COVID-19 Updates
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About COVID-19
Updated June 16, 2020 Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) A novel coronavirus is a new coronavirus that has not been previously identified. The virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is…
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Open Burning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This document describes the public health risks of agricultural burning and backyard burning (together referred to as open burning), strategies to reduce smoke exposures from open burning during the COVID-19…
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COVIDTracer 1.0
COVIDTracer is a spreadsheet-based tool that allows state- and local-level public health officials and policy makers to compare three different contact tracing/monitoring strategies. The tool allows you to vary estimates…
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US and China regulators reopen some air routes, letting some carriers to fly again as they back off from aviation standoff
Aviation regulators of the United States and China have stepped back from their stand-off to allow each other’s airlines to add flights in the lucrative US-China route, giving stranded carriers…
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‘Danger is real’: why viruses long thought extinct are re-emerging
In 2016, a 12-year-old boy died and more than 70 people were hospitalised in north-eastern Siberia after an outbreak of a bacteria that scientists had long believed was dormant.The culprit:…
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New Zealand reports two new coronavirus cases, its first in 25 days
New Zealand reported two cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, ending a three-and-a-half week spell without any fresh infections, health authorities said.Both the new patients were recent arrivals from the United…
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How demand for medical gloves made Malaysia’s new billionaires
It’s been a good year for glove companies and their founders. Malaysia, a country that produces about 65 per cent of the world’s supply for rubber gloves, now counts at…
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Missing China: Indian expatriates stranded by coronavirus long to return
Indian national Ramashis Das has called Beijing home since 2013. The 36-year-old Microsoft employee works at the US tech giant’s offices in the Chinese capital with his wife Trinisha Basak,…
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Beijing reports new local coronavirus cases as testing at Xinfadi wholesale market continues
The number of new local coronavirus cases in China’s capital has jumped as the city rushes to track the latest outbreak and contain its spread.The city’s health authority said 27…
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Coronavirus cases reach more than 8 million worldwide as outbreak expands in Latin America
Global cases of the novel coronavirus reached over 8 million on Monday, as infections surge in Latin America, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.About 25 per cent of…