Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-why-are-the-death-rates-different/a-52941947
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Many of us must be tracking the daily infection and death rates from the coronavirus. You may have noticed, the death rates differ greatly from country to country. Here are some of the main reasons.
Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52068233
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As the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise worldwide, positivity is hard to come by. We are in the throes of a global health crisis that may last weeks, if not months. And yet there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful. As the pandemic has deepened, the worst of the crisis has brought out the best out in humanity.
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A Canadian shipment of emergency supplies to China was uncontroversial — until the virus came here “At the end of the day,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland remarked this week, “the reality of a global pandemic is that it is global.” Three weeks ago, Health Minister Patty Hajdu made a similar argument. “A virus knows no borders,” she said. The coronavirus pandemic is an object lesson in interconnectedness: what started as a problem in one city in China now threatens lives in every country on Earth.
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Additional than 6 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine sulfate donated by the Israeli drug firm Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. have arrived in the U.S. and are at present getting delivered to national wholesalers to be distributed to American hospitals, a spokesperson for Teva verified to Breitbart News. 10 million tablets in complete are slated to arrive in the U.S. in just a month as component of Teva’s donation. The antimalaria drug has been touted by President Donald Trump as a feasible treatment for Chinese coronavirus and industry experts say there is a theoretical foundation that it could have a remedy role. Some doctors who say they have utilized hydroxychloroquine sulfate in conjunction with other remedies have witnessed positive developments in Chinese coronavirus individuals.
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Amid all the controversy over where the coronavirus comes from (don’t you dare call it the “Chinese Virus,” a la “Spanish Flu,” that would be racist, and to be racist is worse than the virus itself) and what should be done about it, a Muslim cleric in Syracuse, NY., has found the key; thousands of people are being infected, many are dying, and America is teetering on the edge of economic collapse because American women are showing too much ankle. Don’t laugh. Laughing would be “Islamophobic,” and Khadar Bin Muhammad, the imam of the Masjid Bilal Ibn Rabah in Syracuse, is not making a joke. In a video posted on YouTube last week and reposted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the learned imam explains it all for us.
Article Link: https://www.dw.com/en/how-vietnam-is-winning-its-war-on-coronavirus/a-52929967
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A densely populated neighbor of China, Vietnam has a weak health care system and a low budget for combating the coronavirus. So how has it managed to keep its COVID-19 infection rate so low?
Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52048195
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Smuggled pangolins have been found to carry viruses closely related to the one sweeping the world. Scientists say the sale of the animals in wildlife markets should be strictly prohibited to minimise the risk of future outbreaks. Pangolins are the most-commonly illegally trafficked mammal, used both as food and in traditional medicine. In research published in the journal Nature, researchers say handling these animals requires “caution”. And they say further surveillance of wild pangolins is needed to understand their role in the risk of future transmission to humans.
Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wildlife-markets-china-coronavirus-pandemic-1.5510045
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The continued existence of wildlife markets, which are considered potential breeding grounds for the spread of harmful viruses, means it’s just a matter of time before the world is hit with another deadly pandemic, some scientists suggest. “If we do not deal with this, there is nothing to say that we could not in eighteen months’ time have another outbreak, and it could be worse,” said Kerry Bowman, an assistant professor and bioethicist at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Scientists believe the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 emerged from one of these wildlife markets — also known as “wet markets” — in the Chinese city of Wuhan, possibly through an infected bat.
Article Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-essential-contruction-1.5510516
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Construction is on Ontario’s list of essential services that can keep operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are growing calls within the sector for a broad industry shutdown, such as the one Quebec instituted this week. Ontario workers on large job sites, unions and contractors who do smaller-scale residential and commercial projects are among the voices saying the province’s definition of essential construction activities is too broad — putting workers and the public at risk.
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The coronavirus pandemic is taking a heavy toll on Bangladesh, which is the world’s second-largest garment exporter. The industry is rapidly losing orders, and millions of jobs are at stake. Bangladesh’s ready-made garments sector accounts for around 80% of the country’s manufacturing income, with at least 4 million workers depending on it. Although the number of COVID-19 cases is not too high in the South Asian country, the pandemic poses a great risk to this sector and the livelihood of garment workers. The country’s garment sector depends hugely on export orders, which have drastically decreased due to the rise of the novel coronavirus cases around the world, including Europe and the US.