By Peter Hille (DW News) – Germany is notorious for lagging behind in digitalization. Now, students have technical troubles as schools remain closed. But even countries with a better track record are having problems with remote learning.
Like all German students, Eric Grabowski can’t return to school after the Christmas break. With a country-wide lockdown just having been [...]
By Alexander Freund (DW News) - Vaccines are safe and save lives. The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines has people asking questions. Here is an overview of the reactions and side effects you can expect. Millions of people worldwide are hoping for a vaccination against the coronavirus in the near future. Vaccines have been found safe and approved by [...]
WEBPUBLICAPRESS – DW News – The World Health Organization has issued rare criticism of China for blocking access to researchers. A team of 10 experts hopes to find the origin of the virus and how it jumped to humans. Stay up to date with DW.
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday decried [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – DW News – Following alarm over the new COVID strain in the UK, reports of Brits dodging quarantine in Switzerland made headlines around the world. Now questions over the reports are being raised.
Doubts have emerged as to whether hundreds of Brits holidaying in the popular Swiss ski resort of Verbier did in fact [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – DW News – Amid pressure to speed up inoculation, German officials are looking into stretching their supply of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine to get more shots.
The German government acknowledged “the impatience” surrounding their vaccination drive on Monday, as more and more critics, including senior politicians, decried the effort as too slow.
This sentiment, as well as “the [...]
By Alexandra Heller Nicholas – Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanic has built a career around telling stories about the people from her homeland. Movies such as 2006’s Grabvica (which won her the Golden Bear at Berlin), 2013’s For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, and her most recent feature Quo Vadis, Aida?, Žbanic has often focused explicitly on the Bosnian [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – DW News – German lawmakers have agreed to extend the current coronavirus lockdown until January 31, according to media reports. Official confirmation is expected on Tuesday.
The German government and the majority of Germany’s 16 federal states have agreed to extend lockdown measures until January 31 to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, various German media reported on [...]
By Ines Eisele (Deutsche Welle – DW) — Some people say a “cancel culture” doesn’t exist; for others, it is there and heralding the demise of free opinion. But DW’s Ines Eisele feels that both sides should calm down a bit. Is one allowed to make jokes about Jews? Austrian cabaret artist Lisa Eckhardt has polarized [...]
By John J. Metzler - “Today marks an overdue and much needed moment of reckoning. None of us could have imagined, this time last year, what was to come,” stated Amb. Volkan Bozkir, the President of the UN General Assembly. He added, “COVID-19 is first and foremost a global health crisis. But it is at the same time an [...]
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS – There is a longstanding belief that virtually everything in this world is stacked up against the poor and the downtrodden.
The Covid-19 vaccine is no exception because some of world’s richest nations, including the US, Canada and UK, seem to have cornered most of the supplies — whilst marginalizing [...]
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