As Americans grapple with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s strong warning to stay at home this winter to stop the spread of the coronavirus, some are wondering if they are exempt from the recommendation if they have already recovered from the illness.
People who had the coronavirus can develop antibodies that circulate in the blood and can neutralise the pathogen. But questions around immunity still linger. The CDC says cases of reinfection have been reported but are rare.
It hasn t stopped people from travelling, though. Last month, the Icelandic government announced visitors who can prove they have recovered from a coronavirus infection can skip the country s new border measures when they arrive. After recovering from the coronavirus in March, travel blogger and author Matt Kepnes, 39, resumed travelling in the United States and Mexico, albeit with caution.
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Is China really ready to back a nuclear arms-free Southeast Asia? China is one of a handful of states with nuclear weapons. Photo: Reuters
China has signalled that it is ready to work with its neighbours to create a nuclear weapons-free zone in Southeast Asia, after more than two decades of objections to a regional agreement.
But observers said the move was part of China s growing rivalry with the United States and an attempt to expand its influence in the region.
The agreement, the Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty, was signed by the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) 25 years ago to establish an area in the region free of nuclear weapons and to bolster its neutrality in great-power competition.
No, you still shouldn’t travel if you had covid-19 Natalie Compton As Americans grapple with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s strong warning to stay at home this winter to stop the spread of the coronavirus, some are wondering if they are exempt from the recommendation if they have already recovered from the illness. People who had the coronavirus can develop antibodies that circulate in the blood and can neutralize the pathogen. But questions around immunity still linger. The CDC says cases of reinfection have been reported but “are rare.” It hasn’t stopped people from traveling, though. Last month, the Icelandic government announced visitors who have recovered from a coronavirus infection (and can prove it) can skip the country’s new border measures when they arrive. After recovering from the coronavirus in March, travel blogger and author Matt Kepnes, 39, resumed traveling in the United States and Mexico, albeit with caution
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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. An expert on the Asia-Pacific region, his research interests range from nuclear strategy, arms control, missile defense, nonproliferation, emerging technologies, and U.S. extended deterrence. He is the author of
Panda was previously an adjunct senior fellow in the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and a member of the 2019 FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy. He has consulted for the United Nations in New York and Geneva on nonproliferation and disarmament matters, and has testified on security topics related to South Korea and Japan before the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Com