Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK’s ex-PM Brown
Aug 16, 2021 U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the U.N. General Assembly to end vaccine inequality and send more shots to Africa and other…
Jailed former S.African president Zuma undergoes surgery
Aug 15, 2021 Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has undergone unspecified surgery and remains in hospital with more operations planned, prison authorities said on Sunday. Zuma, serving a…
Ivory Coast detects first Ebola case in 25 years
Aug 15, 2021 Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on…
Documentary Probing COVID-19 Source Puts China Lab Back Under Spotlight
Aug. 13, 2021 The idea that the coronavirus pandemic originated accidentally via Chinese laboratory workers has surfaced again, this time in a documentary aired by Danish TV on Thursday. China…
China Rejects WHO’s renewed call for fresh COVID-19 origins probe
August 13, 2021 China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find…
COVID-19: Pfizer, Moderna expected to reap billions of dollars from vaccine booster market
Aug 13, 2021 Drug makers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech and Moderna Inc are expected to reap billions of dollars from COVID-19 booster shots in a market that could rival the $6…
Climate change: 11-year-old Walker walking to save the planet
Aug 13, 2021 Jude Walker, an 11-year-old boy, is on an odyssey he hopes will help save the planet: he is walking to London from northern England in a bid…
COVID-19: J&J vaccine partly manufactured on the continent, Africa CDC justifies choice
Aug. 13, 2021 The Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has explained that the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine was chosen for the continent because ‘it is a single…
WHO’s Solidarity clinical trial enters a new phase with three new candidate drugs
Aug. 12, 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the next phase in its Solidarity trial that will enroll hospitalized patients to test three new COVID-19 drugs. These therapies…
Guinea monitoring 155 contacts after confirmed Marburg case -WHO
Aug. 11, 2021 Health authorities in Guinea are monitoring 155 people who may have been in contact with a confirmed case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever…