The Secretary-General announced a new United Nations Communications Response initiative to “flood the Internet with facts and science
Many schools throughout the United States are shut down amid the coronavirus outbreak, with some starting online classes to keep kids learning. VOA’s Saqib Ul Islam met a family in the state of Maryland trying to fit in this new routine, as schools there remain closed at least until April 24
The World Health Organization says the landlocked nation of 1.1 million people, formerly known as Swaziland, has reported 12 cases of the virus, and no deaths
South Korea has been widely praised as a global model for how to contain the coronavirus. Now, it is trying to show the world how to vote during the pandemic. The country has announced strict safety measures for its legislative election next week
Even though many countries began advising citizens to wear face masks in public not long after the coronavirus outbreak started, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, only recently began recommending that people use cloth coverings for their faces in public places, like grocery stores. In Los Angeles, one fashion designer who is also a registered nurse started making face masks even before the U.S. issued the new recommendation
Some international students in China are feeling relieved as the lockdown in Wuhan, China, is being lifted after the COVID-19 outbreak. But they remain concerned about family back home as the virus has spread to more than 170 countries
South Africa has 2028 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (C2OVID-19), with 25 deaths
The threat came knocking on the country’s western border with Iran, when thousands of panicked Afghan refugees started returning, voluntarily or otherwise, with evident symptoms of the COVID-19 disease
Tribert Chishanyu, president of Zimbabwe Traditional Practitioners Association, said his organization was happy that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is allowing herbalists to treat coronavirus-positive Zimbabweans
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