COVID-19 Updates
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As coronavirus fight leans on digital surveillance, beware the risks to civil liberties
The world is now at war with the coronavirus. Nations all around the world have resorted to using digital surveillance to fight the pandemic, but this might require members of…
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Chinese tourists, travel bubbles: how Asia can refloat its battered travel industry
Entrepreneur Catherine Tok typically leaves Singapore for a holiday six to eight times each year, but she believes her days as an avid traveller are over. At least, that is,…
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How to design coronavirus pandemic ‘travel bubbles’? Apec could provide a template
Imagine you are a Japanese organiser of the Olympics, or of the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens, or of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council’s Fashion Week. You are making optimistic…
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35 per cent of people infected with Covid-19 show no symptoms, according to US ‘best estimate’
About a third of people infected with coronavirus in the US are asymptomatic, according to newly released guidance from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.The CDC and the Office…
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Daniel Andrews: Victoria’s dictator, or just a wildly popular, unstoppable political force? | Gay Alcorn
To listen to the more vociferous critics of Daniel Andrews – confined mostly to the Murdoch media and a rogue Victorian Liberal MP – he is a dictator revelling in…
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The pandemic paradox of Vancouver’s Chinese economy: customers are fans of reopening, and social distancing too
Like other restaurants around metro Vancouver – around the world, really – Tom Mah’s Continental Seafood in Richmond has been hurting.All restaurants in British Columbia were ordered closed to dine-in…
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Interim Guidance for Communities of Faith
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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Coronavirus pandemic is hastening the death of the globalised order and the rise of a ‘me first’ world
Not all aspects of our near and medium-term future can be foreseen at this juncture of the coronavirus pandemic, but we know enough to make some hypotheses about what is…
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Coronavirus latest: China reports no new cases for first time, Brazil surpasses Russia
China on Saturday reported zero new coronavirus infections for the first time since it started reporting data in January, a day after Communist Party leaders celebrated “major achievements” in the…
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Hydroxychloroquine: Trump’s Covid-19 ‘cure’ increases deaths, global study finds
Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug Donald Trump is taking to prevent Covid-19, has increased deaths in patients treated with it in hospitals around the world, a study has shown. A major…