The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in mini
A five-day old test result is useless for someone who is en route to Canada, for example, which requires proof of a negative PCR test administered within 72 hours of takeoff. One reason for the widespread delay in delivering results likely has to do with staffing challenges,experts said. ...
The EU blames its 400 billion euro trade deficit partly on Chinese restrictions on European companies. A "thousand" barriers to market access have propelled the trade deficit to its "highest in the history of mankind", EU Ambassador to China Jorge Toledo lamented at a for...
Although the broad travel restrictions and border controls on the Canada-U.S. border raise a number of novel legal and public policy issues in terms of their necessity, efficacy, and constitutionality, a tradition of judicial deference in cases involving public health measures during a pandemic ...
With an increase in Open and Close, the stock prices of solar enterprises in the United States kept a low level in volatility, while in Canada, Israel, and India, the stock prices of solar enterprises began to rise gradually despite the national COVID-19 pandemic still being severe. ...
The Canadian Muslim COVID-19 Task Force, which is based out of Ontario, was started as a partnership between theCanadian Council of Imamsand theMuslim Medical Association of Canada. Mohammed said the two organizations began reaching out to “small pockets of people” during the...
The contribution of our study is twofold. First, while there have been a number of descriptive and historical studies on the impact of health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, on political stability and social unrest (e.g.,Avetian et al., 2021;Bapat, 2020;Censolo and Morelli, 2020...
No significant changes remained in executive function tasks 1 year after training. These analyses were performed on a subset of tasks that were carried out at the follow-up due to COVID-19 restrictions. No Session-by-Group interaction was found in memory span in the Corsi task (F(1, 228...
Special Note: These past few years have been particularly hard on VPN users in China. WithCOVID-19, Hong Kong protests, the trade wars and other major narratives China wants to control, the Ministry of Information has been particularly harsh. ...
We proxy for governmental social distancing measures using the Stringency Index from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker database (Hale et al., 2021). The Stringency Index codes eight underlying indicators: school closing, workplace closing, restrictions on gathering sizes, cancellation of...