ABUJA, NIGERIA - Nigerian doctors began a nationwide strike Monday over unpaid COVID-19 hazard allowances and inadequate protective equipment during the pandemic. Other health workers' groups and associations are threatening to join the strike. Since the country’s first case, more than 1,000 Nigerian healthcare workers have become infected with COVID-19. … [Read more...] about Nigeria Health Workers, Officials at Odds Over Unpaid COVID-19 Allowances
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Summer of COVID-19 Ends With Health Officials Worried
The U.S. had about 1.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases around Memorial Day, before backyard parties and other gatherings contributed to a summertime surge. It now has more than 6.2 million cases, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Deaths from the virus more than doubled over the summer to nearly 190,000. … [Read more...] about Summer of COVID-19 Ends With Health Officials Worried
COVID-19 Plunges Australia Into First Recession Since 1991
“If you look at what was happening towards the end of June and early July, we were certainly heading in the right direction. Jobs were being restored across the economy, and indeed, across many sectors of the economy, activity was picking up. But then, of course, the outbreak in Victoria that happened. So, what we desperately need is to continue to get on top of the outbreak in Victoria and to open up the economy as much as we can as soon as we can,” Cormann said. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 Plunges Australia Into First Recession Since 1991
Despite Strict Lockdown, Spain Sees Sharp COVID-19 Spike
“We had a very strict lockdown then relaxed this too quickly in a country with a high propensity to socialize and for family networks to stay very close,” Ildefonso Hernández, a professor of public health at the University Miguel Hernández near Alicante in southeast Spain, told VOA in an interview. … [Read more...] about Despite Strict Lockdown, Spain Sees Sharp COVID-19 Spike
How Superspreaders – People and Places – Drive COVID-19 Pandemic
Prolonged exposure in confined indoor spaces with limited ventilation clearly is problematic, as some of the earliest case studies showed. At a restaurant in Guangzhou, China, in January, one patient infected nine others along the flow of the air conditioning. At a call center in South Korea in February, more than 40% of the workers on one floor were infected, nearly all of them on one side of the building. … [Read more...] about How Superspreaders – People and Places – Drive COVID-19 Pandemic
