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A worker makes checks at the Miditech Gloves' rubber glove factory in Malaysia in 2020. | Miditech Gloves via Thomson Reuters Foundation
Malaysian firm Meditech Gloves will begin production of natural gloves that can biodegrade 100 times faster than synthetic, petroleum-based options.
A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom app at home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain April 2, 2020. | REUTERS/ Albert Gea
As lockdowns lift but social-distancing rules remain, more services and businesses will continue to go digital.
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Pacific islands have had relatively few COVID-19 infections but migrant workers have been forced to return home.
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