In today’s featured cartoon, Bob Moran illustrates how UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is in a war without weapons and armour as it battles the novel coronavirus pandemic. More than 1.14 lakh have been infected in the country, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Charles.
In this caricature of British PM Johnson, Brian Adcock draws from Johnson’s declaration that he “owes his life” to the NHS. The British PM was hospitalised for a week after contacting Covid-19. His government is facing criticism for failing to protect healthcare professionals.
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to dominate the world’s problems and threaten the global economy, Kevin Siers elaborates on the various respiratory diseases have shaped the economy over the decades.
Peter Brookes depicts US President Donald Trump’s grouse with the World Health Organization. Trump had announced that he had suspended US funding to global health agency and accused the WHO of “severely mismanaging” the ongoing global pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic has been universal in its affect on the world. Every sector across all countries have been impacted. In his cartoon, Marshall Ramsey shows us how everyone is counting down the days to when the pandemic is over.
Carlos Latuff depicts how Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are stuck between the law and a pandemic. With many cases of prisoners contracting the virus in Israeli jails surfacing, activists have called on the Red Cross and WHO to intervene and release prisoners who are susceptible to the infection.
Haha..how can any issue be closed without demeaning Yehudis.