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Editor's note
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You're advised to wash your hands often and thoroughly to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, but more than two billion people live without reliable access to clean water. Experts worry the risk of infection could multiply in communities that lack sanitation and hand washing facilities, but even where these systems exist, the global pandemic could cause widespread shortages. In Jordan, hand washing is thought to have caused a 40% spike in water demand since the start of the nationwide curfew. Raya A. Al-Masri explains how COVID-19 could exacerbate water poverty, and outlines the kind of collective action that's urgently needed to solve both
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Experts from around the world continue to explore different aspects of the COVID-19 across all our sites. Here's our weekly update containing just some of the articles touching on varying elements of this complex global outbreak.
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Jack Marley
Commissioning Editor, Environment + Energy
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Top Stories
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Raya A. Al-Masri, University of Surrey
More than two billion people live without reliable access to clean water.
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Paris, emptied.
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Lionel Cavicchioli, The Conversation
Since the pandemic began, the new coronavirus has infected more than 780,000 people and killed at least 37,000. The experts at The Conversation offer its readers insights from every continent.
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COVID-19
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Craig Jeffrey, University of Melbourne; Febe De Geest, University of Melbourne; Jane Dyson, University of Melbourne
The government has announced direct cash transfers to poorer households, but major challenges remain in providing for the 500 million employed in the informal economy.
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Wuraola Akande-Sholabi, University of Ibadan
Nigeria's reliance on drug importation is worrisome as COVID-19 pandemic rages.
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Carlos Lopes, University of Cape Town
As Africa prepares to face a perfect storm, it's time for Europe's approach towards Africa to show its teeth.
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Felice S. Wyndham, University of Oxford
When colonisers invaded the Americas, they brought with them waves of new diseases. This legacy continues to impact Indigenous communities.
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Science and Technology
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Andréa Thiebault, Nelson Mandela University; Isabelle Charrier, Université Paris-Saclay; Pierre Pistorius, Nelson Mandela University; Thierry Aubin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
This study provides the first evidence that penguins emit sounds underwater when they hunt.
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Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
While crocodylian fossil swim traces have been described from other continents, to the best of our knowledge the examples we describe are the first such reptilian swim traces from Africa.
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Åke Fagereng, Cardiff University
Earthquakes happen over seconds to minutes. Slow slip events on the other hand can last for weeks or months.
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Joanna Buckley, University of Sheffield
Three foods and some cool stuff you should know about them.
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En Français
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Adrian Foucher, Université de Tours; Théotime Chabre, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
L’épidémie affecte fortement la Turquie, qui a engagé des dépenses colossales pour soutenir ses entreprises, et menace les zones voisines comme le nord de la Syrie, Chypre et les îles grecques.
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Frédéric Encel, PSB Paris School of Business – UGEI
Après trois législatives en moins d’un an, Israël semblait s’acheminer vers un quatrième scrutin anticipé, mais Benyamin Nétanyahou et son rival Benny Gantz ont fini par trouver une solution.
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En español
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Sonsoles Arias Guedón, IE University
El COVID-19 está afectando todo lo que se pone a su paso: desde nuestra salud, hasta las estructuras económico-sociales de nuestras regiones, llegando a poner en duda también los principios más elementales de nuestras democracias
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Vicente Soriano, UNIR - Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Aunque por el momento no hay antivirales aprobados frente al nuevo coronavirus, algunos fármacos son bastante prometedores. La joya de la corona de momento es el remdesivir.
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