Some 43% of schools worldwide entered the Covid-19 pandemic lacking basic soap-and-water hand-washing facilities, the U.N. said Thursday, deeming it a key condition for schools to reopen safely.

Public Health Agencies worldwide, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Prevention & Control (CDC), have advocated proper hand hygiene since the very beginning of ...

When Annette Fernandez realized that her third grade classroom wasn’t close to a bathroom or equipped for hand washing to slow the spread of COVID-19, she wanted to do something about it. She ...