COVID-19 Updates
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Angola seeks debt-restructuring deal with China as oil revenue slumps
Angola pioneered the concept of oil-backed loans as an easy way to access Chinese funding for infrastructure development projects, but every time the price of the fuel slumps, the southern…
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Black Lives Matter protests risk spreading Covid-19, says Hancock
The UK health secretary has said there is undoubtedly a risk there will be an increase in coronavirus cases following the Black Lives Matter protests this weekend, while denying Britain…
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There will be no dramatic Covid-19 economic collapse – or rapid recovery, the history of pandemics suggests
Things will never be the same again in a social, economic or maybe even political sense in the wake of the Covid-19 virus, we are often assured. It will be…
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Malaysia will lift coronavirus restrictions this week, PM Muhyiddin Yassin confirms
Malaysia on Sunday said it would reopen nearly all economic activity and allow interstate travel starting June 10, lifting coronavirus restrictions imposed nearly three months ago as it moves to…
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Are we underestimating how many people are resistant to Covid-19?
During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, cities were in general affected worse than smaller conurbations or rural areas. Yet in Italy, Rome was relatively spared while the villages…
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Movement restrictions are not stopping Hong Kong travel agencies from preparing for the return of tourism
The extension of restrictions on movement in and out of Hong Kong has not stopped travel agencies from making preparations for the day when tourism can finally return, while Covid-19…
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After six months of coronavirus, how close are we to defeating it?
Covid-19 has now been afflicting humans for six months – first in China and later in other nations as the virus embarked on its global conquest. The experience has been a…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong private doctors may face legal action if they don’t test suspected Covid-19 patients, expert warns
Hong Kong’s private doctors might face the prospect of legal action if they do not test suspected Covid-19 patients for the deadly virus, a leading infectious disease expert has warned,…
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Health experts on the psychological cost of Covid-19
O n Instagram, a friend posts a photograph of a male nurse in an intensive care ward of an American hospital. He is wearing full protective clothing and holding up…
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Talking with the Patient – A Case Investigator’s Guide to COVID-19
Group Homee.g., Visited my son at his group home about a week after my cruise living room (12 feet x 18 feet) Potluck birthday celebration (singing, laughing, eating, games) Date…