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Chinese facial recognition can now identify people wearing masks

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Chinese companies specialising in facial recognition have upgraded the technology to identify people wearing masks in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. China’s AI champion SenseTime, the most valuable AI startup in the world, is one of several firms that has improved facial recognition to ensure it can identify a person without them needing to … Read more

Coronavirus: Thousands queue to buy face masks in South Korea

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Hundreds of people have been filmed queuing up to buy face masks in the city at the centre of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak.  A long line of people snaked out the doors of a supermarket in the city of Daegu on Monday as people tried to protect themselves against the spread of the disease amid fears … Read more

Coronavirus bus drivers still DON’T get hazmats… while evacuated cruise passengers wear face masks

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Coronavirus bus drivers still haven’t worn protective hazmat suits in Britain as they drove 32 British and European cruise passengers wearing face masks to two-week quarantine.  Exposed drivers and medical officers were pictured taking the tourists, who were on-board the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess, on the 217-mile trip to Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral after … Read more

South Korean city’s 2.5 million people are told to stay indoors and wear masks at all times

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South Korea has seen its first coronavirus death after Daegu city’s 2.5million people were put on lock-down today after the country’s cases nearly doubled to over 100. Mayor Kwon Young-jin made a televised address, urging citizens to wear masks and remain indoors while revealing his concerns that the contagion could rapidly overwhelm the city’s health infrastructure.  … Read more

South Korean city’s 2.5 million people are told to stay indoors and wear masks at all times

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South Korean city’s 2.5 million people are told to stay indoors and wear masks at all times as cases of coronavirus spike in the area, with half of patients linked to ‘cult-like’ sect Nearly half the country’s victims are linked to the member of Shincheonji Church The 61-year-old woman is a congregant of the cult-like … Read more

Which masks can REALLY keep you safe against the rapid spread of coronavirus?

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The defining image of the coronavirus outbreak has been pictures of people with their faces covered by masks. And it’s not just in Wuhan, where the Chinese government has made it compulsory for residents to cover their noses and mouths in public. The rapid spread of the virus has prompted some in the UK to … Read more