Sunday On The Beach With Sierra Leonean Soccer Players
"Our beach is a God-given thing," exclaims one Sierra Leonean. "We have to make use of it!" That means walking, working out ... and lots of soccer in the sand.
Global Health
Teen Girl Leaders In A Pandemic: Fight For What's Right, Then Groove To BTS
Four attendees of the Girl Up Leadership Summit share how they balance their passion for social justice issues with self-care: tuning out the news, going for a walk and binging Harry Potter.
Protests Have Persisted Outside Of The Tokyo Olympics
For months, polls have shown most Japanese citizens don't want the Olympics in Japan. Cost overruns and a COVID-19 surge have led to street protests. Now activists are facing the games' inevitability.
The Downs And Ups Of Africa's Current COVID Surge
The World Health Organization has reported a downturn after 8 weeks of increasing cases. But the good news comes with a large dose of caution.
Tokyo Reports Its Highest COVID-19 Numbers Since January As First Olympic Games Start
"There is an urgent need to prepare crisis management systems for hospital care," the the Tokyo Metropolitan Government says.
Study Suggests That India's Pandemic Death Toll Is Higher Than Official Data
NPR's Noel King talks to Arvind Subramanian of Brown University's Watson Center and former chief economic adviser to the government of India, about the likely undercount of COVID-19 deaths in India.
India's Pandemic Death Toll Estimated At About 4 Million: 10 Times The Official Count
That's the number of "excess deaths" from January 2020 to June 2021, reflecting the true toll of COVID-19, say researchers in a new study. What the big disparity?
India's COVID-19 Death Toll May Be 10 Times The Official Figure, Study Suggests
A new epidemiological study suggests the death toll in India from COVID-19 could be as much as 10 times the official figure — making the count closer to 5 million people.
COVID-19 Cases Are Rising As Tokyo Olympics Get Underway
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Motoko Rich on the Japanese public's concern over the government's decision to hold the Olympics despite rising cases of COVID-19.
Echoes Across Centuries Are Reminders That The Next Quarantine Is A Matter Of When
There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year plus. Until Proven Safe takes us to the places others lingered through time.