China’s zero-Covid policies caused political unrest, but the rapid shift away from them is causing its own problems on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Apple is making plans to shift some of its production outside China, say people involved in the discussions, to escape Covid disruptions and worker unrest on.wsj.com
@guardian3 years ago
Julia Gillard says Covid-led shift to remote working could render some female employees ‘invisible’ theguardian.com
@WSJ3 years ago
“Can I really stop tracking these cases?”: Covid-19 contact tracers are finding their jobs have changed as countries shift strategies for Omicron on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
While Australia’s critics in America shift their attention to a fall and winter marked by rising Covid deaths, many Australians are looking forward to a summer with fewer restrictions — and less fear than most of the world. nyti.ms by @damiencave
@nytimesworld4 years ago
India’s government defended itself against accusations that it was underreporting the country’s Covid-19 death toll. It sought to shift blame to local officials, suggesting they were not accurately registering deaths. nyti.ms
@guardian4 years ago
Shift workers treated in hospital three times more likely to have Covid – study theguardian.com
@guardian4 years ago
Covid: Germany and France under pressure to shift Oxford vaccine theguardian.com
@WSJ4 years ago
When ICU nurses finish their shift at a Nevada hospital, having lost patients to Covid-19, they don’t leave immediately. “We go to the chapel. We pray,” one of them says. “If you weren’t religious, you probably are now.” on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
U.S. hospitals are reporting shorter stays and lower death rates for Covid-19 patients. The shift could be a result of several factors and more study is needed, doctors and researchers say. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld5 years ago
President Trump's attempt to shift the blame to China for the coronavirus pandemic — and away from what critics call his own inept response — was a dominant theme in his speech: “The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions,” he said. nyti.ms
@WSJ5 years ago
Retailer Brooks Brothers filed for bankruptcy, squeezed by the coronavirus pandemic and a yearslong shift to casual office attire on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
An examination of how the shift unfolded in Chongqing and elsewhere reveals a government overtaken by a cascade of Covid outbreaks, confusion over directives, economic woes and then rare political protests. nyti.ms
@guardian2 years ago
China’s vice-premier signals shift in Covid stance as some lockdowns eased theguardian.com
@nytimesworld3 years ago
North Korea reported “a positive trend” in tackling the country’s Covid outbreak, according to state-run news media. The claim is a shift in tone from the government after it ordered “maximum emergency” controls last week to fight the virus. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld3 years ago
“That shift from ‘Covid is the worst thing imaginable’ to suddenly ‘it’s OK, we just open the floodgates now,’ I think that caused a lot of insecurity in people,” said a doctor in Melbourne, Australia. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
Walmart and Disney are requiring certain workers to get vaccinated for Covid-19 amid a shift in federal health guidelines and rising U.S. cases in recent weeks on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Singapore is making plans to shift to a new phase in Covid-19 management—one in which the virus still circulates but becomes more manageable, like the flu on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
China called for a probe into the origins of Covid-19 to shift its focus to other countries—possibly including a U.S. military laboratory on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
When ICU nurses finish their shift at a Nevada hospital, they don’t leave immediately. “We go to the chapel,” one nurse says. “We pray.” Katherina Faustino has been shaken by the number of Covid-19 deaths: “If you weren’t religious, you probably are now.” on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
When ICU nurses finish their shift at a Nevada hospital, having lost patients to Covid-19, they don’t leave immediately. “We go to the chapel. We pray,” one of them says. “If you weren’t religious, you probably are now.” on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
BioNTech, the company developing a Covid-19 vaccine with Pfizer, almost couldn’t get its IPO off the ground last year. After a dramatic shift of fortune, the company is now worth more than $24 billion. on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
“At the heart of the Covid-19 experience is a shift in the American family, especially in the relationship between mothers and daughters,” an anthropologist says on.wsj.com
@TheNewEuropean5 years ago
Minister defends Boris Johnson’s attempt to shift blame for coronavirus deaths on to care home staff theneweuropean.co.uk
@nytimesworld2 years ago
China’s party-run media has cast the shift as a stressful but well-considered exit, opening the way back to good economic times. Warnings about the dangers of the coronavirus have disappeared, replaced by claims that the Omicron variant is generally mild. nyti.ms
@WSJ3 years ago
