COVID-19 Updates
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China’s unemployment crisis shows no signs of easing as graduates face reality check due to coronavirus
One of a record high 8.7 million graduates who entered China’s job market this summer, the next stage of Rita Zhang’s life has started badly.The 23-year-old, who studied cultural industry…
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Heathrow Airport deploys cleaning robots to kill viruses at night
Heathrow Airport is introducing cleaning robots and other measures to try to reduce the risk of virus transmission at the British aviation hub as the country eases travel restrictions.The robots…
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CDC’s Diagnostic Test for COVID-19 Only and Supplies
The CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)–PCR Diagnostic Panel detects the SARS-CoV-2 virus in upper and lower respiratory specimens. It is designed to be used with an…
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Maintaining Essential Services for Malaria in Low-Resource Countries
In 2018, there were about 228 million cases of malaria leading to an estimated 405,000 deaths worldwide; 94%of these deaths occurred in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region [1],…
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Coronavirus latest: Tokyo prepares to lift alert to highest level after nightlife clusters
Tokyo is considering raising its alert for coronavirus infections to the highest of four levels, officials said on Wednesday, after a spike in cases to record numbers in the Japanese…
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Banksy artwork on London Underground promotes face mask usage
The mysterious street artist Banksy has produced a series of rat pictures on the London Underground to advertise the wearing of masks during the coronavirus crisis.Banksy seems to appear on…
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Hong Kong tourism enjoys mini-revival but number of visitors nearly 100 per cent down on last year
Hong Kong tourism enjoyed a mini-revival in June with 80 per cent more visitors than the previous month, but that was still nearly 100 per cent down on 2019.Latest figures…
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China’s ‘daka’ tourists show that post-pandemic travel will be no more meaningful
A post-pandemic utopia – a world in which we address historical wrongs and the systemic oppression that continues because of them, and are consequently kinder to each other and to…
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Thousands of Hongkongers face home financing crunch as flat delivery increases and banks tighten loan scrutiny amid economic slump
Thousands of Hong Kong homebuyers are facing the risk of being shut out of bank financing for flats bought two years ago on a staggered payment plan, as banks have…
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Coronavirus antibodies may not help with cure, after Dutch study sees harmful effect in ICU patients
Antibodies generated by the immune system to neutralise the novel coronavirus could cause severe harm or even kill the patient, according to a study by Dutch scientists.Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is…