Tokyo Olympics organizers unveil pandemic playbook with rules to avoid COVID-19 spread
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The protocols include regular testing and temperature checks.Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images
TOKYO and LONDON Olympics organizers unveiled on Wednesday the first of a series of playbooks, step-by-step guides for key stakeholders to a safe and successful Games in Tokyo this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic. We are very confident for a number of reasons, Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games executive director of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said during a virtual press conference. Tokyo is the best prepared city we have ever seen.
Vietnam has for the first time surpassed China to become the nation with the highest number of labourers working in Japan, according to 2020 statistics from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The calculated
CFR has only marginal comparative value because in many countries, excess deaths far exceed reported case fatalities which would be a better indicator of the disease impact.
IFR will not likely be known until long after the pandemic has ended. In the meantime, we mark as estimate what our computations indicate the implied
IFR may be.
We use an algorithm that is applied on the fly by a computer program and the algorithm is based on data from China and South Korea. The very specific mass testings in China and South Korea yield extraordinary
data. So also do surveys conducted by nurses in the provinces of the Philippines.
Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesian
President Joko Widodo on February 1 inaugurated state-owned sharia bank Bank
Syariah Indonesia (BSI), which had total assets of 240 trillion IDR (17 billion
USD) and ranked seventh on the list of biggest banks in Indonesia based on
total assets.
At a virtual press conference, Widodo said
it a historic day for the development of the country s sharia economy. He
opined that Indonesia had long been renowned as the country with the largest
Muslim population in the world.
With more than 1,200 branch offices and
over 20,000 employees, the country’s largest
sharia bank is the merger of three
state-owned ones.
Its President Director Hery Gunardi said he
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COVID-19 live updates: Peer-reviewed study finds Russia’s vaccine is over 91% effective
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By MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News
(NEW YORK) A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 103 million people worldwide and killed over 2.2 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Here’s how the news is developing Tuesday. All times Eastern:
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