COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus lessons: Singapore loses if it separates ‘community’ from migrant workers
Last month, Singapore’s sudden surge in Covid-19 cases made headlines around the world. Such an uptick in a country so well known for its social order has been met with…
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Coronavirus: Venezuelans struggle to educate kids amid pandemic lockdown
María Figueroa often climbs onto the rooftop of her building in Venezuela’s capital clutching a phone and laptop looking for a signal and has paid to run an internet cable…
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Coronavirus crisis: world must unite to put lives first, as in Chilean mine and Thai cave rescues
In August 2010, a cave-in within the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men 700 metres underground. Seventeen days after the accident, a note was found taped to a…
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Long-struggling JC Penney files for bankruptcy as coronavirus crushes hopes for a quick turnaround
J.C. Penney, weighed down by debt and battered by the coronavirus, has filed for bankruptcy. Sales at J.C. Penney have fallen annually since 2016. Its roughly 860-store footprint is less than…
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Why is China resisting an independent inquiry into how the pandemic started?
Beijing is under growing pressure from the United States, Australia and European powers to allow an international inquiry in China into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.Analysts say Beijing has…
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Truckers’ noisy protest expressed frustration with Trump – not support
As Donald Trump spoke to the press in his Rose Garden on Friday, a low hum could be heard from outside the White House grounds. The president said the sound…
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Kyle Bass: Stock valuations ‘make a lot of sense’ if vaccine or treatment found by end of year
Hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass told CNBC on Friday that the stock market’s valuation is sensible, if there’s a vaccine or potential treatment for Covid-19 by the end of 2020. “I hope…
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When will we get haircuts again? Beauty experts weigh in on the future of self care
Rachel Ford Hutman is embracing a more natural style a few months into the pandemic Source: Rachel Ford Hutman Rachel Ford Hutman, a California blonde for years, is now embracing…
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Study finds 44% of U.S. unemployment applicants have been denied or are still waiting
Since early March, over 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment due to the coronavirus crisis, marking the biggest spike in unemployment in U.S. history. In response to these claims,…
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Here’s how 3 women pivoted their small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
Agatha Kulaga, co-founder and CEO of Ovenly Source: Agatha Kulaga There’s no doubt the coronavirus pandemic has hit small businesses hard. For some, like retail and wholesale bakery Ovenly, it…