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Gizmodo reports San Francisco and Alameda counties in California have stopped using Verily to test for the novel coronavirus. Google's health-centered sister company launched a $55 million pilot COVID-19 testing program earlier this year to set up mobile and stationary test sites. However, Verily’s services weren’t geared towards filling the needs of communities especially vulnerable to the pandemic. Specifically, the services put people of color, those with low income, and the homeless at a disadvantage for using Verily's site and accessing test results. Another complaint was that Verily reserves the right to use collected data for 'commercial product research and development.' While Verily says strict privacy controls are in place, critics say the system may still violate federal health data privacy laws.
As COVID-19 cases pass 550.000 in Peru, health care personnel pay door to door health checks in the residential area of Perales, Lima, under military and police supervision. IMAGES
Yangon, Apr 7 (EFE/EPA).- Trishaws drivers in Yangon on Tuesday received food during a food donation event to help low-income people amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Myanmar has banned all international commercial passenger flights into all airports across the country and forbidden all large public gatherings – including the Thingyan Water Festival, the country's biggest annual holiday – in a bid to to stem the spread of the virus. (CAMERA: NYEIN CHAN NAING).SHOT LIST: TRISHAWS DRIVERS RECEIVE FREE FOOD DURING A FOOD DONATION EVENT TO HELP LOW-INCOME PEOPLE AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns a "toxic mix" at the global level of low vaccination coverage and testing rates, creating a fertile breeding ground for new Covid-19 variants to 'breed'. SOUNDBITE
Dubai's Expo-2020 opens for visitors, during which the United Arab Emirates hopes to welcome about 25 million guests, as it is considered the first universal exhibition held in the Middle East and the largest event globally since the start of the Covid-19. pandemic. IMAGES
The EU is to donate another 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries, more than doubling its present pledge, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen announces. SOUNDBITE