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Earlier this month, Austria took a step once unthinkable for a Western democracy.

As the COVID-19 pandemic reached all corners of the world, countries rapidly introduced a series of containment policies to stop its spread,

The Philippines is no longer the cellar-dweller in the latest COVID-19 recovery ranking by Tokyo-based news magazine Nikkei Asia. 

Together with our Data Insights Unit, we’ve examined the state of global lockdown to find the countries where the biggest risks remain.

In many countries, poorer people have been more exposed to Covid-19 as they cannot afford to stay at home instead of going to work. This column shows that in low- and middle-income countries, emergency income support schemes have significantly reduced differences in rates of contagion due to wealth or poverty status by allowing poorer people to also stay at home. As well as

Children around the world have stayed indoors for an average of six months since the start of the pandemic, with growing concerns about rising levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and even self-harm, Save the Children has warned ahead of World Mental Health Day.  ...

Children around the world have stayed indoors for an average of six months since the start of the pandemic.

After roughly eight months indoors, Melbourne has endured more time in lockdown than any other city in the ...

COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced the consumption of audio music streaming The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to change how people consume media. A new study analyzed online music streaming data for top songs for two years in 60 countries, as well as COVID-19 case and lockdown statistics and daily mobility data, to determine the nature of those changes. The study found that the pandemic significantly reduced the consumption of audio music streaming in many countries. The study, by researc...

New tracker aims to identify, collect data on COVID-19 cases across Europe According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but inevitable in Europe. A COVID tracker developed by IIASA researcher Asjad Naqvi, aims to identify, collect, and collate various official regional datasets for European countries, while also combining and homogenizing the data to help researchers and policymakers explore how the virus spreads. While many comparisons have been made ...