"In Lagos, daily power cuts are normal... Sourcing water is arduous and expensive, so people are unlikely to prioritise frequent hand-washing. Public transportation consists mostly of privately owned vehicles in which intense proximity is inevitable" https://thecorrespondent.com/378/why-social-distancing-wont-work-for-us/50043118356-4fbed697">https://thecorrespondent.com/378/why-s...
3. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇿" title="Flag of Czech Republic" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Czech Republic"> Czech news site @Aktualnecz mapped the route of hundreds of thousands of masks confiscated by the Czech police last week. They ended up in the hands of a Czech reseller, who then tried to sell them to the Czech government for an excessive price https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/confiscated-face-masks-imported-by-an-influential-representa/r~560650326f6611ea842f0cc47ab5f122/">https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/co...
4. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇹" title="Flag of Italy" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Italy"> Who are our dead? Local newspaper in Tuscany honors the many lives cut short by #COVID19.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📱" title="Mobile phone" aria-label="Emoji: Mobile phone">"Our dead are not only numbers. They are people", writes editor @fbrancoli here
https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/regione/toscana/2020/03/25/news/la-costruzione-di-una-nuova-memoria-1.38636267
">https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/regione/t...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📰" title="Newspaper" aria-label="Emoji: Newspaper">Front page in this tweet https://twitter.com/iltirreno/status/1244157354498838529?s=20">https://twitter.com/iltirreno...
5. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇳" title="Flag of India" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of India"> "As India enters 21-day lockdown, the transgender community will be pushed further to the margins," @anniebanerji reports at @scroll_in. "Most of them make a living on the streets and don’t have the privilege to move to online spaces." https://scroll.in/article/957204/as-india-enters-21-day-lockdown-the-transgender-community-will-be-pushed-further-to-the-margins">https://scroll.in/article/9...
6. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇿🇦" title="Flag of South Africa" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of South Africa"> @dailymaverick& #39;s @Poplak on lockdown in South Africa

"Even in more established townships, the phenomenon of backyard shacks means that people are jammed into dense areas where diseases thrive. Three weeks is an eternity under such conditions" https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-25-locked-loaded-south-africa-enters-the-age-of-corona/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2...
7. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇳" title="Flag of China" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of China"> Inside the Wuhan lockdown. An exclusive interview at @Storyhunter with a prominent Chinese freelance filmmaker who& #39;s worked for Western news organisations. It provides a glimpse to life in the birthplace of the pandemic https://blog.storyhunter.com/inside-the-wuhan-lockdown-17398d88e5b6">https://blog.storyhunter.com/inside-th...
8. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Earth globe americas" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe americas"> Misinformation, hoaxes, and snake oil cures have all been rampant online since the outbreak of the coronavirus. @BuzzFeedNews& #39;s @JaneLytv is keeping a running list of debunked stories in this link https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-fake-news-disinformation-rumors-hoaxes">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/j...
9. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇿🇦" title="Flag of South Africa" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of South Africa"> Clinical psychologist @BarnwellGarret explains at @Bhekisisa_MG how the outbreak can affect mental health

"We cannot avoid suffering and we’re not guaranteed happiness in difficult times, but there are small acts of purpose to be found" https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2020-03-23-coronavirus-south-africa-mental-health-support-how-to-cope-social-solidarity-covid19/">https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2...
10. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇳" title="Flag of India" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of India">Thousands of casual Bollywood workers have been left jobless after shoots were suspended to tackle coronavirus, @Rolionaroll reports for @TRF

"There are more than 500,000 Bollywood workers on daily wages and most now face an uncertain future" http://news.trust.org/item/20200323091426-ael6v/">https://news.trust.org/item/2020...
11. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇸" title="Flag of Spain" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Spain"> "Spain purchased 640,000 tests, which arrived on Monday, but four Madrid hospitals that used them found that the tests gave back negative results on patients who were known positives", @elenasevillano & @anaalfageme report for @el_pais https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-27/unreliability-of-new-tests-delays-effort-to-slow-coronavirus-spread-in-spain.html">https://english.elpais.com/society/2...
12. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Earth globe americas" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe americas"> An important investigation from @propublica& #39;s @jeffykao & Mia Shuang Li

"Our research tracked how the government-linked influence accounts that had targeted political dissidents and the HK protests turned their focus to the coronavirus outbreak" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus">https://www.propublica.org/article/h...
13. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flag of United States" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United States"> The most-read story in Washington Post history explains how an outbreak like coronavirus spreads and what it takes to “flatten the curve.”

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎥" title="Movie camera" aria-label="Emoji: Movie camera">Graphics reporter @Harry_Stevens explains in this video how he created it https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/showing-how-a-disease-spreads--how-to-be-a-journalist-covering-coronavirus/2020/03/24/5e528e53-acd8-47b3-b00e-f7f1ae64f931_video.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/nat...
14. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom"> A long piece on the parallels between #COVID19 and 1918 influenza by @honigsbaum, who& #39;s been writing about pandemics for 15 years.

"How deadly the outbreak will prove to be, no one can yet say but the echoes of 1918 are growing louder by the hour" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/17/a-once-in-a-century-pathogen-the-1918-pandemic-this-one/">https://www.nybooks.com/daily/202...
Here you can read @risj_oxford work on #COVID2019

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😷" title="Face with medical mask" aria-label="Emoji: Face with medical mask">How journalists can stop the pandemic
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/how-journalists-can-help-stop-spread-coronavirus-outbreak
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-revi... class="Emoji" style="height:16px;" src=" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤥" title="Lying face" aria-label="Emoji: Lying face">Findings from our past research on misinformation
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/covid-19-has-intensified-concerns-about-misinformation-heres-what-our-past-research
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-revi... class="Emoji" style="height:16px;" src=" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💰" title="Money bag" aria-label="Emoji: Money bag">What it may mean for the business of news https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/what-will-coronavirus-pandemic-mean-business-news">https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-revi...
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