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Italians have been hanging the national flag from their balconies to express solidarity amid the coronavirus outbreak. Italy’s latest tally reported 6,078 deaths from 63,928 infections, with a world-leading fatality rate of more than 9 percent. (Photo by oriana.italy) Photo used under CC BY

Is Italy’s runaway contagion a harbinger of global impact?

Despite a series of near-draconian measures to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus, including a nationwide lockdown, Italy has been unable to “flatten the curve” — slowing the spread of the contagion in a bid to prevent overwhelming the health care system.

Al Jazeera

China is trying to revive its economy without risking more lives. The world is watching

CNN

‘Disappointed’ US to slash $1B In Afghan aid

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a decision to slash $1 billion in U.S. aid to Afghanistan, saying Washington is “disappointed” in the country’s rival leaders, who have been unable to form a government.

NPR

EU urged to evacuate cramped island camps

The European Union’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee has called for the evacuation of 42,000 people on the Greek islands as “an urgent preventive” measure to avoid “many deaths” from coronavirus.

Guardian

What happens if you catch the new coronavirus?

Al Jazeera

How Japan is winning its quiet fight against Covid-19

Asia Times Online

Tokyo 2020 Olympics officially postponed until 2021

ESPN

A plan to turn half of world into nature preserve

As humans continue to rapidly expand their domination of nature, a growing number of influential scientists and conservationists think that protecting half of the planet in some form is going to be key to keeping it habitable.

BBC

In Punjab, Indians unite against citizenship law

In a Punjabi town, known as an “oasis of tolerance,” demonstrators of diverse faiths use history to give substance to solidarity.

Al Jazeera

64 migrants die in cargo box In Mozambique

More than 60 suspected undocumented migrants from Ethiopia were found dead in a cargo container in Mozambique.

NDTV

HUMAN RIGHTS

Children in Egypt tortured in detention

Egyptian police, security forces and military officials have arbitrarily arrested, tortured and disappeared hundreds of children, according to Human Rights Watch.

Al Jazeera

Surviving Canada’s residential schools

A survivor of schools that took Indigenous children from their families shares her story of abuse, neglect and healing.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazil gangs impose curfews amid coronavirus

Drug traffickers in one of Rio de Janeiro’s best-known favelas have imposed a coronavirus curfew, amid growing fears over the impact the virus could have on some of Brazil’s poorest citizens.

Guardian

Police struggle to enforce India’s lockdown

Indians struggled to comply with the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown as the government began the gargantuan task of keeping 1.3 billion people indoors.

Associated Press

Cuban doctors wait for their chance to help

Cuban doctors, often in the front lines of some of the worst epidemics, are coveted in crises around the world. The “armies of white robes” are currently helping fight the coronavirus in countries like Italy, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Deutsche Welle

23 die in virus-fueled prison riot in Colombia

A “massive and criminal escape attempt” at the Bogota‘s La Modelo prison, prompted by coronavirus fears left at least 23 inmates dead and 83 injured. La Modelo is one of Colombia’s largest and most overpopulated prisons.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans, not bats are to blame for coronavirus

Bats are a possible source of the coronavirus. Yet some scientists concur they are not to blame for the transfer of the disease that’s changing daily life — humans are.

CNN

Giant asteroid will fly safely by Earth in April

A “potentially hazardous” asteroid is poised to fly by Earth next month, but don’t worry — it poses no threat. Asteroid (52768) 1998 OR2 will make a close approach to Earth on April 29.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zimbabwe doctors, nurses strike

Zimbabwe’s public hospital doctors and nurses went on strike over a lack of protective gear as the coronavirus begins to spread in a country whose health system has almost collapsed.

Associated Press

Health woes deepen Zimbabwe COVID-19 fear

The threat of a major COVID-19 outbreak could not have come at a worse time for Zimbabwe. Medicines are in short supply and depleted state coffers mean that the government is unable to purchase sufficient medical supplies.

Al Jazeera

Petition urges restrictions repeal on gay donors

LGBTQ advocates are calling on the U.S. government to allow gay and bisexual men to give lifesaving blood without restriction to address donation shortages amid the global outbreak of COVID-19.

NBC

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GOOD NEWS

Little libraries converted into food pantries

The free book-sharing libraries are being converted into mini food banks with nonperishable goods available for those who may be in need as the pandemic presses on.

The Hill

Student starts shopping service for seniors during coronavirus outbreak

Today

CA high school donates 2K medical masks

When Mark Shpall discovered more than 1,000 forgotten N95 masks on his California high school’s campus, he didn’t think twice about turning them over to those who needed them most amid a nation-wide shortage.

People

90-year-old recovers from coronavirus

Geneva Wood, a resident at Life Care Center tested who positive for coronavirus on March 6 is now a beacon of hope, especially for people over 65. Elderly people are especially vulnerable to the disease.

SunnySkyz

Communities coming together amid coronavirus

Reuters

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Charities face lack of volunteers in pandemic

For decades, American nonprofits have relied on a cadre of volunteers who — quite suddenly — aren’t able to show up. With millions staying home during the pandemic, charities are finding themselves in need.

Associated Press

Monastery makes homemade hand sanitizer

Orthodox clerics at a monastery in Kiev are mixing their own disinfectants to distribute to the poor and needy in the fight against COVID-19. The operation started after the monastery heard people were struggling to get sanitizer.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Coronavirus is ’Nature sending a message’

Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a “clear warning shot”, given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today’s civilisation was “playing with fire”.

Guardian

Reef suffers third mass coral bleaching

Guardian

Protecting great apes from coronavirus

Conservation experts call for urgent action to protect our closest living relatives, the great apes, from coronavirus. Infectious disease is now listed among the top three threats to some great ape groups.

BBC

Efforts on ozone help reverse stream damage

International cooperation on ozone-depleting chemicals is helping to return the southern jet stream to a normal state after decades of human-caused disruption.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Libya’s refugees face being cut off from aid

Hundreds of refugees forced to leave a UN-run center in Libya earlier this year, including survivors of the Tajoura detention centre bombing, are worried about being cut off from aid in the coronavirus outbreak.

Guardian

Fragile food supply in an interconnected world

Catastrophic crop failures caused by extreme weather in just one country could disrupt global food supplies and drive price spikes in an interconnected world, exposing how climate change threatens global stability.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient in the United States (in yellow, viewed by scanning electron microscope, emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the laboratory). (Photo by NIAID-RML) Photo used under CC BY

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