Mexico Passes Italy To Be 4th Globally In Number Of COVID-19 Deaths; Dubai, Abu Dhabi Confront Pandemic Differently; Outbreak In Kazakhstan Likely Novel Coronavirus; U.S. Death Rate Begins To Rise Again
AFRICA
The Economist: Which parts of Africa will be hit hardest by covid-19? (7/10).
ASIA
DW: Mystery pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan likely to be coronavirus: WHO (7/11).
U.N. News: COVID-19 lockdown in Myanmar exposes precarious position of LGBTQI population (7/11).
Wall Street Journal: Pandemic Crushes Garment Industry, the Developing World’s Path Out of Poverty (Mandhana et al., 7/11).
EUROPE
AP: Families of Italy’s virus dead seek answers, solace, justice (Winfield, 7/13).
CNN: Britain is the worst-hit country outside of the U.S. and Brazil. But it STILL won’t wear masks (Dean, 7/12).
LATIN AMERICA
BBC: Coronavirus: Why politics means success or failure in South America (Watson, 7/11).
Washington Post: Visual timeline shows Bolsonaro flouted health recommendations before contracting coronavirus — and after (Cahlan et al., 7/11).
MIDDLE EAST
Washington Post: Rivals Dubai and Abu Dhabi tackle coronavirus in very different ways (Schemm, 7/13).
NORTH AMERICA
AP: As U.S. grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase (Lush/Gorondi, 7/12).
Bloomberg: Mexico Overtakes Italy to Have World’s Fourth-Most Virus Deaths (Quinn/Stillman, 7/12).
The Hill: COVID-19 surge pushes U.S. toward deadly cliff (Wilson, 7/12).
The Hill: Surgeon general says U.S. can reverse coronavirus surge in a few weeks ‘if everyone does their part’ (Klar, 7/12).
The Hill: Top White House coronavirus adviser says coronavirus mortality rate expected to rise amid resurgence of cases (Guzman, 7/10).
USA TODAY: How the South and Southwest became the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic (Stucka et al., 7/10).
Washington Post: After months of decline, America’s coronavirus death rate begins to rise (Achenbach et al., 7/10).
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.