Tag: Pandemic

Open newsletter – february 23, 2022

ASIA A divide is emerging between how the Asia Pacific region has responded to the Omicron wave of COVID-19, and how North American and Western...

Open newsletter – february 21, 2022

from: Al Jazeera, Asia Times, Corriere della Sera, East Asia Forum, Euractiv, Global Times, Reuters, RFE RL, RUSI, TASS, The Interpreter, The Strategist  AFGHANISTAN The United...

Daily news – February 9, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Brookings, East Asia Forum, Global Times, Key4Biz, Reuters, RFE RL, The Jamestown Foundation, ThinkChina, US Department of State  AFRICA The criticality of...

Davos 2022. COVID-19: What’s Next? (World Economic Forum)

Speakers: Francine Lacqua, Stéphane Bancel, Richard Hatchett, Anthony S. Fauci, Annelies Wilder-Smith The Davos Agenda | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Chinese cities timely respond to public requests following lesson from Xi’an (Global Times)

After Xi'an apologized again for the delayed treatment of non-COVID patients, seeking to fix the loopholes in its epidemic response, other cities in China...

Boosting vaccination among seniors, kids urged as Hong Kong sees Omicron outbreak (Wan Lin, Global Times)

Experts have urged authorities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to enhance the vaccination rate and strengthen the tracing of contacts to...

Tianjin fights China’s first real battle against Omicron, puts Beijing on high alert (Global Times)

North China's Tianjin Municipality, home to 15 million people and also a major gateway to Beijing, started massive nucleic acid testing early Sunday morning,...

Zhang Wenhong warns of risks of Omicron, calls for building strong immunological barrier before reopening world (Global Times)

Zhang Wenhong, a well-respected infectious disease expert in Shanghai, slammed the notion that Omicron has caused merely an "enhanced influenza." He warned that the...

Mass testing in China’s Tianjin as India imposes new restrictions (Al Jazeera)

The more infectious Omicron coronavirus variant appears to produce less severe disease than the globally dominant Delta strain but this has not prevented governments from tightening...

The vital role of Twitter in responding to Covid (John Villasenor, Brookings)

Twitter, and social media in general, often get a bad rap. Social media is criticized, and rightly so, for harboring hate speech, misinformation, political...

Infographic: How COVID has spread globally in the last two years (Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera)

Nearly 300 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 worldwide over the past two years, and more than five million deaths have been reported. The...

Intelligenza artificiale, una task force a supporto della crisi pandemica (Marco Maratea, Agenda Digitale)

In seguito allo scoppio della pandemia nel marzo 2020, il gruppo Covid-19 task force è nato dentro la Confederazione dei laboratori europei di intelligenza artificiale (Claire),...

Covid’s Impact: Likely Trends in 2022 (Arvind Gupta, VIF)

About 5.8 million people reportedly died globally due to covid. The unreported number is much higher. The world struggled to come out with a...

Too many COVID-19 vaccine doses are being wasted (Oyeronke Oyebanji, Al Jazeera)

Since the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was detected, the stark global inequities that have characterised this pandemic have once again come to the forefront....

Supporting Multilateral Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis (US Department of State)

The United States is providing an additional $580 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to support seven partners who are working tirelessly in...

The Key to the COVID-Powered Challenges of 2022 (Ngaire Woods, Project-Syndicate)

After a year in which people longed to get back to “normal,” it is now clear that COVID-19 will not make this possible. The...