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22.1 Million Excess Deaths Linked To Covid-19 In 2020-2023, New WHO Report Estimates
As per report, only one-third of countries meet WHO standards for high-quality mortality reporting. Around half of the data have low or very low-quality data, or no reliable mortality data systems in place.
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Our Study Looked At Teens' Social Media Behaviour In 43 Countries - Those From Disadvantaged Backgrounds Face Greater Harms
Using data from over 330,000 young people, we found a clear and consistent pattern: higher levels of problematic social media use that is, compulsive or uncontrolled engagement with social media are associated with poorer wellbeing.
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Whooping Cough To Measles, Old Diseases Are Making A Global Comeback
Whooping cough, measles and other preventable diseases are resurging globally. Experts link this to falling vaccination rates, pandemic disruptions and waning immunity, raising fresh concerns for children and public health systems worldwide.
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High Levels Of Inequality Leading To Low Health Security, More Pandemics: UN Report
Inequality is undermining national and global efforts to combat pandemics, making them more disruptive, deadly, and longer in duration, according to a global report by UNAIDS on Monday.
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Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report
The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.
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Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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Wealth Of World's 10 Richest Men Doubled During Pandemic: Report
The world's 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Vaccines? Booster Jabs? Economic Crisis? What's Next For Covid Pandemic
The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge.
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Rulers Need To Introspect Everyday, Says Chief Justice NV Ramana
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep-rooted vulnerabilities of our society and has increased inequality, Chief Justice Of India N V Ramana said today at the 40th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning in Andhra Pradesh.
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Growing Inequality Gaps Amid Pandemic "Unacceptable": US Vice President
The world must work together to narrow inequality gaps on issues including poverty, health and gender inclusion that have only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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Opinion: Luxury And Hunger, The Two Faces Of An Unequal Pandemic
Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India -- right in the middle of a fierce second wave of the pandemic.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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22.1 Million Excess Deaths Linked To Covid-19 In 2020-2023, New WHO Report Estimates
As per report, only one-third of countries meet WHO standards for high-quality mortality reporting. Around half of the data have low or very low-quality data, or no reliable mortality data systems in place.
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Our Study Looked At Teens' Social Media Behaviour In 43 Countries - Those From Disadvantaged Backgrounds Face Greater Harms
Using data from over 330,000 young people, we found a clear and consistent pattern: higher levels of problematic social media use that is, compulsive or uncontrolled engagement with social media are associated with poorer wellbeing.
-
Whooping Cough To Measles, Old Diseases Are Making A Global Comeback
Whooping cough, measles and other preventable diseases are resurging globally. Experts link this to falling vaccination rates, pandemic disruptions and waning immunity, raising fresh concerns for children and public health systems worldwide.
-
High Levels Of Inequality Leading To Low Health Security, More Pandemics: UN Report
Inequality is undermining national and global efforts to combat pandemics, making them more disruptive, deadly, and longer in duration, according to a global report by UNAIDS on Monday.
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Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report
The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.
-
Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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Wealth Of World's 10 Richest Men Doubled During Pandemic: Report
The world's 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Vaccines? Booster Jabs? Economic Crisis? What's Next For Covid Pandemic
The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge.
-
Rulers Need To Introspect Everyday, Says Chief Justice NV Ramana
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep-rooted vulnerabilities of our society and has increased inequality, Chief Justice Of India N V Ramana said today at the 40th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning in Andhra Pradesh.
-
Growing Inequality Gaps Amid Pandemic "Unacceptable": US Vice President
The world must work together to narrow inequality gaps on issues including poverty, health and gender inclusion that have only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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Opinion: Luxury And Hunger, The Two Faces Of An Unequal Pandemic
Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India -- right in the middle of a fierce second wave of the pandemic.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
