Tak dapat disanggah, akhir tahun 2019 akan diingat dalam sejarah dunia sebagai tahun timbulnya COVID-19, penyakit yang yang disebabkan oleh virus tak dikenal, yang menantang peradaban manusia dan merombak hubungan internasional. Sejak itu, COVID-19 terus mendominasi pemberitaan internasional dan mencuri perhatian baik para warga biasa dan berbagai pemerintahan. Tanggal 11 Maret Organisasi Kesehatan Internasional World Health Organization (WHO) mengumumnkan status  pandemik COVID-19. Sebuah pandemi dapat didefinisikan sebagai epidemi yang menyebar keseluruh penjuru dunia dengan kecepatan penularan yang melebihi proyeksi ahli dan menimpa orang-orang biasa yang tidak mempunyai imunitas untuk melawannya.

Sebagai jejaring wartawan dan komunitas penerjemah (yang menguasai lebih dari 100 bahasa), tersebar di seluruh dunia, pada bulan Januari 2020 Global Voices mulai meliput kejadian yang timbul di Tiongkok, tak lama kemudian memperluas liputan dengan menyertakan berbagai macam konsekuensi COVID-19. Berdasarkan skala dan cakupan pandemi, kami sekarang mengelola liputan kami berdasarkan wilayah (dimana berita teranyar ditampilkan di urutan teratas) untuk mempermudah navigasi dan pencarian konten berita.

Misi kami adalah untuk memberitakan berbagai cara COVID-19 mempengaruhi manusia, hak-hak asasi digital, dan kebebasan berbicara, menimbulkan mis- dan disinformasi, dan menantang kerangka kerja ekologi media, kesehatan masyarakat, pemerintahan, politik, ekonomi global yang tengah ada – dari perspektif lokal, sembari terus mengingat kebutuhan para pembaca global kami atas berita yang bisa diandalkan. Oleh sebab itu, kami semakin waspada dalam melindungi keselamatan dan kesejahteraan individu dan komunitas yang disasar dan diasosiasikan dengan COVID-19 secara tidak adil, seperti halnya kami melindungi para wartawan kami.

Dampak global

Coronavirus and surveillance technology: How far will governments go?  (25 Maret 2020)

World Health Organization officials criticized for ‘slow response’ and ‘pro-China’ bias as COVID-19 spreads across the world (1 Maret 2020)

Wilayah Asia Tengah dan Kaukasus

COVID-19 makes first victims in Afghanistan (1 April 2020)

Azerbaijan signals a lockdown and a crackdown in fight against coronavirus (24 Maret 2020)

Turkmenistan fights coronavirus with (more) isolation and herbal remedies (18 Maret 2020)

Wilayah Eropa Tengah dan Timur

As Russia goes into lockdown, feminists fear an epidemic of domestic violence (3 April 2020)

Moldova's meme heroes promote solidarity with Eurosong spoof amid COVID-19 crisis (30 Maret 2020)

COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects digital rights in the Balkans (30 Maret 2020)

Hundreds of Croatians left homeless by earthquake amid COVID-19 crisis (28 Maret 2020)

No coronavirus cases in Donetsk and Luhansk, say separatist authorities (26 Maret 2020)

Kosovo government first to fall in worldwide coronavirus crisis (26 Maret 2020)

Croatia's earthquake risk disrupting partial lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak (23 Maret 2020)

St Petersburg firm creates online bar for self-isolating Russians (19 Maret 2020)

Czech Republic enters quarantine amid conflicting government directives (17 Maret 2020)

Czech Republic introduces drastic measures to deter spread of COVID-19 (11 Maret 2020)

Churches in Greece and North Macedonia refuse to modify rituals conducive to the spread of COVID-19 (10 Maret 2020)

Coronavirus-related xenophobia spreads to Central and Eastern Europe (15 Februari 2020)

Wilayah Asia Timur dan Oseania

Papua New Guinea nurses strike over lack of protection against COVID-19 (28 Maret 2020)

COVID-19 diaries from Wuhan: Looking for human connection in isolation (26 Maret 2020)

Outrage after Indonesia politicians among first in line to get tested for COVID-19 (26 Maret 2020)

Classified data shows that China's official figure of zero domestic COVID-19 cases excludes asymptomatic carriers (23 Maret 2020)

Combating ‘fake news’ in the time of COVID-19 in Myanmar (23 Maret 2020)

COVID-19 diaries from Wuhan: ‘…not only a city being locked down, but also our voices’ (21 Maret 2020)

Study suggests that China could have prevented 95% of its coronavirus cases (16 Maret 2020)

Japan resurrects ‘Amabie’, an old supernatural creature to fight COVID-19 (15 Maret 2020)

China government spokesperson suggests on Twitter that COVID-19 may have originated in the United States (13 Maret 2020)

Does Singapore's ‘top-down’ approach’ to handling COVID-19 deserve all the praise it's been getting? (13 Maret 2020)

