Cultureteca 05.07.20

Even the bastions of good health and sound management were being breached this week, as there seemed to be nowhere on earth that the coronavirus was not spreading, whether creeping or rushing...

Cultureteca 21.06.20

Coronavirus continued to spread this week following an increasingly familiar course. That meant surging cases across South Asia, Latin America, and parts of the contiguous United States, creeping infections in Africa, mounting...

Cultureteca 14.06.20

South Asia and Latin America endured another turbulent week at the heart of the global coronavirus pandemic, while COVID-19 increasingly roiled the southern and western United States. Cases were rising fastest across...

Cultureteca 07.06.20

Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and the Northeastern United States, each in their own ways former epicentres of coronavirus, were breathing more freely this week as the rest of the world sailed in...

Cultureteca 31.05.20

COVID-19 continued to surge this week across Latin America and South Asia, which remained global hotspots. Daily deaths in Brazil began to surpass those in the United States, and by the end...

Cultureteca 24.05.20

A week which began with Brazil racing into fourth place on the global coronavirus infection list ended with the country glancing up towards the United States, as soaring cases and record deaths...

Cultureteca 17.05.20

At the onset of another week under coronavirus, the World Health Organization encouraged ‘extreme vigilance’ as countries continued to ease lockdown measures. Japan lifted its state of emergency across 39 of 47...

Cultureteca 03.05.20

As reopening plans began to supersede coronavirus case counts in the public imagination, the week brought plenty of positives across Asia-Pacific. With no cases of community transmission in New Zealand, the director...