Health & Science

• Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Nine year old invents a portable “lunar toilet” for astronauts and wins NASA's challenge 2020

  

  A 9-year-old Malaysian boy has come up with a solution to a long-standing dilemma faced by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa): a gravity-defying loo for its next lunar mission.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Pfizer wants emergency distribution of its vaccine simultaneously in US, Europe and Latin America

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer Inc is hoping to rapidly roll out its experimental COVID-19 vaccine around Latin America soon after it gets emergency authorization in the United States, a senior executive said, which could be as early as next month.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  FDA to meet December 10 to decide emergency use of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines

  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers will meet on Dec. 10 to discuss whether to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech for emergency use, the agency said on Friday.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Dr. Fauci blessings to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines

  

  The United States' top infectious disease official said that two coronavirus vaccines being tested were “solid”, and that the speed at which they were developed has not compromised safety or integrity.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  G-20 must help plug US$ 5,4bn funding gap for the Covid-19 program, global leaders request

  

  G-20 nations must help plug a US$4.5 billion funding gap for a WHO-led program to distribute coronavirus vaccines and pave the way for an end to the pandemic, according to a letter sent by several world leaders, ahead of this weekend's virtual G20 summit.

• Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  G-20 committed to support vulnerable countries beyond a temporary foreign debt freeze

  

  The Group of 20 (G-20) nations are determined to continue doing everything possible to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, warning in a draft communiqué that the global economic recovery remains “uneven, highly uncertain, and subject to elevated downside risks”.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Thousands of students, despite restrictions, protest in Colombia's main cities

  

  Thousands of workers and students protested in Colombia on Thursday against the social and economic policies of President Ivan Duque, despite restrictions to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Mexico passed the 100,000 coronavirus deaths mark

  

  Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, becoming only the fourth country — behind the United States, Brazil and India — to do so.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous groups exposed to coronavirus and swarms of illegal gold miners

  

  The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Covid-19: UNICEF calls for opening schools and “averting lost generations”

  

  The United Nations agency responsible for aiding children is warning that the costs of coronavirus-related school closures out-weight the benefits, and that the pandemic poses substantial threats to children and their countries' long-term well-being.