The World Health Organizations says that a record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance. This is a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance but is highlighting that ‘a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them’.
The National Governors Association (NGA) has published ‘Planning for Concurrent Emergencies’, a memo outlining best practices for managing natural disasters during pandemic conditions, which create additional challenges in evacuation and sheltering protocols, as well as financial and logistical complications for states.
A new short paper has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science by a research group at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
The UK business resilience organization, Resilience First, has published ‘A Resilience Guide for Our New World’, a new route map for businesses to strategically find ways out of the COVID-19 crisis.
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is requesting feedback on proposed updates to its principles for regulated entities that outsource tasks to service providers.
Resilience First has highlighted a series of key points that emerged from the latest in a series of webinars it hosted focusing on the response to COVID-19. Contributors included a leading expert in architecture and urban design from the University of Nottingham in Ningbo China and a Chinese urban designer from Perkins and Will.
The World Health Organization is assisting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respond to a new Ebola outbreak in the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the country. There have been six confirmed Ebola cases in Mbandaka, with five deaths resulting.
An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the US National Weather Service. The outlook predicts a 60 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 30 percent chance of a near-normal season and only a 10 percent chance of a below-normal season.
Resilience is never more critical than in a world shocked by pandemic, and the top-ranked countries in the 2020 FM Global Resilience Index possess strong foundations for a robust rebound.
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