Coronavirus Privacy: Are South Korea’s Alerts Too Revealing?
As South Korea battles a snowballing number of Covid-19 cases, the government is letting people know if they were in the vicinity of a patient. But the volume of information has led to some awkward moments and now there is as much fear of social stigma as of illness, as Hyung Eun Kim of BBC News Korean reports.
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Coronavirus in Australia: Lorryload of toilet paper catches fire
March 5, 2020
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Robert Johnston
A lorry carrying toilet paper had caught fire due to a mechanical fault, amidst Australia’s coronavirus-induced buying frenzy of toilet paper.