Healthcare
According to Dr Adrian James, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, that the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences probably pose "the biggest hit to mental health since the second world war" and will result in around 10 million people needing new or additional mental health support.
“This is going to have a profound effect on mental health,” James said. “It is probably the biggest hit to mental health since the second world war. It doesn’t stop when the virus is under control and there are few people in hospital. You’ve got to fund the long-term consequences.”
The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has announced that all Covid-19 vaccines that will be approved in the future by Health Canada will be made available for free to all Canadians through the health-care system.
The government also indicated that first, the most vulnerable and essential workers should have access to a vaccine.
President Donald Trump posted a tweet on Sunday, stating that he had signed an executive order to lower drug prices.
"Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES! My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries. The days of global freeriding at America’s expense are over...," Trump tweeted on Sunday. "...and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all rebates to middlemen, further reducing prices."
Health officials from the World Health Organization have announced that all 47 countries in the WHO’s Africa region have eradicated the crippling viral disease that attacks the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours.
A first, preliminary study has found that in the case of cancer treatments in Austria, hospital stays have fallen by 20 per cent because many examinations were postponed, but also because these patients belong to the risk group and may therefore not have dared to go to the hospital according to Karin Eglau of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH.
In the case of heart attacks, there were 25 per cent fewer stays, in the case of accidents even 50 per cent fewer. Hospital stays due to strokes; on the other hand, have only decreased minimally.
France will spend €8 billion in pay rise to health care workers. This results in an average monthly pay increase of €183. The deal was signed by trade unions and both Prime Minister Jean Castex and Health Minister Olivier Véran. Castex called this deal a "historic moment for our health system".
The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced that as part of an overhaul of the countries hospital system, the workers in health care would "without any ambiguity" receive "significant" raises in their pay. The countries starting salaries for nurses are currently among the lowest in the OECD group.