As Hospitals Close and Doctors Flee, Sudan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing
With the battle for control of Sudan entering its third week, health care services are …
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Dr. Hans Kluge, the organizations director for Europe, said that the longer the virus circulated, the wider its reach would be.
The virus is not known to linger in the air, agency officials said. But the research is far from definitive.
The lack of political cooperation from China continues to stifle any meaningful progress, one expert said.
The antiviral pills, plentiful in the United States, are scarce overseas. Health groups and the White House want to expand access but face obstacles that evoke the H.I.V. epidemic.
Activists are also pressing President Biden to take a more forceful leadership role in the response as he convenes world leaders for a Covid-19 summit on Thursday.
Nearly 15 million more people died during the first two years of the pandemic than would have been expected during normal times, the organization found. The previous count of virus deaths, from countries reporting, was six million.
Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation. Some public health experts believe the momentum is gone forever.