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South Korea sticks with virus lockdown rollback despite nightclub outbreak
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea health authorities said on Wednesday they had no immediate plans to reinstate strict social distancing rules despite a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the capital of Seoul.
New Wuhan Covid-19 infections show 'silent carriers' remain biggest problem
BEIJING (The Straits Times/ANN): Six new Covid-19 cases, all of whom were local transmissions, have surfaced in Wuhan barely two weeks after the city in central China declared that the last of its patients had been discharged from hospital.
We have become poorer, live with it
UNLESS you're in the trades of selling masks, surgical gloves, ventilators and supplying boxes for food deliveries, you could likely find yourself much poorer, like the rest of us.
Fears for Uganda's zoo animals as cash dwindles in coronavirus lockdown
ENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) - Nyakato, an orphaned baby elephant at a conservation centre in Uganda, wants to play. She flaps her small ears while poking her trunk through the fence towards her keeper.
'Rice ATM' feeds Vietnam's poor amid virus lockdown
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Czech team use easily available parts to build prototype ventilator
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech team have built a ventilator using readily available parts and are planning to produce hundreds of the devices to treat seriously ill coronavirus patients.
Indian female amputee gets hands from male donor; doctors puzzled by change in new limbs' skin colour, size after surgery
NEW DELHI (AFP): When amputee Shreya Siddanagowda was offered new hands, the Indian student didn't hesitate - even though they were big, dark and hairy, and once belonged to a man.
Oh, Dear! Covid-19 interrupting supply chains from watches to lobsters
HONG KONG/SINGAPORE/JAKARTA: A Hong Kong watch maker who can’t get coils or wheels. New Zealand lobsters released back into the wild. A San Diego game studio facing delays to its latest fantasy board games. The coronavirus outbreak that has hobbled China’s economy is increasingly ricocheting through the world economy and supply chains.
Feature: Playing it safe
International Condom Day was on Feb 13, a day before Valentine’s Day. With sex being the main way of HIV transmission, it’s time we take a harder look at using condoms.
Former HK health chief seeks ban on game animal trade
HONG KONG: Former Hong Kong health chief Ko Wing-man plans to submit a motion at the upcoming Two Sessions in Beijing, calling for a ban on the hunting and consumption of game animals in light of the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) epidemic.
