Africa Passes 500K Confirmed Coronavirus Cases; Americas Near 6M Cases, Half In Latin America, Caribbean; African Immigrants Hit Hard In France; Israel’s Public Health Leader Resigns Amid Resurgence
AFRICA
AP: Africa’s confirmed COVID-19 cases now above a half-million (Anna, 7/8).
AP: Zimbabwe’s health minister fired over COVID-19 graft scandal (Mutsaka, 7/7).
BBC News: Coronavirus: Kenyan schools to remain closed until 2021 (7/7).
New Humanitarian: In Burkina Faso, violence and COVID-19 push children out of school and into harm’s way (Mednick, 7/7).
Reuters: Free ambulance helps save mothers and babies in Kenya lockdown (Mersie, 7/7).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Kenya orders probe into rise in violence against women and girls during pandemic (Bhalla, 7/6).
ASIA
AFP: Mumbai opens new hospitals as India virus deaths top 20,000 (7/7).
Washington Post: Japan faces uptick in coronavirus cases but no political will for new shutdowns (Denyer, 7/8).
Xinhua: Peace operations should assist countries’ response to COVID-19, says Chinese envoy (7/8).
EUROPE
AP: In France, study shows virus hit African immigrants hardest (Leicester, 7/7).
Financial Times: Jeremy Hunt says Sage gave ‘wrong’ advice at start of pandemic (Payne, 7/7).
New York Times: Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale (Goodman, 7/7).
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Reuters: COVID-19 cases hit 5.9 million in Americas, half in Latin America, Caribbean: WHO (Boadle, 7/7).
MIDDLE EAST
NPR: Amid New Surge In Virus Cases, Israel’s Top Public Health Official Resigns (Estrin, 7/7).
Reuters: UAE says it will test 2 million people for COVID-19 as cases rise (Cornwell, 7/7).
Washington Post: Why Israel is seeing a coronavirus spike after initially crushing the outbreak (Hendrix, 7/7).
NORTH AMERICA
AP: Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again (Mulvihill/Fassett, 7/7).
Bloomberg Law: Birx Says States Mandating Masks Can Change Course of Pandemic (Edney, 7/7).
Financial Times: U.S. launches mass testing in virus hotspots (Wells, 7/7).
The Hill: Why the U.S. is falling behind in COVID-19 fight (Sullivan, 7/8).
Washington Post: It’s America vs. world as coronavirus spreads and hospitalizations rise (Partlow, 7/7).
Xinhua: New COVID-19 model projects over 200,000 U.S. deaths by November if masks aren’t worn: media (7/8).
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.