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Covid-19 expands translators’ role in saving lives, academics say

Alex Articles January 7, 2022January 7, 2022COVID-19, Interpreter, Linguistics, Public Health, Translator, University, World Health Organization

By Haya Alhusayni, Saudi Gazette

RIYADH — For more than a year now, the world has been and is still affected and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic that crossed borders and reshaped the lives of peoples around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

In light of this new pandemic and the emergence of new variants that pose an increased risk to the global public health, economic sector, among others, translation and interpretation services have become in high demand and a key to saving lives.

Afghan Visa Applicants Arrive in U.S. After Years of Waiting

Alex Articles August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Afghanistan, Interpreter, Translator

The first group of Afghan interpreters and others who helped Americans during the war will stay on an Army base in Virginia until they are resettled.

By Eric Schmitt and Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times

A large percentage of Minnesota COVID-19 patients don’t speak English

Alex Articles July 3, 2020February 7, 2021Interpreter, Karen Language, Somali Language

Outbreaks at meat packing plants, health disparities mean disease is hitting immigrants hard.

By Maya Rao, Star Tribune

Yes, Oui, Si, and Hai: Interpreters ready for Tokyo Olympics

Alex Articles October 6, 2019April 17, 2021Interpreter, Olympic Games, Simultaneous Interpretation

By STEPHEN WADE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — Alexandre Ponomarev is the chief interpreter for next year’s Tokyo’s Olympics. He speaks more than a half dozen languages: Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Ukrainian. And he can get by in a handful of others.

But at times, even he needs an interpreter — for instance, when he’s working in Japan.

“I can’t speak all languages, unfortunately,” he said, answering in English in an interview with The Associated Press. “I wish I could.”