tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78558839712721189402024-03-12T20:49:33.253-04:00Disasters This WeekHeadlines of Major Natural Events in the Americas this Week, Trends and Scientific Findings, Policy and more …risk-macchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09910494526016621252noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855883971272118940.post-62185372731847482272020-05-08T15:30:00.000-04:002020-05-08T15:30:05.295-04:00(COVID -19) Coronavirus in the Americas Lessons Update 12<div><br /></div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M5cwcwNIP7s" width="320" youtube-src-id="M5cwcwNIP7s"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>World Health Organization (WHO)</b></span><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://who.sprinklr.com/" target="_blank">COVID-19 (World) situation report</a></span><br /><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Oficial overview and information</span></a></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) </b></span><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://arcg.is/0OjH0S" target="_blank">COVID-19 (Americas) situation report</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div><font face="helvetica"><b>PAHO Director calls on each country to analyze trends of the pandemic before relaxing social distancing measures</b></font><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></b><font face="helvetica"> The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, asked countries to analyze specific trends in the COVID-19 pandemic according to their unique contexts, and warned that reducing social distancing measures “too soon could accelerate the spread of the virus and open the door for a dramatic upsurge or for spread to adjacent areas.”<br />In a briefing with journalists, Dr. Etienne also expressed her particular concern for Haiti in the context of the pandemic, and warned of the dangers of a large-scale outbreak in that country, which, added to the difficult situation Haiti is going through, could trigger a humanitarian crisis. “A much broader coalition to address a potential health crisis in this country is needed,” said Dr. Etienne</font><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">... </span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/en/news/5-5-2020-paho-director-calls-each-country-analyze-trends-pandemic-relaxing-social-distancing" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Policies and Strategies</span></b><br /><br /></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica"><b>High Authorities of the Joint Summits Working Group (JSWG) Ratify their Support to the Countries of the Americas in Facing the Health, Socio-economic and Governance Impacts associated with COVID-19</b></font><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</b><font face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font face="helvetica">In response to the emergency caused by COVID-19, the High Authorities of the Joint Summit Working Group (JSWG) met this week for the second time to ratify their commitment in support of the member states of the Americas and multilateralism as an instrument to address multiple challenges facing the region in the post-COVID-19 phase.</font></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="helvetica">With this in mind, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) raised the need to work on a thematic agenda that incorporates the specific demands of regional organizations such as SICA (Central American Integration System) and CARICOM (Caribbean Community)</font><font face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">... </font><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-044/20" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="OAS :: High Authorities of the Joint Summits Working Group (JSWG ..." height="163" src="https://www.oas.org/fpdb/press/ENG-GTCC-.png" width="320" /></div></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Coronavirus in the Americas, live: latest news from Covid-19.</b></span> </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="helvetica">América roza las 100.000 muertes por la pandemia. 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Brasil registra 9.146 decesos hasta este jueves</font><font color="#2d2d2d" face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">... </font></span><a href="https://elpais.com/america/sociedad/2020-04-08/coronavirus-en-america-en-vivo-ultimas-noticias-de-la-covid-19.html" style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="213" src="https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/skInRtl3ICW3yne3nTGDQDxb0Xk=/1500x0/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/AK3AS33KUVFGVNCGI62Q4XBB6I.jpg" width="320" /></div></div><div><br /><br /><div><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tools </span></b></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></div><font face="helvetica"><b>OAS and Facebook Launch Initiative to Offer Resilience Tools for MSMEs</b></font><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="helvetica">The Organization of American States (OAS) and Facebook are launching today a partnership to support the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) of the region through online training sessions and policy roundtables. The program will help MSMEs face the challenges they are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as many of them have been forced to close temporarily due to weak consumer demand, and plummeting foot traffic and social interaction</font><font face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">... </font></span><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-045/20" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 15px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Imagen" height="163" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXVq1N1UYAApagp?format=png&name=small" width="320" /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Opinion and analysis</b></div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><font face="helvetica" size="2"><b>A Time to Save the Sick and Rescue the Planet.</b> Addressing climate change and Covid-19 simultaneously and at enough scale requires a response stronger than any seen before to safeguard lives and livelihoods. A recovery from the coronavirus crisis must not take us just back to where we were last summer. It is an opportunity to build more sustainable and inclusive economies and societies — a more resilient and prosperous world. Recently the International Renewable Energy Agency released data showing that transforming energy systems could boost global G.D.P. by $98 trillion by 2050, delivering 2.4 percent more G.D.P. growth than current plans. Boosting investments in renewable energy alone would add 42 million jobs globally, create health care savings eight times the cost of the investment, and prevent a future crisis</font><font face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">...</font> </font></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/opinion/coronavirus-climate-antonio-guterres.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Smoke and steam polluting the air over Poland in 2018 from PGE’s Bełchatów power station, Europe’s largest power plant fired by lignite, also called brown coal." height="211" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/05/22/opinion/28Guterres/28Guterres-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" width="320" /></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Weathering the coronavirus storm in the Caribbean</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="helvetica">“This is completely a black swan event. No one saw it coming. It’s affecting every single person on the planet, and we have to muster up courage, first of all, to do the right thing, especially for people who are absolutely desperate and need our help,” says Therese Turner-Jones, general manager of the IDB’s Caribbean Country Department.<br />Caribbean countries have had to weather many storms in the past, but none that unleashed impacts quite like the coronavirus pandemic. Alongside the lives at stake are millions of livelihoods, and understanding the economic forces at work is essential to planning a way forward for the region</font><font face="helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">... </font></span><a href="https://www.iadb.org/en/improvinglives/weathering-coronavirus-storm-caribbean" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Coronavirus in the Caribbean" height="183" src="https://www.iadb.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/Graph%201%20FINAL.PNG" width="320" /></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Recommended Events & Courses</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><div><br /></div><font face="helvetica"><b>Elections in Times of Pandemic. </b>States must guarantee the right to life and health. 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Electoral processes, particularly the pre-electoral stage and on election day, involve mass meetings or community events, for example: campaign activities, training of table members, preparation of electoral material, attendance of citizens at their polling station. voting, among others. In light of the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) to avoid the agglomeration of people, the electoral authorities are faced with the challenge of carrying out electoral processes while safeguarding the health of citizens and of the the electoral servants... <a href="https://t.co/XtPdBUFO9y?amp=1" target="_blank">Read more</a><br /></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><div><img alt="Imagen" height="160" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXgLi87WkAM6rOz?format=jpg&name=medium" width="320" /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>LIVE! A Shock Like No Other: The Impact of the Pandemic on Commodities.</b> World Bank webinar... <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldBank/status/1258773504490532866?s=20" target="_blank">Watch now</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Imagen" height="180" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXgO3VvXsAIgnV5?format=jpg&name=medium" width="320" /></div></div></div></div>risk-macchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09910494526016621252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855883971272118940.post-61424670409074543532020-05-01T15:19:00.000-04:002020-05-01T15:19:59.131-04:00(COVID -19) Coronavirus in the Americas Lessons Update 11<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PAHO Director calls for continued immunization to avoid risk of other outbreaks during COVID-19 pandemic</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, today urged for vaccination programs to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>CIM of the OAS Launches Document on Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Women.</b> The Organization of American States (OAS), through the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), has released the document “COVID-19 in Women´s Lives: Reasons to Recognize Differential Impacts.” The <a href="http://www.oas.org/es/cim/docs/ArgumentarioCOVID19-EN.pdf">document</a>, which responds to the needs that the CIM identified during meetings with the Ministers and high-level authorities on women and gender, experts from the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI) and women's organizations, offers a broad overview of the differentiated impacts of the crisis on women, paying special attention to the most vulnerable groups. In addition, it proposes guidelines for the design of actions and public policies based on the principles of equality and non-discrimination and the need to implement affirmative action measures... <a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-043/20">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Inter-American Network on Afro-descendant Population Policies Warns of Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic in these Communities</b></span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Inter-American Network of High Authorities on Policies for Afro-descendant Populations (RIAFRO, for its initials in Spanish) warned of the disproportionate impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the virus that generates the COVID-19 disease, on the Afro-descendant population in the region. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Network highlighted that structural racism, inequality and the historical discrimination of which the Afro-descendant population has been, and continues to be, a victim, generates a situation of even greater vulnerability to the effects of the pandemic in relation to the general population</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">..</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-042/20" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ideas for better taxation in the post-crisis of COVID-19</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The surprising global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) will have notable economic consequences. Against this background, our countries are adopting measures to mitigate the situation and that its consequences do not last over time. Some of them will mean an increase in health spending and transfers to vulnerable sectors, which, together with the foreseeable fall in income, will generate even greater public deficits. In the short term, these deficits will be financed with an expansion of the debt, but after the reactivation phase, in many cases the time for tax policy will come. <br />In our opinion, at that time, the measures adopted in this regard should be guided by four guidelines</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... </span></span></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogs.iadb.org/gestion-fiscal/es/ideas-para-una-mejor-tributacion-post-crisis-coronavirus/" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘No evidence’ that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected, says WHO</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In a scientific brief issued on Friday, the UN health agency said there was no proof that one-time infection could lead to immunity, and “laboratory tests that detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 [the virus that causes COVID-19] in people...need further validation to determine their accuracy and reliability.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Some governments have suggested that the detection of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could serve as the basis for an 'immunity passport' or 'risk-free certificate' that would enable individuals to travel or to return to work assuming that they are protected against re-infection,” said WHO, adding: “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.”...<span style="color: #3c4245; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1062612" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tap youth talent to tackle COVID-19 crisis and beyond, UN chief tells Security Council</b></span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The UN Secretary-General issued a four-point call to action for the Council, urging members to do more to address the various challenges facing young people. He also called for investment in youth participation, but also in their organizations and initiatives.</span></div>
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“And fourth, we must emerge from the COVID-19 crisis with a determination to recover better – massively increasing our investment in young people’s capacities as we deliver the Sustainable Development Goals”.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PAHO Director calls to accelerate and expand testing for COVID-19 in the Americas</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Washington, DC, April 21, 2020 (PAHO) -</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.1px;">The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, today called for accelerated and expanded testing for COVID-19 in countries of the Americas. “We need a clearer view of where the virus is circulating and how many people have been infected in order to guide our actions,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Etienne highlighted PAHO’s recommendations for countries: to expand their capacity and use all available national laboratories; to prioritize patients with symptoms, tracing contacts and following up with those that may be infected; and to ensure access for all so testing would be free of charge for patients</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/en/news/21-4-2020-paho-director-calls-accelerate-and-expand-testing-covid-19-americas" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OAS Launched Virtual Community of the Emergency and Security Systems of the Americas. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Organization of American States (OAS) today presented the Virtual Platform of Emergency and Security Systems (EMS) a mechanism to support the countries of the region to face the challenges that COVID19 represents for the operations of emergency and security systems.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The </span>Community</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, presented by the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro; the Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the OAS, Farah Urrutia; and the Chair of the Subsidiary Technical Group for Emergency and Security Services and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the OAS, Ambassador Carlos Játiva, is a common space where authorities and experts in the region can exchange, share and consult information, materials and tools, and access a series of resources to deal with the situation in real time and free of charge</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... </span><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-039/20" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />
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<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Human rights ‘uplift everyone’; must guide COVID-19 recovery response, says UN chief. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Noting his February </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Call to Action</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to put human dignity and the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at the core of the UN’s work, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secretary-General António Guterres</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pointed out that today the world is facing “the biggest international crisis in generations”, stressing that human rights “cannot be an afterthought”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He emphasized that “people and their rights must be front and centre”, and that human rights “can and must guide COVID-19 response and recovery”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This human rights violation affects an average of one in three women throughout their lives1 and, in 2018 alone, resulted in at least 3,800 victims of femicides / feminicides. Although these figures seem very high, it is estimated that the real magnitude of the phenomenon is underestimated and that the health emergency is making it even worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order to guide public, private, civil society and international community actors, this document collects some preliminary data on the impact of the pandemic on violence against women and girls and offers strategies, recommendations, and some promising practices to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in the face of COVID-19... <a href="https://lac.unwomen.org/es/digiteca/publicaciones/2020/04/prevencion-de-la-violencia-contra-las-mujeres-frente-a-covid-19" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>World Bank Predicts Sharpest Decline of Remittances in Recent History. </b>Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown. The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country. Remittances to low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are projected to fall by 19.7 percent to $445 billion, representing a loss of a crucial financing lifeline for many vulnerable households... <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/04/22/world-bank-predicts-sharpest-decline-of-remittances-in-recent-history" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Call for institutions to incorporate their online courses into the Educational Portal of the Americas.</b> The Department of Human Development, Education and Employment of the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (SG / OAS) is pleased to open the call for institutions to incorporate their virtual courses into the offer of the Educational Portal of the Americas.