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How Colleges Are Grading Students During Coronavirus

As colleges shift to online classes, many schools are beginning to reevaluate how they grade students. One common option: going pass-fail.

Zhang Hai stands on a bridge where he took his father out for a walk only about four months earlier. His father died of the novel coronavirus on Feb. 1. "The scenery is still here, but the person is gone," he sighs. He says he frequently comes to this park "looking for memories."

The New Rules For Mourners In Wuhan Have Angered Many Residents

Zhang Hai's father died of the coronavirus on Feb. 1 and was cremated. Ashes can now be picked up, but the government requires a chaperone for visits to the crematorium as well as for burials.

Workers produce masks at a factory in Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this week.

Yemen, Already Facing A Health Crisis, Confirms Its 1st Coronavirus Case

Five years of fighting has left the country in ruins. "We are bracing for the worst," a U.N. official said. The country is already dealing with war, poverty and malnutrition.

A patient on a wheelchair waits in the emergency room at a hospital in Güiria, Venezuela, on March 14. Human rights organizations recently warned that Venezuela faces catastrophic consequences from the new coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to overwhelm its crumbling health system.

Many Venezuelan Hospitals Lack Basics To Function, Let Alone Handle COVID-19

Doctors tell NPR many health workers have left the country and many hospitals don't have necessities, including soap and running water.

Why There Are So Many Different Guidelines For Face Masks For The Public

Some agencies and places urged or required people to use face coverings in public early on. Others dismissed the coverings as ineffective, then revised their stance. Why the differences?

The Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis is asking the public to submit videos, photos, recordings, art or writing that will help tell the story of the pandemic.

Indiana Historical Society Begins Building A Coronavirus Collection

The Indianapolis-based institution is gathering documents and other items that will one day help tell the story of the coronavirus pandemic. Historians are asking the public to help.

Police stand guard at an apartment building that's considered a coronavirus hot spot. Other state efforts involve using GPS data to keep track of people who've been ordered into home quarantine.

An Indian State Tells Quarantined Folks: 'A Selfie An Hour Will Keep The Police Away'

In Karnataka, people under quarantine must take hourly selfies as proof of staying home. The government is also publishing addresses of the quarantined. Legal activists are raising privacy concerns.

Funeral home workers put on protective gear to retrieve a body from a refrigerated truck outside a Brooklyn hospital in early April. As of Sunday, the U.S. reported the most coronavirus deaths in the world, surpassing Italy.

U.S. Has Most Coronavirus Deaths In The World

More than 20,600 people have died from the virus as of early Sunday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

A resident talks on the phone while walking in Jiangtan park after its reopening in March in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. The new coronavirus pandemic felt thousands of miles away, until it didn't. As cases in the U.S. skyrocketed, many noticed a shift — from watching the headlines, to watching what we touch.

Is COVID-19 Changing How We Measure Distance?

Liying is from Wuhan, China. She's married to Federico, from Lombardy, Italy. Now in the U.S., they describe the rapid shift in perceptions of the pandemic as it has spread through each country.

A doctor's white coat is projected onto the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Easter Sunday, to honor medical workers who are fighting to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

Hospital Heroes Illuminate 'Christ The Redeemer' As Part Of Coronavirus Tribute

The word "hope" was also projected onto the statue towering over Rio de Janeiro, along with the phrase for "Stay at Home" — the message nurses and doctors are telling people around the world.

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