Africa: Game-Changing Covid Variants Mean Vaccines Aren’t Enough. We Need ‘Maximum Suppression’: [The Conversation Africa] At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In an ideal scenario, the virus would then be contained at very low levels without further societal disruption or significant numbers of deaths. – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: African Leaders Warn Covid-19 Crisis Harming Climate Adaptation Push: [Thomson Reuters Foundation] The coronavirus-linked economic slowdown is limiting cash to help Africans pay to adapt to climate extremes, from drought to floods – AllAfrica News: Africa
Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa – the Devastating Impact of Conflicts Compounded By Covid-19: [AI London] Pandemic hits those shackled by oppression hardest thanks to decades of inequalities, neglect and abuse It lays bare massive systemic inequality with marginalized communities, unemployed people, health workers, and women among the most severely impacted Report finds COVID-19 was weaponized by leaders to ramp up assaults on human rights New Secretary General Agnès Callamard calls for reset of broken systems – AllAfrica News: Africa
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