The good news

Despite seemingly scary headlines, there is some good news and a number of heartwarming stories to come out of all this

People are getting cured

Locally, 33 people out of the recorded 50 have been cured. South Korea officials have said that the outbreak is slowing down. China has closed most of the hospitals they quickly built as the number of cases has now plunged and reported the lowest number of cases since it happened. On top of that, Shanghai Disneyland is set to reopen again albeit in a limited capacity, and we all know that Disneyland reopening is definitely a cause for celebration.

People are being creative in greeting one another

While this situation may be an introvert’s dream since socialising is being kept to a minimum, others have found creative ways of greeting each other. The handshake is taking a back seat and people have discovered fists bumps and elbow bumps as alternative ways of greeting. Director of epidemic and pandemic diseases at WHO, Dr Sylvie Brand, even retweeted an image that showed “handshake alternatives”, which included the

People are helping each other out

You hear a lot of reports about prices of masks being hiked up and recycled masks being sold, but there’s also news that’ll help you have faith in humanity again. One prime example in Thailand is the Future Forward Party, or the party formerly known as Future Forward, which has launched a crowdsourced site wherein people can find the shops for masks and hand sanitisers. In the US, a sports festival was cancelled due to the outbreak but something good came out of it: the food that was meant for the festival didn’t go to waste and was instead sent to the first-responders of the recent tornado in Nashville, Tennessee. There’s a silver lining to all of this if you just look and pay attention.