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Coronavirus Outbreak: WHO’s policy failures and capitulation to China fueled deadly pandemic; DG Tedros must be held accountable
Sreemoy Talukdar • 5 years agoThere’s enough evidence now to conclusively argue that instead of anticipating and preempting the worst pandemic in a century, World Health Organization’s capitulation to China and series of bewildering policy failures have misled and delayed international response, thereby exacerbating fatally the pathogen’s impact.
Past and future of Coronavirus Outbreak: Inside humanity's battle to contain pathogen that has paralysed the world
Anirban Mahapatra • 5 years agoThe COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-generation event and while the response by policymakers has often been slow, physicians, scientists, and health-care workers have risen to the challenge.
Coronavirus Outbreak: From hunting bats to tearing into live chicken for pious reasons, Indians aren’t exactly new to animal pathogens
Praveen • 5 years agoEven as India battles the Wuhan virus, it’s time to introspect on the path ahead: what happened there could happen here, too.
Coronavirus Outbreak FAQ: N95 masks, safe meat, how to stay informed on latest as Covid-19 pandemic spreads further
Kavyan • 5 years agoThe Indian government has set up a 24x7 helpline for queries about the virus and its victims, with the number of cases rising quickly in many Asian countries.
Economist Intelligence Unit lowers global growth forecast for 2020; cites new risks due to coronavirus outbreak in China
• 5 years agoThe Economist Intelligence Unit's baseline scenario is that the public health emergency within China will be under control by end-March
Coronavirus toll overtakes 2003 SARS outbreak as 717 deaths reported from China alone; over 34,000 more infected
• 5 years agoChina has struggled to contain coronavirus despite having placed some 56 million people under effective lockdown in Hubei and its provincial capital, Wuhan.
Coronavirus is sparing children and largely affecting the ill and aged — infection experts explain why
• 5 years agoExperts have theorised that younger people are being infected, too, but developing a relatively milder infection.
China finishes construction of 1,000 bed hospital to treat victims of coronavirus in 10 days
• 5 years agoMedical teams from the People’s Liberation Army arrive in Wuhan to relieve overwhelmed health workers, work at the hospital.
Coronavirus outbreak: How bad will the epidemic get? When will a vaccine be ready?
• 5 years agoOn 30 January, the WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency, acknowledging that the disease is a risk beyond China.
Chinese man in Philippines is first death related to coronavirus outside of China
• 5 years agoThe 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan was hospitalized with a fever, cough, sore throat and died after developing severe pneumonia.