CAR Highlights Inequalities In COVID-19 Testing; India Surges Past 1M Cases; U.K. Builds Up COVID-19 Medicines Stockpile To Prepare For Potential 2nd Wave; Brazil Tops 2M Cases; Outbreak Threatens To Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis In Syria; U.S. Congress Set To Address Vaccine Funding
AFRICA
AP: African nation blasts ‘inequality crisis’ in virus testing (Anna, 7/16).
Devex: Politics gets in the way of Nigeria’s COVID-19 response (Adepoju, 7/17).
VOA: WHO Calls for End to Africa Conflicts to Fight Coronavirus (Yusef, 7/16).
ASIA
AP: Struggling India crosses 1 million coronavirus cases (Saaliq et al., 7/17).
New York Times: India Coronavirus Cases Surge Past One Million (Singh/Gettleman, 7/16).
New York Times: No One Knows What Thailand Is Doing Right, but So Far, It’s Working (Beech, 7/16).
NPR: Australian State Orders ‘No Dancing, No Singing, No Mingling’ To Halt COVID-19 (Neuman, 7/17).
Washington Post: In a Siberian village, the lockdown is extreme. Trenches have sealed it off (Dixon, 7/17).
EUROPE
Financial Times: U.K. builds up Covid-19 medicines stockpile in case of second wave (Neville, 7/16).
The Guardian: Revealed: Italy’s call for urgent help was ignored as coronavirus swept through Europe (Boffey et al., 7/15).
Xinhua: WHO says COVID-19 situation in Eastern Mediterranean region remains alarming (7/16).
LATIN AMERICA
AP: Brazil tops 2 million coronavirus cases, with 76,000 dead (Savarese/Biller, 7/16).
PRI: Bogotá tries ‘staggered quarantine’ to slow coronavirus spread (Valencia, 7/16).
MIDDLE EAST
New Humanitarian: How coronavirus hit Aden: A Yemeni doctor’s diary (Derwish, July 2020).
Vox: Syria’s Idlib was already a humanitarian nightmare. Now the coronavirus has arrived (Kirby, 7/16).
NORTH AMERICA
AP: Puerto Rico rolls back openings amid spike in COVID-19 cases (Coto, 7/16).
The Hill: Vaccine scientist predicts U.S. is weeks away from every American knowing ‘seriously ill’ coronavirus patient (Bowden, 7/16).
STAT: NIH Director Francis Collins defends Fauci amid White House criticism (Facher, 7/16).
Wall Street Journal: Congress Set to Tackle Vaccine Funding in Next Round of Coronavirus Aid (Peterson et al., 7/16).
Wall Street Journal: Growing Wait Times for Covid-19 Test Results Hinder Virus Response (Abbott et al., 7/16).
Xinhua: U.S. approaches half million new COVID-19 cases each week: report (7/16).
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.