Apr 15 Watch 6:20 Working together, South Koreans turn COVID-19 hot zone into containment leader By Bruce Harrison South Korea has transformed from a COVID-19 hot zone to a leader in the global fight against the virus. Companies there are now making millions of test kits for export, and the public is voting in a parliamentary election despite… Continue watching
Apr 15 A year after the devastating fire, Notre Dame restoration halted by virus By Elaine Ganley, Associated Press A year after a devastating fire, the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral has been halted by a lockdown in Paris to battle the coronavirus. Continue reading
Apr 15 Germany outlines first steps to reopen after coronavirus restrictions By Geir Moulson, Associated Press Germany plans to let smaller shops reopen next week and to start reopening schools in early May, but Europe’s biggest economy is keeping strict social distancing rules in place for now. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 3:49 Developing countries’ fragile hygiene and health care raise COVID-19 risks By Fred de Sam Lazaro Much of the recent news about the coronavirus pandemic has focused on the globe's richer countries. But how is the developing world, where health care resources are strained in the best of times, preparing for COVID-19? To find out, special… Continue watching
Apr 15 China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days By Associated Press Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public. Continue reading
Apr 15 EU blasts Trump’s WHO funding cut during critical stage of pandemic By Jamey Keaten, Maria Cheng, Associated Press Nations around the world are reacting with alarm after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization. Continue reading
Apr 15 WATCH: WHO chief says ‘virus exploits the cracks between us’ after Trump decides to halt funding By Associated Press Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the U.S. has been “a longstanding and generous friend to WHO and we hope it will continue to be so.”… Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch 5:21 Trump, governors clash over path to reopening U.S. economy By Stephanie Sy President Trump and some state governors are arguing over who should decide how to reopen the U.S. economy after the coronavirus pandemic -- and when. Meanwhile, New York’s death toll from COVID-19 has passed 10,000, and meat-processing plants in Pennsylvania… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 4:50 News Wrap: Obama endorses Biden, urges ‘great awakening’ in politics In our news wrap Tuesday, former President Barack Obama ended months of neutrality and endorsed his vice president, Joe Biden, for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama said Biden has the character and experience to guide the nation through one of… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 3:25 The pandemic threatens the people of East Africa — and now locusts threaten their food By Nick Schifrin, Layla Quran As COVID-19 threatens the people of East Africa, locusts threaten their livestock and their food. The region suffered an initial swarm of the destructive insects in February but is now ravaged by a second wave 20 times larger. Pesticides can… Continue watching