Topic: COVID-19
India: Active COVID cases cross 7-lakh
India reported 179,723 new coronavirus infections on Monday, the highest figure since late May, health ministry data showed.
COVID fed a frightening rise in inequalities: United Nations on Human Rights Day
Despite significant progress since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 73 years ago, the COVID pandemic has “fed a frightening rise in inequalities”, and laid bare “many of our failures to consolidate the advances made”, said UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet, in a message marking Human Rights Day.
UK threw out 600,000+ Covid vaccine doses in August
The government of the United Kingdom threw out more than 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in August after they expired unused, a revelation that came...
Education in times of pandemic
High-quality education was already out of reach for many students long before the COVID-19 pandemic and could slip further away if we don’t act altogether giving attention to equal opportunity for every student.
WHO issues definition of post COVID-19 condition to aid treatment
The first official clinical definition of living with “post COVID” sickness, has been agreed upon following global consultation and released to help boost treatment for sufferers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
“We are on the edge of an abyss,” says UN chief António Guterres
Secretary-General António Guterres issued a wake-up call that the world is on the edge of an abyss and “moving in the wrong direction”, as...
