IF people do not take COVID-19 seriously, we will shut down the entire towns and cities. This was the stern warning from Health Ministry permanent secretary Dr James Fong at a media conference in Suva yesterday. “When we detect a case, the ministry will act decisively to handle it,” h...
The impact of COVID-19 shutdowns became harder to see during the transition from the spring to summer months of 2020. In particular, the diurnal cycle of the total load in July 2020 was indistinguishable from previous years (Fig. 4d). There are a few likely reasons why this is happening...
In early February 2020, with the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China, we decided to investigate the impact on the relationships between the variables. Thus, after the COVID-19 shutdowns started in China in early 2020, we commenced the third wave of our survey with the 250 SMEs from which...
Over the past eight months, the industry has changed dramatically. At the start of the pandemic, a months-long moratorium imposed by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), an industry lobbying group, shut production down immediately, causing widespread panic within the industry. At the time, insiders ...
But Zoox dismissed those claims as the result of miscommunication, and promised to continue to pay workers until April 7th — assuming they would be going back to work after that. The pandemic-imposed shutdown has continued unabated, so the company instead opted to lay off those workers. ...
Other countries like the UAE, the UK, and US are at around 19%, 6%, and 4% respectively. Since these countries are largely vaccinating the most vulnerable people first, we should start to see declines in the death rates in the coming weeks here, too. ...
Europe is struggling with surging new numbers, even in Sweden, and in the UK, the West End, which was starting to reopen, is shut down again. The latest: It's official: The FDA approves the Pfizer vaccine: tinyurl.com/yxpbg4r5. The US vaccine rollout begins, despite considerable ...
Businesses that simply can’t afford a lengthy closure equate worksite testing to an insurance policy. Regular testing helps mitigate the risk of revenue loss associated with a COVID-19 shutdown. Early in the pandemic, many food processing operations shuttered for weeks due to COVID-19 spread ...
on the safe operation of process plants, including risks of shutdown and start-up under pandemic conditions, re-purposing process plants for responses to pandemics, cross-fertilization from different industrial sectors and trans-disciplinary approaches to personnel and process safety. Relevant researc...
COVID-19School Start TimeSleep HealthObjective: During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, high schools closed or transitioned to remote teaching. The aim of this study was to describe how the COVID-19 related school shutdown impacted the sleep behaviors of typically developing ...