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• Kentucky Civil Response team Hosts Multi-agency Exercise Army News 17 Mar 2023 -- If there were ever an incident at Churchill Downs requiring the specially trained chemical unit of the National Guard, thanks to training done this week, they'd be ready.
• Unidentified Illness Kills Five in Tanzania, Sparks Ebola Fears VOA 17 Mar 2023 -- Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly virus.
• Taiwan reports first domestic H9N2 avian influenza case CNA 17 Mar 2023 -- The first domestic case of H9N2 avian influenza in Taiwan was found at a chicken farm in the outlying county of Kinmen on Thursday, leading to the culling of 4,551 chickens to prevent the spread of the disease, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said Friday.

COVID-19 Pandemic News

China

• WHO urges China to be 'transparent' in sharing COVID-19 data UN News 17 Mar 2023 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to call for China to be 'transparent' in sharing COVID-19 data in efforts to determine the disease's origins, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated on Friday in Geneva.

India

• 6 Indian states advised to increase vigilance amid rising COVID-19 cases People's Daily 17 Mar 2023 -- Amid a significant surge in COVID-19 cases in six states, India's health ministry has advised local governments to take a risk assessment-based approach to prevent and contain the infection from spreading further, officials said Friday.

Taiwan

• Taiwan reports 8,416 new COVID-19 cases, 41 deaths CNA 17 Mar 2023 -- Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Friday reported 8,416 new cases of COVID-19 and 41 deaths from the disease.
• Taiwan to end self-initiated epidemic prevention for migrant workers CNA 17 Mar 2023 -- Migrant workers no longer be forced to stay in individual rooms for seven days upon arrival in Taiwan under new COVID-19 prevention guidelines effective March 20, the Ministry of Labor said Friday.