Economics

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic Global vaccine alliance GAVI has set up financial instruments that will allow the group to immediately access pledged donor funding if it needs to buy vaccines for future pandemics, Chief Executive Seth Berkley told Reuters. Michael Erman Reuters

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UK long-term sickness rate rises to highest since 2005 The proportion of Britain's workforce too sick to work has jumped to its highest since 2005, which economists say is likely due to a mix of long COVID and greater difficulty in accessing health care since the start of the pandemic. David Milliken Reuters

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Covid is here to stay, but the White House response team is eyeing its endgame The White House is planning the end stages of its Covid emergency response. But first, it needs to survive the winter. POLITICO

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Even as it braces for a perilous winter, the Biden administration is planning a restructuring of its approach to major elements of the coronavirus response — a gradual shift that some administration officials now speculate could begin the phaseout of the White House Covid team as soon as the middle of next year.

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Anxiety levels rose along with temperatures in Shanghai on Wednesday, as medical workers sweated beneath their hazmat suits while administering compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 in a city that recently emerged from a painful two-month lockdown. Reuters Reuters

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