The Manual on Viruses

In Peru, in the midst of the health emergency on the Covid-19, with
interprovincial transportation interrupted and after having exhausted their
meager savings, thousands are seeking to return to their regions. Many
are forced to return on foot, in the absence of public transportation and
government support.
Foto: GEC
Mass graves in Manaus-Brasil. While Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo have
imposed curfews and closed shops, right-wing populist President Jair
Bolsonaro recently called the lung disease Covid-19, which is caused by
the virus, a “mild flu”, although Brazil is now the third country in the world
to suffer from the virus.
Mass graves in Manaus by AFP or licensors
The civil war, which has lasted for more than five years, has plunged
Yemen, the country on the Arabian Peninsula, into the most serious humanitarian
crisis in the world. Four out of five people need some form of humanitarian
aid. This year alone, 110,000 people have fallen ill with cholera, plus
malaria and dengue fever. With the spread of the coronavirus, the situation
has worsened. The country lies in ruins and has no infrastructure to fight
another crisis like the coronavirus. by Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
In India, the second largest population in the world, thousands of migrants
and workers try to leave every day from New Delhi, as well as other large
cities, to the states from which they come in the face of the lack of work
due to the cessation of activity. The photo shows thousands of people
crowd into a bus station in Delhi, hoping to get out of the city.
by a. fadnavis / reuters
In Italy workers armed with signs and whistles 300 shopkeepers and hoteliers
protested on the steps of Trinità dei Monti against the Government
and the Municipality, to protect their activities and their employees. "Without
government aid we cannot reopen", their slogan. "On May 18th we will
remain closed - they announce - because with the measures studied so far
they will make us "die" slowly".
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Roughly 36 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the US in the
two months since the coronavirus first forced millions of businesses to
close their doors and shrink their workforces.
by Nam Y. Huh, The Associated Press , Niles, Ill., Wednesday, May
13, 2020
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