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Dominic Barton, Canada’s ambassador to China, last May travelled to one of its tech hubs, Shenzhen, to express gratitude to BGI Group, a gene-sequencing company that also administers a growing genomic database.
With the coronavirus pandemic raging in Canada, the Sinai Health System in Toronto was set to receive what Barton characterized as a “generous donation” from BGI’s foundation: an “MGISP-960 automated viral RNA extraction and sample preparation robot,” as well as other lab equipment, ostensibly for rapid COVID-19 testing.
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When the coronavirus began its long, deadly march through the United States last spring, and states mandated that businesses and schools close and people stay home to limit the spread of the virus, the ability to communicate and work via videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Skype was hailed as a technological blessing. In stark contrast with the purgatorial mood many people were experiencing during indefinite lockdown, newspaper articles set a celebratory tone, hailing the arrival of the Zoom cocktail hour and encouraging Americans who were now spending countless hours online to add preselected digital backgrounds depicting exotic beaches and other happy scenes to their calls.