Tag: COVID-19

Dr Rajagopal Soondron

SARS-Cov-2 has experienced roughly the same amount of evolutionary change during the pandemic as humans have since Homo habilis first walked the Earth about 2.5m years ago.

As global travel resumes, now is the perfect time to establish new conversations for what ethical travel might look like

  By arresting opponents of proposed land rights legislation, Frank Bainimarama again squashes democratic debate at a time when Fiji urgently needs it

Research shows shared traumas drive political preferences in certain directions

Covid-19 vaccination produces a more consistent immune response than a past infection. With the delta variant, the difference in protection may be even greater

The influence of strong ethical leadership by heads of state is critical. But a culture of “ethics of care” must be translated at every level of governance

Editorial

  IMF programmes run the risk of having too many conditions. This may drive countries into financial disaster. And back to the IMF again

Covid is dramatic and important – but no less so are the myriads of other problems that health services face 24/7, non-stop

Pitting health against the economy is a false dichotomy

People who are vaccinated and still contract Covid-19 are less likely to develop severe symptoms, be hospitalised, or die from it

It is one thing to declare that there will be a global minimum corporate tax rate and quite another actually to collect any tax regardless of the rate

The past decades are littered with an array of botched decisions by government or government services which have cost tens of billions of Rupees to the State. No

  It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines