This brief examines the global shortage of the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed to tackle COVID-19 and suggests policy…

Around 90 percent of the world’s students are currently out of school as a result of the global pandemic. How prepared are we to face…

During the COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China (PRC), infectious medical waste increased by 600% from 40…

This brief provides governments with essential information to support their efforts to manage an increase in infectious medical waste…

China’s initially slow response to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan soon gave way to quick and draconian measures especially after…

The spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has jolted the world economy suspending business activities and forcing millions of people to stay…

The global spread of COVID-19 exposes the strong nationalistic tendency in the European Union and the United States and – ironically –…

The spread of COVID-19, an unprecedented anomaly of our times, is so wide and rapid that even most advanced economies are unable to…

Averting the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic requires no less than a coordinated and effective global response with the…

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose rapidly in Indonesia, the president imposed a state of emergency. The initial lethargy…