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Ever since the number of COVID-19 cases blew up, the World Health Organization has never failed in reminding the general public of the primary ways to prevent contagion. And one of the preventive measures that we should practice every day—aside from frequent handwashing—is “social distancing”. As the name suggests, it simply means that you maintain […]
Last night, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced the travel restrictions for countries with localized COVID-19 transmissions. With this, a lot of people rescheduled or canceled their travel plans due to the spread of the disease in different parts of the world. But the pandemic outbreak didn’t stop some airlines and travel agencies from imposing promo […]
Three public school teachers from Virginia, USA, have raised funds for students who rely on free and reduced-price meals, as schools in the US close down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chemistry teacher Laurie Vena and physics teachers Aaron Schuetz and Deborah Waldron of Yorktown High School in Arlington knew that thousands of students on […]
The recent developments related to the COVID-19 global pandemic have caused not only panic and fear among people but also brought out the racist in us and the inequality of healthcare privileges among social classes that shows how big the gap between the poor and rich is. A Saudi Arabian company has come under fire […]
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery said that art lovers had rushed to its new Facebook page as the museum stays shut to fight the country’s COVID-19 outbreak.
Since the rapid increase of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases around the world, there has been a growing number of incident reports about racism, xenophobia, and/or microaggressions towards East and Southeast Asians living in the US or Europe. Last Wednesday, in a report published by The Strait Times, an Asian passenger suffered from a “coronavirus-related hate” […]
In the past few weeks, everyone has been deeply concerned about the alarming number of positive COVID-19 cases. Just yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the coronavirus disease can now be characterized as a pandemic and assured the public that they will continue to “take urgent and aggressive action”. On the same day, […]
Anyone who’s ever tried online dating would know that Tinder is one of those apps that is infamous for hook-ups. In fact, the social media platform even teaches its users how you can “date when you’re not looking for a relationship” in their Swipe Life blog. However, with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) slowly evolving into a global […]
When news first broke out about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, a lot of people were alarmed. For one, many of them needed to know what was the sickness’s mode of transmission and if it could be contained. But when more countries started confirming COVID-19 cases, the world started to see this as a […]