COVID: How Europe’s prisons have fared in the pandemic

COVID: How Europe’s prisons have fared in the pandemic

COVID: How Europe's prisons have fared in the pandemic     Prisons are breeding grounds for viruses, yet carceral administrations have revealed little about COVID-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the...
COVID-19 pandemic exposes southern Europe’s nursing shortage

COVID-19 pandemic exposes southern Europe’s nursing shortage

For weeks, Spain and Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their health defences had an important gap: large staffing shortages and low ratios of nurses to doctors. At the same time, nurses had higher infection rates than the general population, mainly...