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February 14, 2021 Share The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the developing world the hardest. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the economic outlook has worsened significantly in some emerging market and low-income economies where infections are rising rapidly. Although initially a health crisis, the pandemic has also evolved into a major socioeconomic and environmental one. Non-Aligned Movement, being the largest collective voice of the developing world, has voiced its concerns regarding the adverse impact of COVID-19 crisis. NAM has called on its Member States to coopera...

As we wave an eager goodbye to 2020 in the rearview mirror, it's time to assess the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to drug policy and drug reform at the international level. As in other realms of human behavior, the coronavirus pandemic is inescapable, but even as the pandemic raged, drug policy developments kept happening. Here are the biggest world drug policy stories of 2020: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the World of Drugs As with virtually every other aspect of human affairs, the year's deadly coronavirus pandemic impacted the world of drugs, from disruptions of drug markets an...

Members of the Virginia National Guard gather information from COVID-19 testing in the lower parking lot of Carroll County High on December 17. Director of Mount Rogers Health District Dr. Karen Shelton said the mass testing project was due to COVID-19 positivity rate of 24.2 percent in Mount Rogers Health District. David Broyles | The Carroll News A Virginia National Guard member performs a COVID-19 test on a participant during a mass testing effort in the Mount Rogers Health District at CCHS on December 17. Around 52 tests had been performed shortly after noon last Thursday. On December 18 ...

Three Rivers Health District COVID 19 Update Pandemic status: COVID 19 rages worldwide and in the United States The pandemic is raging across the globe, is continuing to compromise health care systems regionally in the United States with lack of beds and critical resources, and is causing provider compromise/fatigue. There have been over 18 million documented cases of COVID 19 in the United States. Our current 7-day average of new cases daily in the United States is over 232,000, and we have had over 317,000 deaths. In Virginia, the 7-day moving average of cases by date reported is 3677; ther...

VDH Launches COVID-19 Outbreak Dashboard Posted by Staff | Dec 21, 2020 | News | | (Richmond, Va.) — On Friday, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) launched a COVID-19 outbreak dashboard in response to the requirements of HB5048 of the 2020 Virginia General Assembly Special Session. The dashboard includes outbreaks that occurred in medical care facilities, residential or day programs licensed by VDH, Department of Social Services (DSS) or Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), summer camps, and kindergarten (K)-12th grade schools.  Currently, outbrea...