Pandemic Threatens Africa’s Health Care Workforce; Multi-Dimensional Crisis Impacts Afghanistan; Europe Looks To Recover; COVID-19 Cases Continue To Rise In Latin America; White House Task Force To Hold First Briefing In 2 Months
AFRICA
AP: Kenya: 3 people killed in clash with police over face masks (Odula, 6/26).
Axios: Coronavirus accelerates in Africa as economic damage deepens (Lawler, 6/25).
BBC: Coronavirus: How Africa’s supply chains are evolving (Russon, 6/25).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Africa’s unsung army of women wage war on COVID-19 (Bhalla/Wuilbercq, 6/25).
U.N. News: DR Congo: COVID-19 slows pace of reform, exacerbates fragile security situation (6/25).
Washington Post: The coronavirus is jeopardizing a ‘very, very finite’ workforce: Africa’s doctors and nurses (Paquette, 6/25).
ASIA
AP: ASEAN tackles emergency virus fund, sea feud in video summit (Dinh/Van Dam, 6/26).
AP: AP Interview: Nepal preparing for new coronavirus cases (Gurubacharya, 6/25).
The Lancet: Access to health care under threat in Afghanistan (Devi, 6/27).
New Humanitarian: Lost in translation: Language barriers and the Rohingya response (Hölzl, 6/25).
New York Times: For Those Getting Married, a Searchable Domestic Violence Database (Wee, 6/25).
U.N. News: Coronavirus casts ‘huge shadow’ over Afghan life as multi-dimensional crisis continues (6/25).
Wall Street Journal: Covid-19 Overwhelms New Delhi’s Hospitals (Roy et al., 6/25).
EUROPE
AP: Portugal scrambles to regroup amid 100s of new virus cases (Hatton, 6/26).
AP: After waves of COVID deaths, care homes face legal reckoning (Leicester, 6/25).
Bloomberg: Covid Antibody Tests Not Ready for U.K. Roll-Out, Experts Warn (Mulier, 6/25).
New York Times: In Norway, Gymgoers Avoid Infections as Virus Recedes (Kolata, 6/25).
New York Times: Flare-Up in Virus Cases Sets Back Germany’s Efforts to Reopen (Eddy, 6/25).
The Telegraph: NHS treatment delays linked to more child deaths than coronavirus (Knapton, 6/25).
Wall Street Journal: Once the Center of the Coronavirus Crisis, Europe Now Looks Ahead With Hope (Stancati et al., 6/25).
LATIN AMERICA
NPR: COVID-19 Infection Rate In Rio’s Favelas Far Exceeds Official Count, A New Study Says (Reeves, 6/25).
Washington Post: Latin America’s coronavirus crisis is only getting worse (Tharoor, 6/26).
MIDDLE EAST
Reuters: Israel, Palestinians tighten restrictions as coronavirus reemerges (Rabinovitch et al., 6/24).
NORTH AMERICA
The Hill: White House coronavirus task force to hold first briefing in nearly two months (Samuels, 6/25).
The Hill: White House task force tracking coronavirus spikes even as Trump says virus is ‘going away’: report (Bowden, 6/25).
New York Times: As Virus Surges, Younger People Account for ‘Disturbing’ Number of Cases (Bosman et al., 6/25).
NPR: U.S. Sets Daily Record For New COVID-19 Cases (Katkov, 6/26).
POLITICO: States plead for help while White House touts success in curbing virus (Cancryn/Tahir, 6/25).
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.