"covered the situation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone has addressed an issue in its entirety or examined it thoroughly. For example, "I asked my attorney to review the contract, and she covered the situation in great detail."
In fact, they covered the situation well once the error was discovered.
India's relentless television news channels have covered the situation around the clock for the past two days, heightening public attention around the country.
In a statement delivered from the White House lawn, which also covered the situation in the Ukraine, he devoted just three paragraphs to Gaza, noting that he had dispatched John Kerry, the Secretary of State, to the Middle East, and had "instructed him to push for an immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the November , 2012 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in Gaza".
Goldstone later remarked that he was constrained by the law, that "the emergency regulations covered the situation".
But, at the same time, we ask foreign journalists to arrive and cover the situation.
Why did NBC and ABC use more time to cover the situation in the Middle East ll.
But neither the current law nor the 1975 law covers the situation of a middle-aged defendant.
As far as it went, that was good enough; but it did not cover the situation with anything like thoroughness.
In his view, courts are free to make their own rules when preexisting written or unwritten law fails to cover the situation.
By the afternoon, an uprising had started, and the Sunday Telegraph sent David Hodge, a 29-year-old freelance photographer, to cover the situation.
Media should take this into account and for the time being stop sending female journalists to cover the situation in Egypt".
