Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Begins In S. Africa As Continent Seeks Equitable Access To Any Vaccine; Racial Bias In European Lockdown Policing, Report Says; More Than 226K Dead Of COVID-19 In PAHO Region; Yemen Needs More Aid Funding; Virus Hit Nursing Homes Hard In Canada
AFRICA
Reuters: South Africa rolls out continent’s first trials for COVID-19 vaccine (Heiberg, 6/24).
VOA News: Africa Seeks Equitable Access to Any COVID-19 Vaccine (Marks, 6/24).
ASIA
ABC (Australia): Coronavirus fears leave pregnant PNG women at risk despite nation’s low infection rate (Whiting, 6/24).
AP: New Delhi plans mass screening effort as virus cases surge (Ghosal, 6/25).
The Hill: India reports single-day record 16,000 new coronavirus cases (Deese, 6/24).
New Humanitarian: Afghanistan’s missing coronavirus patients: Women (Glinski, 6/24).
Washington Post: Coronavirus sweeps through Afghanistan’s security forces (George et al., 6/25).
Xinhua: China’s daily nucleic acid testing capacity tops 3 mln: official (6/24).
EUROPE
The Guardian: Policing of European Covid-19 lockdowns shows racial bias — report (Boffey, 6/24).
Washington Post: Hit Hard by Coronavirus, Russia Holds a Mostly Mask-Free Victory Parade (Higgins, 6/24).
LATIN AMERICA
AP: Peru giving up on virus measures in face of sinking economy (Briceño/Weissenstein, 6/24).
The Atlantic: Coronavirus: Thousands of Burials Across Latin America (Taylor, 6/24).
Reuters: WHO director for Americas says 226,000 have died of COVID-19 in region (Boadle/Barrera, 6/24).
MIDDLE EAST
AP: U.N. aid chief: Yemen will fall off a cliff if no new funds (Lederer, 6/24).
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 in Iran: round 2 (Venkatesan, July 2020).
NPR: Israel’s Government Wants Spy Agency To Resume COVID-19 Tracing. Spy Chief Objects (Estrin, 6/24).
NORTH AMERICA
The Hill: U.S. coronavirus cases at highest level since April (Johnson/Hellmann, 6/24).
New York Times: How the Virus Won (Watkins et al., 6/25).
POLITICO: How U.S. Prisons Became Ground Zero for Covid-19 (Thomas, 6/25).
Reuters: Approval of Trump’s coronavirus response sinks to lowest on record amid surge in cases: Reuters/Ipsos poll (Kahn, 6/24).
Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus Lays Bare Poor Conditions in Canada’s Nursing Homes (Vieira, 6/24).
Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus Cases Are Accelerating Across U.S. (Krouse et al., 6/24).
Washington Post: Coronavirus deaths lag behind surging infections but may catch up soon (Bernstein, 6/24).
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.