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Coronavirus Worldwide


Link TV, in collaboration with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, will bring you the latest on coronavirus (COVID-19) and perspectives on how life is changing around the world. Visit CDC for the latest information on COVID-19.

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FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees walk on a road at the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 8, 2019. | REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo
At least three Rohingya refugees have been tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two days.
Molly Simmons poses for a photo at the art show "Our Right to Thrive" in Brooklyn, New York on March 3, 2020. | Handout: SWOP Brooklyn
As coronavirus bites, sex workers in Brooklyn are raising money online and distributing it to sex workers in need. We spoke to the leaders of the Sex Workers Outreach Project about how the pandemic has dramatically changed their jobs.
A volunteer helps a child wash her hands at a school feeding scheme during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Blue Downs township near Cape Town, South Africa, May 4, 2020. Picture taken May 4, 2020
Officials are harnessing networks and tools devised for responding to better-known risks like climate change to tackle the COVID-19 crisis.
A medical staff member wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) vaccinates a baby, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia May 13, 2020. | Antara Foto/Fauzan/ via REUTERS
Building the international cooperation needed to swiftly create and distribute a coronavirus vaccine could help with other threats too.
Gravediggers work during a mass burial of people who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil May 13, 2020. | REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Authorities are trying to ensure a surge in deaths doesn't lead to unplanned mass burials that could contaminate water supplies.
Boys and girls from the Saraniya community wearing garlands pose for pictures after their engagement ceremony at Vadia village in the western Indian state of Gujarat March 11, 2012. | REUTERS/Amit Dave
Campaigners warn that the pandemic could undo decades of work to end child marriage.
A garment worker wearing a protective mask returns from a workplace as factories reopened after the government has eased the restrictions amid concerns over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 4, 2020. |REUTERS/Mohammad P
Most workers are unable to maintain physical distancing while entering and leaving factories, unions say.
Vendors sell food at the Sharej street market in Mukalla, Yemen, April 26, 2020. | Thomson Reuters Foundation/Saeed Al-Batati
Already on the brink of collapse, the country's health system is seeing a surge in flood-linked illnesses and rising COVID-19 cases.
Scene from computer game "Can You Save the World?"  which aims to help children understand how social distancing can save lives during the coronavirus pandemic. | Credit: Martin Jacob
"Can You Save the World?" is thought to be the world's first COVID-19 computer game.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: A wind sock blows in the wind, as a heavy thunderstorm passes over the New York City skyline of lower Manhattan in the background, on the Jersey City shoreline July 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar
Emergency systems are already stretched thin by the virus response and distancing during evacuations will be a challenge.
Funeral flowers are seen in the mortuary at Poppy's Funerals in Lambeth Cemetery, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in London, Britain, April 30, 2020. Picture taken April 30. | REUTERS/Hannah McKay
From digital funerals to lighting candles, social enterprises are looking for different ways to grieve loved ones during lockdown.
ARCHIVE PHOTO: A woman transports a drum after filling it with free drinking water supplied by a municipal corporation water tanker at a slum on a hot summer day in New Delhi June 16, 2014. | REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
Lowering risks from blistering summer heat may be difficult this year with most of the country's 1.3 billion people forced to stay indoors.
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