Campaign urging Wuhan residents to show gratitude to the Communist Party leadership in fighting COVID-19 backfires (9 Maret 2020)

How Chinese social media platforms control information on COVID-19 (8 Maret 2020)

China censors report of how China authorities hid COVID-19 genome sequence test result for 14 days (2 Maret 2020)

Battered by criticism, Abe government scrambles to save Japan from COVID-19 (28 Februari 2020)

Chinese censorship demonstrates it can afford the cost of the death of media (21 Februari 2020)

Japan edges ever closer to a COVID-19 epidemic (18 Februari 2020)

China travel ban heightens threats to Australia's trade, tourism and education sectors (18 Februari 2020)

Positive energy floods Chinese social media as over 60,000 infected with COVID 2019 (16 Februari 2020)

Is the coronavirus epidemic China's ‘Chernobyl moment'? (14 Februari 2020)

#OustDuterte trends as Filipinos criticize the government's response to the coronavirus (13 Februari 2020)

Baca liputan awal wabah COVID-19 di Tiongkok dan Asia Timur di sini.

Wilayah Amerika Latin dan Karibia

Forty years on, a locked-down El Salvador remembers the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero online (27 Maret 2020)

Tunes in the time of the corona: A playlist from Trinidad & Tobago hits all the right notes (26 Maret 2020)

‘Protecting forests is crucial to cure pandemics’, indigenous leaders say (19 Maret 2020)

Trinidad & Tobago closes its borders as COVID-19 cases double to four (16 Maret 2020)

Trinidad & Tobago fight against COVID-19 puts emphasis on ‘personal responsibility’ (15 Maret 2020)

New COVID-19 disaster area order places a Jamaica under quarantine, but ‘not under curfew’ (14 Maret 2020)

With no officially confirmed cases, El Salvador locks itself down to prevent COVID-19 (14 Maret 2020)

Trinidad & Tobago clamps down as two cases of COVID-19 are confirmed (14 Maret 2020)

Life in the times of COVID-19: Jamaicans adjust their lifestyle as country records second case (12 Maret 2020)

Caribbean tourism threatened by the region's first cases of COVID-19 (4 Maret 2020)

A rash of ‘travel bans’ as the Caribbean gets serious about coronavirus (12 Februari 2020)

Wilayah Asia Selatan

Healthcare workers attacked as fears about coronavirus take hold of India (2 April 2020)

Maldives: Can a country so dependent on tourism afford a lockdown? (26 Maret 2020)

India stays home for 14 hours in the fight against COVID-19 (22 Maret 2020)

Quarantine woes in Bangladesh amid coronavirus fears (21 Maret 2020)

Pakistan claims COVID-19 under control amidst rising figures (18 Maret 2020)

Nepal postpones international events as fear of COVID-19 intensifies (10 Maret 2020)

Bhutan deals with its first COVID-19 case by temporarily shutting down borders (6 Maret 2020)

Pakistani students under lockdown in Wuhan are appealing for assistance (1 Februari 2020)

Wilayah Afrika Sub-Sahara

A king's belief in herbal remedies to cure COVID-19 butts up against science in Nigeria (1 April 2020)

Kenyan star runner Eliud Kipchoge says 2020 Olympics postponement is ‘shocking but noble’ (29 Maret 2020)

Market mayhem in Uganda as COVID-19 measures upend women's lives (28 Maret  2020)

Musicians in East Africa rush to produce ‘corona’ songs⁠—even as industry falters (27 Maret 2020)

Can Zimbabwe handle the coronavirus amid a collapsing health care system? (26 Maret  2020)

Across Africa, COVID-19 heightens tension between faith and science (25 Maret  2020)

As Ebola outbreak ends, coronavirus begins in DR Congo (22 Maret  2020)

With no confirmed cases of COVID-19, Mozambique prepares for looming outbreak (20 Maret  2020)

COVID-19 pandemic lays bare the political leadership deficit in Nigeria (20 Maret  2020)

Nigeria enforces travel bans amid sloppy management of COVID-19 cases (19 Maret 2020)

Tanzania tackles COVID-19 with strict measures to slow the spread (19 Maret 2020)

COVID-19 in Africa: ‘Unprecedented levels of mobilization’ as nations brace for pandemic (March 14, 2020)

France24 headline about COVID-19 in Africa irks citizens as racist (4 Maret 2020)

An Italian national is the index case of COVID-19 disease in Nigeria (28 Februari 2020)

Jika Anda ingin mengikuti perkembangan COVID-19, berikut sumber informasi penting yang dapat Anda akses: 

Peta dari Universitas Johns Hopkins dengan liputan visual penyebaranCOVID-19. BBC juga menyediakan panduan bergambar pandemik.

Untuk penggunaan istilah terkait COVID-19, berikut kamus lengkap daring.

Berikut penjelasan komprehensif oleh BBC terkair simptom COVID-19 dan bagaimana melindungi diri kita masing-masing. Selebihnya, tersedia juga kursus daring untuk memahami COVID-19.