Tag: pandemics

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›

• The Post-Pandemic Style

  July 3, 2020

  Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Outside grocery stores, neat yellow marks on concrete sidewalks compose masked… more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›

• ‘Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us’: locked-down Rio faces deadly raids

  May 18, 2020

  Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals wearing a face mask she hoped would keep her… more ›

• ‘This feels great’

  May 18, 2020

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The sky was blue, the sun was rising, and as the death toll from the coronavirus continued to soar across much of America, the fountains switched on… more ›

• Unmasked Ball

  May 17, 2020

  “Password?” a six-foot-tall bouncer asked from underneath the light-blue mask he wore. All around, the streets of downtown Manhattan were deserted—the new normal for New York City nights. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-5-16/unmasked-ball more ›

• Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

  May 17, 2020

  As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized police to beat, threaten, and shoot… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• Nvidia launches Clara Guardian to power smart hospitals with surveillance, sensors, and edge AI

  May 15, 2020

  Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors like cameras to limit the spread of infectious disease and do things like… more ›

• COVID-19: 5 new human truths that experiences need to address

  May 5, 2020

  COVID-19 is the biggest global event—and challenge—of our lifetimes. As such, it is changing human attitudes and behaviors today and forcing organizations to respond. However, the need to respond won’t… more ›