Day: November 8, 2021

WASHINGTON — Two different surveys of the COVID-19 pandemic offer grim and sobering analyses. One says the widely accepted COVID-19 global death toll of 5 million is likely underestimated and was probably reached much earlier than November 1 when the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center announced the figure. The other offers up a harsh statistical analysis of the pandemic, including the fact that 50 million people are being infected with the virus every 90 days. Reuters puts its analysis into perspective with the reminder that it took almost a year to record the first 50 million COVID-19 cases. The current high

Paris, Education Minister Dr. Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi received the Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Shaikh Salem Khalid Abdulla Al Qassimi.   The two sides discussed educational ties between the two countries, stressing aspects of cooperation between the cultural attaches of Bahrain and the UAE to the Unesco.   Source: Bahrain News Agency

In response to today’s announcement from the UK of £1m to support delivery of faster and more effective global humanitarian action, including in response to climate-related disasters, Cat Pettengell, Director of Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) said: “It is time for the UK to get serious about finance for loss and damage, rather than constantly going back to the limited and already cut aid budget to finance every climate commitment. Enhanced humanitarian action – such as this £1m announced today – is important, but we are now living in the era of devastating climate change impacts and that demands a