No sightseeing, cheering, singing or (at least officially) sex. This is what an Olympic Games during a pandemic could look like.
Models wait before the presentation of Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer fashion collection, in Paris in January 2020. The pandemic forced high fashion to adapt.
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Women have been affected by the pandemic more than men in many ways. Policies should reflect this.
Doctors and nurses adjust the oxygen mask of a COVID-19 patient inside the Intensive Care Unit of Heliopolis hospital, Egypt.
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Japan is going through its fourth wave, testing rates are low and case numbers are climbing. Now athletes aren’t happy with the IOC’s plans to protect them.
In a pandemic or any other emergency, the first ethical duty of the media is to report accurately and soberly, and specifically not to induce unjustified anxiety or panic.
Pubs, restaurants and cafes in England, Scotland and Wales are now able to serve customers indoors.
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Jennifer Curtin, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; David Hall, Auckland University of Technology; Michael Fletcher, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, dan Nina Ives, Auckland University of Technology
By under-promising and over-delivering, Grant Robertson has pulled off a budget that displeases the fewest people.
Despite Nepal struggling with high case numbers, many people defied lockdown to attend the Rato Machindranath Jatra chariot festival in mid-May.
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Sixteen countries authorised the use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine before phase 3 clinical trial results were published.
Vaccine passports may soon be required for travelling amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Like biometrics, they’ll likely become a permanent part of our daily lives — and there’s barely been any debate about them.
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COVID-19 vaccine passports are being presented as a relatively simple technological solution to our current travel woes. But meaningful public debate about their merits and problems is essential.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand