The current pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, named COVID-19, holds the entire world to ransom. A proportion of the infected patients becomes critically ill, with millions being infected and hundreds of thousands who have died so far. In some countries, national lockdown restrictions are being slowly lifted, but the World Health Organization (WHO) still…Continue Reading British Sleep Society: the COVID-19 pandemic response
Day: December 13, 2020
COVID-19 and the Responsibility to Protect Rohingya Refugees
On 1st April 2020, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect issued an atrocity alert special issue on COVID-19. This alert noted that COVID-19 would have particularly adverse implications for the ‘70 million people forcibly displaced by conflict, persecution and atrocity’, many of whom currently live in conditions which leave them vulnerable to the coronavirus. University of…Continue Reading COVID-19 and the Responsibility to Protect Rohingya Refugees