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April 2, 2021
This year, the World Autism Awareness Day – 2nd April – is again being celebrated in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic that has changed our lives so drastically. Nevertheless, a large number of events are taking place online to create awareness about autism through webinars, trainings and conferences.
A Regional Conference on Autism was organized by Autism Welfare Trust in Lahore on 1st April to kick off a series of events for World Autism Awareness Month. The speakers were from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan. The zoom webinar was supported by livestreaming of the Conference on Facebook as well, providing access to hundreds of viewers.
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The COVID-19 success story you never knew about
Michael Kugelman
February 28, 2021 20:33
A health worker checks the body temperature of people near Gelephu at the India-Bhutan border. (File/AFP)
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It has been about a year since the world entered a normal that is no longer new. The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the globe in so many ways, with terrible impacts not just for public health, but also economic growth and societal interactions. Unemployment has soared, while lockdowns have restricted in-person communications in ways not seen in decades.
It would be easy to focus on the bad news stories that have emerged from the pandemic. Here, I don’t refer only to the millions of people who have caught the virus and the more than 2 million who have perished as a result. I refer also to the pandemic’s unfortunate tendency to polarize, rather than unite. Who could have predicted that in America the decision whether to wear a mask would beco