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Health & Science

  • Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 08:29 UTC

    Pfizer vaccine gets emergency authorization for use on children aged 5 to 11 in the US

    This age group should receive one-third of the full vaccine applied to the rest of the population

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States Friday issued an emergency clearance for the use of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 on children aged 5 to 11, it was announced. The decision came three days after a recommendation from a scientific committee.

  • Friday, October 29th 2021 - 20:24 UTC

    EU should lift entry restrictions to travelers from Argentina, Colombia and Peru

    All four countries have recorded a low number of COVID-19 cases in recent days

    The European Union Council has advised Member States Friday to add Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and also Namibia to the list of countries for which travel restrictions to/from the European Union should be lifted at the earliest time possible.

  • Friday, October 29th 2021 - 11:24 UTC

    Uruguay, Pfizer agree on supply of COVID-19 vaccines for 2022

    Uruguay will vaccinate locals first and then offer booster doses to foreigners, Delgado explained

    The Government of Uruguay finally reached an agreement with Pfizer for the supply of 3.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines during 2022, it was announced Thursday in Montevideo.

  • Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 21:59 UTC

    Seven LatAm countries to be removed from UK's travel red list

    Argentine vaccination certificates will be honored by British authorities, it was announced

    The United Kingdom's Departments for Transport and of Health and Social Care Thursday issued a joint press release announcing that the seven countries still on the travel red list, all of them from Latin America, would be removed from it shortly.

  • Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

    Over 53% of Brazilians fully vaccinated, report says

    São Paulo is the state with the highest percentage of people fully vaccinated (66.8%)

    Brazil's much-criticized anti-COVID-19 vaccination drive has already reached 53% of the population with full treatment, while 72% of patients have at least taken the initial dose, according to a health report released Wednesday.

  • Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

    Closer to solving the mystery of the extinct Falklands' canid warrah

    The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago

    The team headed by Kit Hamley also extended its research into the warrah (Dusicyon australis), an extinct species of fox. The warrah was the only native and terrestrial mammal to reside on the Falkland Islands at the time of European arrival. Subsequent hunting wiped the species out in 1856, making it the first extinct canid in the historic record, Hamley says.

  • Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

    Falkland Islands: Team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity

    Kit Hamley holds a large male sea lion skull from a bone pile at New Island

    The following piece was published by Phys/Org – Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries.

  • Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 20:17 UTC

    PAHO says more COVID-19 vaccines needed

    Chile, Uruguay and Canada have fully injected three-quarters of their population.

    Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa Wednesday urged G20 leaders meeting this coming weekend at Rome's Summit to donate more COVID-19 vaccines because the region's improvements in the fight against the disease were shadowed by steps backward in the most impoverished territories and Caribbean Islands.

  • Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

    Desperate Nicaraguans go to Honduras to get COVID-19 shots

    Nicaragua's government only offers Russian or Cuban vaccines which make travel impossible

    Citizens of Nicaragua, which according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ranks among the six countries in the region with the lowest vaccination rates, have been crossing over the border to neighbouring Honduras even on horseback and in rafts to receive a COVID-19 immunizer, it was reported.

  • Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

    Ice Worlds Festival of Polar Science at Greenwich, London

    New polar ship RRS Sir David Attenborough during sea trials off the coast of Portrush, Northern Ireland (2021). Credit: British Antarctic Survey.

    On the eve of the UN COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the British Antarctic Survey is partnering with Royal Museums Greenwich a festival that is guaranteed to enthrall and inspire. Discover why Antarctica and the Arctic matter to all of us, experience a live virtual tour of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, enjoy a great day out for all the family. In London or online enjoy a dazzling showcase of polar environmental science, engineering and technology.