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‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die
With 93,000 children in Peru losing a parent to Covid, many face depression, anxiety and povertyWhen Covid-19 began shutting down Nilda López’s vital organs, doctors decided that the best chance of saving her and her unborn baby was to put her into a c…
Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa’s vaccine deficitGordon Brown: the world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them?Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a “n…
The world is making billions of Covid vaccine doses, so why is Africa not getting them? | Gordon Brown
While western governments get ready to administer booster shots, millions in Africa are still completely unprotectedGordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine suppliesIn a shocking symbol of the west’s failure to honour its p…
Anti-vaxxers using pro-choice slogans make me so angry | Eva Wiseman
Slinging around phrases about body autonomy belittles the pro-choice debate and overlooks issues surrounding pregnancy and fertilityI am not an angry person, I get headaches instead. Rage is swallowed like a meatball and spreads fattily around my body,…
Australia secures 1m Pfizer vaccine doses from Poland, with half earmarked for Sydney Covid hotspots
530,000 of the new doses to go to 20-to-39-year-olds living in the 12 hotspot LGAs as NSW struggles to contain outbreakFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesRestrictions: NSW; Vic; Qld; borders. Hotspots: NSW; Vic; QldIs lightning-fast Delta…
東京のデジタルツインが地域の自律分散型コミュニティを加速する：WIRED特区 有楽町SAAIでプロデューサー古田秘馬と考える
「大丸有」と呼ばれる都心の一等地の意味と文脈が急速に変わり、地域分散がいよいよ現実化してきた現在、その先にあるローカル経済圏と東京の関係とはいかなるものになるのか？ これまで「丸の内朝大学」や「有楽町SAAI」のプロデュースにかかわる一方で数々の地域発のコミュニティづくりを手がけてきたプロデューサー古田秘馬に訊いた。
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New Covid variants ‘will set us back a year’, experts warn UK government
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to …
‘We feel intimidated’: residents in south-west Sydney Covid hotspots say police are making things worse
One man says officers have knocked on his door every day since his family tested positive while NSW Health has called only onceFollow the Australia news live blogHotspots NSW; Restrictions NSWVaccine rollout tracker; get our free news app; get our morn…
‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine childhood in Australia
Until relatively recently, lethal infectious diseases stalked the lives of Australian children – including my father, Tom Keneally. Vaccines have saved millions It’s 1940, and a five-year-old boy lies in an oxygen tent. He struggles for breath and hall…