COVID-19

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, evidence-based, provocative, and progressive analysis of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Enduring colonialism has made it harder to end the COVID-19 pandemic

While COVAX has claimed, “no one is safe until everyone is safe,” colonial attitudes remain a key obstacle to global COVID-19 vaccine equity as rich countries in the West continue to hoard life-saving vaccine doses while poor countries of the Global South "become breeding grounds for new COVID-19 variants."

Guest Blog
September 18, 2022

Governments must break Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine

Responding to the recent 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly 300 civil society organizations from around the world issued the following call on governments to break the “Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine”.

Guest Blog
June 17, 2022

Canada delivered only 3.2m of the 40m COVID-19 doses it pledged to poor countries

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a supposedly caring and compassionate "world leader", has so far delivered only 3.2 million (8%) of the 40 million life-saving COVID-19 doses Canada pledged to Africa and other poor regions of the Global South with overwhelming BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, People of Colour) majorities, according to a damning report released this week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

Obert Madondo
October 23, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine apartheid: WHO chief calls for moratorium on booster shots

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says a moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots for wealthy countries “until at least the end of September" would "enable at least 10% of the population of every country to be vaccinated”.

Obert Madondo
August 5, 2021

WHO: Delta, the most transmissible of current SARS-CoV-2 variants, “is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations”

Delta, the “most transmissible” of the eleven currently identified variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, “has been identified in at least 85 countries, and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations,” according to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Obert Madondo
June 26, 2021

COVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022 “will be far too late for those who are dying today”: WHO chief

Life-saving COVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022, instead of this year, “will be far too late” for millions of people “who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today” in the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South, says WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Obert Madondo
June 23, 2021