Covid-19 was ‘man-made’ virus, claims US scientist
WASHINGTON: A US-based scientist, who worked at a research lab based in China’s Wuhanhas revealed that Covid-19 was a “manmade virus” that had leaked from the facility, according to a report in The New York Post. Andrew Huff, who had worked for a New York-based non-profit, Eco Health Alliance, said the coronavirus had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology more than two years ago. He blamed authorities for the “biggest US intelligence failure since 9/11.”
Meta threatens to remove US news content from FB
WASHINGTON: Meta has threatened to remove news content from Facebook in the US. It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook. A similar law, passed in Australia, led to news on Facebook being briefly suspended last year. Meta claims their platform, in fact, provides increased traffic to struggling news outlets.
23 pc worldwide suffering from violence at work: ILO
UNITED NATIONS: More than one in five people employed – almost 23 per cent – have experienced violence and harassment in the workplace, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to the first ever joint analysis of data worldwide carried out by the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO), the independent global charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) and analytics and polling company, Gallup.
