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Time to prepare for 'Disease X'
Oped, Tom Achoki, Lawrence Were & Ahmed Ogwell, Published on 04/06/2024
» On Dec 12, 2019, a group of patients in Wuhan, China, started showing symptoms of an atypical pneumonia-like illness that did not respond well to standard treatments. Ninety days later, with more than 118,000 cases reported in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic.
Save big trees
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/12/2023
» Our Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) cut down several big trees along Rim Khlong Prapa Road on Monday.
What pandemic preparedness would look like
Oped, Joseph E Stiglitz, Published on 06/10/2023
» Humanity was caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic, even though we had effectively been warned by smaller-scale outbreaks -- of Sars, Ebola, Mers and avian flu -- for decades.
World must learn from Covid-19
Oped, Viroj Tangcharoensathien & Grata Endah Werdaningtyas, Published on 12/07/2023
» Some 194 countries are currently negotiating the world’s first pandemic accord. Born out of our lessons in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments have agreed that we need effective mechanisms and measures in place to be able to better prevent, prepare for and respond to the next big threat.
Grim logic
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/11/2022
» Re: "Financial injustice" and "What a cop out", (PostBag, Nov 11).
Farangs fed up
Oped, Postbag, Published on 16/07/2022
» Re: "Irked by dual pricing", (PostBag, July 12).
Covid lessons for cholera handling
Oped, Firdausi Qadri & Taufiqul Islam, Published on 04/05/2022
» Since Covid-19 engulfed the world two years ago, "unprecedented" has become something of a buzzword. But while the coronavirus has posed unique challenges at a time of deep global interconnectedness, pandemics are nothing new. The Covid-19 pandemic is not even the only one we are currently experiencing. In much of the developing world, cholera outbreaks are proliferating.
Curbing Covid is everyone's task
Oped, Jos Vandelaer, Published on 11/02/2022
» The Covid-19 pandemic has now entered its third year. With the ongoing threat of the Omicron variant around the world, we can expect at least part of 2022 to be dominated by the struggle to contain the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
Covid: Digital peasants and the ignorant rich
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2021
» The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and resources to detect a new variant.
Ending the lung disease pandemic
Oped, Leith Greenslade, Published on 20/11/2021
» Covid-19 has exposed the limited ability of health systems around the world to cope with a pandemic of respiratory infection. With the official death count from Covid-19 now over 5 million, and the unofficial count estimated at up to five times higher, the struggles of health systems everywhere have been evident.