Health & Science

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 21:11 UTC

  Argentine health authorities decide who should get 4th dose of vaccine

  

  When over 78% of Argentines have already taken at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and 33% have even received a booster shot, health authorities nationwide are planning who will need yet another injection against the pandemic disease, it was reported Monday.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay greenlights use of Taiwanese COVID-19 vaccine

  

  Paraguayan health authorities Monday issued an emergency clearance for the use of the Taiwanese-developed Medigen COVID-19 vaccine, it was announced.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 18:20 UTC

  Antarctica thick ice conditions challenge RRS Sir David Attenborough and Le Commandant Charcot

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough (SDA) has collaborated with the cruise ship Le Commandant Charcot in its efforts to deliver critical science cargo to the English Coast, Antarctica in support of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 10:27 UTC

  Scientific survey of penguins response to climate change in Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica

  

  An international team of scientists, including two from the University of Bath, has just arrived back from an expedition studying penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and Antarctic Peninsula, reports Phys-org.

• Saturday, February 12th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Paraguay to require yellow fever vax when travel includes risk areas

  

  In times when controversies over COVID-19 vaccination mandates keep mounting worldwide, Paraguay's authorities Friday announced a proof of immunization against yellow fever will be required to travelers arriving from or leaving for Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela.

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 22:54 UTC

  No booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Denmark

  

  Denmark's health authorities decided Friday that no fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is to be applied and that there was no need for a booster dose to those aged under 18, thanks to the high level of immunization among the population, in addition to Omicron's lesser severity as well as other seasonal considerations.

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Mexico City Mayor takes flak for supporting use of ivermectin against COVID-19

  

  Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum came under heavy flak Thursday for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the alleged manipulation of a study which recommended the use of ivermectin to treat this disease.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 19:19 UTC

  Prince of Wales has COVID-19... again

  

  The 73-year-old Prince Charles of Wales Thursday tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time, the Office of the heir to the British throne announced. His Royal Highness had already been infected early into the pandemic.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  COVID-19 infections fall but deaths rise, PAHO says

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Wednesday reported the wave of COVID-19 infections in Latin America caused by the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 was beginning to decline.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  HMS Protector officer visits “his island” in Antarctica

  

  No man is an island – apart from Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander Dave Pitt. Currently deployed on survey ship HMS Protector, Lt Cdr Pitt has become possibly the first Pitt to set foot on the Pitt Islands.