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AP: China defends its coronavirus response in new report “Senior Chinese officials released a lengthy report Sunday on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, defending their government’s actions and saying that China had provided information in a timely and transparent manner. China ‘wasted no time’ in sharing information such…

New York Times: U.K. Lab to Sidestep Drug Industry to Sell Potential Virus Vaccine “A prominent British laboratory is forming a special partnership that would sidestep the drug industry to sell a potential vaccine against the coronavirus without profits or licensing fees in Britain and in low- and middle-income countries.…

The Atlantic: The Sexual-Health Supply Chain Is Broken “…DKT’s struggles highlight the fragility of a global supply chain in which essential goods and medicines are often sourced from a small handful of countries whose competitive advantage has allowed them to dominate various steps of the production cycle. This is not…

AP: Brazil expunges virus death toll as data befuddles experts “Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America’s largest nation. Saturday’s move came after months…

ABC Science: The next pandemic is coming — and sooner than we think, thanks to changes to the environment (Dulaney, 6/7). Boston Globe: Vaccines have saved millions of lives, but history shows missteps can prove deadly (Saltzman, 6/6). The Guardian: ‘Rolling emergency’ of locust swarms decimating Africa, Asia, and Middle…

Reuters: U.K. halts trial of hydroxychloroquine as ‘useless’ for COVID-19 patients “British scientists halted a major drug trial on Friday after it found that the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential ‘game changer’ in the pandemic, was ‘useless’ at treating COVID-19 patients. ‘This is not…

Foreign Affairs: How to Keep the United States in the WHO Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling professor of international law, and Lawrence O. Gostin, O’Neill professor of global health law and faculty director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and director of the WHO…

USAID: COVID-19: United States And UNICEF Join Forces To Protect The Most Vulnerable Including Migrants In Thailand “The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are partnering in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic to help curb the spread of…

Devex: Exclusive: DFID pauses ‘some new decisions’ as aid budget expected to fall “The U.K.’s Department for International Development has confirmed it is pausing some decisions on aid spending, as the government grapples with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. A document sent to DFID suppliers and seen by…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 8, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 have been added to the tracker (6/8). 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…