Devex tracks all the developments related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.By Jenny Lei Ravelo, Sara Jerving On Dec. 31, 2019, Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China, with an unknown cause. What started as a mystery...
It will also provide a job retention scheme to pay 80% of wages for those who cannot work due to the pandemic. Syria bans visitors –Syria banned entry of visitors from multiple countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The government said that the cases in the nation remain zero....
Coronavirus pandemic: A time for reflectiondoi:10.1038/s41404-020-0387-7David WestgarthBDJ In Practice
The World Health Organization has finally labeled COVID-19 as a pandemic, but does it change anything or is it just semantics?
The coronavirus pandemic (新冠疫情) has brought with it the rise of a new kind of single-use plastic in the form of personal protective equipment (PPE), like face masks and gloves. Experts warned that these sharply increasing single-use items could cause a new wave of plastic pollution and...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the latest episode in a string of environment-borne human tragedies, disastrous in its weight, reach, and results. We believe that the current pandemic, the following lockdown, and the post lockdown bustle to return to normalcy will have vi...
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of borders, limited travel and kept families apart across the world. It’s also created a unique problem for the surrogacy industry, leaving foreign parents unable to unite with their newborn babies. One facility in Southern California...
Column: ‘Pandemic,’ a Little-known Poet’s Poem About the Coronavirus, Goes Viral by Mary Schmich, March 13, 2020, chicagotribune.com https://tinyurl.com/rksg35r On Wednesday afternoon, Lynn Ungar — minister, dog trainer, little-known poet — sat down at the desk next to her kitchen...
Lessons from the 1656 Neapolitan Plague:Something to Learn for the Current Coronavirus Pandemic? In the spring of 1656, an epidemic of bubonic plague suddenly fell on Naples, the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The epidemic had put a strain... M Bifulco,S Pisanti,I Fusco - ...
The coronavirus pandemic and the threat of a national lockdown have caused some people to buy essential supplies ___ until there’s ___ on grocery store shelves for anyone else. Not only is it ___ and inconsiderate, it also affects the age group that is most sensitive to the virus:...