Tag: COVID-19

Interview: Prof Kian Fan Chung

  With a long winter approaching and the virus gripping Europe, the ongoing battle between health and the economy, lockdowns and personal freedoms, will prove hugely challenging

  Tourism in the South Pacific has been hit hard by COVID-19 border closures with thousands of people out of work.

By Sameer Sharma

  There are issues, such as global warming, where there is scientific consensus. But consensuses take decades, and Covid-19 is a new disease

In the context of the pandemic, being old is seen as just one more comorbidity. It should not be

  Researchers are imagining what the world might look like in 2048 — and the new forms of inequality and injustice that might exist

Opinion

  With a vaccine, yes, elimination is possible. But we need to be realistic about how long this might take

Interview : Thiruthiraj Pather

  As a zoonotic virus, COVID-19 is itself a symptom of human-influenced climate change. It is also indicative of the humanitarian impact of future environmental crises

  Shifts in global politics and other countries’ response to the coronavirus may have made the UK a more attractive option for international students

Interview : Jocelyn Chan Low, Historien

History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

Interview: Devesh Dukhira, CEO – Mauritius Sugar Syndicate