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A Yanomami mother and baby in Brazil. The Yanomami are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America. They live in the rainforests and mountains of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. (Photo by Sam Valadi) Photo used under CC BY

Virus pierces Amazon, hits isolated Yanomami tribe

Brazil has announced the first coronavirus case among the Yanomami people, an Amazon indigenous group known for its remoteness and vulnerability to foreign diseases.

Al Jazeera

Uganda faces food shortage as coronavirus disrupts locust fight

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of migrants stuck in Niger amid coronavirus pandemic

Al Jazeera

Pandemic could trigger violent unrest, UN says

The United Nations Security Council was warned that the coronavirus pandemic could trigger violent unrest, undermining efforts to fight the disease that has killed close to 100,000 worldwide.

NBC News

Virus may push half billion people into poverty

The economic fallout from coronavirus could increase global poverty by up to half a billion, Oxfam warns. It will be the first time poverty has risen globally in 30 years.

BBC

How long will lockdowns, travel bans last?

Wuhan’s reopening is offering hope to billions of people chafing under lockdowns, wondering when life will return to a semblance of normality. Experts urge caution, however.

Al Jazeera

Sweden goes rogue, refuses to lock down

CNN

EU finance ministers reach $590B virus deal

NPR

Can a century-old TB vaccine steel the immune system against the new coronavirus?

Science

HUMAN RIGHTS

Is coronavirus killing press freedom in Africa?

As Africa remains on COVID-19 lockdown, journalists across the continent report having their rights violated by security forces. Cases of physical violence are on the rise. Is coronavirus killing press freedom in Africa?

Deutsche Welle

Coronavirus fears in Assam’s detention centers

Hundreds of undocumented migrants remain detained and at risk in crowded centers across the northeast Indian state.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNMENT

Spain warns European Union future at risk

The EU’s future is in jeopardy if it cannot come up with a joint financial response to combat the new coronavirus, Spanish officials warned, after the bloc failed to agree on more support for their reeling economies.

Japan Times

Ecuador distributes cardboard coffins

The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador is struggling with the rate of COVID-19 deaths. The government is having to distribute cardboard coffins to meet demands.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why US blacks die more often from COVID-19

Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care and are more likely to work jobs that require them to leave their home.

Japan Times

Nasa’s all-female team of ‘aquanauts’

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Rwanda struggles with COVID-19 testing

Like many other nations in Africa, Rwanda is struggling to carry out enough daily tests to control the coronavirus pandemic.

Al Jazeera

Protecting wildlife could stop next pandemic

The assault on ecosystems that allowed COVID-19 to jump from animals to humans went far beyond merchants hunting and selling rare wildlife. Biodiversity can restrain pathogens before they ever leave the wild.

Time

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Gaby Hinsliff):

We used to moan about normal life. Now we fear we’ll never get it back

Guardian

Column (Tucker Carlson):

We must ask the experts how they screwed up the coronavirus models so badly

FOX News

Column (Afua Hirsch):

If coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, how come black people are bearing the brunt?

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Teen’s service gets groceries to elderly, ill

Trip Wright started the website, ZoomFood, where people can create an online grocery list and have a volunteer deliver the items right to their doorstep.

WLWT

Tyler Perry pays grocery bills for thousands in two states

CBS news

Nigerian engineers fix ventilators for free

Two Nigerian software engineers have been fixing ventilators for free at a hospital in northern Nigeria.

BBC

Rio samba schools sew scrubs for workers

Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools usually spend the year sewing costumes for the city’s blowout Carnival celebration. Now, they’re making medical outfits for hospital workers who face a surge of coronavirus patients.

Associated Press

California artist paints murals to brighten streets amid Coronavirus outbreak

Inside Edition

Librarian uses 3D printing to fight coronavirus

A doctor in New York asked for help to alleviate the shortage of personal protective equipment for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus fight. A librarian stepped in to help.

CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Charity redistributes prepared food to shelters

Transfernation redistributes leftover prepared food from restaurants and companies to local homeless shelters and food pantries in New York City.

Ozy

German charity delivers essentials to families

A small Christian charity that provides help to about 1,300 poor families across Germany is now delivering food, diapers, soap and children’s games to their doorstep.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Global lockdowns won’t halt climate crisis

Global temperatures have continued to rise, resulting in the current climate crisis, and any reduction of CO2 emissions would seem to be good news. But this decline in emissions won’t mean much when it comes to the big picture.

CBC News

Outbreak triggers drop in emissions

Associated Press

Great Barrier Reef bleaching more widespread

An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years.

Associated Press

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Virus crisis cuts off billions sent to global poor

The devastation wrought by COVID-19 across the developed world in cutting into the financial lifelines for people across Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Associated Press

Bangladesh sends food aid to brothels

The government of Bangladesh has started sending emergency food and aid to the tens of thousands of women working in the country’s commercial sex industry as brothels across the country close.

Guardian

Concern mounts for Greek camps

A coronavirus outbreak in two facilities near Athens has intensified concerns about 36,000 men, women and children stranded on remote isles opposite the Turkish coast.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A representative of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission hands out face masks in Baranagar, India, this month. (Photo by Ramakrishna Math and Mission) Photo used under CC BY

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