10,000 Cities and Counting
A novel approach to quantifying the world s urban population provides insight into a changing world. February 28, 2021, 11am PST | James Brasuell |
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The European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently presented groundbreaking new mapping research at World Urban Forum 10, concluding that there are around 10,000 cities in the world.
Gregory Scruggs shares insight into the unprecedented effort to document and define the contemporary city in an article for Next City. Nailing down a definition of cities is surprisingly challenging. Nuances can neglect huge swaths of the built environment or in wildly different population estimates.
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Higher unemployment rates, gender disparity, income and wealth inequality: these are some of the side effects of the coronavirus pandemic. While a number of vaccines against Covid-19 was developed in record time, it might take decades to undo the social and economic damage caused by the virus. The crisis has exacerbated inequalities across all major fault lines in society and undone hard-won gains in poverty reduction across the globe.
Inequality is the gift the keeps on taking. While wealthy nations have been able to secure enough Covid-19 shots to inoculate their populations several times over, the People s Vaccine Alliance an international watchdog that includes Amnesty International, Oxfam and Global Justice estimates that poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people during 2021. Rich nations, needless to say, will be able to save more lives and help their economies recover faster.
Covid-19 pandemic exposes weakness of medical system
Kiyohiko Yoneyama and Masanori Tonegawa, The Japan News
Jan. 9, 2021
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TOKYO - A shortage of hospital beds for covid-19 patients in metropolitan areas has become particularly serious amid the latest surge in novel coronavirus infections.
However, the number of infection cases in Japan has been significantly lower than in Western countries, and Japan has the highest number of hospital beds per capita in the world.
To make effective use of the facilities and human resources, the nation needs to rebuild its medical system urgently. The medical fields are now in the same state as a dam that is on the verge of bursting, said Tamotsu Miki, director of Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.