<br />These training opportunities will contribute to meet the development needs of OAS member states by making a vital investment in human capital. Participating institutions will have the possibility of co-certifying different online training programs with the OAS. This call also hopes to include and give visibility to new areas of knowledge on the educational platform... <a href="https://portal.portaleducoas.org/en/content/call-institutions-incorporate-their-online-courses-educational-portal-americas?lang=en" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Boom of Online Learning. </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Mexican dancer Alejandra Salas was removed by the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. Quarantine has prevented him from working on professional projects. A setback that, far from discouraging her, has allowed her to focus on her future and the skills she has been developing all her life. "What I can do right now is sharpen my tools when the pandemic ends, and being a dancer those are my body and my muscles, that's why I am taking dance classes every day from home," says Alejandra, who graduated less one year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>CONVERSATORIO: Desafíos de la gobernabilidad democrática ante el COVID-19 y la promoción de los principios de gobierno abierto</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discussion objective: Open consultation with civil society on possible fields of action of the OAS on issues of democratic governance in the face of the emergency of COVID-19 and promotion of the principles of open government (transparency, accountability, collaboration, and participation) throughout initiative to be carried out by governments. This with the purpose of contributing to the search for joint, consensual, concrete, focused and transparent responses to the fight against COVID-19 in the region. The inputs obtained will be shared with the other international institutions of the Joint Summit Working Group for the development of joint initiatives</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... </span><a href="http://eventbrite.com/e/conversatoriodialogue-desafios-de-la-gobernabilidad-democratica-ante-el-covid-19-y-la-promocion-de-registration-102984629800" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UN agencies issue urgent call to fund the global emergency supply system to fight COVID-19. </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear donor community, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Humanity is collectively facing its most daunting challenge since the Second World War. COVID-19 knows no borders, spares no country or continent, and strikes indiscriminately. By all accounts, we are at least 12 months away from a vaccine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this race against an invisible enemy, all countries must fight back, but not all begin from the same starting line. In countries where the world’s most vulnerable need humanitarian aid and supplies to beat back the pandemic, cancelled flights and disrupted supply routes hit disproportionately hard. It is in everyone’s interest to stop the virus from spreading unchecked, destroying lives and economies, and continuing to circle around the world</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245;">... </span></span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/20-04-2020-un-agencies-issue-urgent-call-to-fund-the-global-emergency-supply-system-to-fight-covid-19" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">General Secretariat Supports President Alvarado's Proposal: Provide Access to Financing under Exceptional Conditions for Middle-Income Countries.</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) supports the initiative of the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado: to protect life and reduce the impact on the economy, middle-income developing countries must access financing in exceptional conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The General Secretariat supports the proposal of President Alvarado who said: "in line with what was announced by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) I call for budgetary support rates to be zero and fixed, as well as long-term."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This initiative is one of the IMF's policy recommendations indicating that measures to face the COVID-19 pandemic must prioritize life and avoid breaking value chains with initiatives such as the transfer of cash and soft loans to homes and businesses... <a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-038/20" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2020 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The novel coronavirus is taking a huge toll across the world, and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean are right to take aggressive measures to save lives. Within a matter of weeks, the macroeconomic outlook for the region has changed dramatically. Financing costs have risen, commodities fallen, and large losses of GDP now seem unavoidable. However, the self-imposed partial closure of the economy is anything but a normal recession, and typical countercyclical demand management, both fiscal and monetary, is likely to be inconducive</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... </span><a href="https://flagships.iadb.org/en/MacroReport2020/Policies-to-Fight-the-Pandemic" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dimension the effects of COVID-19 to think about the reactivation.</b> The objective of this second Special Report prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the evolution and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean is to measure its economic effects in the short and medium term in the region.
For the short term, that is, in the course of 2020, estimates of the dynamics of production and employment are presented based on the information available as of April 17, 2020, covering all the subregions of Latin America and the Caribbean and many of their economies. Likewise, the main macroeconomic policy measures to face the effects of the pandemic announced up to that date are detailed...<a href="https://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/45445-dimensionar-efectos-covid-19-pensar-la-reactivacion" target="_blank"> Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>An Uncertain Energy Future<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a pandemic on the march, economies in near-paralysis, and a collapse in oil prices to boot, the energy sector is facing a new set of uncertainties. How might these factors shape the region’s long-term energy future? How will oil-exporting countries fare? Will the momentum for renewable energy falter? Are there new opportunities to improve resilience? These are just some of the questions experts from around the Americas have been tackling as they examine a world that has been upended in a matter of weeks... </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://ecpamericas.org/News/Default.aspx?id=3639" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Nobel-winning Harvard biochemist George Wald articulated the fears in a speech later that year at the University of Rhode Island, warning that civilization would end within 15 to 30 years unless immediate action were taken against threats facing mankind, including pollution, overpopulation, and potential nuclear war... </span><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/how-earth-day-moved-environmentalism-front-and-center/" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Art + Environment: An Essential Dialog.</b> The AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS) wishes health and safety to you and yours. The museum is currently closed due to COVID 19 restrictions. We are pleased to present ART + ENVIRONMENT: An Essential Dialog, in partnership with Earth Day Network, through the Zoom Virtual Conferencing Platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COVID 19 cycle of presentations on the development of the pandemic in Spain</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Educational Format, in alliance with the OAS, has organized a series of presentations aimed at transferring information on the development of the COVID19 Pandemic during the past weeks in Spain, starting that the process in the slowdown phase is currently estimated. Educational Format is an International Business School with more than 10 years of experience in training of professionals from all over Latin America. In the 11 completed editions of his programs, it has trained more than 4,000 professionals. The objective of this action is to provide some useful information to the sectors most related to the management of the crisis in Latin America</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... <a href="http://www.oas.org/en/scholarships/PAEC/2020/Convocatoria-Formato-Educativo_OEA_CICLO-DE-PONENCIAS.pdf" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UN chief calls for greater protection for children caught up in COVID-19 crisis</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a statement on the new findings, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to support the world’s children amid the universal crisis. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Thankfully, children have so far been largely spared from the most severe symptoms of the disease. But their lives are being totally upended”, he said. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I appeal to families everywhere, and leaders at all levels: protect our children.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The report finds that the socio-economic impact of the pandemic, together with measures to mitigate the spread of the new coronavirus, could potentially be catastrophic for millions of children worldwide. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It details how the crisis is putting young lives at risk in key areas that include education, food, safety and health</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245;">... </span></span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061892" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Permanent Council Approved Resolutions on Virtual Meetings and OAS Response to COVID-19. </b>In the first virtual meeting in its history, the OAS Permanent Council approved two resolutions. The first, titled "Virtual Meetings of the Permanent Council due to the COVID-19 Pandemic" and the second, "The OAS Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic". The two resolutions were approved by acclamation... <a href="http://scm.oas.org/doc_public/english/hist_20/cp42232e09.docx" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o help the vulnerable face the loss of earnings from the lockdown, existing social protection and social assistance programs should be rapidly scaled up and their coverage extended, according to “</span><a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/33555" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Economy in the Time of Covid-19</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,” the latest semiannual report from the World Bank’s Chief Economist Office for Latin America and the Caribbean... </span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/04/12/coronavirus-crisis-latin-america-and-the-caribbean" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Coronavirus in the Americas, live: latest news from Covid-19.</b></span> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Latin America exceeds 4,000 deaths from the virus.Trump presents a plan to resume activity in mid-June. Bolsonaro dismisses the Brazilian Minister of Health. Mexico extends restrictions until end of May<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... <a href="https://elpais.com/america/sociedad/2020-04-08/coronavirus-en-america-en-vivo-ultimas-noticias-de-la-covid-19.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response.</b> Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These nationwide closures are impacting over 91% of the world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized closures impacting millions of additional learners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Earth Today | No ‘Recession’ For Climate Change.