COVID-19 — China’s crime of the century
Will we ever know the exact origin of COVID-19? In all likelihood, no, never. But a growing body of evidence points to a negligent “lab-leak” being the most likely cause. There is no evidence...
Category: COVID19
COVID International Travel Restrictions and Vaccine Certification: How They Affect Human Rights, Global Diplomacy, and International Laws
International travel has always been a reflection of wealth, and one who holds a passport determines how many countries one is allowed to enter and how quickly one can travel. However, at present, international...
Inside the Doomed US Coronavirus Response
US health-care expert Andy Slavitt’s new book, “Preventable”, is one of a growing stream of books on COVID-19. It offers Slavitt’s “Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the US Coronavirus...
The Swedish Approach To Covid-19 And The Questions It Raises
What exactly is the “Swedish approach” to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic? How different is it from the global approach? Since March 2020, the Swedish response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been based on an...
Coronavirus: A Challenge for the Third World
All the countries around the globe faced one of the greatest reversals of fortune in the socio-economic and political aspects of development when WHO declared COVID-19 as the global pandemic on 30th January 2020....
Understanding COVID through history
Public historian and conservative columnist, Niall Ferguson, makes an intriguing contribution to our understanding of COVID-19 through his recent book, “Doom; The Politics of Catastrophe”, which attempts to place COVID-19 in a historical perspective. ...
Why population immunity is not a realistic goal in Africa’s bid to control COVID-19
In public health, an important goal of vaccination and immunisation is to reach population or herd immunity. This is why the term comes up often in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it helps...
Tougher terms: why the EU is paying more for new COVID shots
The European Union has agreed to pay a premium on new orders of COVID-19 vaccines because it is requiring tougher terms to be met, European officials said, as the bloc tries to protect supplies...
Japan to expand state of emergency as COVID-19 shadows Olympics
TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) – Japan’s government on Friday proposed states of emergency through Aug. 31 in three prefectures near Olympic host Tokyo and the western prefecture of Osaka, as COVID-19 cases spike to...
Covid-19 & changing policy discourse
Policy formulation always was an integral part of any institution. In normal discourse, policies are the statement that usually reflects the principles and motivation of the institution to deal with various situations usually for...
