Taylor Swift urges her fans to vote in order to combat racial inequality: ‘We need to elect people who will fight against police brutality and racism’ By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 23:10 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 23:20 BST, 9 June 2020 Taylor Swift is urging her fans to combat racial inequality and … Read more
Joe Wicks has been ‘tipped to lead new government physical education curriculum to help combat childhood obesity in the UK’ By Roxy Simons and Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 01:54 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 04:18 BST, 31 May 2020 Joe Wicks has allegedly been chosen to lead a new physical education curriculum on … Read more
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the city’s 3rd Police Precinct was ordered to be evacuated late Thursday to avoid ‘hand-to-hand combat’ with rioters who later stormed the building and set it on fire. In an interview with WCCO Friday, Frey claimed that he and Police Chief Medaria Arradondo also believed that vacating the building would ‘deescalate … Read more
International group of fact-checkers launch a myth-busting WhatsApp bot that lets users query terms like ‘masks’ to pull up trustworthy information on coronavirus The bot is designed by Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checkers Network It can be queried by WhatsApp users and pulls from the IFCN’s database IFCN’s chatbot also directs users to their local fact-check … Read more
Robots could be trained to disinfect surfaces, take temperatures, collecting swabs and provide social support for quarantined patients to help combat the coronavirus pandemic Robots could undertake the ‘dull, dirty and dangerous jobs’, researchers argued These applications would help to lower the levels of human exposure to disease However, this would require the machines to gain … Read more
By Tom Pyman for MailOnline The funeral of one of the UK’s first coronavirus victims is to be held this week – but no more than five family members will be there to reduce the risk of further infection. The elderly man, who has not been named, died last weekend and meticulous measures are being carried out … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Major tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have issued a joint statement on their efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has killed over 7,100 people.
G7 leaders vow to unite and use ‘full powers of our governments’ to combat coronavirus outbreak By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:06 GMT, 16 March 2020 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 16 March 2020 The leaders of the G7 group of leading industrialised nations yesterday vowed to use the ‘full powers of our … Read more
How a probiotic drink could combat superbugs: Yakult-like liquid ‘could block DNA molecules that carry antibiotic-resistant genes in bacteria’ Drink is yet to be developed but would target molecules known as plasmids They exist inside bacterial cells and help them to become antibiotic resistant Bacteria use genes carried by plasmids which give resistance to antibiotics … Read more