Other Current Issues - COVID-19

The United States has reached 1 million COVID-19 deaths.

The press conferences stopped. The roll call of the dead stopped. But the death didn’t stop. If anything, it accelerated

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemns inequality in vaccine rollout, saying less than one in 10 health workers in Africa are fully vaccinated

How does a country dodge COVID-19? The list of countries that have been untouched by COVID-19 so far is small.

New infections passed 160,000 a day over the weekend, and vaccine shortages are being reported

In 112 Days, filmmaker Alice Stephens explores the lives of eight people who had vastly different experiences during Melbourne's strict lockdown

Whether trying to spare the economy was worth allowing the virus to rip through the country is a question Sweden is still trying to answer.

Conservationists worry the animals, which are vital food sources for many species along the U.S. East Coast, will decline in number.

No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least

First major analysis examines impact across 185 countries since first jab was administered in December 2020

Using an experimental mapping method, the outbreak of Covid-19 across the two states can be plotted from the start of the pandemic

Australia’s second-largest city’s strategy has left it economically and psychologically depressed after initially succeeding in reducing case numbers to zero

Rich countries have key role to play in bringing outbreak to a halt, says Wellcome Trust head

A handful of countries – most of them islands, most of them remote – remain coronavirus-free, but life has not remained wholly unchanged

WHO warns ‘no shortcuts out of pandemic’ as India, US and others fight rising infection rates

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