In March, 10,000 NHS staff signed a letter to UK prime minister Boris Johnson demanding better protection against COVID-19. Nurses and doctors wanted to treat patients without fear of infecting them and to minimise their own risk of falling ill. But they lacked the proper protective equipment. The problem theyContinue Reading
The stakes have never been higher in the city’s fight for democracy Long queue outside a polling station. Image from Twitter user Studio Incendo CC By 4.0 The original version of this post is written by Rachel Wong of the Hong Kong Free Press on July 12 2020. The followingContinue Reading
China’s enforcement of a new security law in Hong Kong marks the de facto end of the “one country, two systems” model that came into effect following the British handover in 1997. This has repercussions that go far beyond Hong Kong. The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed by both China andContinue Reading
Raffi Kojian/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Since the beginning of the pandemic, much work has been done to test whether antimalarial drugs can treat COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, the most well known, has been found to be ineffective. But in Africa, another drug has been attracting attention: artemisinin. Obtained from the sweet wormwoodContinue Reading
F8 studio/Shutterstock Applications to universities in the UK have increased during the COVID-19 lockdown. UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, has reported a 1.6% increase from last year, and over 40% of all UK 18-year-olds have now applied to university. This rise may come as a surprise. The universityContinue Reading
“This war of complexion has created a huge problem for our women” Fair and Lovely – Billboard for Skin-Whitening Cream – Chittagong – Bangladesh. Image from Flickr by Adam Jones. CC BY-SA 2.0. On 25 June, global cosmetic conglomerate Unilever announced a decision to re-brand its leading skin-lightening product ‘FairContinue Reading
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Industrial premises being disinfected in Kazakhstan's capital, Nur-Sultan city. Turar Kazangapov Kazakhstan became the first country in the world to enter a second nationwide lockdown on July 5 following a spike in coronavirus cases. The two-week lockdown, which could be extended if the spread of the virus continues, restricts publicContinue Reading
People going to work during the blitz. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons As COVID-19 spread in Britain, journalists and politicians took to comparing the pandemic to the blitz. From the “blitz spirit” to the death toll, the German bombing campaign in the second world war has become a go-to for evaluatingContinue Reading
Motortion Films/Shutterstock One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally and crossed into humans fromContinue Reading
