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• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Vietnam)

  The role of labour activism in Vietnam’s coronavirus success

  2 July, by BUCKLEY Joe

  In February, garment workers at Praegear Vietnam launched a strike to demand the factory implement measures to protect workers against the coronavirus. In response, local union officials organised training and talks by medical experts, and the company introduced such things as free masks, (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Vietnam)

  Pandemics: Vietnam and the Indian state of Kerala curbed covid-19 on the cheap. Their secret is quick and efficient public-health systems

  7 May, by The Economist

  The phone rings and a doctor picks up. “Sir, we’ve run out of ventilators. What do we do when more patients come?” Soon after, a grim medic explains that the disease they are battling kills three in four victims. There is no vaccine or treatment.
  Such talk has become commonplace in the time of (...)