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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, KCET brings you the latest on the coronavirus and perspectives on it has impacted Southern California. Visit the CDC website for the latest information.

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 Muslims wearing face masks as precaution against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), attend Ramadan Tarawih prayers at Sultan Mosque in Singapore, April 13, 2021.
Around the world, many mosques are getting creative during the holy month to help Muslim migrants forge community ties despite the pandemic's restrictions.
Alyssa Jenkins uses the state's MyTurn website to try to book a vaccination appointment for someone on April 19, 2021.
Considerado como una ventanilla única, el sitio de $50 millones de California ha creado problemas sin parar. Solo 27% de las vacunas reservadas cada día usan MyTurn.
Alyssa Jenkins uses the state's MyTurn website to try to book a vaccination appointment for someone on April 19, 2021.
Billed as a one-stop shop, California's $50 million site has instead created nonstop problems. Only 27% of vaccinations booked each day use MyTurn.
ARCHIVE PICTURE: An officer of the Tunisian State Border Guard Service wearing a protective mask checks the passport of a passenger, as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting coronavirus work at Tunisia Airport in Tunis, Tunisia February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
Fraudsters sell forged COVID-19 vaccination certificates on the dark web in a fast-growing pandemic scam, cyber security analysts say.
 Residents wait in line to receive the Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the community Quilombo Quilomba, descendants of African slaves, in Mage, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil April 7, 2021.
The community known as a "quilombo," a settlement founded by people who escaped from slavery, has now received the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
A view of LAX airport with planes docked in the runway.
Travel might not be quite like the "Before Times" quite yet — or ever — but it's entirely doable. And it can still be wonderful. Here are seven tips for traveling during the pandemic as COVID-19 guidelines shift.
Darlene Toledo rolls up her left sleeve to show off her bandage where she got her COVID-19 vaccine.
Metrolink and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health are partnering to provide COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday at some of Metrolink's stations.
Jessica Pak holds one her chickens in her tailor shop.
Emanuel Hahn, a local photographer, captures the lives of shopkeepers and vendors trying to stay afloat in Koreatown.
A man in a bright yellow reflective safety vest stands behind two boxes stacked on a table. There are also bags of fruit. The man is wearing a mask and looking off to the distance. Behind him is a person wearing a bright orange safety vest and holding a clipboard. Their back is facing the camera and it appears as if they are guiding a line of cars.
Here's a list of places that are offering financial assistance, food aid, rent relief, debt relief and more. We regularly update it.
Two men in long clothing plant a small tree together.
The coronavirus-linked economic slowdown is limiting cash to help Africans pay to adapt to climate extremes, from drought to floods.
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