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Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society
The government has refused to impose quarantines and is encouraging people to visit the city of Qom, the center of the outbreak.
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A government whistleblower alleges US health workers treated coronavirus evacuees without proper protective gear or training
A whistleblower from the Department of Health and Human Services has alleged that the US sent more than a dozen government workers to assist Americans who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, without giving them proper training or protective gear, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported on Thursday. The whistleblower is a senior HHS official based in Washington, DC, and oversees employees at the Administration for Children and Families unit within the federal agency, according to The Post and The Times.
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China pollution clears amid coronavirus slowdown
Satellite images have shown a dramatic decline in pollution levels over China, which is "at least partly" due to an economic slowdown prompted by the coronavirus, US space agency Nasa says. Nasa maps show falling levels of nitrogen dioxide this year. It comes amid record declines in China's factory activity as manufacturers stop work in a bid to contain coronavirus.
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Kim warns of 'serious consequences' if virus reaches North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned top party officials of the "serious consequences" of failing to prevent an outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country, state media reported Saturday. The impoverished nation, with a weak and ill-equipped healthcare system, has closed its borders to prevent the spread of the disease into its territory.
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Apple Sends Care Packages to Employees Stranded in China's Wenzhou City and Hubei Province by Coronavirus
Apple has sent gift packages that include an iPad, face masks, hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, and more, to its employees stranded in Wenzhou and Hubei due to the coronavirus, according to details shared on Chinese social network Weibo.
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Coronavirus: Healthcare Workers, Vaccines, & Science Update | Dr. Peter Hotez
Healthcare workers are especially at risk during this coronavirus outbreak, and here's a world expert on how we can prepare, not panic.
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People in China are walking through these giant disinfectant machines to ward off the coronavirus — but experts don't think it works
The coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people. The outbreak has driven a demand for medical disinfectants in China.
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Bill Gates: Coronavirus may be 'once-in-a-century pathogen we've been worried about'
"I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise," Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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The Gig Economy Has Never Been Tested by a Pandemic
Companies such as Uber and Instacart have transformed the urban experience, but would they hold up if the coronavirus spread across America?
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics closes mobile device plant after coronavirus case confirmed: Yonhap
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and LG Innotek (011070.KS) have shut their factories in South Korea after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, the companies said on Sunday. Samsung’s mobile device factory in Gumi, close to Daegu, where most of the South Korean virus cases have been confirmed, will be closed until Sunday evening for disinfection work while the floor where the infected employee worked will reopen on Tuesday afternoon, a company statement said.
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S Korea sect leader faces coronavirus murder probe
The leader of a religious sect in South Korea could face a homicide investigation over some of the country's coronavirus deaths. The city government of the capital Seoul has asked prosecutors to charge Lee Man-hee, the founder of the Shincheonji Church, and 11 others. They are accused of hiding the names of some members as officials tried to track patients before the virus spread.
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A made-in-Canada solution to the coronavirus outbreak? - Macleans.ca
The best hope for an antiviral drug may come from Michel Chrétien's Montreal lab
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If Coronavirus Takes Hold In U.S., It Will Be More Than A Retail Apocalypse—It’ll Be Armageddon
This week a new phrase – social distancing measures – entered our lexicon. Introduced by Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, she described “social distancing measures” as part of standard protocol to limit “community spread” of disease in the case of a pandemic, which the coronavirus (officially COVID-19) has not yet reached but threatens to do so.
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Covid-19 is teaching hard lessons about China-only supply chains
Until about the third week of January, only a few pharmaceutical executives, drug-safety inspectors and dogged China hawks cared that a large share of the world’s supply of antibiotics depends on a handful of Chinese factories. These include a cluster in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of windswept deserts, grasslands and unlovely industrial towns. Then came the covid-19 outbreak, and quarantine controls that locked down factories, ports and whole cities across China.
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Coronavirus May Have Spread in U.S. for Weeks, Gene Sequencing Suggests
Two cases detected weeks apart in Washington State had genetic links, suggesting that many more people in the area may be infected.
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World in 'uncharted territory' on coronavirus
The World Health Organization says the virus is "unique" but stresses it can still be contained.
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Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus, goes online-only
Google today announced that it is canceling the physical part of Cloud Next, its cloud-focused event and its largest annual conference by far with around 30,000 attendees, over concerns around the current spread of COVID-19.
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Paper device could bring portable coronavirus detection, but funding bars production
Only a select number of state and local laboratories have permission from U.S. health officials to use diagnostic tests for COVID-19, a coronavirus-caused disease. If the virus is spreading nationwide, most communities do not have access to the necessary tests.
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Twitter told its 5,000 employees to work from home because of the coronavirus
Twitter is encouraging its more than 4,800 employees around the world to work from home in response to the spread of the coronavirus. It’s one of the most drastic steps taken by any tech company so far in response to the outbreak.
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Twitter Tells Employees to Work From Home As Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs
Twitter has announced that employees are encouraged to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of a novel coronavirus that has infected at least 105 people in 15 states and killed six people in the U.S. The San Francisco-based social media company is believed to be the first major U.S. firm to announce a work-from-home policy as companies around the world enact new plans to fight COVID-19.
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