The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many companies to secure COVID-19 screening systems for use on their premises to identify potentially infected employees and to safeguard those who are not infected. However, it seems some American companies are sourcing such equipment from Chinese manufacturers that are known to be linked to human rights abuses against Uyghur ...
The COVID-19 outbreak has put many people under financial pressure. Since financial institutions have tightened lending, people are unable to get credit to make it through these difficult times. However, the shadow banking (informal lending) industry in China has seen remarkable growth in the first quarter of this year, according to a report by credit ...
The cancellation of exams this year in favor of teacher-predicted grades has had a “significantly detrimental” impact on many home-educated children, who are not able to gain qualifications this summer, a study warns. Home-educated children sit exams as independent candidates and have been left without a suitable substitute, as exam boards rely on schools to ...
Duke physician Eric Westman was one of the first champions of masking as a means to curtail the spread of COVID-19, working with a local non-profit to provide free masks to at-risk and under-served populations in the greater Durham community. But he needed to know whether the virus-blocking claims mask suppliers made were true, to assure he ...
India has pledged to bring almost a third of its land area under green cover by 2030. As part of this goal, several tree-planting projects are being undertaken. The COVID-19 outbreak has not dampened the spirit of such efforts. Recently, the state of Uttar Pradesh saw 2 million people trying to plant 250 million trees. ...
COVID-19 has led to a global economic slowdown that is affecting all four pillars of food security — availability, access, utilization, and stability — according to a new article from researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), published in the journal Science. Agricultural and food markets are facing continuous disruptions due to labor ...
Floods have affected over 54 million people in China and caused damage to the tune of US$20 billion. Rather than comforting the citizens in their worst times, the authorities seem to have decided that silence is the best way to deal with the flood victims. This could easily be categorized as one of the worst ...
The following is an excerpt from a recent travel experience in Taiwan. Today, we came to Baishawan, one of the most beautiful beaches north of Taipei. We came here with Dewin from Honduras and Pauline from Belgium. A lot of families, a lot of people. Taiwan, despite being almost 200 km away from the Chinese ...
There are basically four blood groups among humans – A, B, AB, and O. Many studies have posited that blood groups might affect how vulnerable we are to diseases like cancer. After the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been speculation that people with certain blood types might be more at risk of being infected than others. ...
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 — was officially a global pandemic. In the four months since then, we’ve experienced lockdown, quarantine, toilet paper shortages, and general panic. With no cure or vaccine forthcoming, stopping the spread by keeping our ...
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