Coronavirus live updates: Kerala reports 43,529 new cases in highest one-day spike
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Coronavirus live updates: Kerala reports 43,529 new cases in highest one-day spike
India s Covid tally reaches 2,33,40,938 with 3,48,421 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. At 4,205, India records its highest Covid deaths taking the death toll to 2,54,197. The active cases have reduced to 37,04,099 comprising 15.87 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has improved to 83.04 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed. While the number of people who have recovered from the disease surged to 1,93,82,642 Stay with TOI for the latest developmentsRead Less
THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 12, 2021, 18:32:25 IST
Swift mask mandates and travel restrictions, an international treaty and the creation of new bureaucracies are among the recommendations presented to the W.H.O.
Slow WHO, poor coordination ‘to blame for pandemic’
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Independent expert panel demands funds, efforts to stop Covid-19 spread A “toxic cocktail” of poor strategic choices, unwillingness to tackle inequalities, and an uncoordinated system allowed the Covid-19 pandemic to turn into a catastrophic human crisis, said an Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR).
The panel, established by the World Health Organization chief last year, was also critical of the WHO’s reaction time in calling a pandemic.
“The time it took from the reporting of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown origin in mid-late December 2019 to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern being declared was too long. February 2020 was also a lost month when many more countries could have taken steps to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and forestall the global health, social, and economic catastrophe that continues its grip,” the panel said.