Thursday, April 23, 2020

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I call my mother on WhatsApp, but my father on Viber. My niece suggested a chat on Houseparty, so I and my nephews...
Posted by Manjushree Thapa on Thursday, April 23, 2020

Coronavirus City: 21% of New York City is infected. Random test. Only a matter of time and the entire city will be...
Posted by R Benson Evans on Thursday, April 23, 2020




Outbreak began earlier in US California health officials identifying a fatality on Feb. 6 — weeks before the first death was thought to have occurred at a Washington nursing home. ..... Testing in New York City, meanwhile, indicated that one out of every five people had antibodies for the virus, meaning many times more people than previously thought were infected. .......... Midwestern meat processing plants and factories are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, even as cases moderate in coastal areas. ........ A second wave of coronavirus infections could overlap with the start of flu season next winter, increasing the burden on health care facilities

White-collar jobs not in the clear The job losses that began in the restaurant, hotel and factory sector are making their way into white-collar offices of America. Analysts and engineers — many who have never had to apply for unemployment assistance before — are getting laid off. Bloomberg reports companies originally in the clear have seen dwindling revenue and profits, "triggering a second round of job cuts or furloughs, with office workers taking a bigger hit this time." According to a recent Gallup poll, a record-high 25% of working Americans believe they are likely to be laid off in the next year.

Street by street, home by home: how China used social controls to tame an epidemic Neighbourhood monitoring system is at the heart of restrictions imposed ‘at the expense of public autonomy and vitality’ ..... Chinese city has eased restrictions, but measures remain in place for community ‘cells’

In the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis, India could emerge as the power behind the global growth engine The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a backlash against globalisation, which ignores its huge contribution to global GDP and poverty reduction ...... While China, with its dynamic supply chain, labour pool and support systems for manufacturing, powered global growth after the 2008 financial crisis, India could do the same for services

The world is waking up to the risks of relying on China for its critical medical supplies For the US and Europe, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted China’s dominance in critical medical supplies. ......The reliance is now an issue of national security and geopolitical risk, with more countries seeing it as an imperative to decouple and diversify away from China

Australia wants international probe into coronavirus origins, prompting backlash from China Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed an investigation during phone calls with other leaders overnight ....... ‘Certain Australian politicians are keen to parrot what those Americans have asserted and simply follow them in staging political attacks on China,’ embassy statement said

Why is an oil price plunge not being celebrated by China, the world’s biggest crude buyer? China relies on imports for over 70 per cent of its domestic oil consumption, but lower prices represent a big challenge for its own oil production and investments ....... Low prices also do not directly translate into cheaper petrol and fuel bills for consumers due to Beijing’s strict control of domestic energy prices

Medical experts have a plan to prevent next epidemic – it’s called ‘One Health’ Health groups have already learned lessons from previous outbreaks involving animals ...... But approach requires more collaboration between disciplines and across governments ........

a public health strategy that recognises the growing threat from new animal viruses is linked to human economic expansion

and taps the combined expertise of livestock and wildlife veterinary surgeons, conservationists and ecologists, along with medical doctors and researchers, to tackle it. ........... reduce human destruction of forests, which is thought to have driven more virus-carrying bats into orchards ........ “People recognised the interconnection between what’s happening in the ecosystem – land use change, agriculture intensification, and climate changes at the time – and how those all occurred at the same time, and what arises from that is something that’s very explosive” ....... The One Health approach, based on

the idea that human, animal and environmental health are interrelated

, has gained traction in the past two decades ............. the approach demands that different fields of expertise and government departments work together, which can result in bottlenecks caused by politics and bureaucracy ........... recognising, managing and monitoring the risks that have caused infectious diseases to emerge from wildlife at an unprecedented rate in recent decades. .......... changes in how people use land, like forests being ploughed into farmland; suburbs and cities spreading into rural areas; the increasing scale of the livestock industry and a booming wildlife trade – activities that drive increased contact between people and animals. ............... a number of disease outbreaks that followed Nipah virus: West Nile virus in New York City, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in southeastern China, and avian flu across East and Southeast Asia. ....... the current pandemic, likely caused by contact between humans and animals through the wildlife trade, and these same issues of human, animal and environmental health are at play. ......... the sanitation and hygiene in so-called wet markets, where live and butchered wild animals and poultry are crammed next to each other, creating prime opportunity for the viruses they carry to combine, mutate and jump to people. ........ China’s massive animal breeding farms. .......

The coronavirus pandemic has triggered calls from scientists around the world to ban the trade of wildlife in wet markets.

............. these intersections between human, animal and environmental health ........ problems often arise at government levels when bureaucrats focus on protecting their own turf. ........ “What [One Health] requires is linkages between government departments, and they never like that – they each have their own budgets and different power structures,” Dirk Pfeiffer, a professor of One Health at Hong Kong’s City University, said.

“If you look around the world, you will see very few examples of integration.”

........... most countries had “inadequate mechanisms” in place for collaboration among animal health, public health and environment sectors. .........

Wild animals account for about 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases in recent decades

............... as the world looks to prevent future pandemics, strategies must take into account not only human, environmental and animal health, but the economic and social factors that influence them ........ “planetary health”, a more recent concept stressing recognition of linkages between environmental change and public health ......... The impetus to change and better manage the human behaviour that drives this risk could be the “painful silver lining to the Covid-19 outbreak”, he said. “If we can’t change course now, given the circumstances we find ourselves in, I don’t know if we ever will.”

Coronavirus study points to vast number of cases under the radar in China Researchers in Hong Kong find that Covid-19 definitions make big differences to the pandemic’s bigger picture ...... Mainland China might have had four times as many infections as official total if broader criteria used, team says

Rise in coronavirus cases brings to light Singaporeans’ racist attitudes towards foreign workers The spread of the virus among its migrant workers living in cramped conditions has touched off a wave of blame and scapegoating in society, never mind that Singapore owes its success to this huge low-paid workforce providing many essential services

‘ठीक टाइममा अस्पताल गएकाले बाँचेर फर्केर आएँ’ : न्युयोर्कका नेपाली डाक्टर विनोद शाह



NYC: 1 in 5 residents infected with coronavirus, says Cuomo
Coronavirus: One virus caused Covid-19. Scientists say thousands more are in waiting Coronavirus has forced changes on all levels of society, and shown how being able to ship goods and people around the world in 24 hours helps viruses spread ....... The second part of our series on lessons learned from the pandemic looks at the importance of identifying new viruses and the risks of them infecting humans

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