Dünya genelinde 1 milyar insanın yaşadığı ve el yıkamanın lüks sayıldığı gecekondu mahalleleri, çoğu ülkede koronavirüs salgınına karşı devlet desteğinden yoksun halde. Mücadeleyi yardım dernekleri üstleniyor.
"We fell in love when we first heard metal music," Kurnia said in an interview. "For us, metal is media to show our critical voices. Metal music matches with the determination in our souls."
That's what Shirley Raines says again and again to the homeless men and women living in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles as she hands out coronavirus "kits" through her car window.
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The Pentagon established a "rumor control" website to beat down three myths: that the U.S. military has federalized the National Guard, that it was instituting a mandatory national lockdown, and that it was implementing martial law.
The "purposeful exposure and infection of others" could implicate the country's terrorism-related statutes as coronavirus appears to meet the statutory definition of a biological agent.
At least 22 states have issued a "stay at home" order, while disaster declarations have been made in several more states, including New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois and Missouri.
A collective of do-it-yourself biohackers calling themselves ‘CoroHope’ is currently developing an affordable vaccine for the ‘COVID-19’ novel coronavirus. The vaccine, which is to be dubbed CoroNope, will be a gene-based vaccine.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch human-implantable capsules that have ‘digital certificates’ which can show who has been tested for the coronavirus and who has been vaccinated against it.
With the National Guard now active in 22 states and governors continuing to declare more severe emergency measures daily, the U.S. military is preparing forces to assume a larger role in the coronavirus response.
"The pace of the scientific research has been really at a breathtaking speed," says Angela Rasmussan, a virologist and research scientist at Columbia University. "It's unprecedented."
One economist said a loophole allowing small businesses to avoid paid leave provisions could threaten those same firms if the virus continued to spread as a result.
Before launching astronauts to the International Space Station, great care is already taken to prevent the crew from bringing potentially dangerous viruses and pathogens onboard with them.
There have been nearly 200,000 infections reported worldwide and multiple governments have imposed national lockdowns to slow the spread.
Since its outbreak in China, the coronavirus has killed or infected tens of thousands of people across Asia, and is spreading worldwide.
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Two extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say.