COVID-19 Recovery: Policy Brief
INTRODUCTION
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) on January 30, 2020. Since the disease was first recognized in December of 2019, it has spread to almost every country, infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. But this pandemic is much more than a public health crisis. In addition to causing the greatest global economic downturn in almost a century, it is threatening to reverse decades of development gains. It is pushing hundreds of millions of people into a state of food insecurity, magnifying national and regional instability, disrupting global supply chains, and much more (Sly, 2020). United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called COVID-19 a human crisis, stressing that, “its unprecedented scale demands an unprecedented response” (United Nations, 2020a).
Coronavirus updates | January 1, 2021
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January 01, 2021 21:49 IST
A dry run will be conducted by all the State and Union Territory governments on January 2 with the objective of preparing for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the Union Health Ministry said.
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Students greets each other as schools in Kerala reopened partially after a long break, at a Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, January 1, 2021.
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A dry run will be conducted by all the State and Union Territory governments on January 2 with the objective of preparing for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the Union Health Ministry said.
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As 2020 comes to an end, the coronavirus pandemic has dominated almost every aspect of normal life around the world since the beginning of the year.
Since the very first cases reported in Britain in January, there have been lockdowns, changing restrictions and tens of thousands of infections and deaths in the UK alone. Globally, 82.1 million Covid-19 cases have been recorded, with 1.79 million deaths.
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Incoming US President Joe Biden faces an uphill battle as he takes over the reins from Donald Trump. Photo / File
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