Countries all over the world are being impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. We hear how nations in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America are responding.
Even many symptomatic patients and exposed health workers who are able to get a COVID-19 test must wait nearly a week to get results. Others get results in hours. Here's why it varies so much.
As coronavirus cases soar globally and medical workers face a dearth of protective gear, citizens are stepping up in unique ways to combat the health crisis.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo, a community organizer in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, NY, who created the COVID Care Neighborhood Network.
A federal judge in California wants all minors who were apprehended crossing into the U.S. alone to be released in an orderly fashion. But she refrained from mandating their immediate release.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Brent Russell, an emergency room doctor in Ketchum, Idaho, about how he became ill with COVID-19 and his subsequent recovery from the disease.