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W. Africa taps Ebola lessons to fight off novel coronavirus

Sierra Leone is the only country in West Africa that has yet to report a case of Covid-19. but it hopes that its bitter experiences with Ebola will help it fight the disease if it arrives.

South China Morning Post

African officials accused of brutality in lockdown

allAfrica.com

ISIS members riot, escape Syrian prison

Several ISIS members escaped from a Syrian prison by ripping off doors and using them to break down a wall during a “detention facility uprising,” authorities said.

CNN

India lockdown spurs massive worker exodus

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to lock down the nation has spurred an exodus of millions of migrant workers and families unlike anything seen in India since partition.

Guardian

What virus responses reveal about cultures

It’s been said that a person’s true character is revealed in a crisis – and if the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything so far, the same can be said for a country.

BBC

Wuhan’s virus ground-zero market hides in plain sight

Times of India

Deaths, intubations swamp New Orleans doctors

Reuters

How do hospitals decide who to treat first?

Associated Press

As coronavirus rips through Pakistan, volunteers rush out to help

NPR

US may have reached endgame in Afghanistan

Washington has admitted to the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s mission to heal the political rift among Afghan politicians and to urge them to implement the peace agreement signed in Doha on February 29.

Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Poor in locked-down Delhi face hunger

For the Muslims whose lives were devastated by the riots, all of this applies, but worse. With no homes, the Eidgah camp was their main sanctuary, unless they could depend on the charity of relatives who put them up.

Guardian

Singapore court upholds ban on gay sex

A Singapore court upheld a colonial-era law that punishes sex between men after it threw out petitions that challenged the ban that could see gay men jailed for up to two years.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNMENT

Hungary allows Orbán to rule by decree

Hungary has passed new coronavirus measures that includes jail terms for spreading misinformation and gives no clear time limit to a state of emergency that allows the nationalist prime minister to rule by decree.

Guardian

Mexico’s president is a coronavirus skeptic

As Mexico fast approaches what’s highly likely to be a large coronavirus outbreak, the country’s leadership — mainly its president — mostly insists that everything is fine.

Vox

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Syrian refugee develops super-seeds

Plant virologist Safaa Kumari discovered seeds that could safeguard food security in the region – and risked her life to rescue them from Aleppo, Syria.

Guardian

Scientists discover protein nowhere on Earth

On a meteorite, scientists believe they have discovered the first complete extraterrestrial protein that could define life’s origins on earth.

Witsnews

Wild animals also practice social distancing

Social distancing is not a novel concept in the natural world, where infectious diseases are commonplace. In fact, several social species will expel members within their own community if they are infected with a pathogen.

National Geographic

Why is it so hard not to touch your face?

Ignoring an itchy nose or hair in your eyes is easier said than done. Even medical school students being trained in infectious disease prevention touched their faces 23 times an hour during a lecture.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Coronavirus looms over fragile Afghan system

Since late February, more than 115,000 Afghans have returned home through the border crossing in Herat province in what has been the biggest inwards migration wave in Afghanistan’s recent history.

Guardian

Chinese babies may be infected in womb

Three babies in China may have contracted coronavirus in the womb before birth. Experts say the evidence in these cases is inconclusive and does not prove coronavirus can pass from mother to child during pregnancy.

LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Barry Eichengreen):

Will sky-high unemployment lead to authoritarianism or progress?

Guardian

Column (Michael Ellison):

Some students at closed colleges have nowhere to go.

NBC News

Column (Vijay Kolinjivadi):

The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

IKEA makes masks to help fight coronavirus

Furniture giant IKEA is producing face masks and other protective gear for hospitals, joining a growing list of companies branching out of their normal business areas to help meet equipment shortages to fight coronavirus.

Reuters

James Dyson invents ventilator in 10 days

After Boris Johnson called Sir James Dyson saying they needed ventilators. Dyson refocused resources and worked with The Technology Partnership, to design and build an entirely new ventilator, The CoVent.

Forbes

CBS News’ Steve Hartman is teaching thousands of kids online about different kinds of heroes

CBS News

Coronavirus: Creativity, kindness and canals offer hope amid outbreak

BBC

Dr. Fauci doughnuts are selling like hotcakes at Donuts Delite

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Ford and GE will produce 50K ventilators

Ford’s partnership with GE Healthcare expects to produce 50,000 simplified ventilators by July 8 to help critically ill coronavirus patients, with cranked-up production of 30,000 per month after that as needed.

Forbes

George Soros ‘gifts’ $1M to Budapest

George Soros will contribute $1.1 million to help Budapest, Hungary, prepare for the coronavirus pandemic.

Forbes

Somalia sends 20 doctors to help Italy

The Somali government has confirmed that it has sent 20 doctors to Italy to help contain the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) amid a surge in deaths.

Daily Nation

ENVIRONMENT

‘Cocaine hippos’ helping river ecosystems

Hippos that were brought to Colombia decades ago by Pablo Escobar, the notorious cocaine kingpin, are now thriving in the country’s river ecosystems. Scientists suspect that river habitats may benefit from their presence.

LiveScience

Peacock spiders show more of their colors

Seven new peacock spiders are in the journal Zootaxa. And like their cousins in the Maratus genus, they all live in Australia and they feature amazing iridescent colors that males flaunt during courtship.

BBC

Missing piece for getting to 100% clean power

Across the country, dozens of cities and states have passed laws or resolutions targeting 100 percent carbon-free electricity — most recently 20 communities in Utah and the state of Virginia.

Vox

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

In Zimbabwe, either coronavirus or starvation

As the country enters a “total lockdown”, social distancing is pushed aside in the struggle to obtain food, cash, cheap public transport, even clean water.

Associated Press

Huge crowds as India lockdown sparks mass migration

BBC

COVID-19 reveals inequality in Latin America

From Mexico City to Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world’s most unequal region, where many of Latin America’s first cases arrived with the elite returning from vacations or work trips.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

The USNS Comfort, a medical ship in the U.S. Navy fleet, approaches Pier 90 in New York City on Monday. The ship will provide relief for New York hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Mobilus In Mobili) Photo used under CC BY

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