Is it too early to say whether elected leaders will lead us into a better place post-pandemic? I put the question to the WHO leadership of whether we are seeing many examples of a build-back-better approach being practiced by politicians
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As the major Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers ship millions of doses overseas, often with strings attached, the head of the World Health Organization warned them again ‘geopolitical maneuvering.’
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As coronavirus vaccines become more scarce, Ukraine finds itself at the end of the queue and in an extremely vulnerable position
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April 26 marks 35 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine. Almost three decades later, have authoritarian regimes become more transparent?
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A resurgence of Covid-19 has hit India with incredible ferocity, particularly it capital Delhi which is meant to have the best healthcare in the country. A video report by BBC’s Yogita Limaye
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As case counts and death rates surge, Ukraine is in a difficult battle with the Covid-19 virus
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As people worldwide near the end of the rope of hope amid lockdowns and economic downturns, could we be facing a mental health pandemic in the months and years ahead?
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Dr. Michael Osterholm, a top US infectious disease expert and a member of the Biden transitional Covid-19 advisory group, urges urgent action to prevent a large portion of the global population from contracting the coronavirus.
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With cases steadily creeping up, Ukraine now ranks as one of the worst-impacted European countries from Covid-19
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I flew for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic grounded most of us in mid-March. The verdict? Uncomfortable and if I can avoid air travel for the foreseeable future, I will.
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There are two sets of rules in Ukraine: one for its fabulously wealthy oligarchs -and the other for everybody else. That became clear recently during the country’s strict Covid-19 lockdown, when several oligarchs managed to skirt the rules and rule the skies with their private jets.
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Health has published a list of 50 “red” countries whose citizens will have to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Ukraine. But the calculation used to categorise countries as “red” or “green” appears flawed.
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As the United States surpasses the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths we survey the situation of Covid-19 in North America and several other regions. Will Africa become the next hotspot?
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Updates on Covid-19 from around the world. A worrying patchwork quilt of lockdown rollbacks in the US. The travel industry, especially airlines, head into turbulent skies. Cases in Russian sky-rocket. The WHO signals concern over countries with fragile health systems. And have some of our leaders let us down?
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