https://news-decoder.com/covid-19-is-exposing-deadly-gaps-in-global-public-health/ A global educational news service for young people Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://news-decoder.com/covid-19-is-exposing-deadly-gaps-in-global-public-health/#comment-23266 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:03:53 +0000 https://news-decoder.com/?p=81458#comment-23266 The scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic clearly rises to the level of a public health threat that could justify restrictions on certain rights, such as those that result from the imposition of quarantine or isolation limiting freedom of movement. At the same time, careful attention to human rights such as non-discrimination and human rights principles such as transparency and respect for human dignity can foster an effective response amidst the turmoil and disruption that inevitably results in times of crisis and limit the harms that can come from the imposition of overly broad measures that do not meet the above criteria.

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