Source: 3 News Leader of the coronavirus burial team, Inspector Joseph Asitanga, has described as, overwhelming the number of bodies they have in the morgues awaiting burial. According to him, a lot more bodies are still in waiting after some 97 have already been buried. Updates on the Ghana Health Service […]
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Africa Media Leader Briefing on COVID-19 – July 2020
WHO Situation reports August 3 , 2020
COVID-19 Emergency Committee highlights need for response efforts over long term
The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the meeting, published today, it expressed “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and highlighted the anticipated lengthy duration of […]
Argentina: There is no economy without health
Source:www.who.int/news-room Latin America is now the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no peak in sight. “You can recover from a drop in the GDP, but you can’t recover from death.” With that grim but straightforward logic, Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández instituted a tough lockdown early in the pandemic to […]