Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, May 11
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11 May 2021, 20:44 GMT+10
MANILA The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Tuesday its first two cases of the new COVID-19 variant first detected in India. Alethea De Guzman of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau said the B.1.617 variant was detected from samples taken from two seafarers who arrived in the country from Oman on April 10 and the United Arab Emirates on April 19.(Philippines-COVID variant) - - - - SEOUL South Korea s intelligence agency chief left for Japan Tuesday morning to meet with his Japanese and U.S. counterparts, according to Yonhap news agency.
Drastic Reductions in Global Carbon Emissions is Required to Save Coral Reefs
Written by AZoCleantechMay 11 2021
A new study performed on the growth rates of coral reefs demonstrates that there is still a ray of hope to save the coral reefs of the world but time is running out.
Saving coral reefs requires immediate and drastic reductions in global carbon emissions. Photo of Bleached reef at Yamacutta Flat by Morgan Pratchett. Image Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
The international study was started at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), which has been headquartered at James Cook University (JCU).
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In an opinion piece on
Policy Forum, economist and modeller Professor Quentin Grafton of Australian National University, along with other experts including epidemiologist and biostatistician Dr Zoë Hyde of the University of Western Australia, put forward four changes they believe are necessary for Australia s vaccination program. With the emergence of more transmissible new variants, Australia s current COVID-19 vaccination strategy doesn t make sense from either a public health or an economic perspective, they write. It must change or Australia risks a future epidemic and/or very large costs from lockdowns when its international border reopens. They believe Australia needs to do four things.
The problem, of course, is that we don’t eat single nutrients in isolation. A new study, by researchers from Oxford University and the University of Western Australia, has attempted to address this by exploring how dietary patterns affect cardiovascular disease risk. For the observational study, published in the journal
BMC Medicine, 116,806 British adults answered questions about what they had eaten the previous day. The participants, with an average age of 56, did this two to five times over the course of a year to give the researchers a better idea of their eating patterns. Five years later, the researchers compared these patterns with hospitalised cases of cardiovascular disease and deaths by any cause.