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“Here in the UAE, we are optimistic, but we are realistic and we are practical,” UAE Minister of State and Expo 2020 Dubai Director-General Reem Al Hashimy told CNBC on Tuesday. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Rogue virus variants, the global vaccine rollout and international travel restrictions are being closely monitored as Expo 2020 Dubai draws close. The in-person mega… coronavirus 15 hours ago
UNMC dean discussing COVID response during next week’s Science Café Post Views: 179
HOSTED BY: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
TITLE: “Speed of Science vs. Speed of Antiscience: Pandemic Information Speed Trials”
TOPIC: Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, will provide an overview of COVID-19 nationally and globally and compare the responses of countries that celebrate near-zero cases and deaths and those that don’t. He will highlight the speed of science as the bright side of this pandemic and discuss the role of misleading facts and conspiracy theories in hindering the necessary communication and public health efforts to control COVID-19 in the U.S.
We believe that we can break the transmission chains, he told CNBC s Street Signs Asia on Wednesday. With pretty sophisticated and thorough contact tracing, together with the quarantine of the contacts and the isolation of the cases, I would have confidence that we d start to see things improving over the next couple of weeks, said Fisher, who is also a professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
The country s multi-ministry task force announced Tuesday that tighter restrictions will be reimposed from May 8 through to May 30. The Straits Times index was down 1.04% on Wednesday afternoon.
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