Africa Sees Progress, Setbacks In COVID-19 Responses; China Promotes Vaccine; France Sets New Daily Record Of Nearly 10K Cases; Pandemic Does Not Impact Popularity Of Brazil’s Bolsonaro; Vaccine Becomes Issue In U.S. Presidential Campaigns
AFRICA
VOA News: Africa Sees Progress in Coronavirus Fight, but Also Setbacks (Powell, 9/10).
ASIA
AP: Study finds India missed early cases, lockdown was leaky (Ghosal, 9/11).
AP: Myanmar locks down parts of Yangon amid virus increase (Win/Peck, 9/10).
New York Times: From Asia to Africa, China Promotes Its Vaccines to Win Friends (Wee et al., 9/11).
EUROPE
AP: Russian schools open with classroom, cafeteria precautions (Golovkin, 9/11).
AP: COVID beds fill up as virus pressure builds in Marseille (Cole, 9/11).
BBC News: Coronavirus: France sets daily record with almost 10,000 new cases (9/10).
Financial Times: Public trust in vaccines rises in most of Europe, study says (Cookson, 9/10).
LATIN AMERICA
AP: Peru’s Indigenous turn to ancestral remedies to fight virus (Abd/Armario, 9/11).
AP: In Chile, life goes on for loved ones after COVID-19 (Vergara/Félix, 9/10).
Christian Science Monitor: Political cost of coronavirus? For Brazil’s Bolsonaro, not much (Ionova, 9/10).
New Humanitarian: How Colombia’s armed groups are exploiting COVID-19 to recruit children (Taylor, 9/10).
NORTH AMERICA
Axios: America’s vaccine pessimism (Owens, 9/10).
Financial Times: Covid vaccine becomes divisive issue in U.S. election campaign (Stacey/Kuchler, 9/11).
STAT: The lessons we’ve learned from the Covid-19 response, according to Anthony Fauci (Gopalakrishna, 9/10).
Vox: A third of Americans might refuse a Covid-19 vaccine. How screwed are we? (Resnick, 9/10).
Yahoo News: Exclusive: White House orders end to COVID-19 airport screenings for international travelers (Winter, 9/9).
The KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search.