100 Days of COVID-19, Day 27

My Art in the Time of a Pandemic

Masks

Today's postage stamp is a colorful mask from the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Created in 1977, this stamp captures the bold graphic style of the seventies.

On the bottom left of the stamp, it says Correos, the Spanish word for Mail or Post. And, underneath the mask is written Mascara Africana, Spanish for African Mask. The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is the only African country that has a Correos and issues postage stamps in Spanish because Spanish is one of its official languages. The country's other official languages are French and Portuguese.

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*Coronavirus Disease 2019:
Update in Maryland- 4/26/2020

18,581 confirmed cases

910 deaths

Update in New York State - 4/26/2020

288,045 confirmed cases

22,269 deaths, including 17,280 in NYC

Total in United States: 965,435 confirmed cases, 54,856 deaths
Total Worldwide: 2,971,477 confirmed cases, 206,514 deaths

* All numbers are taken from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

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