Wealthy nations ease restrictions as COVID-19 deaths cross 4 million mark: WHO
3 years, 6 months ago

Wealthy nations ease restrictions as COVID-19 deaths cross 4 million mark: WHO

Firstpost  

As richer countries focus on getting back to normality, encouraging tourism, many outbreaks are hitting the poorer nations. More than four million people have now died from Covid-19, the WHO said on Wednesday, as many rich nations prepare to loosen restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections. “The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calling the four million figure an underestimate of the true toll. All I can do now is pray.” Extreme caution New outbreaks have forced lockdowns in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Myanmar’s Yangon – home to more than 15 million people combined. “I would urge extreme caution in the complete lifting of public health and social measures at this time because there are consequences for that,” said WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan when asked about England’s plans.

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This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says
2 years, 11 months ago

This is how the COVID-19 health emergency could be over this year, WHO says

LA Times  

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How does a country with no COVID reopen its borders? These places are finding out
3 years, 2 months ago

How does a country with no COVID reopen its borders? These places are finding out

NPR  

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Covid’s global death toll tops five million in under two years
3 years, 2 months ago

Covid’s global death toll tops five million in under two years

The Independent  

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Global death toll due to Covid-19 tops 5 million in under 2 years
3 years, 2 months ago

Global death toll due to Covid-19 tops 5 million in under 2 years

Hindustan Times  

The global death toll from Covid-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems. “What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don’t get to another 5 million?” The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins …

COVID-19’s global death toll tops 5 million
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19’s global death toll tops 5 million

LA Times  

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Living with Covid: Five countries that have decided it’s time to open up
3 years, 3 months ago

Living with Covid: Five countries that have decided it’s time to open up

CNN  

London CNN — More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries have decided it’s time to open up and adopt a “living with Covid” model. Denmark: The country that declared precautions over The Danish government lifted all remaining coronavirus restrictions in the country on September 10, saying Covid-19 was no longer “an illness which is a …

Sustaining and scaling up the response to Covid is key to saving lives
3 years, 7 months ago

Sustaining and scaling up the response to Covid is key to saving lives

Hindustan Times  

The World Health Organization South-East Asia Region has, in recent months, witnessed a sharp and sustained surge of SARS-CoV2 infection. Essential health services must continue to be maintained to ensure that all people can access the services they require to stay healthy and well. Amid ongoing supply challenges, countries should optimise the use of available doses to expand protection among …

G20 nations set to back COVID vaccine passports
3 years, 8 months ago

G20 nations set to back COVID vaccine passports

Al Jazeera  

Tourism ministers from G20 nations have met to discuss how to boost the hard-hit global tourism sector, which lost $4.7 trillion and 62 million jobs in 2020. The world’s 20 major economies threw their weight behind efforts to introduce so-called vaccine passports to boost travel and tourism, stressing that a resumption is crucial for a global economic recovery, according to …

Coronavirus pandemic severe, but ‘not necessarily the big one’: WHO
4 years ago

Coronavirus pandemic severe, but ‘not necessarily the big one’: WHO

Hindustan Times  

The novel coronavirus has had a devastating impact around the globe, but the World Health Organization warned Monday that worse pandemics could lie ahead, urging the world to get “serious” about preparedness. “This is a wakeup call,” WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan told reporters at a briefing marking a year since the UN agency first learned of the new virus …

Despite promises of solidarity on Covid-19, rich countries are snapping up the supply of promising vaccines
4 years ago

Despite promises of solidarity on Covid-19, rich countries are snapping up the supply of promising vaccines

CNN  

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‘Moral issue’: African official blasts COVID vaccine inequality
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Moral issue’: African official blasts COVID vaccine inequality

Al Jazeera  

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director warned continent might not see vaccines until after the second quarter of 2021. Africa’s top public health official has said “it will be extremely terrible to see” rich countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines while African countries go without it, especially as a new surge in cases begins on the continent of 1.3 billion …

COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation, says UN
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation, says UN

The Hindu  

Top UN officials have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated discrimination and other human rights violations that can fuel conflict, and its indirect consequences are dwarfing the impact of the virus itself in the world’s most fragile countries. Mr. Lowcock warned the council that the indirect economic and health effects from the crisis in fragile countries “will be higher …

UN: Global tourism loses $320bn amid coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 4 months ago

UN: Global tourism loses $320bn amid coronavirus pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Industry devastated by coronavirus, with tourist arrivals halved and more than 120 million jobs at risk, UN chief says. The global tourism industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320bn lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the United Nations chief has said. https://t.co/mfpWatYJxn pic.twitter.com/YjmioVbHRD — …

