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2020-09-14 - New Antarctica Teams Take Extra Measures to Keep Coronavirus Out America's first post-winter flight to Antarctica arrived with crews taking extra safety measures to keep the coronavirus out.
2020-09-12 - Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way? JOHANNESBURG (AP) At this very moment a vast world exists that's free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles...
2020-08-18 - Deep Freeze Crew in Quarantine to Keep Antarctica COVID-19-Free - Air Force Magazine The 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron is quarantining in New Zealand before the Air Force begins one of the most unique Operation Deep Freeze seasons.
2020-08-07 - Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way. Studying Antarctica is critical to combating climate change, but most scientists can't travel to the continent this upcoming season.
2020-07-29 - Antarctica Has 0 Cases of COVID-19. Will It Last? | Outside Online Outside Search Icon Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email Facebook Icon Twitter Icon Instagram Icon Pinterest Icon The use of masks and social distancing are just two examples of the steps being taken to keep COVID-19 off Earth’s southernmost continent: Antarctica
2020-06-15 - Coronavirus Precautions Stall Antarctic Field Research | The Scientist Magazine The upcoming summer research season has been suspended amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-06-12 - Coronavirus forces United States, United Kingdom to cancel Antarctic field research | Science | AAAS AAAS Search Science Menu Ambitious Thwaites Glacier campaign postponed
2020-06-09 - New Zealand Cuts Research to Keep Antarctica Virus-Free 0
2020-05-29 - What the Future of Polar Travel and Arctic Cruises Looks Like | Conda Nast Traveler Menu Story Saved Close Chevron Search Facebook Twitter Email Pinterest Facebook Twitter Email Pinterest Pinterest Facebook Snapchat Instagram Twitter How COVID-19 and the coronavirus could impact polar travel and Arctic cruises, according to climate scientists and experts.
2020-05-15 - The Great-Power Competition Playing Out in Antarctica - The Atlantic While the West has scaled back operations in the Antarctic, Russia and China have pushed ahead.
2020-05-14 - Coronavirus and Antarctica: 'Isolated within isolation' - BBC News Why the people on the only continent without a recorded case of coronavirus are in lockdown.
2020-05-08 - What it's like to live in Antarctica during the pandemic | CNN Travel Winter and darkness is approaching the only continent on Earth not to have a single case of Covid-19. Those staying on its frozen wastes are watching as the virus crisis unfolds, waiting until it's their time to return home.
2020-04-08 - Most people on Antarctica cruise ship have coronavirus Of 217 people tested on the vessel, 128 were positive for the virus that causes the COVID-2019 disease.Another six people who were evacuated from the ship are in stable condition and being treated in Montevideo
2020-03-20 - What life is like on Antarctica, the only continent without a case of coronavirus - ABC News What life is like on Antarctica, the only continent without a case of coronavirus.
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