West Asia & North Africa Digest by Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev | January 2021
IA) Political Developments: Covid-19 Pandemic Regional Impact of Covid-19: Diverse Trends The month saw two divergent trends: Firstly, the mass vaccination against Covid-19 began in some relatively more developed WANA countries – where the disease was better contained anyway. This raised hopes for the beginning of the end of this devastating pandemic. In a contrarian mode, the […]
West Asia & North Africa Digest by Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev | December 2020
IA) Political Developments Covid 19 Pandemic Regional Impact of Covid-19: Second Wave Persists While the regional rate of Covid-19 incidence went up over the last month to hover around the global level, the death rate came down marginally (Reference: Table on the next page). While many countries reported a surge, the figures for the Gulf Cooperation States […]
West Asia & North Africa Digest by Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev | November 2020
I) Political Developments Regional Impact of Covid-19: Second Wave Persists The second wave of Covid-19 pandemic continued to roil the region during October 2020, with unchanged growth in confirmed cases and slightly higher death rate. The total number of affected cases in the WANA region on Oct 31 crossed 3.45 million with over 85,000 fatalities. The region […]
