Given a paragraph, generate a claim that is supported by the given paragraph. 1) The claim must contain information from within the paragraph. 2) A sentence within the paragraph can be used as a claim. 3) The claim should not have contradictions within the paragraph. 4) The claim should be at most one sentence long.
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Question: The shutdown began in late March in the Pacific nation of about 5 million, and a state of national emergency was declared to stifle local transmissions of the respiratory disease. “No one goes home, everyone goes into a managed facility,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, adding that 14 days spent in a government-approved facility would be a prerequisite for all foreign travellers. “Even one person slipping through the cracks and bringing the virus in can see an explosion in cases, as we have observed with some of our bigger clusters,” she told a media briefing in Wellington on Thursday. Ardern added that her cabinet would decide whether to extend the nationwide curbs on April 20, two days before the lockdown is set to end. The lockdown has reduced domestic transmissions, authorities said, with a steady fall this week in the daily rise in infections. The tally of infections rose by 29 to stand at 1,239 on Thursday, for the lowest daily rise since March 21, a sign the epidemic could be on the retreat since the lockdown began 15 days ago. Overnight, 35 people were declared to have recovered. New Zealand, like neighbouring Australia, has fewer infections than many countries and the pace of infections in both nations has slowed dramatically in the past week. Despite some signs of a plateau in infections, the government said it had no plans to relax the curbs over the Easter weekend and warned of hefty fines for non-essential travel then. Police will step up activity around holiday spots during the Easter holidays, authorities said, with some roadblocks planned. Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: open tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser.

Answer: New Zealand orders quarantine for returning citizens in coronavirus battle.


Question: In a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers analyzed comedians from Australia, Britain and the United States and found they scored significantly higher on four types of psychotic characteristics compared to a control group of people who had non-creative jobs. The traits included a tendency towards impulsive or anti-social behavior, and a tendency to avoid intimacy. “The creative elements needed to produce humor are strikingly similar to those characterizing the cognitive style of people with psychosis - both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder,” said Gordon Claridge of the University of Oxford’s department of experimental psychology, who led the study. Although the traits in question are known as “psychotic”, Claridge said, they can also represent healthy equivalents of features such as moodiness, social introversion and the tendency to lateral thinking. “Although schizophrenic psychosis itself can be detrimental to humor, in its lesser form it can increase people’s ability to associate odd or unusual things or to think ‘outside the box’,” he said. “Equally, manic thinking - which is common in people with bipolar disorder - may help people combine ideas to form new, original and humorous connections.”  The researchers recruited 523 comedians - 404 men and 119 women - and asked them to complete an online questionnaire designed to measure psychotic traits in healthy people. The traits scored were “unusual experiences”, such as belief in telepathy and paranormal events, “cognitive disorganization” such as difficulty in focusing thoughts, “introvertive anhedonia” - reduced ability to feel social and physical pleasure, and “impulsive non-conformity”, or tendency towards impulsive, antisocial behavior. The same questionnaire was also completed by 364 actors - who are also used to performing in front of an audience - as a control group, and the comedians’ and actors’ results were compared to each other as well as a general group of 831 people who had non-creative jobs. The researchers found that comedians scored significantly higher on all four types of psychotic personality traits compared to the general group. Most striking were their high scores for impulsive non-conformity and introverted personality traits, the researchers said. The actors scored higher than the general group on three types - but did not display high levels of introverted personality traits.

Answer: Comedians have psychotic personality traits, study finds.


Question: A locally made generic version of Efavirenz, one of 17  drugs in the cocktail used by HIV patients, should be approved  and ready for use in Brazil’s widely acclaimed AIDS treatment  program by early next year, the Health Ministry said. “It’s a historical mark for Brazil’s pharmaceutical  industry and Brazil’s public health,” Health Minister Jose  Temporao said at a news conference in Brasilia, the capital. “This could be the basis for future innovative initiatives  by (Brazil) in this field.”    Brazil, which provides free treatment to all AIDS patients,  declared Efavirenz in the public interest in 2007. That allowed  it to invoke a clause in World Trade Organization rules and  sidestep a patent held by U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co  Inc. Since then, Brazil has been importing a generic version of  the drug made in India, helping it cut costs significantly. Efavirenz now accounts for 4 percent of the Health Ministry’s  AIDS drug budget, down from 11 percent in 2006. The cost of the Brazilian generic still has not been  determined but Temporao said it would be well below Merck’s  price and close to what the ministry pays for Indian generics. About 80,000 of the 200,000 Brazilian HIV patients take  Efavirenz as part of their treatment. Brazil has a long history of butting heads with foreign  pharmaceutical giants, often threatening to break patents if  they refuse to lower prices on AIDS drugs. Earlier this month,  Brazil rejected a patent request for another AIDS drug made by  U.S.-based Gilead Sciences Inc, citing public health concerns. “What we want is that Brazil is treated and seen in a  strategic way by the industry,” Temporao said. After climbing in the 1990s, Brazil’s HIV infection rate  has steadied at around 0.5 percent and the number of new cases  and deaths have been declining. Experts attribute the success  to the government’s promotion of condoms, free treatment, and  the use of generic drugs.

Answer:
Brazil to make generic version of key AIDS drug.