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White House: Readout from the Vice President’s Governors Briefing on COVID-19 Response & Recovery “[On June 22], Vice President Mike Pence led a discussion with the chief executives of approximately 50 states, territories, and the city of Washington, D.C., and the White House Coronavirus Task Force to discuss local, state,…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 23, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (6/23). Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on the response and impact within the U.S., are available here.…

African Arguments: Uganda’s COVID-19 neglect of minorities is bad for everyone Moses Muhumuza, founder and director of the Universal Institute of Research and Innovations in Uganda, and Mark Kaahwa, academic and researcher based at the Mountains of the Moon University in Uganda (6/22). Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Coronavirus is…

Devex: E.U. going backward on gender equality, stagnating on climate action “The European Union is going backward on key aspects of gender equality and has made no progress on climate action in the past five years, according to the latest report on the Sustainable Development Goals within the E.U. On…

NPR: Soil Prof Hits Pay Dirt: $250K Prize For Helping Farmers, Fighting Climate Change “Rattan Lal just won a quarter of a million dollars for his scientific research on dirt. Or as he prefers to call it, ‘soil.’ And in fact, soil and money have something in common, says Lal,…

BBC: The virus hunter who got Covid (Mazumdar, 6/23). Devex: Q&A: How to protect health care workers from occupational exposure to hazardous drugs (6/23). Forbes: Bill And Melinda Gates Have Sharp Words For U.S.’ Lack Of Leadership Role In Fighting Pandemic (Wang, 6/23). The Guardian: ‘Divorce isn’t an option’: Afghan…

Bloomberg: The New Weapon in the Covid-19 War Michael Lewis, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (6/22). The Conversation: The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and COVID-19 Yap Boum, professor in the faculty of Medicine at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (6/22). Devex: Let…

AFRICA Quartz Africa: With over 250,000 cases, misinformation is compromising Africa’s Covid-19 response (Kazeem, 6/22). The Telegraph: Coronavirus infections pick up speed across Africa (Brown/Newey, 6/22). U.N. News: COVID ‘exacerbating existing vulnerabilities’ in Central African Republic: Lacroix (6/22). ASIA ABC’s RN Breakfast: Why so many Indonesian children are dying from…

AFRICA AP: Virus outbreak could spin ‘out of control’ in South Sudan (Ajak/Anna, 6/22). AP: Zimbabwe’s health minister charged in COVID-19 graft case (Mutsaka, 6/20). Global Press Journal: After Surviving Cyclone Idai, Displaced Zimbabweans Fend Off Coronavirus (Chenjerai, 6/21). The Guardian: African countries unite to create ‘one stop shop’ to…