With the coronavirus pandemic deepening inequality worldwide, what countries need are"serious and rational" leaders, said world-renowned economistHe said these leaders must recognize the aggravating factors, if not the root causes, of the pandemic: climate change, the environmental crisis, and geopolitical changes.
“It is also related to a common fact which is our governments…. In my case, US President [Donald] Trump is ignorant and in denial and so we’ve had these crises building.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration have come under fire for their response to the pandemic, as coronavirus cases continue to spike and millions of Filipinos go jobless. "In almost all of Southeast Asia, other than the Philippines and Indonesia, the virus is essentially under control. Because serious public health efforts were made in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia," he said.
"Serious public health interventions, not comprehensive lockdowns," are needed to beat the virus, added the American economist.The Philippines' contact tracing czar, Benjamin Magalong, earlier said the ideal ratio is 1:30 or 1:37, which means tracing 30 to 37 close contacts of a COVID-19 case. In the country's virus epicenter of Metro Manila, however,