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Women 10% more likely
to feel unsafe than men
London : Researchers have found
that on average, women are ten per
cent more likely than men to feel
unsafe on metro trains (trains that go
underground) and six per cent more
likely than men to feel unsafe on
buses. The study, published in the
Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society: Series A, was conducted by
Imperial College London on data
from 2009 to 2018. For the findings,
the researchers looked at a third of a
million passenger responses to
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
(CSSs) from 28 cities across four continents.
According to the study, the largest
difference between women and men's
perceptions of safety was in Europe,
where women were 12 per cent more
likely to report feeling unsafe than
men.The smallest difference was in
South America, where women were
nine per cent more likely to report feeling
unsafe than men. "Feeling unsafe
US Sikh Coalition publishes
COVID-19 guidelines in Punjabi
Washington : The
California-based Sikh Coalition
has prepared COVID-19 guidelines
in Punjabi to enable the
about 500,000 Sikhs living in
America to better understand the
pandemic, a media report said.
The guidelines published in
the website of the Coalition, a
Sikh-American advocacy group,
cover all important aspects of the
London : In order to fight a pandemic,
travel restrictions are most useful in
its early and late phases, a new study
suggests.
Analysis of human mobility and epidemiological
data by a global consortium
of researchers, led by the
University of Oxford in the UK and
Northeastern University in the US,
shows that human mobility was predictive
of the spread of the epidemic in
China. "Our findings show that early in
the coronavirus outbreak travel restrictions
were effective in preventing the
import of infections from a known
can lead to social, professional, economic,
and health problems for those
affected," said study lead author Laila
Ait Bihi Ouali from Imperial College
London in the UK. "In this case,
women who feel unsafe on public
transport might turn down shift work at
certain times of day, or avoid social or
work events that require travelling a
certain route," Ouali added.According
to the researchers, public transport
operators send online CSSs every year
to passengers that are designed to
ongoing pandemic beginning
with social distancing which is
explained as taking simple steps
to reduce close contact between
people to contain the spread of
the deadly virus, the American
Bazaar said in the report on
Thursday.
In both Punjabi and Hindi,
people are advised about steps to
ensure that they were taking an
source," said study researcher Moritz
Kraemer from the University of Oxford.
Restrictions of travel from Wuhan
province in China, unfortunately, came
too late.
The research, published in the journal
Science, showed that the impact of
travel restrictions declines as the epidemic
grows. Provinces outside Hubei
that acted early to test, track and contain
imported coronavirus cases fared the
best in preventing or containing local
outbreaks, the study said.
Mobile geolocation data from Chinabased
search engine giant Baidu Inc,
measure general feelings of satisfaction
with their networks. The surveys ask
passengers their level of agreement
with various statements about availability,
time, information, comfort,
security, customer care, accessibility,
environment, and overall satisfaction.
The response options are usually:
agree strongly; agree; neither agree
nor disagree; disagree; or disagree
strongly.To carry out the study, the
researchers looked at 327,403 completed
responses to CSSs from 2009
active part in flattening the curve
to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The coalition on its resources
page will also provide constant
updates on closures and changes
with respect to citizen and foreign
traveller entry and exit.
The information on federal as
well as state benefits to help people
get through this period of
slowdown would also be provided,
said the American Bazaar
report.
The resource informs that in
addition to federal relief, all 50
US states have unique policies
with regard to unemployment,
medicaid, and welfare programs.
The Federal benefit resources
page also provide a summary of
the bipartisan Families First
Coronavirus Response Act
signed by President Donald
Trump on March 18, which
authorizes more than $100 billion
worth of aid to address the
effects of COVID-19.
Travel restrictions useful in early, late phases of pandemic
combined with a rich epidemiological
dataset from the Open COVID-19 Data
Working Group, showed that local person-to-person
transmission happened
extensively early on in the coronavirus
outbreak and was mitigated by drastic
control measures. However, with an
average incubation period of five days,
and up to 14 days in some cases, these
mobility restrictions did not begin to
positively impact the data on new cases
for over a week -- with things appearing
to get worse in the 5-7 days immediately
after the lockdown as local transmission
was well under way.
to 2018. As well as measuring overall
satisfaction scores, they focussed on
responses to three questions pertaining
to feelings of 'security' and
assigned numbers from one to five for
each potential response (one for 'agree
strongly; five for 'disagree strongly')
to quantify the responses. They then
compared the scores between men and
women and looked at whether they
differed alongside characteristics of
the transport network like rates of violence
on the network, the number of
cars per train, and busyness of vehicles
and stations. The researchers
found that around half of the women
surveyed felt safe on urban public
transport (45 per cent felt safe in
metro trains and stations; 55 per cent
felt safe in buses), but that women
were ten per cent more likely than
men to report feeling unsafe in metro
trains and stations, and six per cent
more likely than men to feel unsafe in
buses.
London : Singer Ed Sheeran will be paying
the workers at his restaurant their wages during
the coronavirus outbreak. He has even encouraged
them to get other job if they wanted to.
The 29-year-old has moved to underwrite
salaries for 10 staff at his Bertie Blossoms joint
in London's Notting Hill, reports thesun.co.uk.
A source said: "Ed's told everyone not to
worry and that he's picking up the tab and he'll
see them all again for a massive p*ss-up once
the world gets back to normal. The managers
will be checking in on the place every now and
again to make sure it is safe and secure and all
is well.
"Ed even told staff they could go out and
seek other employment if they wanted or go
help the nation by doing voluntary work.
"It's great of Ed to put everyone's mind at
rest. People will say ‘oh well he can afford it'
but often the people with the most money can
be the least generous. That's not Ed, though."
The place had opened in November. It
closed its doors last week.
The step was taken after Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, made an
announcement ordering all venues to shut as
the Government tries to battle the outbreak.
Punjab to release
6,000 prisoners
Chandigarh : With a view to decongest
prisons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Punjab is going to release nearly
6,000 prisoners from jails across the state,
Jails Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
said on Thursday. He said the prisoners
would be released on parole for six weeks
and undertrial prisoners on interim bail for
six weeks. The minister said there were
around 24,000 prisoners lodged in 24 jails
across the state against an authorised capacity
of 23,488.
As per a Supreme Court committee
report, the primary now aim is to protect the
health of the prisoners and restrict the transmission
of COVID-19 by decongesting
prisons.
Ed Sheeran to pay full wages
of workers in his restaurant
According to the researchers, among
the cases reported outside Hubei, 515
had a known travel history to Wuhan
and a symptom onset date before
January 31, 2020, compared with only
39 after this date, illustrating the effect
of travel restrictions in decreasing the
spread to other Chinese provinces.
"This is where a full package of
measures, including local mobility
restrictions, testing, tracing and isolation
need to work together to mitigate
the epidemic," Kraemer added. Chinese
provinces and other countries that have
successfully halted internal transmission
of COVID-19 need to consider
carefully how they will manage to reinstate
travel and mobility to avoid the
reintroduction and spread of the disease
in their populations, the researchers
said. "Travel and mobility restrictions
are the most useful right at the start,
when local transmission has not yet
become a factor," said Samuel V
Scarpino, Professor at Northeastern
University.
"After transmission is established,
physical distancing and the quarantine
of sick individuals will work, but it
takes time," Scarpino added.