COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerating In Africa; Indonesia Suspects Hundreds Of Children Died Of Coronavirus; Scientists Criticize PM Johnson’s Pandemic Response; U.S. Hits 2M Cases, Many States See Surge As Federal Government Retreats
AFRICA
AP: Zimbabwe names people who escaped filthy quarantine centers (Mutsaka, 6/10).
Global Health NOW: In Liberia, Resources are Scarce — but Contact Tracing Is Second Nature (Winny, 6/10).
NPR: Why Forecasters Can’t Make Up Their Mind About Africa And The Coronavirus (Peralta, 6/10).
Reuters: Africa’s coronavirus ‘hotspots’ in South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon: WHO (Nebehay, 6/11).
Reuters: Pandemic accelerating in Africa, test kits needed, WHO says (Nebehay, 6/11).
ASIA
AP: ‘Ticking time bomb:’ Lack of beds slows Delhi’s virus fight (Schmall et al., 6/11).
New York Times: Indonesia’s New Coronavirus Concern: A Post-Pandemic Baby Boom (Paddock/Sijabat, 6/10).
Reuters: Indonesia’s hundreds of suspected child virus deaths highlight danger (Widianto, 6/11).
The Telegraph: Worst dengue outbreak for seven years in Singapore linked to coronavirus lockdown (Smith, 6/11).
EUROPE
POLITICO: Swedes round on Sweden’s coronavirus approach (Duxbury, 6/11).
POLITICO: Scientists turn on Boris Johnson over Britain’s coronavirus response (Cooper, 6/10).
LATIN AMERICA
New Scientist: How South America became the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic (Taylor, 6/10).
Washington Post: Under court order, Brazilian government puts coronavirus data back online (McCoy, 6/10).
MIDDLE EAST
New Humanitarian: Libyan doctors battle on two dangerous fronts: COVID-19 and war (Creta, 6/10).
New York Times: In a Province No Stranger to War, Preparing to Battle a New Enemy (al-Ali, 6/10).
NORTH AMERICA
The Guardian: Is the U.S. heading for a second wave of coronavirus infections? (Renwick, 6/11).
The Hill: U.S. showing signs of retreat in battle against COVID-19 (Wilson, 6/11).
The Hill: Deborah Birx says 70 coronavirus test sites destroyed in George Floyd protests, warns of spike in cases (Kelley, 6/10).
NPR: U.S. Hits 2 Million Coronavirus Cases As Many States See A Surge Of Patients (Chappell/Stein, 6/10).
PBS NewsHour: What this global health expert sees in states where COVID-19 is surging (Woodruff, 6/10).
Wall Street Journal: Deaths Prompt Questions About Covid-19 Safety in Mexico Factories (Whelan, 6/10).
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.