COVID-19 Updates
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Dutch and Belgian patients get coronavirus second time after Hong Kong reports world’s first reinfection case
A patient in the Netherlands and another in Belgium have been confirmed as having been reinfected with the coronavirus, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday, citing virologists.The news follows…
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‘No God’: with apocalyptic rhetoric, Republicans stoke fear if Trump loses
Republicans kicked off their national convention on Monday by trying to radically recast US President Donald Trump’s failures in containing the coronavirus pandemic as triumphs and by painting an apocalyptic…
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Is this the end of the road for dollar dominance?
The recent sharp depreciation of the US dollar has led to concerns that it may lose its role as the main global reserve currency. After all, in addition to the…
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Indonesia coronavirus: Isis affiliates wooing new recruits unhappy with pandemic policies, experts say
Indonesian affiliates of Islamic State (Isis) are actively recruiting people during Covid-19 movement restrictions as they look to propagate a caliphate in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, according to…
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam urges opposition to get behind Covid-19 tests, which she says can help kick start city’s economy
Hong Kong’s leader has urged medical experts and opposition activists to stop playing politics with the Covid-19 testing programme, and said the scheme could put the city’s economy back on…
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Evening dine-in services to resume, mask requirement for outdoor exercise to end as Hong Kong records 19 new coronavirus cases
The resumption of nighttime restaurant dining, reopening of cinemas, beauty parlours and some sports venues, and an end to a mask requirement for outdoor exercise were among the relaxed social-distancing…
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COVID-19 Employer Information for Warehousing
Evaluate your workplace to identify scenarios where workers cannot maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet from each other and customers. Use appropriate combinations of controls following the hierarchy…
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COVID-19 Employer Information for Utility Workers
Evaluate your workplace to identify scenarios where workers cannot maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet from each other and/or customers. Use appropriate combinations of controls following the hierarchy…
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What Warehousing Workers Need to Know about COVID-19
Stay home if you are having symptoms of COVID-19. Stay at least 6 feet away from customers and coworkers, when possible. Wear a cloth face covering or mask in public,…
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The kindness of strangers
A sense of dread gnawed at Dr. Rachael Zacks for the first time in her career. She had deployed to many international crisis regions for CDC, but in March, as…