Health & Science

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Johnson praises Biden as the leader of the free world helping to unite the West

  

  United States Joe Biden has put the United States back as leader of the free world in a fantastic move that has helped the West to unite, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Impressive pictures from the Perseverance rover successful landing in Mars

  

  Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Coronavirus will be beaten when everyone in the world has been immunized, Angela Merkel

  

  The coronavirus pandemic can only be considered beaten once everyone in the world has been immunized against Covid-19, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said, after she'd met with the G7 leaders at a virtual summit on Friday.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 10:30 UTC

  Pfizer is testing its vaccine in 4,000 volunteer healthy pregnant women

  

  Pfizer and BioNtech have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women, the companies said on Thursday.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 10:19 UTC

  Ascension Island vaccinated with AstraZeneca, first BOT to complete inoculation

  

  A remote UK overseas territory in the South Atlantic could become the first whole island vaccinated against coronavirus, after the Royal Air Force flew 4,000 miles to deliver doses from RAF Brize Norton.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Brazilian police investigating “shots of air” instead of Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Rio de Janeiro's police launched an investigation into reports that doses of the coronavirus vaccine may have been diverted after images emerged of healthcare workers sticking needles into elderly people without injecting them.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 08:52 UTC

  Brazil surpasses 10 million Covid-19 cases, John Hopkins University

  

  Brazil surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. With 10,030,626 confirmed cases to date, the country has the third-highest number of infections after the US and India. Brazil recorded more than 49,000 new cases on Thursday.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  UK wants to coordinate the development of future pandemic vaccines to 100 days

  

  Britain which holds the presidency of the Group 7 will challenge fellow members to help speed up the development of future vaccines to 100-days. On Friday Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts a virtual meeting of leaders including US President Joe Biden.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 07:45 UTC

  WHO urges nations producing vaccines to donate them to the Covax scheme

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged nations producing Covid-19 vaccines not to distribute them unilaterally but to donate them to the global Covax scheme to ensure fairness.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 07:38 UTC

  Biden will pledge US$ 4bn to the COVAX vaccination program at the G7 summit

  

  United States will pledge US$4 billion to a vaccination program for poorer countries at a global economic summit this Friday and hopes other countries will follow and contribute additional funds, the White House anticipated.