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The current one-off payment of £500 for people on low incomes is not sufficient to get people to follow the rules.
Locking down again? You need a wellbeing plan.
Like Pata-Pata, Homeless and Mbube, the song Jerusalema is elevated by a historical moment in time and has the power to cross over to different audiences.
Exercise classes are made up of one-way instruction – but PE is collaborative and can teach all-round skills.
It’s helpful to remember you’re in an unusual situation with no perfect map of how to cope, or a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to get through it.
People told us about leaking roofs and guttering, and about how water coming into their housing had caused internal damage, damp and mould.
Writers, actors and fans have been coming up with ways to keep audiences happy during the pandemic.
How does Victoria’s response to a second COVID-19 wave compare internationally? Very favourably - only a handful of other jurisdictions have enjoyed anything like the same level of effectiveness.
Slums are a challenge for controlling the pandemic. Strengthening their fragile healthcare provision would help mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and future pandemics.
Some atmospheric pollutants actually help cool the planet, but the sudden shutdown of heavy industry threatened to purge them.
A composer and performer talks about the impact of the pandemic on classical music performances and his experience composing in isolation.
Banana bread had all the psychological ingredients for lockdown success.
House plants enrich our domestic lives in ways we often fail to notice. But lockdown may have changed all that.
Northern Ireland is the first UK country to impose a time-limited set of restrictions to try and get on top of the coronavirus.
The 1996 novel foresaw people’s obsession with video calls – and their eventual disenchantment.
A senior World Health Organisation envoy caused consternation by proclaiming lockdowns are not a good long-term strategy against COVID-19. But it’s true, and other subtler tactics are better in the long run.
People in precarious employment are hit hardest by economic shocks.
Despite the success of relief efforts by the government and civil society, it’s clear that hunger and food insecurity remain at disturbingly high levels in households.
Coronavirus is surging in Spain, France, Germany and the UK, after many countries relaxed restrictions over the summer. They should look to success stories like Vietnam.
Top contributors
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Former Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow in Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield