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Coronavirus Worldwide


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RCHIVE PHOTO: A man speaks to his friend using Skype at an internet cafe in central London August 10, 2010. | REUTERS/Paul Hackett
As key services shift online due to coronavirus restrictions, low-income people with no access to the web face new hurdles.
A general view of Duomo square after the Italian government imposed a virtual lockdown on the north of the country, in Milan, Italy March 8, 2020. | REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
The coronavirus pandemic has helped shift attitudes on the need to make the Italian city more climate-smart and resilient, Giuseppe Sala says.
A phlebotomist shows Melissa Cruz the full bag of her donated convalescent plasma, which she donated after recovering from coronavirus (COVID-19)
Men who have had gay sex in the past three months can't donate blood in Britain, which some LGBT+ activists say is discriminatory.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Ethiopian migrants sit up as they wake up after sleeping out in the open near a transit centre where they wait to be repatriated, in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2013. | REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Thousands of Ethiopian migrants deported from the Middle East are being quarantined in universities and schools.
Two people walk along a gravel road amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Sabattus, Maine, U.S., April 25, 2020. | REUTERS/Brian Snyder
While many U.S. states are easing lockdowns, remote, secluded spots are sticking to their guns and staying shut down.
A woman peels cassava on the outskirts of Lomé, Togo. | Philippe Lissac / Godong / Getty Images
As the coronavirus spreads in Africa, farmers growing drought-hardy cassava are reaping a windfall as it is turned into sanitizer.
State representatives and forest guards count the rings on tree stumps to ascertain the age of the felled Algerian oak trees in Ain Draham, Tunisia. April 15, 2020. | Photo provided by the Ministry of Agriculture
There have been more than 200 forest code violations in the past month — ten times the number in the same period last year.
The U.S. Capitol is seen from the Washington Monument, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Washington, U.S., April 25, 2020. | REUTERS/Erin Scott
The U.S. is not collecting data on whether coronavirus patients identify as LGBT+.
Migrant workers arrive at the Mawa Ferry Ghat in Munshiganj district, Bangladesh April 30, 2020. | REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Strict curfews, lockdowns and travel bans enforced in the wake of COVID-19 decimate jobs and slash remittances.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: Children pose for a photo in Kumasi, February 5,2008. | REUTERS/Bruno Domingos
Children are at risk in Ivory Coast and Ghana because it is cocoa harvest season and schools are closed.
A group of boys look at their mobile phones, during a nationwide lockdown in India to slow the spread COVID-19, in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Mumbai, India, April 9, 2020.
Without a data protection law, India's contact-tracing app risks becoming a surveillance tool, digital rights experts warn.
Garments workers shout slogans as they block a road demanding their due wages during the lockdown amid concerns over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 15, 2020. | REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Coronavirus has driven Western retailers such as ASOS, Gap and Primark to pause or cancel orders, threatening an industry that employs about 60 million garment workers globally.
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