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Added on the 08/04/2022 15:55:48 - Copyright : France 24 EN
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.
Residents get tested for Covid-19 in their residential compounds under lockdown in Shanghai. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. IMAGES
Images of skyline in the eastern district of Shanghai as millions of people in China's financial hub are confined to their homes on Monday. The eastern half of the city goes into lockdown to curb the nation's biggest Covid outbreak. IMAGES
A long line of people snakes across a park in Washington, DC, at a makeshift Covid-19 test site near the White House, as people prepare for holiday festivities, just a few days away. IMAGES
Denpasar, Oct 4 (EFE/EPA).- The tropical island of Bali has allowed from Monday limited face-to-face classes after the local government bagan to ease a number of COVID-19 restrictions. (Camera: MADE NAGI).SHOT LIST: STUDENTS ATTEND A FACE-TO-FACE CLASS AT A SPECIAL SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN IN DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA.
Kolkata (India), Sep 14 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Piyal Adhikary) .- The Indian authorities continued this Tuesday with the covid-19 tests in Calcutta while the cases seem to decline, after having exceeded their worst wave of covid-19.FOOTAGE FROM COVID-19 TESTING IN KOLKATA, INDIA.