the air quality not great right now in the bay area. but we also are looking at lightning strikes. how are we looking with that? >> well, the good news is that our chance of seeing any lightning has diminished for the rest of the day. that storm now pushing to the north. but look at what's left behind. just this horrible air quality. we've had such bad views of the bay area as we get a look at all of this smoke that's trapped in the fog that we had earlier this morning making the air quality really bad. and you really can't see beyond a couple of miles as we look out over toward clayton right now and then over

treating current virus patients at one of the city's main hospitals and is working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully all of vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine it's still in the early stages of development but at least 5 chinese companies are already in phase 3 clinical trials that's the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use by early next year for now hong kong's government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month we've been the only hong kong profitable or trade to be appointed by the whole government for mass community testing so in the past month we've already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the c.e.o. and co-founder of primitives it's one of 5 companies unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters all the other 4 companies all subsidiaries of mainland chinese firms w

in their research paper the team at the university of hong kong says the 2nd infection was a different strain of the virus and that the patient was asymptomatic the study examines how often people who've had covered 19 are immune to new infections and for how long these questions have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work school and social activities as many countries in europe and around the world went into lockdown to slow the spread sweetened went against the tide opting not to confine its population of schools and restaurants remained open in the hope that infected people would become immune thus allowing them to continue their lives as normal and ultimately slowing the spread of the virus. i think. we can be. sweden's infection rate and deaths per 1000000 were soon among the worst in europe. and yet testing showed the country still fell a long way short of the estimated 90 percent which would create herd immunity nor is the rest of the world anywhere close to that. the w.h.o. says that until the world has readily available vaccines the virus wi

the 1st documented case of a patient being reinfected with corona virus has been reported in hong kong researchers at the university of hong kong say a 33 year old man fell sick again months after his 1st bout in march but scientists say he's suffering from a different strain of the virus and unlike the 1st time he didn't have any symptoms researchers have suggested that patients who've recovered from the corona virus are immune to reinfection but antibody levels can fall after a few months the world health organization warns it's important not to jump to conclusions based just on one case julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the elizabeth r. griffin program at the georgetown university medical center joins me now from washington d.c. via skype good to have you with us miss fish on the program reinfection of a former covert 900 patient mean scientists perhaps have to re-evaluate how the virus is transmitted and how susceptible former patients are of reinfection. it does there were former family suggestions that people had been reinfected but the data wasn't

the >>> scientists a that university of hong kong say or claim now they have toeds of someone being reinfectedh the coronavirus. tests show a man returning from hong kong had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he had previously back in march. scientists say his first infection may have helped prevent more serious illness. the case shows we need to keep up with social distancing and other preventive measures. >>> you can see the bay bring or the tip those bay bridge and if you look hard you can see the fog. it's pushing inland so we'll see a robust sea breeze which is helping firefighters and helping with the smoke. san francisco i don't suspect will be smokily tomorrow morning. the it would valleys the smoke is getting trapped. so you're going to notice it in the morning. but it won't be as notable as it has been. fires are dying down and the wind are going to right way for us. the days are going to get better but the air quality alert stays in effect until wednesday. so with that in mind just be prepared. lay off the bike ride and running if you can. the fog on the coast is go

in their research paper the team at the university of hong kong says the 2nd infection was a different strain of the virus and that the patient was asymptomatic the study examines how often people who've had covered 19 are immune to new infections and for how long these questions have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work school and social activities as many countries in europe and around the world went into lockdown to slow the spread sweden went against the tide opting not to confine its population of schools and restaurants remained open in the hope that infected people would become immune thus allowing them to continue their lives as normal and ultimately slowing the spread of the virus. i think people. take a big responsibility. if. we can be outside. sweden's infection rate and deaths per 1000000 were soon among the worst in europe . and yet testing showed the country still fell a long way short of the estimated 90 percent which would create herd immunity nor is the rest of the world anywhere close to that. the w.h.o. says that until the world

he would not go into details of the charges because it is a legal investigation, but he says he has never supported hong kong independence. he says he wants universal suffrage promised under the basic law as an ultimate goal of hong kong. he says he has never given a single penny to a crowdfunding

