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Stories about COVID-19 from December, 2020

Short videos by young Cambodians promote fight against COVID-19 disinformation

14 videos were finalists in a competition on social media challenges

Written by Mong Palatino

31 December 2020

2020 round-up: COVID-19 in South Asia

Our coverage from South Asian countries

Written by Rezwan

31 December 2020

COVID Christmas: Was it truly like no other?

COVID was almost universal, but in poor nations human violence continued as usual

Written by Ian Inkster

30 December 2020

Will poetry be enough to get Czechs to embrace anti COVID-19 vaccination?

Czech government ad campaign seeks to erase fears about vaccination

Written by Filip Noubel

29 December 2020

Rwandan governance during the pandemic: A time for introspection

Rwanda's reluctance to tolerate criticism undermines its governance model

Written by Louis Gitinywa

29 December 2020

2020 round-up: How the tragedy of COVID-19 became a success story for the China model

Critical voices have given way to positive narratives

Written by Oiwan Lam

28 December 2020

From COVID-19 to Caribbean literature, this is what the region looked like in 2020

A recap of some our most engaging stories

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

25 December 2020

Is the honeymoon over for Beijing and Hong Kong's Carrie Lam?

'Coordinated public criticism is another way of forcing Lam to leave her position.'

Written by Oiwan Lam

25 December 2020

COVID-19 infects Japan's ‘kanji of the year’

密 (mitsu), in some cases, means 'close, crowded or confined'

Written by Nevin Thompson

22 December 2020

Sudan faces second COVID-19 wave amid drug shortages and doctors’ strike

'Where can I find the pills? This is very necessary. My aunt needs them.'

Written by Khattab Hamad

8 December 2020

Nepal's Sapana Roka Magar, who provides Hindu funeral rites for unclaimed bodies, listed in BBC's 100 Women of 2020

She used to be homeless; Now, she does a job traditionally unacceptable to women

Written by Benju Lwagun

5 December 2020

Our new normal doesn't have to be dictated by the monopolies of information technology

Indigenous and peasant communities can show us another way

Written by Erick Huerta Velazquez

Translated by Teodora C. Hasegan

3 December 2020

World AIDS Day 2020: How has the Caribbean dealt with HIV during COVID-19?

There's a push for self-testing kits to be made available

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

1 December 2020

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