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The Foreign Press Association, Africa has registered its displeasure against media outlets using images of black people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak in North America and the United Kingdom. By N Ahmad At the height of COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had to advise against naming pathogens for places to “minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people.” Even though by February 11, 2020, the WHO had named the then fast-spreading virus as SARS-CoV-2 and the illness it caused as COVID-19, some politicians, including former US president Do...
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I, along with many others, considered the lockdown a haven for introverts. But soon the piercing arrow of reality burst my bubble. Abeen Shayiq I’m an introvert girlIn a lockdown worldLife fantasticIt’s….wait, is it though? Distancing from others, isolation, masks covering the face, no physical gatherings or parties. What more could an introvert ask for? I like my space to myself to be able to be myself. Although a habit of social interaction was there as much as necessary, my mind would always look for ways to escape. So when lockdown began following onset of Covid-19 pandemic, the idea of li...
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India objects to “the use of mathematical models for projecting excess mortality estimates in view of the availability of authentic data.” By N Ahmad New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million The WHO’s estimates indicate that while India experienced roughly 830,000 excess deaths in 2020, the country saw over 3.9 million excess deaths in 2021. Of these, 2.3 million deaths took place over two months – April and May 2021...
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The overall vaccination rate in China stands at nearly 88 percent. But only about half of those over 80 and 48% of those over 60 have received two vaccinations N Ahmad As Chinese authorities are determined to adhere to the zero Covid policy in Shanghai, the elderly unvaccinated people are becoming a towering obstacle to easing Covid-19 restriction imposed on March 28. Ten deaths of Covid -19 patients in Shanghai were reported on April 18 and April 19 causing panic in the city which has a low vaccination rate among provincial regions. On April 19, Shanghai reported seven deaths among the elderl...
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Preliminary results from the ongoing nationwide health needs assessment indicate that of the 1000 households that have responded so far, two in five have at least one member with a chronic illness, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes or cancer. Health Analytics Web Desk Two months into the war in Ukraine, a WHO survey shows the public health system in the country is struggling, with 162 attacks verified against it so far. Infectious diseases, and particularly waterborne diseases, are common, and routine vaccination, such as COVID-19 vaccination, has been affected by the war, the survey re...
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While effective states are well-placed to tackle their problems, an efficient response to the pandemic is also about how laxly or strictly these states implement their authority, capacity and legitimacy RIYAZ WANI More than one million people have died and over 81 million have been infected so far in the United States, the highest such figure in the world. This is despite the fact that the US ranks eleventh in healthcare in the world, according to 2021 research by the Commonwealth Fund which studied healthcare systems of eleven high-income countries. Similarly, France which ranked at No 8 has ...
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The three-week campaign aims to reach all children between 15 months and 15 years to quickly achieve wider protection from the disease N Ahmad Nepal has decided to immunize 7.5 million children against typhoid this year, a move that is drawing praise from across the world with experts saying the country has maintained its pre-pandemic routine vaccination levels. “Nepal has maintained its pre-pandemic routine vaccination levels, 82%, while reaching 83% of COVID vaccination coverage for 12+ population. How? Investing in Primary Health Care and supporting female community volunteers,” tweeted Pal...
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The recent surge in Coronavirus cases in China, although small compared to some other countries, is a significant challenge to China’s zero-Covid strategy. N Ahmad China’s commercial capital, Shanghai, is now a ghost town. The city is one of the worst-hit regions in the country facing a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus. Robot dogs and drones patrol Shanghai’s streets and the skies, respectively, enforcing a strict lockdown on the city’s 26 million residents. Robot dogs ask residents to stay indoors. Drones fly around. They come close to those they spot outside asking them to return to their ho...
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As parts of the world witness fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 infections, vaccination remains the most common pandemic management approach. Kruxd looks at the numbers behind the global disparity in the availability of COVID vaccinations. By Bhargavi Saikia Fifteen months since the first-ever shot of the COVID vaccine was administered, about 58 per cent of the world’s population is fully vaccinated. However, this number hides the disparity in the level of vaccination in different regions of the world. The great divide As the race to vaccinate people against COVID-19 continues, many countries have a...
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And the Covid pandemic by cutting down spending on emissions may have further harmed the climate By Saadia Azim In February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC WGII AR6). The Working Group II report assesses the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It highlights that global climate change will considerably impact human communities and increase the risks of vector-borne and water-borne diseases, under-nutrition, mental disorders, and allerg...
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