This site is no longer active. From early 2020 until the end of 2022, it was run by the Global Platform for the Rapid Generation and Transfer of Knowledge on COVID-19 and older adults in low and middle-income countries (GP-Older-COVID). This was a network of academics based in different universities, NGOs and other people with interests in these issues. We hope you still find it useful.
FINAL NEWSLETTER
Follow this link to read the final newsletter we plan to produce for the Global Platform for the Rapid Generation and Transfer of Knowledge on COVID-19 and older adults in low and middle-income countries.
DIGITAL PUBLICATION:
THE GLOBAL PLATFORM READER
Click here to download a copy of The Global Platform Reader (pdf 6.2mb)
A compilation of selected posts from The Global Platform blog since 2020.
Now it’s China’s turn. COVID-19, lockdown and older people in Shanghai.
On 3 April 2022 a strict lockdown was introduced in the Chinese city of Shanghai, in response to rapid increases in reported COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, 5 February 2021.
“There is a disturbing narrative in some countries that it’s OK if older people die. It’s not OK… Those most at risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19, including health workers and older people, must come first. And they must come first everywhere.”