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COVID 19

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 6, 2021
A global recovery’s leading variables
Questions remain whether the EU and the U.S. will enact recovery programs of the magnitude needed to restore the global economy, and if the developing world will get the support it needs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 6, 2021
The post-truth pandemic
Scientific “facts,” even when generated and published in good faith, immediately are run through an ideological meat grinder and beaten into a political mold.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Explainer
Jan 6, 2021
Legal revisions would add weight to Japan's COVID-19 response
Levying fines on businesses if they don't shut down or reduce their hours of operation runs the risk of a political backlash against the government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jan 5, 2021
Imminent second state of emergency for Tokyo area could lack teeth
Nearly all efforts by Japan's central government to curb the spread of the virus in the nation depend on the voluntary compliance of its people.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2021
It doesn’t take a dictatorship to defeat COVID-19
We mustn't be seduced by the authoritarian temptation. Defeating COVID-19 will take a collective effort, one that demands leadership and individual responsibility.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 5, 2021
A post-COVID labor revival?
As millions of people actively seek work in 2021, many will find that employers increasingly have the upper hand, particularly in the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 5, 2021
A new ‘Year Zero’
While COVID-19 delivered the final blow, it has been clear for at least two decades that the postwar model is no longer sustainable, environmentally or socially.
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TENNIS
Jan 5, 2021
Australian Open players to be shifted to new quarantine hotel
Australian Open organizers have been forced to tear up a quarantine accommodation plan for international players a month before the Grand Slam following a threat of legal action from apartment owners at a luxury hotel in Melbourne.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 4, 2021
Australian Open faces legal challenge over quarantine plans
Apartment owners on the premises of a luxury Melbourne hotel are seeking to quash plans by Australian Open organizers to use the hotel to quarantine players ahead of the Grand Slam.
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WORLD
Jan 4, 2021
U.K. touts progress against COVID-19 as it rolls out AstraZeneca vaccine
Britain began vaccinating its population on Monday with the COVID-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, touting its position as the first Western country to roll out an inoculation program against the novel coronavirus.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 4, 2021
South Korea reviews AstraZeneca vaccine and expands ban on gatherings
South Korea is reviewing AstraZeneca's request for approval of its coronavirus vaccine, as it expands a ban on private gatherings of more than four people to the whole country with daily cases topping more than 1,000 in four days.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2021
The pandemic doesn’t have to hurt women most
Women make up a larger share of workers in industries that ground to a halt, and they typically shoulder more of the unpaid labor at home.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 4, 2021
2020 just the start of a testing decade
The gap between Wall Street and Main Street has widened, reflecting a K-shaped recovery in the real economy. The pandemic is thus sowing the seeds for more social unrest in 2021.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 4, 2021
COVID-19 generates a quiet financial crisis
In addition to virus-related trends, a quieter crisis is gaining momentum in the financial sector. Even without a Lehman moment, it could jeopardize prospects for recovery for years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2021
Another body blow for the frequent-flyer class
There will have been about 6 million fewer European flights in 2020 compared with 2019, according to air traffic management organization Eurocontrol. That's a 55% decline.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2021
Whose post-pandemic century?
Asia's worst performers (in public-health terms) — such as the Philippines and Indonesia — have controlled the pandemic more effectively than Europe's biggest and wealthiest countries.

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