Covid

The social support networks stepping up in coronavirus-stricken China | openDemocracy

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  The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China started in January 2019 and put a massive strain on the public health system. As a rapid response, the ironclad lockdown of tens of millions of people in the province of Hubei, and practical house confinement of hundreds of millions of Chinese, have hit pause on everyone’s […]

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Mapping the landscape of artificial intelligence applications against COVID-19 • UN Global Pulse

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   The number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow at an alarming rate – with over 487,000 people being infected worldwide as of  March 26, 2020 – and predictions paint a gloomy picture of the next weeks and potentially months to come. Members of our data science team joined forces with researchers from the World Health Organization

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Education in a pandemic: five messages that Australia’s aid program could consider now – Governance and Development Soapbox

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After much debate in the media about whether it is safe for the community, teachers and children themselves to continue going to school,[1] the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria in Australia are going ahead with student-free schooling. Whilst the symptoms and deaths of children from COVID-19 have been lower in comparison to other ages groups

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What America can learn from Taiwan’s coronavirus response – Vox

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The government of Tawain was prepared and had the capability to undertake a portfolio of 124 coordinated actions involving an all-government approach and including travel bans, quarantines, early testing, surveillance steps, social distancing, an more. Read more below: Aggressive measures starting in December saved Taiwan. Can we learn from them? Source: What America can learn

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First impressions from a week of distance learning in Finland. In conversation with my daughters

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This week I read this article on EdTech published in the Guardian which asked Can computers ever replace the classroom?  Here in Finland due to the coronavirus pandemic only a few schools remain open  and the question is no longer whether computers can replace the classroom, during these weeks they have to. So, I talked

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