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[Link] Last Year, COVID Racism Came for Wet Markets. Now, Prada Is Trying to Make Them Cool.
Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com
Wet markets—the type of marketplace at the center of a debate on how the COVID-19 pandemic started—are now the subject of a high fashion takeover, in a campaign that challenges stereotypes of such markets as dirty alleyways and breeding ground for pathogens.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] China reports highest number of Covid cases since January
Read: 21/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
China has reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infections in southwestern Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar.
[Link] WHO chief says push to discount lab leak theory was ‘premature’
Read: 16/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The head of the World Health Organization has acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and said he was asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.
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[Link] Sydney's coronavirus outbreak is moving from east to west and starting to look like Melbourne's second wave
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Authorities are bracing for coronavirus cases to potentially grow in areas of Sydney where it may have an easier time spreading. The race is on to nip increasing numbers of cases in Western Sydney in the bud, with failure to do so likely to prolong this outbreak.
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[Link] 'Mental health is deteriorating': Farmers beg for exemption for overseas harvest workers
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
For the second year in a row COVID-19 is causing headaches for grain farmers, who are begging the Federal and state governments to allow them to bring in overseas machinery drivers for this year's harvest.
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[Link] Tokyo Olympics: poll shows 60% of Japanese people want Games cancelled
Read: 10/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
Preparations for Tokyo Olympics have suffered another setback after a poll found that nearly 60% of people in Japan want them to be cancelled, less than three months before the Games are due to open.
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[Link] Colombia Police Respond to Protests With Bullets, and Death Toll Mounts
Read: 6/5/2021 www.nytimes.com
The eruption of anger in Colombia, where at least 24 have died as the government cracks down on the protests, could spread to other countries in the region that share the same combustible conditions. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A teenager shot to death after kicking a police officer.
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