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A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk in New Delhi, India. Millions of Indian families have lost all income amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by M M) Photo used under CC BY

India coronavirus lockdown hits the poor the hardest

Millions of Indians are now jobless and fear going hungry as they desperately wait for the government help amid world’s largest lockdown. Fear of hunger spurred hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and their families to flee back to their villages last month.

Al Jazeera

EU ministers progress on economic response

Finance ministers of eurozone countries reached an “excellent accord” on fighting the pandemic-triggered recession. Europe has proven itself to be “a match” for the crisis, said French representative Bruno La Maire.

Deutsche Welle

As deaths mount, virus attacks global economy

The pandemic is battering the world’s major economies and could trigger the deepest global recession in generations, experts warn as rising European and U.S. death tolls dampen hopes for a quick turnaround.

Asia Times Online

Why some COVID-19 patients crash

NPR

Your pets are not likely to get or transmit coronavirus

Time

Human impact on wildlife to blame for spread of viruses

Guardian

Spain coronavirus death toll hits 15,000 as new cases slow

U.S. News & World Report

Venezuelan refugees returning home amid pandemic

CNN

Map:

How coronavirus spread across the globe — visualized

Guardian

On other side of nightmare, Wuhan starts anew

Wuhan faced one of the strictest quarantine lockdowns ever attempted for a contemporary city to try to contain the new virus that caused the disease. Life will not simply snap back to how it was, because too much has been lost.

South China Morning Post

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

Protesters destroy Ivory Coast coronavirus testing center

Al Jazeera

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

Extreme medical shortages in rebel-held Idlib

Aid groups are concerned about the possibility of the coronavirus pandemic reaching rebel-held Idlib city in Syria.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Tucker Carlson):

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

FOX News

Column (Karsten Noko):

Medical colonialism in Africa is not new

Al Jazeera

Column (Afua Hirsch):

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

Guardian

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GOOD 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

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

Twitter CEO gives $1B to COVID-19 efforts

Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said he is donating $1 billion in Square equity to support relief efforts for the COVID-19.

CNBC

Man providing clean sneakers to New Yorkers

In 2012, Andre McDonnell started It’s From the Sole, a nonprofit organization that gives new or gently used sneakers and brand-new socks to the homeless across the U.S. and around the world.

Today

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

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

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 girl has prepared her stuffed animal to avoid giving anyone the coronavirus. (Photo by vperemen.com) Photo used under CC BY

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