PandemicGlobal & Public HealthInfectious DiseasesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a novel strain from the Coronaviridae family, named Severe Acute Respiratory...
The UN has described the health, social and economic consequences of Covid-19 as a global crisis unlike any other encountered in its history. Although a pandemic of this nature was not unforeseeable, its arrival seems to have caught the world off guard, hurling us into a state of partly ...
Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was crowned as the second pandemic of the twenty-first century by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on March 11th, 2020 [1]. COVID-19 is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel strain from ...
While responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic remains the top priority for many global health leaders, including work to strengthen early warning and surveillance systems, addressing climate change now sits alongside other recognisedglobal health challengesincluding mitigating the sprea...
As the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet subsided, the CGTN Think Tank has released the Analytical Report on the Global Situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic (the "Report") by sourcing data from the Johns Hopkins University website, Our World in Data...
With the resurgence of COVID-19, countries are accumulating huge debt risks to cope with the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic. Such pressures will change the trends and patterns of international economic development and could be one of the long-term effects of the pandemic on the gl...
The fast-spreading disease has also claimed 8,007 lives so far worldwide. WASHINGTON, March 18 (Xinhua) -- The tally of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 pandemic has crossed the threshold of 200,000, reaching 201,530, according to the latest statistics of the Center for Systems Science an...
In a new report commissioned by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), Georgetown global health experts say the success of any effort to redress pandemic preparedness failures demonstrated by COVID-19 requires a re-centering of governance that
BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- In a statement released Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 pandemic remains a "public health emergency of international concern," a day before WHO statistics showed the global caseload passed the 500-million threshold. ...
The panel's 14th meeting on the crisis comes nearly three years since WHO first signaled its highest level of alert. The vote also comes on the heels of China’s recent lift of its "zero COVID" policy. Some experts acknowledge the COVID-19 pandemic may no longer ...