Mounir Jamil

Junior social media strategist with a degree in business. Passionate about technology, film, music and video games.

COVID-19 survey shows manufacturing delays

PRISYM ID, a label management software company has conducted a COVID-19 survey amongst medical device manufacturers internationally. The survey indicates that many manufacturers have experienced severe disruptions as a result of the pandemic. The COVID-19 survey sampled 30 different world leading medical companies, and found that a majority of the respondents, approximately 70%, experienced manufacturing […]

What is a second wave and should we prepare for it?

The current pandemic has caused substantial disruption, and it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Some countries are still in the midst of the battle against the pandemic, some have managed to contain the situation, yet all countries fear a second wave. Health experts in the UK are warning ministers to prepare for […]

First Bus offers new service in response to the Coronavirus

First Bus, is one of the UK’s largest bus operators, with a fleet of around 6400 buses. The company has shown resourcefulness, having recently developed and implemented a new booking method in response to the Coronavirus. They are currently piloting the framework in Bristol and will be introducing it across areas of the West Country […]

Pandemic threatens ports in China

The Chinese Ministry of Transport recently released data that shows the TEU traffic at the 8 largest ports in China has decreased by 5.4% year on year, between January and June 2020, and the main cause of this decrease is due to the pandemic. In the monthly issue of the NCFI (Ningbo Containerized Freight Index), […]

COVID-19 Law Lab Launching Soon

Launching throughout this week is the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative that shares and gathers legal documents from more than 190 countries worldwide in order to implement and establish healthy legal frameworks, aimed at managing the pandemic. The primary target is ensuring that these laws protect the wellbeing and health of individuals/communities while adhering to international […]

Google will ban advertisements beside fake COVID-19 news

Starting August, Google will ban advertisements that are running next to debunked COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Under Google’s new policy, supervisors will now have the ability to entirely remove ads from certain articles, in addition, they can now ban all advertisements for websites that do not comply or violate the new rules, according to CNBC. Google […]

The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health

The pandemic has spread at an alarming rate and has caused many disruptions worldwide. Some experts have expressed great concern for the impact Covid-19 – lockdowns, social-distancing measures and socio-economic adversity – will have on our overall mental health. Dr Konstantinos Petsanis, a Greek Neurologist based in Switzerland who specializes in general cognitive disorders and […]

India: COVID-19 effects on agriculture

India has successfully taken preemptive actions to limit the spread of COVID-19, enforcing a 21-day nationwide lockdown for its population of 1.3 billion which began March 25. Despite this, the virus has spread widely in comparison to other countries, and as cases are increasing the COVID-19 effects on agriculture are becoming more noticeable. The economic […]

COVID-19 impacts on the telecoms industry

As the current pandemic continues to unfold, reports indicate a new wave of change to come. While it may be too early to know all the details of this change, we can say the telecoms industry is headed towards a new era. What we know so far is that service providers were well equipped to […]

Coronavirus in Pakistan Challenges Education

Over 300,000 schools have been closed since March because of the Coronavirus in Pakistan. Students at private schools were lucky as they were able to continue learning through digital applications and platforms, however for millions of others, the essentials of a connected life – internet and smartphones – remain out of reach. With education already […]