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2020 Coronavirus
April 04, 2020
How a Tiny South Indian State Is Using Transmedia Storytelling to Fight COVID-19
By Mufsin Puthan Purayil and Sayani Malakar
Creating relevant content, available through multiple platforms, is helping Kerala combat the coronavirus.
April 03, 2020
Mosques Stay Open in Pakistan Even as Virus Death Toll Rises
By Associated Press
Mosques remain open in Pakistan, even as they have been shut down across much of the Middle East and elsewhere.
April 03, 2020
Rohingya Refugees in India Fear Dying of Hunger Before Being Killed By Coronavirus
By Tasnim Nazeer
“Our people will die of hunger before they are killed by the coronavirus if we don’t get enough help."
April 03, 2020
Where In the World Are There No Coronavirus Cases?
By Catherine Putz
What should we make of the countries that have not reported cases? Are they unable to test? Are they lying? Are they that isolated?
April 02, 2020
Uzbekistan Leads Central Asian Diplomacy in the Age of COVID-19
By Catherine Putz
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been ringing his neighbors to coordinate and dispatching aid to Afghanistan.
April 02, 2020
An Open Letter to the People of the United States From 100 Chinese Scholars
“Facing the most dangerous infectious disease in a century, politicized criticisms help neither China, the U.S., nor the world to curb the spread of the virus.”
April 02, 2020
China and Eastern Europe in the COVID-19 Era
By Shin Kawashima
Another way that the pandemic could reshape the international order.
April 01, 2020
US Aircraft Carrier Captain Seeks Crew Isolation as Virus Spreads
By Associated Press
The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt is asking for permission to isolate the bulk of his roughly 5,000 crew members on shore.
April 01, 2020
Did Turkmenistan Really Ban the Word ‘Coronavirus’?
By Catherine Putz
Not quite. But Ashgabat is certainly denying the reality of the COVID-19 threat.
April 01, 2020
South Korean Cobbler Hopes Donation Gives ‘Strength and Courage’
By Associated Press
A Korean man aims to donate land, worth up to $570,000, to the local government to help support those suffering economic difficulties because of the pandemic.
April 01, 2020
Trump Adds to Asian-Americans’ Fears
By Seashia Vang
We already have an epic health crisis; we don’t need a racialized social crisis as well.
April 01, 2020
Nepal Cannot Fight Coronavirus Alone
By Kamal Dev Bhattarai
Kathmandu needs the support of bigger, wealthier, and more developed countries, even as the pandemic wrecks havoc across the world.
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