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Cash and the coronavirus: COVID-19 is changing our relationship with money
Fear of transmitting the virus could accelerate the trend of digital payment apps and reduce the use of cash in society.
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Is the airborne route a major source of coronavirus transmission?
Understanding how COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to the next enables us to design effective public health interventions to minimise the risk of transmission.
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Why Hong Kong will remain an international financial centre, despite new security law
Hong Kong’s success as a centre of international finance, connecting the world to mainland China, is built on several foundations.
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Is swine flu going to be the next pandemic?
While most pandemic response planning has been centred on flu, COVID-19 has shown the need to broaden that planning.
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Unusual things we’ve learned about the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic
Here are some of the unusual things we’ve learned about the coronavirus along the way.
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The ‘domestic terrorist’ designation won’t stop extremism
The real problem is that designating specific groups as terrorists doesn’t actually curb terrorism.
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What coronavirus success of Taiwan and Iceland has in common
Taiwan and Iceland are among a group of countries which adopted a cooperative strategy early, bringing together multiple organisations to tackle the challenges in containing COVID-19.
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Was coronavirus spreading in Europe in March 2019?
The novel coronavirus may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought.
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A selective retreat from trade with China makes sense for the United States
Trade tensions and mistrust are escalating between the US and China.
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In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing
What remains abundantly clear is that testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine, and community engagement are essential to halting the spread of COVID-19 across the world.
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Islamic State militants incite attacks, gloat at US protests and pandemic deaths
Islamic State fighters are celebrating the effects of racial tensions and pandemic in America.
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Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink
Today, the US is not dominant, it is in crisis: convulsed by riots and protest, riven by a virus that has galloped away from those charged with overseeing it, and heading into a presidential…
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Can the president really order the military to occupy US cities and states?
Is Donald Trump’s warning just bluster? Does the president have the authority to send the military into American cities?
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Lockdowns: We need to experiment with reopenings now to prevent a second wave
Governments across the world have tentatively started lifting restrictions and reopening their economies
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The World Health Organisation must answer these hard questions in its coronavirus inquiry
WHO must now answer some tough questions about the extent it has kowtowed to China during the coronavirus pandemic.
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