Image copyright Getty Images Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than 4.5 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. More than 300,000 people have lost their lives. This series of maps and charts tracks the global outbreak of the virus since it emerged in China in December last year. How many cases
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Alaska, California, Massachusetts, New York, and others are collectively hiring and training tens of thousands of people to interview infected patients, identify people they may have exposed, and convince everyone at risk to stay away from others for several weeks. Contact tracing is a proven tool in containing outbreaks of highly infectious diseases. But this
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Many poor children enrol in Koranic schools in northern Nigeria Powerful politicians in northern Nigeria are pushing for the scrapping of controversial Koranic schools after some pupils found themselves at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, write the BBC’s Nduka Orjinmo and Mansur Abubakar. Tens of thousands of Koranic
Image caption Pradeep and Premlatha Kumar are trying to return to their hometown of Madurai in India Pradeep Kumar and his wife Premlatha, who is 32 weeks pregnant, spent two nights last week sleeping in the basement car park. They had been told to leave their home in the same building in Dubai by the
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Thousands of vendors sell flowers, fruits and vegetables at the Koyambedu market daily On 5 May, Bharath Gupta, a district collector in southern India, learnt that the sprawling Koyambedu market in Chennai city was being temporarily closed. The reason: several vendors and labourers at the market had tested positive
Moscow (CNN)Dozens of babies born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers are trapped in lockdown and unable to join their adoptive parents abroad as the country’s borders remain closed, a prominent Ukrainian lawmaker said Thursday. Lyudmila Denisova, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights ombudsman, said in a briefing on Thursday that she is working with the country’s Foreign
May 15, 2020 — After just one week in coronavirus quarantine at home with her family of four, 14-year-old Grace from Virginia says she started noticing she felt more relaxed than usual. “I know I am less stressed because I feel happier, more organized, and I am doing things I enjoy doing,” says Grace, who