coronavirus

On June 24th, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatel reported that coronavirus cases would peak this week, that the pandemic would end in Mexico in October, and that Mexican cases had been on a plateau for 22 days already. He…

In Brasile sono in atto da due mesi quattro “guerre” senza esclusioni di colpi figlie delle crisi, sociale ed economica, causate dal coronavirus. La prima per il controllo dei vertici della Polizia Federale con il presidente: Jair Messias…

2020 was supposed to be a year of renaissance for Brazil. Since 2015, the largest economy of South America has been stagnating, with GDP dropping by 3.6% in 2015 and by 3.4% in 2016, and only slowly recovering between 2017 and 2019. In…

In questi ultimi mesi abbiamo sentito spesso ribadire l’eccezionalità della situazione e ripetere il mantra che, in fondo, una pandemia non se l’aspettava nessuno, che ci ha colti tutti di sorpresa. Non serve a niente sottolineare che vari…

The British government did not have a “good crisis”. On a raft of metrics, the UK’s coronavirus outbreak ranks among the worst in Europe, if the not the worst altogether. To date, official counts have recorded 300,000 coronavirus cases and…