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KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 22, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 are included in the tracker (6/22). 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.…

AP: Top U.S. diplomat calls U.N. rights body ‘a haven for dictators’ “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision by the U.N.’s top human rights body to commission a report on policing and race amid international protests spurred by George Floyd’s death ‘marks a new low’ and confirmed…

New Humanitarian: How ‘Ebola business’ threatens aid operations in Congo “Questionable practices in the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including payments to security forces, renting vehicles at inflated prices, and job kickback schemes, may have jeopardized humanitarian operations and put lives at risk. A months-long investigation by…

Devex: U.S. senators debate international COVID-19 response “The international COVID-19 response, President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the World Health Organization, and how the U.S. should address global health security moving forward were the focus of an at-times heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday…” (Saldinger,…

AP: WHO chief warns world leaders not to “politicize” pandemic “World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday, reminding all that the pandemic is still accelerating and producing record daily increases in infections. The comments by…

POLITICO: How the U.S. and Italy traded places on coronavirus “Three months ago, public health officials feared that America would be swamped by COVID-19 like Italy. Today, the U.S. would be lucky to swap its coronavirus crisis for theirs. … Global health officials seized on Italy — as the first…

Washington Post: Democrats, public health experts decry Trump for saying he asked officials to slow down coronavirus testing “President Trump’s Saturday night remark that he asked officials to ‘slow the [coronavirus] testing down’ sparked harsh rebukes from experts and frustration from his own staffers, who say it undercuts their efforts…

BBC: ‘Cashpoint aid’ and Africa: Who benefits? “Across Africa the news that a former colonial power, the U.K., is to take a more strategic, political, hard-nosed approach to the way it spends its overseas aid budget, has been greeted with a mixture of frustration and cynicism. In announcing a merger…

New York Times: Federal Agency Halts Studies of Hydroxychloroquine, Drug Trump Promoted “The National Institutes of Health said Saturday that it had stopped two clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that President Trump promoted to treat and prevent the coronavirus, one because the drug was unlikely to be effective…

AP: U.N. says Afghan health workers facing deliberate attacks “The United Nations on Sunday released a special report expressing concerns over what it called recent ‘deliberate attacks’ against health care workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the coronavirus pandemic. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said it…