WHO calls for “rethink” of elderly care after COVID-19 losses
Geneva/Zurich SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said on Monday that we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the elderly after huge losses to COVID-19 in nursing homes across the world “robbed us of a generation of wisdom”. In a speech about the human rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic at the United […]
WHO says “extreme vigilance” needed in exit from lockdowns; US death toll tops 80,000
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization said on Monday that “extreme vigilance” was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, amid global concerns about a second wave of infections. Germany earlier reported an acceleration in new coronavirus infections after it took early steps to ease […]