Pandemic Accelerates Across Africa; Oxygen Supplies Run Low In S. Africa; Bolivian President Tests Positive For Coronavirus; Idlib, Syria Records First Case; U.S. Faces Patchwork Policies, No Federal Goals
AFRICA
AP: Oxygen already runs low as COVID-19 surges in South Africa (Magome, 7/10).
Devex: African Union aims to scale up COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials (Jerving, 7/10).
The Guardian: South Africa warns of coronavirus ‘storm’ as outbreak accelerates across continent (Burke, 7/9).
The Guardian: Zimbabwe health minister facing coronavirus corruption charge sacked (Chingono, 7/9).
NPR: Kenyan Health Workers Manage COVID-19, HIV In Nairobi (Greene, 7/9).
The Telegraph: Hospitals overwhelmed as Johannesburg runs out of oxygen (Thornycroft, 7/9).
U.N. News: Refugees in Africa ‘even more vulnerable than ever’ amid COVID crisis (7/9).
ASIA
AP: AP EXPLAINS: Why India cases are rising to multiple peaks (Schmall/Ghosal, 7/10).
CNBC: Outbreak of dengue fever in Southeast Asia is ‘exploding’ amid the coronavirus fight (Huang, 7/9).
CNN: Authorities in Hong Kong warn of potential ‘exponential growth’ in coronavirus cases just weeks after loosening restrictions (Berlinger, 7/10).
Foreign Policy: Is India the Next Coronavirus Hotspot? (Agrawal, 7/9).
EUROPE
POLITICO: Polish president taps into anti-vax sentiment ahead of elections (Kosc, 7/9).
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
AP: U.N. says Latin America and Caribbean are COVID-19 ‘hot spot’ (Lederer, 7/9).
AP: Bolivian president has COVID-19 as virus hits region’s elite (Flores, 7/9).
AP: Venezuela socialist party boss announces he has COVID-19 (7/9).
The Hill: Doctors Without Borders sounding alarm about El Salvador (Johnson, 7/9).
NPR: Bolivian President Tests Positive For Coronavirus (Neuman, 7/9).
U.N. News: Address ‘unprecedented’ impact of coronavirus on Latin America and the Caribbean, urges Guterres (7/9).
MIDDLE EAST
Arab News: Saudi Arabia hosts G20 talks on post-COVID-19 global sustainable finance plan (7/9).
BBC: Coronavirus: Idlib’s first Covid-19 case raises fears for Syria camps (7/10).
NORTH AMERICA
New York Times: These Scientists Raced to Find a Covid-19 Drug. Then the Virus Found Them (Thomas, 7/9).
PBS NewsHour: 3 things the U.S. can do to stop coronavirus (Santhanam, 7/9).
Wall Street Journal: Behind New Covid-19 Outbreaks: America’s Patchwork of Policies (Campo-Flores et al., 7/9).
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.