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FILE PHOTO: A Congolese health worker administers Ebola vaccine to a boy who had contact with an Ebola sufferer in the village of Mangina in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, August 18, 2018. REUTERS/Olivia Acland//File PhotoGOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in […]
FILE PHOTO: Vials labelled “COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine” and sryinge are seen in front of displayed Johnson&Johnson logo in this illustration taken, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo(Reuters) – A panel of expert advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday voted in favor of authorizing Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency […]
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland is beginning to see strong early evidence that its COVID-19 vaccine rollout is protecting healthcare workers and care home residents from catching the disease, health officials said on Thursday.FILE PHOTO: A boy plays with his dogs on Sandymount strand, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dublin, Ireland February […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States on Monday crossed the staggering milestone of 500,000 COVID-19 deaths just over a year since the coronavirus pandemic claimed its first known victim in Santa Clara County, California. In a proclamation honoring the dead, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. flag to be flown at half-staff on public […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU is holding talks with Moderna on buying more COVID-19 vaccine and AstraZeneca, with which talks have stalled, has suggested delivering doses of its own vaccine made outside Europe to make up for supply cuts, two EU sources said.FILE PHOTO: Nurse Ellen Quinones prepares a dose of the Moderna’s coronavirus disease […]
Slideshow ( 2 images )WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Political appointees in former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration interfered with public health guidance on the coronavirus to justify reopening schools and businesses, congressional Democrats said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)said in August that people who were exposed to COVID-19 but were […]
Freshly dug graves are pictured at the El Centinela cemetery, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Victor MedinaMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s health ministry on Sunday reported 7,030 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 462 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 1,864,260 […]
As of October 2020, individuals aged 20-49 were the only groups sustaining COVID-19 transmission with reproduction numbers well above 1 in the US, according to the latest publication in Science today by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response team. Following initial declines, numbers of COVID-19 cases started to rise again halfway through 2020 in the United […]
“COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings and Lessons Learned from Past Epidemics” published in Nature Medicine, invokes a global response to protect the most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors make the point that displaced populations, including refugees and migrants, are often the first to be stigmatized and unjustly blamed for the spread of disease, yet […]