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United States
COVID-19 in Rural Areas
Most of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States are currently in rural areas. The earlier peaks in cases of the virus were mainly concentrated around cities and suburbs, with the global epicenter being New York City in the spring. Since the late summer, confirmed cases and death rates in rural areas per capita have outpaced those in metropolitan areas. These three maps by The New York Times show the cases in rural areas now, the cases in rural areas when all cases peaked over the summer, and the cases in rural areas when all cases first peaked. For example, 3,000 people live in Foster County, North Dakota and they had only one positive case when national cases peaked in the spring, only two further cases were recorded over the summer and now one in every twenty residents is infected. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has recorded over 9.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 231,000 deaths.
These maps depict the difference in cases in rural areas between the peak of national daily confirmed cases, the summer peak, and today’s cases. Click on the map to learn more.
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Thailand
Protests Continue
Thousands of people continued to flock to the streets in Bangkok over the weekend amid protests calling for government reform. Three pro-democracy leaders were hospitalized after being released from jail on Friday night and subjected to additional questioning outside of police headquarters early Saturday morning. Protests led by students calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, a former military chief who staged a coup in 2014, and reforms to the country’s monarchy have been ongoing in Thailand for months. On Sunday, King Maha Vajiralongkorn made a rare public appearance and thousands gathered outside Bangkok’s Grand Palace to show support for the monarchy, in contrast to pro-democracy demonstrations. This interactive map depicts the protests taking place in Southeast Asia. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: ACLED
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Philippines
Typhoon Goni
On Sunday, at least 20 people were killed as Typhoon Goni, battered the Albay and Catanduanes provinces south of the capital Manila with gusts of up to 310 km/h (190 mph). About 350,000 people were pre-emptively evacuated from its projected path, including in the capital, Manila, which officials believed helped to avert more deaths. According to reports, in some parts of the country, nearly 90% of homes had been destroyed and between 19 million and 31 million people could be affected by the typhoon. Typhoon Goni was the 18th storm to hit the Philippines this year and came days after Typhoon Molave had already killed 22 people in the country. Meteorologists reported Goni was one of the most powerful typhoons in the world this year and one of the strongest to hit the region since Haiyan killed more than 6,300 people in 2013. Now another storm, Atsani, with gusts of up to 80 km/h (49 mph), is gaining strength over the Pacific Ocean and is expected to make landfall late this week.This map depicts the path of Typhoon Goni. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Stretching nearly 54 km (34 miles), and lying 140 m (460 feet) below the seabed, the longest and deepest railway tunnel passes under which body of water?
A: Tsugaru Strait
The Seikan Tunnel, a railroad tunnel that passes under the Tsugaru Strait, connects the Aomori Prefecture on Honshu Island and Hokkaido Island in Japan. Almost 24 km (15 miles) lies below the seabed, making the passage the world’s longest and deepest undersea tunnel. The tunnel opened in 1988 and is used by about 50 trains per day.
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Q: Before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, which strait was an important sailing route linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
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