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Coronavirus knowns and unknowns|Bridging digital inequalities

Posted by: The Conversation Global

Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2020

 

Editor's note

One of the things that’s so frustrating about covering the coronavirus pandemic is how much we just don’t know. As scientists work overtime to fill in all these knowledge gaps, the rest of us are left wondering. That’s why I was happy that University of Virginia infectious disease specialist William Petri agreed to round up what studies so far suggest about asymptomatic coronavirus. How can you catch a virus, spread it and fight it off, all without knowing you’d been infected.

This year’s global action week for education comes amid a pandemic that has led to the widespread closure of universities and schools in a host of countries. In a desperate bid to ensure that months of learning aren’t lost, institutions have turned to digital solutions like e-learning and other educational technology. But in many African countries the option just isn’t there. In South Africa, Mmaki Jantjies writes COVID-19 is revealing the country’s high levels of digital inequality.

Maggie Villiger

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