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Displaying 263 of about 263 resultsCOVID-19 challenges the very fabric of human possibilities, survival and needs while amplifying the impacts of any ongoing crisis, especially the one faced currently by South Asia. Against a backdrop of critical socioeconomic vulnerabilities, the sub-region is now confronting the pandemic along with extreme events like tropical cyclones, recurring flood…
By Nora Kushti, Communications Officer, UNDP Albania
Staying home is vital to halting the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic from spreading. For many of us, it has never been easier to do our part to help.
In Albania, as in many countries around the world, the pandemic has only intensified gender-based violence. The lockdown is creating fertile ground for…
By Omair Ahmad
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the long-term neglect of women and marginalised groups in water policies in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region
By its very definition the impact of Covid-19 was difficult to anticipate. While the SARS and Ebola outbreaks had recently shown the world the dangers of epidemics linked to diseases migratin…
By Danny Dorling
The first death to be publicly attributed to coronavirus in the UK was of a woman in her seventies on March 5 2020. The same day, a spokesperson for the prime minister, Boris Johnson, warned the virus could spread in “a significant way” in the UK.
On March 16 2020, a group of 30 scientists concluded: “In an unmitigated epidemic, we wo…
PIRAC, the Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean of the French Red Cross is launching a social media campaign to promote good practices for individuals and communities to be better prepared for natural hazards in the context of an epidemic. Daily messages will be shared within the Caribbean from September 15th to October 13th…
By Sally Dibb
The UK is at a “perilous turning point” in the pandemic, with case numbers returning to levels seen in the spring and the threat of a second nationwide lockdown on the horizon.
Public health measures will be crucial to controlling this second wave, but these “will only work if people comply,” prime minister Boris Johnson has stressed. “I…
By Fatima Arkin
Pork meat shortages caused by swine fever can spur backyard poultry farming and trigger another bird flu pandemic.
Meat shortages caused by African swine fever (ASF) sweeping through the Far East are encouraging a shift to poultry production in backyard farms, raising the spectre of a deadly avian influenza pandemic, scientists warn.…
By David Rich
As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex wants to rely on a regionalised approach. At a press conference on Friday, he said that "most of the measures should not be decided from Paris". This is a very different strategy to the one adopted in March when the whole of France was put under lockdo…