Reopenings, Mixed Messages Fuel Steep Increase In U.S. COVID-19 Cases As White House Readies New Messaging; Iran Orders Mask Usage; El Salvador Delays Reopening; South Africa Faces Coronavirus, TB
AFRICA
AP: Sex workers lack food for taking HIV drugs during COVID-19 (Ssuuna, 7/4).
CNN: South Africa battles coronavirus and tuberculosis (McKenzie, 7/4).
The Guardian (Nigeria): COVID-19: Nigeria may record spike in malaria, TB deaths, Global Fund warns (Onyedika-Ugoeze, 7/4).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Powerless in a pandemic: Solar energy prescribed for off-grid healthcare (Rowling, 7/3).
Xinhua: WHO donates 160 oxygen concentrators to boost fight against COVID-19 in South Sudan (7/3).
ASIA
Bloomberg Law: India’s First Covid-19 Vaccine Races to Meet Mid-August Target (Shrivastava/Pradhan, 7/4).
Pakistan Today: U.S. donates 100 ventilators to support Pakistan’s Covid-19 response (7/3).
Reuters: Kim Jong Un says North Korea prevented coronavirus from making inroads (Cha, 7/2).
EUROPE
Devex: Europe’s COVID-19 funding muddle (Chadwick, 7/3).
POLITICO: Government divisions add to corona-ravaged Sweden’s woes (Duxbury, 7/5).
LATIN AMERICA
Reuters: Coronavirus surges on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, doctors warn deaths underreported (Griffin/Acosta, 7/5).
Reuters: El Salvador delays next steps in reopening economy as COVID-19 cases rise (Rentaria, 7/5).
Reuters: Bolivia digs mass graves as cemeteries fill with coronavirus victims (Ramos/Sherwood, 7/3).
MIDDLE EAST
The Hill: Iran orders mask usage as coronavirus cases spike (Budryk, 7/6).
Washington Post: The pandemic stranded Palestinians abroad. Politics kept them there (Berger, 7/1).
NORTH AMERICA
The Hill: Public health expert: ‘Mixed messaging’ on masks, social distancing contributed to ‘perilous moment’ for U.S. (Budryk, 7/5).
NBC News: ‘We need to live with it’: White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus (Lee et al., 7/3).
New York Times: The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus (Oppel et al., 7/5).
VOA News: New Concern in U.S. South About Rising Coronavirus Spread (Bredemeier, 7/6).
Wall Street Journal: Some Hospitals in Southern, Western U.S. States Near Capacity Amid Coronavirus Outbreaks (O’Brien et al., 7/5).
Wall Street Journal: Some Hospitals in Southern, Western U.S. States Near Capacity Amid Coronavirus Outbreaks (Maher, 7/4).
Wall Street Journal: Mexico’s Covid-19 Death Toll Could Be Twice as High as Official Tally (Luhnow/Montes, 7/3).
Xinhua: Premature reopenings, unclear messaging on restriction measures lead to spike in U.S. COVID-19 cases: expert (7/6).
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.