If you look for information about the coronavirus in the world’s major languages, you’ll find it easily. But information becomes much harder to find in many languages that are less common. The World’s Monica Campbell spoke with interpreters in California who are trying to break through language barriers to disseminate urgent information to immigrants there.
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