Covid 19

ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nigerian doctors began a nationwide strike Monday over unpaid COVID-19 hazard allowances and inadequate protective equipment during the pandemic. Other health workers' groups and associations are threatening to join the strike. Since the country’s first case, more than 1,000 Nigerian healthcare workers have become infected with COVID-19. … [Read more...] about Nigeria Health Workers, Officials at Odds Over Unpaid COVID-19 Allowances

WASHINGTON - The Lost Summer of 2020 drew to a close Monday with many big Labor Day gatherings canceled across the U.S. and health authorities pleading with people to keep their distance from others so as not to cause another coronavirus surge like the one that followed Memorial Day. … [Read more...] about Summer of COVID-19 Ends With Health Officials Worried

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, has fallen by seven percent in the second quarter this year.  It was worse than many economists had predicted.    … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Plunges Australia Into First Recession Since 1991

“We had a very strict lockdown then relaxed this too quickly in a country with a high propensity to socialize and for family networks to stay very close,” Ildefonso Hernández, a professor of public health at the University Miguel Hernández near Alicante in southeast Spain, told VOA in an interview.  … [Read more...] about Despite Strict Lockdown, Spain Sees Sharp COVID-19 Spike

"Short of enacting martial law or something, we were always going to see people start to move back and try to create some sense of normalcy in their life again," he said. "I just wish we had been able to get the virus under control beforehand, before people got to this point where they just don't care anymore."  … [Read more...] about How Superspreaders – People and Places – Drive COVID-19 Pandemic