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The limits of telemedicine: on the rise amid coronavirus pandemic, doctors expect it to continue, but as adjunct to face-to-face consultations
Private medical clinic waiting rooms across Hong Kong have been relatively empty in the past few months as people steer clear of what they see as a potentially dangerous spot…
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No leadership and no plan: is Trump about to fail the US on coronavirus testing?
A broad coalition of US health systems has mobilized to ramp up coronavirus testing in a national effort on a scale not seen since the second world war. But declarations…
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Profit-making airlines are refusing refunds – why do they insist on plundering the people’s pockets?
My teenage son is locked in an unequal struggle with one of the world’s most profitable airlines, and there’s clearly going to be only one winner. He spent the money…
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Coronavirus: celebrity appeals struggle to strike appropriate tone – yet people watch
As the coronavirus pandemic has forced populations worldwide indoors, many celebrities have harnessed their star power to try and raise spirits online, dubbing the illness a great unifier.But expressions of…
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‘We’re modern slaves’: How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war
News of the first Covid-19 death at the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Camilla, south-west Georgia, spread slowly. “It was like they were keeping a secret,” said Tara Williams, a…
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Indians know the Alphonso is the ‘king of mangoes’. If only they could buy some
Madhav Lele is sitting on a stockpile of well-ripened Alphonso mangoes harvested from his two 16-hectare orchards in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. He’s been following a good-natured Twitter…
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‘Let the boats in’: Rohingya refugees plead for stranded relatives to be saved
Rohingya refugees whose relatives, including children, have been stranded for weeks on cramped boats have urged international governments to act before they perish at sea. Two boats carrying around 500…
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‘We needed to do more’: volunteers step up in lockdown Lagos
Twelve friends fill hundreds of carefully arranged aid packages into four cars, then trail through Oniru’s empty streets, past sky-coloured luxury apartment blocks. In what is notionally an affluent suburb…
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Taiwan rewards health minister Chen Shih-chung’s coronavirus success story
There is a saying which has become popular in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic: “If you go clockwise, you will win, if you go anticlockwise, you will lose.” It is…
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Lockdown fatigue in US, Australia as Singapore, Japan stay home, Google data shows
More people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as those countries’ novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and…