COVID-19 Updates
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Guidance for Cleaning and Disinfecting
CONTINUE ROUTINE CLEANING AND DISINFECTION.Continue or revise your plan based upon appropriate disinfectant and PPE availability. Dirty surfaces should be cleaned with soap and water prior to disinfection. Routinely disinfect…
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What Waste Collectors and Recyclers Need to Know about COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2. Symptoms often include cough, shortness of breath, fever, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, or new loss…
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Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready
This interim guidance is intended for organizers and staff responsible for planning mass gatherings or large community events in the United States. A mass gathering is a planned or spontaneous…
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For Bangkok’s elite, fine dining delivery is the answer to coronavirus lockdown
Gourmet takeaway delivered by a butler in a black sedan – Thailand’s super-rich have not forgone luxury during a pandemic which has locked the country down, crushed the economy and…
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As coronavirus pandemic forced school closures, Thailand raced to widen reach of digital education
The devastation that Covid-19 has wrought upon us all is hard to comprehend. For young people, the unprecedented changes to our way of life will perhaps be the most profound.The…
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Coronavirus has left Hong Kong stroke patients without access to vital rehab
The coronavirus pandemic has hindered the rehabilitation efforts of stroke survivors in Hong Kong.The city confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on January 23 and has since recorded over 1,000…
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Coronavirus in Hong Kong: how e-learning could be a test of some teachers’ integrity
Teachers ought to have absolute awareness of information literacy, holding it to be the most valuable among all our core values, taking the most responsibility for safeguarding it. There is…
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China says don’t politicise the coronavirus pandemic, so why not have Taiwan join the WHO?
By all accounts, it appears the Covid-19 coronavirus started in or near the city of Wuhan in China. As a result, the Communist Party was the first to be forced…
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Hong Kong must guard against overconfidence and parochialism – pitfalls clearly illustrated by US Covid-19 failures
More Americans have died from Covid-19 than during the entire Vietnam war, a grim milestone which coincided with Vietnam’s Liberation Day last week. For Vietnam, it is quite a different…
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State-run China Daily newspaper censors opinion article by European Union ambassadors
China has censored an opinion article in a state-run newspaper co-authored by all European Union ambassadors in Beijing, removing a mention insinuating China as the origin of the coronavirus, the…