Israel is on track to be the first country in the world to inoculate its entire population against Covid-19 [1]. But while Israel has already vaccinated more than 20 percent of its citizens, including Jewish settlers in the West Bank, … Continue reading →
New COVID-19 justice fund targets $1 million for grassroots groups On the heels of Mandela Day, global leaders and civil society groups are proud to launch the COVID-19 Grassroots Justice Fund to help marginalised and oppressed communities protect their rights during the pandemic … Continue reading →
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issued the following statement on 16 July 2020. The UN humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, has called on G20 nations to act now or face a series of human tragedies more brutal … Continue reading →
There is a very useful summary of COVID-I9 statistics for all countries at https://covidbynumbers.com/ It is updated in real time and the list is searchable and also sortable by: Total Cases New Cases New Cases 10-D Avg Total Deaths New … Continue reading →
The United Nations Environment Programme has published a report aimed at policy makers on how to prevent another global pandemic which describes zoonotic diseases and how to break their chain of transmission. “People look back to the influenza pandemic of … Continue reading →
The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world, according to a policy brief [1] issued by the UN Secretary-General on 9 June [2]. Hundreds of millions … Continue reading →
We reported on 15 April how US President Donald Trump was following his usual procedure when something goes wrong: blame somebody else. Following his own failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, he blamed everyone he could think of for … Continue reading →
This article by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is the foreword to the UNA-UK’s report Climate 2020: The path ahead The recovery from COVID-19 should be focused on securing a sustainable, equitable and resilient future. There are six climate actions that … Continue reading →
On 23 March 2020 the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, appealed to all warring parties across the world to lay down their arms in support of the bigger battle against  COVID-19 — the common enemy that is now threatening … Continue reading →
We recently heard the BBC refer to SARS-CoV-2, a name we had not heard before, so we did a little research. On 11 February 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [1] announced that the name of the … Continue reading →