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• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Japan)

  Pandemic: Resurgence of covid-19 in Japan

  18 August 2020, by MOSSIALOS Elias , SAKAMOTO Haruka , SHIMIZU Kazuki , WHARTON George

  Japan has seen a resurgence of covid-19, and the effective reproduction number has been above 1 for two months. The daily confirmed cases reached nearly 2000 in early August.1
  Since the start of the pandemic the country has focused on controlling clusters of more than five covid-19 cases and (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Japan)

  Covid-19 (Irak): For Iraqis, the choice is between pandemic or poverty

  18 August 2020, by SALIH Nabil

  In the streets of Baghdad, Iraqis battle a corrupt political class, war, poverty, and now a pandemic that has ravaged an ailing health sector.
  On Baghdad’s al-Rashid street, stalls, tea houses and restaurants serve unmasked customers in crammed markets in spite of COVID-19 rapidly spreading (...)