Decreasing Covid-19 numbers have led school superintendents to cut pandemic safety protocols and shift more resources toward other crises such as learning loss, enrollment declines and staffing shortages on.wsj.com
@guardian3 years ago
HSBC to close 69 more bank branches as Covid speeds shift online theguardian.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Chief information officers, who helped enable the shift to remote work in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, are now working to revamp office space and processes to make the workplace more inclusive for the long haul. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
New coronavirus cases have declined for six days in a row in Britain, a shift that is baffling scientists, many of whom predicted a powerful surge in cases after the government relaxed all but a handful of restrictions in England last week. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
Singapore is making plans to shift to a new phase in Covid-19 management—one in which the virus still circulates but becomes more manageable, like the flu on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Could Covid-19 shift from a pandemic disease to an endemic one that circulates for years? WSJ’s @danielas_bot speaks with a virologist and an epidemiologist about transmission rates, the emergence of new strains and access to vaccines twitter.com
@WSJ4 years ago
When ICU nurses finish their shift at a Nevada hospital, they don’t leave immediately. “We go to the chapel,” one nurse says. “We pray.” Katherina Faustino has been shaken by the number of Covid-19 deaths: “If you weren’t religious, you probably are now.” on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
The shift to remote work is jolting the lackluster personal computer market, as chief information officers and other corporate information-technology leaders raced to equip stay-at-home workers during the coronavirus pandemic, analysts say on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld4 years ago
As coronavirus stalls Hollywood, is 2020 finally seeing a shift in cultural power to the East? bbc.in
@WSJ5 years ago
Clipping coupons is becoming a thing of the past, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates a shift to digital deals on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
After an initial V-shaped plunge and partial rebound, economic activity has since flat-lined, a shift that coincides with a resurgence of coronavirus in parts of the U.S. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld2 years ago
China’s jarring narrative shift around Omicron points to the challenge for the Communist Party as it tries to prevent its sudden abandoning of “zero Covid” from being construed as an admission of failure and a stain on Xi Jinping’s legacy. nyti.ms
@WSJ3 years ago
The U.S.’s supply of an antibody drug found to reduce the risk of severe Covid-19 disease could run out in August, and sales could shift to the commercial market unless Congress agrees on more pandemic funding on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
New York’s statewide school mask requirement will end on March 2, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday, marking a shift that reflects a decline in Covid-19 cases and decreased risks from the Omicron variant on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
In a shift, the head of the European Union’s public-health agency urged governments to accelerate Covid-19 booster campaigns as case numbers rise on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
New coronavirus cases have declined for six days in a row in Britain, a shift that is baffling scientists, many of whom predicted a powerful surge in cases after the government relaxed all but a handful of restrictions in England last week. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
A shift in Covid-19 vaccination efforts from mass sites to smaller clinics might lead to more wasted doses of the shots on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
After a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses from DoorDash to Lowe’s said they are bracing for the prospect that spending will shift again as people indulge pent-up demand for eating out, traveling and other activities that have been limited on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
When ICU nurses finish their shift at a Nevada hospital, they don’t leave immediately. “We go to the chapel,” one nurse says. “We pray.” Katherina Faustino has been shaken by the number of Covid-19 deaths: “If you weren’t religious, you probably are now.” on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Pfizer launched a new logo on the heels of its successful development of a coronavirus vaccine, marking its shift to a biopharma business focused on breakthrough science on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
The company reported its largest-ever quarterly sales as online orders helped offset lost restaurant traffic during the coronavirus pandemic, though the shift created costs that are weighing on profit on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
The coronavirus has upended expectations for the riskiness of individual stocks, a shift that has stoked major indexes’ recovery and shaken up sectors from technology to real estate on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld5 years ago
In a shift away from damaging nationwide lockdowns, governments are looking for targeted ways to find and stop coronavirus outbreaks before they become third or fourth waves nyti.ms