Health & Science

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Britain helping the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo with a Covid-19 genome-sequencing project

  

  The British government and the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay, have announced they will be working jointly in an agreement that will help advance the genome-sequencing of Covid-19 project, through techniques under development in Uruguay, using British technology, and thus providing this capacity to several countries in the region.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Now that billions have been vaccinated, how do we manage Covid-19 health care waste challenge?

  

  As hundreds of millions have been vaccinated against the pandemic, another challenge has emerged, tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste from the response to COVID-19 has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental health and exposing a dire need to improve waste management practices, according to a new WHO report.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Diplomatic solution found to crisis of truckers crossing into Chile

  

  Argentine and Chilean authorities have reached a solution to the crisis affecting some 3,000 lorry drivers crossing the Andes through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores route, it was announced.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentina donates over 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Argentina's health authorities have confirmed the country has donated over 4 million Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines to countries in the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia in a move to reduce inequality.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Canadian truckers caravan converging at Ottawa against vaccination mandates

  

  Canadian lorry drivers honked their horns Friday as their caravan converged on the capital city of Ottawa for a major demonstration against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vaccination mandates to cross the Canada-US border.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa outlines differences between pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Friday released a statement warning of the differences between COVID-19 vaccines for children to highlight the specifics of newly-released drugs.

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 02:40 UTC

  Biologists to monitor South Atlantic fauna during 2022 Antarctic campaign

  

  The Argentina Navy's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar has added four biologists to its crew to monitor wildlife in the South Atlantic and around Antarctica, the news service Télam has reported.

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Moderna starts testing HIV vaccine in humans

  

  The Moderna Laboratory has begun the so-called phase 1 trial stage of an HIV vaccine using messenger RNA technology in the United States, on 56 uninfected adults, both the biotech company and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced Thursday.

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  European agency green-lights Pfizer COVID-19 pill

  

  The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Thursday announced it had approved the use of Pfizer's anti-COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, which has thus become the first oral treatment cleared for use in the European Union. The new drug is a combination of the molecule PF-07321332 and the HIV antiviral Ritonavir.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:18 UTC

  Number of COVID-19 cases goes up in the Americas, PAHO says

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday that a 32% increase in COVID-19 cases had been reported in the Americas during the past week, which represented around 8 million new infections.