researchers in hong kong saying they have the first lab tested evidence of a infection of someone getting reinfected with the virus of covid-19. according to the team at the universityong kong, they say a 33-year-old man was reinfected four months after he first contracted the virus. he became sick in march, tested positive august 15th at the airport upon his return from spain with a completely different strain of the virus, strain that was circulating in europe. while he was infected the second time around he did not show any symptoms of the virus. up till now there have been several reports of presumed reinfections of the coronavirus but this reinfection was confirmed in a lab using genomic sequencing. i asked what the greatest take away was. take a listen. >> i think the most important message is even though you have recovered from an infection, doesn't mean you are immunized for life from that virus and also you can see this virus is very smart. it keeps on mutating. so that means that even though you have recovered from an infection, you still need your vaccination and you still need to wear a mask and keep your social distancing. >> reporter: now according to

. >>> scientists at the university of hong kong claim they have evidence of someone being reinfectedh the coronavirus. they say genetic tests show man returning to hong kong from a trip to spain in mid-august had a different strain of the coronavirus than he had back in march. the 33-year-old man had mild symptoms the first time, and none during his second infection. scientists say his first infection may have helped prevent serious illness. experts say the case shows the need to continue social distancing and other prevention measures. >>> some medical experts are now voicing concerns over the fda's decision to authorize the emergency use of plasma therapy on covid-19 patients. they say the treatment is untested and possibly dangerous. >> reporter: the coronavirus outbreak has killed more than 170,000 americans, but there could be help on the way for the most acute cases. president trump announced sunday the fda has given emergency authorization to use plasma therapy on covid patients, but some worry about the lack of clinical trials, pointing out the therapy can have serious side e

the 1st documented case of a patient being reinfected with corona virus has been reported in hong kong researchers at the university of hong kong say a 33 year old man fell sick again 4 months after his 1st bout in march but scientists say he's suffering from a different strain of the virus and unlike his 1st infection the 2nd time around he didn't have any symptoms researchers have suggested that patients who recover from corona virus are immune to reinfection but antibody levels can fall after a few months the world health organization is warning against jumping to conclusions based on just one case jellyfish as an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at the georgetown university medical center she says this latest development suggests re infection in patients can happen without any symptoms being present. it's so it's not so much a mutation as the virus is error prone when it replicates mistakes get introduced into its genome and over time to virus sort of drifts away so that there are distinct families and that's what appears to have happened in this case it appears that he was previously

treating coronavirus patients at one of the city's main hospitals and it's working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully all vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november and the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine it's still in the early stages of development but at least 5 chinese companies are already in phase 3 of clinical trials that's the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use by early next year for now hong kong's government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month we've been not only hong kong profitable or trade to be appointed by the whole government for mass community testing on the past month we've already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the c.e.o. and co-founder of primitives it's one of 5 companies unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters while the other 4 companies also. series of mainland chinese firms wh

stay with us for insights on the impact of hong kong's national security law and the state of press freedom after the arrest of the apple daily founder, universityr sharon cost will be with us on bloomberg markets later. the chief executive of financial advisory has warned a second wave of bankruptcies could be on the horizon. speaking exclusively to liberty, we also discussed the pressure of economies and the tech cold war between the u.s. and china. >> we have been through a massive first wave of restructurings. i think the second wave, which i believe will come, depends on what we were talking about. many of the weaknesses at many companies have been disguised or hidden by very significant government support. as that support is withdrawn or as it is not continued at the same rate, the pressure on many corporate will become more manifest. i personally, unfortunately, think that we will see another significant wave of bankruptcies across corporate america, as that plays out. >> as an investment banker people want to talk to about the work you're doing with corporate clients. but this year alone, lazard has had significant sovereign advisory wor

our next guest is a lecturer at the university of hong kong. we had you a month ago. e seen a lot of activity since then. given what we saw yesterday, same time yesterday same time, we saw police around 200 around the apple daily headquarters. what do the optics tell us about press freedoms now in hong kong moving forward? >> the optics is clear and can't be understated. hong kong is not only -- indiscernible] we witnessed hundreds of police, over 200 police did he sending on the news room coming from dozens of vans coming in to execute a warrant to search the offices of several individuals charged. but thanks to the live reporting of the apple daily reporters on the scene we saw police breaching the terms of that optics nd i think the are important, because you know when the police insist on handcuffing the leader of this walking him in handcuffs, i think what it lays bare is the hollowness of the statements of the hong kong government in the provisions of article 4 which provides for this protection and press freedoms. you can't look at the images in his own news roo

