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Charity calls for urgent action over virus school closures

Charity calls for urgent action over virus school closures

The charity calculated 112 billion school days have been lost in total worldwide, with the poorest children disproportionately affected

Commuters sleep while waiting for the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to open to cross to the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, in the pre-dawn hours of May 20, 2020. Restricted entry amid the pandemic forced commuters crossing the border to take extraordinary measures to get to essential work and business on time in the States. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

The human cost of endless pandemic border closures

We cannot hold back people from buying things from the markets unless they find a simpler way. We have to create alternatives to physical shops to stop people from gathering in huge numbers even if it changes our pre-existing culture. Photo: Mumit M

Pandemic erodes living standards in developing countries like Bangladesh: Study

A general view of Australian Open flags in Melbourne, Australia, January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders

Australian Open to be allowed 30,000 fans a day

A photo of the Australian flag. Photo: Collected

Coronavirus chronicle

Australia unlikely to open border in 2021: Health official

FILE PHOTO: A member of medical staff is seen at an NHS coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility, Wolverhampton, Britain, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Carl Recine/File Photo

Coronavirus chronicle

Critical care staff suffer trauma and severe anxiety due to Covid-19

A protective face mask is seen as curbs to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) have been reimposed after a rise in new cases, at Zikim beach in southern Israel July 21, 2020. Picture taken July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC2AYH9E2519

From macaques to crabs, wildlife faces threat from face masks

Nine-year-old Bacho Tsiklauri writes in a school book during a lesson, at a school in the village of Makarta, some 100 km (62 miles) north of Tbilisi, Georgia, April 10, 2013. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili/File Photo

Coronavirus chronicle

Covid-19 fuelling education's tech disruption, deepening digital divide

Professor Syed Md Golam Faruk. Illustration: TBS

NCTB preparing a short syllabus comprising selective topics

PHOTO: WE-GE/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES via IMF Blog

Data disruption: The impact of Covid-19 on inflation measurement