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Editor's note
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Global health crises often have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities. For vulnerable families, lost income due to an outbreak can translate to spikes in poverty, missed meals for children, and reduced access to healthcare. David Evans and Mead Over explain why it’s important to monitor and provide support to households to mitigate the most urgent needs far beyond keeping an eye on the health situation across and within countries.
Meanwhile Martijn Boersma and Justine Nolan explain how workers further down supply chains are being left destitute and exposed to exploitation. In Cambodia, 20,000 garment workers face job losses from factory closures because of shortages of raw materials from China and reduced orders from buyers in the virus-affected locations including the United States and Europe.
In our other coverage of the coronavirus, William Petri describes the symptoms of COVID-19 and says when you should call a doctor, Yale Zhuxiao Wong explains how to limit coronavirus risks on public transport and Hannah Dahlen and David Ellwood provide insights into what you need to know about coronavirus if you’re pregnant.
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A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya.
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David Evans, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Mead Over, Georgetown University
The economic impact of the disease will have dramatic effects on the well-being of families and communities
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Computer chip and circuit board factory, Jiangxi, China.
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Martijn Boersma, University of Technology Sydney; Justine Nolan, UNSW
Workers further down supply chains are being left destitute and exposed to exploitation.
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William Petri, University of Virginia
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Evan Fraser, University of Guelph
COVID-19 is showing us we must work collectively to put resilience alongside efficiency as the primary drivers for the systems we depend upon each and every day for food.
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Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University; David Ellwood, Griffith University
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Yale Zhuxiao Wong, University of Sydney
Australia can learn from what has been done overseas, especially in China, to keep public transport running while containing the spread of coronavirus.
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Politics + Society
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Henning Melber, University of Pretoria
The hunger, frustration and desperation of ordinary Namibians should be first on the political agenda. But this isn't the case.
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Toby James, University of East Anglia
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Business + Economy
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Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield
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