Nigerian Researchers Race To Develop COVID-19 Diagnostics, Therapeutics; India Sets Record For Daily Case Count; Bolsonaro Tests Positive Again, Continues To Tout Unproven Drug; U.S. Virgin Islands Hit Hard
AFRICA
AFP: In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight (Bouillon, 7/16).
Financial Times: Teamwork helps Zimbabwe pupils shut out of class by Covid-19 (Bell, 7/15).
Health24: 73 countries are running out of HIV medication due to pandemic. Is SA on that list? (7/15).
NPR: A COVID-19 Success Story In Rwanda: Free Testing, Robot Caregivers (Beaubien, 7/15).
PBS NewsHour: Ebola finally defeated, Congo faces COVID-19 (Villamizar, 7/15).
Reuters: Nigerian virus hunters run hard race against COVID-19’s spread (George et al., 7/14).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: In African villages, coronavirus sparks fears of a spike in malaria deaths (Hayden, 7/15).
VOA News: South Africa Lockdown Deprives Needy Children of Food (Puglisi, 7/15).
ASIA
AFP/Al Jazeera: Bangladesh arrests hospital owner over fake coronavirus results (7/16).
CNBC: How Taiwan beat the coronavirus (Farr/Gao, 7/15).
Devex: In India, prime minister’s relief fund for COVID-19 jeopardizes NGO sector (Byatnal, 7/16).
NPR: India Sets Record For Its Daily Coronavirus Count (Frayer, 7/16).
NPR: Indonesia Stumbles As Coronavirus Cases Surge (Sullivan, 7/16).
NPR: Melbourne, On COVID-19 Lockdown, Reports Record Case Count (Neuman, 7/16).
Reuters: Tokyo declares coronavirus red alert as situation ‘rather severe’ (Park/Kim, 7/14).
Reuters: Afghanistan faces ‘grim’ economic outlook as pandemic wipes out growth: World Bank (Sediqi/Greenfield, 7/15).
EUROPE
Bloomberg: European Stocks Jump to One-Month High on Vaccine Optimism (Jagadeesh/Galouchko, 7/15).
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Reuters: Brazil’s Bolsonaro, infected with COVID-19, touts unproven drug (Rochabrun et al., 7/15).
Washington Post: Barbados wants you to work from its beaches during the pandemic (Taylor, 7/16).
MIDDLE EAST
AP: As Israel virus cases surge, government weighs new lockdown (Zion, 7/16).
NORTH AMERICA
AP: Confirmed U.S. virus cases rise amid new global restrictions (Tucker et al., 7/16).
The Atlantic: America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic (Yong, 7/15).
MSN: The Biggest Coronavirus Hotspot No One Is Talking About (Hall, 7/15).
VICE: The U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Could Be 240,000 by November (Gilbert, 7/15).
Washington Post: Canada’s coronavirus performance hasn’t been perfect. But it’s done far better than the U.S. (Coletta, 7/15).
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.