Covid-19 and Countries in Turmoil
Haiti: Doctors Dodging
Bullets
Street violence and COVID-19 are surging amid growing concerns that
reactions to President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination last week may
disrupt delivery of medical supplies,
reports The Washington Post.
- Patients are afraid to travel to the
hospital; and “dodging bullets has become routine” for health
workers
- People displaced by the gunfire are filling
crowded shelters heightening transmission risk.
Worse
news: Haiti hasn’t vaccinated a single
person, Rashmee Roshan Lall writes in an
openDemocracy commentary.
South
Africa Protests
Several people have been killed in protests over the jailing of
former President Jacob Zuma, the
BBC reports, and police arrested dozens people over the
weekend for public violence and violation of COVID-19 lockdown
regulations, Al
Jazeera reports.
- President Cyril Ramaphosa warned yesterday
that COVID-19 infections “remain extremely high” and
pledged to keep restrictions in place through July. (Medical
Xpress).
- Emergency rooms have been overwhelmed by an
“onslaught of patients” in the country’s third wave,
described in a CNN video.
‘Worst Days’ for Cuba
Cubans are taking to Havana’s streets to protest economic
conditions and the slow roll-out of COVID-19 vaccinations, ABC
Australia reports.
Hope: Cuba’s
3-shot homegrown Abdala vaccine received local regulatory approval
on Friday for emergency use.
Related:
Big step towards vaccine security for South Africa while country
remains on Level 4 lockdown –
Daily Maverick
COVID: Cuba approves emergency use of own Abdala vaccine –
Deutsche Welle
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