Health & Science

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Chilean president pledges “sufficient and timely” access to Covid vaccines

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said the country’s health regulators had given the go-ahead to a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine. Piñera said the AstraZeneca trial would follow one by America’s Johnson & Johnson that is already underway and another by China’s Sinovac, whose first vaccine doses arrived in Chile last week.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Taiwan “locked out” of WHO Covid-19 meeting on objections from Beijing

  

  Taiwan is yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic due to “obstruction” from China, the island's foreign ministry said, expressing its displeasure.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Massive flags protest demonstration across Argentina programmed for Sunday

  

  A massive Argentine flags' protest is scheduled for this Sunday with the support of different sectors of urban communities and farmers throughout the country, similar to the several that have been successfully held so far this year in support of the defense of Liberty, the Republic and Justice. The last one was on 12 October.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Argentina will receive some 22 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines

  

  Argentina has struck a deal with drug maker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford, with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Pfizer vaccines for Argentina should be arriving in December, president Fernandez

  

  Argentina President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday his country could receive 750,000 doses of an eventual coronavirus vaccine from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc in December, a glimmer of hope as cases in the South American nation show signs of receding following months of quarantine.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  RRS James Clark Ross left Harwich for summer mission in Antarctica

  

  The RRS James Clark Ross left the Port of Harwich on Thursday beginning its five-and-a-half-month mission to deliver scientific and operational staff to Antarctica and to resupply the UK stations in Antarctica for another year.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Covid-19 overshadowing emergency action to avert measles and polio epidemics, WHO and UNICEF

  

  UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an urgent call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt immunization services worldwide, leaving millions of vulnerable children at heightened risk of preventable childhood diseases.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 07:10 UTC

  World Medical Association calls for Taiwan's admission to World Health Assembly

  

  On the eve of the resumed meeting of the World Health Assembly next week, the World Medical Association has again called for representatives from Taiwan to be granted observer status.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:33 UTC

  Falklands vaccination program will receive support from the UK government

  

  The UK Government has written to the Falkland Islands Government to confirm that it has secured an agreement with the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce to supply British Overseas Territories with Covid-19 vaccines when it is able to procure these.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Denmark will cull 15 million mink following detection of a mutated coronavirus

  

  Denmark, the world’s biggest producer of mink fur, said on Wednesday it would cull all of the country’s minks after a mutated version of the new coronavirus was detected at mink farms and had spread to people.