Health / Covid 19

Articles about Covid 19, ordered by date. Open 'Covid 19' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

The Interview: Sarojini Nadimpally

The Interview: Sarojini Nadimpally

Indian public-health researcher and scientist Sarojini Nadimpally speaks to Amy Hall about the inequalities exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
526 - July, 2020
Borderlines

Borderlines

Separation anxiety.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
526 - July, 2020
Broken bonds

Broken bonds

The World Bank's 'pandemic bonds' haven't delivered, reports Liam Taylor.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
526 - July, 2020
LGBTQI+ people have been scapegoated and put at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.Photo: Nicolas Roses/ABACA/PA Images

LGBTQI+ backlash

LGBTQI+ people have been scapegoated and put at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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526 - July, 2020
Back to work: garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after factories re-opened in May.Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse

A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.

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526 - July, 2020
Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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526 - July, 2020
From left to right: Theresa Jusu, Marta Lado, Mohamed Camara, and Mamadu Baldeh.

First Ebola, then Covid-19

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

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526 - July, 2020
Get out! Young Kurds confront a Turkish military vehicle on patrol in northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion.Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

Betrayed again

Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.

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526 - July, 2020
Exit denied: Palestinian workers disinfect a mosque as a preventive measure amid fears of the spread of coronavirus, in Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel.Photo: Majdi Fathi/Nurphoto/PA

Covid-19: Those most at risk

Husna Rizvi writes that informal settlements and refugee camps are perhaps the most dangerous places of all.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
525 - May, 2020
Outbreak of support: Julie Siddiqi and Nick Garcia from the Slough branch of the UK's Covid-19 mutual aid network are volunteering their time to do food deliveries, prescription pick-ups and dog walking for vulnerable residents.Photo: Baylis Media LTD

Covid-19: Helping others

Husna Rizvi reports that many people refuse to treat the vulnerable as expendable.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
525 - May, 2020

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The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
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