Dr. Michael Osterholm, a top US infectious disease expert and a member of the Biden transitional Covid-19 advisory group, urges urgent action to prevent a large portion of the global population from contracting the coronavirus.
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I flew for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic grounded most of us in mid-March. The verdict? Uncomfortable and if I can avoid air travel for the foreseeable future, I will.
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There are two sets of rules in Ukraine: one for its fabulously wealthy oligarchs -and the other for everybody else. That became clear recently during the country’s strict Covid-19 lockdown, when several oligarchs managed to skirt the rules and rule the skies with their private jets.
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Health has published a list of 50 “red” countries whose citizens will have to self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Ukraine. But the calculation used to categorise countries as “red” or “green” appears flawed.
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Updates on Covid-19 from around the world. A worrying patchwork quilt of lockdown rollbacks in the US. The travel industry, especially airlines, head into turbulent skies. Cases in Russian sky-rocket. The WHO signals concern over countries with fragile health systems. And have some of our leaders let us down?
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