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Online retailers are experiencing a surge in orders from self-isolating consumers
World
20.08.2024
Private, online and hi-tech: the coronavirus economy
Policemen fired slingshots as an anti-Conde demonstration in Conakry last month turned violent
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20.08.2024
Guineans heading to polls in historic constitution vote
A woman sews masks in the workshop of a small Czech company as tens of thousands of Europeans join forces via social media to combat a dire global shortage
World
20.08.2024
Sewing face masks goes viral in Europe
China has had a seemingly remarkable turnaround given the chaos surrounding the initial outbreak
World
20.08.2024
China's virus strategy: a model for the world?
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Muslim worshippers pray in front of a Dubai mosque, one of many places of worship across the region to close its doors
World 20.08.2024
Religion in conservative Mideast adapts to coronavirus
A crowdsourcing project drawing on individual and corporate computing power worldwide has created a supercomputer to help accelerate coronavirus research
World 20.08.2024
Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up virus research
In the southern African country on its knees after two decades of economic misrule, health services are all but extinct
World 20.08.2024
Zimbabwe system 'inadequate' to take on coronavirus 
Experts have warned that an epidemic in Gaza would likely be disastrous, given the high poverty rates, densely-packed population and weak health system
World 20.08.2024
Gaza authorities confirm first two COVID-19 cases
Rwanda as of Saturday had recorded 17 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the highest number in the East Africa region
World 20.08.2024
Rwanda imposes shutdown, suspends 'unnecessary movements': govt
Shoppers crowd a market in La Paz after Bolivian interim President Jeanine Anez announced the country was going to be placed under a complete quarantine to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Bolivia postpones election, Chile records 1st virus death
The shutdown in Spain has emptied the streets of the main cities, such as Barcelona
World 20.08.2024
Spain's virus death toll shoots past 1,300
Police in Beirut were kept busy chasing down people ignoring the new restrictions
World 20.08.2024
Lebanon calls in army to enforce coronavirus lockdown
Schools, houses and a police station were targetted during the unrest
World 20.08.2024
Buildings torched in Guinea ahead of referendum
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