Global tourism faces challenges on its journey to full recovery
4 years, 5 months ago

Global tourism faces challenges on its journey to full recovery

China Daily  

People walk on the Millennium Bridge backdropped by St Paul's Cathedral in London on Aug 1. As countries around the world get a grip on the novel coronavirus and cautiously begin reopening their economies, global tourism has seen a glimmer of hope, but it still faces an uphill struggle. When the British government announced a nationwide lockdown in March, Georgia …

Global tourism faces challenges on its journey to full recovery
4 years, 5 months ago

Global tourism faces challenges on its journey to full recovery

China Daily  

People walk on the Millennium Bridge backdropped by St Paul's Cathedral in London on Aug 1. As countries around the world get a grip on the novel coronavirus and cautiously begin reopening their economies, global tourism has seen a glimmer of hope, but it still faces an uphill struggle. When the British government announced a nationwide lockdown in March, Georgia …

WHO says COVID-19 by far its worst global health emergency
4 years, 5 months ago

WHO says COVID-19 by far its worst global health emergency

The Hindu  

The new coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 16 million people is easily the worst global health emergency the World Health Organization has faced, its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the world manage to beat it, Tedros added at a virtual news …

Travel bans cannot be indefinite, countries must fight coronavirus at home: WHO
4 years, 5 months ago

Travel bans cannot be indefinite, countries must fight coronavirus at home: WHO

India Today  

Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing masks to avoiding crowds, would the world manage to beat the Covid-19 pandemic, the World …

Too many countries heading in wrong direction; COVID-19 getting 'worse and worse': WHO warns
4 years, 5 months ago

Too many countries heading in wrong direction; COVID-19 getting 'worse and worse': WHO warns

India TV News  

With the rising number of coronavirus cases worldwide, the World Health Organization on Monday warned that the pandemic has the potential to get far worse if all nations do not adhere to basic healthcare precautions. In a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said too many countries are heading in the wrong direction and …

Global virus infections soar as US deaths spike again
4 years, 6 months ago

Global virus infections soar as US deaths spike again

Live Mint  

The global coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday, as the worst-hit United States closed bars and beaches ahead of the Independence Day holiday. Infections hit their highest level worldwide in the past week, WHO data showed, with chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying new cases had topped "160,000 on every single day." With new COVID-19 cases in …

Living with COVID-19 to be new normal as global cases top 10 million: WHO
4 years, 6 months ago

Living with COVID-19 to be new normal as global cases top 10 million: WHO

India TV News  

The chief of the World Health Organization said that all countries living with COVID-19 will be the new normal in the coming months, as the pandemic had already infected more than 10 million people worldwide, including more than 500,000 deaths. That is the new normal," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily press briefing on Monday, Xinhua news …

Poor, war-torn countries are the worst affected in this pandemic
4 years, 6 months ago

Poor, war-torn countries are the worst affected in this pandemic

Deccan Chronicle  

Cape Town: For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world’s wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps through the population. “Whenever you have countries that are economically not as well off as others, then they will be adversely …

WHO concerned over COVID-19 upswing in many countries
4 years, 6 months ago

WHO concerned over COVID-19 upswing in many countries

India TV News  

World Health Organization said that it's concerned that many countries, particularly the global south, are still on the upswing of the COVID-19 pandemic, and again called for global solidarity to overcome difficulties for "over 100 years." "We are concerned that we are still very much on the upswing of this pandemic in many countries, particularly of the global south," Dr …

Why do rich countries have such high coronavirus death tolls?
4 years, 7 months ago

Why do rich countries have such high coronavirus death tolls?

ABC  

It's the stories of the doctors and nurses that often hit the hardest. Professor Blakely says the younger age structure of some of the low and middle-income countries might act "a little bit like herd immunity". Professor Jodie McVernon, the Doherty Institute's epidemiology director, also says countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea invested in strong public health systems …

Coronavirus death toll passes 300,000 globally, as countries wait in lockdown
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus death toll passes 300,000 globally, as countries wait in lockdown

CNN  

London CNN — More than 300,000 people around the world have now died globally from the coronavirus, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, as the pandemic passed yet another bleak milestone on Thursday. The towering death toll nonetheless captures a world slowed to a standstill by the virus, with governments just beginning to creep out of crippling lockdowns and …

The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself
4 years, 7 months ago

The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself

LA Times  

It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. “I haven’t even been able to buy beans.” The economic devastation the pandemic wreaks on the ultra-poor could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself. “I want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe,” said David Beasley, executive director …

