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COVID-19 & Human Health Risks Linked to Wildlife Trade Practices
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 07 (IPS) - At the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic is raging worldwide, causing human mortality and socio-economic disruption on a massive scale and it appears highly likely that profound impacts will continue for many years to come.
Time for the World Bank and IMF to Be the Solution, Not the Problem
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti and BOSTON, May 07 (IPS) - The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have a historic opportunity to help stabilize a world reeling from COVID-19. Doing so will require the institutions to change course and aggressively support poor countries' ability to invest broadly in the government services their populations need.
World’s Poor Hit by Double Jeopardy: a Deadly Virus & a Devastating Debt Burden
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (IPS) - The world's poorer nations, reeling under an unrelenting attack on their fragile economies by the COVID-19 pandemic, have suffered an equally deadly body blow: being buried under heavy debt burdens.
Coronavirus Hasn´t Slowed Down Ecological Women Farmers in Peru's Andes Highlands
- Inter Press Service
HUASAO, Peru, May 06 (IPS) - It's eight o'clock in the morning and Pascuala Ninantay is carrying two large containers of water in her wheelbarrow to prepare with neighbouring women farmers 200 litres of organic fertiliser, which will then be distributed to fertilise their crops, in this town in the Andes highlands of Peru.
Polio, Measles Outbreaks ‘Inevitable’, Say Vaccine Experts
- Inter Press Service
May 06 (IPS) - Interruptions to vaccination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could result in new waves of measles or polio outbreaks, health experts warn.
COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerable to Exploitation by Proliferators, Terrorists & Criminals
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 06 (IPS) - Even during this pandemic, perhaps especially during this pandemic, the global institutions to help prevent the spread of biological and chemical weapons to proliferators or terrorists must continue their work.
COVID-19: Developing Countries Must Not be Left Behind
- Inter Press Service
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands / ROME, May 05 (IPS) - Globalization has been a driver for increased prosperity world-wide, but it has been in reverse in the last years due to the growth of populism in the USA and Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic may well provide further momentum to increasingly national-interest oriented policies in the west.
Q&A: COVID-19 Means we Must Innovate Data Collection, Especially on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) - The current coronavirus pandemic can offer insight into how to shake-up traditional methods of data collection, and might provide an opportunity to do it in more innovative ways, in turn enhancing progress towards gender equality.
How Coronavirus Makes us Rethink Youth Protests
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 05 (IPS) - As social distancing, quarantines and lockdowns have spread across the globe to slow the spread of coronavirus, they have imposed some of the greatest worldwide restrictions on public gatherings in living memory. These restrictions may be necessary for public health, but they require the most anxious scrutiny to prevent them being misused to quash legitimate political expression and discriminate against protesters, including children and young people who mobilise.
Global Impact of New Corona Virus and Population Issues
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, May 05 (IPS) - The new coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc across the world, as the number of infections and deaths rapidly rise. It has the potential to infect anybody regardless of age or gender. There are grave concerns that the economic fallout from COVID-19 may be comparable to that of the Great Depression.
According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there are 2,064,668 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 137,124 deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19) in Japan, as of April 16th. The PRC reported that as of April 15th, there were 8,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 119 deaths, and 901 patients discharged from hospitals.
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