1Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston
2Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston
3Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia JAMA. Published online May 28, 2021. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.7439
Despite Covid-19’s downward trajectory in India, two worries remain
Researchers are not resting easy yet. Representational image. | Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 130 crore people was dangerously real.
A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot. But the possible catastrophic impact of the pandemic was considered greater in magnitude by the government.
Nearly 11 months on, the Covid-19 infections and fatalities in India tell a different story.
Mark W. Tenforde, MD, PhD; Kiva A. Fisher, PhD, MPH; Manish M. Patel, MD, MSc
With the advent of the 21st century, science and technology were expected to be formidable forces that would hopefully improve population health and well-being.
1 Furthermore, these forces would drive a rapidly changing and interconnected world, with communities and nations worldwide sharing common rewards (eg, economic development, health, and welfare) and facing common risks (eg, pandemics, chronic noncommunicable diseases, environmental damage, nuclear weapons, climate change). In this context, effective governance and communications were to be cornerstones for delivering the promise of science and technology for enhancing public health.
People hold posters reading ‘Where do Belarusian journalists end up when they go to work?’, ‘They did their job and ended up in Okrestina’ [detenion centre], and ‘Free Minsk From Violence’ during a rally in support of detained journalists, Minsk, Belarus, 3 September 2020, Natalia FedosenkoTASS via Getty Images At least 11 journalists and media workers remain in detention, among them Katsiaryna Barysevich, Daria Chultsova, Yulia Slutskaya, Alla Sharko, Siarhei Alsheuski, Sergey Olshevski, Petr Slutski, Ksenia Lutskina, Andrei Aliaksandrau, Katsiaryna Andreeva and Aliaksandr Mikrukou.
This statement was originally published on europeanjournalists.org on 5 February 2021.
Ahead of the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus on 7 February, the undersigned organisations working in the field of freedom of expression and media freedom call for the immediate and unconditional release of all journalists and media workers who continue to be arbitrarily d
International Day of Solidarity with Belarus
Index and 16 other organisations call for all imprisoned journalists to be immediately released
05 Feb 2021
Protests in Belarus in 2020, photo: Max Katz
Ahead of the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus on 7 February, the undersigned organisations working in the field of freedom of expression and media freedom call for the immediate and unconditional release of all journalists and media workers who continue to be arbitrarily detained.
Nearly six months since President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory in what has been widely acknowledged and condemned as a fraudulent election, opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya remains in exile and thousands of protesters continue to take to the streets of Minsk calling for his resignation.