News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 193
Financial Scams Rise as Coronavirus Hits Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 05 (IPS) - In the Philippines, Peru, India, Kenya, South Africa and many other developing countries, poor people who are already struggling with the health impact of the coronavirus pandemic have been targeted by online fraudsters trying to take unfair advantage of them.
Argentina Responds Boldly to Coronavirus Crisis
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 05 (IPS) - Like much of the West, Argentina did not take many early precautionary actions after the Covid-19 epidemic was confirmed in January, but became the first Latin American country to act decisively with a 12 March public health emergency declaration.
The presidential decree came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic, just over a week after the first case was detected in the republic on 3 March.
Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism in Small Island Developing States
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 04 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain its diffusion are taking a heavy toll on the tourism sector. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the COVID-19 pandemic will result in a contraction of the tourism sector by 20% to 30% in 2020.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Reinvention of the Spirit of Solidarity and Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 30 (IPS) - An invisible adversary has thrown the world – Global South and Global North alike – into disarray. The psychosocial and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis will remain with us long after it has been overcome.
There will be no anti-viral return to the pre-coronavirus status quo, nor can we afford to idly wait for a viral transformation of our world. The future is not inevitable, abstract promise – it will depend on our collective readiness to forge it, or to be forged by it.
Public Health and Epidemics
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 (IPS) - For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 virus, something that has changed when the contagion is spreading fast in the US.
A Lombardy in the grip of a deadly epidemic might among several Italians give rise to memories of their school days. For almost a century, Alessando Manzoni's massive novel The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) from 1842 has been obligatory reading for all Italians during their last primary school year. A quite impressive endeavour considering that the novel is more than 700 pages long.
Only Sustainable Investment & Global Cooperation Can Counter COVID’s Blow to SDGs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 30 (IPS) - We are today in a time of crisis—a time when our shared choices will shape the way history tells our story and the paradigm shift it has so forcefully provoked.
Press Freedom Needs Protection from Pandemic too
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 30 (IPS) - Wearing an orange jacket and face mask, Li Zehua, a Chinese freelance journalist, can be seen filming himself in a car. He is sure that state security agents have been pursuing him since he began documenting events in Hubei's capital Wuhan, the first epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic. A second YouTube video, circulating widely since he launched his appeal, ends abruptly when two men knock at his apartment. He has just reappeared online after two months, saying police interrogated him and put him in quarantine and that he was well looked after during this period.
Amid Covid-19 Hunger Fear Mounts in Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Apr 29 (IPS) - The world is at risk of widespread famines caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The devastating economic impact of Covid-19 is seeing a huge rise globally in the number of hungry people.
Argentina’s Debt Restructuring “Groundhog Day”… or Maybe Not? Three Key Points
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 29 (IPS) - On April 17, the Alberto Ángel Fernández administration in Argentina officially unveiled its offer for debt restructuring on USD 66 billion foreign currency-denominated bonds.
Starting on that date, the offer is valid for 20 days, a period during which difficult negotiations with bondholders are expected to take place.
Based on the first reactions from some of creditor groups, one could well get the sense that the offer is "dead on arrival."
Pandemic Lays Bare Africa’s Deficits, but Youth Will Grow the Future
- Inter Press Service
IBADAN, Nigeria, Apr 29 (IPS) - Africa's frailties have been brutally exposed by the coronavirus pandemic. The virus has reached nearly every country on this continent of 1.3 billion people and the World Health Organization warns there could be 10 million cases within six months. Ten countries have no ventilators at all.
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