Biden proclaims new vaccine requirements in US to combat COVID
US President Joe Biden has announced a series of measures to boost vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States, including requiring federal employees to get inoculated and mandating that…
UN: COVID-19 restrictions bring brief air-quality gains in 2020
Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions caused dramatic but short-lived improvements in air quality and drops in pollution, the United Nations has said, but warned the blip was no substitute for…
Contagious and concerning: What we know about Covid-19 variants
Fast-spreading coronavirus variants have ignited global concern over whether existing vaccines will be able to protect the world from a virus that is constantly mutating. Variants that have emerged in…
WHO says surplus AstraZeneca vaccines in rich nations must go to poor countries
As advanced countries such as Britain, Australia and Greece have decided not to use some Covid-19 vaccines right now for the younger age groups over the blood clot controversy, the…
Conflict and COVID driving record hunger in DR Congo, warns UN
A record 27.3 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing acute hunger, one-third of the violence-wracked Central African country’s population, largely because of conflict and the…
Global COVID-19 death toll surpasses 3 million amid new infections resurgence
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday April 5th, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe….
Nations challenge WHO report on coronavirus origins; US adds 4,300 variant cases in last week: Latest COVID-19 updates
The U.S. and a dozen other countries issued a rare joint statement on Tuesday questioning the validity of a World Health Organization study into the origins of the coronavirus, which was first…
UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access
UN. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday 17th February 2021, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations…
WHO authorizes AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organization on Monday February 15th granted emergency authorization to the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Why it matters: WHO’s authorization “should trigger the delivery of hundreds of millions of doses to…
Happy Chinese New Year 2021 : The year of OX
Chinese New Year 2021 falls on Friday, February 12th, 2021. Chinese New Year is also known as Lunar New Year. Traditionally Chinese Lunar New Year activities started as early as three weeks before Chinese…
