The IMF and the World Health Organization on Friday urged leaders of developing countries to prioritize paying medical staff, buying protective ...
More than 1 million people have been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and more than 53,000 have died, a Reuters tally showed on Friday.
Cash transfers, wage subsidies, strengthened unemployment benefits and other such measures should come in addition to - not as a substitute for - health spending and even public awareness campaigns about handwashing, they wrote. In India, where healthcare has long been weak and millions live in crowded, unsanitary conditions, critics say a government shutdown was poorly planned and authorities are now scrambling to contain its fallout instead of focusing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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