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- This daily digest gives you a selection of the latest news updates on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, as well as tips and tools to help you stay informed and protected.
- Today’s great stories: world cases exceed 3 million; Australia begins to reopen; WHO warns countries to remain vigilant; and three of the most affected nations in Europe are preparing to lift the restrictions.
A new coronavirus strain, COVID 19, is spreading worldwide, causing deaths and major disruptions to the world economy.
Responding to this crisis requires global cooperation between governments, international organizations and the business community, which is at the center of the mission of the World Economic Forum as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
The Forum has created the COVID Action Platform, a global platform to convene the business community for collective action, protect people’s livelihoods and facilitate business continuity, and mobilize support for the COVID-19 response. The platform was created with the support of the World Health Organization and is open to all companies and industry groups, as well as other interested parties, with the aim of integrating and informing the joint action.
As an organization, the Forum has a history of supporting efforts to contain epidemics. In 2017, at our Annual Meeting, the Coalition for Outbreak Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched, bringing together experts from government, business, healthcare, academia, and civil society to accelerate vaccine development. CEPI is currently supporting the race to develop a vaccine against this coronavirus chain.
one) How COVID-19 is affecting the world
2) Given the unknowns of COVID-19, surveillance is key: WHO information
The first results of seroepidemiology data have begun to show the extent of the infection in people who may have been ignored by surveillance measures, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) , at a briefing in Geneva on Monday. This tool is helping experts detect antibody levels in those people, he said.
The currently available results suggest that there are far more people the disease can infect, Van Kerkhove said, making it even more important for communities to remain vigilant when it comes to identifying cases and eliminating them.
“It is important that we understand right now, four months after a global pandemic, a large proportion of the population is still susceptible,” said Van Kerkhove.
3) Why could malaria return thanks to COVID-19?
As vaccination programs for other diseases have been postponed or discontinued as a result of the focus on mitigating the coronavirus pandemic, the WHO warned that the number of deaths from malaria could double in hot spots such as sub-Saharan Africa this year.
4) Three of the world’s worst affected nations prepare to ease restrictions
Spain, Italy and France, the countries with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases after the USA. In the US, they have announced plans for cautious and gradual exits from their blockades. As the number of new infections continues to decline, this is how each country prepares to lift the restrictions.
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