Reading Log (NEWS)



Day 1
Thursday
Date : 16 April 2020
Time
12.00 – 12.40
Title
1. Coronavirus: Will Covid-19 speed up the use of robots to replace human workers?
2. Tech Tent: Learning to code during lockdown
3. Coronavirus lockdown: Laptops offered for online school lessons at home
Sources
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Newsworthy event (Main event)
According to the futurist Martin Ford, using robots in the post Covid-19 world also presents some marketing advantages.
How parents are using the lockdown to get children interested in coding.
Disadvantaged teenagers in England will be able to borrow laptops to help them study at home when schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Background event (Elaboration)
As a pandemic grips the world, a person could be forgiven if they had forgotten about another threat to humanity's way of life - the rise of robots. For better or worse the robots are going to replace many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the coronavirus outbreak is speeding up the process.
Take Ruth Moore and her sons Reuben and Jonah, aged eight and five. Stuck at home in Oxford and looking to vary the boys' diet of schoolwork, Ruth started thinking about introducing the boys to coding.
     The Department for Education is also supporting free online lessons for primary and secondary pupils. Laptops or tablets will be provided for some deprived 15-year-olds who do not already have access to a computer. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said it will "take the pressure" off parents with children at home.
New Vocabularies found
Sanitizing, rehire, acquire, engage, pupils, eligible
Comments
Now increasingly advanced technology, anything can be accessed via the internet, including in the current circumstances that require us to be at home.


Day 2
Friday
Date :17 April 2020
Time
19.00 – 19.25
Title
1. COVID-19: Surabaya 'plus two' to apply together for PSBB
2. China Dismisses Claims Coronavirus Originated in Lab.
3. 'We must care more for each other': Jokowi calls for cooperation in the fight against COVID-19
Sources

Newsworthy event (Main event)
1.      Surabaya municipal administration and two regencies of the greater metropolitan area, Gresik and Sidoarjo have decided on Sunday to apply to the Health Ministry for permission to impose large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in their area.
2.      China is dismissing the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic originated in biosecurity laboratory and not from animal-to-human transmission in Wuhan as commonly believed.
1.      “Actions of solidarity affirm the greatness of Indonesia as a nation that [upholds] gotong royong, a nation that always finds strengths and local solutions amid various crises,” the President said in a televised address published on the Presidential Secretariat’s YouTube channel on Saturday afternoon.
Background event (Elaboration)
1.      The multilayered measures that we have all taken to contain COVID-19 [transmission] don't seem to be enough
2.      China rejects the claim because according to Director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, news that the Coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab, popularized by conservative supporters of US President Donald Trump is a "conspiracy theory" and also because until now, there is no strong evidence that Coronavirus come from Wuhan, China.
3.       President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said that mutual cooperation will help residents to navigate the COVID-19 crisis and called on members of the public to maintain discipline in fighting the viral disease.
New Vocabularies found
 Evidence, forthcoming, authorities
Comments
coronavirus, which is epidemic everywhere. actually I'm afraid, in Indonesia alone nearly 7,000 people are infected.


Day 3
Saturday
Date : 18 April 2020
Time
10.10 – 10.35
Title
1. 'They need mental support': RSPI Sulianti Saroso nurse shares experience treating COVID-19
2. Staying positive: A roundup of good COVID-19-related news
3. ‘It’s fun!’: Underrated TVRI becomes students' favorite during stay-at-home orders
Sources
Newsworthy event (Main event)
1. "We have to motivate patients and strengthen them mentally so that their immune system is also strengthened," he said. "They hold our hands and us encourage them. They need mental support." Said Nurdiansyah.
2. Women farmers in Menang Raya village, South Sumatra, are weaving plant fibers to produce masks to help protect villagers from COVID-19. The Jakarta Environment Agency has reported that the air quality has improved since the city ordered physical distancing urged offices to suspend operations and limited public transportation on March 23 to combat the spread of COVID-19. Multi-service app Grab has collaborated with dozens of its restaurant partners to provide 1,000 food packages to medical workers in Bandung and Cimahi, West Java, in an initiative to help frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19.
3. A new educational program airing on public broadcaster TVRI might provide a good opportunity for more students across the archipelago to do their schoolwork from home.
Background event (Elaboration)
1. Besides medical treatment, COVID-19 patients also need companionship, a nurse at the Sulianti Saroso Infectious Diseases Hospital (RSPI) said.
2.   As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to climb in Indonesia and large-scale social restrictions remain in place across the country, it is easy to lose sight of the positive developments in the struggle against the outbreak.
3.   More than 45 million Indonesians students are holed up at home for the rest of the academic year, as schools close to curb the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Much like the rest of the world, these children face some of the longest no-school days in history, without much certainty of when it all will end.
New Vocabularies found
Referral, strengthened, glimpse, sewing, confined
Comments
Those news relating to the plague that is rife everywhere which is covid-19. Stay safe and stay healthy.





Day 4
Sunday
Date :19 April 2020

Time
09.10 – 09. 45

Title
1.      Singapore spike reveals the scale of migrant worker infections


2.      'Outbreak won't end in 14 days,' says Anies as he gears up to extend PSBB in Jakarta


3.      Residents told to stay at home for 2 weeks as Jakarta goes into partial lockdown

Sources









Newsworthy event (Main event)
1.      Once praised for its success in containing the virus, Singapore is now facing a surge of infections linked to industrial worksites and tightly packed worker dormitories.

2.      Jakarta is likely to extend the PSBB

3.      Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has urged all residents to stay at home for the next 14 days as the capital city imposed large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) on Friday to cut the chain of COVID-19 spread.

Background event (Elaboration)
1.      On Thursday, 728 new cases were reported, bringing the total number of cases to 4,427. Almost 90% of these infections have been linked to these workers.

2.      Jakarta is likely to extend the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), as 14 days is not long enough to bring COVID-19 transmission in the Indonesian capital under control, its governor has said.

3.      Jakarta is likely to extend the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), as 14 days is not long enough to bring COVID-19 transmission in the Indonesian capital under control, its governor has said.

New Vocabularies found
Vacant, cramped, welfare, mitigation

Comments
I found so much news about Corona. Especially about Indonesia, because this time the distribution in Indonesia is quite severe. I hope this virus disappears soon.

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