The World Bank Group’s Response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic

The World Bank Group is working with partners on the largest vaccination effort in history, to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. See the latest project financing, project documents and procurement ... Read More

Technology News

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been ... been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train ... Read More

2 million COVID-19 deaths: “Our world can only get ahead of this virus one way - together”

Our world has reached a heart-wrenching milestone: the COVID-19 pandemic has now claimed two ... help defeat this vicious virus. “You see, we're not doing this work to make ourselves feel ... Read More

World’s oldest man dies aged 114 after living through two World Wars and Covid-19 as tributes flood in

THE oldest man in the world has died just two months before his 115th birthday. Juan Vicente Perez Mora managed to survive two World Wars and the gruelling Covid-19 pandemic but tragically ... Read More

COVID-19

The News' COVID-19 dashboard is based on data from the Yale COVID-19 Statistics webpage, which reflects data for both Yale's asymptomatic testing program as well as tests given to symptomatic students ... Read More

Remote Learning During COVID-19: Lessons from Today, Principles for Tomorrow

"Remote Learning During the Global School Lockdown: Multi-Country Lessons” and “Remote Learning During COVID-19: Lessons from Today ... the short-, medium- and long-term implications of this crisis is ... Read More

Parkgoers And Employees Taken Aback By Disney World’s 180 On Covid-19 Preventive Measures

“Now we learn everything is back to normal ... especially at melting pots like Disney World. "It's reasonable to use fewer Covid-19 mitigations when case rates are low," says Dr. Katrine ... Read More

Should we reconsider having children due to fears about the climate crisis?

But maybe it still is, if we can counter fear with knowledge and hope. I chatted with Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief ... Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World,” written as an ... Read More

Digital Development

The World Bank provides knowledge and financing to help close the global digital divide, and make sure countries can take full advantage of the ongoing Digital Development revolution. Throughout the ... Read More

COVID-19

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COVID-19

Those who followed a plant-based diet were nearly 40 percent less likely to contract Covid-19. The best places to visit in 2021 are remote and socially distanced locales across America. We ... Read More

Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ... Read More