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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 11, 2020
Outbid and left hanging, US states scramble for ventilators
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REUTERS: On the final Thursday in March the Arkansas team in charge of procuring ventilators thought they had scored a coup: a vendor had agreed to sell them 500 of the breathing machines critical to keeping COVID-19 patients alive at US$19,000 each. The next day they were told the deal had vanished because a buyer
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 4, 2020
With a quiet Ramadan on the cards, halal restaurants scramble to deliver
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SINGAPORE: For years, business has been brisk at Hjh Maimunah, a popular kampung-style restaurant located in one of the city’s oldest Malay settlements, Geylang Serai. The restaurant is especially lively during Ramadan – with a record 2 million people visiting the annual Hari Raya Bazaar in the area last year. This year, for the first
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 25, 2020
Indians scramble for supplies as three-week coronavirus lockdown begins
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NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday (Mar 25) in a struggle for essential items after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a total lockdown for three weeks to fight a coronavirus pandemic, one of the toughest such measures worldwide. India’s tally of 536 cases and 10 deaths is dwarfed by China, Italy
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 21, 2020
COVID-19: Army joins the production line as ventilator makers scramble to meet demand in Italy
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ZURICH: On Mar 6, Gianluca Preziosa, the head of an Italian ventilator maker, received an urgent request. The Italian authorities wanted his help for an all-out effort to meet a desperate need for ventilators. Now, his Bologna-based company, Siare Engineering International Group srl, has 25 army technicians working with its production supervisors to manage the expanded
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 21, 2020
COVID-19: Army joins the production line as ventilator makers scramble to meet demand
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ZURICH: On Mar 6, Gianluca Preziosa, the head of an Italian ventilator maker, received an urgent request. The Italian authorities wanted his help for an all-out effort to meet a desperate need for ventilators. Now, his Bologna-based company, Siare Engineering International Group srl, has 25 army technicians working with its production supervisors to manage the expanded
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 16, 2020
In Nagoya, scramble for hospital beds shows coronavirus challenge for ageing Japan
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TOKYO: Hospitals in Nagoya city in Japan’s industrial heartland have more coronavirus patients than they can treat, forcing transfers to nearby areas and offering a glimpse of the challenges the outbreak poses for a country with a huge elderly population. Japan has closed schools and canceled public events, which experts say has helped prevent an
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 13, 2020
‘Drop everything, scramble’: Singapore’s contact trackers fight COVID-19
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SINGAPORE: After a coronavirus outbreak began to disrupt lives and activity in Singapore late in January, Conceicao Edwin Philip keeps himself ready to rush to hospital at a moment’s notice, if summoned. Philip is not a doctor or nurse, but his work, using a telephone to question patients separated from him by two glass walls,
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