Our reports on Covid-19: Elections in South Korea, a field hospital in Manhattan and more
18 April 2020 |
12:05 pm
In South Korea, parliamentary elections went ahead this week despite the threat of Covid-19. We meet a 19-year-old first-time voter and IT whizz, who has created an app to track people infected with the coronavirus.
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