researchers at the university of hong kong say this man contracted the virus back in march, recoveredt a second time. he is said to be young and healthy. so what does this say for anybody else, for you or for me, if we contract covid? from hong kong this morning, the first confirmed case of a patient contracting the coronavirus a second time. doctors report the patient a 33-year-old man was first diagnosed with covid in late march. his condition then required hospitalization, though the case was mild. then four months later reportedly after returning to hong kong from spain, via the united kings d d kingdom, he t positive. on august 15th and was hospitalized but is asymptomatic. the findings suggest that some patient who is recover from covid may have only short-lived immunity from reinfection. but experts say there is no cause for panic and the reinfection is common with other coronaviruses. >> i'm not surprised. i think some people will get reinfected. i don't think everybody's going to get reinfected. we know that people develop certain level of immunity against the virus. how long

listening to the hong kong people's voices and also lead to the case of ships ruling in hong kong so i didn't understand why they some people are saying that this is legit for the universalsuffrage to be screened previously by the beijing government for the candidate and i think most of the hong kong people are only asking for universal suffrage at this moment but this is the promise that the beijing government gave out but didn't keep. i want to thank all our guests isaac chang andrew lang and stephen vines and thank you to you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a j inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here in doha and i. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developed into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the state we provide business growth promote social economic benefits an

people are saying that this is legit for the universal suffrage to be screened previously by the beijing government for the candidate and i think most of the hong kongpeople are only asking for universal suffrage at this moment but this is the promise that the beijing government gave out but didn't keep. i want to thank all of guests isaac chang andrew lang and stephen vines and thank you to you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera adult home and further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a j inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here in doha. rewind returns with a new scenery. and plan updates on the vast amounts of xena's documentaries. that. rewind continues we track by will compel the onion the onion the sweet it's the heart. of the city we're holding on by their fingernails to the 2 state solution today it is still barely possible on al-jazeera a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a

people are saying that this is legit for the universal suffrage to be screened previously by the beijing government for the candidate and i think most of the hong kongpeople are only asking for universal suffrage at this moment but this is the promise that the beijing government gave out but didn't keep. i want to thank all of guests isaac chang andrew lang and stephen vines and thank you to you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a j inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here in doha. 15 years ago an explosion ripped through lebanon's capital killing prime minister graffitti and 21 others now the special tribunal for lebanon in the hague will deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted follow over developments on. the us is the richest country in the world yet it still doesn't have a universal health care system i'll be asking why not to influential republican lani chan som

people are saying that this is legit for the universal suffrage to be screened previously by the beijing government for the candidate and i think most of the hong kongpeople are only asking for universal suffrage at this moment but this is the promise that the beijing government gave out but didn't keep. i want to thank all our guests isaac chang underlying and stephen vines and thank you for watching you can see the program again and it's on by visiting a website does their adult call and further discussion go to all facebook pages facebook dot called forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a j inside story from a iran called and the whole team here in doha. every generation has higher purpose. hours each day. kidnappings and murders in crimea russia's forced an extension of the black sea finnish. i don't understand why. schools of crimea into toss have been arrested. and. most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's dark secret on al-jazeera. context is everything in storytelling around the biggest issues we've done but had to do is do it again. hello there i'm the star and with the h

hong kong. joining us now from pala alto is the director of stanford university's asia health policy program. have you with us. we really appreciate your time. how worrisome is this confirmation of the reinfection of a patient in hong kong? we sort of knew that this was probably likely the case in terms of different strains potentially having the ability to reinfect within a fairly short period of time. but i'm wondering how commonplace you think this will be and what are the implications the vaccine efficacy in that case, as well as herd immunity and antibodies eing something useful to us? >> it is an important additional piece of information to have this case identified and to show that reinfection can take place like this, but it is a single case. there are lots of other factors that need to be taken into account. to think about the broader population health response. so, reinfection we know can take place. whether it will take place and have the same implications for people in other age groups is just one of the many factors that the region and the world has to confront as they continue t

