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.

A new study shows that, without safe water supply at home and in schools, children and adolescents find it more difficult to follow hand-washing guidance on how to prevent COVID-19 and other diseases ...

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 ...