Top news of the week: 01.03.2022.
Coronavirus
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the 9th meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator Facilitation Council - 28 February 2022
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Your Excellency Minister Phaahla, Your Excellency Minister Tvinnereim, Director General Sandra Gallina, Excellencies, dear colleagues …
Rapid risk assessment: Increase in extensively-drug resistant Shigella sonnei infections in men who have sex with men in the EU/EEA and the UK
This document assesses the risk of further spread of S. sonnei amongst MSM and in the broader population in EU/EEA countries, resulting from the current increase in extensively-drug ...
The UK’s covid-19 data collection has been “world beating”—let’s not throw it away
It is critical the UK keeps the bones of its world leading data infrastructure so that we can protect ourselves from lingering and future threats, writes Jennifer Beam Dowd While the UK’s ...
Covid-19: Nisra records fall in virus-related deaths
The virus was mentioned on the death certificates of 31 people in the week up to 18 February.
Covid-19: Is the government dismantling pandemic systems too hastily?
The UK government’s plan for “living with covid” has sparked concern that important services established during the pandemic are being dispensed with too hurriedly. Matthew Limb reports A ...
How Taiwan used simple tech to help contain Covid-19
The low-tech approach that helped Taiwan efficiently fight off coronavirus.
Covid-19: Incomplete lists of vulnerable patients left many unprotected, desperate, and afraid
Up-to-date registers of clinically vulnerable patients must be created to ensure that those who are most at risk during covid-19 and any future pandemics are protected and can access the ...
Covid-19: Severe infection in pregnancy significantly increases risks, study shows
Severe covid-19 infection in pregnant women significantly increases the risk of harmful outcomes for mothers and babies, a study has found.1 The study, led by researchers at Oxford ...