COVID-19 Challenges Access To Health Care In Asia, Latin America; Lebanon’s Hospitals Feel Strain Of Pandemic; Trump Endorses Masks, Says U.S. Coronavirus Outbreaks Will Get Worse
AFRICA
Nature: Ebola prepared these countries for coronavirus — but now even they are floundering (Maxmen, 7/21).
New Humanitarian: Coronavirus vaccine trials in South Africa no ‘magic bullet’ as cases soar (Oliver, 7/21).
ASIA
AP: Over 22% of people in Delhi have had virus, study indicates (Schmall/Ghosal, 7/21).
Bloomberg: Singapore Grapples With Deadly Dengue as Fever Rages Alongside Covid-19 (Wei/Varley, 7/20).
Devex: Q&A: Is ‘gross national happiness’ the key to Bhutan escaping the pandemic? (Politzer, 7/22).
The Guardian: ‘Coronavirus ruined everything’: the long wait for new limbs in Kurdistan (Edwards, 7/22).
The Telegraph: Pandemic prompts surge in child marriage and violence towards girls in Asia (Smith, 7/21).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Chatbots, motorbikes: Southeast Asia HIV centers adapt to coronavirus (Chandran, 7/21).
EUROPE
Reuters: Spain to give 1.7 billion euros in coronavirus aid to developing countries (7/21).
LATIN AMERICA
AP: Bolivia police recover 420 dead in possible COVID-19 cases (7/22).
AP: Pandemic poses challenges for Argentines seeking therapy (Calatrava, 7/21).
AP: PAHO waits for Nicaragua to approve visit by virus experts (7/21).
The Hill: Coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down in the Americas, WHO official says (Guzman, 7/21).
The Hill: Greta Thunberg is donating $114K to tackle the coronavirus in the Amazon (Guzman, 7/21).
NPR: Brazil Tops 80,000 COVID-19 Deaths As 2 Government Ministers Test Positive For Virus (Neuman, 7/21).
MIDDLE EAST
AP: Crisis hits Lebanon’s hospitals, among the best in Mideast (El Deeb, 7/22).
AP: Minister: Lebanon is nearing critical stage in virus cases (El Deeb, 7/21).
U.N. News: COVID-19 scapegoating triggers fresh displacement in Yemen, warns migration agency (7/21).
U.N. News: Israel-Palestine: Breakdown in cooperation over COVID, now putting lives at risk (7/21).
NORTH AMERICA
New York Times: Trump, in a Shift, Endorses Masks and Says Virus Will Get Worse (Baker, 7/21).
New York Times: Coronavirus Infections Much Higher Than Reported Cases in Parts of U.S., Study Shows (Mandavilli, 7/21).
STAT: Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows (Joseph, 7/21).
Washington Post: Trump says the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will ‘get worse before it gets better’ (Wan et al., 7/21).
Washington Post: Former CDC chief: Most states fail to report data key to controlling the coronavirus pandemic (Sun, 7/21).
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.