As of April 17, with only 11 deaths for 5.45 million inhabitants, and only 10 Covid-19 victims in intensive care, Slovakia has been much more successful than West European countries in containing […]
Mark Johnson: Panic and discipline at the edge of Europe in Slovakia
Esquerda Online: Bolsonaro fires Health Minister, genocidal plan targets Afro-Brazilians
As of April 17, Brazil is reporting 30,891 confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,952 Covid-19 deaths. However, public health experts believe that Covid-19 deaths may be twice as high as official counts indicate while […]
Eric Toussaint: Suspend public debt payments to fight Covid-19
The territorial spread of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a global health crisis which has created a completely new situation. The human suffering caused by the spread of the virus is […]
Peter Saxtrup: Denmark’s schools reopen, immigrants left out
As of April 15, Denmark has registered 6,511 coronavirus infections and 299 Covid-19 deaths, among the lowest rates thus far in northern Europe after the early adoption of social distancing and salary supports. […]
Action Program for Nigeria: How will the poor survive Covid-19?
As of April 14, Nigeria has reported 343 confirmed coronavirus infections and 10 Covid-19 deaths, although official figures may only be the tip of the iceberg. If swift action is not taken, […]
Todd Chretien: Bernie out, Biden in… Trump up? Stress test U.S.A.
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden, 17 million people have lost their jobs, tens of thousands more are certain to perish in the coronavirus pandemic, and no one knows if and when […]
Israel Dutra: The point of no return in Brazil
As of April 13, at least 22,318 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Brazil, including 1,230 Covid-19 deaths. On top of the escalating pandemic, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has put […]
Reihana Mohideen: Socialism v. corona-capitalism in the Philippines
As of April 13, 4,648 people in the Philippines have tested positive for the coronavirus and 297 have died from Covid-19, although those figures most likely underestimate the pandemic’s spread. Filipino President […]
Pepijn Brandon: Coronavirus and the “survival of the fittest” in the Netherlands
As of April 11, the Netherlands is suffering the fifth highest per capita Covid-19 death rate in the world, reporting 24,413 confirmed coronavirus infections and 2,643 Covid-19 deaths in a county of […]
No Borders News: Multilingual picks of the week, April 5-12
Each week No Borders News recommends a few articles in world languages we didn’t have time to translate but wish we had. We also note the occasional piece in English. For those […]
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