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Pandemic

Opinion & Features

How conspiracy theories about Covid’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

The more policymakers act on a key lesson of the Covid pandemic that no one is safe until everyone is safe, the faster the next crisis may pass.
Opinion & Features

Five years on from Covid outbreak, world still unprepared for future pandemics

Research has shown that younger people, who were forced into isolation during one of the most social times of their lives, took the biggest mental health hit during the pandemic.
Lifestyle

'Generational problem': Youth still struggling in pandemic's shadow

The World Health Organization (WHO) says such attacks on hospitals “can be issues of life and death”.
International

'End in sight' to talks on pandemic treaty, says WHO chief

As bad as the Biden administration has been on pandemic prevention, of course, it's about to be replaced by something far worse.
Opinion & Features

A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history

Is Singapore ready for the next pandemic?
Podcasts

Lens on Singapore: Gearing up for Disease X (Ep 11)

DPM Heng says transformation efforts have helped Singapore maintain its position among the world’s most competitive economies.
Economy & Policy

New report recaps Singapore’s economic transformation, sets out directions for the future

Immunising cows would curb the bird flu risk to farmworkers, and to other cows, and limit the opportunities for the virus to keep spreading and evolving, experts say. But officials have been hesitant to do so.
International

A bird flu pandemic in people? Here’s what it might look like

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus opening the World Health Assembly at the United Nations in Geneva.
International

WHO chief urges countries to quickly seal pandemic deal

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says time is running out – and if nobody is prepared to budge, the whole project risks going nowhere.
International

WHO chief warns pandemic accord hangs in the balance

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