COVID-19 Cases Rising In Some Asian Countries As Lockdowns Ease; Russia Reports Record 1-Day Rise In Deaths; Peru Hit Hard, Especially Rural Areas; Some Arab Nations Turn To Israel For Support; Puerto Rico’s Safety Nets Strain Amid Pandemic
AFRICA
The Guardian: Surge in deaths in North Darfur raises fears of disastrous Covid-19 outbreak (Ahmed, 5/29).
New Humanitarian: Six ways COVID-19 is changing South Africa (Oliver, 5/28).
ASIA
Al Jazeera: Hundreds of children in Pakistan’s Sindh infected with COVID-19 (5/29).
New York Times: ‘It’s Too Late’: In Sprawling Indonesia, Coronavirus Surges (Beech/Suhartono, 5/28).
Reuters: Philippines eases one of world’s toughest curbs amid spike in coronavirus cases (Lema/Morales, 5/27).
Reuters: South Korea seeks to import anti-viral remdesivir as new coronavirus cases emerge (Smith/Shin, 5/29).
Wall Street Journal: Millions of Indians Are Fleeing Cities, Raising Fears of a Coronavirus ‘Land Mine’ in Villages (Roy/Agarwal, 5/27).
EUROPE
Bloomberg: Moscow Says Coronavirus-Related Death Rate Is Twice Direct Toll (Rudnitsky, 5/28).
Reuters: We want money not medals, say protesting French health workers (Chiarello/Vidalon, 5/28).
Reuters: Russia reports record one-day rise in coronavirus deaths (Stolyarov, 5/29).
Wall Street Journal: E.U. Took Big Step With Coronavirus-Recovery Proposal — Now Comes the Hard Part (Michaels, 5/28).
LATIN AMERICA
AP: Peruvian families bury multiple members amid pandemic (Briceño, 5/28).
BBC: Coronavirus: What are the numbers out of Latin America? (Horton, 5/28).
The Lancet: COVID-19 strains remote regions of Peru (Fraser, 5/30).
New York Times: ‘It’s Not the Virus’: Mexico’s Broken Hospitals Become Killers, Too (Kitroeff/Villegas, 5/28).
MIDDLE EAST
Los Angeles Times: Fearing coronavirus spike, some Arab Gulf states turn to a supposed enemy: Israel (Tarnopolsky/Bulos, 5/28).
Radio Free Europe/RadioLiberty: Getting It In The Gut: Iran Sees Rise In Gastrointestinal Coronavirus Infections (Synovitz/Sinaiee, 5/26).
NORTH AMERICA
The Atlantic: Where Fears of Deportation Made the Pandemic Worse (Raff, 5/29).
Reuters: U.S. hospitals slash use of drug championed by Trump as coronavirus treatment (Erman/Beasley, 5/29).
Washington Post: White House and CDC remove coronavirus warnings about choirs in faith guidance (Sun/Dawsey, 5/28).
Washington Post: In Puerto Rico, an economic disaster looms amid fears of coronavirus (Hernández, 5/28).
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.