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Climate change is not going into recession because of COVID-19. Things are really accelerating right now, like in the Arctic and Greenland where the ice sheets are melting at a much faster rate than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Renowned physicist Professor Anthony Chen told The Gleaner<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px;">. </span>Eleanor Jones, head of the consultancy firm Environmental Solutions Limited, is of a similar view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“We have to take charge of our own vulnerability. We know we are vulnerable and need to ensure that our own path takes that into account. Nobody is going to come in and do it for you,” she said</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... <a href="http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20200416/earth-today-no-recession-climate-change" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>UN working to avert dual crises as COVID-19 hits hunger hotspots</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, more than 820 million people went to bed hungry, including 110 million people who were living in acute food insecurity. Now as some developing countries face a double crisis - hunger and COVID-19 - the United Nations is working to support the most vulnerable.<br />“As the number of infections in vulnerable countries grows – among populations who are already malnourished, weak and vulnerable to disease – a ‘crisis within a crisis’ could emerge,” said Dominique Burgeon, Director of Emergency and Resilience Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in an interview.<br />“And that, in a vicious feedback loop, will leave more people weaker and vulnerable to the virus,” he warned<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245;">... </span></span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/un-coronavirus-communications-team/un-working-avert-dual-crises-covid-19-hits-hunger-hotspots" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Countries of the Americas will be able to Jointly Negotiate Public Purchases of Materials to Combat COVID-19</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The governments of the 33 countries of the Americas that are part of the Inter-American Network on Government Procurement (INGP) will have access to the Joint Negotiation Mechanism for the purchase of medicines, medical devices, and other goods from the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America (COMISCA), based on the efforts carried out jointly by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and COMISCA itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Visualization of Entrepreneurs Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to Tackle the Coronavirus</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span>Explore the interactive map of ideas and innovations in Latin America and the Caribbean to face the consequences of the coronavirus crisis. The ideas come from entrepreneurs in the region and shed light upon possible innovative solutions applicable to the COVID-19 crisis<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><a href="https://www.iadb.org/en/coronavirus/entrepreneurs" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<b>Peru - </b>The Government of Peru launched an application to disclose relevant information about COVID-19, "Perú en tus manos" (<a href="https://mag.elcomercio.pe/data/coronavirus-peru-mapa-que-significan-los-puntos-naranjas-de-la-app-peru-en-tus-manos-son-casos-confirmados-de-covid-19-pandemia-aplicaciones-pcm-mapa-en-vivo-triaje-contagiados-casos-confirmados-fallecidos-curados-lima-ica-loreto-ayacucho-arequipa-piura-cajamarca-tacna-cusco-puno-apurimac-san-martin-nnda-nnrt-noticia/" target="_blank">View</a>). Besides, with the aim of making the contracts for the health emergency transparent, the OSCE made a platform available to citizens that allows them to obtain information on purchases of goods and services made (<a href="https://public.tableau.com/profile/osce.bi#!/vizhome/COVID19_15859458012840/COVID-19" target="_blank">View</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PAHO Director calls for protection of health workers in face of the advancing COVID19 pandemic in the region of the Americas. </b>Warning that cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have doubled in a week in the Region of the Americas, Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa F. Etienne today urged countries to take measures that protect health care workers to ensure they have access to the personal protective equipment and supplies they need to care for patients affected by the disease. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Shortages of the most basic protective equipment leave doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously vulnerable as they care for COVID-19 patients,” Dr. Etienne said in a press briefing today. <br />The PAHO Director said, “A pandemic like COVID-19 would overwhelm any health system, but its impact on those without sufficient health workers will be devastating.” </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15773:paho-director-calls-for-protection-of-health-workers-in-face-of-the-advancing-covid19-pandemic-in-the-region-of-the-americas&catid=740&lang=en&Itemid=1926" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OAS Launches Practical Guide to Inclusive Rights-Focused Responses to COVID-19 in the Americas.</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>April 7, 2020 The Organization of American States (OAS) today launched the "Practical Guide to Inclusive Rights-Focused Responses to COVID-19 in the Americas." The guide seeks to support OAS member states in responding to the pandemic, offering them a series of tools to consider responses that take into account the particular circumstances of groups in a situation of vulnerability.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The guide is available <a href="http://www.oas.org/es/sadye/publicaciones/GUIA_SPA.pdf">here</a> in Spanish. The OAS will publish the English version soon</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... </span><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-032/20" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Latin America and the Caribbean and the COVID-19 pandemic: Economic and social effects. </b>This Special Report is the first in a series by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on the evolution and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, and will update the economic and social analysis as the relevant information becomes available. The preparation of the Report will be headed by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Alicia Bárcena, with the technical support of the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary, Mario Cimoli, and the substantive divisions responsible for the topics addressed, as well as the subregional headquarters and country offices of ECLAC... <a href="https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/45351-latin-america-and-caribbean-and-covid-19-pandemic-economic-and-social-effects" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Coronavirus in the Americas, live: latest news from Covid-19 | USA surpasses Spain in terms of number of deaths.</b> America concentrates 40% of the global pandemic against Europe, which accumulates more than 52%. However, the daily increase is faster here, almost even in both parts of the world. The United States has overcome 14,000 deaths and is the red light of the continent, while in Latin America, Brazil accumulates the highest number of cases... <a href="https://elpais.com/america/sociedad/2020-04-08/coronavirus-en-america-en-vivo-ultimas-noticias-de-la-covid-19.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to the most recent edition of the<a href="https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/briefingnote/wcms_740981.pdf" target="_blank"> ILO Observatory: COVID-19 and the world of work</a>, it is necessary to adopt integrated and large-scale political measures in order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, focusing on four pillars: supporting companies, employment and income; stimulate the economy and employment, protect workers in the workplace; and resort to social dialogue between government, workers and employers to find solutions.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span>The Covid-19 crisis has now reached a new critical phase where public health systems need to act decisively to contain the growth in new epicenters outside China.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clearly, the main emphasis is and should be on containing and mitigating the disease itself. But the economic impacts are also significant, and many companies are feeling their way towards understanding, reacting to, and learning lessons from rapidly unfolding events. Unanticipated twists and turns will be revealed with each news cycle, and we will only have a complete picture in retrospect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Nevertheless, given the very different degrees of preparedness across companies, the further potential for disruption, and the value of being better prepared for future crises, it’s worth trying to extract what we have learned so far. Based on our ongoing analysis and support for our clients around the world, we have distilled the following 12 lessons for responding to unfolding events, communicating, and extracting and applying learnings<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><a href="https://hbr.org/2020/02/lead-your-business-through-the-coronavirus-crisis" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Discover Ecuador from home" during the Easter holiday<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></b>(Quito, Pichincha. 07.04.2020). The Ministry of Tourism makes its “Discover Ecuador from home” campaign available to the community, as a way to continue touring the country during this Easter holiday, determined for Friday, April 10, Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12, according to the 2020 holiday calendar. This Portfolio of State, accepts the provisions for suspension of mobility between provinces and the respective limitations in each city, issued by the competent authorities, so it calls on citizens to stay at home while the emergency passes... <a href="https://www.turismo.gob.ec/50929-2/" target="_blank">Read more</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Outlook of Central America and the Caribbean Electricity Sector Post-Covid-19.</b> Now more than ever, we are witnessing the importance of developing reliable, resilient and digitized electricity services to overcome crises and ensure business continuity. But keeping the lights on is not without complexities; the electricity sector continuity challenge relates to maintaining quality of service and affordability, whilst ensuring the financial viability of the generation, transmission and distribution and businesses.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This webinar will look at current technologies and trends that support grid modernization as critical infrastructure is put to the test...</span><a href="http://www.ecpamericas.org/" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />
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SCL / SPH, through RED CRITERIA, is organizing a series of policy dialogues to support countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region to face the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic... <a href="https://events.iadb.org/calendar/event/22006?lang=en" target="_blank">Register</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Amid COVID-19 pandemic, new WHO report urges greater investments in the nursing workforce<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>The COVID-19 pandemic has poignantly highlighted the critical role that nurses and other health workers play in protecting people’s health and saving lives. A new report, The State of the World’s Nursing 2020, calls for greater investments in nurses’ education, working conditions, and leadership to strengthen their contributions to health systems.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>The Region of the Americas is home to 30% of the world’s nurses, or some 8.4 million people, of whom 87% are female. On average, the Region has 83.4 nurses per 10,000 population, more than twice the global average of 36.9 per 10,000. The figure, however, masks extreme disparities in the availability of nurses in different countries. Fully 87% of all nurses in the Americas are concentrated in just three countries: Brazil, Canada, and the United States, which account for 57% of the Region’s total population. That translates into a density of 80 nurses per 10,000 population in those three countries but contrasts starkly with the less than 10 nurses per 10,000 population in Haiti, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15772:amid-covid-19-pandemic-new-who-report-urges-greater-investments-in-the-nursing-workforce&catid=740&lang=en&Itemid=1926" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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From then on, a "traffic light" of restrictions will be implemented that will govern in the different regions, depending on the local health situation<span style="text-align: justify;">... </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-52143469" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The hard choices covid policymakers face.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Epidemiological models come in two types. The first seeks to capture the basic mechanisms by which diseases spread in a set of interlinked equations. In the classic version of this approach each person is considered either susceptible, exposed, infectious or recovered from the disease. The number in each group evolves with the numbers in one or more of the other groups according to strict mathematical rules (see chart 1). In simple versions of such models the population is uniform; in more elaborate versions, such as the one from Imperial College London, which has influenced policy in Britain and elsewhere, the population is subdivided by age, gender, occupation and so on</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/04/04/the-hard-choices-covid-policymakers-face" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><b>Henry Kissinger: "The coronavirus pandemic will alter the world order forever". </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The surreal atmosphere offered by the COVID-19 pandemic reminds me of how I felt when I was young in the 84th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Now, as at the end of 1944, there is a sense of incipient danger, aimed at no one person in particular and hitting randomly and devastatingly, ”wrote Henry Kissinger in his column published April 3 in The Wall Street Journal. However, he warned, there is an important difference between that distant time and ours: “The American resistance was then fortified by a national purpose. Now, in a divided country, an efficient and forward-looking government is necessary to overcome obstacles that are unprecedented in magnitude and global reach. Maintaining public trust is crucial for social solidarity, for the relationship of societies to each other and for international peace and stability. ”</span></span></div>
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Of all these measures, the one that will require the greatest adaptation on the part of the American public is isolation and quarantine. Where this has been most successful it has required separate designated facilities to accommodate and monitor those isolated with mild illness and those subject to quarantine. We call this approach “smart isolation and quarantine” or “smart quarantine.”... <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/coronavirus-smart-quarantine.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>OAS General Secretariat Mourns the Death of the Secretary General of Virtual Educa and Recognizes his Legacy.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) expresses its condolences over the death of the Secretary General of Virtual Educa, José María Antón, which occurred in Madrid on March 21, as a consequence of COVID-19. The OAS General Secretariat acknowledges the loss of the person who was the main promoter and motor of a multilateral initiative that, over the past two decades, generated learning opportunities, especially for the most disadvantaged, as well as educational innovations for social transformation.<br /><br />"José María Antón worked closely with the OAS on initiatives to promote innovation in education in the Americas," said OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro. “We were fortunate to benefit from his wisdom and commitment. Thanks to his support, enormous progress was made in aiding OAS member states to access Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education. Thanks to his vision, this work was especially aimed at promoting education for the least favored sectors,” he said</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.oas.org/en/media_center/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-028/20" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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The first order, a White House statement said, will help domestic manufacturers "secure the supplies they need to build ventilators needed to defeat the virus."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PAHO appeals for $95 million to help Latin America and the Caribbean cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.</b> Washington, DC, 2 April 2020 (PAHO) – A donor appeal from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is seeking $94.8 million to fund priority public health measures to help countries in Latin American and the Caribbean face the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The funds will be used to carry out PAHO's COVID-19 Response Strategy, which in alignment with the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to save lives and slow transmission of the virus to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on health systems and population health, with a focus on countries that most need help. The requested resources will support the strategy through September 2020; as the pandemic evolves, the needs are expected to increase... <a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15767:paho-appeals-for-95-million-to-help-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-cope-with-the-covid-19-pandemic&catid=740&lang=en&Itemid=1926" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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Within this group "at risk", there is a subgroup of "very high risk", about 5.5 million people who work primarily as informal workers, monotributistas and self-employed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WHO releases guidelines to help countries maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.</b> To help countries navigate through these challenges, the World Health Organization (WHO) has updated operational planning guidelines in balancing the demands of responding directly to COVID-19 while maintaining essential health service delivery, and mitigating the risk of system collapse. This includes a set of targeted immediate actions that countries should consider at national, regional, and local level to reorganize and maintain access to high-quality essential health services for all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Countries should identify essential services that will be prioritized in their efforts to maintain continuity of service delivery and make strategic shifts to ensure that increasingly limited resources provide maximum benefit for the population. They also need to comply with the highest standard in precautions, especially in hygiene practices, and the provision of adequate supplies including personal protective equipment This requires robust planning and coordinated actions between governments and health facilities and their managers</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/30-03-2020-who-releases-guidelines-to-help-countries-maintain-essential-health-services-during-the-covid-19-pandemic" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dramatic scenes in Ecuador: authorities double efforts to collect and bury the dead from the coronavirus pandemic</b></span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ecuador lives hours of extreme drama. The government announced it is working to solve the delays in collecting the bodies in the city of Guayaquil, the one most affected by coronavirus infections, where deaths are reported from popular neighborhoods to tourist areas, amid the desperation of family members for lack of help. <br /><br />The authorities have recognized difficulties in removing the bodies of the deceased in their homes, without being certain that they were infected with the virus, due to the restriction of movement, the curfew and the nervousness of the population. In addition, he pointed out that there are bodies in hospitals that have not been removed by family members, without specifying the number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The innovative Argentine tool to plan "the day after". </b>Starting this Monday, the new </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Situation Report: Tourism and Coronavirus" prepared by the National Institute for Tourism Promotion (Inprotur) of Argentina is available, which analyzes the historical impact of pandemics on tourism activity; what the industry's recovery in terms of deadlines is usually like; and, finally, how the markets could behave in the case of the current coronavirus health crisis. They assure that this tool could help the public and private sectors to devise strategies for "the day after"</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">...</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.hosteltur.com/lat/135687_la-innovadora-herramienta-argentina-para-planificar-el-dia-despues.html" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></span></div>
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Governments and rights groups agree that these extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. States need new powers to shut their borders, enforce quarantines and track infected people. Many of these actions are protected under international rules, constitutional lawyers say. </div>
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But critics say some governments are using the public health crisis as cover to seize new powers that have little to do with the outbreak, with few safeguards to ensure that their new authority will not be abused... <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<b>Use of surveillance to fight coronavirus raises concerns about government power after pandemic ends. </b>The technologies employed by governments around the world are aimed at identifying where infected people are and monitoring quarantines. Countries and cities around the world have been locked down, a move that looks to encourage “social distancing” and reduce the transmission between people. </div>
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In South Korea, the government used records such as credit card transactions, smartphone location data and CCTV video as well as conversations with people, to create a system where confirmed cases were tracked. The result was a map that could tell people whether they had gone near a coronavirus carrier. </div>
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On Thursday, the South Korean government launched an enhanced tool that it says can help track patients even more closely in near real time, in order to see where the disease was moving... <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-surveillance-used-by-governments-to-fight-pandemic-privacy-concerns.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<b>How to boost global resilience to COVID-19.</b> It is imperative that leaders increase resiliency. To do so, governments must ensure public trust in order to act effectively and efficiently, and the private sector must work with governments to ensure local preparedness and response. Another way to increase resiliency is for civil society to be a watchdog on corruption, wastefulness, and transparency. The WEF’s COVID Action Platform, in partnership with the World Health Organization, is mobilizing stakeholders to protect lives and livelihoods and enhance these efforts around the world... <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/how-to-boost-global-resilience-to-covid-19/" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)</b> is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. Older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. The best way to prevent and slow down transmission is be well informed about the COVID-19 virus, the disease it causes and how it spreads. Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol based rub frequently and not touching your face.<br />The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes, so it’s important that you also practice respiratory etiquette (for example, by coughing into a flexed elbow)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span></span><span style="color: #3c4245; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Scientists in Iceland claim they have found FORTY mutations of the coronavirus.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Viruses accumulate mutations as they evolve, which may or may not cause them to behave in different ways. Mutating is a biological process which would have allowed the virus to attack the human body in the first place. Scientists believe the infection lurked in animals for years, perhaps even decades, before it gained the ability to jump to humans. Studying viruses using genomics helps to understand how they behave, which will help scientists fight the spiralling pandemic. Icelandic scientists investigated the virus within their own country, where one death has been reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Complete genome sequencing was performed, which revealed clues about how the virus has evolved and the chain of transmission. 'We can see how viruses mutate,' said Kári Stefánsson, director of DeCode Genetics. 'We have found 40 island-specific virus mutations</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: justify;">...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146565/Scientists-Iceland-claim-FORTY-mutations-coronavirus.html?ito=email_share_article-top" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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When it comes to diseases, the whole question gets trickier. It would be a lot easier to track chronic disease than infectious disease, because infectious disease is fast-moving and you need real-time or near-real-time data. That’s why I think this [tracking of coronavirus] is so significant. It’s the first time I’ve seen an infectious disease tracked on a large scale before. Johns Hopkins started off with Google docs, where they collected and uploaded data from the WHO and the CDC, as well as the Chinese organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXY.cn">DXY</a> and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [ECDC]. And then they used that data to populate their dashboards, which were refreshed a couple times per day.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once their dashboards started getting a lot of hits, our company contacted them and assisted with a few cartography tweaks to help out. It was [also a matter of automating] the data process. In any system, it’s ideal if you can connect directly to [the data source] and let the computer do the update work for you. You have all of these entities that have data to share and you want to combine them into one data resource. The amount of data that’s being shared publicly is far beyond what I’ve ever seen before. I’ve seen tracking of ebola and Zika virus at an international scale — but it was not nearly as fast moving as this, nor was it updated as often as we’re seeing with coronavirus. Also, what I’ve seen previously has been webmaps. I think map-centric dashboarding provides even more information. That’s also new at this scale<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://builtin.com/data-science/tech-viral-outbreaks" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Case detection, priority in strategy against covid-19</b></span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specifically, the Ministry, according to the recommendations of the Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (Acin) and the Institute for Technology Assessment (IETS), will begin to screen the population with rapid molecular tests that allow the detection of components (viral antigens) of the new coronavirus. and thus to be able to make deep analyzes to the suspected cases. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"As of April 1, Colombia will have at least 350,000 weekly tests thanks to the management carried out by the Ministry of Health," said the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz Gómez.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary</b>. <span style="text-align: justify;">On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concernexternal icon</span><span style="text-align: justify;">” (PHEIC). On January 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to COVID-19.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with </span>MERS-CoV<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span>SARS-CoV<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early on, many of the patients at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China had some link to a large seafood and live animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. Later, a growing number of patients reportedly did not have exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread. Person-to-person spread was subsequently reported outside Hubei and in countries outside China, including in the United States. Some international destinations now have apparent community spread with the virus that causes COVID-19, including in some parts of the United States. Community spread means some people have been infected and it is not known how or where they became exposed</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/summary.html" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Face masks during outbreaks: Who, when, where and how to use them.</b> Washington, D.C., 28 February 2020 (PAHO/WHO) — The use of face masks during outbreaks of viral illnesses such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has only been shown in scientific studies to be effective for protecting healthcare workers and to reduce the risk of sick patients spreading the disease. Based on that evidence, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommends the use of face masks by:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wearing a face mask alone is not guaranteed to stop infections in any of these circumstances and should be combined with other personal protective measures, such as hand hygiene, keeping your distance from people with symptoms, and respiratory hygiene (or cough etiquette)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15744:face-masks-during-outbreaks-who-when-where-and-how-to-use-them&Itemid=1926&lang=en" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The global spread of the 2019-nCoV is continuing and is fast moving, as indicated by the WHO raising the risk assessment to high. In this article, we provide a preliminary phylodynamic and phylogeographic analysis of this new virus. A Maximum Clade Credibility tree has been built using the 29 available whole genome sequences of 2019-nCoV and two whole genome sequences that are highly similar sequences from Bat SARS-like Coronavirus available in GeneBank. We are able to clarify the mechanism of transmission among the countries which have provided the 2019-nCoV sequence isolates from their patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Bayesian phylogeographic reconstruction shows that the 2019–2020 nCoV most probably originated from the Bat SARS-like Coronavirus circulating in the Rhinolophus bat family. In agreement with epidemiological observations, the most likely geographic origin of the new outbreak was the city of Wuhan, China, where 2019-nCoV time of the most recent common ancestor emerged, according to molecular clock analysis, around November 25th, 2019. These results, together with previously recorded epidemics, suggest a recurring pattern of periodical epizootic outbreaks due to Betacoronavirus. Moreover, our study describes the same population genetic dynamic underlying the SARS 2003 epidemic, and suggests the urgent need for the development of effective molecular surveillance strategies of Betacoronavirus among animals and Rhinolophus of the bat family...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20477724.2020.1725339" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A tool to investigate outbreaks, Go.Data, is rolled out for COVID-19 in Latin America</b></span><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mexico, 2 march 2020 (PAHO/WHO)- <a href="https://www.who.int/godata">Go.Data</a>, a platform that facilitates the collection, investigation and visualization of case and contact data during an outbreak, was rolled out today in Mexico by the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), and the Ministry of Health of Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tool, which can be utilized by public health professionals involved in outbreak response, allows for the collection of case data, including on laboratory results, hospitalizations and other variables, and enables the control and monitoring of contacts. It also includes a visualization of trains of transmission and the generation of epidemiological curves</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tool has been used since 2019 in the response to the Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, as well as for the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh. WHO is now working with its member states and partners to make Go.Data available for the response to COVID-19<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">..</span><span style="color: #666666;">. </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15747:inician-en-mexico-la-puesta-en-marcha-de-go-data-en-america-latina-una-herramienta-para-investigar-covid-19-y-otros-brotes-epidemicos&Itemid=1926&lang=en" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">New coronavirus: Fiocruz, Ministry of Health of Brazil and PAHO provide training in laboratory diagnosis in nine countries. </b><span style="text-align: justify;">Brasilia, 7 February 2020 (PAHO) - Experts from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Ministry of Health of Brazil and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) provided training on laboratory diagnosis of the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on February 6 and 7 for specialists from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PAHO’s representative in Brazil, Socorro Gross, said this type of training is essential so that countries in the Americas have the necessary knowledge to perform early diagnosis of 2019-nCoV following WHO protocols</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><a href="https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15719:nuevo-coronavirus-fiocruz-ministerio-de-salud-de-brasil-y-la-ops-capacitan-a-nueve-paises-en-diagnostico-de-laboratorio&Itemid=1926&lang=en" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PAHO Prepares Barbados for COVID-19 Testing</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b>.</b> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is implementing a comprehensive plan to support country preparedness efforts for the outbreak associated with the new Coronavirus (COVID-19). This plan includes establishing and strengthening laboratory capacity for early detection of the virus through the public health and reference laboratory networks in the Americas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Barbados ‘Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory’ became one of the first in the Caribbean to acquire test kits and reagents for COVID-19 detection, with concurrent training of laboratory personnel in the new testing protocol. The provision of COVID-19 test kits and training were made possible by PAHO Health Emergencies Department, who has worked in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to enhance national capacity in response to the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>For more information on ECPA </b>check '<a href="http://ecpamericas.org/Publications/A-Decade002DPlus-of-Cooperation.aspx" target="_blank">A Decade-plus of Cooperation'</a> and follow the IV Ministerial Meeting on twitter with the #ECPAJA2020 - <a href="https://twitter.com/ecpamericas">Twitter @ecpamericas</a></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Resilient Energy Platform. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Resilient Energy Platform helps countries understand and plan for natural, technological, and human-caused power system threats. The provision of reliable, secure, and affordable electricity is essential to power economic growth and development. Power systems are at risk from an array of natural, human-caused, and technological threats, which can cause everything from power interruption to chronic undersupply of energy. That’s why it is critical for policymakers, planners, and system operators to safeguard their power systems from these threats by proactively planning for future needs and investing in resilient power systems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">To help countries plan for power sector resilience, the USAID-NREL Partnership developed the Resilient Energy Platform, which provides an expertly curated collection of training materials, tools, data, case studies and other publications to support decision makers in assessing power sector vulnerabilities, identifying resilience solutions, and making informed decisions to enhance power sector resilience at all scales</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">... </span><a href="https://www.nrel.gov/usaid-partnership/resilient-energy-platform.html" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Urban Resilience: Strengthening Survival Skills</span></b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">.</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Natural disasters can hit anywhere—not just in cities—but the human impact can be especially severe in high-population areas. That has serious implications for Latin America and the Caribbean, where an estimated 80% of people live in urban areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ministerial Dialogue on Urban Resilience, held on November 5, covered a range of issues, from technical to social, that come into play with disasters. Three of the speakers were from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which studies disaster resilience from various angles. Experts from Chile, Colombia, and Saint Lucia also participated. (A video of the event, along with each panelist’s presentation, can be found <a href="http://www.ecpamericas.org/events/Default.aspx?id=1742&archive=1" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and girls in science. Yet women and girls continue to be excluded from participating fully in science</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.un.org/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cayman Islands' disaster management agency urged residents to move away from coastal areas and asked those in low-lying areas should "evacuate vertically" in strong multi-story buildings<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...</span> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://earthquake-report.com/2020/01/28/massive-earthquake-cuba-region-january-28-2020/" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>M 7.7 - 125km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica: </b></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seismotectonics of the Caribbean Region and Vicinity, reverse faults vs strike-slip faults</b><b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Along the northern margin of the Caribbean plate, the North America plate moves westwards with respect to the Caribbean plate at a velocity of approximately 20 mm/yr. Motion is accommodated along several major transform faults that extend eastward from Isla de Roatan to Haiti, including the Swan Island Fault and the Oriente Fault</span><span style="text-align: justify;">...</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us60007idc/region-info" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lessons for life: drills prepare students for tsunamis - UNDP. </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Partnering with the Government of Japan, UNDP began working with 90 schools to assess their tsunami risks, design emergency procedures and evacuation plans a carry out tsunami awareness and safety drills in 19 Asia Pacific countries in 2017. More than 100 schools and 60,000 people participated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teachers and students were trained so that they’re prepared when the next tsunami hits. As well as evacuation and safety drills, the project has identified at-risk schools and created a number of education materials, identified evacuation routes and shelters, and developed a mobile app, STEP-A, to assess preparedness, as well as a guide which shows school administrators how to prepare for, and respond to, a tsunami... </span><a href="https://feature.undp.org/lessons-for-life/" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read more</a></div>
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<b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.</span> </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Worldwide, one in every 10 children has a disability – and the proportion is even higher in areas with armed conflict or disasters. Children and adults with disabilities are among the most marginalized people in any community affected by crisis. To make matters worse, they often are excluded from humanitarian assistance. But while crises put children with disabilities at risk, they can also create opportunities. Damaged buildings and infrastructure can be rebuilt better and more accessible than before. UNICEF has developed guidance to help make sure that children and adolescents with disabilities are included in all stages of humanitarian action – from preparing for emergencies to recovering from them.<span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; letter-spacing: -0.05em;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span></span><b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://training.unicef.org/disability/emergencies/" target="_blank">Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.</a></span></b><br />
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People with disabilities are being included in emergency drills — and exposing big flaws</b>.</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">More than 150 people from more than two dozen agencies took part in the Glen Rock drill, including police from Ridgewood, Hawthorne, Fair Lawn and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. They stormed the train pla<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ying the roles of good guys and bad guys while fire and EMS crews prepared to help mock victims. Leotis Sanders, chief of civil rights and diversity program at NJ Transit, said</span><i> these exercises are a vehicle for learning how to adapt</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Verbal commands won’t help someone with a hearing impairment find an exit on a smoke-filled train. Opening train doors as an escape route won’t help mobility-challenged riders get out of harm’s way. Planners are noting these kinds of details wit</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">h each new drill.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202022;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202022; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;">. </span></span><a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2019/11/18/disabled-people-in-emergency-training-drills-are-exposing-problems/4182557002/" target="_blank">People with disabilities are being included in emergency drills — and exposing big flaws.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Emergency Preparedness for individuals with Disabilies.