Tag Archives | pandemic response

  • Images of more than 100 doctors who have died during the pandemic are displayed outside the Medical College of Peru PHOTO: AFP

    Peru’s COVID-19 crisis

    Originally published: Red Flag on September 21, 2020 by Robert Narai (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2020)

    Strikes and demonstrations are on the rise across Peru, as the government’s COVID-19 response has resulted in the country bearing the highest per capita infection rate and death toll in the world.

  • Wikimedia Commons File: Vietnamese registered for rapid testing (COVID-19) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    The key to Viet Nam’s successful COVID-19 response

    Originally published: ReliefWeb on September 1, 2020 by Kamal Malhotra (more by ReliefWeb)  | (Posted Oct 01, 2020)

    There were less than 400 cases of infection across the country during that period, most of them imported, and zero deaths, a remarkable accomplishment considering the country’s population of 96 million people and the fact that it shares a 1,450 km land border with China.