Palm Springs cancelled the huge BNP Paribas Tennis Tournament and even the Rancho Mirage Library is now closed for two weeks. All related to concerns over the virus.
"BNP Paribas Open to be cancelled for 2020. INDIAN WELLS, CA, USA -- Due to health concerns, the 2020 BNP Paribas Open will not take place. The tournament announced on Sunday on social media that the year's first Premier Mandatory event will be cancelled after a coronavirus (COVID-19) case was detected locally."
This seems to be some positive local news:
UBC researchers get federal funding to help with global COVID-19 response
Yue Qian could only look on, feeling helpless, as COVID-19 ravaged her home city of Wuhan—the epicentre of an outbreak that has killed more than 3,000 people and infected more than 90,000 globally.
“When the quarantine was first issued, I was so worried,” says Qian, an assistant professor in the UBC department of sociology. “I was desperately trying to connect with my family in Wuhan to make sure they were OK. Watching from afar has been really hard.”
Today, Qian was announced as one of the UBC researchers—along with Dr. Richard Lester, Dr. Srinivas Murthy, Natalie Prystajecky and Dr. Mel Krajden—who are the principal investigators of teams collectively receiving more than $2.8 million in grants from the federal government to study COVID-19. The funding is focused on accelerating the development, testing, and implementation of measures to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.
UBC sociologist Yue Qian, who is originally from Wuhan, is studying the human experiences and mental health consequences of quarantine. Credit: Paul Joseph/University of British Columbia
