Tag - covid-19

 
 

COVID 19

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JAPAN
Jun 15, 2021
Japan to ship 1 million COVID-19 vaccines to Vietnam
Shipments to Vietnam, Taiwan and other Asian neighbors are being made outside of COVAX to speed up delivery.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 15, 2021
Tokyo Olympics may be most profitable ever despite pandemic, NBC says
Though TV viewership has declined during recent games, NBC still makes money — reaping $250 million from the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2021
A top virologist in China, at center of a pandemic storm, speaks out
The virologist, Shi Zhengli, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China's habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.
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BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2021
Europe’s summer of recovery is more fragile than it looks
The story of Portugal's unfolding summer turns out to be a tale of the pandemic's stubborn endurance as the virus undercuts plans to recommence ordinary life.
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WORLD
Jun 15, 2021
Novavax COVID-19 shot highly effective against variants in trial
The company plans to apply for regulatory clearance globally, with much of the first available doses going to low- and middle-income countries.
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WORLD
Jun 15, 2021
Rampant variant derails U.K. plan to lift COVID-19 measures
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushed back his plan to lift coronavirus restrictions by four weeks as a more infectious variant spreads rapidly across the U.K. and threatens to undermine the country’s effort to vaccinate its way out of the pandemic.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 14, 2021
Lionel Messi admits to worrying about contracting COVID-19
Argentina striker Lionel Messi confessed on Sunday that he worries about contracting COVID-19. Messi admitted his fears a day before he kicks off another Copa America with the national side amid a spate of infections among rival teams.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jun 14, 2021
In Japan, families hit by COVID-19 struggle to care for infected children
Some have to rely on food delivery services to survive, while some children are missing school or kindergarten for over a month.
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BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021
After the pandemic, a wave of spending by older consumers
Money managers see huge pent-up demand from wealthy older people for medical services and luxury goods.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2021
Key takeaways from the G7 summit
While the world's response to COVID-19 dominated discussions, leaders appeared to have rediscovered the joy of diplomacy
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 14, 2021
In a crisis, India’s Modi could always change the narrative. Then came COVID-19.
Modi's efforts to squelch dissent and to accentuate the positives may not be able to counter widespread anger over his government's stumbling response to the pandemic.
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BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Jun 14, 2021
Rethinking housing priorities in Japan in the wake of COVID-19
With remote work likely to remain as one of the pandemic's lasting legacies, developers are coming up with innovative new ways of meeting people's expectations toward accommodation and living spaces.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 13, 2021
Mental health during the pandemic: ‘A lot of us feel like we’re in a dark tunnel’
More than one year on, Japan is still subject to pandemic-related stresses and government-imposed measures. How is this impacting long-term mental health?
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 12, 2021
Bruised by border politics, some Biden officials cling to Trump order on migrants
The order enables U.S. officials to rapidly expel migrants at both the southern and northern borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, essentially cutting off access to asylum for most migrants.
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JAPAN / Society
Jun 12, 2021
Japan's older workers have fewer friends but more motivated to work than peers abroad
When asked whether they had close friends other than their family members, 31.3% of Japanese respondents said they did not, as the pandemic curtails social activities.

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