A teacher from Virginia needed a private place to conduct her remote learning classes. Lesia Bakalets tells about how she turned a small space into an unusual office
The restrictions imposed during South Africa’s battle with COVID-19 have left lasting damage on untold numbers South Africans — including the nation’s already pinched middle class
Chinese authorities building a fence topped with barbed-wire along China’s border with Myanmar’s Shan state to curb the spread of the coronavirus failed to hold pre-construction talks with their Myanmar counterparts and may have infringed upon the officially demarcated border line, local administrators said
Authorities from the New Mon State Party (NMSP), an opposition party that signed the Myanmar government’s nationwide cease-fire agreement in 2018, said that Mon national education schools within its territory in Mon state have remained opened because they believe that students and teachers are not at risk of infection
The UN official stressed that “we must ensure that this vaccine becomes available to everyone, everywhere, rich or poor, man or woman.”
California, the second largest state in the United States, is undergoing a surge in Covid cases, prompting the governor to issue a regional stay-at-home order
While news about COVID-19 vaccines are “encouraging,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today (16 Nov) said “this is not the time for complacency.”
Not all Americans have adopted mask-wearing, especially not those who view masks through a political lens.But pandemics have changed public habits in the past. Wearing a face covering is much more common in East Asia since the outbreak of SARS,a viral respiratory illness,in 2003