Outbreak in Thailand draws wide concern as new variant hampers pandemic control By YANG HAN in Hong Kong | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-05-06 17:12
People from Klong Toey community wait to get a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Despite Thailand s effective response during the beginning of the pandemic, the latest outbreak that infected over 40,000 people since April has shown how immense a challenge it is to deal with COVID-19, experts say. From a public health point of view, Thailand does not look like it s anywhere near the resolution of this current wave, said Jeremy Lim, associate professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.
As India fights a massive second wave of Covid pandemic with medical oxygen in short supply, an alumni group from Singapore's prominent universities has launched a crowdfunding initiative to source oxygen concentrators for India from overseas suppliers.
Each oxygen concentrator costs about $800 and can save more than 40 lives. The group has already achieved 78 per cent of its $150,000 goal till now.
5/4/2021
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GENEVA, May 4 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization has
again chosen trade experts from China and the United States as
deputies for its director-general, maintaining a delicate
geopolitical balancing act which also keeps two fractious powers
close at hand.
Two out of the four chosen are women, a first for the global
trade watchdog. Their four predecessors, all men, stepped down
on March 31.
Replacing their compatriots are Angela Ellard, an American
lawyer and trade expert who has worked at the U.S. Congress, and
Zhang Xiangchen, currently vice trade minister and its former
U S and Chinese trade experts among the WTO chief s new deputies reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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