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The COVID-19 reading list you won't find elsewhere
26 March, 2020•4 min
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26 March, 2020•4 min
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Editor's note: It has been a tumultuous week, to say the least. Business and livelihoods across the board have been disrupted, even more so with India now in a lockdown. We’ve covered this over the past few days in our special series of reports on the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve published half a dozen of these stories this week, plus another two last week. Today, instead of inundating you with more of our work, we have put together a selection of some of the best writing on and around the coronavirus outbreak, from India and the world over. It’s a fairly short list—five excellent stories—because even stuck at home, we believe your time is precious. Hopefully, these stories will help both in understanding what is happening and in coping with it. Crucial coronavirus gear supply clouded by allegations of government ‘malintention’, by Aarefa Johari for Scroll: In this detailed investigation, Scroll uncovers a slew of irregularities about government tenders for personal protective equipment (everything from gloves to coveralls) for health workers. As India braces for a potential wave of cases, …
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