UPDATE MAY 22, 2021
“I hope that the Rome Declaration will lead the international community to put an end to this Covid-19 pandemic in the only way possible: in a fair way”. Thus Bill Gates, president of the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, in his videoconference speech at the Global Health Summit organized in Rome on the initiative of the Italian presidency of the G20. Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the richest philanthropists in the world, said he hoped that “today’s summit will help create a set of principles and actions for developing pandemic preparedness skills that will also serve as a basis for future discussions of the G7 and the G20 planned for this year “.
Portuguese authorities say they are speeding up their COVID-19 vaccination drive nationwide after prompting an outcry by saying inoculations would be accelerated only in the Lisbon region.
Whistleblower protection groups are urging the World Health Organization to launch an independent review into the case of a spiked Italy coronavirus report
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that vaccinated kids aged 12 to 17 will have a chance to win a full ride to public universities and colleges in New York
LONDON â Prime Minister Boris Johnsonâs former chief aide has lashed out at the government he once served, saying people died âin horrific circumstancesâ during the coronavirus pandemic because of its failed response.
In televised testimony on Wednesday, Dominic Cummings claimed the government was slow and chaotic in its initial response to COVID-19. He also accused Johnson of failing to learn from early mistakes by resisting a second lockdown in the fall as virus cases soared.
Cummings gave seven hours of testimony to Parliamentâs science and health committees, who are investigating Britainâs pandemic response. He alleged a series of bad decisions and false assumptions within government in early 2020, saying Johnson initially regarded the virus as âjust a scare story.â