Health & Science

Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:44 UTC
Rich countries block a Covid-19 vaccines patent rights waiver

The rich members of the World Trade Organization blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday to waive patent rights in an effort to boost the production of Covid-19 vaccines for poor nations.
Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:40 UTC
Brazil overtakes US in daily Covid-19 deaths, 2,286 on Wednesday

New Covid-19 infections in Latin America are still rising, particularly in Brazil where a resurgence has caused record daily deaths, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday.
Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:36 UTC
Spain expects to roll out vaccine “Digital Green Pass” by May 19 for FITUR tourism fair

Spain could be ready to start rolling out coronavirus vaccine ‘passports’ by the end of May, paving the way to welcome back holidaymakers, Minister of tourism, María Reyes Maroto, said on Wednesday.
Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:07 UTC
Major fire at Europe's largest cloud services knocks out some 3,6 million websites

Some 3,6 million websites were knocked out because of a fire at a French cloud services firm in Strasbourg, including French government agencies' portals, banks, shops, news websites, and a chunk of the FR webspace, according to Internet monitors.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 09:30 UTC
UK/EU controversy over “vaccine nationalism” and exports bans

European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday rejected charges of “vaccine nationalism” leveled against the EU, saying that while Britain and the United States have outright bans on exports of COVID-19 shots, the EU had not stopped exporting.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC
Countries and airlines discuss “health passports” hoping to re launch travel

From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to re-launch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status. But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.
Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:05 UTC
Finland turned down Chinese Polar Institute offer to lease an Arctic airport

The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public.
Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:31 UTC
Fourth day of protests in Paraguay because of government's handling of the pandemic

Groups of Paraguayans protested around the Congress on Monday, marking the fourth day of protests amid calls to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government's handling of the Covid-19 health crisis.
Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC
A third of world travel destinations remain closed to international tourism, UNWTO report

Around a third of 217 world travel destinations’ borders surveyed remain completely closed to international tourists, as concerns grow over the impact of new coronavirus variants, and some governments reverse efforts to ease restrictions, a new report released on Monday by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) revealed.
Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC
Greek 37 day old baby dies from Covid-19

Greece on Monday mourned a 37-day-old baby, the youngest among the country's nearly 6,800 COVID-19 victims. “Sadly today we had the pandemic's youngest victim in our country, an infant that spent 17 of its 37 days fighting the coronavirus,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted.