The effects of the Corona pandemic on the right to health and health care, and its human rights implications

تاريخ الاستلام: 10/11/2020 تاريخ القبول17/04/2021

Abstract

International human rights law guarantees every person the right to the highest attainable standardof health, and obligates states to take measures to prevent threats to public health and to providemedical care to those who need it. Human rights law also recognizes that restrictions imposed onsome rights, in the context of serious threats to public health and public emergencies threatening thelife of the nation, can be justified when they have a legal basis, and are absolutely necessary, basedon scientific evidence, and their application is neither arbitrary nor discriminatory. And for a specificperiod of time, respecting human dignity, and being subject to review and proportionate in order toachieve the desired goal.That is why this research paper came to show the state’s responsibility towards the right to healthand health care, the nature of the state’s commitment to protecting economic, social and culturalrights, the economic and social situation in Algeria and the Coron pandemic.