Locking down at home is one of the strategies that authorities in the United States have relied on to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But how does that work for the almost 600,000 people who are homeless in the U.S.
After losing two people who were very close to her and finding herself in self-quarantine, Virginia resident Susan Thompson-Gaines thought of a peculiar hobby that keeps both her and her neighbors together — not physically, but in spirit
The coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses to reevaluate the way they operate, as well as see some of the specialists in a new light
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is known historically as an important nuclear research center
This week Florida hit a grim milestone as the number of COVID cases in the state passed 100-thousand and more than three thousand people have died. Despite the spike in cases, Florida entered phase two of re-opening with non-essential businesses working at 50 percent capacity and beaches remaining open
While North Korea publicly claims that it has not confirmed a single case of the coronavirus within its borders, RFA reported in January that the government told people in a series of lectures that the virus had spread in three parts of the country, including North Hamgyong province. Chongjin, an industrial center with a population of 625,000, is the provincial capital
Speaking Wednesday at his regular briefing from Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that in the first month of the pandemic, there were fewer than 10,000 COVID cases reported to his organization, and in the last month, there have been almost 4 million.Latin America is World’s New Coronavirus EpicenterDeath toll in region surpasses 100,000
Russia has held its long awaited celebrations to mark the end of World War Two, with the Kremlin dismissing concerns over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to hold a grand military parade on Red Square
According to a press release issued by the Amnesty International on 24 June, policing the Pendemic covers 12 European countries and exposes a disturbing pattern of racial bias which is linked to concerns about institutional racism within police forces, and echoes wider concerns raised in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests
As in other countries, the economic fallout in Malaysia from the coronavirus pandemic has hit small businesses such as restaurants especially hard. There are estimates that up to ten percent of these businesses have had to shut. Dave Grunebaum reports from Kuala Lumpur-VOA NEWS