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Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Nityanand Rai visited patients at the Coronavirus Quarantine Center in New Delhi after they successfully completed their requisite quarantine period on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Press Information Bureau, Government of India) Photo used under CC BY

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India supplies malaria drugs to neighboring countries

In view of the humanitarian aspects of coronavirus pandemic, India will license paracetamol and Hydroxychloroquine in appropriate quantities to all the neighboring countries that are dependent on its capabilities, the ministry of external affairs said.

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India curbs testing kit exports as virus spreads

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Reuters

$1B US aid cut hits Afghan security force funds

A planned $1 billion cut in U.S. aid to Afghanistan would come from funds for Afghan security forces, a step that would undercut both Kabul’s ability to fight the Taliban and its leverage to negotiate a peace deal with them.

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Reuters

1M garment workers lose jobs in Bangladesh

At least one-quarter of garment workers in Bangladesh — the world’s second-largest clothing manufacturer, after China — have been fired or furloughed because of declining global orders amid the coronavirus crisis.

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NPR

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Gaza garment factory shifts production to masks

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Al Jazeera

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Pope opens Holy Week amid pandemic

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Reuters

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How to make your own hand sanitizer

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Wired

Human activity makes pandemics more likely

Most infectious human diseases originate in animals. The ability of a virus to mutate and adapt from animals to the human system is rare, but the expansion of the human footprint is making that rare event much more likely.

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CBS News

Refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilize to help.

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Asia Times Online

Low-risk economic activity will resume in Iran

Iran’s president said on “low-risk” economic activities would resume from April 11 in the Middle Eastern country worst affected by the new coronavirus.

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Reuters

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.

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Time

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Devout at a distance in contagion-hit Brunei

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Asia Times Online

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.

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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.

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NBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What to know about DIY masks, ventilators

Here’s what scientists and health care workers say about making homemade protective gear and medical supplies amid the pandemic.

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National Geographic

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Fighting malaria in Uganda the organic way

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Wetlands in Mozambique help mitigate impact of extreme weather

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GLOBAL HEALTH

The race to stop coronavirus in Indian slum

A coronavirus outbreak in a place where social distancing is an oxymoron could easily turn into a grave public health emergency and overwhelm Dharavi’s public health system.

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BBC

Brazil’s indigenous people could be wiped out

Indigenous communities in the Amazon region and elsewhere in Brazil are in danger of being “wiped out” by the coronavirus, according to health experts.

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BBC

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Favelas left to combat Covid-19 on their own

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CNN

Philippines nurses on frontline underprotected

Medics are dying, and others risk spreading the virus. At least 17 frontline coronavirus medics have already died in the Philippines, and more than 600 have been in quarantine, according to CNN Philippines.

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CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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US should adopt a Marshall Plan for Ethiopia

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AI supported medical processes can help to save human health care professionals

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COVID-19 — the Global South must not be forgotten

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GOOD NEWS

Dolly Parton reads bedtime stories to kids

Nine-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton will read bedtime stories to children in a series called “Goodnight with Dolly.” Books will be selected from the Imagination Library, her book gifting program.

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CNN

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.

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Associated Press

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

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Food & Wine

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Johnson & Johnson ramps up $1B production

Johnson & Johnson’s chief scientist says it will also spend $500 million as part of a $1 billion partnership with the U.S. government to research and produce a vaccine for the novel Coronavirus.

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Forbes

Jeff Bezos donates $100M to US food banks

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million to food banks across the U.S. so they can feed needy Americans as the novel coronavirus cripples the economy.

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CBS News

NBA owner donates ventilators, masks to NY

Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Cocoa production depends on environment

With rising demand for cocoa on the world market, large areas of forest cover have been lost to its cultivation. This loss is a threat to the very industry that is causing it.

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The Conversation

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As the world stays home, will the environment improve?

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PBS NewsHour

N. Atlantic absorption may be overestimated

The North Atlantic may be a weaker climate ally than previously believed, according to a NASA-backed study that suggests the ocean’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide has been overestimated, though how much is unclear.

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Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Peru’s poor desperately hunt for food

The pandemic has spotlighted the wide gap between rich and poor in Peru and elsewhere in Latin America and a looming recession worse than any since World War II could push the poor into even more dire circumstances.

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Associated Press

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Libya’s health service in danger of collapse

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Al Jazeera

Thai sex workers forced onto the street

Red-light districts in Thailand are quiet, clubs and massage parlors closed and tourists blocked from entering the country. That has left an estimated 300,000 sex workers out of a job, pressing some onto the streets.

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Asia Times Online

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A mother and child take a walk in the age of coronavirus. (Photo by Nik Anderson) Photo used under CC BY

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