COVID-19 Updates
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As UK lockdowns ease, fears grow of return to pre-pandemic crime and pollution levels
Carbon emissions In a sudden realisation of what climate campaigners have been urging for years, flights were cancelled, vehicle use plummeted and the oil industry found itself in turmoil as…
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Covid-19 scams have become more targeted, sophisticated as pandemic rages on, report says
Phishing scams related to the coronavirus have become more targeted and sophisticated, tapping into people’s intimate concerns about the pandemic despite an overall drop in the number of newly registered…
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Singapore’s food lovers reunite for kaya toast, sushi and hawker fare as coronavirus restrictions ease
Singaporeans headed to restaurants to reunite with lovers and friends on Friday as the city state lifted restrictions on socialising and dining out after more than two months of lockdown.Many…
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How buffet restaurants will have to change post-coronavirus in Hong Kong and beyond
It is one of Hong Kong’s favourite ways to dine, but is there a future for buffets in the city? In the age of Covid-19, do you still want to…
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Suggestions for Youth and Summer Camps
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Food and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The risk of getting COVID-19 from food or food packaging is very low The risk of getting COVID-19 from food you cook yourself or from handling and consuming food from…
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UK scraps its own coronavirus-tracing app to join Apple and Google
The UK abandoned efforts to create its own Covid-19 track-and-trace mobile app and will use Apple and Google technology instead, in a fresh setback for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.After extensive…
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Coronavirus: tables tougher to come by as ‘revenge spending’ drives bookings bounceback at Hong Kong restaurants, insiders say
Buoyed by a “revenge spending” binge by consumers eager to resume normal life, Hong Kong’s battered food and beverage sector has recently seen restaurant bookings rebound to 80 per cent…
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Massive stimulus packages not enough to rescue coronavirus-hit economies
The battlefield terminology of “fiscal bazookas” and “fiscal firepower” used to describe governments’ massive stimulus packages give the impression that big spending alone will lift coronavirus-wracked economies out of their…
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Tokyo lifts all coronavirus restrictions on businesses, seeking to spur economy
Tokyo lifted all restrictions on businesses on Friday amid signs that the coronavirus pandemic is waning in the Japanese capital, although concerns remain over a potential second wave of infections.People…