Covid-19

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On October 24, hundreds of people raided the contents of a warehouse said to contain undistributed Covid-19 aid in Jos, Nigeria. (Screenshot: Twitter)

'Suffering and starving': In Nigeria, citizens raid warehouse full of undistributed aid

Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf. Some families, however, didn’t find their relatives’ bodies where they were supposed to be buried. (Screengrab, social media)

Iraqi families retrieve bodies of loved ones buried during Covid-19 lockdown

These videos aim to prove that carbon dioxide trapped in face masks when we exhale constitutes a health hazard – but the science says otherwise.

Online videos falsely claim that face masks can cause CO2 poisoning

Social media users claim that the presence of this medication in Africa – even though it hasn’t been authorised for testing in Europe or the United States – is proof that medication is being tested on different continents.

Debunked: This drug is not a Covid-19 vaccine being tested in Africa

Long queues in front of two mobile coronavirus testing centres in the Barbar region (left) and in Manama (right).

Bahrain/ Covid-19

Bahrain sees sharp rise in Covid-19 cases after religious holidays

Junior Diakhaté uses social media to raise the funds to renovate dilapidated classrooms in local schools. (Photos: Twitter @Niintche)

How a small-town Senegalese teacher is using social media to fix up dilapidated schools

On August 23, residents of Standerton, South Africa dumped their uncollected refuse on the street in front of the Lekwa municipal building (Photo: Twitter).

South Africa: Streets of Standerton strewn with rubbish as municipal workers strike for PPE

Stills from the video that Merdan Ghappar managed to send to his family in March from inside a coronavirus quarantine centre in Xinjiang. Ghappar, an ethnic Uighur, was taken from his home by authorities in January 2020.

Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution

Left: Injured people being treated in the parking garage of an overcrowded hospital following a massive explosion Aug. 4 in Beirut. Right: chaos in the halls of St. Joseph Hospital, where the wounded were treated on the ground and in hallways.

Explosion in Beirut: hospitals overwhelmed in the distressed capital

Highways were backed up with cars on July 26 following an announcement that eight of Morocco’s cities would be closed off to prevent the spread of Covid-19. (Photo: Facebook)

In Morocco, lockdown of major cities clogs roads ahead of holiday weekend

The healthcare worker Mohamad al-Khater sings for one of his patients while taking blood. Screenshot.

Video: In Iraq, a caregiver comforts Covid-19 patients by singing

In Lubumbashi, a human rights NGO distributes coronavirus protection kits to Kasapa Prison inmates. Photo: AUDH

Prisoners in the DR Congo: Forgotten and at risk in the pandemic

Promotion sur Instagram du dioxyde de chlore pour "prévenir et guérir du Covid-19", bien que ce produit soit inefficace et même dangereux pour la santé.

Business booming for 'miracle' Covid-19 remedies in Latin America

Students at Mathare North Boxing Club. Due to Covid-19, the club had to change the way training was carried out. Some students are seen with masks.

With schools still closed in Nairobi, a boxing youth programme proves especially important

In a hospital in Mashhad (in the northeast), a city that has been particularly affected by the second wave.

As a second wave of Covid-19 sweeps Iran, “people aren’t respecting social distancing at all” (2/2)

Many hospitals in Iran no longer have enough beds for Covid-19 patients and have started treating them in car parks. This photo was taken on July 6 in Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran. (Photo: Mohammad Masoumian.)

Second wave of Covid-19 sweeps Iran, 'affecting the elderly, young and children' (1/2)

Screen grab of a video showing a man violently abusing a woman in Puerto Wilches, Colombia. The video was posted online on June 27.

Lockdown in Colombia leads to spike in domestic violence

Since mid-May, locals from a Caracas neighbourhood, Venezuela have been delivering their news bulletins from their balconies. (Photos posted on Twitter by @LaCruzTVCaracas.)

Venezuelans defy censorship to broadcast their own news bulletins - from their balconies

The image on the right shows the family members of Covid-19 patients in a state of panic in front of Al-Hussein University Hospital. The photo on the right shows a crowd gathering in front of a truck transporting oxygen cylinders. (These screengrabs were t

Several dead as Iraq hospital treating Covid-19 patients runs out of oxygen

More than 300,000 people have gone to Covid-19 testing centres and hospitals in Beijing since June 13, when new cases of the coronavirus started popping up in the capital.

Thousands of Beijing residents queue for hours to get tested after new Covid-19 cases

A video that has been circulating online shows a scene from a 2003 TV series featuring a remarkably similar situation to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. (Screengrab from season 2, episode 14 of the show Dead Zone, entitled"Plague".)

Did an American TV series from 2003 really predict the Covid-19 pandemic?

The Clean Sea Operation (in French, "Opération Mer Propre") picked up dozens of surgical masks and latex gloves during two dives this weeked.

Sea clean-up in France shows pollution from Covid-19 pandemic

Left: The bus station in San Antonio del Táchira (photo by Yurkys Rosario). Right: The "Los Caracas" holiday resort. (photo by Neo Mendoza). These sites are both being used to house Venezuelans who have returned to their country during the pandemic.

How Venezuela is managing the flood of expats returning in the middle of the pandemic

The image on the left shows Neo Mendoza on the road in Peru. The image on the right shows Eduardo Azuaje’s group on the road in Colombia.

By bus or on foot: the long road home for Venezuelans stuck abroad during the pandemic

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