(NEW YORK) A COVID-19 outbreak has hit a U.S. station in Antarctica, despite being in one of the most remote areas of the world. According to the National Science Foundation, which manages McMurdo Station the largest base on the continent at least 98 people have tested positive since the beginning of October
Travel has been paused after McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base in Antarctica, suffered a COVID-19 outbreak with at least 98 people testing positive since October.
Despite the colony’s isolation, its inhabitants at the start of the 19th century were affected by developments elsewhere. The most significant of those developments were the winning of independence by the 13 Anglo-American colonies and by Haiti, the French Revolution, and the inability of Spain to defend its system in America, as indicated by the British invasion of the La Plata region and increased contraband trade on the part of British and U.S. citizens. Finally and decisively came the intervention of Napoleon in Spain, an act that in 1808 threw Chile and the other colonies on their own resources and
POTSDAM — France Anne Córdova, president of the Science Philanthropy Alliance and former director of the National Science Foundation, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University’s