Health workers on the front line wearing full personal protective equipment (PPE) on the intensive care unit (ICU) at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside
Meanwhile, Poland strips Zelensky of its highest honour over naming of military unit after WWII far-right paramilitaries
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared 2021 the International Year of Health and Care Workers to recognise the “dedication and sacrifice” of the millions of workers on the Covid-19 front line.
WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We need to collectively strengthen our investment in training healthcare personnel to end the Covid-19 pandemic and achieve health for all.”
The organisation has said that vaccinating the entire health sector worldwide is a priority as they are the most vulnerable to infection.
The US blockade of Cuba raises risks of a new global pandemic, experts warn at Unison conference
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS