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Mexico recently passed the 1,000 mark in reported coronavirus cases. Mexico City has began to empty out, and thousands of street vendors are taking an economic hit. (Photo by Carl Campbell) Photo used under CC BY

Street vendors in Mexico weigh safety, livelihood

A large number of Mexicans are forced to eke out a living as street vendors in Mexico City. The coronavirus outbreak has made their job even more precarious. Do they risk their lives to save their livelihood?

Deutsche Welle

Coronavirus protections lacking for Mexican farmworkers

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India’s poor live on promises in coronavirus

The dearth of state support and desperation on the streets has revealed the lack of security in India’s job market, a problem that pervades life for the poorest right across Asia.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Outbreak could cause global food shortage

The world risks facing a food shortage if authorities fail to manage the continuing coronavirus outbreak properly, the heads of three global agencies have warned.

Al Jazeera

Lockdown in Kabul prompts hunger fears

Guardian

COVID-19 is worst crisis since WWII, UN says

The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to worsen despite unprecedented lockdowns, as the head of the UN sounded the alarm on what he said was humanity’s worst crisis since World War II.

Japan Times

Greece exploits coronavirus in refugee dispute with Turkey

Deutsche Welle

Africa faces ‘existential threat’ as virus spreads

Health officials project some African countries will have more than 10,000 COVID-19 cases by April’s end. The continent least equipped to treat serious infections has a gap in the number of ventilators and other critical items.

Associated Press

South Africa gathered homeless people into a sports stadium

CNN

Agonizing decisions made in Spain’s hot spots

Associates Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rohingya refugees brace for coronavirus

On March 24, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh confirmed a COVID-19 case. It’s now just a matter of time before the outbreak reaches the nearby camps, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees.

Time

Israel’s defense and spy agencies step up

Israel does not usually divulge what its covert agencies are up to. In the global race for medical supplies and a coronavirus cure, the Israeli government is mobilizing its spies, soldiers and secretive scientists.

NPR

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNMENT

Ecuadorians live with dead amid pandemic

Families in Ecuador‘s largest city have been struggling to bury the corpses of those who have died amid the coronavirus pandemic as the disease’s spread has caused the country’s funeral system to collapse.

NBC

Filipinos warned to stay home or get shot dead

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took to the airwaves with a chilling warning for his citizens: Defy the lockdown orders again and the police will shoot you dead.

CBS News

India virus controls trap its migrant workers

Many of India’s estimated 100 million internal migrant workers are trapped in cities far from home after being laid off due to government measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, leading aid agencies to warn of a looming crisis.

Al Jazeera

India turns trains into isolation wards as COVID-19 cases rise

Al Jazeera

Peru limits men, women to alternate days out

Amid a strict quarantine in Peru to slow the spread of a coronavirus pandemic, men and women will only be allowed to leave their homes on designed days divided up by gender, the country’s President Martin Vizcarra said.

Reuters

Tokyo wrestles with possible lockdown

The Northeast Asia democracies – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have resisted China or Europe-style lockdowns in their major cities to counter the spread of coronavirus. Now, Tokyo is quietly making preparations for exactly that.

Asia Times Online

N. Korea’s silent struggle against COVID-19

Typically, minimal information about the novel coronavirus pandemic has leaked out of North Korea, but sources inside the country report no catastrophe.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google releases location tracking data

Google is digging into its massive trove of data tracking the movements of people around the world to produce a series of reports designed to help policymakers and researchers in the fight against the coronavirus.

CBC News

See the world without leaving your home

The age of coronavirus has restricted our movement in every way, but it doesn’t have to restrict our imagination. Here are ten ways you can still see the world - all through the wonder of the webcam.

BBC

Mice make different faces depending on mood

A group of German neurobiologists have proven mice can, express emotions and they play out all over their petite faces.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Recovering from coronavirus and re-infection

There remains a lot of uncertainty, but experts TIME spoke with say that it’s likely the reports of patients who seemed to have recovered but then tested positive again were not examples of re-infection.

Time

Indonesia deals with fear of hidden virus surge

Indonesia - one of the world’s most populous and far-flung nations - only just closed its borders, but experts fear this came too late.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Bradley Thayer and Lianchao Han):

What did China’s Xi Jinping know, and when did he know it?

The Hill

Column (Alex Berezow):

Stop the panic. Don’t let the coronavirus win

USA TODAY

Column (Francine Prose):

Social distancing? Working-class people don’t have that luxury

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Colombian restaurant offers free meals

A chain of brightly colored restaurants, Sierra Nevada, recently launched a program called Solidarity Menu to feed people in need during the coronavirus outbreak.

Associated Press

College student makes masks for the deaf

A college senior from Versailles put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Lex18

Celebrities launch America’s Food Fund

José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen has been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, WCK, along with Feeding America, are getting some heftier celebrity funding.

Eater

José Andrés says doctors and nurses eat for free after restaurants reopen

Food & Wine

African coronavirus heroes uplifting others

People in Africa are doing exceptional and surprising things to help others during the coronavirus pandemic.

BBC

Young heroes team up to deliver groceries to seniors in self-isolation

Inside Edition

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Detroit restaurants cook meals for homeless

Detroit restaurants closed their doors when coronavirus came, but not their hearts. Five Detroit chefs took stock of their kitchens, pooled perishables and started cooking up creations for the homeless and food-insecure.

CNN

Dolly Parton donates $1M toward research

Legendary performer Dolly Parton announced she was making a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University’s coronavirus research.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Togo rubbish dumps transformed into gardens

In Lome, a startup is turning illegal dumps and flooded areas into vegetable gardens to encourage people to grow their own food.

Deutsche Welle

Remains of 90M year old rainforest found

A group of researchers found evidence that approximately 90 million years ago, Antarctica was home to an ancient, swampy rainforest full of diverse animal and plant life.

CBS News

Marine life in world’s oceans can recover

Marine life in the world’s oceans could recover to healthy levels in the next thirty years if decisive and urgent action is taken, an international review has found.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Health services struggling in Russia

Nearly a dozen Russian military planes filled with medical supplies landed in Serbia the latest in a series of controversial Kremlin humanitarian aid missions carried out amid the global spread of the coronavirus.

NPR

Photo of the Day

An police officer in Chennai, India, uses a mask created by a performance artist to spread the word about the importance of isolating during the coronavirus pandemic. See a news report on the awareness campaign at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pqcr8g3yZ0 (Photo by Shantanu Dutta) Photo used under CC BY

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