Richard Allaway How Asia's biggest slum contained the coronavirus bbc.co.uk - Soutik BiswasIn one of the world's most congested shanty towns, social distancing is not a luxury people can afford. And density is a friend of the coronavirus. Imagine more than 650,000 people spread over 2.5 grubby...
Richard Allaway Hunger Pandemic: The COVID-19 Effect on Global Food Insecurity visualcapitalist.com - Iman Ghosh How COVID-19 Could Worsen Global Food InsecurityWhile COVID-19 is dominating headlines, another kind of emergency is threatening the lives of …
Richard Allaway 'We did it to ourselves': scientist says intrusion into nature led to pandemic verified_publisherThe Guardian - Phoebe WestonLeading US biologist Thomas Lovejoy says to stop future outbreaks we need more respect for natural world The vast illegal wildlife trade and humanity’s excessive intrusion into nature is to blame for coronavirus...
Richard Allaway Coronavirus crisis could double number of people suffering acute hunger - UN verified_publisherThe Guardian - Fiona Harvey Environment correspondentReport from UN World Food Programme and others warns 265m people are facing acute risk The coronavirus crisis will push more than a quarter of a billion people to the brink of starvation unless swift is...
Richard Allaway Why smart people believe coronavirus myths verified_publisherBBC Future - David RobsonIt is a sad truth that any health crisis will spawn its own pandemic of misinformation. In the 80s, 90s, and 2000s we saw the spread of dangerous lies about Aids – from the belief that the HIV virus was...
