New Zealand Declared Virus-Free, Loosens Restrictions; World Looks To Learn Lessons After Asian, European Nations Loosen Lockdowns; Latin American Nations See Increase In Cases; U.S., Mexico Border Areas See Heavy Impacts
AFRICA
AP: Africa’s essential truckers say they face virus stigma (Muhumuza/Odula, 6/7).
Devex: In Uganda, refugee programs struggle with social distancing norms (Okereke, 6/8).
DW: Coronavirus Special Podcast #19 | When COVID-19 and Ebola strike at the same time (Nebe, 6/5).
Global Press Journal: Mobile Money Shields Some Zambians from Coronavirus, Endangers Others (Phiri, 6/7).
ASIA
ABC (Australia): How Australia’s ‘panic and neglect’ funding cycle has left us vulnerable to pandemics like coronavirus (McNeill et al., 6/7).
BBC: Coronavirus ‘second wave’: What lessons can we learn from Asia? (Ontiveros, 6/7).
The Guardian: New Zealand drops Covid-19 restrictions after nation declared ‘virus-free’ (Graham-McLay, 6/8).
Reuters: Exclusive: Half of Singapore’s new COVID-19 cases are symptomless, taskforce head says (Geddie, 6/8).
Reuters: India overtakes Italy’s coronavirus tally as lockdown easing looms (Jadhav, 6/6).
VOA: Japan Announces Plans for COVID-19 Vaccinations by June 2021 (6/5).
Wall Street Journal: ‘Worse Than a War Zone’: Covid-19 Batters India’s Mumbai City (Pokharel/Roy, 6/7).
EUROPE
Wall Street Journal: Putin’s Global Ambitions Are Upended by Coronavirus’s Heavy Toll in Russia (Trofimov/Grove, 6/6).
Washington Post: Coronavirus infections haven’t spiked since Europe loosened lockdowns. There are many theories about why (Harlan et al., 6/5).
LATIN AMERICA
Bloomberg: It’s Covid Code Red in Latin America With No Signs of Peaking (Brice/Boyd, 6/6).
The Guardian: Cuba sets example with successful program to contain coronavirus (Augustin, 6/7).
Reuters: Chile coronavirus death toll jumps sharply after new cases added (Ramos, 6/7).
MIDDLE EAST
AFP: Iran says virus uptick due to increased testing (6/7).
NORTH AMERICA
The Atlantic: America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic (Madrigal/Meyer, 6/7).
New York Times: Mexico’s Leftist Leader Rejects Big Spending to Ease Virus’s Sting (Ahmed, 6/8).
New York Times: Coronavirus Jumps the Border, Overwhelming Hospitals in California (Jordan, 6/7).
New York Times: The Top Doctor Who Aced the Coronavirus Test (Porter, 6/5).
Wall Street Journal: California and Some Other States See Coronavirus Cases Rise (Ansari/Abbott, 6/7).
Wall Street Journal: Covid-19 Stalks Large Families in Rural America (Lovett et al., 6/7).
Washington Post: Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds (Achenbach, 6/8).
Washington Post: ‘I have never felt so helpless’: Front-line workers confront loss (Cha et al., 6/7).
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.