Pandemic

Pandemic spending this year is expected to hike Canada’s combined federal and provincial debt to $2 trillion, double the $1 trillion debt in 2007-08, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute. The figures, adjusted for inflation, mean that in the current fiscal year, Canada’ combined debt will equal…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A patient is carried to the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Cascais Hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Cascais LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal reported close to half of all its COVID-19 deaths in January, highlighting the severe worsening of the pandemic in a…

LONDON: The UAE on Sunday recorded less than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since Jan. 12. The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) said there had been 2,948 new coronavirus infections and 12 deaths in the previous 24 hours. The figures represented a marked drop from the…

A year after the pandemic began in China, it is largely under control. But the government is deploying aggressive containment measures to keep it that way, writes Yvonne Murray in Beijing. The man, masked and behind a face shield, told me to scan the track-and-trace code with my mobile phone.…

KUALA LUMPUR: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Malaysian Endocrine and Metabolic Society (MEMS) with support from the Ministry of Health (MOH) is planning to organise virtual webinars instead of traditional face-to-face roadshows to reach healthcare professionals throughout the country to expand the reach of the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)…

In this extract from Brian Pottinger’s book, ‘ States of Panic: Covid-19 and the New Medieval’, Pottinger looks back at the 2009 outbreak of Swine Flu. He draws parallels between the global reactions to the two diseases and what spurred the panic on both occasions. Pottinger uses hindsight to evaluate…

Tool uses electromagnetic energy to help study inactivation of aerosolized viral particles and reduce the spread of infection. As the pandemic has continued to spread globally, studies indicate the COVID-19 virus may be contained in aerosols that can be generated and spread through breathing, coughing, sneezing, or talking by infected…

One certainty during a pandemic is that the virus will mutate. SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is no different. But how concerned should we be about the new variants of the virus that are arising in places such as the UK, South Africa and Brazil? Are they more lethal or more…

Azmyl Yunor Updated 5 hours ago · Published on 29 Jan 2021 12:00PM · Mohd Amin Mat Nor, a classified B1 (completely blind) busker around Kuala Lumpur, whose income is hit during the MCO. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, January 29, 2021. WHEN people find out…

Synopsis According to the survey by Canada-based information management solutions company OpenText, the data suggested that this "information overload" is significantly impacting both personal and professional lives.BENGALURU: About 44 per cent of Indians feel that "information overload" has intensified during the pandemic and escalated their daily stress, a new survey…