The campaign to beat the pandemic

March campaign call

Desmond Whyms has been a Public Health specialist for over 30 years, initially in the NHS, followed by posts in South America, Asia, Africa and with the UN in Geneva and EU in Brussels. Following early retirement in 2021, he recently worked as a consultant on the three UNGA high-level declarations on Universal Health Coverage, […]

May campaign call – the economic effects of the pandemic

Go to https://bit.ly/covidactionmaycc to register! A new report by global economics consultancy Cambridge Econometrics reveals that Long Covid could have wider economic ramifications for the UK causing a drag on economic growth and added pressure on the NHS if no long-term healthcare funding commitments are made. Funded by direct giving fund Balvi, and in partnership with […]

Campaign call – General Election special

Joan Twelves from Covid Action will lead a discussion on what we want the next government to do about Covid using these questions we are sending to political parties and candidates in the general election  Will you call on the next Government to……            make Covid an occupational disease, and Long […]

July campaign call: Hidden Covid Lives

with Ripon Ray,  anti-poverty campaigner and founder of BritBanglaCovid, author of 'Covid Crisis, the Brit Bangla Response. He is also an anti poverty campaigner. He will talk about the history of Bangladeshis in UK, their economic situation, how life was like for many of those he  interviews in the book life, how life changed and […]

September Campaign call

Dr Joe Vipond has worked as an emergency physician for over twenty years, currently at the Rockyview General Hospital. Outside of clinical work, he has focused his efforts on advocacy, both on climate and COVID policy. He is Past-President of the national charity Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He is also the co-founder […]

October Campaign call

Monday October 14 6pm What next after the Together against Covid conference? Dr Jon Fluxman, from Doctors in Unite, and Sally Witcher, from Inclusive New Normal, will open a conversation about how to build on the extremely succesful event. We hope to share suggestions from the feedback we have received. Register at; https://bit.ly/posttac

November campaign call

Long Covid: the forgotten disease Speaker: Merel van der Knoop from Long Covid Kids Merel is a freelance musician living with Long Covid since December 2021. She has been actively involved with the Long Covid Groups both in the UK and The Netherlands since 2022, continuing to help raise awareness about the devastating and lasting […]

Adding Covid Action (formerly Zero Covid) events to your calendar:

In your Google Calendar, go to “other calendars”, click the + sign to “add other calendars”, choose “subscribe to calendar” and enter zerocoviduk@gmail.com as the calendar. We will are working on a nice way to upgrade this address and ICS file, for the time being it uses the old address.

If you use Outlook you need the ics address https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/zerocoviduk%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

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