Month: November 2020

Enlarge / This photo taken on November 22, 2020, shows health workers in protective suits waiting to conduct COVID-19 coronavirus tests on staff at Pudong Airport in Shanghai. (credit: Getty | STR)

Nearly 18,000 workers were sealed into Shanghai’s main airport Sunday and tested for COVID-19 in one night after authorities detected seven cases linked to the cargo unit of the facility.

Social media lit up with dramatic smartphone videos showing large crowds of workers pushing against guards in white hazmat suits in the airport’s parking structure.

By Monday morning, local authorities grabbed hold of the situations, tweeting out videos of the 17,719 workers in orderly lines waiting to get tested, with calm piano music playing in the background. According to The Washington Post, it remained unclear what happened to the workers after that—if they were still being held at the airport, if they were moved to a quarantine facility, or if they were allowed to go home.

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The Black Friday deals have landed. While the shopping holiday is technically still a few days away, a number of retailers have set several of their best Black Friday deals live early. Like everything else in 2020, this increase in advance sales is partially due to the ongoing pandemic: longer online sales (hopefully) means fewer people congregating in brick-and-mortar stores.

In any event, the early deals make it easier than usual to get a jump start on your holiday shopping. And if you're interested in picking up some new gadgets or tech gear, the Dealmaster is here to help. As usual, we've dug through hundreds of advertised offers to find the early Black Friday deals most worth your time, discarding the price drops that aren't really deals and the products that aren't worth considering in the first place.

The result is our early Black Friday roundup below. We're sure to see more noteworthy offers go live as we get closer to Black Friday proper—and we'll have a separate roundup on the big day itself—but for now, we still have a truckload of great deals on TVs, video games, laptops, headphones, Bluetooth speakers, smart home devices, and much more.