Virus-isolated silver surfers ride a new tech wave


An elderly person during a computer workshop in Villandraut, near Sauternes, southwestern France, in 2018. — AFP

LONDON: Before entering coronavirus lockdown with the rest of Britain in March, 73-year-old Pamela Cox had never shopped or banked online. Zoom was something you did with a camera lens.

Now the retiree is one of many in her generation finding a new IT proficiency later in life, one of the few positives to come out of the deadly pandemic as much of the world starts to scale back restrictions.

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