the research comes from the hong kong university school of medicine. full research paper has yet to be published, so some aspects of the case are not yet clear. that is making is in the medical world. security forces in belarus have arrested more prominent opposition members. tensho ofands of people defied the army on sunday to march, demanding theof downfal lukashenko two weeks on from the vote, which is oppon wts say ranked. -- rigged. you are watching "bbc world news america still to come, the man that killed 51 people into mosques appears in court where he faced the survivors and the relatives of the victims. emergency rescue teams are trying to reachozens of people trapped under a residenti building. rescue dogs have all gone to the scene. >> the town where the accident occurred is about 100 miles, or 160 kilometers south of mumbai. ivpolice say it astory residential building and they believe there were aboutfl 45 s and the structure. images of the collapse show corrugateds tin sheat appear to have been on the roof of the structure, lying a midst

of 2006. he faces up to three years in prison. >>> our country's elite universities are bowing to china and its takeover of hong kong. y from the "wall street journal." "the wall street journal" reporting that they found universities including princeton university's, harvard business school, university of pennsylvania are planting things like secret codes in anonymous online chats in an effort to shield chinese students from discussion on politically sensitive topics about china. doing this in the united states. the schools fear that some of their students might be prosecuted by communist china under its new national security law, but not one of them that i'm aware of has said a word in protest of china's takeover of hong kong or its aggression around the globe. joining us tonight is sebastian gorka, host of the salem radio program. america first, author and former strategist to president trump. seb, i don't know, when with we have universities pulling this kind of nonsense, it really does make you wonder what we're in for. >> truly, truly stunning news. it's not bad enough, lou, that we have faculty members, research

he would not go into details of the charges because it is a legal investigation, but he says he has never supported hong kong independence. he says he wants universalomised under the basic law as an ultimate goal of hong kong. he says he has never given a single penny to a crowdfunding website that has generated a lot of money movement and is said to be part of the protest investigation, and he says he to activists. it is an ongoing process. there is no date, he says, for him to show up to the police station where the magistrate right now, but he is definitely under investigation under the national security law. these are unprecedented times here in kong hong kong. francine: stephen engle, thank you very much for joining us. coming up, countries are spending billions on a coronavirus vaccine. novartis is warning that a vaccine on its own is not enough. our interview is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: economics, finance, politics. this is "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua, here in london. the global push to develop a vaccine for covid-19 is accelerating, with pressure creating the world's first for widespread use even before creatin

of 2006. he faces up to three years in prison. our country's elite universities are bowing to china and its takeover of hong kong, this is an incrediblerom the wall street journal. the wall street journal reporting that they found universities including princeton university, harvard business school, university of pennsylvania, are planning things like secret codes and anonymous online chats in an effort to shield chinese students from discussion on politically sensitive topics about china. doing this in the united states. the schools fear that some of their students might be prosecuted by communist china under its new national security law, but not one of them that i'm aware of has said a word in protest of china's takeover of hong kong or its aggression around the globe. breaking news now, former fbi lawyer kevin clinesmith today in federal court, pleading guilty to one felony charge of making a false statement. obama appointed judge james vosberg accepted the plea and set clinesmith's sentencing date for december 10th. he serves as the presider judge of the fisa court that clinesmith defrauded, deceived. we're told the judge was sel

in hong kong sina ma a geriatrician and president of the hong kong public doctors association and in boston matthew fox professor of epidemiology a boston's university school of public health a warm welcome to you all i'd like to begin in boston with you matthew fox we his so much about numbers rising about numbers for ling we has so much about what these numbers might mean whether they're going to have an impact on people's livelihoods on people's lives but what do these numbers actually mean what does it mean when cases go up because 9 months on it seems to me that we don't really have a handle on the statistics it's that's right it's a really complicated to try to understand these numbers by themselves so looking at the number of cases of course important but looking at a number of cases by themselves doesn't really tell us the whole story as cases go up obviously we want to take action to try and mitigate the impact but we also want to look at the percent of people who are testing positive so all the tests that we're doing what proportion of those are tested positive we want to see that number below because that's an indication that we're doing