Global health crisis pits economic against health concerns
4 years, 8 months ago

Global health crisis pits economic against health concerns

India TV News  

The global health crisis is taking a nasty political turn with tensions worsening between governments locked down to keep the coronavirus at bay and people yearning to restart stalled economies and forestall fears of a depression. Washington state’s Democratic governor, Jay Inslee, accused President Donald Trump of encouraging insubordination and “illegal activity” by goading protesters who flouted shelter-in-place rules. “To …

COVID-19 pandemic could cost millions of jobs in global tourism industry: UN body
4 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic could cost millions of jobs in global tourism industry: UN body

India TV News  

Millions of jobs in the global tourism industry could be lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted travel like no other event in history and caused 96 per cent of all worldwide destinations to introduce restrictions in response to the outbreak, the World Tourism Organisation has said. Almost all global destinations have imposed restrictions on travel since January …

COVID-19 pandemic could cost millions of jobs in global tourism industry: UN body
4 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic could cost millions of jobs in global tourism industry: UN body

The Hindu  

Millions of jobs in the global tourism industry could be lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted travel like no other event in history and caused 96 per cent of all worldwide destinations to introduce restrictions in response to the outbreak, the World Tourism Organisation has said. Almost all global destinations have imposed restrictions on travel since January …

Coronavirus | Lifting lockdowns too quickly could spark 'deadly resurgence': WHO
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Lifting lockdowns too quickly could spark 'deadly resurgence': WHO

The Hindu  

A hasty lifting of restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a fatal resurgence of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization warned Friday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was working with countries on ways in which lockdowns could be gradually eased, but said doing so too quickly could be dangerous. But he also warned …

Limits to rugged individualism
4 years, 9 months ago

Limits to rugged individualism

The Hindu  

As the global battle against COVID-19 progresses, it is beginning to reveal deep fault lines in the national psyches of countries that are facing the prospect of high infection rates. Italy, Spain and France, countries that have seen surges in infection cases that have not been witnessed anywhere else outside China, also implemented lockdown measures that were perceived as unavoidable …

Coronavirus could push 11 million people into poverty: World Bank
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus could push 11 million people into poverty: World Bank

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: About 11 million people could be driven into poverty in East Asia and the Pacific as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that has impacted over 780,000 people and killed more than 37,000 globally, the World Bank has warned. The Washington-based global lender, in a report released on Monday, said that prior projections had estimated that nearly 35 million …

COVID-19 pandemic puts 75 million tourism jobs at risk: WTTC
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic puts 75 million tourism jobs at risk: WTTC

China Daily  

Asia-Pacific is expected to the hardest-hit region with nearly 49 million travel and tourism jobs at risk. The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to put some 75 million jobs in the global tourism industry at risk, resulting in a loss of $2.1 trillion in travel and tourism GDP to the world economy, according to the latest research by World Travel & …

COVID-19 | Global toll crosses 10,000
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 | Global toll crosses 10,000

The Hindu  

More than 10,000 people have now died in the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept throughout the world, forcing the confinement of tens of millions in their homes. The U.S. State of California, among the worst hit in the country, has told its 40 million residents to stay at home, the most drastic move yet in the United States to combat …

Opinion | Failing health of globalization: Covid-19 blow to a stressed order
4 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | Failing health of globalization: Covid-19 blow to a stressed order

Live Mint  

It has been a month of jitters, tremors and shocks for the world economy. Globalization in our times, which gathered momentum since 1980, has been confronted with mounting economic problems and consequent political challenges after a smooth sail of almost three decades. In industrialized countries, nationalist populist political parties, or far-right xenophobic populist leaders exploit fears about openness in immigration …

COVID-19 | More than 100,000 infected worldwide, wreaking financial havoc
4 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19 | More than 100,000 infected worldwide, wreaking financial havoc

The Hindu  

The number of people infected with the new COVID-19 surpassed 100,000 across the world on Friday, as the outbreak reached more countries and economic damage intensified, with business districts beginning to empty and stock markets tumbling. The World Health Organization said every country should make containing the epidemic its top priority, pointing to Iran's national action plan to combat one …

COVID-19: Send us your questions
4 years, 10 months ago

COVID-19: Send us your questions

The Hindu  

With as many as 59 countries including China reporting cases of COVID-19 so far, the World Health Organisation has upped its global risk assessment status due to the novel corona virus to very high. COVID-19 has already claimed more than 3,000 lives, and with fear spreading faster than the microbe, normal life has been turned upside down in affected countries. …

Country setting example for world
4 years, 10 months ago

Country setting example for world

China Daily  

CHINA DAILY China has been facing a formidable challenge these days in the form of a deadly virus that does not differentiate between big and small, and affects everyone. The novel coronavirus struck when Chinese families were preparing to celebrate the Lunar New Year, causing untold misery and bringing life to a standstill across China. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has …

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