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(0) WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Wednesday, April 21 st, 2021, from 8:00AM - 9:30AM EDT, the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) and Viatris (NASDAQ: VTRS) will co-host a virtual dialogue following the 2021 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, on the need for sustainable global health treatment and financing for at-risk populations, and other lessons learned, at the one-year mark of COVID-19. The dialogue, titled, Investing in the Patient Journey: NCDs and COVID-19 beyond the Pandemic, will feature remarks from both public and private sector stakeholders and global health leaders, to highlight the fact that health systems have been strained by COVID-19, and patients with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have faced a double burden of care and treatment for their underlying conditions while being most at-risk for COVID-19 related complications. The session will be moderated by journalist M ....
Loading. COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death in five Latin American nations and the second most common cause in six others. The World Health Organization s Americas Region, which stretches from the Canadian Arctic to Cape Horn in Chile, has been hit harder by the pandemic than any other part of the globe. The region currently accounts for 48% of the 1.65 million COVID-19 deaths reported to WHO so far worldwide. While the United States is a major contributor to that trend with more than 300,000 deaths, Peru s death rate from the disease is actually higher than the U.S. COVID-19 now surpasses coronary heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Panama. ....
Loading. COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death in five Latin American nations and the second most common cause in six others. The World Health Organization s Americas Region, which stretches from the Canadian Arctic to Cape Horn in Chile, has been hit harder by the pandemic than any other part of the globe. The region currently accounts for 48% of the 1.65 million COVID-19 deaths reported to WHO so far worldwide. While the United States is a major contributor to that trend with more than 300,000 deaths, Peru s death rate from the disease is actually higher than the U.S. COVID-19 now surpasses coronary heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Panama. ....
Angela Ponce/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angela Ponce/Bloomberg via Getty Images Cemetery workers in Lima, Peru, carry the coffin of a person who died from the coronavirus. Angela Ponce/Bloomberg via Getty Images But this year on All Saints Day in Peru, police and soldiers in riot gear blocked the gates of three cemeteries on the outskirts of Lima to prevent possible coronavirus spread from the influx of visitors. The pandemic has hit us hard, Comas Mayor Raúl Díaz Pérez said on a video posted on his Facebook account. Standing in front of lines of officers at the entrance to the cemetery La Balanza, he said: We are calling on the people to have patience and at this time to do not come to the cemeteries to visit your loved ones. He urged: Don t show up with the band you may have hired and the food you may have prepared to say goodbye to a newly departed family member. ....