Cooling vests alleviate perceptual heat strain perceived by COVID-19 nurses ANI | Updated: Jan 10, 2021 08:25 IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], January 10 (ANI): Wearing cooling vests during a COVID-19 shift ensures that nurses experience less heat during their work, suggests the findings of a novel study.
During their shifts, nurses wear protective clothing for three hours in a row, during which the temperature can rise to as much as 36 degrees. The cooling vests offer such effective cooling that they are now part of the standard work clothing for nurses in the COVID nursing departments at Radboud university medical center. The study was published in the journal Temperature.
Converse recasts itself as brand of youth By WANG ZHUOQIONG | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-29 09:06 Share CLOSE Visitors take photographs of Converse shoes at a shopping mall in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in November. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Sportswear maker targets younger generation to burnish its image in Chinese market
Converse, a prominent sportswear brand for over 100 years, has made it a priority to engage more with local youth in communities across China.
The Nike-owned brand is making the younger generation key stakeholders in its innovation and production process, its top executive said.
In a self-conducted market survey, Converse has found many consumers in China consider it an old brand. The finding has pushed the sportswear maker to launch campaigns and innovations to change that perception.
Dec 23, 2020
WASHINGTON – 2020 and the Year of the Rat could not be over soon enough, but with 2021 and the Year of the Ox soon upon us, we take one last look at the year that was.
For Japan, from a postponed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games to a new prime minister, it was a year of disruption and turmoil. And, of course, from the Diamond Princess cruise ship COVID-19 outbreak early on, to some 200,000 cases and more than 2700 deaths by year-end, Japan has not escaped an economic and health catastrophe now marked by more than 1.6 million dead globally including more than 315,000 in the United States and more than 145,000 in India.
Key summit meetings looking increasingly unfeasible within the year
Posted : 2020-12-11 17:21
Updated : 2020-12-13 20:30
President Moon Jae-in departs for Chengu, China, the venue of the 2019 Korea-China-Japan summit from an airport in Beijing, Dec. 23, 2019, after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae-
By Do Je-hae
This has been a bad year for summitry due to COVID-19, but Cheong Wa Dae has nonetheless shown strong determination for arranging a Korea-Japan-China summit as well as a Korea-China summit.
With the end of the year only weeks away, the two summits are looking increasingly unfeasible within the year. On the outside, the continued surge in COVID-19 cases is a big reason for further delaying both occasions, but when looking closely, unresolved differences are making it more difficult to finalize them.
December 10, 2020
Giant Olympic rings at Tokyo’s Odaiba Marine Park. The Summer Olympic Games are expected to begin on July 23.
Reuters
Japan’s tourism sector is making tentative plans to welcome back the first foreign visitors in the spring, with the government keen to open the doors wider before the coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games commence on July 23.
The Asahi newspaper reported this week that the government is drawing up plans to permit small group tours to enter the country from other parts of Asia, such as Taiwan , Vietnam or China, which have done a relatively good job of controlling the spread of the coronavirus.