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Coming months critical for future pandemic preparedness
The next three months will be a critical period for stepping up global collective action against future pandemics, the head of the World Health...
COVID-19: A Modern Opium War?
US scholar Kenneth Waltz made no mistake when he mentioned “States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are...
COVID-19: Funding plea to combat Delta variant, call to suspend booster roll-out
During Wednesday’s World Health Organization briefing on COVID-19, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for funding to fight the spread of the deadly Delta...
UN health agency urges support for new COVID-19 origins studies
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order to speed up efforts to understand where and how...
Majority of Global Public Thinks Recovery Will Take Two Years
A new public opinion poll found, three in four adults believe it will take at least two more years for their country's economy to...
Truth and the third wave of the pandemic: To be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated
I have endured the worst possible case scenario. Being locked up in a mental institution for six months while in my late teens, early...
Passing the Test of the Covid Pandemic
For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition...
Conflict, COVID, climate crisis, likely to fuel acute food insecurity in 23 ‘hunger hotspots’
Life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine is being cut off in several countries by fighting and blockades, the UN's Food and...
COVID-19: Education replaced by shuttered schools, violence, teenage pregnancy
A culture of “safety, friends and food” at school has been replaced by “anxiety, violence, and teenage pregnancy”, with remote learning out of reach...
Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 virus is getting ‘fitter and faster’
Cases and deaths resulting from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, mostly fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has spread to 132 countries,...