COVID-19 Updates
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Air Travel Toolkit for Airline Partners
If you are traveling on an airplane, take steps to help prevent COVID-19. Avoid close contact with others, wear a cloth face covering, and wash your hands often with soap…
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Discontinuation of Isolation for Persons with COVID -19 Not in Healthcare Settings
The symptom-based, time-based, and test-based strategies may result in different timeframes for discontinuation of isolation post-recovery. For all scenarios outlined above, the decision to discontinue isolation should be made in…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia’s law delay on improving migrant worker housing criticised
Malaysia’s delay in enforcing a law meant to improve the quality of migrant worker lodgings could potentially worsen the spread of the coronavirus, rights groups say, as the country records…
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Drone maker XAG in drive to automate rice farming in China amid labour shortage, Covid-19
The winds of change are set to roar through the farmlands of China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of rice, as drones start to take over planting of the…
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Why the best way to save the economy during the coronavirus crisis is simply to save lives
The narrative during the coronavirus pandemic is strong and pervasive: we must sacrifice either jobs or lives. This debate about the economic and ethical grounds of lockdowns has seemingly polarised…
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Information for Sanitation and Wastewater Workers on COVID-19
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving the CDC website. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. Linking…
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Li Keqiang takes positive steps to China recovery as Hong Kong awaits draft national security law
China is facing an unprecedented challenge as it emerges from a shutdown for a pandemic that continues to depress demand for its products from the rest of the world. It…
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Coronavirus paves way for online IPOs
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way many companies conduct business – with some practices, perhaps permanently. Among these are paperless initial public offerings and e-roadshows. Hong Kong has been…
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Coronavirus latest: China reports no new cases, Donald Trump finally marks ‘sad milestone’ of 100,000 US deaths
China reported no new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland as of the end of May 28, down from two a day earlier, the country’s health authority said on Friday.The…