Pandemic

SHANGHAI — For Shanghai’s biggest annual film party this year, the emphasis is on the party. The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) kicks off Friday with a series of patriotic movies as a tribute to the Communist Party of China ahead of its 100th anniversary next month. Hundreds of…

This story is co-published with Capital & Main A body is moved from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue to a vehicle at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 8, 2020 in New York. Who wasn't counted in the COVID-19 death toll? Bryan…

NEW DELHI: The official death toll in India's devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has crossed 2 lakh. Fatalities recorded since March 1 this year account for nearly three of every five deaths from the virus reported since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. India has reported…

The series, presented by Third Age Barrie Life-Long Learning Association, invited six 'leading lights' to talk about dangers experienced amid pandemic and beyond NEWS RELEASE THIRD AGE BARRIE LIFE-LONG LEARNING ASSOCIATION ************************* This spring, Third Age Barrie (TAB) Life-Long Learning Association invited six leading lights in the fields of climate…

ET INTELLIGENCE GROUP: The latest guidelines on Covid treatment released by the health ministry have made sweeping changes by excluding drugs such as ivermectin, azithromycin, doxycycline, zinc tablets, favipiravir and plasma therapy from the list of approved treatments for Covid patients and recommending extreme caution for the emergency use of…

If 2020 taught us anything, it was that our lives could be turned upside down without warning. In the harshest months of the pandemic, we learned that one has to be prepared for the unpredictable. You have to think a few steps ahead and assess all possible scenarios, even the…

Join us on Tuesday, June 8 at 12 pm PT for the roundtable discussion “Cancel Culture in Comedy: How Far is Too Far?” — a part of TheWrap’s multi-media series “Conversations on Cancel Culture.” During this session comedians Maz Jobrani (“Pandemic Warrior”), Skye Townsend (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”), Matt Rife (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”),…

Given that Apple last year formally announced its plan to ditch Intel for its own ARM-based chips, it’s pretty unlikely that WWDC 2021 will be as momentous an event as WWDC 2020. Still, Apple engineers have been working hard over the last year — through a pandemic, no less —…

KwaZulu-Natal is recording a “concerning rise” in the number of new Covid-19 infections but the province has not yet entered the third wave of the pandemic, according to the latest statistics released by the provincial government. KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala told journalists at a media briefing on Sunday that the…

Updated 5 hours ago · Published on 6 Jun 2021 11:45PM · People queue to cast the ballot at a polling station in Mexico City. – EPA pic, June 6, 2021. MEXICANS began voting today in elections seen as pivotal to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s promised “transformation” of a…