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Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’ By @terrence_mccoy and Heloisa Traiano
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-coronavirus-rio-favela/2020/03/20/2522b49e-6889-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html
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Brazil’s densely packed favelas brace for coronavirus: ‘It will kill a lot of people.’ By @terrence_mccoy and Heloisa Traiano https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-coronavirus-rio-favela/2020/03/20/2522b49e-6889-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html
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Freed from prison after 26 years—into a #coronavirus hotspot.
Published by @cm_thompson3 at @MarshallProj
"For people released [now], the experience is particularly jarring—trading fear of getting sick in captivity for an isolated kind of freedom" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/04/01/freed-from-prison-after-26-years-into-a-coronavirus-hotspot
Freed from prison after 26 years—into a #coronavirus hotspot. Published by @cm_thompson3 at @MarshallProj
"For people released [now], the experience is particularly jarring—trading fear of getting sick in captivity for an isolated kind of freedom" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/04/01/freed-from-prison-after-26-years-into-a-coronavirus-hotspot
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"Sometimes we can only eat once a day."
@MariaMartinD from @el_pais speaks with African immigrants who spend the current lockdown in overcrowded apartments in Madrid https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-04/solo-podemos-comer-una-vez.html
"Sometimes we can only eat once a day." @MariaMartinD from @el_pais speaks with African immigrants who spend the current lockdown in overcrowded apartments in Madrid https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-04/solo-podemos-comer-una-vez.html
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Staying at home is a luxury.
By @jenvalentino, @DeniseDSLu & @gabrieldance
"Many lower-income workers continue to move around, while those who make more money are limiting their exposure, according to location smartphone data analyzed by @nytimes" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-stay-home-rich-poor.html?referringSource=articleShare
Staying at home is a luxury. By @jenvalentino, @DeniseDSLu & @gabrieldance
"Many lower-income workers continue to move around, while those who make more money are limiting their exposure, according to location smartphone data analyzed by @nytimes" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-stay-home-rich-poor.html?referringSource=articleShare
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"Around 6 hours before @narendramodi announced a three-week nationwide lockdown, he personally asked over 20 owners & editors from mainstream print media to publish positive stories about the pandemic," writes @SagarChoudhary_ at @thecaravanindia https://caravanmagazine.in/media/hours-before-lockdown-modi-asked-print-media-owners-editors-refrain-negative-covid-coverage
"Around 6 hours before @narendramodi announced a three-week nationwide lockdown, he personally asked over 20 owners & editors from mainstream print media to publish positive stories about the pandemic," writes @SagarChoudhary_ at @thecaravanindia https://caravanmagazine.in/media/hours-before-lockdown-modi-asked-print-media-owners-editors-refrain-negative-covid-coverage
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Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’. By @andreamcastillo from @latimes
“They’re essential today to the food supply. If people are fighting over toilet paper, imagine if they had to fight for food.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-01/california-farmworkers-coronavirus
Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’. By @andreamcastillo from @latimes “They’re essential today to the food supply. If people are fighting over toilet paper, imagine if they had to fight for food.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-01/california-farmworkers-coronavirus
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"Coronavirus became the world’s biggest news story not when it was ripping through Wuhan, but when it hit Western Europe. For us who covered the Ebola outbreak, this was not surprising, although it is still depressing," writes our JF @bartlettkate https://mg.co.za/article/2020-04-03-traditional-media-a-block-against-deadly-pathogens-and-people/
"Coronavirus became the world’s biggest news story not when it was ripping through Wuhan, but when it hit Western Europe. For us who covered the Ebola outbreak, this was not surprising, although it is still depressing," writes our JF @bartlettkate https://mg.co.za/article/2020-04-03-traditional-media-a-block-against-deadly-pathogens-and-people/
8. Why Spain is not testing 20,000 people a day, as the Spanish government says.
Data journalism at its best by @bajoelbillete @darioOjeda and @jescuderoma at @elconfidencial https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2020-04-03/covid19-test-pcr-coronavirus-espana_2531844/
Why Spain is not testing 20,000 people a day, as the Spanish government says. Data journalism at its best by @bajoelbillete @darioOjeda and @jescuderoma at @elconfidencial https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2020-04-03/covid19-test-pcr-coronavirus-espana_2531844/
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How China’s fake news machine is rewriting the history of Covid-19, even as the pandemic unfolds, reports Robert Boxwell at @SCMPNews https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3078417/how-chinas-fake-news-machine-rewriting-history
How China’s fake news machine is rewriting the history of Covid-19, even as the pandemic unfolds, reports Robert Boxwell at @SCMPNews https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3078417/how-chinas-fake-news-machine-rewriting-history
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Fake news or the truth? Russia cracks down on virus postings. Our former JF Daria Litvinova reports for @AP
"Social media users who doubted the official numbers and news outlets questioning the government became targets for law enforcement" https://apnews.com/dbbf02a747b11d8ffe3b07d5e33ff129
Fake news or the truth? Russia cracks down on virus postings. Our former JF Daria Litvinova reports for @AP "Social media users who doubted the official numbers and news outlets questioning the government became targets for law enforcement" https://apnews.com/dbbf02a747b11d8ffe3b07d5e33ff129
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Argentinian news site @redaccioncomar has launched this collaborative guide on how to live through these difficult times. Journalists are updating it with the suggestions of their readers https://twitter.com/redaccioncomar/status/1245478905512972292?s=20
Argentinian news site @redaccioncomar has launched this collaborative guide on how to live through these difficult times. Journalists are updating it with the suggestions of their readers https://twitter.com/redaccioncomar/status/1245478905512972292?s=20
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From our friends at @TRF. "In a complex of bungalows to the east of Madrid, Venezuelan refugees and homeless people have replaced tourists. The owner of the La Ciguena resort has turned the facility over to some of Madrid's vulnerable families" https://news.trust.org/item/20200404105754-hzhak/
From our friends at @TRF. "In a complex of bungalows to the east of Madrid, Venezuelan refugees and homeless people have replaced tourists. The owner of the La Ciguena resort has turned the facility over to some of Madrid's vulnerable families" https://news.trust.org/item/20200404105754-hzhak/
13. Will it be enough? Inside South Africa’s plan to ramp up coronavirus testing.
Explanatory journalism at its best by Aisha Abdul Karim and @miamalan from @Bhekisisa_MG https://bhekisisa.org/health-news-south-africa/2020-04-03-will-it-be-enough-inside-south-africas-plan-to-ramp-up-coronavirus-testing/
Will it be enough? Inside South Africa’s plan to ramp up coronavirus testing. Explanatory journalism at its best by Aisha Abdul Karim and @miamalan from @Bhekisisa_MG https://bhekisisa.org/health-news-south-africa/2020-04-03-will-it-be-enough-inside-south-africas-plan-to-ramp-up-coronavirus-testing/
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Data on mortality in Bergamo didn't add up correctly. So @EasyInve and @in_twig went looking for complete data town by town. Terrific piece shared here by Elisabetta Tola
https://twitter.com/elisabetta_tola/status/1246752721992142848?s=20 https://twitter.com/elisabetta_tola/status/1246752721992142848
Data on mortality in Bergamo didn't add up correctly. So @EasyInve and @in_twig went looking for complete data town by town. Terrific piece shared here by Elisabetta Tolahttps://twitter.com/elisabetta_tola/status/1246752721992142848?s=20 https://twitter.com/elisabetta_tola/status/1246752721992142848