</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>Recent disasters across the nation highlight the lack of critical community-based planning for people with disabilities and aging population. Ensuring individuals and emergency personnel are prepared prior to a disaster is recognized by FEMA and state and local officials as a key to community resilience. The emergency planning process requires accurate and comprehensive information by seasoned experts and is essential to the implementation of a successful plan. Learn how to keep yourself safe when disaster strikes<span style="text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="text-align: justify;">.. </span></span></span><a href="https://www1.ucdenver.edu/centers/center-for-inclusive-design-and-engineering/community-engagement/emergency-preparedness-for-individuals-with-disabilities" target="_blank"><b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Emergency Preparedness for individuals with Disabilies.</b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></a></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Readiness Workshop for People with Disabilities and the Access and Functional Needs Community</b> </span>ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands – The Governor’s Office, the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) led a Readiness and Resilience Workshop for People with Disabilities and the Access and Functional Needs Community in Christiansted... <a href="https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2019/11/25/readiness-workshop-people-disabilities-and-access-and-functional-needs-0">Readiness Workshop for People with Disabilities and the Access and Functional Needs Community</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy,</b> </span>provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations: peace and security, human rights, and development. The Strategy enables the UN system to support the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other international human rights instruments, as well as the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Agenda for Humanity and the <i><b>Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.</b></i>...</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/content/disabilitystrategy/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><b>The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy,</b> </a><br />
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all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Types of drought</b>. Research in the early 1980s uncovered more than 150 published definitions of drought. The definitions reflect differences in regions, needs, and disciplinary approaches. Wilhite and Glantz categorized the definitions in terms of four basic approaches to measuring drought: meteorological, hydrological, agricultural, and socioeconomic. The first three approaches deal with ways to measure drought as a physical phenomenon. The last deals with drought in terms of supply and demand, tracking the effects of water shortfall as it ripples through socioeconomic systems<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><span style="color: #202022; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;">. </span><a href="https://drought.unl.edu/Education/DroughtIn-depth/TypesofDrought.aspx" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Drought leaves Chilean growers in limbo. </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Almost 90 percent of Chilean fruit producers believe they face a fragile or unsustainable future because of the drought affecting large swathes of the country, according to a survey by fruit producer federation Fedefruta. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The survey, entitled <i>‘Impact of Drought on Chilean Fruit Production’,</i> was created to assess the perception of growers in the country’s main fruit-producing regions. Releasing the results last week, Fedefruta said it had collected 375 responses from growers from Atacama to Los Lagos.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202022; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><span style="color: #202022; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em;">. </span><a href="http://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/article/180260/drought-leaves-chilean-growers-in-limbo" style="letter-spacing: -0.05em;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>World Tsunami Awareness Day. </b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tsunamis are rare events, but can be extremely deadly. In the past 100 years, 58 of them have claimed more than 260,000 lives, or an average of 4,600 per disaster, surpassing any other natural hazard. The highest number of deaths in that period was in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. <a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/tsunamiday/index.shtml" target="_blank">Read more</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What are Tsunamis?. </b>Tsunamis are ocean waves triggered by large earthquakes that occur near or under the ocean, volcanic eruptions, submarine landslides, and by onshore landslides in which large volumes of debris fall into the water. Scientists do not use the term "tidal wave" because these waves are not caused by tides. Tsunami waves are unlike typical ocean waves generated by wind and storms, and most tsunamis do not "break" like the curling, wind-generated waves popular with surfersx... <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-tsunamis?qt-news_science_products=4#qt-news_science_products" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How large can a tsunami be in the Caribbean?.</b> "It's been a long time since a big earthquake and tsunami have hit the region, but almost 3500 people have lost their lives in the past 500 years from tsunamis in the Caribbean," said von Hillebrandt-Andrade. "The vulnerability is just huge because so much of our population and infrastructure is located right along the coast.".... <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516102302.htm" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #14293a;">Longer, More Frequent Fire Seasons. </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">A </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">new analysis</span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: start;">of 35 years of meteorological data confirms fire seasons have become longer. Fire season, which varies in timing and duration based on location, is defined as the time of year when wildfires are most likely to ignite, spread, and affect resources. </span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-align: start;">In the map above, areas where the fire season lengthened between 1979 and 2014 are shown with shades of orange and red. Areas where the length of the fire season stayed the same are yellow. Shades of blue show where the fire season grew shorter. Gray indicates that there was not enough vegetation to sustain wildfires</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">..<a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/86268/longer-more-frequent-fire-seasons" target="_blank">Read more</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333;"><b>What California Stands To Learn From Indigenous Fire Management Practices.</b></span><b> </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-align: start;">For 13,000 years, many Indigenous tribes, including the Hupa, Karuk, Miwok, and Yurok lit controlled fires across northern and central California. This created a mosaic of habitats with a high diversity of species that California is known for today. Through multiple progressions of these practices, <span style="text-align: justify;">many species, such as acorns and huckleberries became associated with these deliberate, low-intensity fires</span>. Despite their fire resistance, they are ill-equipped to tolerate the high-intensity nature of modern wildfires in California</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">... </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2019/10/28/what-california-stands-to-learn-from-indigenous-fire-management-practices/#169fd61d5869" target="_blank">Read more</a></span><br />
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Managing climate and disaster risk in fragile states. <span style="font-weight: normal;">It is encouraging to see that over the last few years the political mood has shifted. Countries such as Sweden, Germany, UK and Netherlands are actively investing in studies and programmes that look at the impact of climate change and disaster in conflict affected states. The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR19) also has section on the need to increase investments in addressing climate change and disaster risk in fragile countries. Failure to do so is entirely compromising the global ambition to achieve the Sendai Framework, and especially </span><a href="https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2019/sendai-target-e--just-one-more-year-to-go-.html" style="font-weight: normal;">Target E</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, which we need to hit by 2020. This growing consensus will hopefully drive more research on the impact that DRR and climate change adaption have on conflict prevention... </span><a href="https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2019/managing-climate-and-disaster-risk-in-fragile-states.html" style="font-weight: normal;">Read more.</a></div>
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and women who sacrifice their time and put their lives and physical integrity
at risk to help those in need of assistance all around the world. We especially
salute women humanitarians in the Americas and recognize the efforts of the OAS
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rebuilding the future: the role of humanitarian aid in climate resilience.</b> Increased flooding, for example, is not just caused by storm surges and increased rainfall, but also by poor infrastructure. Food shortages following environmental disasters are not only caused by killed livestock and destroyed cropland but also poverty. Likewise, the likelihood of injury due to building collapse increases where there is a lack of education and a lack of access to communication technologies...<a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/rebuilding-future-role-humanitarian-aid-climate-resilience" target="_blank">Read more</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Humanitarian assistance to be scaled-up for millions of Venezuelans in need.</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> A collective effort to coordinate and intensify the ongoing humanitarian response, the plan aims to significantly mitigate the impact of the crisis on the country’s most vulnerable populations...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/08/1044221" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>National Preparedness Month. </b>This NPM will focus on planning, with an overarching theme: Prepared, Not Scared. Be Ready for Disasters... </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.dolphin-news.com/news/national-preparedness-month/article_b03690e6-cecb-54eb-81cd-c0a512fbc1a7.html" target="_blank">Read more</a></span></div>
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