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From Masks to Meal Boxes, Businesses Step in to Help Medics Battling Coronavirus
As the coronavirus epidemic stretches health services around the world to the limit, businesses for good are stepping in, providing everything from protective masks to meal boxes for frontline staff.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Africa Roundup: Africa’s Tech Ecosystem Responds to COVID-19
In March, the virus gripping the world — COVID-19 — started to spread in Africa. In short order, actors across the continent’s tech ecosystem began to step up to stem the spread.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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How an Indian App Delivers Groceries in Remote District During COVID-19
“From an administrative standpoint, the importance of MeeBuddy App is that it keeps people at home at the need of the hour and they have no reason to go out,” says Lohit Deputy Commissioner Prince Dhawan.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- South Asia
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Could China Be a White Knight Again for Latin America?
China helped spare the region from the worst of the 2008-09 financial crisis. But recently, its lending to Latin America has been in decline.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Latin America
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Report: Global Renewables Expansion in 2020 Will Be ‘Wiped out’ by COVID-19
A Norwegian analyst group calculates growth in newly commissioned renewables projects will now be “wiped out” for 2020 and cut by a further 10% next year, reversing its pre-Covid-19 expectation of some 140GW of PV and 75GW of wind capacity being added this year.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- renewable energy
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Finally Some Good News On Coronavirus From Sustainable Investors In New York City
Domini Impact Investments, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), and Office of the New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer are leading a group of 195 institutional investors and investor networks with over $4.7 trillion of assets under management to urge the business community to consider five steps to limit the damage that coronavirus is causing to the global economy.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- impact investing
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What Does a COVID-19 Response Look Like With Limited Water?
In the past week, the virus has spread exponentially, beginning to take root in countries with weaker health systems — and where populations have limited access to water. Globally, 3 billion people lack access to basic hand-washing facilities.
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- Coronavirus, WASH
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- public health
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Data Mapping Key to Track Disease Spread and Plug Health Gaps, Experts Say
“It sounds almost obvious, but we can’t get a health worker in a community if we don’t know that community exists,” said Avi Kenny, former director of research, monitoring, and evaluation at nonprofit organization Last Mile Health, adding that census data in low- and middle-income countries is often not that good.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology