Health / Covid 19

According to the old adage, ‘the economy is a subset of society’. Now, more than ever, we need to act like we believe it, says Dinyar Godrej.

Our dysfunctional food system was failing before Covid-19.

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

As Covid-19 spread across the world, greenhouse-gas emissions plummeted, thanks to a reduction in human activity. But meanwhile, writes Amy Hall, some of the world’s most polluting companies and industries have been using the pandemic to maintain and even ramp up their environmentally ruinous activities.

How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

Can we rescue the notion of global health from the jaws of the pandemic? asks Dinyar Godrej.

Covid-19 related research and advocacy groups to support.

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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

Separation anxiety.

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

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

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.

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

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

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.

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

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

Adding pain to the pandemic. Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.