The coronavirus in Hong Kong
Passengers wear face masks in a Hong Kong bound train at Lo Wu MTR station, before the closing of the Lo Wu border following the coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong, Feb. 3, 2020.
Hong Kong has suffered its first fatality from the coronavirus outbreak — a young man who had visited Hubei Province, the epicenter of the virus, over Chinese New Year. And, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó got a standing ovation from US lawmakers at the State of the Union Address. But are people in Venezuela cheering? Plus, a new study analyzed ecstatic display songs from 28 adult African penguins in Italian zoos. Researchers found that the songs’ structure very closely imitated the structure of human language.
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