Countries celebrate Earth Hour 2020 online
Countries all around the world are celebrating Earth Hour 2020, an event originally hosted by the World Wildlife Foundation in 2007 to encourage individuals, communities and governments to turn off non-essential lighting and electric devices for an hour to combat climate change. Global landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and the Kremlin Wall have gone dark for an hour starting at 8:30 pm.
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Malaysia cancels Hajj for 2020 amid coronavirus
Malaysia cancels Hajj for 2020 amid coronavirus
The Government of Malaysia is not sending Hajj pilgrims to Makkah this year in light of the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. This year’s Hajj starts around July 28 and the country was due to send about 31,600 pilgrims. “The pilgrimage for all Malaysians for the Hajj season of Hijrah 1441 is postponed to next year,” Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, a minister in the prime minister’s office, said on Thursday
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Coronavirus lockdowns have led to an unprecedented fall in air pollution for these major cities
Confinement measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in an unprecedented fall of deadly air pollutants around the world, according to new research published on Earth Day. New Delhi recorded a 60% fall of PM2.5 from 2019 levels, Seoul registered a 54% drop, while the fall in China's Wuhan came in at 44%.
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Why Belgium's Death Rate Is So High: It Counts Lots Of Suspected COVID-19 Cases
In a recent news briefing, President Trump pointed to a bar chart that showed one country's coronavirus death toll per capita stretched out distinctively beyond all the others. The display enraged Belgian government minister Denis Ducarme, who called it "macabre" and "level zero" politics for Trump to suggest Belgium's numbers are so poor and "all is well" in the U.S.
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10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem.
In all, fewer than 2,000 working ventilators have to serve hundreds of millions of people in public hospitals across 41 African countries, the World Health Organization says, compared with more than 170,000 in the United States.
Glaring disparities like these are just part of the reason people across Africa are steeling themselves for the coronavirus, fearful of outbreaks that could be catastrophic in countries with struggling health systems.
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