Covid-19 Pandemic’s Human Rights Failures Persist

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A health worker takes a swab sample of a man to test for Covid-19 in Ahmedabad, India, January 17, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File (New York) – Governments should redouble efforts to uphold their legal obligation to ensure the highest attainable standard of health for people everywhere, Human Rights Watch said today, marking the second anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring Covid-19 a pandemic. More than 6 million people have died of Covid-19 in the past two years. Billions of people, most in low- and middle-income countries, are entering…

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