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Global Health in 2021
It’s been a year of vaccines and variants. We’ve seen countries hit by devastating Covid waves, fight over jabs, and – for a short time – try to return to ‘normality’. The world also turned its gaze to the climate crisis, and watched in horror as a humanitarian catastrophe unfolded in Afghanistan. Reporting from the ground, the Telegraph’s global health correspondents shone a light on some of the most urgent issues facing the human race. These are our best reports – all free to read.
A second year lost to Covid: the pandemic tightens its grip on the world
Conflict and climate change: dispatches at the coalface
Facing down the enemy: Britain’s Covid crisis
Covid’s unstoppable march: our correspondents track the pandemic
Through the lens: short films
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan has sent the country spiralling into a humanitarian crisis.Today, 19 million Afghans are unable to feed themselves. And...
Life has never been easy in southern Madagascar, but it wasn't always this hard, either. Sandstorms, drought and poverty have pushed the vast region into a h...
The Natural History Museum has unearthed a “treasure trove” of thousands of bat skulls, skins and pickled specimens dating back roughly three hundred years, which researchers hope may shed light on the origins of pandemics – including Covid-19. By indexing roughly 12,000 samples from three major bat …
