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A discoloured Snoopy plush. A little rubber piggy. A doodle by a stranger. Meaningless to most, these objects are the last remains of long languished love stories that now sit on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. Whether bought for an anniversary, part of an in-joke or just random accomplices to life’s most intimate moments; ‘things’ are often all we have left to hold onto when a relationship ends; host to fragments of memories like Harry Potter Horcruxes. The dilemma, then, is what do you do with such objects? Too painful to keep, too meaningful to chuck. In 20...
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The bleak prediction was put forward by the OECD in its February 2024 interim economic outlook: "Strengthening the Foundations for Growth." The interim report looks at the global economic outlook and inflation forecasts for 2024, as well as ongoing geopolitical risks such as trade disruptions from the Red Sea conflict. Lockdown impact on children's education could slow growthThere was an unprecedented drop in mathematics and reading test scores amongst 15-year olds between 2018 and 2022, the years spanning the pandemic, the report revealed, citing the OECD's 2023 global Performance for Interna...
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Some social media users have falsely claimed this week that “Disease X” is a virus that might be deliberately released or is even already spreading in the world. These claims are inaccurate, emerging as the term was set to be discussed by an expert panel at the 2024 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. While “Disease X” is rather a hypothetical scenario to prepare for the next pandemic, experts discussing this concept said it still needs to be taken seriously. What is ‘Disease X’?“Disease X” is a name that the World Health Organization (WHO) has given to an unknown future pathogen with the p...
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Washington (AFP) - The head of the main US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control, announced on Friday that she will step down from her post at the end of June. Rochelle Walensky, who was a key figure in the Biden administration's response to Covid-19, did not give a direct reason for her departure, but suggested that the easing of the coronavirus pandemic had brought her tenure at the CDC to a natural endpoint. "The end of the Covid-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director," the 54-year-old sa...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House on Monday announced a May 11 end to Covid-19 vaccine requirements for travelers to the United States and for government employees across the world's biggest economy. "Today, we are announcing that the administration will end the Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers at the end of the day on May 11, the same day that the Covid-19 public health emergency ends," a statement said. More than a million people died from Covid-19 in the United States. However, the White House noted that the pandemic ...
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New York (AFP) - Moderna's chief executive on Wednesday defended the US company's plan to quadruple the price of its lifesaving Covid vaccine to as much as $130 per dose as soon as government stockpiles run out. Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders lashed out at the price hike, denouncing the "unprecedented level of corporate greed" in the pharmaceutical industry. "And that is certainly true with Moderna," Sanders said. Moderna has so far charged between about $15 and $26 for doses of its vaccine, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The US government subsidized $1.7 billion of Moderna's re...
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Geneva (AFP) - All countries remain "dangerously unprepared" for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three "brutal" years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are "severely lacking", the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said. The world's largest humanitarian network said building trust, equity and local action networks were vital to get ready for the next crisis. "All countries remain dangerously unprepared for future ...
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By The Conversation Shengjie Lai , University of Southampton and Andrew J Tatem , University of Southampton China stuck rigidly to a zero-COVID policy until December 2022. This included travel restrictions, mass testing and mandatory quarantines. The rapid lifting of this strategy led to a surge of COVID infections across the country. There have been concerns that the Chinese lunar new year travel in January may cause this wave of COVID to spread much further and faster, with significant numbers of hospital admissions and deaths. Lunar new year involves hundreds of millions of people travellin...
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By The Conversation Michael Baker , University of Otago ; David Durrheim , University of Newcastle ; Li Yang HSU , National University of Singapore , and Nick Wilson , University of Otago Imagine it is 2030. Doctors in a regional hospital in country X note an expanding cluster of individuals with severe respiratory disease. Rapid whole-genome sequencing identifies the disease-causing agent as a novel coronavirus. Epidemiological investigations suggest the virus is highly infectious, with most initial cases requiring hospitalisation. The episode bears a striking resemblance to the COVID outbrea...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean and Blackpink will headline this April's Coachella, the California desert festival that kicks off the summer concert circuit, organizers announced Tuesday. It's set to be a history-making weekend, with Bad Bunny -- the world's most-streamed artist -- as the first Spanish-language and first Latin American artist to headline. And K-pop group Blackpink of South Korea is the first Asian act to receive a top billing at the festival. Both acts debuted at Coachella in 2019 to great fanfare, teeing up an eventual headlining slot. Ocean was originally booked a...
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