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Disaster & Management

COVID-19 victim in Illinois sues Walmart for negligence

According to the complaint, Walmart did not follow guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Labor for maintaining safe workplaces, such as implementing social distancing.

Walmart also hired new workers in an expedited process without properly screening them for symptoms of COVID-19, Evans’ estate says.

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Love lockdown: Danes snap up sex toys after being told to stay home

Each day the retailer ships out some 1,500 packages to online customers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Across the region, sales doubled in the first week of April compared to the same period last year.

Danes are famed for their ‘hygge’ – a word roughly meaning “cosiness”, for being among the happiest people in the world and for their progressive laws such as the legalisation of pornography in 1969, long before most of Europe.

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Thai insurer’s Coronavirus cover draws ‘Overwhelming’ demand

Since it began selling policies in February, TQM Corp. — together with insurance partners that include Bangkok Insurance Pcl and Dhipaya Insurance Pcl — has sold more than 1 million plans for infection by the virus, company President Unchalin Punnipa said Thursday. Policies cost between 439 baht ($13.31) and 1,250 baht for one-year coverage of as much as 1 million baht for medical treatment and compensation if holders contract the disease, according to the company’s website.

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