By Reuters More than 500 girls have been rescued from child marriage in northern Ethiopia since schools were shut due to the new coronavirus, a regional official said, as fears mount that the pandemic is reversing years of work to stop underage unions. Ethiopia closed its schools in mid-March, sending 26 million children home, where […]
By Reuters Authorities in 23 countries across five continents have sought access to contact tracing technology from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, the companies announced on Wednesday as they released the initial version of their system. The Apple-Google technology enables governments fighting the novel coronavirus to publish mobile apps in the coming days that […]
By Reuters It is not a bird, a plane or Superman: the aircraft humming in the skies above Colombia’s capital Bogota are instead police drones that are meant to detect people with high temperatures or those violating the country’s coronavirus quarantine. If a drone detects someone with a potential fever it sends the location to […]
By Reuters Rising floodwaters, as high as five feet, submerged parts of the central Michigan of Michigan on Wednesday after days of heavy rain led to the failure of two dams and the evacuation of thousands of people. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of “life-threatening” flooding as water levels of the Tittabawassee River in […]
By Samuel Case, FISM News As the worldwide Covid-19 infection rate nears 5 million, according to the John Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center, laboratories across the globe are working around the clock to find a vaccine to defeat the microscopic enemy. A vaccine would not only mean the end to the pandemic but financial gain for […]
