Tag: Pandemic

(Pandemic/Vaccine) Why philanthropists must support a free COVID vaccine (Rosalind McKenna, WEF)

Deals between pharmaceutical companies and rich countries enlarge chasms of inequity. We will not recover from COVID-19 until we ensure vaccine access to...

(UK/Pandemic) British firms call for $10.3bn in urgent COVID-19 aid (Al Jazeera)

British firms have asked for another 7.6 billion pounds ($10.3bn) of emergency government help, saying they cannot wait until finance minister Rishi Sunak’s March...

(USA/Pandemic) Biden team says US won’t lift COVID travel ban after Trump order (Al Jazeera)

US President-elect Joe Biden’s spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that a COVID-19 ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and...

(USA/China/WHO/Pandemic) US urges China to allow WHO team to interview Wuhan front liners (Al Jazeera)

The United States urged China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “caregivers, former patients and...

(Trade/Pandemic) Trade and Covid-19: Lessons from the first wave (Alvaro Espitia, Aaditya Mattoo, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Deborah Winkler, VOXEU)

The Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted both a supply and demand shock across many countries. Production, consumption, and trade patterns have been affected, both directly...

(Australia/Pandemic) Australia may not open borders in 2021, even with vaccines (Al Jazeera)

Australia may not fully reopen its international borders this year even if most of the population is vaccinated against coronavirus, the head of its...

(China/Pandemic) China urges people to avoid holiday travel as COVID cases jump (Al Jazeera)

China reported the most daily cases of COVID-19 in more than 10 months on Friday, as local governments and factory owners began in offering...

(Brazil/Pandemic) Brazil airlifts emergency oxygen to Manaus amid COVID surge (Al Jazeera)

Brazil’s Air Force has delivered emergency supplies of oxygen to the jungle state of Amazonas, and premature babies were to be airlifted to other...

(Nigeria/Pandemic/Vaccines) Nigeria warns against fake COVID vaccines (Al Jazeera)

Nigerian authorities have warned against fake coronavirus vaccines in the country where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected to arrive in...

(Africa/Pandemic/Vaccines) COVID vaccines in Africa to be allocated by population

Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses secured by the African Union (AU) will be allocated according to countries’ populations, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/15/african-union-vaccines-to-be-allocated-according-to-population

(Pandemic/Liberal International Order) The Impact of COVID-19 and Global Perceptions of US Leadership and International Order (Alexander Cooley, Valdai Discussion Club)

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected global perceptions about the transformation of the liberal international order? Over the past year, we have seen a...

(Pandemic/Russia) Highly improbable to prove artificial origin of coronavirus, says expert (TASS)

According to the scientist, the infection could have emerged as a result of a recombination of genes of a virus that caused the pandemic...

(Pandemic/Vaccines/Russia/Brazil/BRICS) RDIF, Uniao Quimica plan to invite BRICS to create working group on vaccines (TASS)

Earlier, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Brazilian pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica have agreed to supply 10 mln doses of Sputnik V vaccine...

(Pandemic/Palestinians/Israel) Israel, the Palestinians, and the COVID-19 Vaccines: The New Blood-Libel (Alan Baker, JCPA)

  https://jcpa.org/article/israel-the-palestinians-and-the-covid-19-vaccines/

(Pandemic/Palestinians/Israel) Covid-19: Palestinians still awaiting vaccines as Israel dismisses calls to provide jabs (Akram Al-Waara, Middle East Eye)

Palestinian Authority also criticised for failure to secure vaccines and lack of planning on how to administer them https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-israel-covid-vaccines-still-awaiting-dismiss-calls

(Pandemic/Digital Technologies/Vaccine) Digital technologies and vaccine deployment: Opportunities and challenges (Boutheina Guermazi, World Bank blogs)

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted billions of lives worldwide leading to over 1.8 million deaths while unleashing serious economic hardship with outsized impacts on...