LONDON (AP) — European nations’ immunisation campaigns against COVID-19 are “unacceptably slow” and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organization official said Thursday. Dr Hans Kluge, WHO’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — United States health officials have authorised two more over-the-counter COVID-19 tests that can be used at home to get rapid results. The move by the Food and Drug Administration is expected to vastly expand the...
A man in Africa who developed Ebola despite receiving a vaccine recovered but suffered a relapse nearly six months later that led to 91 new cases before he died. The report adds to evidence that the deadly virus can lurk in the body long after...
LONDON (AP) — There is racism in Britain, but it’s not a systematically racist country that is “rigged” against non-white people, according to the findings of a government-commissioned inquiry published Wednesday. Anti...
MIAMI (AP) — It’s a race against time for nonprofits, organisations, and officials who are trying to vaccinate thousands of farm workers who were denied priority access in Florida but now have to travel north to harvest crops in...
NEW DELHI (AP) — There isn’t any room at Sion Hospital in India’s megacity, Mumbai - approximately all 500 beds reserved for COVID-19 patients are occupied. And with new patients coming in daily, a doctor said the hospital is...
The company at the centre of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from US health officials for quality control problems. Emergent...
New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana — even in public — under a legalisation bill signed Wednesday by Governor Andrew Cuomo, though legal sales of recreational-use cannabis won’t...
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that there is “no evidence” that would support restricting use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in any population, as Germany has now done amid...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The World Trade Organization is raising its estimate for the rebound in global trade in goods but warning that the COVID-19 pandemic still poses the greatest threat to a recovery that is being hampered by lagging...
BEIJING — Chinese health officials are pushing to expand the search for the origins of the coronavirus beyond China, one day after the release of a closely watched World Health Organization report on the issue. They also are rejecting...
Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces jointly resigned Tuesday following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defence minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shake-up to serve the...
KOGELO SIAYA (AP): Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former US President Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives, was buried on Tuesday at a funeral in western Kenya with only about 100 mourners in attendance due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Mama Sarah...
St John: Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne says he intends to make “a robust contribution on behalf of all CARICOM countries” when he participates in the Summit Meeting on Climate, organised by US President Joe Biden. Browne is...
GENEVA (AP) — An international team behind a long-awaited study of the possible origins of COVID-19 with Chinese colleagues on Tuesday called it a “first start,” while the United States and allies expressed concerns about the...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada on Monday suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people under age 55 following concerns it might be linked to rare blood clots. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization had recommended...
BERLIN (AP) — The German state of Berlin has again suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for those aged under 60 due to new reports of unusual blood clots in people who have received the shots, officials said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and a top health official warned that too many Americans are declaring virus victory too quickly, appealing for mask requirements and other restrictions to be maintained or restored to stave off a “...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei decreed a “state of prevention” Monday along the country’s border with Honduras, amid reports that a new migrant caravan may be forming in Honduras. The emergency decree would...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Fierce fighting for control of Mozambique’s strategic northern town of Palma left beheaded bodies strewn in the streets Monday, with heavily armed rebels battling army, police and a private military outfit in several locations....
Countries that experience crises of democracy are not new within the Caribbean region. Even now protests rage on within Haiti due to allegations of authoritarianism and corruption from President Jovenel Moïse. Currently, Myanmar is another nation...
SUEZ (AP): Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, even as major shippers increasingly divert their boats out of fear the...
NEW YORK, (AP): Lawmakers reached an agreement late Saturday to legalise recreational marijuana sales in New York. At least 14 other states already allow residents to buy marijuana for recreational and not just medical use, and New York’s past...
GENEVA (AP) — A leader of the World Health Organization-backed programme to ship COVID-19 vaccines to needy people in low and middle-income countries expressed disappointment on Friday about supply delays from a key Indian manufacturer, but...
